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IBM Sees 13th Consecutive Quarterly Revenue Decline
Growth in cloud computing and big data wasn't enough to compensate for declines in business services, software and hardware
Cloud Growth Weighs Down SAP Profits
SAP reported strong growth in its cloud-based products, but saw lower profits and margins as a result
Microsoft’s Azure Site Recovery Eases Multiplatform Cloud Migration
Businesses can now more easily transfer workloads running on VMware, Amazon Web Services, Hyper-V and physical servers to Microsoft's cloud
Google Points To Mobile Growth As Advertising Boosts Revenues
Revenues increase 11 percent with Google claiming strong mobile performance, easing investor worries
Google Joins OpenStack In Massive Cloud War Offensive
Google pledges support for OpenStack Foundation, vows to help push container technology whilst scooping up precious enterprise cloud customers
Oracle Reveals Plans For Indian Data Centres
Oracle chases Microsoft in establishing data centre presence in India to meet growth in demand
Microsoft Hit With Office 365 Cloud Outage
Customers in North America were unable to access Exchange Online Wednesday evening, with some reports suggesting outage went global
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Intel Switches Out For Data Centre Success In Waning PC Market
But pushes back 10nm "Cannonlake" chip release to 2017, potentially damaging data centre progress
Fujitsu Claims Huge Energy Savings With Liquid Cooling
Good to be green. Fujitsu says its Primergy cooling tech for data centres can halve cooling costs
Google Cloud Now Supports Windows Server
Google Compute Engine extends Windows Server support to 'general availability, hoping to attract enterprise customers
Microsoft Mobile Cloud Adoption Gives Partners Pause
Cost saving is a primary driver for the move to the cloud, with nearly 68 percent of partners citing capital expenditure reduction as a major driver
Digital Realty Buying Telx In £1.21bn Data Centre Deal
Data centre real estate giant picks up Telx in high-growth data centre expansion play
Google Filing Lifts Lid On Data Centre Expansion
Google's Lithia Springs, Georgia site set to expand with 500,000 square foot data centre
Microsoft Ends Windows Server 2003 Support But What Now?
Microsoft will no longer provide extended support for one of its most popular platform, but what does this mean for businesses?
Microsoft Azure Embraces Rackspace’s Fanatical Support
Microsoft Azure looks for leg up in enterprise adoption by wafting Rackspace Fanatical Support in front of businesses looking to the cloud
AWS Launches Service Catalog For IT Departments
AWS Service Catalog allows users to browse internal 'marketplace' of AWS products to run at their own will, with permission from an IT admin
Two Thirds Of Firms Think Storage Cost Is Biggest Data Centre Problem
But just THINK about the revenue benefits from the Big Data explosion that new technologies in the data centre can bring, says report
Facebook Reveals Wind-Powered Texas Data Centre
Fort Worth Facebook data centre will be 100 percent renewable energy powered at expand firm's fleet of data centres to five
City Football Group To Use SAP Technology ‘From Boardroom To Pitch’
Manchester City's owners will work with SAP to change how technology can aid sports organisations, athletes and fans in new partnership
Colt Data Centre Suffers Fire And Power Outage In Milan
Colt's Italian data centre goes down as firefighters attend the incident
Green Data Centre Market To Skyrocket
A new study has found the market for green data centre technologies could grow by more than 30 percent a year to 2022
Google Launches Mobile App For Managing Cloud Resources
The Google Cloud Console app for Android and iOS will let administrators use mobile devices to view and manage cloud hosted applications
Turmoil In Eastern Europe Holds Region Back From Cloud Upturn
But all other regions on the up as cloud infrastructure sales jump 25 percent in the first quarter of 2015
Salesforce’s Benioff Claims SAP ‘Is Scared’
Spurned wrath? Marc Benioff blasts SAP CEO claiming he rebuffed a genuine partnership offer
Oracle Adds Commerce Cloud To Its Online Services Lineup
Commerce Cloud becomes a center point of the Oracle Customer Experience app portfolio that runs on -- you guessed it -- the Oracle Public Cloud
Why Secura Hosting Chose Infinity SDC To Be Its Data Centre Provider
Ollie Beaton, CEO at Secura, on how the firm came to the decision they did when shopping for the best data centre provider to suit its needs
Chicago Introduces ‘Cloud Tax’ For Streaming And Cloud Storage Services
Consumers to be hit with 9 percent price hike as Chicago Department of Finance's new legislation affects Netflix, Spotify
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