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Cisco Predicts ‘Second Wave’ Of Cloud Adoption
IDC And Cisco report finds that cloud is now used to help businesses grow and develop internally, with UK firms set to benefit
IBM Makes OpenStack Blue Box Available In All Data Centres
Users can now deploy and manage their applications on OpenStack-based private clouds from IBM Cloud data centres worldwide
Mirantis Gets £64m OpenStack Investment From Intel, Goldman Sachs
OpenStack vendor Mirantis on the recieving end of Intel 'Cloud for All' cash flurry
5 Top Tips For Cloud Computing Implementation
Mark Woodhams, MD, EMEA at NetSuite, explains how to navigate the cloud landscape
IT Life: Taking Service To The Max
Dave Hart, VP of Global Transformation at ServiceMax chats sharks, fear and the connected lipstick
How To Overcome Digital Forensic Challenges In The Cloud
Professor Hamid Jahankhani, head of doctoral Studies at GSM London, gets all CSI in the cloud environment
How Specsavers Improved Visibility Of Planning And Reports
Adaptive Planning took Specsavers to the cloud for improved business planning and analytics
Alphabet Is Keeping Google Cloud Exactly The Way It Is
Blog: Google Cloud Platform won't be getting any special treatment as Alphabet restructures divisions, but is that going to prove to be a problem?
Microsoft Launches Key Piece of Cortana Analytics Suite
Azure Data Factory is now generally available, allowing customers to start piping big data into their business analytics systems
AWS Suffers Another Cloud Outage
AWS EC2 and S3 taken down in US regions as yellow-tick horror shocks GitHub
UK Public Sector Is Falling For The Public Cloud
Majority of public sector organisations use public cloud services, even if not officially signed off by IT department
Mirantis And CoreOS Embark On OpenStack Kubernetes Integration
Mirantis' OpenStack distribution will now work with Kubernetes, with the help of CoreOS Kubernetes 1.0 commercial platform
Gartner: With ‘Personal Cloud’ Growing, IT Bosses Need To Be Prepared
Gartner predicts that cloud personal assistants like Cortana and Siri could cause security headaches for digital managers as lines become blurred
IBM Launches Enterprise Mac Deployment Service
Apple and IBM love-in continues with new service offering easy Mac deployment to companies
GE Predix Cloud To Satisfy Industrial Data Needs
GE enters cloud market with tailored Predix solution designed specifically for industrial data and analytics
Baker Tilly International Huddles Up With Cloud
The businsses advisory firm used Huddle to connect its international network and provide a standard portal service for client service worldwide
Alibaba Pumps £640m Into Aliyun To Take On AWS
Alibaba funding will fuel global expansion as Aliyun set sights firmly on US cloud competitors
Intel And Rackspace Are Planning An OpenStack ‘Innovation Centre’
Firms double down on pushing OpenStack adoption with Texas centre that will focus on OpenStack code
Amazon’s Q2 Results Prove Just How Powerful AWS Cloud Is
AWS becomes $6bn service as Amazon stocks soar on Q2 announcement
Alibaba’s Ambitious US Cloud Plans Just Got Serious
Alibaba's cloud computing division Aliyun has unveiled plans to protect user data with a "Data Protection Pact" as the firm looks to expand in the West
Microsoft’s Azure Site Recovery Eases Multiplatform Cloud Migration
Businesses can now more easily transfer workloads running on VMware, Amazon Web Services, Hyper-V and physical servers to Microsoft's cloud
Google Joins OpenStack In Massive Cloud War Offensive
Google pledges support for OpenStack Foundation, vows to help push container technology whilst scooping up precious enterprise cloud customers
Microsoft Hit With Office 365 Cloud Outage
Customers in North America were unable to access Exchange Online Wednesday evening, with some reports suggesting outage went global
Google Cloud Now Supports Windows Server
Google Compute Engine extends Windows Server support to 'general availability, hoping to attract enterprise customers
Microsoft Mobile Cloud Adoption Gives Partners Pause
Cost saving is a primary driver for the move to the cloud, with nearly 68 percent of partners citing capital expenditure reduction as a major driver
Microsoft Azure Embraces Rackspace’s Fanatical Support
Microsoft Azure looks for leg up in enterprise adoption by wafting Rackspace Fanatical Support in front of businesses looking to the cloud
AWS Launches Service Catalog For IT Departments
AWS Service Catalog allows users to browse internal 'marketplace' of AWS products to run at their own will, with permission from an IT admin
Google Launches Mobile App For Managing Cloud Resources
The Google Cloud Console app for Android and iOS will let administrators use mobile devices to view and manage cloud hosted applications
Salesforce’s Benioff Claims SAP ‘Is Scared’
Spurned wrath? Marc Benioff blasts SAP CEO claiming he rebuffed a genuine partnership offer