Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Find out what is PaaS, what PaaS is used for, what companies are using PaaS, and the vendors offering products that fall under this category of cloud services.
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28 Mar 2023
BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy
BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint Continue Reading
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27 Sep 2021
Private equity cash fuels Nordic datacentre growth
Private equity companies are betting on the Nordic datacentre sector as demand for services in the region accelerates Continue Reading
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31 Dec 2021
Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2021
The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team began the year discussing the online fallout from the storming of the White House and finished it discussing IT and climate change, touching on bees and datacentres along the way Continue Reading
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23 Dec 2021
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021 Continue Reading
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23 Dec 2021
Top 10 cloud stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2021 Continue Reading
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21 Dec 2021
IT Priorities 2022: Cloud-first mindset growing in India
Nearly half of organisations in India are expected to spend more on cloud services, underscoring the growing cloud-first mindset that is taking root in the subcontinent Continue Reading
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20 Dec 2021
Clouds gather over Chinese providers – but is there a silver lining?
With the geopolitical outlook chillier than for some time, Computer Weekly explores the future prospects for UK-China approaches to technology and business Continue Reading
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20 Dec 2021
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021 Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2021
Cloud wars: How the US tech giants opening UK datacentres shook up the public sector market
Five years have passed since Microsoft and Amazon opened their UK datacentre regions, rapidly growing their share of the public sector market to the detriment of several smaller, home-grown cloud providers Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2021
AWS outage: API and networking issues disrupt services hosted in major US Amazon datacentre hub
One year on from a major datacentre outage that affected the same Amazon Web Services region, the public cloud giant and thousands of its users are hit by service troubles again Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2021
AWS re:Invent 2021: Four key takeaways for ASEAN firms
AWS’s third-generation Graviton processor and other offerings in edge computing, machine learning and digital twin technologies are of relevance to organisations in Southeast Asia Continue Reading
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07 Dec 2021
Schneider Electric gifts the datacentre industry a five-part sustainability framework
Datacentre power systems specialist has drawn up a framework that it hopes will help the industry standardise its reporting of sustainability metrics Continue Reading
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07 Dec 2021
APAC banks gear up on cloud, but challenges remain
Public cloud spending by financial institutions in the region is rising even as they grapple with legacy IT challenges and cost concerns Continue Reading
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06 Dec 2021
IT priorities 2022: UK IT leaders show preference for cloud-first strategies
Research suggests firms across the UK and Europe that were quick to pivot to the cloud in response to the pandemic are prioritising investments that will help them make more of their off-premise infrastructure Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2021
United Airlines draws from AWS and diverse tech team to overcome Covid-19 business challenges
United Airlines used the AWS Re:Invent keynote to set out how it has overcome the challenges of Covid-19 by drawing on the capabilities of its diverse tech team to oversee its move to the public cloud Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2021
Facebook parent Meta tightens links with open source community through expanded AWS partnership
Social media conglomerate Meta confirms AWS’s elevation to strategic cloud partner status as tech giants’ ongoing collaboration enters next phase Continue Reading
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01 Dec 2021
Goldman Sachs debuts AWS-powered cloud for financial services sector
Goldman Sachs is building on its decade-long relationship with Amazon Web Services to launch a cloud-based environment that other financial services firms can use for data analytics and processing purposes Continue Reading
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01 Dec 2021
IT Priorities 2022: IT a focus for business recovery
The pandemic has accelerated IT initiatives – we look at what impact this will have on the CIO agenda for 2022 Continue Reading
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30 Nov 2021
How Maxim’s Group is using Oracle Cloud
The Hong Kong-based F&B operator is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run its VMware workloads and datawarehouse to improve resilience and productivity Continue Reading
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29 Nov 2021
Cabinet Office slammed after advising users to ditch UKCloud as further investment nears
The Cabinet Office is facing criticism after details emerge that at least one major government department has briefed suppliers to migrate away from UKCloud Continue Reading
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24 Nov 2021
Growing pains: Where next for Gaia-X?
