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Red Hat Releases OpenStack Platform 8, Revamps Cloud Suite
Red Hat talks DevOps, goes after telcos in latest OpenStack attack
EMC Revenue Slides Ahead Of Dell Purchase
EMC CEO describes results as “solid” as revenues slip ahead of pricey acquisition by Dell
AWS Migration Tools Hope To Attract More On-Premise Workloads To The Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) ramps up efforts to entice businesses to its cloud with Application Discovery Service and bigger Snowballs
European Commission Will Build £5bn Cloud Platform For Scientists
European Open Science Cloud is part of Commission's Digital Single Market initiative
Cloud And Analytics Now More Than A Third Of IBM’s Total Revenue
But IBM reports a 21 percent fall in net profit to £1.61bn in the first quarter ending March 31
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
Microsoft Knows It Needs To Be ‘Explicit And Transparent’ With Customer Data
As Microsoft sues US gov for the right to alert customers when their data is snooped upon, its cloud director tells TechWeekEurope 'trust' is at heart of Azure strategy
UK Cloud Adoption Slower Than US, Brazil, and Australia
UK organisations use less cloud services than international counterparts, while IT budgets slower to shift towards cloud, claims Intel Security
NetSuite’s Euro Invasion In Full Swing With Benelux Expansion
NetSuite opens headquarters in Amsterdam, gears up OneWorld for customers in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Google Apologises For Global Cloud Outage
Compute Engine bug rerouted all incoming global traffic for 18 minutes
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
OpenStack ‘Maturing’ As Two Thirds Of Deployments Now In Production
OpenStack users also getting excited about containers, NFV and bare metal
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
Can Public Cloud Truly Meet The Data Demands Of Enterprises?
Vendors such as Google, Microsoft and Oracle are increasingly bending to give customers public cloud in their own data centres, but will it ever be suitable for everyone?
Safe Harbour 2.0 Not Adequate, Says WP29 Data Watchdog
The new data sharing agreement between Europe and the US may not be adequate, leak suggests
OpenStack Mitaka Release Aims For Ease Of Use
OpenStack's 13th release brings in new features designed to improve scalability and make deploying OpenStack easier for everyone
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
Amazon Promotes Andy Jassy To CEO Of Amazon Web Services
'Recognition' of performance sees CEO title given to head of Amazon Web Servives Andy Jassy as cloud division reaps revenue
DocuSign Integrates eSignatures In IBM, Cisco Services
DocuSign reveals new partners, including deal with IBM for technology integration, collaboration and APIs via Bluemix cloud
Global IT Spending Set To Decline To £2.5 Trillion
Belt tightening? Data centre spending remains stable, but overall IT spending forecast to drop 0.5 percent according to Gartner
Mirantis Wins OpenStack Cloud Contract With Volkswagen
Pure play OpenStack vendor Mirantis to run cloud applications across every Volkswagen brand
Equinix Releases Data Hub For Enterprises Wanting Power On The Edge
Equinix claims it can solve data demands brought on by real-time analytics, IoT, and data protection by moving storage and power closer to source and users
Microsoft ‘Poaches’ Top Linux Executive From Oracle
Oracle loses Linux VP Wim Coekaerts to Redmond as Nadella prioritises open source
Google Offers Option For Cloud Disk Resizing Without Downtime
Online resizing of persistent disks will allow cloud customers to scale up or scale down disk volumes on the fly, the company says
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
Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Service Fabric
Build 2016 - Azure Functions goes into preview as AWS Lambda rival, Azure IoT Starter Kits ready for purchase
Social Coding: The Origins Of IBM’s Bluemix
IBM's Bluemix cloud application development platform came out of an IBM experiment known as social coding and is now the Bluemix Garage Method