Cloud Management

OpenStack Gets Core Infrastructure Initiative Green Light

OpenStack earns CII best practices badge for security, quality, and stability

8 years ago

European Science Community Launches £4.5m Hybrid Cloud Tender

Ten top European research bodies, including the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council, support the tender

8 years ago

Estonia Wants UK ‘Data Embassy’ To Protect Citizen Data Amid Cyberattack Fear

Threat of cyberattacks prompt Estonian officials to investigate possibility of using UK data centres for citizen data

8 years ago

Dell Rolls Out Flex Pay Hybrid Cloud Options In Europe

Try before you buy, says Dell, as six month hybrid trial gets EMEA support

8 years ago

Blockchain Moving Beyond Finance; Still in Early Stages

Blockchain is attracting huge interest from financial sector - but it's not the only area that can benefit

8 years ago

Cross Channel: YouGov Deploys Pure Storage And Intel Posts Reduced Profit

Also in the channel this week: how Tech Data is ready to hold channel’s hand for IoT

8 years ago

Salesforce Buys Cloud Infrastructure Startup Coolan

Salesforce sips the Open Compute Project Coolan, picks up startup making software for server optimisation

8 years ago

Intel Posts Reduced Profit Amid Data Centre Slowdown

Intel reports a better than expected profit, but hefty cost cutting impacts chipmaker's bottom line

8 years ago

SAP Sees High License Growth, Adds 500 HANA Customers

SAP profit up nine percent, software licenses hit £870 million in Q2

8 years ago

Microsoft Azure Cloud Revenue Grows 102 Percent

Azure growth offsets poor performance in PC and phone market as Microsoft ups pressure on AWS

8 years ago

Boeing Partners With Microsoft For Azure And Cortana

Boeing buys into Cortana, AI and cloud to access big data it can use to streamline passenger experience and reduce…

8 years ago

IBM Reports Cloud Growth But Profits Fall 30 Percent Overall

Yet another quarterly decline as IBM closes 11 acquisitions in first six months of 2016

8 years ago

Cross Channel: Dixons Deploys IBM Cloud As Microsoft Launches Surface As A Service

Hybrid is the way forward for electronics retailer as Dixons moves to IBM UK data centres

9 years ago

AWS Buys Cloud9 To Boost Developer Services

Startup Cloud9 specialises in developer tools delivered through cloud

9 years ago

Microsoft Wins Landmark Cloud Case Over Emails Stored In Ireland

Microsoft will not be forced to hand over communications held in servers outside of the United States, a court ruled…

9 years ago

Microsoft Blasted Over Severe Azure Stack Delay

Microsoft reveals big Azure Stack changes, will only sell platform through certified hardware partners such as HPE, Dell and Lenovo

9 years ago

Microsoft Launches Surface As A Service Options for Partners

Redmond also unveils Windows 10 Enterprise subscription packages as Windows Server 2016 gets launch date

9 years ago

Salesforce Enhances Shield Security With BYOK for Regulated Industries

The update to Salesforce Shield provides a set of integrated security services that lets companies use their own encryption keys…

9 years ago

Microsoft Scoops GE’s Predix IoT Platform Into Azure

Microsoft continues Azure IoT partnerships, muscles in on General Electric's industrial IoT platform

9 years ago

European Union Officially Adopts Privacy Shield Data Protection Framework

Safe Harbour 2.0 gets green light from member states, comes into force immediately

9 years ago

Trust Cloud And Reap Profits, Finds Google-Backed Study

Google-sponsored Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research finds businesses with a higher trust in cloud computing find profit boost

9 years ago

Cross Channel: Dust Settles On Brexit As Cloud Spending Continues

Companies find positives in Brexit and AVG gets snapped up by Avast

9 years ago

Google Buys Anvato For Cloud Platform Video Services

Google ramps up OTT video efforts, picks up customers such as NBC, Fox sports and CBS

9 years ago

British Software Vendors Could Lose AWS Business After Brexit

AWS Marketplace is now accepting software sellers based in the EU, but AWS doesn’t know how Brexit will affect UK…

9 years ago

Brexit Won’t Stop Amazon Building Its AWS UK Data Centres

AWS still won't give official launch date, but it is understood UK data centres will open between November and February

9 years ago

Public Cloud Spending Almost Double That Of Private Cloud

IDC cloud tracker: Boost comes as IT infrastructure spending for non-cloud deployments falls again

9 years ago

E-Shelter Offers Up Managed Ubuntu OpenStack Through Canonical

Ubuntu funnels Hosted BootStack through e-shelter data centres for end to end private cloud management

9 years ago

IBM SoftLayer Now Ubuntu Certified Cloud Partner

SoftLayer customers can now use certified Ubuntu Linux images in latest move from ongoing IBM Canonical partnerships

9 years ago

Office 365 Outage Causes Email Backup

A Microsoft Office 365 outage caused undeliverable emails to pile up in outboxes for some customers in the U.S.

9 years ago