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CoreOS Launches Torus Project for Cloud-Native Storage

While there are already multiple distributed storage systems, Torus aims to be cloud-native and integrate closely with Kubernetes.

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Competition Watchdog Slams British Cloud Providers

Several major cloud providers accused of breaking consumer law by altering contract terms without notice

Lenovo Boosts Data Centre Power With New Cooling Technology

Work with University of Birmingham could reduce cooling energy by up to 83 percent compared to using air cooling alone

Office 365 Security Risks Rise As Corporate Adoption Increases

Nearly three quarters of enterprise Microsoft Office 365 users have a compromised account each month and more than 200 files called 'password'

Why VCs Have Invested More Than $200M in Container Tech

ANALYSIS: Last week alone, investors—aiming to profit from the new approach to building, deploying and managing apps—poured $63M into container vendors.

IBM’s Quantum Computing Is For ‘Anyone’, But Is It For Everyone?

ANALYSIS: IBM goes public with its quantum computing experiment to enlist the help of scientists and researchers around the world, but how does it work?

EMC World – Tech Bundle Launched For Modern Data Centres

EMC unveils EMC Unity Family, Virtustream Storage Cloud, EMC MyService360 Service Dashboard, EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management and ViPR Controller 3.0

Poll: Does It Matter To You If Your Data Is Stored In The EU?

Cloud vendors are bringing customer data closer, but does being covered by European data protection laws matter to you?

Microsoft Targets Hybrid Cloud With New Management Tools

New Microsoft tools arrive to tame management of hybrid clouds and data centre resources

Dropbox’s Ease Of Use Is ‘Essential’ To Attracting More UK Businesses

Dropbox pins hopes on usability to expand European business, arguing it will make companies more secure and productive if employees actually want to use it

Dropbox Project Infinite Gives Terabytes Of Data With Gigabytes Of Storage

Project Infinite will give businesses control over files without the need to download them to desktop, Dropbox tells European customers

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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

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

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

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

DocuSign Integrates eSignatures In IBM, Cisco Services

DocuSign reveals new partners, including deal with IBM for technology integration, collaboration and APIs via Bluemix cloud

Intel Tightens Cloud Focus With New Xeon Chips, SSDs And Partnerships

Chip giant expands Xeon line with new processor models and partnerships to aid cloud workload migrations

Jive Updates Intranet And Customer Collaboration Platforms

Jive World 2016: Jive adds new content creation options for internal and external collaboration software, teases Jive 9

Lenovo, Juniper Agree Data Centre Partnership

Match made in heaven? Lenovo servers, Juniper networking know-how combine for 'hyperconverged' data centres

Dropbox Reaches Half A Billion Users, 8m Businesses

Dropbox founders are delighted with milestone, claiming there are now 3.3 billion connections between users

Why Should You Give A Toss About IBM’s InterConnect Announcements?

IBM made plenty of big announcements this week, but why do any of them matter to you?

MWC 2016: Mirantis Rolls Out Public Cloud For Largest Middle Eastern Telco

Saudi Telecom will use OpenStack public cloud from Mirantis to support customers in nine countries across the Middle East and Africa

Box KeySafe Lets Users Manage Encryption Keys Without Dedicated Hardware

Box hopes KeySafe will encourage regulated firms of all sizes to adopt the cloud

Microsoft Offers Cloud Storage Partners New Office Collaboration, iOS Integrations

Microsoft's cloud storage partners such as Box and Dropbox can now take advantage of real-time collaboration, easy attachments and iOS integration

Dropbox Releases Universal Windows 10 App

Native Windows 10 app for Dropbox will be released in coming days with phone app coming soon

Dell OS10 Promises Open Network Freedom For Data Centre, Cloud Providers

'Disaggregated' Dell OS10 promises greater choice of equipment and application modules and development freedom