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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  Singapore Airlines extends use of VMware Workspace One

  Singapore’s national carrier is extending the use of Workspace One to more users in a move to enable its workforce to stay productive while on the go

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Travelex launches fintech platform for B2B customers

  Travelex has launched a digital platform that enables businesses to use its services via application programming interfaces

• September 16, 2019 16 Sep'19

  DigiPlex to build two green datacentres near Oslo by the end of 2020

  Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex has set itself an ambitious target of bringing two new datacentres online near Oslo by the end of 2020

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  How Zendesk plans to crack the enterprise market

  Zendesk has been courting enterprises by billing itself as a customer experience software company and is leaning on its design smarts to stand out among bigger rivals

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Digital Realty expands Docklands datacentre campus by opening Cloud House colocation facility

  Colocation giant expands datacentre campus in London’s Docklands and publishes research hinting at the economic benefits it could help to generate

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Bloomberg will move historic trading data to cloud in support of clients’ machine-learning ambitions

  Bloomberg’s CIO for enterprise, Tony McManus, says its clients’ changing attitude to using cloud is changing the way the firm makes its real-time trading data available to the financial services community

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  Fintech Fluidly combines Google’s cloud and AI tech to ease SME cashflow management woes

  London-based fintech Fluidly explains how its recent all-in move to the Google Cloud is supporting its continued growth, and delivers new features to customers faster

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Mutlicloud use rife in financial services sector, suggests YellowDog research

  Poll of 200 IT decision makers in the financial services sector highlights how this highly regulated industry continues to warm towards using cloud

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Green energy developer earmarks Scotland for 'world's first' ocean-powered datacentre

  Plans are underway for a hyperscale-focused datacentre to be built in the north of Scotland, which its developers claim would be the first in the world to be powered by tidal energy

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  EasyJet deploys Google’s natural language processing tech to bring voice search to airline app

  Airline claims to be the first in the world to offer customers access to voice search capabilities within its mobile app

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  NHS Shared Business Services sets ‘simplified’ public sector cloud procurement framework live

  Twenty-four suppliers selected to populate cloud procurement framework, which is geared towards simplifying the purchasing of off-premise services for public sector organisations

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  European colocation market set for another record-breaking year, but London market growth slows

  CBRE's quarterly colocation tracker shows the Frankfurt market is leading the way in take-up rates, as London’s 2019 growth rates suffer a hangover

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  IBM and Vodafone offer National Express a smooth ride to hybrid cloud

  Coach operator National Express signs eight-year IT modernisation deal with IBM and Vodafone to provide it with a cloud platform to underpin future digital transformation plans

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  Ireland’s power network needs €9bn investment by 2027 to sustain datacentre sector, claims report

  Report by the Irish Academy of Engineering highlights how the expansion of Ireland’s datacentre industry has contributed to it becoming the country's biggest source of growth in terms of energy demand

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  Oracle to launch fresh court appeal against US Department of Defense’s $10bn JEDI cloud contract

  Database giant has confirmed it will appeal the US Federal Court’s dismissal of its previous legal challenge over JEDI cloud contract

• August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19

  GoCo Group backs Microsoft Azure to deliver ‘savings-as-a-service’ customer acquisition strategy

  GoCo Group technology director Kieron Nolan explains the firm’s plans to migrate most of its price comparison platforms to the Microsoft Azure cloud in 2020

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  YPO debuts £400m datacentre and cloud framework for local councils and schools

  Procurement management organisation YPO has set live a public sector framework designed to support local authorities and educational institutions embrace hybrid cloud

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  Buyers think SD-WAN is too expensive and complicated

  Building and maintaining an SD-WAN is perceived as a complicated endeavour, and the industry’s messages are not getting through, says a new report

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Google staff petition cloud giant against working with US border force agencies

  More than 600 Google staff have signed a petition, urging the cloud giant not to participate in a bidding war with its rivals to secure US border agency datacentre consolidation-related contract

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Google vs Microsoft: Digging into the public cloud email market duopoly

  The public cloud email sector is a veritable two-horse race, with Microsoft and Google being the ones to beat, but it is unlikely ever to become a “winner takes all” market, says Gartner

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  British Airways resolves IT systems issues that forced it to ground and delay hundreds of flights

  British Airways has confirmed the IT system-related technical difficulties that resulted in it having to cancel hundreds of flights have been resolved

• August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19

  Rackspace Service Blocks has its roots in APAC

  Rackspace’s new managed services model that lets enterprises choose services based on where they are in their cloud adoption journey was conceived in the Asia-Pacific region

• August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19

  The $10bn question: Why is the US government’s JEDI cloud contract taking so long to award?

  The announcement of who has won the US government’s controversial $10bn, decade-long cloud contract is nearly 12 months overdue. So what’s holding it up?

