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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• February 03, 2022 03 Feb'22

  French Supreme Court raises constitutional questions over EncroChat hacking secrecy

  Conseil Constitutionnel to decide whether ‘defence secrecy’ over state EncroChat cryptophone hacking breaches French constitution

• February 03, 2022 03 Feb'22

  Australia’s cloud market tipped to surpass $14bn in 2025

  The growth will be led by growing demand for software-as-a-service offerings as Aussie firms look to tap cloud services in their digital transformation efforts

• February 02, 2022 02 Feb'22

  JustPark moves from AWS to take up space in the Google public cloud

  Parking space booking app JustPark claims shift in public cloud deployment strategy has reduced the system management overhead for its developers

• January 31, 2022 31 Jan'22

  Nebulon SmartInfrastructure brings cloud-defined storage to datacentre

  Cloud-defined storage allows customers to build private clouds on-site, with pools of storage built from commodity hardware, Nebulon PCIe cards and its browser-based console

• January 31, 2022 31 Jan'22

  Google inks $1bn deal with Bharti Airtel

  The wide-ranging deal covers Google’s equity investment in Airtel, as well as efforts to spur cloud adoption and lower barriers to smartphone ownership

• January 28, 2022 28 Jan'22

  Leeds NHS Trust moves millions of patient records to the Microsoft Azure public cloud

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is moving its on-premise patient data system to the Microsoft Azure public cloud

• January 27, 2022 27 Jan'22

  Imperial College London embarks on cloud security research push with Abu Dhabi tech hub

  Imperial College London is embarking on a three-year project with an Abu Dhabi-based group of researchers to find ways for datacentre operators and cloud providers to secure their infrastructure

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  IBM fourth-quarter results show hybrid refocus

  Big Blue continues its journey to rebuild its business around hybrid cloud platforms, software infrastructure and consulting services

• January 24, 2022 24 Jan'22

  Carbon emissions data to become key factor in cloud purchases by 2025, predicts Gartner

  With enterprises across the world looking to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Gartner claims carbon emissions data will become a key factor in the cloud purchasing decisions of IT buyers by 2025

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  UKCloud acquired: Troubled government cloud provider receives funding lifeline

  UKCloud has declined to reveal the terms of its acquisition by an investment company run by its own chairman, prompting questions about how this deal will close the £30m funding hole revealed in its most recent set of accounts

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Gartner: IT spending forecast points to skills rebalance

  Latest forecast on IT spending shows that more IT workloads are being deployed in the cloud, and outsourcing is also set for a boost

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  RBL Bank taps Google Cloud to drive digital agenda

  The private lender will tap Google Cloud to power its customer acquisition engine and improve customer data management and analytics, among other areas

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  Macquarie joins NSW government’s cloud supplier panel

  New South Wales state agencies will be able to access Macquarie’s sovereign cyber expertise and secure cloud, network and datacentre services

• January 10, 2022 10 Jan'22

  Inside Kyndryl’s Southeast Asia playbook

  Kyndryl will focus on building local partnerships and tapping opportunities in managed cloud services, among other areas, to stake a claim on the region’s managed services space

• January 06, 2022 06 Jan'22

  Amazon and Stellantis embark on multi-year, cloud-focused connected car push

  Amazon has signed a series of deals with Fiat’s parent company, focused on enhancing the connected car experience for consumers, as well as improving the sustainability of the online retail giant’s delivery fleet

• December 31, 2021 31 Dec'21

  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

• December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021

• December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  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

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  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

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2022

  Operationalising zero trust, talent retention and containerisation are just some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2022

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  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

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  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

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  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

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  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

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  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

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  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

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  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

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  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

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  HPE results boosted by new orders rush

  A rush on new orders to avoid HPE price hike, along with some help from Oracle, has helped to boost revenue

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  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

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  UK MSP set to use Nebulon cloud-defined storage IaaS

  UK service provider Inca to use “cloud-defined storage” to support managed service provider offer in move which shunned hyper-converged infrastructure because of cited costly overheads

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  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

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  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

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  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

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  CIO interview: Karl Hoods, CDIO, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

  Moving to the cloud, developing staff skills and responding quickly to the pandemic – from a public sector IT leader’s perspective

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  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

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  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

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  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

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  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

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  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

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  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

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  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

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Gartner: Why CIOs need to replan their roadmap

  IT has always been about gaining more efficiency by automating processes, but greater efficiency doesn’t lead to a step change in business outcomes

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  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

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  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

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  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

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  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

• October 29, 2021 29 Oct'21

  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