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Tech Quiz: The Week In Review (17th March 2017)
Have you been keeping up with the IT and tech news this week?
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
Amazon Plans To Open €1bn Dublin Data Centre With A Large Data Campus
The e-commerce giant keeps building its presence in Ireland
Nivida Brings HGX-1 Hyperscale GPU To Microsoft Project Olympus Open Source Server Hardware
Nvidia will aim to standardise server hardware for powering cloud-based AI systems
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
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'
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)
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
Docker Touts Enterprise Edition For Corporate Container Deployments
As Cisco forms strategic alliance with Docker to deliver container capabilities for the data centre and cloud infrastructure.
Microsoft Azure Stack Offers Pay-As-You-Use Pricing Model
Delayed Azure Stack now enters third and final technical preview before official launch later this year
GoDaddy DNS Outage Knocks Customer Websites Offline
The Internet domain registrar and web hosting company appears to be fixing the issues
Microsoft Demand For HPE Data Centre Servers Wanes – Report
Bad news for HPE. Microsoft is reportedly choosing lower-cost commodity manufacturers for its cloud servers
AWS Outage Demonstrates Need For Redundancy Even In The Cloud
ANALYSIS: AWS Outage demonstrates importance of building redundancy into your critical cloud apps even when your service provider is reliable
Northern Powerhouse Gets aql Data Centre Boost To Power Digital Future
New data centre will play a key role in providing digital infrastructure to support Northern Powerhouse
Amazon S3 Cloud Outage Impacts High Profile Websites
A number of well known websites impacted after a partial failure of Amazon's cloud hosting platform
MWC 2017: SAP Builds-Out Cloud Platform To Embrace Bimodal IT
The database giant adds an iOS app and Internet of Things services into its expanded cloud platform
Lenovo Launches Cloud Service Tailored For Taking SAP HANA Off Premise In China
Chinese enterprises will be able to migrate their HANA deployments to the cloud
Data Centre Colocation Activity Hits Record High In Europe
Amsterdam passes the 50MW mark and Paris shows seven-fold increase from 2015 total
Google Cloud Platform Packs Nvidia GPUs For Deep Learning Algorithms
Developers will be able to work on machine learning without needing expensive hardware
Q&A: Weathering The Storm With Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
Don't let adverse weather conditions impact your business continuity
Microsoft Azure Links With India E-Commerce Giant Flipkart
Microsoft is to supply Flipkart with cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence services in a win over cloud rivals
Amazon To Add 5,000 Staff In UK This Year
The company plans to hire more than 15,000 staff across Europe by the end of 2017
Google Cloud Spanner Throws Down Relational Database Challenge
Watch out MySQL, as Google offers a scalable relational database for high transaction workloads
Munich May Ditch Linux Desktops For Windows
A proposal set for a vote this week would see council workers shifting to a Windows client with 'industry-standard' applications
IBM’s Watson Artificial Intelligence Aids Security Pros
After medical diagnostics and automobile research, Watson now helps defend against security threats