Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Find out what is SaaS, what SaaS applications are used for, what companies use SaaS, and the types of applications that fall under this category of cloud services.
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News
20 Dec 2024
Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light
The government has granted the developers of a proposed datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, permission to press ahead with the project after the local council blocked the plans on Green Belt protection grounds Continue Reading
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Opinion
19 Dec 2024
Challenging the cloud giants: Is a new era of competition on the horizon?
With the dominant hold that Amazon and Microsoft has on the global cloud market under scrutiny by regulators across the world, could 2025 usher in a new era of cloud competition? Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Apr 2023
Why IAM systems are crucial for securing multicloud architecture
As business tools evolve into cloud-based services, organisations are finding themselves becoming ever more reliant on the cloud, but how can data be secured across so many different platforms? Continue Reading
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News
14 Apr 2023
BAE Systems partners with Microsoft Azure to revamp data use across defence sector
Defence contractor BAE Systems and Microsoft are taking a cloud-centric approach to changing how data is used in various parts of the defence sector Continue Reading
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News
12 Apr 2023
Enterprises downgrade ESG investments amid economic uncertainty, Google Cloud study finds
The second annual Google Cloud sustainability study reveals that economic uncertainty is forcing some enterprises to cut corners on their sustainability strategy to save money Continue Reading
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News
11 Apr 2023
Experian names AWS as preferred cloud partner for multi-year off-premise migration project
Credit reporting agency Experian is embarking on a multi-year cloud migration project with AWS Continue Reading
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News
05 Apr 2023
Ofcom's interim UK cloud market report flags competition concerns about AWS and Microsoft
Ofcom has flagged concerns about anti-competitive behaviour from AWS and Microsoft in its interim report into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure market Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2023
HPE launches GreenLake for File and Block, and unified arrays
HPE upgrades its storage-as-a-service offer with Greenlake for File and for Block, configurable via the cloud but deployable on-prem. Meanwhile it shows new Alletra MP arrays Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2023
Accenture and Microsoft take Unilever on 18-month 'cloud-only' enterprise journey
Consumer goods giant Unilever has turned to Accenture and Microsoft to support its push to shutter its datacentres and become a ‘cloud-only’ enterprise Continue Reading
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Podcast
29 Mar 2023
Podcast: Cloud storage, data protection and compliance
The lure of cloud storage hides its drawback, namely that you can lose control of it from a compliance perspective. We talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, about how to tame it Continue Reading
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News
29 Mar 2023
CMA deepens probe into VMware-Broadcom merger over concerns it could hike server prices in UK
The UK Competition & Markets Authority has become the first antitrust watchdog to express concerns over the impact Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware could have on server pricing and innovation Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2023
BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy
BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2023
AWS confirms healthcare accelerator startup programme participants
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services confirms 23 startups have been added to its healthcare accelerator programme, which is centred on helping the sector tackle its staffing issues Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2023
Oxbotica teams up with Google Cloud to add scale to autonomous vehicle platform
Autonomous vehicle software developer Oxbotica has turned to Google Cloud to help expand the reach of its technology platform Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2023
AWS takes defence-focused startup accelerator Europe-wide after UK programme success
Nearly 12 months after the launch of the UK version of the AWS defence-focused accelerator programme, the cloud giant is expanding it Continue Reading
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News
23 Mar 2023
GDS goes serverless to bring personalisation to online government services with One Login
GDS has opened up about the reasons why it’s opted for a serverless infrastructure to underpin One Login, and how it hopes the system will provide UK citizens with a more personalised experience Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2023
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy confirms 9,000 further job cuts across AWS, Twitch and its advertising arm
Amazon's cloud arm is set to be one of several business units that will lose employees over the coming months, a staff email has confirmed Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2023
BT helps Channel 4 and ITV take Freeview content to the cloud
Multiplex broadcast consortium Digital 3&4 has ditched its legacy hardware for a software-defined networking setup that will revamp how it delivers Freeview content to viewers Continue Reading
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News
13 Mar 2023
Liverpool Football Club signs Wasabi in on-premise-to-cloud storage transition
Liverpool Football Club has transitioned from lead-footed on-premise infrastructure to Wasabi cloud storage that’s well-suited to its video production and distribution requirements Continue Reading
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News
10 Mar 2023
Government Future of Compute Review calls for nationally coordinated IT infrastructure strategy
The government’s Future of Compute Review makes 10 recommendations geared towards helping the UK become a technology superpower Continue Reading
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Podcast
10 Mar 2023
Podcast: Why DBaaS and what problems does it solve?
