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• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down as e-commerce giant celebrates first-ever $100bn revenue quarter

  Bezos confirms he is stepping down as Amazon CEO and will take on the role of executive chairman, as company posts record-breaking fourth-quarter results

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Ford makes Google preferred cloud partner for next-generation connected car push

  The Ford Motor Company has gone public with details of the next phase of its ongoing connected car push, which involves a newly struck six-year tech collaboration with Google

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Financial services giants form EU-focused coalition to boost sector’s public cloud adoption pace

  A dozen or so European financial institutions have joined forces to stimulate the pace of public cloud adoption in the sector

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  IBM, Apple and Accenture join MIT cross-industry climate change-tackling consortium

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s cross-industry push to tackle climate change has attracted some big names from the world of tech, including Apple, IBM, Accenture and Verizon

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Mimecast breach was work of SolarWinds attackers

  Mimecast’s investigation into a January 2021 breach of its systems turns up evidence that the culprit was the same group that targeted SolarWinds in December

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Hyperscale datacentre market growth soared in 2020 on back of Amazon and Google buildouts

  Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how demand for hyperscale datacentre capacity held firm during 2020

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  Uptime Institute report highlights recruitment issues blighting global datacentre industry

  First-of-its-kind research into recruitment challenges facing the datacentre industry calls for action to avert a skills crisis developing in the future

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  IBM and Telefónica double down on tech partnership in enterprise hybrid cloud push

  IBM and Telefónica are continuing to pool their resources to help accelerate the pace of hybrid cloud adoption in the enterprise

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Microsoft teams up with UK startup to minimise impact of climate change by aviation industry

  Cambridge-based startup Satavia is tapping into the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform to help aviation industry minimise the impact its activities have on the environment

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Cloud and datacentre giants unite to create climate neutral EU datacentre industry by 2030

  Major players from the world of public cloud and colocation have joined forces with trade associations from across the continent to create a climate neutral datacentre industry by 2030

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Music publisher BMG taps into Google Cloud to manage and analyse streaming data processes

  Berlin-based record label and music publisher BMG is drawing on Google Cloud to revamp its infrastructure to accommodate the music industry's continued shift towards streaming

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  Malwarebytes also hit by SolarWinds attackers

  The nation state group that attacked SolarWinds in December got inside Malwarebytes by exploiting privileged access to its Microsoft Office 365 tenant, the firm reveals

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  How Globe Telecom is doubling down on cloud

  The largest mobile operator in the Philippines has moved its legacy systems to the cloud and there is more to come as it looks towards deploying cloud radio access networks and cloud-native applications

• January 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  European IT providers struggle to capitalise on continent-wide growth in cloud demand

  Latest tech market tracking data shows demand for cloud services is rising across the continent, but local IT providers are continuing to lose share to US giants such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  AWS urges US court to throw out Parler breach of contract lawsuit

  Amazon Web Services has responded to news of Parler’s attempt to sue it for breach of contract by filing a lawsuit detailing allegations of the various threats it claims forced it to pull the plug on the stricken social media site

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to step down and take over as Intel chief

  Pat Gelsinger is calling time on his tenure as CEO at VMware to return to take over the leadership reins at ex-employer Intel

• January 13, 2021 13 Jan'21

  Cut off from the cloud: How free speech-touting Parler became a tech industry pariah

  Now Amazon, Google and Apple have all cut ties with controversial, free speech-championing social networking site Parler, claims made by its CEO that it will bounce back are starting to ring hollow

• January 12, 2021 12 Jan'21

  Parler sues AWS for anti-trust and breach of contract after Amazon public cloud ban takes it offline

  Stricken free speech-championing social media app suggests Amazon’s actions were motivated by a desire to ‘reduce competition’ in the microblogging social media market

• January 11, 2021 11 Jan'21

  AWS, Apple and Google bans prompt pro-Trump Parler app to fall offline

  Free speech-championing social media site Parler has gone dark for violating Amazon, Apple and Google's terms of service, in light of reports of the platform's involvement in co-ordinating the attack on Capitol Hill

• January 08, 2021 08 Jan'21

  AstraZeneca combines public cloud with NetApp to aid Covid-19 vaccine development and roll-out

  AstraZeneca’s global infrastructure services director Scott Hunter lifts the lid on the cloud and datacentre setup underpinning its efforts to bring its co-developed Covid-19 vaccine to the masses

• January 03, 2021 03 Jan'21

  Covid-19’s impact on the retail supply chain

  The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed gaps in the ability of retailers to mitigate supply chain imbalances

• December 30, 2020 30 Dec'20

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2020

• December 29, 2020 29 Dec'20

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2020

• December 24, 2020 24 Dec'20

  Top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020

• December 23, 2020 23 Dec'20

  Top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020

• December 22, 2020 22 Dec'20

  Top 10 end-user computing stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 end-user computing stories of 2020

• December 20, 2020 20 Dec'20

  THKD taps SAP and Azure to improve patient experience

  Malaysian healthcare group THKD is deploying new SAP systems and plans to tap Azure’s cloud infrastructure to enhance patient experience

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  CIO interview: Why IATA is banking on cloud to help the airline industry weather the Covid-19 crisis

  The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has forced the International Air Transport Association to re-evaluate its IT investment priorities as the aviation industry shifts its focus away from business growth to business survival

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  Post-pandemic: Looking at the long-term legacy of Covid-19 on enterprise cloud adoption rates

  The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 is known to have had a big impact on the pace and scale of enterprise cloud adoption this year, but will the effect be temporary or permanent?

