Cloud

Microsoft Azure Launches Face Tracking, Emotion Detection In Preview

Azure Media Analytics puts Azure Media Face Detector and emotion detection into preview, can recognise happiness, sadness, anger, fear

9 years ago

Red Hat Releases OpenStack Platform 8, Revamps Cloud Suite

Red Hat talks DevOps, goes after telcos in latest OpenStack attack

9 years ago

EMC Revenue Slides Ahead Of Dell Purchase

EMC CEO describes results as “solid” as revenues slip ahead of pricey acquisition by Dell

9 years ago

AWS Migration Tools Hope To Attract More On-Premise Workloads To The Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) ramps up efforts to entice businesses to its cloud with Application Discovery Service and bigger Snowballs

9 years ago

European Commission Will Build £5bn Cloud Platform For Scientists

European Open Science Cloud is part of Commission's Digital Single Market initiative

9 years ago

Microsoft Launches Azure Container Service Into General Availability

Azure Container Service gives choice between Mesophere’s DC/OS and Docker’s Swarm and Compose for container deployment

9 years ago

Cloud And Analytics Now More Than A Third Of IBM’s Total Revenue

But IBM reports a 21 percent fall in net profit to £1.61bn in the first quarter ending March 31

9 years ago

Will Apple’s Data Centre Really Increase Ireland’s Electricity Consumption By 8 Percent?

Documents sent to Galway County Council estimate Apple's Ireland data centre would dramatically increase Ireland's electricity consumption, but are the…

9 years ago

G-Cloud 8 Open For Applications Next Month As GDS Hints At G-Cloud 9 Shakeup

G-Cloud 6 suppliers will have to reapply, but G-Cloud 7 partners don't in most cases

9 years ago

Microsoft Is ‘Rapidly Growing’ Its Enterprise SaaS Revenue

Still a long way behind market leader Salesforce, but Microsoft is playing hard to catch up

9 years ago

UK Hosting Giant 123 Reg ‘Deletes’ Customer Sites

123 Reg, the UK's biggest domain name registrar, said it has mistakenly deleted an unspecified number of the 1.7 million…

9 years ago

Microsoft Knows It Needs To Be ‘Explicit And Transparent’ With Customer Data

As Microsoft sues US gov for the right to alert customers when their data is snooped upon, its cloud director…

9 years ago

UK Cloud Adoption Slower Than US, Brazil, and Australia

UK organisations use less cloud services than international counterparts, while IT budgets slower to shift towards cloud, claims Intel Security

9 years ago

NetSuite’s Euro Invasion In Full Swing With Benelux Expansion

NetSuite opens headquarters in Amsterdam, gears up OneWorld for customers in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

9 years ago

Google Apologises For Global Cloud Outage

Compute Engine bug rerouted all incoming global traffic for 18 minutes

9 years ago

Box: It Makes No Sense For Us To Build Data Centres When IBM Can Do It At Scale

IBM says only a few major players can deliver cloud scale and help other tech firms focus on their product,…

9 years ago

OpenStack ‘Maturing’ As Two Thirds Of Deployments Now In Production

OpenStack users also getting excited about containers, NFV and bare metal

9 years ago

Microsoft Will Open German Data Centres In June

Microsoft’s two German data centres will be opened on a rolling basis, with Office 365 coming in September, three months…

9 years ago

Security Concerns ‘Prevent’ Mainstream Container Adoption

Cloud experts believe security concerns will stop containers superseding VMs for now but, in 18 months, it could be a…

9 years ago

Box Zones Lets Customers Store Data In Europe In AWS, IBM Data Centres

Box Zones will launch in May, finally letting users store data in Ireland, Germany, Japan and Singapore, boosting privacy and…

9 years ago

Can Public Cloud Truly Meet The Data Demands Of Enterprises?

Vendors such as Google, Microsoft and Oracle are increasingly bending to give customers public cloud in their own data centres,…

9 years ago

Safe Harbour 2.0 Not Adequate, Says WP29 Data Watchdog

The new data sharing agreement between Europe and the US may not be adequate, leak suggests

9 years ago

OpenStack Mitaka Release Aims For Ease Of Use

OpenStack's 13th release brings in new features designed to improve scalability and make deploying OpenStack easier for everyone

9 years ago

IBM And SAP To Build On Cloud, Big Data Partnership With Cognitive Capabilities

IBM and SAP will work together on creating new services and boosting HANA with IBM cognitive capabilities

9 years ago

Amazon Promotes Andy Jassy To CEO Of Amazon Web Services

'Recognition' of performance sees CEO title given to head of Amazon Web Servives Andy Jassy as cloud division reaps revenue

9 years ago

DocuSign Integrates eSignatures In IBM, Cisco Services

DocuSign reveals new partners, including deal with IBM for technology integration, collaboration and APIs via Bluemix cloud

9 years ago

Google And Rackspace To Develop OpenPower Server Design

Google and Rackspace co-develop open server architecture based on new IBM POWER9 hardware

9 years ago

Global IT Spending Set To Decline To £2.5 Trillion

Belt tightening? Data centre spending remains stable, but overall IT spending forecast to drop 0.5 percent according to Gartner

9 years ago

Dell Bolsters Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Range With EMC

Dell Expands hyper-converged product portfolio with EMC kit ahead of pricey acquisition of storage giant

9 years ago

Facebook Is Doubling The Size Of Its Irish Data Centre

Facebook's County Meath data centre gets extension approval as work starts on 621,000 sq ft site

9 years ago