• August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19

  BA IT systems failure results in cancelled flights and delays at London airports

  British Airways is experiencing unspecified technical difficulties at London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London City airports, prompting it to cancel flights

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  Scottish government launches £30m Cloud Services Framework with a 50% SME supplier list

  Framework has gone live with 14 suppliers making the cut, who will be on hand to provide public sector organisations in Scotland with access to public, private and hybrid cloud services, as well as colocation capacity

• August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19

  Amazon to build second wind power plant in Ireland to support AWS green cloud push

  Amazon sets out plans to ramp up availability of green power in Ireland and US, as its push to make its datacentre fleet run in a more sustainable way continues apace

• August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19

  Enterprise-readiness of business cloud services found lacking in Netskope research

  Latest analysis of cloud and internet usage trends in the enterprise space by Netskope suggests the majority of the off-premise services businesses use are not fit for purpose from a security and data protection standpoint

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Google increases presence and investments in Finland

  New next-generation datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google’s growing interest in Finland

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Google bolsters hybrid cloud proposition for enterprises through VMware partnership

  VMware-Google hybrid cloud partnership should pave the way for enterprises to run their vSphere-based workloads on the search giant's public cloud platform with greater ease

• July 29, 2019 29 Jul'19

  Global IaaS market grew by 31% in 2018 as enterprise demand for public cloud continues to soar

  Global IaaS market shows no sign of slowing growth, as its largest participants continue to increase their share at the expense of smaller, more niche competitors

• July 26, 2019 26 Jul'19

  AWS growth rate slows in Q2, as Amazon retail's run of quarterly record profit growth ends

  Amazon's latest set of results suggest the law of big numbers might be kicking in for its cloud division, while its retail arm grapples with spiralling costs pertaining to the roll-out of its one-day delivery service

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Microsoft-owned LinkedIn commits to multi-year, all-in move to Azure public cloud

  Professional social networking site reveals plans to move all its workloads to the Microsoft public cloud over the next few years

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  HPE and SAP among tech industry backers of UN climate change mitigation campaign

  Enterprise tech giants HPE and SAP are among a number of technology firms which have responded to the UN’s calls for corporations to do more to reduce the risk of global warming and cut their emissions

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Salesforce teams up with Alibaba in foray into China

  The cloud applications giant is tapping Alibaba’s footprint in e-commerce and cloud in an effort to expand its business in the Greater China region

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  US Department of Justice launches antitrust probe into dominance of online platform providers

  The US Department of Justice has called for an antitrust investigation into how “market-leading” online platform operators in the search, social media and retail space operate

• July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19

  IBM sees Red Hat as key to hybrid cloud strategy

  IBM’s second-quarter 2019 results show a 4.2% decline in revenue, but the supplier is betting big on hybrid cloud and cognitive computing

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Dutch authorities temporarily halt datacentre construction

  Two local authorities in the Netherlands have put the brakes on datacentre construction to give them time to put policies in place to gain more control over builds

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Green datacentre goes live in Goonhilly to support AI ambitions of enterprises and academia

  Almost a year to the day after it was announced, a renewably-powered datacentre has gone live at Goonhilly Earth Station, as the radio-communications site prepares to position itself as an AI innovation hub

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  SD-WAN in play: How software-defined solves core business challenges

  For foodservice business HMSHost International and chemical products firm Element Solutions, both customers of networking supplier Aryaka, software-defined wide area networking technology is proving its mettle when it comes to solving core business ...

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  Blockchain.com banks on Google cloud to support growth of cryptocurrency management platform

  Blockchain.com reveals details of how it is ramping up its use of the Google Cloud Platform as the range of cryptocurrencies it supports grows, along with the size of its user base

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  Tax changes lead to review of Sweden’s datacentre development

  Swedish government has changed the rules on how it offers tax rebates to datacentre providers and users, hitting domestic companies

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Amsterdam’s datacentres face challenges to retain high growth

  The Amsterdam datacentre market is growing rapidly, but the industry behind it must get on top of some burgeoning challenges

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  CIO interview: Craig Donald, CIO, The Football Association

  Although self-confessed as ‘not the most passionate football fan’, the FA’s IT chief is helping to transform administration of the sport through technology

• July 07, 2019 07 Jul'19

  Public sector should embrace multicloud to cut risk of cloud market monopolisation, says report

  Joint report by the Internet Economy Foundation think-tank and business consultancy Roland Berger urges governments to take steps to prevent a cloud computing oligopoly that would leave organisations at greater risk of supplier lock-in

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage blights users across the globe

  Social networking users have run into technical difficulties this afternoon when trying to access Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  Cloudflare outage: Firm blames global website outage on routine software update gone rogue

  Content delivery provider traces outage back to failings that occurred during a routine update to its web application firewall service

• July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19

  G-Cloud 11 goes live with 4,200 suppliers securing a place on the framework

  The latest iteration of the G-Cloud framework has gone live, with about 700 additional suppliers thought to have secured a place on it this time around

• July 01, 2019 01 Jul'19

  Equinix launch $1bn joint venture to secure more European hyperscale colocation spend

  Colocation giant Equinix is gunning for a larger slice of the hyperscale community's datacentre spend through formation of $1bn joint venture with Singapore wealth fund

• July 01, 2019 01 Jul'19

  Google Cloud to expand datacentres for delivery of managed Oracle datacentre service with Atos

  Google plots datacentre expansions in Germany and North America to provide users with local access to managed Oracle database services in the cloud

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Shipping giant Maersk on taking a cloud-first approach to disrupting the competition

  Rasmus Hald, who heads up the cloud centre of excellence at shipping giant Maersk, opens up about how the firm is embracing a cloud-first policy in the name of seeing off competitive threats and improving the sustainability of its operations