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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Visa reveals 'rare' datacentre switch fault as root cause of June 2018 outage

  Visa has offered a retrospective analysis of what went wrong in its datacentre during its UK-wide outage on Friday 1 June, in response to a request from the Treasury Select Committee for more detail about the downtime

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Datacentre DIY: Can the hyperscale cloud giants afford to ditch their colocation partners?

  With the hyperscale cloud giants showing a growing willingness to build and own their own datacentres, where does this leave the colocation community? Panellists at Datacloud Europe 2018 give their verdict

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Supply shortages continue to blight EMEA-wide server market, Gartner data shows

  Server shipments across EMEA have returned to growth, but supply shortages of key components are continuing to inflate revenue

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  After GitHub acquisition, Microsoft will need to up its game in the enterprise

  Microsoft’s $7.6bn acquisition of GitHub propels the company that is loved and hated for Windows to the very heart of open source. Can it be trusted?

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Skills gaps slow business cloud adoption, research shows

  Public cloud provider Skytap highlights the toll skills gaps take on cloud migrations

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Complex pricing hinders enterprise assessment of AWS, Google and Microsoft cloud IoT hubs

  451 Research claims the complex IoT pricing models favoured by the hyperscale cloud giants are making life difficult for enterprise IT departments

• May 31, 2018 31 May'18

  Retail sector flagged as slow to adopt cloud technologies in Bitglass research

  The fourth annual Bitglass cloud adoption survey reveals enterprise appetite for off-premise technologies is continuing to rise, but some industries are moving more slowly than others

• May 30, 2018 30 May'18

  Ontario Institute for Cancer Research uses open source clouds to aid cancer research

  OICR explains why it is backing open source software and commodity hardware to help accelerate the pace of cancer research across the globe

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Save the Children International uses Microsoft Azure to bolster cross-border charity work

  Graham Kent, director of IT shared services at Save the Children International, talks about using Microsoft Azure to boost cross-border collaboration between the charity’s member organisations and present a more united front to the world

• May 25, 2018 25 May'18

  Canonical founder calls out OpenStack suppliers for ‘lack of focus’ on datacentre cost savings

  Mark Shuttleworth says the OpenStack community needs to open up about the economics of using the open source cloud platform to avoid turning users off

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  From open clouds to open infrastructure: OpenStack's evolution continues

  OpenStack is embarking on a push to position itself as a lot more than just an open source cloud software provider, with forays into containers and continuous integration tools, as enterprises continue to demand their infrastructure do more

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  England and Wales Cricket Board to improve players’ medical data

  Cricketers’ medical images will be stored securely in an independent clinical archive, enabling clinicians to access medical data and make treatment decisions more quickly

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit

  Closing out the first day keynote at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical co-founder Mark Shuttleworth hit out at the firm's "more costly" competitors

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Thailand’s Ascend Money finds agility with OpenShift

  Besides implementing Red Hat’s OpenShift application platform, Ascend Money adopted an open source governance model to keep IT teams aligned with business goals

• May 18, 2018 18 May'18

  Executive interview: Abby Kearns, Cloud Foundry Foundation

  Computer Weekly speaks to Abby Kearns, executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation about how open source is a key ingredient of digital transformation