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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Hibs push for the backup premier league with Acronis

  Hibernian FC signs Acronis to get top division data protection and make the most of ticketing information and match footage as it tries to gain more value from the data it holds

• July 15, 2022 15 Jul'22

  Log4Shell on its way to becoming ‘endemic’

  US government report concludes that, like Covid, Log4Shell will be with us for a long time to come

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  Netflix selects Microsoft as tech partner to build out its ad-supported subscription tier

  After announcing plans back in April to roll out a lower-cost, ad-supported subscription plan to its service, Netflix has confirmed that it will be tapping up Microsoft for support in building its new offering

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  APAC organisations renew focus on ERP

  Organisations in Asia-Pacific are looking to renew their enterprise resource planning systems as they emerge from the throes of the pandemic

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  Enterprise interest in sovereign cloud on the rise, Capgemini research suggests

  Capgemini Research Institute probe into enterprise attitudes towards use of sovereign cloud services suggests interest is on the up

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  Delta Airlines signs multi-year cloud deal with AWS as customer experience revamp gathers pace

  Nearly 18 months on from signing a multi-year deal with IBM, focused on embracing a hybrid cloud setup for its operations, Delta Airlines is adding AWS to its roster of cloud partners

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  Oracle to open first sovereign cloud regions for EU-based users in 2023

  Database software giant Oracle has set out plans to provide private enterprises and public sector organisations with access to sovereign cloud regions, with the first set to open in Spain and Germany next year

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  NetApp Ontap to be sole vSAN storage alternative in the cloud

  NetApp Ontap storage will provide file access capacity to extend VMware data stores in AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google clouds as a cheaper alternative to VMware vSAN

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  Microsoft VBA macro block will return

  Microsoft provides more details about its sudden decision to rollback a landmark security policy, and reassures users it is a temporary measure

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  Vodafone and Google Cloud collaboration gives rise to AI Booster platform

  Vodafone and Google Cloud have gone public with details of a jointly created artificial intelligence platform that is already live in more than 18 countries

• June 30, 2022 30 Jun'22

  H&M Group tries Google Cloud on for size as omnichannel push gathers pace

  H&M Group has tapped up Google Cloud to add data analytics and machine learning capabilities to its omnichannel strategy

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  HPE Discover: GreenLake grows new features and customer base

  Tech giant HPE has used its annual user and partner conference to announce the roll-out of a series of enhancements to its flagship GreenLake as-a-service offering

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Research highlights private equity’s growing hold on datacentre sector

  Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group shows how private equity players are increasing their hold on the datacentre market

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Veritas aims at autonomous backup discovery and provisioning

  Veritas bets on a backup platform that can discover all enterprise data – on-premise and in the cloud – and make its own decisions about the optimal place to store copies

• June 24, 2022 24 Jun'22

  US cyber agency in fresh warning over Log4Shell risk to VMware

  Many VMware Horizon and UAG servers remain defenceless against Log4Shell, and organisations continue to fall victim to the vulnerability

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  HPE commits to achieving net-zero business goals 10 years ahead of schedule

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise is doubling down on its climate change commitments by vowing to cut its greenhouse gas emissions at an accelerated pace

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  SolarWinds unveils new development model to avoid a repeat of Sunburst

  SolarWinds has unveiled a new, secure-by-design software development model to protect itself from a repeat of the infamous 2020 cyber attack on its systems, and serve as a blueprint for the industry

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Public cloud ecosystem revenue soars in line with enterprise demand for services during Q1

  Demand for public cloud and related ecosystem services continues to grow, fuelling revenue growth for the market’s various players

• June 21, 2022 21 Jun'22

  Vodafone and Oracle Cloud strike multi-year deal to modernise telco’s European infrastructure

  Vodafone is expanding the range of cloud providers it works with, as it embarks on a multi-year revamp of the infrastructure underpinning its European operations

• June 21, 2022 21 Jun'22

  Cloudflare outage temporarily takes down hundreds of websites

  Downtime incident at web application security and performance firm Cloudflare has wide-reaching consequences for internet service providers

• June 16, 2022 16 Jun'22

  Office 365 loophole may give ransomware an easy shot at your files

  Researchers at Proofpoint have discovered potentially dangerous Microsoft Office 365 functionality that they believe may give ransomware a clear shot at files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive

• June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22

  MS Azure Synapse vulnerability fixed after six-month slog

  Microsoft patched a critical Azure Synapse vulnerability twice, but each time the researcher who discovered it was able to bypass it with ease, leading to a lengthy saga

• June 13, 2022 13 Jun'22

  Dell server, storage, PC sales grow despite component supply chain woes

  Dell executives cite the company’s use of “alternative” component supply chains as server, storage and PC sales grow despite difficulties for most of the market sourcing parts

• June 10, 2022 10 Jun'22

  Datavita to open Scotland’s first metro datacentre in Glasgow during Q3 2022

  Datacentre operator Datavita is building a server farm in the heart of Glasgow’s financial district

