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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

  Google research highlights UK economic benefits of widespread AI adoption

  Google's Economic Impact Report highlights the positive benefits the wider use of AI technologies throughout society could have on the UK economy

• July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

  Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking

  Indonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers

• June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23

  How STT GDC is cracking the Philippines datacentre market

  The joint venture formed by ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Globe and Ayala Corporation is building its largest datacentre in the Philippines among other efforts to meet the needs of an underserved market

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  NHS England signs five-year Microsoft 365 contract

  Hot on the heels of its earlier deployment of Microsoft Teams, NHS England is now going all-in on the rest of the software giant’s online productivity tools

• June 23, 2023 23 Jun'23

  Microsoft slammed for hitting European cloud users with ‘unfair, additional’ charges

  Research from non-profit Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe organisation suggests cost of digital transformation is going up for ‘unfair’ reasons

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  Cabinet Office updates decade-old public cloud-first mandate for central government

  A decade after it was first introduced, the government has updated its cloud-first guidance by including nine principles to guide public sector IT buyers through their off-premise purchasing decisions

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia

  Over half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  University of York shifts HPC workloads to Swedish EcoDataCenter colocation site in green IT push

  With the University of York using its HPC capabilities for climate research, it decided it was time to shift its IT infrastructure to a greener colo site in support of its net-zero goals

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  CGI to develop virtual, cloud-hosted ‘black box’ recorder technology for aircraft

  IT consultancy CGI is developing an alternative to the traditional ‘black box’ recorders found in aircraft that will allow teams on the ground to intervene quicker in the event of an emergency onboard

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  BBFC taps into AWS AI portfolio to speed up content classification

  The British Board of Film Classification has embarked on an exploratory piece of work to see how artificial intelligence could assist with classifying content

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Cloud remains IT investment priority for UK enterprises despite testing economic times

  Study by Tata Consultancy Services confirms enterprises from across the UK and Ireland are continuing to invest in cloud, and see doing so as the gateway to future innovation

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Google Cloud signs MoU to accelerate take-up of AI by UK defence sector

  Google Cloud is continuing to make in-roads into the UK public sector after signing MoU with The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  Scotland in renewed push to attract more hyperscale and colocation datacentre development

  Against a backdrop of the Scottish government continuing to court datacentre developers, Host In Scotland publishes report flagging 20 sites that are ripe for development

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  Skills shortages hold back enterprises from reaching multicloud goals

  Research highlights the impact skills shortages are having on the ability of enterprises to hit their multicloud goals

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

  Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  CBRE predicts strong growth for European colocation firms in 2023, but suggests tough times ahead

  CBRE's latest European colocation market tracker suggests 2023 will be a year of big growth for the sector, but suggests the slowdown in enterprise cloud spend might have a dampening impact on its prosperity in the years to come

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  HPE and CCS sign memorandum of understanding to accelerate pace of public sector cloud migrations

  Tech giant signs memorandum of understanding with UK government’s procurement chiefs to help public sector organisations sustainably move to cloud

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

  The Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout

  NetApp will recover data hit by ransomware or pay a warranty, and has added entry-level SAN arrays and full access to all NetApp software across its hardware families

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Imperial College London teams up with Intel and Lenovo for HPC push

  Imperial College London has joined forces with Lenovo and Intel to bolster its HPC capabilities for the benefit of its research teams

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Singapore's DBS Bank is driving IT automation

  DBS Bank’s Technology Marketplace portal has enabled the bank to speed up provisioning of infrastructure and applications through automation and improve developer productivity

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Budgeting for IT innovation

  In spite of the economic slowdown, IT leaders are driving forward investments in IT

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  Microsoft, Singtel debut Azure public MEC in Singapore

  Azure public multi-access edge compute service will let enterprises deploy low-latency workloads and leverage public cloud services in edge locations

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Google Cloud and SAP in enterprise open data push

  Long-time technology collaborators Google Cloud and SAP are embarking on a push to make it easier for enterprises to derive value from their data and put it to use in artificial intelligence and machine learning settings

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Kao Data unveils Tier II datacentre strategy by pledging to open Manchester facility in late 2025

  HPC-focused colocation provider Kao Data is expanding its datacentre footprint into the north of England by pledging to open a 40MW facility by late-2025

