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• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Microsoft pledges $100m in new IT support for Ukraine

  Microsoft will continue to offer free-of-charge technology support to Ukraine for the foreseeable future

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Why technology change is slow at larger firms

  Firms that commit to a single cloud provider and a lack of investment in improving developer productivity can drive up costs and slow down the pace of change, technology leaders say

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Microsoft claims summer heatwave led to no excess water use by its datacentres

  Software giant stokes scandal with befuddling statements about water use, despite eco-transparency pledge

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  Gartner warns of 'inflationary pressure' risk to global public cloud spending

  Market watcher Gartner is predicting strong overall growth for the worldwide public cloud market, but warns that any tightening of overall IT budgets could hit its forecast

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  SoftIron’s HyperCloud to ease private cloud deployments

  SoftIron claims its technology stack fully automates the provisioning of storage, compute, networking and infrastructure services, providing a fully functioning, multi-tenant cloud

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  AWS revenue growth rate falls as enterprise customers seek to cut costs

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reported its slowest year-on-year rate of revenue growth since 2014 as enterprises seek to cut costs as economic uncertainty hits

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Google commits to cloud and AI

  Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has been negatively impacted by the currency market, but its CEO remains focused on artificial intelligence

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Microsoft Cloud grows, but less than expected

  CEO Satya Nadella claims the public cloud is the best way to optimise business IT and address rising energy bills

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  UKCloud in liquidation: Troubled public sector cloud provider hit with winding up order

  Public sector sovereign cloud provider served with winding-up order nine months after an acquisition that was intended to address a £30m funding shortfall at the firm

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Google Cloud in 2022: What’s in it for the enterprise?

  Google Cloud has seen its market share and revenue soar in recent quarters as enterprises flock to its platform, but profitability continues to elude the firm

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  AWS to open cloud region in Thailand

  Amazon Web Services is planning to launch a Bangkok region, following the debut of CloudFront Edge locations and Outposts in the past two years

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  HSBC chooses Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer service to underpin digital

  Bank selects Oracle’s Cloud@Customer service to upgrade and migrate some of its database systems as part of its digital transformation

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Microsoft slams external researchers over its own data leak

  Microsoft inadvertently leaked customer data after misconfiguring an Azure Blob, but has hit out at the organisation that discovered its error, claiming it is exaggerating the scope of the issue

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Oracle: We’re punching above our category

  Oracle claims to have debunked the misnomer that Oracle Cloud is only good for Oracle workloads and that its efforts to support and interoperate with other platforms has been driving growth

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Gartner: Hero CIOs are needed again to save businesses

  During the pandemic, IT enabled businesses to remain operational. As the economic crisis worsens, business executives are once again reaching out to CIOs

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Oracle CloudWorld 2022: Ellison vaunts centrality of healthcare to mission

  Oracle CTO Larry Ellison put the company’s healthcare initiatives front and centre of its vision during his keynote at Oracle CloudWorld 2022 in Las Vegas

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Oracle expands cloud infrastructure portfolio, eyes partner cloud market

  Oracle Alloy will enable partners such as systems integrators, telcos and other service providers to offer a full set of cloud services that can be tailored to the needs of specific markets and industries

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  Vodafone starts sizeable three-year SAP systems migration to Google Cloud

  Telco giant claims project will be one of the largest and most complex SAP migrations ever embarked upon in Europe

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Alibaba Cloud readying dedicated cloud regions for private datacentres

  The hybrid cloud offering will provide enterprises with a dedicated Alibaba Cloud region in their datacentres with multiple availability zones

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Union claims Google datacentre contractors in US face repercussions for demanding 'basic benefits'

  The Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America claims contractors working in several of Google's US datacentres have been punished for demanding ‘basic’ workplace benefits

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Google Cloud fleshes out sovereign cloud capabilities for European enterprises

  Google Cloud uses the first day of its user conference to provide an update on how its efforts to meet the data sovereignty needs of European enterprises are progressing

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Wayfair shutters datacentres and ends hybrid cloud strategy with Google Cloud move

  Online home furnishings retailer Wayfair has completed a 16-month datacentre shutdown project that has seen it migrate all its applications and workloads to the Google Cloud

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Natural History Museum partners with AWS for biodiversity research push

  The Natural History Museum is teaming up with public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bolster its biodiversity research capabilities

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  KPMG: IT chiefs vote for innovation, but are they forgetting tech debt?

