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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• October 13, 2023 13 Oct'23

  Gymshark turns to Google Cloud for infrastructure revamp and generative AI trials

  E-commerce workout clothing brand Gymshark opens up about how it has turned to Google Cloud to help revamp its infrastructure and improve how it uses customer data

• October 12, 2023 12 Oct'23

  Google Cloud sets up public sector-focused business division to trap more UK government business

  Google Cloud used the first day of its London-based user and partner conference to confirm the launch of a dedicated business unit, geared towards helping the firm trap more public sector business in the UK

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Pure offers Evergreen energy and rackspace cost guarantees

  Pure Storage will take upfront payments for power and rackspace and guarantee those for product lifecycles in its Evergreen One, Flex and Forever consumption purchasing models

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Telstra to acquire Versent for A$267.5m

  The move is expected to bolster Telstra’s enterprise IT services business and support international expansion

• October 06, 2023 06 Oct'23

  Ofcom cloud report: What interventions could the CMA take against AWS and Microsoft?

  Ofcom's year-long look at the inner workings of the UK cloud market has now drawn to a close, leaving the Competition and Markets Authority left to work out what steps to take to bolster the sector’s competitiveness

• October 05, 2023 05 Oct'23

  Ofcom refers UK cloud market to CMA for deeper anti-competition probe

  On the back of its concerns about Microsoft and Amazon indulging in anti-competitive behaviours, Ofcom has confirmed the UK cloud market will be referred over to the Competition and Markets Authority for further investigation

• October 04, 2023 04 Oct'23

  HPE hones GreenLake strategy with AI moves, hybrid cloud management

  HPE has evolved its GreenLake strategy over the past five years, expanding beyond its as-a-service offerings to include a capital purchase model and a strong focus on hybrid cloud management and AI

• October 02, 2023 02 Oct'23

  Microsoft embarks on green concrete trials to decarbonise datacentre builds

  Software giant Microsoft is turning its attention to shrinking the environmental footprint of its datacentres by finding low-carbon alternatives to concrete

• September 25, 2023 25 Sep'23

  Amazon takes $4bn minority stake in AI safety research startup Anthropic

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) will build on its existing ties to the firm to help it scale its enterprise-grade large language model (LLM) Claude

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  Datacentre operators ‘hesitant’ over how to proceed with server farm builds as AI hype builds

  As the hype surrounding artificial intelligence enters a new phase with the rising enterprise and hyperscale interest in generative AI, operators are not sure how to proceed with new datacentre builds, it is claimed

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  How Google is priming its infrastructure for the AI wave

  The technology giant is integrating purpose-built hardware with an optimised software stack to meet the heightened computational demands of next-generation AI workloads

• September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23

  38TB Microsoft data leak highlights risks of oversharing

  An accidentally disclosed SAS token with excessive privileges enabled researchers to access nearly 40TB of Microsoft’s data, highlighting the risks of privilege mismanagement and oversharing

• September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23

  Cosmetics giant L'Oréal turns to Databricks for cloud data-led customer personalisation push

  The cosmetics giant is building on its past work with Databricks to provide more personalised care to its customers across the globe

• September 15, 2023 15 Sep'23

  Microsoft to offer Oracle cloud database on Azure

  Oracle and Microsoft have trumpeted an expansion of their joint activity with the launch of Oracle Database@Azure. Microsoft will be the only other hyperscaler to offer OCI services

• 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 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 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 06, 2023 06 Sep'23

  Orange and Huawei seek platform opportunity in Saudi Arabia 

  Business services arm of leading operator and global communications technology provider cut key deals for internet of things, smart cities and cloud infrastructure in increasingly important part of EMEA region

• 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

  VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment

  VMware launches new iteration of vSAN Max with up to 8.6PB of independently scalable storage, NSX gets a “+” as it unifies networks and Ransomware Recovery ups efficiency

• 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

  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

  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 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe

  German startup Simplyblock aims to deliver low-cost high-performance flash and NVMe-over-TCP storage for service provider customers, and has Ceph deployments in its sights

• 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 07, 2023 07 Aug'23

  HPE’s Alletra MP marries storage to cloud and software-defined choices

  HPE’s Alletra was launched in April with an architecture that ties in with GreenLake consumption purchasing, SaaS configuration and addition of software-defined storage services

• 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

  VMware Cloud on AWS expands to Melbourne cloud region

  MLC Life Insurance is tapping the VMware Cloud on AWS service in the AWS Melbourne cloud region to exit its datacentre and reduce technology costs

• 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 02, 2023 02 Aug'23

  Cubbit offers cut-price cloud with DS3 distributed storage

  Cubbit’s DS3 offers cloud at up to 20% the cost of the main providers via on-premise software that builds a cloud with other users and targets unstructured data use cases such as backup

• 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 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation

  With its datacentre contract coming to an end, the Forestry and Land Scotland agency, which has a cloud-first strategy, needed a way to manage cloud migration

• 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

  Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022

  IaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner

• 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

  Synergy Research highlights how rise of the hyperscalers has hit on-premise datacentres

  Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how shift in enterprise IT spending patterns has impacted on-premise datacentres

• 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