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• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  United Airlines draws from AWS and diverse tech team to overcome Covid-19 business challenges

  United Airlines used the AWS Re:Invent keynote to set out how it has overcome the challenges of Covid-19 by drawing on the capabilities of its diverse tech team to oversee its move to the public cloud

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  Facebook parent Meta tightens links with open source community through expanded AWS partnership

  Social media conglomerate Meta confirms AWS’s elevation to strategic cloud partner status as tech giants’ ongoing collaboration enters next phase

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Goldman Sachs debuts AWS-powered cloud for financial services sector

  Goldman Sachs is building on its decade-long relationship with Amazon Web Services to launch a cloud-based environment that other financial services firms can use for data analytics and processing purposes

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  Cabinet Office slammed after advising users to ditch UKCloud as further investment nears

  The Cabinet Office is facing criticism after details emerge that at least one major government department has briefed suppliers to migrate away from UKCloud

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  NetSuite CEO Goldberg: Growth companies nimble for post-Covid normality

  Evan Goldberg, executive vice president of Oracle NetSuite, reflects on the post-Covid-19 pandemic economy through the prism of the Oracle-owned SaaS company

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  Growing pains: Where next for Gaia-X?

  With one of its founding members preparing to exit the project because of concerns over the growing influence of non-European entities on its operations, questions are being asked about Gaia-X’s future

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  CIO interview: Karl Hoods, CDIO, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

  Moving to the cloud, developing staff skills and responding quickly to the pandemic – from a public sector IT leader’s perspective

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  Gaia-X founding member Scaleway exits project over misgivings about its future direction

  A founding partner of the Gaia-X project, which aims to build an open, federated data infrastructure for European companies to host their cloud workloads, has exited the project over concerns about where the initiative is heading

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Average size of hyperscale datacentres is on the rise

  Latest data from IT market watcher Synergy Research Group highlights how the number and size of hyperscale datacentres around the world is on the up

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  UK’s first datacentre-focused University Technical College course makes its debut

  Some of the datacentre sector’s biggest players have pooled their resources to help launch the UK’s first industry-specific University Technical College course

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Norwegian telco Telenor partners with Google Cloud for digital transformation push

  Telenor has signed a deal with Google Cloud that will see the pair collaborate on bringing joint services and products to market for their customers

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Public cloud use linked to reduced carbon emissions and energy consumption, finds 451 Research

  IT analyst house 451 Research claims European enterprises could dramatically improve their sustainability credentials by shuttering their datacentres and moving their business applications to the public cloud

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  CME Group signs 10-year cloud and product innovation deal with Google

  CME Group, one of the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange operators, has signed a multi-year infrastructure migration deal with Google Cloud

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  Irish government confirms datacentre strategy review in revised 2021 climate plan

  The Irish government is ramping up its commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but acknowledges hitting its revised up target will be a challenge given the country’s current datacentre growth rate

• November 07, 2021 07 Nov'21

  Belfast City Airport: Most apps in the cloud by 2031

  George Best Belfast City Airport has already achieved 50/50 cloud and on-premise working, with 80% of workloads expected to be cloud-based in the next decade. We look at what hybrid cloud means in practice

• October 29, 2021 29 Oct'21

  Amazon Q3 2021: AWS nears 40% in year-on-year growth

  Amazon has reported 39% year-on-year growth for its public cloud division AWS and posted overall third quarter revenue of $110.8bn, up 15% on last year

• October 28, 2021 28 Oct'21

  Social media conglomerate Facebook on streamlining its hyperscale datacentre buildouts

  Facebook offers a look at how its approach to designing and building its datacentres has evolved to keep pace with the growing demands of its growing user base

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  Microsoft: Solving the climate crisis will require moon landing levels of tech innovation

  Microsoft’s chief environmental officer says it’s not too late to prevent a climate disaster, but doing so will require a group effort and levels of tech innovation on a par with those needed to put a man on the moon

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  Cohesity beefs up ransomware and disaster recovery offer

  Disaster Recovery as-a-service, Data Govern and project Fort Knox available or in development as data protection supplier augments its portfolio with ransomware firmly in mind

• October 25, 2021 25 Oct'21

  The RSPCA on how going cloud-first helped it rescue and rehome animals throughout the pandemic

  The RSPCA was one of the earliest adopters of Google’s online business productivity suite of tools nearly a decade ago, and the organisation’s assistant director of IT resources reveals how that decision has benefited the charity throughout the ...

• October 19, 2021 19 Oct'21

  Government flags opportunity for re-use of waste datacentre heat in net-zero strategy

  UK government's long-awaited net-zero strategy document makes the case for the creation of heat networks that could see waste heat from datacentres used to warm homes and businesses

• October 14, 2021 14 Oct'21

  NXP Semiconductors doubles down on datacentre migration plan with AWS

  Netherlands-based semiconductor manufacturer is expanding its use of Amazon Web Services to speed up the time it takes to develop and release new products

• October 13, 2021 13 Oct'21

  Microsoft makes carbon emissions-tracking dashboard generally available to cloud users

  Microsoft has confirmed the general availability of a dashboard that will allow enterprises to track the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their cloud usage habits in latest sustainability push

• October 13, 2021 13 Oct'21

  Half-year cloud market tracker data highlights soaring demand for IaaS and PaaS

  Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how soaring demand for cloud services is affecting the dominant suppliers

• October 13, 2021 13 Oct'21

  Google builds out hybrid and multicloud vision for enterprises

  The tech giant used the first day of its Google Cloud Next virtual conference to reveal how it is building out its multicloud proposition for enterprises