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Amazon goes public with record-breaking renewable energy generation plans

  Online retail giant Amazon has followed up earlier pledges to do more as a global organisation to tackle climate change by going public with plans to add a further 26 solar and wind farms to its portfolio

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Arm to downsize global datacentre footprint through AWS cloud collaboration

  British semi-conductor maker Arm has committed to shrinking the size of its global datacentre estate by 45%, and plans to do so by moving some of its core chip design workloads to the AWS cloud

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Stockport NHS Foundation Trust embarks on Cisco and Cohesity-based datacentre revamp

  NHS Foundation Trust opens up about the work its done to streamline and centralise its server estate with the help of Cisco's hyperconverged technologies

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Global media brand ViacomCBS makes AWS preferred cloud partner

  Amazon Web Services is continuing to build its customer base in the media and entertainment sector, with ViacomCBS declaring the firm to be its preferred cloud provider partner

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Thomson Reuters completes large-scale migration of mission-critical workloads to the AWS cloud

  Thomson Reuters confirms completion of large-scale AWS migration, and outlines the work it is doing to ramp up its use of machine learning within its organisation

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  There’s no going back to pre-pandemic security approaches

  The cyber security world will probably never return to its pre-pandemic state, and different approaches to security will come to the fore in 2021

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2021

  The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be a cradle for technology innovation in the new year, whether it is 5G services, artificial intelligence, cloud computing or cyber security

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  BMW Group embarks on data-driven supply chain revamp with AWS

  BMW Group is forging even closer ties with AWS by enlisting its help to refine its supply chain and manufacturing processes, as well as train up its staff in cloud technologies

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  The National Institute for Health Research on connecting through cloud to fight Covid-19

  As the research arm for the NHS, the National Institute for Health Research has played a key role in coordinating efforts to find treatments, diagnostics and vaccines for Covid-19 during the pandemic, with the help of Google Cloud

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Media giant MGM signs multi-year deal with AWS to revamp its supply chain processes

  AWS lands multi-year cloud deal with US media giant MGM that will see it assist the firm with revamping its supply chain and content distribution processes

• December 06, 2020 06 Dec'20

  China lags US in computer vision

  China trails the US in the field of computer vision despite making inroads in computing and research, new report finds

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  Aviation startup goes ‘all-in’ on AWS to make its supersonic jet plans take flight

  Boom Supersonic sets sights on making commercial supersonic air travel a reality for passengers again, and is leaning on Amazon Web Services to support its efforts

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  Work in progress: Gaia-X project sets out path to create cross-continent data infrastructure

  The Gaia-X project's annual summit gave attendees a sneak peek at how its efforts to create an open, cross-continent, next-generation data infrastructure are progressing

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  Zoom signs multi-year preferred cloud provider deal with AWS

  Video-conferencing platform provider Zoom is forging even closer ties with long-standing cloud partner Amazon Web Services, prompting questions about where this leaves its technology tie-up with Oracle

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  What it takes for APAC firms to ride out the pandemic

  Whether businesses will recover from the Covid-19 pandemic will depend on how they leverage technology to innovate, create new business models and build digital trust

• November 30, 2020 30 Nov'20

  IT Priorities: APAC enterprises readying recovery budget

  Enterprises in Asia-Pacific are investing in cloud and other key technologies to not only survive but thrive in the post-pandemic world

• November 26, 2020 26 Nov'20

  AWS outage: Downtime incident blights users of one of Amazon’s major US datacentre regions

  Public cloud giant suffers prolonged service outage due to fault originating in one of its major US datacentre regions

• November 24, 2020 24 Nov'20

  Orange Business Services strikes global partnership with AWS to accelerate enterprise cloud take-up

  Orange Business Services has followed up its earlier partnerships with Microsoft and Google by signing a similar deal with Amazon Web Services, geared towards supporting its clients’ public cloud migration plans

• November 20, 2020 20 Nov'20

  Claritas taps AI to enhance medical images

  A Singapore startup has developed a cloud-based medical imaging platform to enhance the quality and accessibility of radiology images for doctors and patients

• November 19, 2020 19 Nov'20

  Gaia-X: Inside the bid to create an open, next-gen data infrastructure for European enterprises

  The Gaia-X project is billed as a push to create an open, cross-continent, next-generation data infrastructure “by Europe and for Europe”, but why is it needed?

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  Nokia Software embarks on ‘carbon negative’ datacentre revamp push with HPE Greenlake

  Global telecoms giant Nokia Software opens up about the work it is doing to improve the environmental friendliness of the R&D datacentres underpinning its 5G innovation