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January 31, 2023
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Jan'23
Private equity investors continued to shape datacentre market M&A activity in 2022
As deal sizes increase in the face of growing demand for cloud and internet-based services, datacentre operators are increasingly finding themselves on the receiving end of private equity investment
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January 30, 2023
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Jan'23
Tiger’s hybrid cloud storage targets medical imaging
Tiger Bridge targets vertical sectors that find it hard to migrate to the cloud by allowing data storage in the cloud while using files locally as if stored on-premise
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January 27, 2023
27
Jan'23
Enterprise on-premise infrastructure spending experiences ‘post-pandemic’ bounce-back
Latest data from Synergy Research Group reveals uptick in enterprise on-premise IT infrastructure spending
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January 25, 2023
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Jan'23
Microsoft 365 outage affecting Teams, Outlook and Azure users blamed on ‘networking fault’
Microsoft 365 is in the midst of an outage that has left users across the UK and beyond unable to access Teams, Outlook and Exchange Online
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January 20, 2023
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Jan'23
How the cost of living crisis is impacting IT
The worsening economic climate is leading to job cuts across the IT sector, with Microsoft only the latest to announce thousands of layoffs - but CIOs will still struggle to find the talent they urgently need
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January 20, 2023
20
Jan'23
Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation
Annual report shows secular trend to the cloud and increased use of containers, but prevalence of ransomware attacks means digital transformation is hindered
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January 18, 2023
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Jan'23
Uptime Institute predicts slower pace of public cloud migrations in 2023
Datacentre resiliency think tank Uptime Institute claims cost pressures and unmet expectations around cloud benefits may lead some enterprises to pause or slow down their migration plans this year
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January 04, 2023
04
Jan'23
How Tencent Cloud is cracking ASEAN’s cloud market
The Chinese cloud supplier is playing to its strengths in platform services, media streaming and communications to grow its business in Southeast Asia
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December 21, 2022
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Dec'22
Top 10 cloud stories of 2022
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2021
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December 20, 2022
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Dec'22
Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022
There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted
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December 19, 2022
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Dec'22
GitHub CEO: Artificial intelligence will not replace developers
Artificial intelligence will enable developers to learn at their own pace and become more productive rather than take over their jobs, says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
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December 01, 2022
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Dec'22
Google Cloud lands five-year deal with DIY specialist retailer Kingfisher
The owner of the B&Q and Screwfix brands has enlisted the help of Google Cloud to overhaul its digital proposition for customers
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November 30, 2022
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Nov'22
AWS CEO urges enterprises to do more in the cloud in the face of economic uncertainty
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky says enterprises should be looking to do more, not less, in the cloud during times of economic uncertainty
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November 30, 2022
30
Nov'22
AWS commits to becoming the ‘cleanest’ cloud to run enterprise workloads
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky used the opening keynote at this year’s Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas to outline the company’s commitment to becoming the greenest place for enterprises to run their IT and applications
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November 29, 2022
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Nov'22
MoD signs three-year deal with AWS to bolster defence sector’s digital skills
UK Ministry of Defence is joining forces with Amazon Web Services to boost the defence sector’s cloud capabilities
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November 24, 2022
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Nov'22
Google signs wind power purchase agreement in pursuit of UK carbon-free energy pledge
Google claims power purchase agreement with French utility firm will bring it a step closer to being able to power its entire UK operations with carbon-free energy by 2030
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November 23, 2022
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Nov'22
Oracle’s Steve Miranda on the value of turning inside out
In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s opening out and its intensification of an industry cloud approach, signally with healthcare
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November 14, 2022
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Nov'22
G-Cloud 13 launch hits shaky start as suppliers complain about missing framework functionality
After the start date was pushed back two months, the roll-out of the G-Cloud 13 procurement framework has been beset with a technical glitch that prevents non-buyers from seeing the services on offer
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November 08, 2022
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Nov'22
VMware CEO tells enterprises to become 'cloud-smart' to speed up pace of digital transformation
During the opening keynote of the VMware Explore Europe conference, the firm’s CEO shared his observations on how enterprise attitudes to cloud migrations are changing as IT leaders look to pick up the pace of their digital transformation projects
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November 08, 2022
08
Nov'22
Renault confirms Google as preferred cloud partner
French motor manufacturer is extending the reach of its long-standing technology collaboration with Google by naming the firm as its preferred cloud partner
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November 04, 2022
04
Nov'22
Crown Hosting Data Centres secures £250m government colocation deal
Cabinet Office joint venture with Ark Data Centres secures a second term providing colocation services to the government
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November 02, 2022
02
Nov'22
Microsoft claims summer heatwave led to no excess water use by its datacentres
Software giant stokes scandal with befuddling statements about water use, despite eco-transparency pledge
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November 01, 2022
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Nov'22
How Elastic is going beyond enterprise search
Elastic has been doubling down on the security and observability capabilities of its open-source platform, going beyond its roots in enterprise search
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October 31, 2022
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Oct'22
Gartner warns of 'inflationary pressure' risk to global public cloud spending
Market watcher Gartner is predicting strong overall growth for the worldwide public cloud market, but warns that any tightening of overall IT budgets could hit its forecast
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October 28, 2022
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Oct'22
AWS revenue growth rate falls as enterprise customers seek to cut costs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reported its slowest year-on-year rate of revenue growth since 2014 as enterprises seek to cut costs as economic uncertainty hits
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October 26, 2022
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Oct'22
UKCloud in liquidation: Troubled public sector cloud provider hit with winding up order
Public sector sovereign cloud provider served with winding-up order nine months after an acquisition that was intended to address a £30m funding shortfall at the firm
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October 25, 2022
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Oct'22
Google Cloud in 2022: What’s in it for the enterprise?