With one of its founding members preparing to exit the project because of concerns over the growing influence of non-European entities on its operations, questions are being asked about Gaia-X’s future Continue Reading
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23 Nov 2021
Can the tech community show us how to save the world?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we report from the COP26 conference on how the tech world’s collaborative open source model could help tackle climate change. Gartner has urged IT leaders to rethink their role as business come to rely on digital technologies. And we ask if your office security is at risk as staff return. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2021
Gaia-X founding member Scaleway exits project over misgivings about its future direction
A founding partner of the Gaia-X project, which aims to build an open, federated data infrastructure for European companies to host their cloud workloads, has exited the project over concerns about where the initiative is heading Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2021
Average size of hyperscale datacentres is on the rise
Latest data from IT market watcher Synergy Research Group highlights how the number and size of hyperscale datacentres around the world is on the up Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2021
GovTech to enhance Government on Commercial Cloud
GCC 2.0 will include improvements in user onboarding and provide single credential access to public cloud services and engineering tools, among other areas Continue Reading
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15 Nov 2021
UK’s first datacentre-focused University Technical College course makes its debut
Some of the datacentre sector’s biggest players have pooled their resources to help launch the UK’s first industry-specific University Technical College course Continue Reading
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15 Nov 2021
Norwegian telco Telenor partners with Google Cloud for digital transformation push
Telenor has signed a deal with Google Cloud that will see the pair collaborate on bringing joint services and products to market for their customers Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2021
IT Priorities 2022: APAC enterprises invest in digital future
Nearly two-thirds of enterprises in Asia-Pacific plan to increase their IT budgets next year in areas such as cloud computing and cyber security to secure their digital future Continue Reading
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11 Nov 2021
Post-Covid tech world to see 89% of UK tech operations hosted off-premise
Leading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required Continue Reading
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10 Nov 2021
APAC expert guide to cloud migration
In this expert guide on cloud migration in Asia-Pacific, we highlight the key considerations and strategies that enterprises can take when moving their workloads to public cloud Continue Reading
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09 Nov 2021
Public cloud use linked to reduced carbon emissions and energy consumption, finds 451 Research
IT analyst house 451 Research claims European enterprises could dramatically improve their sustainability credentials by shuttering their datacentres and moving their business applications to the public cloud Continue Reading
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09 Nov 2021
Oracle eyes startups with Singapore cloud region
Oracle is targeting startups and going beyond its enterprise stronghold with its first cloud region in Southeast Asia Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2021
How can enterprises avoid datacentre supply chain issues affecting IT upgrades?
With analysts predicting that the current datacentre component shortages could last for at least two years, CIOs are being advised to act now to prevent the situation affecting their IT upgrade plans Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2021
CME Group signs 10-year cloud and product innovation deal with Google
CME Group, one of the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange operators, has signed a multi-year infrastructure migration deal with Google Cloud Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2021
Irish government confirms datacentre strategy review in revised 2021 climate plan
The Irish government is ramping up its commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but acknowledges hitting its revised up target will be a challenge given the country’s current datacentre growth rate Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2021
Splunk’s cloud shift is paying off in APAC
Splunk’s Asia-Pacific business is growing faster than the rest of the company, but it’s not resting on its laurels Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2021
Inside Krungsri Bank’s open API journey
Thailand’s Krungsri Bank has been harnessing open application programming interfaces to enable its partners to build new services in a strategy that has won over customers from rival banks Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2021
Amazon Q3 2021: AWS nears 40% in year-on-year growth
Amazon has reported 39% year-on-year growth for its public cloud division AWS and posted overall third quarter revenue of $110.8bn, up 15% on last year Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2021
Facebook rebrands to Meta amid continuing controversies
Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta to support its work on the next generation of “social technologies”, but concerns around trust and privacy persist Continue Reading
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28 Oct 2021
Social media conglomerate Facebook on streamlining its hyperscale datacentre buildouts
Facebook offers a look at how its approach to designing and building its datacentres has evolved to keep pace with the growing demands of its growing user base Continue Reading
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27 Oct 2021
Google’s server life extension delivers $1.7bn revenue boost in nine months
Although its public cloud market share is way behind AWS and Azure, GCP is forging ahead with its industrial cloud strategy Continue Reading