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Length, cost and severity of datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research confirms

  Latest datacentre outages research from resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute confirms that downtime incidents are increasing in cost, length and severity

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Software house Mega achieves holistic SaaS security with Synopsys

  Mega International, a supplier of IT management software, turned to Synopsys’s Coverity and Black Duck products to reassure both itself and its customers that its software-as-a-service offerings were built to the best possible security standards

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  OVHCloud facing client compensation class action claim of €10m over March 2021 datacentre fire

  The law firm overseeing the class action against OVHCloud claims 140 clients are now seeking compensation for the data lost as a result of the March 2021 fire

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  Google Cloud secures contract to supply online productivity tools to Central Dutch Government

  Search giant's cloud arm has secured a deal to supply its suite of online productivity tools to the Central Dutch Government

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Broadcom confirms $61bn deal to acquire VMware is going ahead

  Chipmaker Broadcom is continuing its buy-and-build strategy to expand into the software market by agreeing to acquire virtualisation giant VMware

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  Google Cloud expands European presence with opening of Madrid region

  Public cloud giant Google is continuing to build out its datacentre footprint across Europe with the opening of its latest region in Madrid, Spain

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Microsoft urged to do more to address European cloud antitrust complaints

  In the wake of Microsoft setting out its first steps towards addressing the antitrust complaints directed at it by some European cloud providers, one complainant said the firm needs to go further by making more of its off-premise portfolio open ...

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Veeam to continue growth momentum in APAC

  Veeam expects its backup offerings that protect ‘strategic workloads’ such as Microsoft 365 and Salesforce to continue driving its growth momentum in the region

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to enter general availability in June 2022

  Microsoft has confirmed its sustainability-focused suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools is set to enter general availability from June 2022

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Google embarks on UK-focused cloud skills programme pilot with non-profit Generation UK

  The Google Cloud team is enlisting the help of non-profit training and education provider Generation UK to help more people from under-represented groups start out on a career in cloud

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Veeam outlines data protection vision

  Veeam is looking to achieve an “outsized market leading position” by tapping its strengths in data protection and doubling down on innovation to help enterprises secure emerging workloads

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Hammerspace the ‘missing link’ for a cloud still lacking

  The cloud can’t enable true multi-region working so Hammerspace helps make data visible globally and aggregate it as needed between locations with workflows set via customer policy

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Rackspace mulls over business unit sell-off following strategic review of company

  A statement by the CEO of Rackspace suggests the company could be heading for another period of change, following a strategic review of its business

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Ryanair taps up AWS machine learning tech to manage in-flight refreshment stocks

  Low-cost airline Ryanair opens up about how its long-standing tech partnership with Amazon Web Services is helping it cut food waste and improve its in-flight customer service

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Pure to offer on-prem object storage as Snowflake data source

  Pure Storage partnership with Snowflake will see the cloud data warehousing platform make use of on-prem FlashBlade fast file and object storage as a source for analytics data

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Kao Data debuts datacentre education programme for seven-to-11-year-olds

  Harlow-based colocation provider wants to help teach children about the important role datacentres play in our society, in the hope that it might inspire some of them to pursue a career in the field of server farms

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’

  NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  CyberUK 22: NCSC refreshes cloud security guidance

  The National Cyber Security Centre is revising its cloud guidance as increasing uptake of potentially vulnerable cloud services puts more organisations at risk of compromise

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  AWS embarks on green power-focused deals with AES and Fluence Energy

  Amazon Web Services is beginning two green energy-focused collaborations that will see it ramp up the amount of renewable power it uses while helping other enterprises to do the same

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  Uptime Institute debuts sustainability-focused accreditation for datacentre professionals

  Uptime Institute continues to build out its education resources and support offerings for datacentre operators that want to get to grips with the changing regulatory landscape around sustainability

• May 05, 2022 05 May'22

  CyrusOne hits climate-neutral datacentre targets in Europe

  US colocation giant CyrusOne has published its latest sustainability report, which hails progress in making its global datacentre operations climate-neutral and water-positive

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  BT signs five-year deal with AWS to revamp legacy infrastructure and ready it for the cloud

  Telco giant has signed another multi-year cloud deal, this time with AWS, as it sets to work on revamping its operations and cutting costs

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  How PropertyGuru is approaching technology integration

  Property tech firm PropertyGuru has invested in capabilities such as DevOps and authentication that can be applied across different platforms that it has acquired over time

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Gartner: Public cloud spending on the rise across the globe as hybrid working takes hold

  Latest worldwide public cloud services spending tracker reveals end-user appetite for off-premise services shows no signs of slowing down

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Google Cloud research highlights disconnect between intention and delivery on green IT initiatives

  Google Cloud research reveals disconnects between intention, delivery and budgets within businesses across EMEA on sustainability matters

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  Was Spring4Shell a lot of hot air? No, but...

  Find out why Spring4Shell was apparently not as impactful a security problem as many had at first feared, and why it’s on the cyber community as a whole to do better