  New study from KPMG shows businesses are keen to adopt new technologies to drive improvements to customer experience

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  How AWS is tapping the groundswell in cloud adoption

  Phil Davis, managing director of Amazon Web Services in Asia-Pacific and Japan, talks up the company’s growth strategy and how it is retaining customers amid rivals nipping at its heels

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  Microsoft Azure UK region to host data of five million healthcare research scheme volunteers

  The Microsoft public cloud platform, Azure, has been selected to host the data belonging to a healthcare research project that is being billed as the largest ever undertaken in the UK

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  How Great Eastern is transforming its IT organisation

  Singapore-based insurer Great Eastern made painstaking efforts to rid itself of legacy systems and transformed its IT organisation to become nimbler by building up its cloud and DevOps capabilities

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Ofcom turns its attention to the hyperscalers

  The regulator sees its role expanding into emerging areas of communications technologies and public cloud services

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Dr Martens goes feetfirst into cloud-to-cloud backup

  Iconic bootmaker laces up for a strategy to move all applications to the cloud, beginning with cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 apps plus on-site VMware operations

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  VMware Cloud on AWS debuts in Hong Kong

  VMware has expanded its VMware Cloud on AWS to Hong Kong, following the launch of the Alibaba Cloud VMware service in Greater China

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Cloud compromise a doddle for threat actors as victims attest

  Two separate studies into the state of public cloud security reveal insight into the ease with which threat actors can compromise vast numbers of targets, and some of the challenges security teams are facing in the cloud

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  CISOs should spend on critical apps, cloud, zero-trust, in 2023

  Faced with a global recession next year, security buyers should try to direct investment towards technology that protects customer-facing and revenue-generating workloads, say analysts

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Six UK-based startups among those chosen to participate in AWS Defence Accelerator

  Six out of the 10 startups that have secured places in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) inaugural defence market-focused accelerator programme are based in the UK

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  US remains favoured datacentre location for world’s hyperscale cloud and internet giants

  Data released by Synergy Research Group confirms thatr the US remains the favoured location for hyperscale datacentres, but the analyst house predicts this could change in the years to come

• September 06, 2022 06 Sep'22

  Ministry of Defence taps up Netcompany to support move away from legacy private cloud

  The Ministry of Defence's efforts to rationalise its datacentre estate and move more of its apps and data to the public cloud continue apace

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  VMware and IBM forge closer ties to build industry-specific hybrid cloud services

  Tech giants reinforce commitment to working together with pledge to co-develop industry-specific cloud services for regulated enterprises

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  VMware CEO: Broadcom acquisition is on track

  Raghu Raghuram claims VMware customers are getting more comfortable with the Broadcom acquisition while employees are ‘more or less focused’ on the job at hand

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  NetApp storage goes GA for VMware Cloud on AWS

  Move will bring up to 50% decrease in TCO for customers running VMware apps in the Amazon cloud, says NetApp. No date yet for extension of the service across other public clouds

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  HelloFresh serves up data insights to in-house tech team with Informatica’s help

  Meal kit company is working with cloud-based data management firm to make sense of its data after a business growth spurt

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  IT leaders set to step up cloud investments over next two years, Colt research suggests

  Colt’s third annual cloud adoption research report shows how the off-premise investment priorities of IT leaders are shaping up for the years ahead

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Google Cloud and Singapore government team up on AI

  Singapore’s National AI office will tap Google Cloud’s expertise in artificial intelligence to build artificial intelligence applications and train public sector officers on AI

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  OVO Energy-backed Kaluza taps up Google Cloud for carbon-negative push

  SaaS-based energy tech platform provider sets out how it is using Google Cloud to help achieve its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Google Cloud to open three new cloud regions in APAC

  New Google Cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand will enable local organisations to maintain low latency and meet data residency requirements

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Inside Bukalapak’s cloud strategy

  Indonesian e-commerce unicorn Bukalapak’s multicloud strategy, underpinned by the use of microservices and DevOps, has enabled it to meet the diverse needs of its users while addressing business requirements

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Specialist providers fill the missing bits in public cloud

  While it may seem logical to deploy workloads in a hyperscaler’s cloud, is it the best option? Gartner looks at alternatives

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  VMware CEO defends Broadcom deal

  Raghu Raghuram is confident that Broadcom will invest in growing VMware through a broad portfolio of assets that will serve its entire customer base, not just its biggest customers

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  Global cloud infrastructure spend hits $62.3bn during Q2 2022

  Latest market data from IT analyst house Canalys reveals no let-up in demand for cloud infrastructure services during the second quarter of 2022

• August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

  CloudMile banks on trust in regional expansion

  Taiwanese cloud and AI startup CloudMile keeps its billing transparent and provides round-the-clock support to build trust with customers as it grows its business in Southeast Asia

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  IPA revises review of HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration

  Infrastructure and Project Authority’s annual report ranks HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration as “unachievable”, but – ahead of publication – it appears the organisation has had a change of heart