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Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Service Fabric

Build 2016 - Azure Functions goes into preview as AWS Lambda rival, Azure IoT Starter Kits ready for purchase

Social Coding: The Origins Of IBM’s Bluemix

IBM's Bluemix cloud application development platform came out of an IBM experiment known as social coding and is now the Bluemix Garage Method

Oracle Ships Public Cloud To Its Customers’ Own Data Centres

Oracle Cloud at Customer gives CIOs a potential workaround for regulatory and legislative barriers holding back public cloud adoption

Google Cloud Platform Launches Full On Assault At AWS

Google's NEXT: Google launches plethora of cloud services to aid monitoring, machine learning and interoperability ahead of data centre expansion

Google Set For Massive Cloud Expansion With 12 New Data Centres

Google reveals plans for 12 new data centres in bid to catch up with Amazon Web Services - the first two will hit Tokyo and Oregon this year

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Touts Network on Demand Service

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise joins rivals in offering pay-per-use for networking services for businesses

UK Lagging In Terms Of Data Centres, But Cloud Giant Expansions Will Change That

UK plays host to less than 5 percent of world's major cloud data centres, but expansions from AWS, Google, and Microsoft will boost the region in 2016

GoDaddy Launches Cloud Servers And Cloud Applications

New cloud services from GoDaddy looks to entice developers and IT pros to its pay as you go cloud platform

Google Shares Details Of Its Software-Defined Load Balancer

The Maglev software-defined load balancer, which runs on commodity Linux servers, has been critical to Google Cloud Platform for eight years, company says

Management Complexity In The Multi-cloud

How to simplify management and increase your businesses' performance in the cloud

Apple Signs Cloud Services Deal With Google

Google scores major win over Amazon Web Services with $600m Apple deal

Apple Reveals Data Centre Requests From Chinese Government

Company reveals dealings with Chinese government ahead of US court case with the FBI

Jive Updates Intranet And Customer Collaboration Platforms

Jive World 2016: Jive adds new content creation options for internal and external collaboration software, teases Jive 9

Huawei Launches Cloud Communications Platform For Businesses

A “converged, open, and agile” comms platform in the cloud from Huawei looks to capitalise on IoT, smart cities

Amazon Web Services Ready To Launch Database Migration Service

Database Migration Service another way to entice customers in moving to AWS cloud

Huawei And Deutsche Telekom Launch ‘AWS-Beating’ Public Cloud

Deutsche Telekom goes live with Huawei-built Open TelekomCloud and digs at 'American competitors' on Amazon cloud's tenth birthday

ICANN Submits Migration Plan Away From US Control

Independence move for ICANN after it submits official plan for global stewardship to the US government

HPE Launches On-Demand Machine Learning-As-A-Service

'We refer to this as 'augmented human intelligence,' so they can generate applications and build these features into their products.' - HPE's Colin Mahony

Om Malik’s Plea For Cloud Transparency Makes Perfect Sense

Blog: It's time for cloud leaders to start reporting with useful and better metrics, writes GigaOM founder Om Malik. We agree.

MoD Identifies Technology As Key Driver For UK Operating Future

Government whitepaper offers up likely defence and security predictions in next 20 years

Lenovo, Juniper Agree Data Centre Partnership

Match made in heaven? Lenovo servers, Juniper networking know-how combine for 'hyperconverged' data centres

Dropbox Reaches Half A Billion Users, 8m Businesses

Dropbox founders are delighted with milestone, claiming there are now 3.3 billion connections between users

Yahoo Seeks Quick Sale Of Non-Core Assets

Restructuring includes potential sale of $1bn to $3bn worth of assets, Chief Financial Officer confirms

IBM Prepares Massive Round Of Job Cuts

P45 time for US staffers at IBM as reports emerge of large scale layoffs with reduced severance packages

NTT Overhauls Enterprise Cloud With Free Connectivity, Management Portal

NTT Communications sets sights on taking on bigger cloud rivals with expanded capabilities of its Enterprise Cloud service

Salesforce Customers Hit With 10-Hour Outage

One of Salesforce.com's EMEA instances went down for more than 10 hours overnight, problems caused by a "storage failure"