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May 27, 2020 27 May'20
PropertyGuru touts 3D virtual viewings with StoryTeller

Southeast Asian property portal PropertyGuru rolls out new capability in its FastKey platform that lets developers showcase properties to prospective buyers through 3D visualisation
May 26, 2020 26 May'20
MoD cuts through competition barriers to sign direct private cloud deal with Microsoft

The Ministry of Defence has justified its decision to directly award Microsoft a 23-month private cloud deal by stating the firm is the only one able to meet its precise technical and data protection needs
May 19, 2020 19 May'20
TRC Companies pairs cloud-first push with Druva-infused data backup revamp

US-based engineering consultancy TRC Companies scooped the prize for Best Cloud Project at the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards with its story of how a long-overdue revamp of its data backup systems ties in with its hybrid cloud push
May 18, 2020 18 May'20
Swedish mining firm LKAB revamps data backup setup to support downtime avoidance goals

State-owned Swedish mining company LKAB scooped the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards. Here we run through what the project involved

May 11, 2020 11 May'20
AWS vs Microsoft: US JEDI contract dispute develops into war of words between tech giants

Amazon and Microsoft are embroiled in a ‘battle of the blogs’ over the former’s continued efforts to get its claims that it lost out on a major US cloud contract due to ‘significant political interference’ fully investigated
May 07, 2020 07 May'20
Amazon and Microsoft dominate European cloud infrastructure market, shows Synergy Research

Such is the hold that Amazon and Microsoft have on the cloud infrastructure market across Europe, other smaller players will struggle to get a look in, claims IT analyst house Synergy Research Group
May 06, 2020 06 May'20
Sustainability credentials of underground datacentre in Norway lure green investment fund

Norway’s Lefdal Mining Datacenter has designs on becoming Europe's largest server farm, and its green credentials have secured further investment to help it reach its goal
May 04, 2020 04 May'20
Digital Realty doubles down on sustainability with pledge to cut carbon emissions by 2030

Colocation giant Digital Realty is embarking on a 10-year, business-wide carbon emissions reduction quest, led by climate science
May 01, 2020 01 May'20
University of Oxford embarks on cloud-fuelled AI research push with AWS

University collaborates with Amazon Web Services to accelerate the pace of technology innovation in a range of artificial intelligence-related fields with the help of cloud
May 01, 2020 01 May'20
Amazon commits to reinvesting $4bn of projected second-quarter profit into coronavirus response

Online retail giant Amazon sees revenue surge, but profits drop during first quarter of 2020 following surge in reinvestment to ready its business for Covid-19-induced uptick in consumer demand for online orders

April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20
Coronavirus: UKCloud and VMware join forces to meet public sector demand for remote desktops

Public sector-focused IaaS provider UKCloud forges closer ties with VMware to meet the public sector demand for “government-grade” remote desktop technology
April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20
UK government secures Microsoft Azure discounts for public sector

Procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service have secured an addendum to a long-standing Microsoft preferential pricing deal that now includes Azure public cloud services
April 28, 2020 28 Apr'20
AWS expands beyond edge connectivity in Italy with datacentre region opening

Amazon Web Services says opening a datacentre region in Covid-19-hit Italy indicates its commitment to delivering cloud services to communities that need them most
April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20
Datacentre M&A closed deal values exceed last year’s total just three months into 2020

Latest market tracker data shows rebound in datacentre M&A deal values as enterprises look to outsource more of their IT and move to the cloud
April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20
Coronavirus: Remote workers air long-term productivity concerns over home-working tech

Research from managed service provider Atlas Cloud highlights concerns from remote workers that their work-from-home tech kit might not be up to the job in the long term
April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20
Google creates datacentre task scheduler to limit non-urgent work to peak renewable energy periods

Google lifts lid on how it is using forecast data to ensure non-urgent compute workloads within its datacentres are carried out at peak supply times for renewable energy
April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20
UK challenger stockbroker Freetrade backs Google Cloud to make investing more inclusive

The CTO and co-founders of UK challenger stockbroking app provider, Freetrade, discuss how Google Cloud has helped them diversify their service offering as user numbers have increased
April 17, 2020 17 Apr'20
AWS slams lack of White House cooperation in JEDI cloud contract investigation

The Department of Defense claims the Inspector General's report into the controversial JEDI cloud contract should nullify a number of allegations pertaining to the deal, but Amazon Web Services seems to disagree
April 15, 2020 15 Apr'20
Coronavirus: Round-up of free cloud infrastructure services to support enterprises through Covid-19

Amazon, Google, Alibaba and OVHcloud are among public cloud providers offering enterprises, researchers and healthcare free access to services to support them through the coronavirus pandemic
April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20
Happy developers write secure code, report claims

DevOps specialist Sonatype claims to have found a direct correlation between satisfied developers and application security hygiene
April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20
Coronavirus: Microsoft Azure suffers datacentre capacity shortages in Europe

Microsoft is working to “expedite” additional datacentre capacity after reports of users struggling to access resources due to coronavirus demand surge. But how easy will that be amid a global pandemic?
April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20
Coronavirus: Google Cloud CEO on how its tech is supporting the fight against Covid-19

From public sector organisations to retailers, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reveals details of how the firm's tech is helping enterprises in multiple verticals shore up their infrastructure and get on the front foot in the fight against coronavirus
April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20
GDS champions cross-functionality approach to cloud adoption in public sector guidance

