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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  How application container technology is helping YMCA open up access to education

  Youth charity YMCA is in the midst of a push to reduce its reliance on paper-based education aids, with the help of Droplet Computing’s application container technology

• April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18

  TechUK calls on government for Climate Change Agreement deadline extension for datacentres

  TechUK claim decision to stop new datacentre operators from joining Climate Change Agreement programme from October 2018 could have dire consequences for the sector's future growth

• April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18

  AWS commits to improving cloud skills of 100,000 people in Europe during 2018

  Amazon Web Services commits to equipping 100,000 people across Europe with cloud skills to help speed up adoption of off-premise technologies and services across the continent

• April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18

  Alibaba to set up digital hub in Thailand

  Chinese e-commerce and technology giant Alibaba is expanding its Southeast Asian footprint with a new digital hub east of Bangkok that is expected to boost Thailand’s digital credentials

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Nginx debuts in Australia amid growing demand for microservices

  The supplier of an open-source application platform is counting on the growing usage of microservices in the perennial search for agility and responsiveness among enterprises

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Irish planning chiefs face legal challenge over granting Amazon permission for datacentre

  Amazon Web Services faces a fresh round of opposition to its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin after an objector lodged a legal challenge to the planning chiefs who approved the project

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Investments in skills, infrastructure and SMEs needed to help UK data economy hit new heights

  The UK data economy may struggle to reach its full growth potential between now and 2025 unless action is taken, suggests research commissioned by datacentre operator Digital Realty

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Singtel, VMware to set up hybrid cloud sandbox

  The hybrid cloud sandbox environment will let companies test their cloud workloads and software-defined networks

• April 13, 2018 13 Apr'18

  Crown Hosting and Fujitsu urge SIs to rethink approach to public sector IT in cloud era

  Crown Hosting and Fujitsu claim shift away from large, multi-year outsourcing deals is a change some systems integrators are intent on ignoring

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  IaaS emerges as fastest-growing sector of the global public cloud market

  Gartner's public cloud spending forecast suggests enterprise demand for IaaS and SaaS deployments will continue to intensify between now and 2021

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Cloud, containers and hybrid IT flagged as top technology investments by UK IT professionals

  Research into the technology investment priorities of UK IT professionals reveals a strong appetite for all things cloud and containers

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Facebook settles $365m modular datacentre IP theft case with UK-based BladeRoom Group

  BladeRoom and Facebook are known to have reached a confidential settlement in their long-running legal dispute, which saw the social medial giant accused of stealing trade secrets

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  Apple claims global operations now run on 100% renewable power

  Four years after hitting its 100% renewable power goal in its datacentre estate, consumer electronics giant Apple claims to have replicated the feat across its entire business

• April 06, 2018 06 Apr'18

  Microsoft outage: Europe-wide downtime locks Office 365 and Azure users out of cloud

  Microsoft engineers cite Azure Active Directory fault as cause of cloud customer service woes across Europe

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  Oracle expands availability of cloud services from UK datacentre region

  Database giant claims expansion of UK datacentre region shows its commitment to customers

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  UK government secures public sector discounts on Microsoft cloud products to April 2021

  Government procurement chiefs have secured ongoing preferential pricing on Microsoft cloud products for the public sector through Digital Transformation Agreement

• March 23, 2018 23 Mar'18

  City & Guilds preps SAP S/4 Hana system migration to Microsoft Azure

  Vocational training provider City & Guilds claims moving multiple business applications to a managed Microsoft Azure environment will save more than £1m a year

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Pressure grows on government to clarify post-Brexit position on UK-EU data flows

  TechUK says clear guidance is needed on whether the UK will need a data adequacy agreement in place during the 21-month Brexit transition period

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  UK local councils favour hybrid cloud as legacy IT management needs persist

  Research into the IT buying habits of more than 300 local authorities in the UK reveals a growing appetite for using cloud, as councils continue to grapple with managing and maintaining legacy IT

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Ministry of Justice CDIO Tom Read claims CIO role will succumb to cloud

  Speaking at Cloud Expo Europe, Ministry of Justice CDIO Tom Read says CIOs must be prepared to make their own roles redundant by embracing commodity cloud services and utility computing

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Alibaba Cloud’s Indonesia datacentre is open for business

  The Chinese cloud supplier is pulling all stops to expand its Asia-Pacific footprint, including training local cloud professionals and nabbing notable customers – including one of Indonesia’s top e-commerce companies

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  Non-compliant G-Cloud suppliers escape spend data sharing fines, as MISO revamp gathers pace

  Freedom of Information request reveals G-Cloud providers are not being fined for failing to submit monthly spend data, as the CCS claims success with using other deterrent methods

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  Public sector IT buyers still neglecting to report G-Cloud savings, FoI request reveals

  Computer Weekly has learned that public sector IT buyers are still neglecting to self-report details of the savings they have accrued through using the G-Cloud framework

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Putting users first: Making sense of the CCS G-Cloud launch date U-turn

  The government's decision to roll back plans to delay the launch of G-Cloud 10 could be detrimental to the future of the framework, it is claimed

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Component shortages and price hikes drag down fourth-quarter server shipments in Emea

