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Amazon Posts Largest Ever Profit thanks To Prime, AWS & Alexa
Couple of billion dollars added to Bezos backpocket as Amazon shares grow on positive results
Google Parent Alphabet Feels The Impact Of Heavy Spending
Google veteran replaces Schmidt, as costly promotions for Pixel2 smartphone and YouTube TV impact results
Samsung Starts Making Crypto-Currency Mining Chips
Chippy business. South Korean electronics giant is making chips designed to harvest crypto-currency coins
Microsoft Cloud Growth Takes Sting Out Of Tax Charge
Redmond pleases Wall Street thanks to strong showing of cloud, but takes $13.8bn charge for US tax changes
Oracle CEO Urges Enterprises To Ditch Data Centers And Move To Cloud
Mark Hurd said too much choice has produced complex and costly data centers that should be replaced by cloud systems
Microsoft Expands Azure Event Grid As It Hits General Availability
Azure Event Grid service allows for the easy creation of serverless workflows
Cisco Container Platform Targets Hybrid Cloud Applications
Cisco Container Platform promises a consistent environment to manage and deploy containers across multiple types of infrastructure
Cisco Promises More Agile, Predictive Networks
More responsive and agile networks on the way as Cisco touts new 'intent-based networking' features
Red Hat Acquires Kubernetes Vendor CoreOS For $250M
Deal brings together technologies from two of the largest vendors in the Kubernetes container orchestration ecosystem as multi-cloud technology demand grows
SAP Acquires Callidus Software For £1.7bn
German software giant acquires US sales software provider in order to get head start for front-office software
Dell ‘Mulls’ IPO For Pivotal Cloud Unit
Tech giant Dell is said to be exploring its options as it seeks to grow either via acquisition or an initial public offering
Intel Buoyed By Data Centre & IoT Despite Spectre & Meltdown
Mostly positive results for chip giant as data centre success helps revenue growth, as profitability dips
Microsoft Cuts Windows Server Core Containers Down To Size
Downloads of base Windows Server Core containers are 30 percent smaller than before in preview build 17079
NHS Gives Thumbs Up To Cloud For Medical Record Storage
New NHS Digital guidelines give broad approval to the use of cloud services for storing medical records - including facilities in Europe and the US
IBM Finally Returns To Growth, But It’s Not All Good News
For the first time in 23 quarters sales at IBM have risen, but a quarterly loss and stagnant forecast blunts the news
Amazon’s List of 20 Potential HQ2 Sites Shows Focus On Washington DC
ANALYSIS: All the signs point to the US capital being the home of Amazon's second headquarters
Digital Transformation At The Met: Box, Windows XP Migration & Amazon Echo
Met Police CIO Angus McCallum talks about the adoption of Box, how the force is nearing its Windows XP migration and his views on Amazon Echo
Box Chooses London’s Tech City For New European HQ
Box gives vote of confidence to London and Tech City by opening new office on Silicon Roundabout
Google AutoML Will ‘Democratise’ AI By Minimising Skill Needed To Train Custom Models
Google AutoML tools will make it simple to train custom AI models that are 'beyond the dreams' of most engineers
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Google Plots 5 New Regions And 3 New Subsea Cables To Boost GCP
Google makes investments in cloud infrastructure to boost GCP and other apps
Veeam Buys AWS Enterprise Continuity Start-Up For £31m
N2WS provides cloud-native enterprise backup and recovery systems for Amazon Web Services, which leads the cloud platform market
AWS Reaches 50 Availability Zones With London Launch
AWS opens third zone in London as it expand global footprint and promises greater reliability
BT Offers Business Customers Direct Access To IBM Cloud
BT promises direct connection to IBM Cloud will improve security, reliability and performance for applications and data
Data Privacy, Security Top Microsoft’s Hot Button Tech Issues In 2018
Data privacy isn't only a top concern for Microsoft. It will go before the U.S. Supreme Court to argue the issue involving the data stored abroad
Meltdown & Spectre: AWS, Azure & GCP Take Measures To Protect Cloud Customers
Public cloud vendors work to protect users from industry-wide Meltdown and Spectre chip vulnerabilities
2017 Year In Review: Kubernetes Enables A Multi-Cloud World
ANALYSIS: 2017 was a transformational year for the open-source Kubernetes container project which is now supported on all three major public cloud providers
Exchanges Suspend Trading Amidst Bitcoin Sell-Off
Coinbase was one of three exchanges that suspended Bitcoin trading on Friday as the cryptocurrency lost about one-third of its value
Malware Spreads Cryptocurrency Miner Via Facebook Messenger
The Digimine malware spreads through infected attachments in messages that may appear to come from someone the target knows