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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
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June 30, 2022
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Jun'22
H&M Group tries Google Cloud on for size as omnichannel push gathers pace
H&M Group has tapped up Google Cloud to add data analytics and machine learning capabilities to its omnichannel strategy
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June 29, 2022
29
Jun'22
Inside Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s cloud journey
With a strong DevOps culture, Australian bank has been moving its most important applications to the cloud in a journey that has already reaped returns
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June 28, 2022
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Jun'22
HPE Discover: GreenLake grows new features and customer base
Tech giant HPE has used its annual user and partner conference to announce the roll-out of a series of enhancements to its flagship GreenLake as-a-service offering
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June 28, 2022
28
Jun'22
Research highlights private equity’s growing hold on datacentre sector
Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group shows how private equity players are increasing their hold on the datacentre market
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June 23, 2022
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Jun'22
HPE commits to achieving net-zero business goals 10 years ahead of schedule
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is doubling down on its climate change commitments by vowing to cut its greenhouse gas emissions at an accelerated pace
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June 22, 2022
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Jun'22
Public cloud ecosystem revenue soars in line with enterprise demand for services during Q1
Demand for public cloud and related ecosystem services continues to grow, fuelling revenue growth for the market’s various players
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June 21, 2022
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Jun'22
Vodafone and Oracle Cloud strike multi-year deal to modernise telco’s European infrastructure
Vodafone is expanding the range of cloud providers it works with, as it embarks on a multi-year revamp of the infrastructure underpinning its European operations
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June 21, 2022
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Jun'22
Cloudflare outage temporarily takes down hundreds of websites
Downtime incident at web application security and performance firm Cloudflare has wide-reaching consequences for internet service providers
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June 10, 2022
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Jun'22
Datavita to open Scotland’s first metro datacentre in Glasgow during Q3 2022
Datacentre operator Datavita is building a server farm in the heart of Glasgow’s financial district
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June 09, 2022
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Jun'22
CIO interview: Yiannis Levantis aims at total quality for Unipart IT
Unipart has a heritage in quality manufacturing and services that CIO Yiannis Levantis is building on, in part by harnessing SAP’s cloud-based business transformation service Rise
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June 08, 2022
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Jun'22
Length, cost and severity of datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research confirms
Latest datacentre outages research from resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute confirms that downtime incidents are increasing in cost, length and severity
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June 06, 2022
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Jun'22
Micron to deploy mmWave in Singapore fab
The US chipmaker is leveraging Singtel’s 5G mmWave connectivity to roll out a range of Industry 4.0 applications at its cleanroom in Singapore
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June 01, 2022
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Jun'22
Security leaders call for more observability for cloud native apps
New research highlights the challenges CISOs face securing modern, cloud native applications
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May 31, 2022
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May'22
OVHCloud facing client compensation class action claim of €10m over March 2021 datacentre fire
The law firm overseeing the class action against OVHCloud claims 140 clients are now seeking compensation for the data lost as a result of the March 2021 fire
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May 30, 2022
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May'22
Google Cloud secures contract to supply online productivity tools to Central Dutch Government
Search giant's cloud arm has secured a deal to supply its suite of online productivity tools to the Central Dutch Government
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May 30, 2022
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May'22
Analysts weigh in on Broadcom-VMware deal
VMware customers in APAC will need to assess their exposure amid uncertainty over the impact of the mega deal on the market
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May 26, 2022
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May'22
Broadcom confirms $61bn deal to acquire VMware is going ahead
Chipmaker Broadcom is continuing its buy-and-build strategy to expand into the software market by agreeing to acquire virtualisation giant VMware
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May 25, 2022
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May'22
Google Cloud expands European presence with opening of Madrid region
Public cloud giant Google is continuing to build out its datacentre footprint across Europe with the opening of its latest region in Madrid, Spain
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May 20, 2022
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May'22
Microsoft urged to do more to address European cloud antitrust complaints
In the wake of Microsoft setting out its first steps towards addressing the antitrust complaints directed at it by some European cloud providers, one complainant said the firm needs to go further by making more of its off-premise portfolio open ...