We talk to Tobias Ternström of Nutanix about how the enterprise landscape has seen thousands of databases from multiple vendors mushroom and how database as a service can help manage that complexity Continue Reading
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News
08 Mar 2023
How ForgeRock is tackling identity management
ForgeRock CEO Fran Rosch has set the identity and access management software supplier on a path to deliver a frictionless identity experience without compromising security or privacy Continue Reading
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News
07 Mar 2023
Mobile operator Three cuts datacentre cooling energy usage through EkkoSense deployment
Mobile operator Three enlisted the help of EkkoSense to reduce the amount of energy used to cool four of its legacy datacentres as part of a cost- and carbon-cutting initiative Continue Reading
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News
07 Mar 2023
APAC IT leaders bullish on tech spending
Over half of respondents in this year’s IT Priorities study have bigger IT budgets as they continue to make strategic investments in cyber security, cloud and automation, among other areas Continue Reading
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News
24 Feb 2023
Amazon denies claims hiring freeze is slowing AWS sustainability work
Amazon’s cloud arm has seen several high-profile departures leave its sustainability teams, but the company denies its hiring freeze is stalling efforts to help AWS customers bring their carbon emissions down Continue Reading
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Definition
21 Feb 2023
perpetual software license
A perpetual software license is a type of software license that authorizes an individual to use a program indefinitely. Continue Reading
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News
20 Feb 2023
How Syniti is honing its chops in data management
A move to shed its back office image and a laser focus on data migration has been fuelling Syniti’s growth in data management Continue Reading
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Opinion
16 Feb 2023
Data protection for SaaS-based apps is a work in progress
Organizations with SaaS-based applications are still relying on the providers for data protection, even though the vendors are rarely responsible for SaaS data backups. Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2023
Government’s revised net-zero strategy could put public sector under more pressure to move to cloud
With the UK government due to publish its revised net-zero strategy in the coming weeks, the public sector is being warned it could see itself under more pressure to move to cloud Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2023
Deutsche Bӧrse signs decade-long deal with Google Cloud
German financial exchange firm Deutsche Bӧrse is expanding its long-standing partnership with Google Cloud as part of a push to ‘economise and concentrate’ its cloud strategy Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2023
Twitter CEO Elon Musk pauses datacentre downsizing push in wake of outage
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has called a temporary halt to the company’s push to cut costs by downsizing its infrastructure expenditure after an outage left users around the world unable to post tweets Continue Reading
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News
08 Feb 2023
MoD issues revised cloud strategy as it prepares to move top-secret data off-premise by 2025
The Ministry of Defence has updated its cloud strategy, as it prepares to move more of its highly classified data and workloads off-premise in the years to come Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Feb 2023
Container storage platforms: Big six approach starts to align
Container storage is a complex but vital task. We survey the big six storage makers and see methods are starting to align around management platforms Continue Reading
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News
07 Feb 2023
NetApp adds QLC C-series, new A-series and subscription upgrades
NetApp C-series QLC-based array family offers flash speed with capacity, while Advance adds subscription upgrades to owned hardware, as well as a new entry-level A-series array Continue Reading
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News
03 Feb 2023
AWS talks up 'healthy and robust' customer pipeline as revenue growth continues to slow
Amazon is the latest tech giant to report a downbeat set of financial results, as enterprises continue to scale back their cloud spending Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2023
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust warned in 2018 about datacentre cooling issues, outage report shows
A review has been published regarding the circumstances that led to two datacentres, hosting healthcare systems for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, overheating during the 2022 summer heatwave Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2023
Zurich Insurance Group plots multiyear move to AWS public cloud
Multiline insurance firm Zurich is plotting a move to the AWS public cloud to help revamp its customer offerings Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2023
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 Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2023
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 Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2023
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Jan 2023
Green storage: Savings to be made but tricky to achieve
Storage upgrades can bring energy savings. New hardware, the cloud and as-a-service procurement models all cut costs, but can need careful tweaking to get right Continue Reading
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News
25 Jan 2023
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Jan 2023
IT’s shift to the cloud: Veeam’s data protection report in detail
With half of servers in the cloud, most backup and nearly all disaster recovery cloud-centric, the shift to the cloud is significant – but container backup is one area that is yet to settle down Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Jan 2023
Cloud egress costs: What they are and how to dodge them
We look at how cloud providers charge to move data from their cloud, including to other providers and between storage in the same cloud, and what you can do to mitigate “bill shock” Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2023
