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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  ScottishPower opens up about its two-year datacentre downsizing and migration project

  The team behind ScottishPower’s recent two-year push to downsize and migrate its primary datacentre describe the project’s challenges and successes

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Malaysia’s Supahands finds agility with the cloud

  Regional workforce crowdsourcing startup relies on the cloud to keep its infrastructure agile enough to scale up and down, according to customer demand

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Google claims it is GDPR ready

  Alphabet, the parent company of Google, says that since its advertising business relies on keyword searches, the impact of GDPR is limited

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Interview: Amazon Web Services Sweden

  Eric Morales leads the AWS business development team for startups and gaming companies in the Nordics. Computer Weekly caught up with him at AWS’s Nordic headquarters in Stockholm

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  Google hails positive economic impact of US datacentre growth

  Google claims the expansion of its datacentre portfolio in recent years has generated thousands of jobs and seen it contribute billions of dollars to the US economy

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  How application container technology is helping YMCA open up access to education

  Youth charity YMCA is in the midst of a push to reduce its reliance on paper-based education aids, with the help of Droplet Computing’s application container technology

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Executive interview: Werner Knoblich, Red Hat

  Red Hat is 25 years old. We speak to its European chief about how open source, containers and hybrid cloud computing represent the foundation for IT

• April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18

  TechUK calls on government for Climate Change Agreement deadline extension for datacentres

  TechUK claim decision to stop new datacentre operators from joining Climate Change Agreement programme from October 2018 could have dire consequences for the sector's future growth

• April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18

  AWS commits to improving cloud skills of 100,000 people in Europe during 2018

  Amazon Web Services commits to equipping 100,000 people across Europe with cloud skills to help speed up adoption of off-premise technologies and services across the continent

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Irish planning chiefs face legal challenge over granting Amazon permission for datacentre

  Amazon Web Services faces a fresh round of opposition to its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin after an objector lodged a legal challenge to the planning chiefs who approved the project

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Investments in skills, infrastructure and SMEs needed to help UK data economy hit new heights

  The UK data economy may struggle to reach its full growth potential between now and 2025 unless action is taken, suggests research commissioned by datacentre operator Digital Realty

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Singtel, VMware to set up hybrid cloud sandbox

  The hybrid cloud sandbox environment will let companies test their cloud workloads and software-defined networks

• April 13, 2018 13 Apr'18

  Crown Hosting and Fujitsu urge SIs to rethink approach to public sector IT in cloud era

  Crown Hosting and Fujitsu claim shift away from large, multi-year outsourcing deals is a change some systems integrators are intent on ignoring

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  IaaS emerges as fastest-growing sector of the global public cloud market

  Gartner's public cloud spending forecast suggests enterprise demand for IaaS and SaaS deployments will continue to intensify between now and 2021

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Cloud, containers and hybrid IT flagged as top technology investments by UK IT professionals

  Research into the technology investment priorities of UK IT professionals reveals a strong appetite for all things cloud and containers