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27 Oct 2021
Microsoft: Solving the climate crisis will require moon landing levels of tech innovation
Microsoft’s chief environmental officer says it’s not too late to prevent a climate disaster, but doing so will require a group effort and levels of tech innovation on a par with those needed to put a man on the moon Continue Reading
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27 Oct 2021
AWS to open cloud region in New Zealand
Cloud giant will invest NZ$7.5bn in New Zealand over the next 15 years through the new Auckland cloud region Continue Reading
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25 Oct 2021
The RSPCA on how going cloud-first helped it rescue and rehome animals throughout the pandemic
The RSPCA was one of the earliest adopters of Google’s online business productivity suite of tools nearly a decade ago, and the organisation’s assistant director of IT resources reveals how that decision has benefited the charity throughout the pandemic Continue Reading
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20 Oct 2021
Alibaba Cloud to open datacentres in Thailand and South Korea
Chinese cloud supplier is expanding its regional datacentre footprint to Thailand and South Korea in 2022 alongside technology investments that include a custom Arm-based server chip Continue Reading
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19 Oct 2021
Government flags opportunity for re-use of waste datacentre heat in net-zero strategy
UK government's long-awaited net-zero strategy document makes the case for the creation of heat networks that could see waste heat from datacentres used to warm homes and businesses Continue Reading
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19 Oct 2021
VMware refines cross-cloud strategy
VMware’s CTO Kit Colbert talks up the evolution of the company’s cross-cloud strategy and how it stands out from other suppliers eyeing the multicloud pie Continue Reading
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18 Oct 2021
Singapore pulls ahead with public sector 5G trials
Singapore’s public sector organisations are testing the use of 5G connectivity to remotely operate an autonomous vehicle for road-sweeping, among other use cases Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2021
NXP Semiconductors doubles down on datacentre migration plan with AWS
Netherlands-based semiconductor manufacturer is expanding its use of Amazon Web Services to speed up the time it takes to develop and release new products Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2021
HPE’s GreenLake strategy pays off in APAC
HPE’s transition to an as-a-service company is paying off in Asia-Pacific where it witnessed one of the strongest quarters, thanks in part to rising demand for services Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2021
Microsoft makes carbon emissions-tracking dashboard generally available to cloud users
Microsoft has confirmed the general availability of a dashboard that will allow enterprises to track the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their cloud usage habits in latest sustainability push Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2021
Half-year cloud market tracker data highlights soaring demand for IaaS and PaaS
Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how soaring demand for cloud services is affecting the dominant suppliers Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2021
Google builds out hybrid and multicloud vision for enterprises
The tech giant used the first day of its Google Cloud Next virtual conference to reveal how it is building out its multicloud proposition for enterprises Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2021
Google Cloud renews commitment to helping enterprises decarbonise their IT infrastructure
Public cloud giant is making a series of tools available to users of its off-premise platforms that are designed to help them decarbonise their IT setups Continue Reading
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11 Oct 2021
Oracle commits to growing global datacentre footprint by opening 14 new regions over coming year
Database giant to build out its datacentre presence across the world on the back of growing demand for its cloud infrastructure services Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2021
What lies beyond the data warehouse?
Has the traditional data warehouse finally reached the end of its life? If so, what will follow it? Will it be a hybrid? We find out Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2021
How VMware is tackling the Indian market
VMware is eyeing growing opportunities in India around cloud-native application development, remote work as well as 5G and edge computing, says VMware president Sumit Dhawan Continue Reading
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06 Oct 2021
VMworld 2021: VMware CEO fleshes out and refines company’s enterprise multi-cloud strategy
VMware’s new CEO, Raghu Raghuram, uses the VMworld 2021 keynote to set out the company’s expanded take on the meaning of multi-cloud Continue Reading
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06 Oct 2021
Open Infrastructure Foundation hails surge in OpenStack deployments as Microsoft joins ranks
Open Infrastructure Foundation’s chief operating officer lifts the lid on how the pandemic is shaping and accelerating adoption of its open source cloud platform OpenStack Continue Reading
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06 Oct 2021
Aetos to deploy Singtel MEC for security operations
Security firm Aetos will use Singtel’s multi-access edge computing platform to run applications such as surveillance robots, drones and video analytics at its security command centre Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2021
AWS courts local councils across UK and Ireland with three-month free cloud services trial offer
Amazon Web Services is seeking expressions of interest from local authorities across the UK, Ireland and Spain to take part in a three-month cloud trial programme Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2021
Could Iceland be the best place in the world for high-performance computing?
