News

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• July 28, 2017 28 Jul'17

  AWS emerges as a bright spot in Amazon’s ‘mixed’ Q2 results

  Amazon.com’s earnings per share failed to meet analyst expectations, but the retail giant’s cloud arm continues to go from strength to strength

• July 26, 2017 26 Jul'17

  Outcome of judicial review into Apple's Irish datacentre dispute delayed until 12 October

  Apple faces a further three-month delay to see if it will be given the go-ahead to proceed with its much-delayed bid to build an €850m datacentre in Athenry, County Galway

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  CIF gears up to target public sector cloud

  Cloud Industry Forum wants to help the UK government achieve its digital strategy, but working with government is still a big challenge for many providers

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  BP broadens public cloud strategy by adopting Microsoft Azure for data analytics

  Oil and gas giant reveals details of plans to move its proprietary data lake to Microsoft Azure for data processing purposes

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  APAC public cloud market to surpass $10bn in 2017

  Led by growing demand for cloud infrastructure services, the public cloud market is now dominated by Microsoft, Amazon and Alibaba, which is expanding its footprint outside China

• July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17

  What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?

  Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud

• July 20, 2017 20 Jul'17

  IBM confirms opening of two further UK datacentres

  Big Blue is making good on its pledge to triple the size of its UK cloud datacentre capacity by opening two sites in London

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  Oracle expands Cloud at Customer, adds 1,000 cloud sales Emea staff

  Supplier adds SaaS elements to hybrid cloud service and aims to recruit 1,000 staff in Emea to accelerate cloud business

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  Microsoft, Baidu team up on self-driving technology

  The two tech giants will drive the use of the Azure cloud computing service to power autonomous vehicle projects outside China

• July 17, 2017 17 Jul'17

  Norway’s Railway Directorate moves fully to the cloud

  Norway’s railway regulator is following the government’s advice and moving IT into the cloud

• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  Google opens UK datacentre region to deliver low-latency cloud connections to enterprise

  Internet search giant declares its UK datacentre region open for business, and promises users improved application performance

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  Home Office confirmed as early adopter of Oracle’s UK cloud region

  The Home Office is to be one of the first public sector organisations to access cloud services from Oracle’s UK cloud region

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Apple to build second European datacentre in Denmark later this year

  Consumer electronics giant confirms plans to start building a second, renewably-powered datacentre in Denmark during the fourth quarter of 2017

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Mobile operators must act soon as 5G business models emerge

  Full deployment of a commercial 5G mobile network is still at least two years away, but new business models are already beginning to crystallise around the technology, and operators would be wise to start preparations soon, a new report claims

• July 07, 2017 07 Jul'17

  Microsoft to cut thousands of jobs in cloud-related company rejig

  Microsoft confirms job cuts and says affected staff have been notified that their jobs are either under threat or set to be made redundant