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• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  UK challenger stockbroker Freetrade backs Google Cloud to make investing more inclusive

  The CTO and co-founders of UK challenger stockbroking app provider, Freetrade, discuss how Google Cloud has helped them diversify their service offering as user numbers have increased

• April 17, 2020 17 Apr'20

  AWS slams lack of White House cooperation in JEDI cloud contract investigation

  The Department of Defense claims the Inspector General's report into the controversial JEDI cloud contract should nullify a number of allegations pertaining to the deal, but Amazon Web Services seems to disagree

• April 15, 2020 15 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Round-up of free cloud infrastructure services to support enterprises through Covid-19

  Amazon, Google, Alibaba and OVHcloud are among public cloud providers offering enterprises, researchers and healthcare free access to services to support them through the coronavirus pandemic

• April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20

  Happy developers write secure code, report claims

  DevOps specialist Sonatype claims to have found a direct correlation between satisfied developers and application security hygiene

• April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Microsoft Azure suffers datacentre capacity shortages in Europe

  Microsoft is working to “expedite” additional datacentre capacity after reports of users struggling to access resources due to coronavirus demand surge. But how easy will that be amid a global pandemic?

• April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Google Cloud CEO on how its tech is supporting the fight against Covid-19

  From public sector organisations to retailers, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reveals details of how the firm's tech is helping enterprises in multiple verticals shore up their infrastructure and get on the front foot in the fight against coronavirus

• April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20

  GDS champions cross-functionality approach to cloud adoption in public sector guidance

  Extensive research into cloud adoption trends in the public sector by Government Digital Service (GDS) results in guidance detailing how IT leaders can make the most of their off-premise investments

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  AWS hits out at narrow scope of DoD’s planned re-evaluation of JEDI cloud contract

  Details of Amazon’s response to the US Department of Defense’s planned re-evaluation of the controversial 10-year, $10bn JEDI cloud contract have emerged

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  DCMS creates datacentre-focused resiliency team to keep UK online during coronavirus outbreak

  Tech trade body TechUK reveals further details of the work going on behind the scenes at government level to ensure datacentre operators have access to the resources they need to cope with the surge in businesses and consumers accessing online ...

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  Global spend on enterprise datacentre kit and private clouds down 1% in 2019

  Market tracker data from Synergy Research Group reveals continued decline in spending on private datacentres, while investments in kit destined for use in public cloud facilities continues to soar

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Hyperscale cloud firms ‘well-insulated from coronavirus crisis’, claims Synergy Research

  With businesses and consumers increasingly turning to online and cloud-based services to access work and leisure resources, Synergy Research predicts the hyperscale datacentre operators should be well-positioned to “ride out” the coronavirus crisis

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online

  TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Seek ditches pagers for cloud service in IT operations

  Australian employment marketplace Seek is doing away with pagers in favour of PagerDuty’s cloud-based digital operations platform to scale up its IT operations in Asia and Australia

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: The cloud and datacentre management challenges facing CIOs as remote working soars

  Ensuring their IT infrastructure is equipped to cope with the sudden surge in employees accessing on-premise and cloud applications from remote locations in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a challenge facing many CIOs right now

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Covid-19: Uptime Institute advises operators to suspend non-essential datacentre projects

  Datacentre resiliency think-tank issues 18-page guidance to help operators protect staff during the coronavirus pandemic while keeping their facilities ticking over

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  Amazon to recruit 100,000 extra workers to cope with coronavirus-induced online shopping surge

  Online retailer plans to focus its recruitment drive on providing jobs to hospitality and service industry workers who are out of work as coronavirus prompts city-wide shutdowns across the US

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  Nutanix expands virtual desktop service in APAC

  Nutanix has expanded its Xi Frame virtual desktop service to five more cloud regions in Asia-Pacific amid the Covid-19 outbreak

• March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20

  US Department of Defense requests time to re-evaluate section of AWS and Microsoft JEDI bids

  The Department of Defense is to request a resubmission of information from Microsoft and Amazon Web Services about their JEDI bids, as the long-running US cloud procurement saga drags on

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Datacentres remain mainstay of enterprise IT, despite continued cloud creep

  The 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget confirms enterprise datacentres remain the deployment site of choice for many workloads, but stepping up the use of cloud is a top investment plan for firms this year

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  Virtus confirms Q2 go-live date for next two datacentres, as expansion plans gather pace

  Virtus Data Centres is making good on its datacentre expansion plans, which have been previously billed as among the biggest construction projects ever embarked upon by a colocation provider

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  University of Hertfordshire and Goonhilly hail deep learning-led UK mapping data breakthrough

  Tech tie-up paves the way for creation of UK mapping data that is free from cloud cover for the first time

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India

  Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  Australian government pulls plug on cloud certification programme

  The Australian Signals Directorate is closing its cloud services certification programme to allow for more home-grown suppliers

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Greenpeace urges AWS, Google and Microsoft to cut cloud ties with oil and gas customers

  Environmental group wants three of the public cloud market’s biggest players to stop selling their technology to oil and gas companies – but will they?