Most of Iceland’s cheap, sustainable energy is currently used by aluminium smelters, but recognising the need to diversify, the Landsvirkjun power company now promotes other uses Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2021
AWS launches programme to advance health equity
The $40m global health equity programme will fund projects that improve health outcomes for underserved communities Continue Reading
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27 Sep 2021
Private equity cash fuels Nordic datacentre growth
Private equity companies are betting on the Nordic datacentre sector as demand for services in the region accelerates Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2021
Regulator concerns about resilience and security could slow cloud adoption in financial services
Report by Association for Financial Markets In Europe highlights the pressure financial services firms face as they seek to balance the need for innovation with regulatory requirements Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2021
European cloud providers are growing revenue but losing market share, Synergy data shows
Latest data from Synergy Research Group highlights changing dynamics within the European cloud market, as the US giants continue to grow their share Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2021
SSE Renewables teams up with Microsoft for AI-led puffin conservation project on Isle of May
Green energy provider talks up the potential for artificial intelligence technology to help speed up the time it takes to bring new supplies of renewable power onto the grid Continue Reading
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22 Sep 2021
Linode commits to NVMe storage infrastructure upgrade across its global datacentre portfolio
Alternative public cloud service provider Linode has commited to revamping the storage infrastructure across its 11 datacentres, which include sites in the US, UK and Germany Continue Reading
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21 Sep 2021
Stax to expand in New Zealand, Southeast Asia
Australia’s homegrown cloud management platform is setting its sights on neighbouring markets amid growing cloud adoption across the region Continue Reading
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21 Sep 2021
Hyperscale cloud giants look to pick up the pace of self-built datacentres in London
Latest quarterly datacentre market tracker data from DC Byte and Knight Frank suggests a shift in investment priorities for the hyperscale cloud giants could be on the cards Continue Reading
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13 Sep 2021
Google joins Microsoft and Facebook by pledging to replenish more water than it consumes by 2030
Google is the latest tech giant to go public with its commitment to becoming a water-positive entity Continue Reading
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10 Sep 2021
The second coming: The Nordic datacentre market comes of age
As concerns mount about space and power constraints within several of Europe’s largest datacentre hubs, enterprises are being urged to consider shifting more of their energy-intensive workloads to the Nordic countries Continue Reading
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06 Sep 2021
Verne Global acquired for £231m as Nordic datacentre investment trend gathers pace
Icelandic colocation firm acquired by digital infrastructure investment fund as demand for datacentre capacity in the Nordics continues to grow Continue Reading
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03 Sep 2021
Equinix acquires two Mumbai datacentres to expand colocation operations into India
Colocation giant Equinix has acquired a physical presence in India for the first time, following the completion of its acquisition of two Mumbai datacentres Continue Reading
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02 Sep 2021
Five key questions to ask about storage-as-a-service and consumption models
We look at important questions to ask providers of consumption-based storage procurement services, such as base costs and burst, usage measurement and upgrade paths Continue Reading
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02 Sep 2021
HPE signs 10-year GreenLake HPC deal worth $2bn with US National Security Agency
The US National Security Agency has enlisted the help of HPE and its GreenLake platform to aid the delivery of its data management strategy Continue Reading
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01 Sep 2021
NTT Group to grow global datacentre footprint by 20% over next 18 months
Carrier-neutral colocation giant has set out plans that will see it continue to add datacentre capacity across all of the major markets it operates in Continue Reading
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31 Aug 2021
The Raxio Group sets out Pan-African colocation datacentre expansion plans
Pan-African datacentre developer The Raxio Group has embarked on a collaboration that will pave the way for it to increase its colocation footprint within the continent Continue Reading
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24 Aug 2021
Inchcape picks Rise with SAP on Google Cloud to motor on digital
Auto sector company Inchcape has chosen SAP’s Rise service on Google Cloud to drive forward its digital transformation programme Continue Reading
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20 Aug 2021
Facebook vows to replenish more water than it consumes across its global operations by 2030
Social networking giant is following in Microsoft’s footprints by setting itself a goal of becoming a water-positive entity by 2030 Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2021
HPE-Microsoft supercomputing collaboration on ISS speeds research into space travel health impacts
Several months on from the deployment of a microwave-sized supercomputer on the International Space Station, details of the research it's powering have started to emerge Continue Reading
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16 Aug 2021
NAB partners AWS, global banks on open finance
Australia’s NAB teams up with three other banks and AWS to run an open global finance challenge that will see participating teams prototype new digital banking services Continue Reading
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16 Aug 2021
