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• September 15, 2023 15 Sep'23

  OVHcloud debuts ‘comprehensive’ carbon calculator for customers

  French IaaS challenger OVHcloud has launched a tool to help its customers track their Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions

• September 15, 2023 15 Sep'23

  Dunelm's journey to micro front ends

  We find out how Dunelm has modernised its platform and web development with in-house ecommerce and serverless systems

• September 11, 2023 11 Sep'23

  HMRC signs cloud-focused £4.4m mainframe management and modernisation deal with Kyndryl

  The government tax collection agency is continuing its move to the cloud, but needs some help readying its mainframe estate for migration

• September 11, 2023 11 Sep'23

  Salesforce and Zoom embrace ethical hackers. You should, too

  Software companies Salesforce and Zoom discuss their successful bug bounty programmes, what they learned at a recent in-person hackathon in which they participated, and why others shouldn’t be scared of hackers

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  IT leaders ‘oblivious’ to the environmental impact of ‘unwanted’ data, research shows

  Research commissioned by IT infrastructure services provider NTT reveals knowledge gaps among IT leaders regarding the environmental footprint of their data storage estates

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Microsoft finds Storm-0558 exploited crash dump to steal signing key

  Microsoft has published new information on how the Chinese state threat actor Storm-0558 was able to exploit a rare race condition following a crash dump in order to acquire a consumer signing key

• September 06, 2023 06 Sep'23

  TikTok opens Irish datacentre in push to safeguard European user data

  Social media giant TikTok has completed the first of two datacentre builds it has under development in Ireland

• September 05, 2023 05 Sep'23

  Colocation market ready to cash in on rising interest in enterprise AI

  IT market watcher Omdia has tipped the colocation market to be one of the main beneficiaries of the growing demand for enterprise AI services

• September 05, 2023 05 Sep'23

  The National Television Awards uses Hyve Managed Hosting to support website voting system

  For the fourth year in a row, Hyve Managed Hosting has been the hosting provider of choice to the National Television Awards

• August 31, 2023 31 Aug'23

  Scottish government readies cloud platform to aid public sector take-up of AWS and Microsoft Azure

  Details of a launch event for the Scottish government's push to encourage wider use of public cloud services by public sector organisations have emerged

• August 31, 2023 31 Aug'23

  GenAI outranks cloud as business IT strategic priority

  Enterprise Strategy Group research on the use cases for generative AI shows it as strategic for corporate IT, with impacts on customer experience, software development and IT Ops

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  Google Cloud gunning for enterprise growth with generative AI push

  This year's Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco has seen the company announce a slew of generative AI-focused products and services

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  Google Cloud ups ante in generative AI

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Google Cloud Next 2023 by underscoring the company’s efforts to make generative AI tools more accessible to businesses and workers

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  Google bets on AI-backed cyber controls for Workspace users

  Zero-trust and digital sovereignty controls are the focus of a series of enhancements being made for Google Workspace users

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  AWS debuts Dedicated Local Zones with Singapore government as first customer

  The new offering will be fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by a customer or community, and placed in a customer-specified location or datacentre

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  CBRE forecasts rise in European colocation capacity in H2 despite power supply constraints

  Real estate consultancy CBRE's latest European colocation market tracker report suggests the second half of 2023 will be a big one in terms of supply and take-up of datacentre capacity

• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  Red Hat CEO on AI moves and source code kerfuffle

  Matt Hicks talks up Red Hat’s efforts to support generative AI adoption through OpenShift AI and weighs in on the issues surrounding the company’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  UK competition watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware deal green light to go ahead

  After several months of deliberation, the UK Competition and Markets Authority has concluded its investigation into Broadcom's $61bn bid to acquire VMware

• August 16, 2023 16 Aug'23

  AI is the most hyped technology of 2023

  Gartner's 2023 hype cycle puts generative AI at the peak of inflated expectations in its latest analysis of emerging tech trends

• August 14, 2023 14 Aug'23

  US Cyber Board to probe cloud security after latest Exchange hack

  CSRB review of cloud security comes in the wake of a major Chinese cyber attack on US government bodies orchestrated through Microsoft’s cloud services

• August 12, 2023 12 Aug'23

  Datacentre management vulnerabilities leave public clouds at risk

  At the annual DEF CON hacking convention, researchers from Trellix have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in key datacentre products underpinning the world’s public cloud infrastructure

• August 09, 2023 09 Aug'23

  AI interview: Krystal Kauffman, lead organiser, Turkopticon

  Remote Mechanical Turk workers are responsible for training artificial intelligence algorithms and completing other data-related business processes - we hear about the workplace issues they face

• August 07, 2023 07 Aug'23

  Microsoft fixes Azure flaw that was subject of researcher criticism

  Microsoft has confirmed a potentially-dangerous flaw in the Azure platform has now been fully fixed, and moved to reassure customers that despite criticism it is committed to responsible disclosure and timely fixes

