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Met Police Selects Microsoft Azure For Data Storage Of Video Evidence From Wearable Cameras

UK data centre means police data is kept securely in British borders

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Amazon Brings Trio Of Alexa-Inspired AI Services To AWS

Amazon follows rivals Google and Microsoft and gives developers access to AI services

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Canonical & Docker Partner For CS Docker Engine On Ubuntu

Enterprise development as Canonical and Docker deliver CS Docker Engine offering on Ubuntu

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HPE Sells OpenStack And CloudFoundry Assets To SUSE

SUSE says HPE deal is a sign of its commitment to open source cloud infrastructure

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AWS ‘Organizations’ Helps Admins Manage Multiple Cloud Accounts

Announcements at AWS re:invent include new partner programs

Cloud Management

Dropbox CEO Talks European Expansion, Brexit, Trump And IPO

IN-DEPTH: Drew Houston outlines plans for European expansion and how Dropbox will change the conversation from syncing files to syncing teams

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HPE Throws Synergy’s Composability Into Helion Cloud Hyper-Converged Tech

Hewlett Packard Enterprise aims to make embracing digital transformation and disruption easy for IT operators

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Microsoft Office 365 Is Now Available In 150 Countries – Including The Vatican City

Microsoft Office 365 will expand to another 97 markets in the next year as 10 more countries are added

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Japan To Build World’s Fastest AI & Big Data Supercomputer

The AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure is to target machine learning applications and big data analysis for academia, enterprises and start-ups

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Newcastle Will Play Host To UK’s Largest Purpose Built Data Centre

Newly minted data centre firm Stellium will make Newcastle's northern tech hub the base for its UK data centre

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The Economics Of OpenStack

Canonical's Mark Baker explains how the economics of Openstack can work in favour for your business when compared to public cloud

Cloud Management

Rackspace Expands European Reach With German Data Centre

First Rackspace data centre on mainland Europe announced to satisfy cloud services demand and data sovereignty rules

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NHS Royal Free London Signs Five-Year Deal With Google’s DeepMind

The revised deal for DeepMind's Streams app still gives it access to millions of patients' data going back years

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Data Protection Breach Cases Set To Soar With GDPR Introduction

Legal experts expect disputes related to privacy or data breaches to become much more common in the next five years

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Nvidia Builds World’s Most Efficient Supercomputer

The SATURNV system is powered by Nvidia's own Tesla P100 GPUs and intended to help build autonomous driving software

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IBM Plans Four New UK Data Centres To ‘Meet Cloud Demand’

IBM will treble its cloud capacity in the UK, targeting regulated industries and government, but European cloud head confirms plans underway before Brexit

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Oracle Buys Domain Names Service Provider Dyn

The database giant looks to extend its cloud footprint with Dyn acquisition

Cloud

NHS Tech Could Be ‘Double-Edged Sword’

The NHS should not expect short-term savings from self-care and online patient technologies, finds The Nuffield Trust

Cloud

Facebook To Hire 500 UK Staff Next Year To Boost Engineer Workforce

The expansion comes on the heels of Google's approval of a £1bn UK investment

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Intel Outlines AI Push With Lake Crest Chip And Google Partnership

The chip maker is keen to pursue the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning

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GDPR ‘To Require’ 75,000 Data Protection Officers Worldwide

The privacy protection role is currently almost unknown outside the EU, a study finds

Cloud Management

Dropbox Boosts Admin Security Tools And Adds New Data Locations

Dropbox continues business push with new tools for AdminX, more security options for Paper and expands its infrastructure to 11 more regions

Cloud

Google Cloud Platform Adds GPUs And Expands Machine Learning

Google Cloud users will be able to draw on AMD and Nvidia GPUs from early next year

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Microsoft Seeks To Establish Azure As The AI Cloud Platform With OpenAI

Microsoft Azure will work with Elon Musk-backed OpenAI on AI research, while non-profit organisation will use Azure cloud for its own efforts

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Microsoft Cheyenne Data Centre Shifts To Wind Power

The Wyoming facility is to rely entirely on energy from three nearby wind projects

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Nutanix CEO Takes Shot At AWS & VMware Union

INTERVIEW: “We’re not a hyperconvergence company…we’re enterprise cloud” says Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey, adding AWS-VMware tie up "leaves a lot to be desired"