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  CBRE: Record colocation take-up will fuel growth of secondary European datacentre hubs

  Latest quarterly colocation market tracker data shows take-up of colocation capacity across major European hubs continues to hit record levels, leading to overflow demand in other places too

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  IT Priorities 2020: ASEAN firms on the frontline of digital transformation

  Southeast Asian companies plan to spend more on infrastructure and cyber security, but the growth in IT budgets appears to be slowing down

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  How tech suppliers are easing barriers to hybrid cloud adoption

  The tech industry has risen to the challenge of helping enterprises ease their transition to hybrid cloud, but issues remain

• February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20

  Etsy confirms completion of two-year migration to Google Cloud

  Etsy claims move from on-premise to public cloud has boosted its business agility, and is helping it achieve its sustainability goals too

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Macquarie Cloud Services sets up Azure practice

  Macquarie Telecom’s cloud division will deliver Azure managed services to new and existing customers, complementing its existing cloud, hosting, datacentre and telco businesses

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Amazon employee activists dismiss Jeff Bezos’ $10bn pledge to combat climate change

  Outspoken environmental activists working at Amazon dismiss CEO’s $10bn climate change pledge by pointing out firm’s ties to oil and gas market

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  AWS secures temporary halt to Microsoft’s work on $10bn US JEDI cloud contract

  Restraining order prevents Microsoft doing any “substantial” work on the JEDI cloud contract as Amazon’s legal action against the US government gathers pace

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Web app ubiquity gives cyber criminals new opportunities

  The popularity and ubiquity of web-based apps such as Office 365 and Salesforce is a temptation too good to miss for cyber criminals

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Check Point pledges end to security updates

  Check Point’s Gil Shwed expands on a vision for the next 10 years of cyber security, which he calls Infinity Next

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Australia’s NAB taps AI to create brand voice

  Using Amazon’s artificial intelligence smarts, National Australia Bank has developed a unique brand voice that will greet customers who dial up its contact centre

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Google Cloud confirmed to be a $10bn revenue run rate business

  Google parent Alphabet has separated out the contribution its cloud arm makes to its overall business for the first time in its fourth-quarter financial results

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Record-breaking rise in global cloud infrastructure spend between Q3 and Q4

  Synergy Research Group’s fourth-quarter look at the cloud infrastructure market reveals a huge jump in sequential spend since the third quarter

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Australia’s Iconic Hotels taps cloud for speed and cost savings

  The independent hotel operator in the Australian Capital Territory has saved IT manpower and costs by moving from an on-premise hospitality management system to a cloud-based application

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  AWS downplays risk of competitors threatening its public cloud dominance during Q4 results

  Amazon Web Services posts fourth-quarter revenue of $9.95bn for the three months to 31 December 2019 as speculation persists about the rising threat from Microsoft

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  UKCloud moots multi-cloud as a way to speed up public sector cloud adoption

  Contributors to UKCloud's public sector-focused State of Cloud Adoption report flag barriers to using off-premise technologies, but could adopting a multi-cloud strategy assist with overcoming them?

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  Microsoft contractor hit by health and safety violation claims at Israel datacentre building site

  Microsoft declines to comment on a local media report that the site of its Israel datacentre campus has been subject to stoppage notices after two accidents there in two days

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  Organisations losing control of cloud data

  Data is more widely dispersed in enterprise clouds than most organisations think, and as a result they are at risk of losing control of it, according to a report

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  NHS Digital completes first two major service migrations to the AWS cloud

  The digital arm of the National Health Service confirms the system moves are the first of many service migrations it is planning to undertake

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  Private equity players fuelled record number of datacentre mergers and acquisitions in 2019

  While the number of deals being struck in the datacentre market hits new highs, the average deal size shrinks for the second year in a row

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  How AWS is helping boost rugby fans’ engagement in the Guinness Six Nations championship

  With the Six Nations rugby championship about to kick off, we find out how Amazon Web Services is helping to enhance the viewing experience for fans in 170 countries

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  IR35 private sector reforms: IBM joins list of enterprises applying blanket ban to PSCs

  Tech giant IBM has notified its personal service company IT contractors that they must switch to PAYE terms or use umbrella companies from the end of March, as the private sector races to achieve IR35 compliance

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north

  Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  AWS to request temporary halt to Microsoft’s work on $10bn JEDI cloud contract

  Amazon to file temporary restraining order with the US federal court to prevent Microsoft undertaking any substantial work relating to its delivery of US government’s JEDI cloud contract

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Equinix picks up bare metal cloud provider Packet to bolster its edge computing play

  Colocation giant Equinix hits the acquistion trail to round out its edge computing offering to enterprises

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Threat landscape grew in complexity in 2019, no respite in sight

  Check Point’s annual state of security report shares some 2019 trends and looks ahead to 2020

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?

  Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital?