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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  AWS retains cloud market leader status in Q3, as Microsoft and Google post gains

  AWS retains its title as the world's biggest cloud provider, but the position is not going unchallenged by the likes Microsoft and Google, Synergy Research Group's third quarter market analysis shows

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  How Avanade keeps pace with Microsoft and the market

  Systems integrator Avanade has had to adapt to Microsoft’s evolution into an “ecosystem platform” that includes open-source software

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Inside PropertyGuru’s DevOps journey

  The online property search firm is at ease with microservices, containers and serverless computing, even as it grapples with legacy applications that were developed earlier on in its history

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  IBM acquires Red Hat in $34bn hybrid cloud push

  IBM and Red Hat senior leadership teams confirm imminent merger, which they claim will help accelerate migration of enterprise workloads to the hybrid cloud

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  NGA secures £22m for Bristol-Newport fibre link

  Ultrafast wholesale network builder Nextgenaccess has been awarded funding from the National Digital Infrastructure Fund to improve connectivity in South Wales

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Retail focus is key to Alibaba’s new London datacentre

  China’s e-commerce giant has been slowly expanding into Europe and is now heading for a clash of the titans against AWS and Azure

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Chinese insurance giant extends cloud service to other sectors

  Ping An is opening up its cloud service to more sectors, including real estate and automotive, in its efforts to become a technology company

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  MoJ to go all-in on public cloud as infrastructure modernisation push gathers pace

  The Ministry of Justice claims modernising, retiring and migrating its legacy IT systems to the public cloud will help it accrue long-term savings of around 60% on hosting costs

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Best of VMworld Europe 2018 Awards nominations now open until 26 October

  Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Time to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee CEO Chris Young

  Convergence of threats and technologies and an increasingly complex regulatory environment are driving the need to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee chief

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  UCaaS supports British Medical Journal’s cloud-first ambitions

  With a growing global business and a CIO intent on doing everything in the cloud, the British Medical Journal turned to unified communications-as-a-service provider RingCentral to make its comms infrastructure fit for the cloud era

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham

  Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Microsoft staff allegedly pen open letter urging firm to drop bid for US government cloud deal

  Letter calls on software giant to bow out of the race for a controversial, 10-year cloud contract with the US Department of Defense

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Atos and Google open London-based digital innovation centre to boost enterprise adoption of AI

  Atos and Google follow up the news of their global joint push to increase enterprise use of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies by opening London-based innovation centre

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  WikiLeaks goes public with alleged list of AWS datacentre locations and code names

  Whistle-blowing website claims to have obtained a confidential document detailing code names, locations and operational details of Amazon’s datacentre portfolio

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  AirAsia on becoming a data-first business by taking flight in Google Cloud

  AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes on how Google cloud is underpinning its efforts to become a digital-first business where collaboration is king

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Singapore extends reach of digital ID system with cloud

  GovTech is using AWS to host a developer platform that enables government agencies and businesses to develop services that build on the upcoming National Digital Identity system

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Project xCloud: Microsoft draws on Azure for device-agnostic gaming push

  Microsoft has revealed details of how its global Azure datacentre footprint will play a pivotal role in helping realise its ambitions to provide a low-latency, device-agnostic user experience to the worldwide gaming community

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Grab signs up for Azure, nabs investment from Microsoft

  Ride-hailing, delivery and mobile payments firm will use slew of Azure services to improve operations and customer experience

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Amazon and Apple deny claims Chinese government bugged their servers

  Amazon and Apple have publicly refuted a Bloomberg report that claims their servers were tampered with and bugged during the manufacturing process

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Open Compute Project eyes European enterprise adoption with Experience Centre opening

  The Facebook-backed Open Compute Project is getting its first European Experience Centre in Amsterdam, as part of a three-way collaboration between its members to get more enterprises using its technology

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Open for business: Microsoft on using cross-industry collaboration to drive AI use in the enterprise

  Microsoft's multi-year effort to drive adoption of artificial intelligence technologies has entered a new phase, with the firm banking on openness and cross-industry collaboration to boost enterprise take-up

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Australia’s ANZ banks on Google Cloud

  The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has signed up for the Google Cloud Platform to help its bankers deliver data insights to institutional customers

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlights importance of sharing the wealth of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida, the company CEO Satya Nadella talked up the importance of ensuring the spoils of digital transformation are spread far and wide in society

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Microsoft commits $40m to five-year push to explore 'AI for human good' use cases

  Microsoft wants to encourage non-government organisations and humanitarian groups to help it explore potential use cases for artificial intelligence during times of natural disasters

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Alibaba Cloud and Intel team up on IoT

  The Joint Edge Computing Platform lets enterprises train AI models at the edge of a network to support real-time decision-making

• September 21, 2018 21 Sep'18

  Shell mines Microsoft Azure for AI to digitally transform upstream and downstream operations