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May 18, 2022
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May'22
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to enter general availability in June 2022
Microsoft has confirmed its sustainability-focused suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools is set to enter general availability from June 2022
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May 18, 2022
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May'22
Google embarks on UK-focused cloud skills programme pilot with non-profit Generation UK
The Google Cloud team is enlisting the help of non-profit training and education provider Generation UK to help more people from under-represented groups start out on a career in cloud
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May 12, 2022
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May'22
Rackspace mulls over business unit sell-off following strategic review of company
A statement by the CEO of Rackspace suggests the company could be heading for another period of change, following a strategic review of its business
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May 12, 2022
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May'22
Ryanair taps up AWS machine learning tech to manage in-flight refreshment stocks
Low-cost airline Ryanair opens up about how its long-standing tech partnership with Amazon Web Services is helping it cut food waste and improve its in-flight customer service
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May 11, 2022
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May'22
Pure to offer on-prem object storage as Snowflake data source
Pure Storage partnership with Snowflake will see the cloud data warehousing platform make use of on-prem FlashBlade fast file and object storage as a source for analytics data
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May 11, 2022
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May'22
Kao Data debuts datacentre education programme for seven-to-11-year-olds
Harlow-based colocation provider wants to help teach children about the important role datacentres play in our society, in the hope that it might inspire some of them to pursue a career in the field of server farms
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May 10, 2022
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May'22
NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’
NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president
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May 10, 2022
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May'22
CyberUK 22: NCSC refreshes cloud security guidance
The National Cyber Security Centre is revising its cloud guidance as increasing uptake of potentially vulnerable cloud services puts more organisations at risk of compromise
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May 09, 2022
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May'22
Malaysian government inks agreement with Google Cloud
The cloud framework agreement with Google will make it easier for Malaysia’s public sector agencies to access Google Cloud services through a single government contract
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May 09, 2022
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May'22
AWS embarks on green power-focused deals with AES and Fluence Energy
Amazon Web Services is beginning two green energy-focused collaborations that will see it ramp up the amount of renewable power it uses while helping other enterprises to do the same
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May 06, 2022
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May'22
Uptime Institute debuts sustainability-focused accreditation for datacentre professionals
Uptime Institute continues to build out its education resources and support offerings for datacentre operators that want to get to grips with the changing regulatory landscape around sustainability
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May 05, 2022
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May'22
CyrusOne hits climate-neutral datacentre targets in Europe
US colocation giant CyrusOne has published its latest sustainability report, which hails progress in making its global datacentre operations climate-neutral and water-positive
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May 04, 2022
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May'22
BT signs five-year deal with AWS to revamp legacy infrastructure and ready it for the cloud
Telco giant has signed another multi-year cloud deal, this time with AWS, as it sets to work on revamping its operations and cutting costs
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April 21, 2022
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Apr'22
Alibaba Cloud eyes VMware workloads with new cloud service
The Alibaba Cloud VMware Service is aimed at Chinese enterprises that are looking to move their VMware workloads to public cloud, perform disaster recovery and reduce their on-premise datacentre footprint
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April 20, 2022
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Apr'22
How PropertyGuru is approaching technology integration
Property tech firm PropertyGuru has invested in capabilities such as DevOps and authentication that can be applied across different platforms that it has acquired over time
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April 19, 2022
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Apr'22
Gartner: Public cloud spending on the rise across the globe as hybrid working takes hold
Latest worldwide public cloud services spending tracker reveals end-user appetite for off-premise services shows no signs of slowing down
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April 13, 2022
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Apr'22
Google Cloud research highlights disconnect between intention and delivery on green IT initiatives
Google Cloud research reveals disconnects between intention, delivery and budgets within businesses across EMEA on sustainability matters
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April 07, 2022
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Apr'22
AirAsia taps Google Cloud to bolster its super-app
AirAsia is setting up a cloud centre of excellence with Google Cloud to shore up its super-app and build capabilities in site reliability engineering and machine learning operations
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April 06, 2022
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Apr'22
Denonia malware may be first to target AWS Lambda
The newly discovered Denonia malware appears to be custom designed to target AWS Lambda environments, and may be the first of its kind
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April 06, 2022
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Apr'22
Vodafone hails business efficiency and sustainability gains of Google Cloud big data partnership
Less than 12 months on from the announcement that Vodafone had signed a six-year strategic cloud deal with Google, the firm lifts the lid on how the technology tie-up is making its business more efficient
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April 05, 2022
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Apr'22
London Stock Exchange datacentre migration project secures low-latency network support from EXA
The London Stock Exchange Group is gearing up to shutter its primary City of London datacentre by the end of August 2022, while work continues on building out its new facility
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April 05, 2022
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Apr'22
HPE offers up progress report on how its space-based supercomputer is performing
Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with
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April 05, 2022
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Apr'22
UCL and AWS team up for health tech-focused startup accelerator
AWS is lending its cloud expertise to UCL’s startup accelerator programme, which is geared towards helping health and education organisations address global health issues
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April 04, 2022
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Apr'22
Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands
Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country
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April 01, 2022
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Apr'22
Sungard UK in administration: How rising energy costs are impacting the datacentre market
As households brace for another rise in their energy bills, news that the UK arm of Sungard AS has fallen into administration highlights the toll the surge in gas and electricity prices is taking on the datacentre industry
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March 29, 2022
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Mar'22
Rising energy costs blamed as UK arm of colocation firm Sungard AS enters administration
Financial difficulties caused by downturn in demand for its services during the pandemic, coupled with ‘unprecedented’ energy price rises, force Sungard AS into administration in the UK
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March 28, 2022
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Mar'22
Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend
Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend
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March 28, 2022
28
Mar'22
Babylon Health expands hybrid cloud infrastructure setup to include Google
Digital healthcare provider Babylon has opened up about the work it is doing with the Google Cloud team, as it grapples with trying to meet the infrastructure needs of its rapidly growing business
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March 25, 2022
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Mar'22
More than 300 new hyperscale datacentres in development globally
The number of hyperscale datacentres in operation around the world is set to hit the 1,200 mark by the end of 2026, as demand for capacity across the globe continues to soar
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March 22, 2022
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Mar'22
Edge computing implementations still in their infancy
It’s still early days for enterprise implementations of edge computing, with one analyst likening it to the early days of cloud
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March 18, 2022
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Mar'22
University of Reading tracks fruit tree flowering as spring breaks, with Oracle
University is working with Oracle for research to monitor fruit trees as they blossom into spring