Cloud

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

Nvidia ‘Deep Learning’ Supercomputer To Tackle AI Challenges

New supercomputer meets the need of next-generation AI applications, coupled with release of new data centre accelerator

9 years ago

LinkedIn Opens First International Data Centre In Singapore

LinkedIn said that growth in Asia Pacific has led to increased demand on its infrastructure

9 years ago

Hyper-V Containers Headed To Windows 10

Microsoft reveals that its homegrown container technology is coming to the Windows 10 operating system

9 years ago

Mirantis Wins OpenStack Cloud Contract With Volkswagen

Pure play OpenStack vendor Mirantis to run cloud applications across every Volkswagen brand

9 years ago

Equinix Releases Data Hub For Enterprises Wanting Power On The Edge

Equinix claims it can solve data demands brought on by real-time analytics, IoT, and data protection by moving storage and…

9 years ago

Ericsson Acquires Data Centre Automation Startup NodePrime

Ericsson says all-cash purchase is 'strategic' to its cloud offering, integrates NodePrime's software into Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000

9 years ago

Microsoft ‘Poaches’ Top Linux Executive From Oracle

Oracle loses Linux VP Wim Coekaerts to Redmond as Nadella prioritises open source

9 years ago

Google Offers Option For Cloud Disk Resizing Without Downtime

Online resizing of persistent disks will allow cloud customers to scale up or scale down disk volumes on the fly,…

9 years ago

Intel Tightens Cloud Focus With New Xeon Chips, SSDs And Partnerships

Chip giant expands Xeon line with new processor models and partnerships to aid cloud workload migrations

9 years ago