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AWS Powers Up Korean Data Centres As Fifth Asia Pacific Region Goes Live
AWS extends cloud reach to Korea to serve customers with lower latency and infrastructure support with Seoul data centres
Security Not A Top Motivator In Moving To The Cloud
Favourite reason for cloud migration amongst UK businesses is cost reduction. Does the cloud have UK companies still running scared?
Verizon Has Started Selling Off Its 48 US Data Centres – Report
Verizon Communications Inc starts auction process for its North American data centres as it looks to focus on core business, sources say
HSBC Says Online Banking Glitch ‘Not A Cyber-Attack’
HSBC Chief Operating Officer John Hackett claims problems due to “complex technical issue”
HSBC Customers Angry At Ongoing Online Banking Problems
HSBC customers suffer from further online problems, with services running at a “reduced capacity”
AWS WorkMail Email And Calendar Service Moves Into General Availability
WorkMail email service goes public with future updates including a single Global Address Book and email journaling feature
Accenture Scoops Up Dutch Cloud Team CRMWaypoint
Acquisition will go to strengthen Accenture’s ‘Cloud First’ agenda and Salesforce powers
Christmas Floods Take Out Vodafone Data Centre In Leeds
Unprecedented flooding meant Vodafone engineers couldn’t access site following use of back-up batteries
HSBC Frustrates Customers With Online Banking Outage
Thousands of customers report problems accessing HSBC online accounts
Microsoft To Warn Of State-Sponsored Hacks
Collision course? Redmond to warn its users when any government attempts to hack into its services
Google Prepares To Build 15th Global Data Centre
Clarksville, Tennessee data centre will be Google’s eighth in the US, costing the search giant more than £400m
Oracle Quietly Buys Docker Container Startup StackEngine
StackEngine acquisition will give Oracle the ability to offer Docker services as the cloud-newbie plays to catch up with rivals such as AWS
Pivotal Buys London Cloud Foundry Startup CloudCredo
CloudCredo experts fold into Pivotal's long-term game plan of accelerating European Cloud Foundry influence
IT Life: Signature Approach
DocuSign's Jesper Frederiksen tells us about working with customers of all sizes across his 25-year career in IT
Box And Salesforce Release Native File Sharing Service
‘Salesforce File Connect for Box’ allows users to search and share Box files from within Salesforce
AWS Tiny T2.Nano Instances Go Live
Burstable AWS Nano instances join fleet of t2.micro, t2.small, and t2.medium instances
VMware Bails On Virtustream Cloud Venture
VMware has issued a regulatory filing to investors announcing it won't be going ahead with EMC's Virtustream cloud services 50/50 venture
Cloudyn Plans Expansion With £7.3m Series B Funding
Cloudyn's cloud monitoring and management platform funding shows value in the future of hybrid and public cloud
Microsoft Speeds Up Azure Backup Cloud Services
Microsoft's Azure cloud backup service gets faster and more efficient with lower cache demands
HPE Extends Worldwide Enterprise Hardware Market Share
HPE, Cisco and Microsoft continue to lead in the three main data center infrastructure market segments
HPE Launching Low-Cost, SMB-Friendly Hyperconverged System
HPE Hyper Converged 250 is factory built solution that comes pre-integrated with either the Microsoft or VMware software stack and HPE hardware
Google Kickstarts Its Own Content Delivery Network
Google's Cloud CDN goes into Alpha testing as web giant races to catch up with AWS, Microsoft data centre rollouts
Microsoft Announces Linux On Azure Certification
When it comes to the cloud, the software giant extends its embrace of Linux to include a new certification for budding cloud administrators
IBM Buys Cloud-Based Video Services Provider Clearleap
IBM's Clearleap acquisition will bolster IBM Cloud's video capabilities
IT Life: Always Delivering
Giri Fox tells us about his career in IT, spells at Apple, Cisco and IBM and his current role at Rackspace
How To Secure Containers Is Still Subject To Debate
NEWS ANALYSIS: Experts agree that security is paramount when it comes to containers. Yet how to properly secure containers is still a matter of some debate
Security Worries Hamper Adoption Of Cloud Technology
Companies migrating to the cloud plan to enforce internal security policies: 56 percent plan to improve identity and authentication management
HPE, Dell Stay Atop Growing Global Server Market
Demand for rack systems and growth of hyperscale data centers help drive growth of x86-based systems, according to IDC and Gartner analysts
‘Bulls**t’ – Steve Ballmer Slams Microsoft’s Cloud Reporting
Former Microsoft boss thinks Microsoft needs more transparency in disclosing Azure financial results