• October 13, 2021 13 Oct'21

  Google Cloud renews commitment to helping enterprises decarbonise their IT infrastructure

  Public cloud giant is making a series of tools available to users of its off-premise platforms that are designed to help them decarbonise their IT setups

• October 11, 2021 11 Oct'21

  Oracle commits to growing global datacentre footprint by opening 14 new regions over coming year

  Database giant to build out its datacentre presence across the world on the back of growing demand for its cloud infrastructure services

• October 06, 2021 06 Oct'21

  VMworld 2021: VMware CEO fleshes out and refines company’s enterprise multi-cloud strategy

  VMware’s new CEO, Raghu Raghuram, uses the VMworld 2021 keynote to set out the company’s expanded take on the meaning of multi-cloud

• October 06, 2021 06 Oct'21

  Open Infrastructure Foundation hails surge in OpenStack deployments as Microsoft joins ranks

  Open Infrastructure Foundation’s chief operating officer lifts the lid on how the pandemic is shaping and accelerating adoption of its open source cloud platform OpenStack

• September 29, 2021 29 Sep'21

  AWS courts local councils across UK and Ireland with three-month free cloud services trial offer

  Amazon Web Services is seeking expressions of interest from local authorities across the UK, Ireland and Spain to take part in a three-month cloud trial programme

• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  Pure launches Fusion cloud control layer for storage

  Pure Fusion is a storage control plane across cloud and datacentre. Portworx Data Services also launches to provide database management for container storage platform

• September 27, 2021 27 Sep'21

  Private equity cash fuels Nordic datacentre growth

  Private equity companies are betting on the Nordic datacentre sector as demand for services in the region accelerates

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  Regulator concerns about resilience and security could slow cloud adoption in financial services

  Report by Association for Financial Markets In Europe highlights the pressure financial services firms face as they seek to balance the need for innovation with regulatory requirements

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  European cloud providers are growing revenue but losing market share, Synergy data shows

  Latest data from Synergy Research Group highlights changing dynamics within the European cloud market, as the US giants continue to grow their share

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  SSE Renewables teams up with Microsoft for AI-led puffin conservation project on Isle of May

  Green energy provider talks up the potential for artificial intelligence technology to help speed up the time it takes to bring new supplies of renewable power onto the grid

• September 22, 2021 22 Sep'21

  Salesforce to debut Hyperforce architecture in Singapore

  Salesforce is rolling out its Hyperforce infrastructure architecture in Singapore by the year-end, enabling enterprises to run Salesforce applications on Amazon Web Services

• September 22, 2021 22 Sep'21

  Linode commits to NVMe storage infrastructure upgrade across its global datacentre portfolio

  Alternative public cloud service provider Linode has commited to revamping the storage infrastructure across its 11 datacentres, which include sites in the US, UK and Germany

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Hyperscale cloud giants look to pick up the pace of self-built datacentres in London

  Latest quarterly datacentre market tracker data from DC Byte and Knight Frank suggests a shift in investment priorities for the hyperscale cloud giants could be on the cards

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  Google joins Microsoft and Facebook by pledging to replenish more water than it consumes by 2030

  Google is the latest tech giant to go public with its commitment to becoming a water-positive entity

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  Portcast secures $3.2m, eyes global expansion

  Logistics startup Portcast will use its pre-Series A funding to expand globally and bolster its cloud-based service with prescriptive AI capabilities

• September 06, 2021 06 Sep'21

  Verne Global acquired for £231m as Nordic datacentre investment trend gathers pace

  Icelandic colocation firm acquired by digital infrastructure investment fund as demand for datacentre capacity in the Nordics continues to grow

• September 03, 2021 03 Sep'21

  Equinix acquires two Mumbai datacentres to expand colocation operations into India

  Colocation giant Equinix has acquired a physical presence in India for the first time, following the completion of its acquisition of two Mumbai datacentres

• September 02, 2021 02 Sep'21

  HPE signs 10-year GreenLake HPC deal worth $2bn with US National Security Agency

  The US National Security Agency has enlisted the help of HPE and its GreenLake platform to aid the delivery of its data management strategy

• September 01, 2021 01 Sep'21

  NTT Group to grow global datacentre footprint by 20% over next 18 months

  Carrier-neutral colocation giant has set out plans that will see it continue to add datacentre capacity across all of the major markets it operates in

• August 24, 2021 24 Aug'21

  Inchcape picks Rise with SAP on Google Cloud to motor on digital

  Auto sector company Inchcape has chosen SAP’s Rise service on Google Cloud to drive forward its digital transformation programme

• August 20, 2021 20 Aug'21

  Facebook vows to replenish more water than it consumes across its global operations by 2030

  Social networking giant is following in Microsoft’s footprints by setting itself a goal of becoming a water-positive entity by 2030

• August 19, 2021 19 Aug'21

  HPE-Microsoft supercomputing collaboration on ISS speeds research into space travel health impacts

  Several months on from the deployment of a microwave-sized supercomputer on the International Space Station, details of the research it's powering have started to emerge

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  Microsoft launches 'top secret' Azure cloud region for US intelligence community

  Microsoft continues to deliver on its pledge to provide cloud services to the US government that are compliant with all strengths of data classification

• August 15, 2021 15 Aug'21

  UK government tells firms to use cloud to curb their carbon emissions and fight climate change

  Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has listed moving to the cloud among the steps that businesses should take to help fight climate change

• August 12, 2021 12 Aug'21

  Regulatory complexity hinders cloud adoption by financial services firms, Google study finds

  Business leaders within the financial services space reveal details of what is holding up cloud adoption within their industry in latest Google poll