Google Cloud has seen its market share and revenue soar in recent quarters as enterprises flock to its platform, but profitability continues to elude the firm
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October 17, 2022
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Oct'22
Vodafone starts sizeable three-year SAP systems migration to Google Cloud
Telco giant claims project will be one of the largest and most complex SAP migrations ever embarked upon in Europe
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October 12, 2022
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Oct'22
Union claims Google datacentre contractors in US face repercussions for demanding 'basic benefits'
The Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America claims contractors working in several of Google's US datacentres have been punished for demanding ‘basic’ workplace benefits
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October 11, 2022
11
Oct'22
Google Cloud fleshes out sovereign cloud capabilities for European enterprises
Google Cloud uses the first day of its user conference to provide an update on how its efforts to meet the data sovereignty needs of European enterprises are progressing
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October 11, 2022
11
Oct'22
Wayfair shutters datacentres and ends hybrid cloud strategy with Google Cloud move
Online home furnishings retailer Wayfair has completed a 16-month datacentre shutdown project that has seen it migrate all its applications and workloads to the Google Cloud
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October 03, 2022
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Oct'22
Natural History Museum partners with AWS for biodiversity research push
The Natural History Museum is teaming up with public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bolster its biodiversity research capabilities
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October 03, 2022
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Oct'22
StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud
Software-defined storage and block access specialist to offer its product on high-performance AWS bare metal and memory-intensive compute, while claiming improved latency
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September 26, 2022
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Sep'22
Microsoft Azure UK region to host data of five million healthcare research scheme volunteers
The Microsoft public cloud platform, Azure, has been selected to host the data belonging to a healthcare research project that is being billed as the largest ever undertaken in the UK
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September 22, 2022
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Sep'22
Dr Martens goes feetfirst into cloud-to-cloud backup
Iconic bootmaker laces up for a strategy to move all applications to the cloud, beginning with cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 apps plus on-site VMware operations
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September 13, 2022
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Sep'22
Cloud compromise a doddle for threat actors as victims attest
Two separate studies into the state of public cloud security reveal insight into the ease with which threat actors can compromise vast numbers of targets, and some of the challenges security teams are facing in the cloud
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September 07, 2022
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Sep'22
Six UK-based startups among those chosen to participate in AWS Defence Accelerator
Six out of the 10 startups that have secured places in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) inaugural defence market-focused accelerator programme are based in the UK
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September 07, 2022
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Sep'22
US remains favoured datacentre location for world’s hyperscale cloud and internet giants
Data released by Synergy Research Group confirms thatr the US remains the favoured location for hyperscale datacentres, but the analyst house predicts this could change in the years to come
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September 07, 2022
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Sep'22
VMware’s vSAN 8 gets a rebuild for the solid-state storage era
At VMware Explore 2022, we interview VMware’s John Gilmartin about the new, faster vSAN, plans to use DPUs, the vSAN+ cloud offering, and VMware Ransomware Recovery
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September 06, 2022
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Sep'22
Ministry of Defence taps up Netcompany to support move away from legacy private cloud
The Ministry of Defence's efforts to rationalise its datacentre estate and move more of its apps and data to the public cloud continue apace
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August 31, 2022
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Aug'22
VMware and IBM forge closer ties to build industry-specific hybrid cloud services
Tech giants reinforce commitment to working together with pledge to co-develop industry-specific cloud services for regulated enterprises
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August 30, 2022
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Aug'22
NetApp storage goes GA for VMware Cloud on AWS
Move will bring up to 50% decrease in TCO for customers running VMware apps in the Amazon cloud, says NetApp. No date yet for extension of the service across other public clouds
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August 25, 2022
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Aug'22
HelloFresh serves up data insights to in-house tech team with Informatica’s help
Meal kit company is working with cloud-based data management firm to make sense of its data after a business growth spurt
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August 23, 2022
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Aug'22
IT leaders set to step up cloud investments over next two years, Colt research suggests
Colt’s third annual cloud adoption research report shows how the off-premise investment priorities of IT leaders are shaping up for the years ahead
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August 22, 2022
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Aug'22
How a female coder rose through the ranks in tech
Padmaja Kota started her career as a software engineer before picking up product development and rising through the ranks to become an engineering leader at a cloud-based software company
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August 18, 2022
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Aug'22
OVO Energy-backed Kaluza taps up Google Cloud for carbon-negative push
SaaS-based energy tech platform provider sets out how it is using Google Cloud to help achieve its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030
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August 08, 2022
08
Aug'22
Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres
Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry
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August 02, 2022
02
Aug'22
Global cloud infrastructure spend hits $62.3bn during Q2 2022
Latest market data from IT analyst house Canalys reveals no let-up in demand for cloud infrastructure services during the second quarter of 2022
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July 29, 2022
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Jul'22
IPA revises review of HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration
Infrastructure and Project Authority’s annual report ranks HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration as “unachievable”, but – ahead of publication – it appears the organisation has had a change of heart
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July 29, 2022
29
Jul'22
AWS remains high point in Amazon results as company posts another quarter loss
Amazon Web Services continues to go from strength to strength while parent company posts second successive loss