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IBM Mulls Use Of AI Chip To Lower Watsonx Cloud Service Cost

In an effort to lower cost of Big Blue's new cloud AI and data platform watson.x, IBM considers use of…

1 year ago

IBM Pays $4.6bn For Apptio To Bolster SaaS Insights

Big Blue opens its wallet to acquire financial and IT management software provider Apptio from venture capital owner

2 years ago

Google Files FTC Cloud Protest Against Microsoft

Cloud battle. Submission made by Google to US antitrust regulator, alleging anti competitive practices by Microsoft Azure

2 years ago

Amazon Web Services Restored After Widespread Outage In US

Outage on Tuesday evening for Amazon Web Services that took down some major websites in the US, has been resolved

2 years ago

Broadcom Offers Remedies To Ease EU Worries Over VMware Deal

US chipmaker Broadcom offers interoperability remedies to address European antitrust concerns over $61bn VMware deal

2 years ago

Microsoft Freezes Salaries, Amid Economic Uncertainty

CEO Satya Nadella informs Microsoft workforce there will be no salary increases in 2023, and executive bonuses will be 'down…

2 years ago

UK’s CMA Blocks Microsoft’s $69bn Acquisition Of Activision Blizzard

Final decision by UK regulator to block Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition, but Microsoft says it will appeal

2 years ago

Amazon, Microsoft Cloud Services Face UK Antitrust Probe

Ofcom proposing to refer UK cloud market and two of its leading service providers to British antitrust watchdog

2 years ago

Amazon Staff Push Back At Return-To-Office Order

Unhappy Amazon staff reportedly taking to internal websites and comms channels to complain about return-to-office order

2 years ago

Avaya Files For Chapter 11 Protection, Again

Filing for bankruptcy protection will allow cloud comms provider Avaya to reduce its total debt burden to manageable levels

2 years ago

Amazon Posts Annual Loss Amid Restructuring

Worse than anticipated earnings for Amazon on Thursday, amid difficulties after pandemic boom and 18,000 job losses

2 years ago

UK Watchdog Opens Investigation Of $61bn Broadcom-VMware Buy

After initial review of Broadcom’s $61 billion (£51bn) acquisition of VMware, UK regulator confirms phase 1 investigation

2 years ago

LastPass Owner GoTo Confirms Hackers Stole Customers’ Backups

It gets worse. Confirmation from LastPass owner GoTo that hackers stole encrypted backups and encryption key for portion of them

2 years ago

Microsoft Investigates Outage With Teams, Outlook

Thousands of users are reporting problems accessing Microsoft services on Wednesday, as firm says it is investigating

2 years ago

Microsoft To Cut Thousands Of Jobs – Report

Software giant Microsoft said to be finalising plans to axe 11,000 positions, in latest job cull in tech industry

2 years ago

Microsoft To Acquire 4 Percent Of London Stock Exchange In Cloud Deal

Ten year cloud data deal between LSE and American software giant, sees Microsoft acquire 4 percent of equity stake in…

2 years ago

Amazon Pauses Corporate Workforce Hiring

Weeks after it paused hiring for corporate retail jobs, Amazon extends hiring freeze for roles across its corporate workforce

2 years ago

UKCloud Placed Into ‘Compulsory Liquidation’

Public-sector cloud provider UKCloud and parent Virtual Infrastructure Group has been forced into compulsory liquidation

2 years ago

Microsoft Shares Sink After Weak Forecast

Enterprise software giant Microsoft beat Wall Street expectations, but shares fell as it issued weak guidance for the coming quarter

2 years ago

Amazon, Microsoft, Google Face UK Cloud Services Probe

Ofcom confirms it will examine the role of Amazon, Microsoft and Google, which dominate the cloud services market

2 years ago

Rivals Slam Microsoft Over Licence Change

Cloud rivals AWS and Google hit out at Microsoft's changes to its licence agreements, calling them anti competitive and not…

2 years ago

Druva Touts $10m SaaS Data Protection Guarantee

With cloud adoption increasing amid ongoing risks of cyberattacks on customer data, Druva offers a $10m protection guarantee

2 years ago

Microsoft Q4 Profits From Cloud Growth, But Misses Forecasts

Windows and Xbox declines for Microsoft, which blames economic turmoil as its strong furth quarter earnings misses some analyst forecasts

2 years ago

Google Data Centre In London Outage Blamed On Cooling Failure

As the UK temperature soared to a record high on Tuesday, a cooling failure resulted in an outage at a…

2 years ago

Google Cloud Adopts ARM-based Chips

Bad news for Intel, AMD? Google Cloud unit has begun offering virtual machines (VMs) based on chip designs from the…

2 years ago