Extensive research into cloud adoption trends in the public sector by Government Digital Service (GDS) results in guidance detailing how IT leaders can make the most of their off-premise investments
March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20
AWS hits out at narrow scope of DoD’s planned re-evaluation of JEDI cloud contract

Details of Amazon’s response to the US Department of Defense’s planned re-evaluation of the controversial 10-year, $10bn JEDI cloud contract have emerged
March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20
DCMS creates datacentre-focused resiliency team to keep UK online during coronavirus outbreak

Tech trade body TechUK reveals further details of the work going on behind the scenes at government level to ensure datacentre operators have access to the resources they need to cope with the surge in businesses and consumers accessing online ...
March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20
Global spend on enterprise datacentre kit and private clouds down 1% in 2019

Market tracker data from Synergy Research Group reveals continued decline in spending on private datacentres, while investments in kit destined for use in public cloud facilities continues to soar
March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20
Hyperscale cloud firms ‘well-insulated from coronavirus crisis’, claims Synergy Research

With businesses and consumers increasingly turning to online and cloud-based services to access work and leisure resources, Synergy Research predicts the hyperscale datacentre operators should be well-positioned to “ride out” the coronavirus crisis
March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20
Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online

TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak
March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20
Seek ditches pagers for cloud service in IT operations

Australian employment marketplace Seek is doing away with pagers in favour of PagerDuty’s cloud-based digital operations platform to scale up its IT operations in Asia and Australia
March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20
Coronavirus: The cloud and datacentre management challenges facing CIOs as remote working soars

Ensuring their IT infrastructure is equipped to cope with the sudden surge in employees accessing on-premise and cloud applications from remote locations in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a challenge facing many CIOs right now
March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20
Covid-19: Uptime Institute advises operators to suspend non-essential datacentre projects

Datacentre resiliency think-tank issues 18-page guidance to help operators protect staff during the coronavirus pandemic while keeping their facilities ticking over
March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20
Amazon to recruit 100,000 extra workers to cope with coronavirus-induced online shopping surge

Online retailer plans to focus its recruitment drive on providing jobs to hospitality and service industry workers who are out of work as coronavirus prompts city-wide shutdowns across the US
March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20
Nutanix expands virtual desktop service in APAC

Nutanix has expanded its Xi Frame virtual desktop service to five more cloud regions in Asia-Pacific amid the Covid-19 outbreak
March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20
US Department of Defense requests time to re-evaluate section of AWS and Microsoft JEDI bids

The Department of Defense is to request a resubmission of information from Microsoft and Amazon Web Services about their JEDI bids, as the long-running US cloud procurement saga drags on
March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: Datacentres remain mainstay of enterprise IT, despite continued cloud creep

The 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget confirms enterprise datacentres remain the deployment site of choice for many workloads, but stepping up the use of cloud is a top investment plan for firms this year
March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20
Virtus confirms Q2 go-live date for next two datacentres, as expansion plans gather pace

Virtus Data Centres is making good on its datacentre expansion plans, which have been previously billed as among the biggest construction projects ever embarked upon by a colocation provider
March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20
University of Hertfordshire and Goonhilly hail deep learning-led UK mapping data breakthrough

Tech tie-up paves the way for creation of UK mapping data that is free from cloud cover for the first time
March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India

Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments
March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20
Australian government pulls plug on cloud certification programme

The Australian Signals Directorate is closing its cloud services certification programme to allow for more home-grown suppliers
February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20
Greenpeace urges AWS, Google and Microsoft to cut cloud ties with oil and gas customers

Environmental group wants three of the public cloud market’s biggest players to stop selling their technology to oil and gas companies – but will they?
February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20
CBRE: Record colocation take-up will fuel growth of secondary European datacentre hubs

Latest quarterly colocation market tracker data shows take-up of colocation capacity across major European hubs continues to hit record levels, leading to overflow demand in other places too
February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20
IT Priorities 2020: ASEAN firms on the frontline of digital transformation

Southeast Asian companies plan to spend more on infrastructure and cyber security, but the growth in IT budgets appears to be slowing down
February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20
How tech suppliers are easing barriers to hybrid cloud adoption

The tech industry has risen to the challenge of helping enterprises ease their transition to hybrid cloud, but issues remain
February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20
Etsy confirms completion of two-year migration to Google Cloud

Etsy claims move from on-premise to public cloud has boosted its business agility, and is helping it achieve its sustainability goals too
February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20
Macquarie Cloud Services sets up Azure practice

Macquarie Telecom’s cloud division will deliver Azure managed services to new and existing customers, complementing its existing cloud, hosting, datacentre and telco businesses
February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20
Amazon employee activists dismiss Jeff Bezos’ $10bn pledge to combat climate change

Outspoken environmental activists working at Amazon dismiss CEO’s $10bn climate change pledge by pointing out firm’s ties to oil and gas market
February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20
AWS secures temporary halt to Microsoft’s work on $10bn US JEDI cloud contract

Restraining order prevents Microsoft doing any “substantial” work on the JEDI cloud contract as Amazon’s legal action against the US government gathers pace
February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20
Web app ubiquity gives cyber criminals new opportunities

The popularity and ubiquity of web-based apps such as Office 365 and Salesforce is a temptation too good to miss for cyber criminals
February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20
Check Point pledges end to security updates

Check Point’s Gil Shwed expands on a vision for the next 10 years of cyber security, which he calls Infinity Next
February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20
Australia’s NAB taps AI to create brand voice

Using Amazon’s artificial intelligence smarts, National Australia Bank has developed a unique brand voice that will greet customers who dial up its contact centre