  Ongoing semiconductor and DRAM component shortage is driving up server prices, prompting IT buyers to delay purchases, according to Gartner

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Developed APAC countries well-poised for the cloud

  With strong policies in data protection and cyber security, Japan, Australia and Singapore are among countries that are most prepared to reap the benefits of the cloud

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  G-Cloud 10 launch date confirmed for June 2018

  The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) confirms it will start accepting new bids from suppliers wanting to join the tenth iteration of the G-Cloud framework from April 2018, in anticipation of the next version going live in June

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  US defence chiefs cut $1bn cloud contract with AWS partner amid anti-trust complaints

  The US Department of Defense confirms it is revising down the cost and scope of a billion dollar cloud deal awarded to an AWS partner, after critics picked holes in the procurement process

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Microsoft courts US government cloud users with Azure Stack integration promise

  Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to get the US government using its cloud in anger, with the promise of a forthcoming Azure Stack integration and new datacentre regions to house “secret” classified data

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Yorkshire Building Society implements cloud banking platform

  Yorkshire Building Society is using a cloud-based banking platform built on Salesforce.com to automate manual tasks

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Blockchain investment firm acquires Swedish colocation provider Hydro66

  Canadian investment firm Arctic Blockchain has acquired renewably powered colocation specialist Hydro66 to cash in on demand for datacentre capacity from cryptocurrency miners

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Cloud firms need $1bn datacentre investment a quarter to compete with AWS and co

  IT service providers must invest “at least” $1bn a quarter to keep up with the pace of Amazon, Google and Microsoft hyperscale cloud growth, research suggests

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Contractor confidence in HMRC’s IR35 online assessment tool remains low

  Research suggests contractors still have misgivings about using HM Revenue & Customs' IR35 online assessment tool, one year on from launch

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  Legacy lock-in and lack of skills hamper public sector cloud adoption

  Migrating from legacy lock-in and the ability to manage workloads in cloud infrastructure are among the major challenges that are slowing down public sector cloud adoption

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Hitachi Vantara ups ante on industrial IoT

  Potential internet of things powerhouse believes its deep expertise in operational technology will give it a leg up over traditional IT rivals

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  FBI seeks information on IaaS and SaaS providers as cloud push gathers pace

  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking information about the capabilities of the public cloud provider community, in preparation for move off-premise

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  OpenStack: Open source community collaboration needed to overcome edge computing adoption barriers

  In a whitepaper co-authored by a number of open source advocates, the OpenStack Foundation makes the case for taking a teamwork approach to tackling the barriers to widespread edge computing adoption

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  UKCloud to open Microsoft Azure Stack region for public sector users

  Public sector-focused cloud services provider UKCloud is in the throes of beta testing its Azure Stack setup, which will run in the same datacentres as the Cabinet Office's Crown Hosting Service

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  IT managers in the dark over work-life balance pressure of on-call work, research shows

  PagerDuty's inaugural work-life balance report highlights how unspoken frustrations about punishing on-call schedules can contribute towards employee attrition and workplace stress

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  CBRE adopts artificial intelligence to help troubleshoot issues across 800-plus client datacentres

  The datacentre operations arm of real estate consultancy CBRE wants to use artificial intelligence to troubleshoot issues in its clients' 800-plus datacentres

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Traditional datacentres to host just 6% of workloads by 2021, predicts Cisco

  The seventh annual Cisco Global Cloud Index highlights how the demand for workloads hosted in traditional private datacentres is continuing to wane in the face of cloud

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  AWS becomes $20bn company as demand for public cloud continues to soar

  Amazon Web Services enjoys another stellar quarter of revenue growth, while its parent company continues to profit off the success of Alexa devices

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Google Q4 results show businesses are buying into its public cloud

  The Google Cloud Platform is earning the search engine giant $1bn per quarter. Expect more cloud investment this year

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  CIO interview: Aaron Powell, CDO, NHS Blood and Transplant

  NHS Blood and Transplant chief digital officer Aaron Powell explains why pushing a digital transformation agenda has a real impact on people’s lives

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure

  Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Colocation providers told to team up with telcos to meet edge datacentre demand

  Colocation providers can ill afford to take an “us and them” view of telcos when it comes to addressing the burgeoning demand for edge computing resources, says Datacloud UK panel

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Datacentre infrastructure investments show no signs of slowing

  The 2018 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests datacentre infrastructure revamps could be on the cards at enterprises across the UK and Europe, as the push to consolidate their server farms picks up pace

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  Researchers calculate financial toll of cloud outages on US business sector

  A joint report by Lloyd's of London and AIR Worldwide reveals the financial disruption a three to six-day cloud outage could cause to US-based businesses

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  Case study: Network Rail uses cloud to get its digital data preservation plans on track

  Digital-by-default railway infrastructure operator, Network Rail, is building a cloud-based archive to protect the organisation’s data assets for future use

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Irish planning chiefs dismiss appeal against Amazon's €1bn datacentre build

  Irish planning chiefs have granted Amazon permission to proceed with its plans to build a €1bn datacentre in Dublin to support the continued European growth of its cloud business