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Red Hat Releases OpenStack Platform 8, Revamps Cloud Suite
Red Hat talks DevOps, goes after telcos in latest OpenStack attack
EMC Revenue Slides Ahead Of Dell Purchase
EMC CEO describes results as “solid” as revenues slip ahead of pricey acquisition by Dell
AWS Migration Tools Hope To Attract More On-Premise Workloads To The Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) ramps up efforts to entice businesses to its cloud with Application Discovery Service and bigger Snowballs
European Commission Will Build £5bn Cloud Platform For Scientists
European Open Science Cloud is part of Commission's Digital Single Market initiative
Microsoft Launches Azure Container Service Into General Availability
Azure Container Service gives choice between Mesophere’s DC/OS and Docker’s Swarm and Compose for container deployment
Cloud And Analytics Now More Than A Third Of IBM’s Total Revenue
But IBM reports a 21 percent fall in net profit to £1.61bn in the first quarter ending March 31
Will Apple’s Data Centre Really Increase Ireland’s Electricity Consumption By 8 Percent?
Documents sent to Galway County Council estimate Apple's Ireland data centre would dramatically increase Ireland's electricity consumption, but are the figures correct?
G-Cloud 8 Open For Applications Next Month As GDS Hints At G-Cloud 9 Shakeup
G-Cloud 6 suppliers will have to reapply, but G-Cloud 7 partners don't in most cases
Microsoft Is ‘Rapidly Growing’ Its Enterprise SaaS Revenue
Still a long way behind market leader Salesforce, but Microsoft is playing hard to catch up
UK Hosting Giant 123 Reg ‘Deletes’ Customer Sites
123 Reg, the UK's biggest domain name registrar, said it has mistakenly deleted an unspecified number of the 1.7 million sites it hosts
Microsoft Knows It Needs To Be ‘Explicit And Transparent’ With Customer Data
As Microsoft sues US gov for the right to alert customers when their data is snooped upon, its cloud director tells TechWeekEurope 'trust' is at heart of Azure strategy
UK Cloud Adoption Slower Than US, Brazil, and Australia
UK organisations use less cloud services than international counterparts, while IT budgets slower to shift towards cloud, claims Intel Security
NetSuite’s Euro Invasion In Full Swing With Benelux Expansion
NetSuite opens headquarters in Amsterdam, gears up OneWorld for customers in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Google Apologises For Global Cloud Outage
Compute Engine bug rerouted all incoming global traffic for 18 minutes
Box: It Makes No Sense For Us To Build Data Centres When IBM Can Do It At Scale
IBM says only a few major players can deliver cloud scale and help other tech firms focus on their product, not hardware
OpenStack ‘Maturing’ As Two Thirds Of Deployments Now In Production
OpenStack users also getting excited about containers, NFV and bare metal
Microsoft Will Open German Data Centres In June
Microsoft’s two German data centres will be opened on a rolling basis, with Office 365 coming in September, three months after the Azure launch
Security Concerns ‘Prevent’ Mainstream Container Adoption
Cloud experts believe security concerns will stop containers superseding VMs for now but, in 18 months, it could be a different story
Box Zones Lets Customers Store Data In Europe In AWS, IBM Data Centres
Box Zones will launch in May, finally letting users store data in Ireland, Germany, Japan and Singapore, boosting privacy and performance
Can Public Cloud Truly Meet The Data Demands Of Enterprises?
Vendors such as Google, Microsoft and Oracle are increasingly bending to give customers public cloud in their own data centres, but will it ever be suitable for everyone?
Safe Harbour 2.0 Not Adequate, Says WP29 Data Watchdog
The new data sharing agreement between Europe and the US may not be adequate, leak suggests
OpenStack Mitaka Release Aims For Ease Of Use
OpenStack's 13th release brings in new features designed to improve scalability and make deploying OpenStack easier for everyone
IBM And SAP To Build On Cloud, Big Data Partnership With Cognitive Capabilities
IBM and SAP will work together on creating new services and boosting HANA with IBM cognitive capabilities
Amazon Promotes Andy Jassy To CEO Of Amazon Web Services
'Recognition' of performance sees CEO title given to head of Amazon Web Servives Andy Jassy as cloud division reaps revenue
DocuSign Integrates eSignatures In IBM, Cisco Services
DocuSign reveals new partners, including deal with IBM for technology integration, collaboration and APIs via Bluemix cloud
Google And Rackspace To Develop OpenPower Server Design
Google and Rackspace co-develop open server architecture based on new IBM POWER9 hardware
Global IT Spending Set To Decline To £2.5 Trillion
Belt tightening? Data centre spending remains stable, but overall IT spending forecast to drop 0.5 percent according to Gartner
Dell Bolsters Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Range With EMC
Dell Expands hyper-converged product portfolio with EMC kit ahead of pricey acquisition of storage giant
Facebook Is Doubling The Size Of Its Irish Data Centre
Facebook's County Meath data centre gets extension approval as work starts on 621,000 sq ft site