Multiple announcements emerge from CloudWorld in New York, including expansion into the UK's capital city
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Digital Manchester Gets A Boost With £2.3million UKFast Data Centre Investment
UKFast hopes to put a dent in London's data centre dominance with new, highly secure facility
Tech Quiz Of the Week: Obama And Technology
QUIZ: What do you know about outgoing President Barack Obama and his relationship with tech?
Cross Channel: Citrix Summit 2017, New HPE Channel Chief
All the latest in the world of the channel from our sister site ChannelBiz
Microsoft StaffHub Goes Live To Manage Shift & Deskless Workers In Office 365
StaffHub is an app based shift manager designed to replace manual methods
Lloyds Tries To Find Cause Of Online Banking Outage
Lloyds Bank issues extend to a second day but cause has still yet to be identified
BT Secures Data Centre Platform With TrendMicro ‘Deep Security’
BT makes latest move to secure cloud of clouds
AWS re:Start Cloud Training Programme Aims To Close UK Skills Gap
In partnership with The Prince's Trust, the programme will be available to any level of technical expertise
Google Cloud Increases Encryption Push With Key Management Service
New beta tool for Google Cloud seeks to simplify encryption key management
UKCloud Cuts Prices To Fend Off Big US Players In The Public Sector
Cloud price wars keep driving service costs for public sector companies down
Google Hopes Limes Audio Will Improve Hangouts Voice Quality
Limes Audio's technology removes distracting noises, distortion and echoes during video calls
Quiz Of The Week: The Tech Quiz Of 2016
What do you know about the past year in the world of tech?
Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 Improves Hybrid Cloud Management
New release of Red Hat's hybrid cloud management platform provides improved container, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and OpenStack capabilities
Box Increases Security After Researcher Accesses Confidential Data
Box denies flaw allowed user data to be leaked, but increases precautions
CloudFlare Gets Caught Out By 2016 Leap Second
The leap second caused CloudFlare's RRDNS software to "panic," but the error was quickly identified
Yorkshire Local Council Systems Hit By Extended Outage
The email, web and phone services of Kirklees Council were knocked offline on Boxing Day and are yet to be fully restored
Hacked Sony Music Tweets Britney Spears ‘Death’ Hoax
Sony Music has confirmed several tweets announcing Britney Spears' demise were the result of a 'compromise'
Container Storage Vendor ClusterHQ Shuts Down
NEWS ANALYSIS: ClusterHQ which had been an early pioneer in the container storage market with its open-source Flocker project, ceases operations
Microsoft Office 365 Update Includes Accessibility Tweaks
Easy administration features and more accessibility improvements included in latest Office 365 update
Cross Channel: Vodafone Gets 100 New Partners & Dell EMC Clarifies Partner Status
All the latest news from the world of the IT channel as 2016 comes to a close
Amazon Selects Montreal For Canadian Data Centre
Cheap hydro power convinces Amazon to open its Canadian data centre in Montreal
Labour Ridiculed For Wanting To Regulate Algorithms
Companies algorithms should be made transparent to government for industrial regulation to be effective, the party argues
EU Regulators Consider New Big Data Rules
A consultation asks whether the rapidly growing area is adequately covered by existing privacy, competition and consumer protection laws
ENISA: Encryption Back-Doors ‘Not A Solution’
EU security body concludes government-mandated backdoors would make legitimate services less secure and harm law enforcement
Cross Channel: Strong IoT Sales And Bigger Cloud Focus Needed
All the latest news from the world of the channel, including a report revealing strong IoT sales in 2016
Tales In Tech History: The Mainframe
The ultimate tech survivor? Big iron computers began life back in the early 1950s and are still in use today
Quiz Of The Week: Christmas Tech
Time to put your tech and Christmas knowledge to the test
Microsoft And TomTom Add Mapping To Azure
Partnership allows location-based services integration into Microsoft Azure for location-aware apps
Digital Realty: Data Centre Renewables Are Up, But The Work’s Not Done
Rob Coupland, Digital Realty's MD of EMEA, explains the growing impact of renewables in the data centre industry
UK Police Urged To Take Crime Fighting To The Cloud
Digital technology should play an increasingly significant role to help British police tackle crime, says new report