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• 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

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  ZSL uses Google Cloud and machine learning to protect endangered species from poachers

  The Zoological Society of London opens up about the work it has done with the Google Cloud team to protect endangered species from poachers

• November 17, 2020 17 Nov'20

  Covid-19: Pandemic-induced surge in public cloud spend predicted to run until 2024

  Gartner’s latest worldwide public cloud market spend forecast suggests the acceleration in off-premise adoption seen since the start of the pandemic is set to last for a long time yet

• November 16, 2020 16 Nov'20

  Atos debuts OneCloud initiative to help accelerate enterprise migrations to sustainable cloud setups

  French IT services company Atos launches ‘one-stop shop’ service for enterprises that want to speed up their cloud migrations in a sustainable way

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Budgets rejigged to support 2021 recovery

  IT has been essential in helping organisations remain operational. IT chiefs are now considering the IT to drive a sustained business recovery

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Standard Chartered embarks on five-year personalised banking push with AWS

  Financial services giant is forging even deeper ties with AWS as part of its push to roll out more personalised banking experiences to customers in 60 countries

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  What businesses can learn from GovTech’s digital strategy

  Modernising its infrastructure and putting digital at its core has given Singapore’s Government Technology Agency the agility it needs to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Microsoft consumer cloud outage blights Outlook.com and OneDrive users

  Users of several of Microsoft's core consumer cloud services left struggling to log in, with software giant remaining tight-lipped for now over the cause of the issues

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Leaky AWS S3 bucket once again at centre of data breach

  Prestige Software exposed millions of records after failing to pay attention to the security of its cloud instances

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Google and OVHcloud to bring co-built cloud services to European enterprises

  Google and OVHcloud are embarking on a technology tie-up that will see the two firms bring a hosted private cloud service to market in Europe

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 accelerates cloud investments by UK IT leaders

  The updated 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget shines a light on how the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has reshaped IT leaders’ technology investment plans

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Multi-year migration of BBC Online to the cloud 'nearing completion', broadcaster confirms

  The BBC's head of architecture within its Design and Engineering team lifts the lid on the work the broadcaster has done to migrate its BBC Online infrastructure assets to the cloud

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  OVHcloud doubles down on sustainability with carbon reduction pledges

  OVHcloud emerges as the latest cloud provider to reinforce its commitment to ensuring the growth of its business does not come at the expense of the environment

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  AWS signs three-year UK government cloud deal to help SMEs win more public sector business

  Public cloud giant becomes latest provider to sign MoU with UK government focused on delivering cost savings to public sector cloud buyers, while seeking to support them with skilling up on off-premise technologies

• November 01, 2020 01 Nov'20

  How Snowflake is charting its growth in APAC

  The cloud data warehouse supplier set foot in Asia-Pacific just three years ago and has started to gain traction among large enterprises in Singapore, India and Southeast Asia

• October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20

  CISOs more confident in identity practice after pandemic shock

  Identity practice and management has become a critical element of cyber security strategies to support remote workers

• October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20

  Amazon posts 'better than expected' Q3 results as Covid-19 pandemic continues to drive sales up

  Online retail giant Amazon has enjoyed a bumper third quarter, as demand for its goods and services continues to soar as the pandemic forces people to stay home

• October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20

  Cloud infrastructure services market growth soars in Q3 as Covid-19 fuels online demand

  Latest quarterly market tracker data from Synergy Research Group reveals the impact the pandemic is having on the fortunes of the runners and riders in the cloud infrastructure services market

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  Covid-19: Tech investments tipped by business leaders as key to UK post-pandemic recovery

  Respondents to Advanced Software’s fifth annual investment trends survey reveal how the pandemic will shape their business spending priorities over the next 12 months

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  Microsoft to open cloud region in Taiwan

  Microsoft’s cloud datacentre region in Taiwan will first provide access to Azure, followed by Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform later

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  Commvault launches Metallic backup service in Europe

  Backup giant adds backup as a service, with cloud-to-cloud backup and e-discovery functionality that can work across on-site datacentres and the AWS and Azure clouds

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  Ikea on how Google Cloud has helped it cope with Covid-induced shifts in customer demand

  Ikea Retail CDO Barbara Martin Coppola tells us how cloud technologies have helped the company adapt to the rapid changes in consumer behaviour brought about by the pandemic

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Chatbots will not replace call centre agents

  Chatbots have not lived up to their promises and are better poised to support call centre agents in the blended realm of customer service and employee collaboration, says a regional Avaya executive

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Oracle expands UK datacentre footprint with new private and public sector-focused cloud regions

  Software giant Oracle is making good on its pledge to expand its global datacentre presence, with two new regions in the UK

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  UK sees surge in IT outsourcing contracts

  Transformation projects drive IaaS growth, but SaaS declines. Some sectors are renegotiating and restructuring contracts to reduce costs

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  The IBM business split: Big Blue places biggest bet yet on hybrid cloud

  IBM has placed its biggest bet yet on hybrid cloud, by setting outs plans to hive off its managed infrastructure services arm, so it can throw its full weight behind tapping into the enterprise's demand for off-premise services

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  How Tokopedia is streamlining incident management

  Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has improved incident management and developer productivity using a cloud-based incident management tool

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Nokia signs five-year deal with Google Cloud to support its datacentre shutdown plans

  Telco giant Nokia is pursuing a cloud-first strategy that will see it shutter datacentres across the globe in a bid to cut costs and boost innovation

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  ServiceNow to roll out Now platform on Azure

  ServiceNow introduces Azure-linked offering to cater to the needs of organisations in regulated industries that have strict data sovereignty and security requirements

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Covid-19 fuels bandwidth connectivity growth between carrier neutral colocation sites

  The latest Global Interconnection Index survey from colocation giant Equinix highlights ripple effect of Covid-19 on connectivity growth patterns

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Suppliers neglecting virtual appliance security, putting users at risk

  Software suppliers are often distributing their products on virtual appliances that contain known vulnerabilities or are running outdated or unsupported operating systems, according to a report

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  London to become ‘Gigawatt’ colocation hub by 2023 as Covid-19 fails to dim datacentre demand

  Inaugural datacentre market report by property consultancy Knight Frank highlights rise of secondary datacentre hubs across Europe, as Covid-19 prompts surge in demand for work and leisure-related cloud services

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  H&M Group signs multi-year colocation deal with Swedish eco-friendly operator in sustainability push

  Clothes retailer H&M has signed a hosting deal, covering all of Northern Europe, with green datacentre operators EcoDataCenter, as its sustainability push continues apace

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Datacentre sustainability tipped to become competitive differentiator for colo community by 2023

  Schneider Electric marks 2020 Innovation Summit with release of joint report with 451 Research into global datacentre market’s attitudes towards sustainability

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  IBM preps for 2021 business split as enterprise hybrid cloud push gathers pace

  IBM is set to split in two to form two publicly traded entities, with one focusing on the delivery of hybrid cloud services to enterprises, and the other specialising in the delivery of managed infrastructure services

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  CISOs struggle to keep up with MITRE ATT&CK framework

  Despite its proven benefits for security, the MITRE ATT&CK framework is proving difficult for many, according to a joint study from McAfee and UC Berkeley

• October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

  Equinix adds 13 Canadian datacentres to its portfolio as $178m Bell acquisition completes

  Colocation giant Equinix is continuing with its global buy and build growth strategy, with buy-up of Canadian operator’s datacentre fleet

• October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

  How a Singapore startup is disrupting logistics management

  Portcast’s cloud-based logistics management platform uses machine learning and big data to improve supply chain visibility for logistics companies, shipping lines and manufacturers