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 Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2023
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 Continue Reading
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News
18 Jan 2023
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 Continue Reading
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News
04 Jan 2023
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 Continue Reading
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News
21 Dec 2022
Top 10 cloud stories of 2022
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2021 Continue Reading
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News
20 Dec 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
19 Dec 2022
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Dec 2022
Reverse cloud migrations: Why some enterprises are shifting their IT back on-premise
With a steady trickle of customer organisations returning on-premise, a need to plan better may not be the whole story Continue Reading
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Podcast
06 Dec 2022
AWS mutes trash talk at Re:Invent – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
The team chats through the AWS Re:Invent conference, as well as an initiative for getting young women into cyber security, and how SAP Build travelled from Vegas to SAP users in Birmingham Continue Reading
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News
01 Dec 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
30 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Nov 2022
Cohesity at AWS re:Invent 2022 - What happens in cloud, stays in cloud
Just to cover off (in technology circles) anyone who happens to live in a cave, under a rock or in case anyone has spent their last few days and weeks on the moon (where we presume Internet access ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
29 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
24 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
23 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
14 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
08 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
08 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
04 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
02 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
31 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
28 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
26 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
25 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Oct 2022
Cloud bursting: Six key steps in planning and decision-making
We explore the key stages in a cloud bursting project: assessing the data and workflows, variants in the mechanism, application suitability, having the right resources, and planning and testing Continue Reading
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News
17 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
12 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Oct 2022
Cloud bursting: What is it, what workloads, what technologies?
We look at cloud bursting, its benefits and how to deploy it, as well as the limitations in terms of suitable workloads, the technologies needed and the skills to make it happen Continue Reading
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News
11 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
11 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Oct 2022
Providers unconcerned about Ofcom probe into hyperscaler influence on cloud market
Should we be more worried about the growing dominance of the three big cloud providers – AWS, Azure and Google? Continue Reading
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News
03 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
03 Oct 2022
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Sep 2022
What cloud users need to know: Ensuring greater end point engagement for improved cloud delivery
Although early-adopter worries about cloud may have dissipated, the end-user experience can still leave much to be desired Continue Reading
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News
26 Sep 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
22 Sep 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
13 Sep 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
07 Sep 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
07 Sep 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
07 Sep 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
06 Sep 2022
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Sep 2022
Cloud bursting: What it is and what it’s good for
We look at cloud bursting, which allows organisations to meet demand by bursting compute and storage to the cloud Continue Reading
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Feature
31 Aug 2022
Burning up: Mitigation should sustain datacentre operations during extreme heat
July’s temperature spike put headline heat on regional operations at Google and Oracle. Datacentre operators must side-step similar mistakes to avoid climate change-related collapse in future Continue Reading
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News
31 Aug 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
30 Aug 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
25 Aug 2022
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Aug 2022
Cloud storage TCO: Key pitfalls and how to avoid them
Cloud’s flexibility is part of the attraction, but it can also lead to costs that spiral. We look at key elements in cloud TCO and how to intelligently make use of the cloud Continue Reading
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News
23 Aug 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
22 Aug 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
18 Aug 2022
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Aug 2022
Icelandic datacentres may lead the way to green IT
Iceland may soon become even more attractive to companies wanting to minimise their carbon footprint while using high-performance computing services Continue Reading
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News
08 Aug 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
02 Aug 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
29 Jul 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
29 Jul 2022
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 Continue Reading
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News
28 Jul 2022
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 Continue Reading