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Defra’s legacy IT unsupported and ill-equipped for digital services

  A Public Accounts Committee report has found many applications are based on legacy IT and paper-basd systems, holding back digitisation

• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe

  OVHcloud makes Cold Archive GA with deep archive storage cheaper than AWS’s offer and all based on IBM 3592 tape hardware spread across four sites with Atempo backup

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Significance of cloud investments rises as economic woes bite

  Technology decision-makers across the UK and EMEA are increasingly looking to do more with cloud over the coming year, TechTarget/Computer Weekly research shows

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  AWS confirms Scope 3 GHG emissions data will be made freely available to customers in ‘early 2024’

  With regulators increasingly calling on companies to transparently report their greenhouse gas emissions data, Amazon Web Services has confirmed users will get access to Scope 3 data from early next year

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  AWS suffers year-on-year drop in profit and revenue growth as enterprises curb cloud spend

  The first quarter results for AWS show the firm is continuing to feel the effects of enterprise customers “optimising” their cloud spend

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Google Cloud seals bug that could have led to data breaches

  The Asset Key Thief vulnerability gave rise to multiple potential attack scenarios that could have impacted thousands of Google Cloud users, but has now been safely fixed

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  AWS under fire for delays in delivering Scope 3 GHG emissions data to enterprises and governments

  With regulator scrutiny of their environmental footprint on the rise, AWS customers are growing increasingly concerned about the public cloud giant’s slow progress in making its Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions data freely available to users

• April 21, 2023 21 Apr'23

  Prepare for hybrid cloud headaches

  IT will often need to run different workloads on-premise or in multiple cloud environments

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Cloud and disaster recovery top storage and backup plans

  Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

  New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022

• April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23

  Alibaba Cloud unveils cheaper cloud options, new language model

  Alibaba has introduced cheaper instances of its compute and storage services in China and is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon with its Tongyi Qianwen language model

• April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23

  BAE Systems partners with Microsoft Azure to revamp data use across defence sector

  Defence contractor BAE Systems and Microsoft are taking a cloud-centric approach to changing how data is used in various parts of the defence sector

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Enterprises downgrade ESG investments amid economic uncertainty, Google Cloud study finds

  The second annual Google Cloud sustainability study reveals that economic uncertainty is forcing some enterprises to cut corners on their sustainability strategy to save money

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  Experian names AWS as preferred cloud partner for multi-year off-premise migration project

  Credit reporting agency Experian is embarking on a multi-year cloud migration project with AWS

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  Gartner forecasts massive growth in software and IT services

  IT leaders are set to deploy more workloads on infrastructure-as-a-service public clouds as they attempt to keep costs under control

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Ofcom's interim UK cloud market report flags competition concerns about AWS and Microsoft

  Ofcom has flagged concerns about anti-competitive behaviour from AWS and Microsoft in its interim report into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure market

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Oracle to open second cloud region in Singapore

  The move comes less than two years after Oracle opened its first cloud region in Singapore which is already supporting over 1,000 customers across Southeast Asia

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  HPE launches GreenLake for File and Block, and unified arrays

  HPE upgrades its storage-as-a-service offer with Greenlake for File and for Block, configurable via the cloud but deployable on-prem. Meanwhile it shows new Alletra MP arrays

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  Accenture and Microsoft take Unilever on 18-month 'cloud-only' enterprise journey

  Consumer goods giant Unilever has turned to Accenture and Microsoft to support its push to shutter its datacentres and become a ‘cloud-only’ enterprise

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Naver Cloud teams up with Korean tourism body

  The South Korean hyperscaler has teamed up with the Korea Tourism Organisation to improve visitor experience using its cloud capabilities

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  CMA deepens probe into VMware-Broadcom merger over concerns it could hike server prices in UK

  The UK Competition & Markets Authority has become the first antitrust watchdog to express concerns over the impact Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware could have on server pricing and innovation

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  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

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  AWS confirms healthcare accelerator startup programme participants

  Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services confirms 23 startups have been added to its healthcare accelerator programme, which is centred on helping the sector tackle its staffing issues

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  Oxbotica teams up with Google Cloud to add scale to autonomous vehicle platform

  Autonomous vehicle software developer Oxbotica has turned to Google Cloud to help expand the reach of its technology platform