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Dropbox Opens German Office Ahead Of AWS Partnership

DACH region gets a dedicated Dropbox office, a 'natural step' in one of the company's most popular regions

SAP Counting On Customers To Go All-In On Cloud Migration With HANA

ANALYSIS: SAP is counting on its HANA in-memory database to help retain established customers

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.

CoreOS Lands £19m Container Funds From Google Ventures

GV leads Series B funding to help push CoreOS Kubernetes containers into businesses

Internet Optimiser Dyn Raises £35m In New Funding

Internet performance management vendor Dyn cashes in on healthy 2016 outlook

Uber Taking Cloud Service Bids From Google, Amazon And Microsoft – Report

Uber wants to move some of its infrastructure to the cloud and is looking to the leading public cloud providers for offers

Open Source Jobs Boom Continues Worldwide

DevOps, networking, OpenStack and CloudStack drive demand

Alibaba’s AliCloud Reports 175 Percent Growth

Aliyun cloud lands revenues of $165 million (£114m) on 500,000 paying customers

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?

Microsoft SharePoint Is Revamped For Mobile, Cloud

SharePoint finally arrives for the mobile world with apps for iOS, Android and Windows 10

Pivotal Secures £175m In Funding From Ford, Microsoft And EMC

Pivotal now touting valuation of $2.8 billion

Oracle Buys Cloud Services Provider Opower For Utilities Vertical Push

Opower's cloud customers include the National Grid, PG&E, and Exelon

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

Amazon Profits As AWS Cloud Pays Off

Amazon smashes analyst expectations as revenues and profits soar due to strong cloud and retail performance

Symantec CEO Resigns After Shock Revenue Warning

Boss of troubled security firm steps down after earnings warning

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?

Mirantis Co-Founder Boris Renski Talks OpenStack And Vodka

Renski talks OpenStack ambitions, Mirantis strategy, and Gartner's OpenStack support

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

OpenStack Is Ready For The ‘Explosion’ In Infrastructure Demand

OpenStack COO says OpenStack will be a major player in helping customers scale for IoT and the connected world, but only if it continues to collaborate

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

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Is Now Using Red Hat’s OpenStack

Red Hat goes orbital with private OpenStack win, helping NASA's JPL in planetary exploration, flight projects, and space research

In Austin, OpenStack Rediscovers Its Roots In Disruption

Jonathan Bryce claims telcos are coming to 'disruptive' OpenStack to find NFV success

OpenStack Summit Goes Big On NFV And Telcos

Blog: I’ve not seen one Stetson yet, but the Red Hat fedoras are aplenty

Canonical Offers Up LTS Release With Ubuntu 16.04

Businesses running open source Ubuntu offered new long term support (LTS) release 16.04

Microsoft Offering Free Cloud Training Programs For IT Pros

The company announces two free programs to help IT professionals brush up on their cloud computing skills on Azure