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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Enterprises downgrade ESG investments amid economic uncertainty, Google Cloud study finds

  The second annual Google Cloud sustainability study reveals that economic uncertainty is forcing some enterprises to cut corners on their sustainability strategy to save money

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  Experian names AWS as preferred cloud partner for multi-year off-premise migration project

  Credit reporting agency Experian is embarking on a multi-year cloud migration project with AWS

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  Gartner forecasts massive growth in software and IT services

  IT leaders are set to deploy more workloads on infrastructure-as-a-service public clouds as they attempt to keep costs under control

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Ofcom's interim UK cloud market report flags competition concerns about AWS and Microsoft

  Ofcom has flagged concerns about anti-competitive behaviour from AWS and Microsoft in its interim report into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure market

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Oracle to open second cloud region in Singapore

  The move comes less than two years after Oracle opened its first cloud region in Singapore which is already supporting over 1,000 customers across Southeast Asia

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  HPE launches GreenLake for File and Block, and unified arrays

  HPE upgrades its storage-as-a-service offer with Greenlake for File and for Block, configurable via the cloud but deployable on-prem. Meanwhile it shows new Alletra MP arrays

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  Accenture and Microsoft take Unilever on 18-month 'cloud-only' enterprise journey

  Consumer goods giant Unilever has turned to Accenture and Microsoft to support its push to shutter its datacentres and become a ‘cloud-only’ enterprise

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Naver Cloud teams up with Korean tourism body

  The South Korean hyperscaler has teamed up with the Korea Tourism Organisation to improve visitor experience using its cloud capabilities

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  CMA deepens probe into VMware-Broadcom merger over concerns it could hike server prices in UK

  The UK Competition & Markets Authority has become the first antitrust watchdog to express concerns over the impact Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware could have on server pricing and innovation

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  AWS confirms healthcare accelerator startup programme participants

  Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services confirms 23 startups have been added to its healthcare accelerator programme, which is centred on helping the sector tackle its staffing issues

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  Oxbotica teams up with Google Cloud to add scale to autonomous vehicle platform

  Autonomous vehicle software developer Oxbotica has turned to Google Cloud to help expand the reach of its technology platform

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  AWS takes defence-focused startup accelerator Europe-wide after UK programme success

  Nearly 12 months after the launch of the UK version of the AWS defence-focused accelerator programme, the cloud giant is expanding it

• March 27, 2023 27 Mar'23

  Most Singapore organisations operate distributed IT infrastructure

  More than two-thirds of organisations in Singapore use a mix of private and public clouds as well as on-premise and hosted datacentres, even as they face challenges with data management and complexity

• March 23, 2023 23 Mar'23

  GDS goes serverless to bring personalisation to online government services with One Login

  GDS has opened up about the reasons why it’s opted for a serverless infrastructure to underpin One Login, and how it hopes the system will provide UK citizens with a more personalised experience

• March 22, 2023 22 Mar'23

  AWS Imagine Grant launches in UK to fund charity cloud-based tech projects

  The AWS Imagine Grant initiative has been running in the US for several years, with 66 charitable organisations receiving more than $6m in funding so far

• March 22, 2023 22 Mar'23

  OVHcloud opens India datacentre

  The French cloud service provider has opened its first datacentre in India that will provide Indian businesses with access to local compute and storage capabilities

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy confirms 9,000 further job cuts across AWS, Twitch and its advertising arm

  Amazon's cloud arm is set to be one of several business units that will lose employees over the coming months, a staff email has confirmed

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  Inside AIA’s cloud adoption journey

  The Hong Kong-based multinational insurance firm has moved 86% of its IT infrastructure to public cloud to drive growth, productivity and efficiency

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  UK mini-datacentre startup hails energy savings of heat reuse deployment at leisure centre

  UK startup Deep Green has saved Exmouth Leisure Centre thousands in energy costs through deployment of mini-datacentres

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  How William Hill’s IT copes with big sporting events

  The Grand National is one of those events that pushes online betting sites beyond their limits. Understanding where there are bottlenecks is key

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  BT helps Channel 4 and ITV take Freeview content to the cloud

  Multiplex broadcast consortium Digital 3&4 has ditched its legacy hardware for a software-defined networking setup that will revamp how it delivers Freeview content to viewers

• March 10, 2023 10 Mar'23

  Government Future of Compute Review calls for nationally coordinated IT infrastructure strategy

  The government’s Future of Compute Review makes 10 recommendations geared towards helping the UK become a technology superpower

• March 10, 2023 10 Mar'23

  Emerging markets lead growth in cloud spend in Asia

  Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines are expected to lead the rest of Asia in growing their cloud spending in 2023, study finds

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  APAC IT leaders bullish on tech spending

  Over half of respondents in this year’s IT Priorities study have bigger IT budgets as they continue to make strategic investments in cyber security, cloud and automation, among other areas

