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Cross Channel: Cloud Adoption, ‘Rampant’ Vulnerabilities...
All the news from the world of the IT channel, including a cloud adoption high in the UK and "rampant" security vulnerabilities
Amazon Opens Up Free AWS Access For Alexa Developers
New Program so developers can build Alexa skills for free using the Amazon Web Services Platform
Cloud Expo Europe: How McLaren’s CIO Makes Its Cars Go Faster
We heard from Craig Charlton, CIO at the McLaren Technology Group, about the organisation's use of tech
Microsoft Teams Launches Around The World In Office 365
Watch out Slack? Workplace chat app Microsoft Teams launches globally to Office 365 customers
Microsoft: Digital Transformation Isn’t About Digital
Focusing less on the digital and more on the transformation itself might not be such a bad idea after all.
Office 365 AI Profile Card Demystifies Organisational Charts
An extended profile card aims to help users connect to relevant documents and people across the organisation
Facebook Policy Bans Use Of Data For ‘Surveillance’
Facebook now restricts developers from using data for surveillance purposes, after police were found to be using the data to monitor protesters
IT Life: Feroze Rub, CTO, Campus Society
From working on the precursor to Boris Bikes to connecting students, Campus Society CTO Feroze Rub has had quite a career in tech
Google Joins Chorus Of Cloud Companies Promising To Democratize AI
ANALYSIS: Google has joined with the likes of Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce.com to use cloud to"democratise" AI
Google Updates Firebase Platform For Its Cloud Services
Firebase app development suite gains closer integration with Google's cloud platform
Tech Quiz: The Week In Review (10th March 2017)
Can you remember what happened in the IT world over the past seven days?
Amazon Plans To Open €1bn Dublin Data Centre With A Large Data...
The e-commerce giant keeps building its presence in Ireland
Rackspace Turns To Google Cloud Platform For Managed Services Support
Google Cloud Platform gets another new partner as Rackspace spreads its wings
Nivida Brings HGX-1 Hyperscale GPU To Microsoft Project Olympus Open...
Nvidia will aim to standardise server hardware for powering cloud-based AI systems
SAP Offers Apps On GCP As Google Reveals Cloud Updates
Google rings the update at Cloud Next 17, including SAP partnership and enhanced machine learning capabilities
Microsoft To Use ARM Chips For Azure Servers – Report
Another blow for Intel's domination of the computer world as Redmond pledges to use ARM chips for Azure servers
HPE Launches ‘Pointnext’ To Provide Digital Transformation...
Organisation will focus on speed and agility in guiding customers through transformation journeys
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Now Available For Download
New edition of the developer tool promises easier building of apps, quicker bug fixes, and more collaboration
Box Users Can Now Store Cloud Data In IBM UK Data Centres
Box Zones arrives in London as company continues push into other countries and new industries
AMD Takes Aim At Intel In The Data Centre With Naples Chipset
The server chips offer a rack load of memory and PCIe lane support
Microsoft Outage Affects Skype, OneDrive, Office 365 And More
It's Microsoft's turn as yet another cloud outage spreads across the UK and US
Amazon Hands Over Contested Echo Data In Murder Trial
Amazon has provided prosecutors access to Echo recordings in the latest case to raise questions on the privacy implications of the 'Internet of Things'
Salesforce, IBM To Combine Einstein And Watson AI Tools
The deal means Salesforce users will become the latest to have IBM's Watson AI technology available in their workplace
Google Releases Cloud Container Builder On GCP
Cloud Container Builder comes with 120 free build-minutes per day, with anything extra priced at $0.0034/minute.
Microsoft Boosts Big Data Analytics Power In Azure For US Government
New Azure features will help US government customers to manage, analyse and visualise large quantities of data
HSBC Takes First Cloud Steps To Support Digital Banking Ambitions
INTERVIEW: HSBC's head of platform explains its cloud journey so far and why it's picked Amazon Web Services (AWS)
GDS Begins GOV.UK Verify Local Authority Tests, Notify Will Launch In...
The Government Digital Service said it would begin its first two alpha-testing programmes for local government use of Verify, following a discovery period
Typo Set In Motion Chain Of Events That Shut Down AWS S3 Cloud
ANALYSIS: The causes of the massive Amazon Web Services outages that knocked as many as 150,000 websites offline went way beyond a typo in a server command
IBM Opens Commercial Access To Quantum Computing
IBM has become the first company to begin building a commercial programme around early-stage general-purpose quantum computers