• August 04, 2023 04 Aug'23

  CCS urged to do more to make Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to SMEs

  The government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are coming under fire from the SME supplier community over accusations it could do more to make the £1.3 bn Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to smaller suppliers

• August 04, 2023 04 Aug'23

  Amazon CEO cites enterprise shift in cloud spending priorities for upbeat Q2 results

  After a succession of downbeat quarterly results, Amazon's Q2 figures suggest a return to form

• August 03, 2023 03 Aug'23

  Cozy Bear hijacks SME Microsoft 365 tenants in latest campaign

  Microsoft shares intelligence on a newly observed Cozy Bear campaign that saw the APT take over genuine Microsoft 365 tenants and subvert them to try to phish its victims

• August 03, 2023 03 Aug'23

  Microsoft attacked over ‘grossly irresponsible’ security practice

  The CEO of Tenable has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft, asserting that the organisation is deliberately keeping its Azure cloud customers in the dark about dangerous vulnerabilities and accusing it of a culture of ‘toxic obfuscation’

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play

  SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through

  Government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  IBM debuts Cloud Carbon Calculator to help enterprises manage their GHG emissions

  Tech giant IBM has announced the general availability of a tool designed to help enterprises track and curb the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their on-premise and cloud-based activities

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear

  Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Google reveals how AI and machine learning are shaping its sustainability strategy

  Google's latest annual environmental report reveals details about how the technology giant's ‘artificial intelligence-first’ policy is shaping its ongoing efforts to minimise the environmental footprint of its customers’ operations

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  How datacentres might avoid price hikes and keep more customers

  The most promising strategies for ensuring minimal price rises to customers require operators to start dissecting their approach to packaging and selling their wares

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows

  The latest global public cloud market data from Gartner suggests Google is gaining ground on its rivals, as it achieves higher annual growth than AWS and Microsoft

• July 18, 2023 18 Jul'23

  The FA draws on Google Cloud to support Women's World Cup training push for The Lionesses

  The Football Association is drawing on its long-standing technology partnership with Google Cloud to collect match and player data to support the Lionesses in their training regimes for the Women's World Cup

• July 13, 2023 13 Jul'23

  Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon

  Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments

• July 11, 2023 11 Jul'23

  Legal & General signs seven-year datacentre migration deal with IBM spin-off Kyndryl

  Financial services giant L&G has enlisted the help of its long-standing technology partner to help accelerate the pace of its cloud-focused digital transformation plans

• July 10, 2023 10 Jul'23

  How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming

  Confluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services

• July 07, 2023 07 Jul'23

  Microsoft and AWS caution Ofcom against referring UK cloud market over to CMA

  As the UK cloud market braces itself for the publication of Ofcom's final report into the state of the market, Amazon and Microsoft's responses to regulator's interim findings have been made public

• July 06, 2023 06 Jul'23

  VMware ramps up on sovereign cloud in APAC

  VMware is working with local partners to deliver sovereign cloud services in the region, amid growing sovereignty interests among governments and the need maintain business continuity

• July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

  Google research highlights UK economic benefits of widespread AI adoption

  Google's Economic Impact Report highlights the positive benefits the wider use of AI technologies throughout society could have on the UK economy

• July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

  Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking

  Indonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  NHS England signs five-year Microsoft 365 contract

  Hot on the heels of its earlier deployment of Microsoft Teams, NHS England is now going all-in on the rest of the software giant’s online productivity tools

• June 23, 2023 23 Jun'23

  Microsoft slammed for hitting European cloud users with ‘unfair, additional’ charges

  Research from non-profit Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe organisation suggests cost of digital transformation is going up for ‘unfair’ reasons

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  Cabinet Office updates decade-old public cloud-first mandate for central government

  A decade after it was first introduced, the government has updated its cloud-first guidance by including nine principles to guide public sector IT buyers through their off-premise purchasing decisions

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia

  Over half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  University of York shifts HPC workloads to Swedish EcoDataCenter colocation site in green IT push

  With the University of York using its HPC capabilities for climate research, it decided it was time to shift its IT infrastructure to a greener colo site in support of its net-zero goals

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  CGI to develop virtual, cloud-hosted ‘black box’ recorder technology for aircraft

  IT consultancy CGI is developing an alternative to the traditional ‘black box’ recorders found in aircraft that will allow teams on the ground to intervene quicker in the event of an emergency onboard

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  BBFC taps into AWS AI portfolio to speed up content classification

  The British Board of Film Classification has embarked on an exploratory piece of work to see how artificial intelligence could assist with classifying content

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Cloud remains IT investment priority for UK enterprises despite testing economic times

  Study by Tata Consultancy Services confirms enterprises from across the UK and Ireland are continuing to invest in cloud, and see doing so as the gateway to future innovation