• March 02, 2023 02 Mar'23

  AWS to open cloud region in Malaysia

  Along with a new infrastructure region, AWS plans to invest $6bn in Malaysia by 2037 as it continues to expand its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region

• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  Colt DCS starts build-out of renewably powered West London datacentre campus

  Hyperscale-focused colocation firm Colt DCS claims project will bring hundreds of jobs to West London

• February 27, 2023 27 Feb'23

  How Dell is future-proofing its business

  Dell Technologies is building a more resilient supply chain, investing in growth areas like edge and multicloud, and responding to shifts in consumption models to position itself for long-term growth

• February 24, 2023 24 Feb'23

  Amazon denies claims hiring freeze is slowing AWS sustainability work

  Amazon’s cloud arm has seen several high-profile departures leave its sustainability teams, but the company denies its hiring freeze is stalling efforts to help AWS customers bring their carbon emissions down

• February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

  ANZ CIOs flag priorities amid inflation concerns

  CIOs in Australia and New Zealand are concerned about inflation and plan to adjust their technology priorities to optimise resources and combat cyber threats

• February 20, 2023 20 Feb'23

  Why CIOs need to revisit desktop virtualisation

  Cloud computing is the next revolution in infrastructure, but desktop IT is still very much on-premise

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Uber signs seven-year cloud deal with Oracle

  Ride-hailing service Uber is teaming up with Oracle to migrate more of its workloads to the cloud in support of its growth goals

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Government’s revised net-zero strategy could put public sector under more pressure to move to cloud

  With the UK government due to publish its revised net-zero strategy in the coming weeks, the public sector is being warned it could see itself under more pressure to move to cloud

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Akamai eyes cloud market with Connected Cloud

  Akamai marks foray into cloud computing with a distributed cloud computing platform that is touted to make it easier for enterprises to get applications and data closer to their customers

• February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

  Deutsche Bӧrse signs decade-long deal with Google Cloud

  German financial exchange firm Deutsche Bӧrse is expanding its long-standing partnership with Google Cloud as part of a push to ‘economise and concentrate’ its cloud strategy

• February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

  Twitter CEO Elon Musk pauses datacentre downsizing push in wake of outage

  Twitter CEO Elon Musk has called a temporary halt to the company’s push to cut costs by downsizing its infrastructure expenditure after an outage left users around the world unable to post tweets

• February 08, 2023 08 Feb'23

  Is business ready for ChatGPT?

  Generative AI models like ChatGPT promise to revolutionise the way people gather data and make informed decisions

• February 08, 2023 08 Feb'23

  MoD issues revised cloud strategy as it prepares to move top-secret data off-premise by 2025

  The Ministry of Defence has updated its cloud strategy, as it prepares to move more of its highly classified data and workloads off-premise in the years to come

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  NetApp adds QLC C-series, new A-series and subscription upgrades

  NetApp C-series QLC-based array family offers flash speed with capacity, while Advance adds subscription upgrades to owned hardware, as well as a new entry-level A-series array

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  AWS talks up 'healthy and robust' customer pipeline as revenue growth continues to slow

  Amazon is the latest tech giant to report a downbeat set of financial results, as enterprises continue to scale back their cloud spending

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust warned in 2018 about datacentre cooling issues, outage report shows

  A review has been published regarding the circumstances that led to two datacentres, hosting healthcare systems for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, overheating during the 2022 summer heatwave

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Reaping green dividends with data management

  Getting data management right has been pivotal for Singapore IoT startup SensorFlow to optimise energy consumption and reduce carbon emissions for its hotelier clients

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Zurich Insurance Group plots multiyear move to AWS public cloud

  Multiline insurance firm Zurich is plotting a move to the AWS public cloud to help revamp its customer offerings

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Private equity investors continued to shape datacentre market M&A activity in 2022

  As deal sizes increase in the face of growing demand for cloud and internet-based services, datacentre operators are increasingly finding themselves on the receiving end of private equity investment

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Enterprise on-premise infrastructure spending experiences ‘post-pandemic’ bounce-back

  Latest data from Synergy Research Group reveals uptick in enterprise on-premise IT infrastructure spending

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  CEF selects HPE Greenlake to build out digitisation strategy

  The electrical wholesaler plans to migrate to Equinix datacentres and use Greenlake to run IT services in the cloud

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Microsoft 365 outage affecting Teams, Outlook and Azure users blamed on ‘networking fault’

  Microsoft 365 is in the midst of an outage that has left users across the UK and beyond unable to access Teams, Outlook and Exchange Online

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  AWS opens Melbourne region, to invest $4.5bn by 2037

  Amazon Web Services’ new Melbourne cloud region will better serve Australian customers such as ANZ Bank and is expected to benefit over 2,500 full-time jobs in the country

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  How the cost of living crisis is impacting IT

  The worsening economic climate is leading to job cuts across the IT sector, with Microsoft only the latest to announce thousands of layoffs - but CIOs will still struggle to find the talent they urgently need