  Multi-national oil and gas company Shell is embarking on an artificial intelligence-led digital transformation of its business with the help of Microsoft Azure and C3 IoT

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  EU-backed bid to cap idle energy use by datacentre servers moves closer

  Move to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres by capping idle energy use by servers by 2020 comes one step closer, despite opposition from IBM, HPE and Dell-EMC

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  Leeds Beckett University asks Alexa for help cutting Clearing admin

  Dougal Scaife, head of digital experience and engagement at Leeds Beckett University, opens up about how combining chatbots with Amazon Alexa is helping update the Clearing process for the 21st century

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  Lenovo cements deal with NetApp to strengthen datacentre foundation

  Lenovo wants to become more customer-centric. A tie-up with NetApp takes its datacentre strategy to the next phase. We investigate

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Gartner claims pure-play IaaS providers could be sidelined as enterprise attitudes to cloud mature

  Gartner's latest public cloud services market tracker shows demand for IaaS is booming among enterprises, but providers whose cloud proposition does not feature a PaaS component may lose out in future

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Enterprise investments in datacentre infrastructure rebound as component shortage price hikes hit

  Enterprises are spending more on datacentre infrastructure, as demand for private and hybrid cloud environments increase, and price hikes from component shortages drive up average cost of hardware

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Public cloud use surges among DDoS attackers, research shows

  According to data accrued by DDoS mitigation firm, Link11, the number of attackers that rely on public cloud services soared during the 12 months to June 2018

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma to step down in 2019

  The executive chairman of Chinese online retail giant Alibaba is planning a year-long departure, as he prepares to hand over the company reins to CEO Daniel Zhang

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Slow cloud take-up among IT execs limits joined-up customer experience

  Cloud computing promises to declutter IT and link systems easily. Despite the benefits, adoption of the cloud for customer engagement remains low

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Amazon becomes second publicly traded company to hit $1tn market cap

  Retail giant Amazon follows Apple's lead to become second company in history to achieve a $1tn market cap, with analysts predicting that its market value could double by 2020

• August 31, 2018 31 Aug'18

  Met Police begins move to Microsoft Azure as cloud-first push gathers pace

  The Metropolitan Police has enlisted the help of G-Cloud supplier New Signature to support its cloud-first ambitions, as it pushes ahead with plans to migrate applications and its on-premise server capacity to Azure

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Cabinet Office extends private cloud deal with UKFast to safeguard emergency communications

  The Manchester-based hosting provider has seen its two-year private cloud contract with the Cabinet Office extended

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  DevOps researchers shine light on toll that outsourcing takes on productivity of software developers

  DevOps teams that use cloud and open source software tend to be higher performers, while organisations that outsource portions of their software development processes tend to be less productive, 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps report suggests

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Hyperscale datacentre capex investments hit new highs, Synergy Research shows

  Latest hyperscale capital expenditure tracker highlights dramatic year-on-year increase in investments from internet and cloud giants

• August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18

  Hyperscaler demand for European datacentre space takes colocation market to new record highs

  The demand for colocation capacity from the hyperscale cloud giants shows no signs of wavering, CBRE research shows

• August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18

  EduServ confirms fallout from datacentre power outage is being resolved

  Public sector-focused IT provider EduServ suffers datacentre power outage that takes client websites and online services offline

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  Australian government agency trials secure cloud service

  The Digital Transformation Agency has become the first government agency in Australia to test the use of Microsoft Office 365 in a secure cloud environment

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  Google employees command highest UK cloud salaries, Experis research shows

  Cloud industry salary data from IT recruitment firm suggests permanent employees of Google make more than their AWS, IBM and Microsoft counterparts

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Greater Manchester hails cloud as key to delivery of devolved health and social care in region

  Having taken back control from the government for running its own health and social care budgets, The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care (GMHSC) Partnership is now in the throes of establishing what role cloud will play in its work

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Cost savings still in short supply for cloud users, Druva research suggests

  Enterprises are increasingly moving their virtual workloads to the cloud for ease of management reasons, but cost savings remain elusive for many, suggests Druva’s latest report on cloud virtualisation

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Candy Crush maker King in Hadoop cluster move to Google Cloud

  Online gaming firm is moving its massive big data analytics store off-premise and into the Google Cloud Platform

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  Riverbed plots to take the network from IT blocker to IT enabler

  The move towards automation and next-gen networking will help the network deliver more value to the enterprise than ever before, argues Riverbed’s new CEO, Paul Mountford

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  UK cryptocurrency exchange enlists Rackspace for Microsoft Azure cloud move

  London Block Exchange taps up Rackspace to assist with two-month Microsoft Azure migration as it sets about shoring up its platform against demand spikes

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  Home Office preps for migration of police IT systems to AWS cloud

  Digital Marketplace tender document reveals the Home Office is on the hunt for an IT supplier to support its work in migrating core police IT systems from an on-premise datacentre to the AWS cloud