Microsoft launches 'top secret' Azure cloud region for US intelligence community
Microsoft continues to deliver on its pledge to provide cloud services to the US government that are compliant with all strengths of data classification Continue Reading
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15 Aug 2021
UK government tells firms to use cloud to curb their carbon emissions and fight climate change
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has listed moving to the cloud among the steps that businesses should take to help fight climate change Continue Reading
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12 Aug 2021
Regulatory complexity hinders cloud adoption by financial services firms, Google study finds
Business leaders within the financial services space reveal details of what is holding up cloud adoption within their industry in latest Google poll Continue Reading
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12 Aug 2021
Government Digital Service signs two-year public cloud hosting deal with AWS worth £12m
The Government Digital Service has signed its longest and highest value deal with AWS to-date, as the public cloud giant’s hold on the public sector continues to grow Continue Reading
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12 Aug 2021
Wyndham Hotels turns to AWS to weather Covid-19 and company spin-off
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is in the midst of a multi-year digital transformation that has seen it shutter its datacentres and move 90% of its IT infrastructure to the Amazon Web Services public cloud Continue Reading
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11 Aug 2021
Norway’s government steps up efforts to court overseas datacentre investors and developers
The Norwegian government is making a concerted push to attract more foreign investment into its datacentre sector by talking up the country’s green credentials Continue Reading
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11 Aug 2021
Microsoft contests decision to award AWS $10bn NSA cloud contract
Microsoft and AWS are in the midst of another dispute over the outcome of a $10bn US goverment cloud contract Continue Reading
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10 Aug 2021
Real-time data analytics in action
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the emerging applications of real-time analytics and highlight the challenges for businesses to maximise the benefits. EU experts are calling for reform of US surveillance laws – we look at the issues. And we talk to the co-CEO of HR software giant Workday. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2021
Alliance formed to build modular power-hungry HPC datacentres in energy surplus regions
Green datacentre company Cloud&Heat Technologies has formed an alliance with Earth Wind & Power that will see the pair seek to build scalable, modular datacentres in areas where utility firms are producing surplus energy Continue Reading
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06 Aug 2021
Hybrid IT: Making datacentre and cloud work better together in the enterprise
Enterprises are increasingly trying to balance and manage IT assets in a variety of environments, but there are plenty of tools and technologies out there to make the job a lot easier Continue Reading
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04 Aug 2021
Amazon vs Google vs Microsoft: Gartner report blasts public cloud giants’ sales tactics
Latest Magic Quadrant report from Gartner shines a light on heavy-handed sales tactics by some of the public cloud market’s biggest players Continue Reading
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04 Aug 2021
Dropbox shares datacentre sustainability strategy as it plots to be 100% renewably powered by 2030
Cloud-based file sync and share giant goes public with plans to run all its datacentres on renewable power by 2030 Continue Reading
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03 Aug 2021
Huawei courts Asian startups in cloud push
Huawei will spend $100m over three years to grow the startup ecosystem in key markets as it eyes a bigger slice of Asia’s cloud market Continue Reading
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30 Jul 2021
Covid-19: TechUK urges government to tweak self-isolation policy for critical datacentre workers
TechUK wants datacentre operators to be allowed to run their own "test and release" protocols for Covid-negative workers that have been told to self-isolate by NHS Track and Trace Continue Reading
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30 Jul 2021
Covid-19: Lockdown lifting slows Amazon’s sales growth during Q2
Amazon’s revenue growth rate hits a post-pandemic speed bump, as the lifting of lockdown restrictions in various countries sees fewer people shopping online Continue Reading
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29 Jul 2021
Olympic Broadcasting Services taps cloud for content delivery
Live footages of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are being supplied to broadcasters through the public cloud for the first time Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2021
Google posts $50bn in ads revenue as it looks to broaden the business
Google reported second-quarter revenues of $61.9bn driven by spending on ads, but the company’s CEO sees the business moving into new areas Continue Reading
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21 Jul 2021
Datacentre capacity demand remains strong, fuelling continued growth of secondary colo hubs in EMEA
Latest quarterly datacentre market tracker report from DC Byte and Knight Frank shows demand for capacity across EMEA is holding firm and fuelling growth of secondary hubs Continue Reading
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21 Jul 2021
Thomson Reuters fleshes out multicloud strategy with Oracle application migration deal
Multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters has added Oracle to its roster of cloud suppliers, as it seeks to make part of its tax application portfolio cloud native Continue Reading
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21 Jul 2021
How IoT and machine learning are automating agriculture
A new generation of farmers is tapping the internet of things and machine learning to operate self-sustaining urban farms with minimal supervision Continue Reading