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AWS, Accenture Form Cloud Services Business Group
All aboard the Accenture bus, destination: AWS. New business group will see more than 1,000 consultants ferry workloads to Amazon's pocket
AWS Launches QuickSight Analytics Tool And Snowball Physical Storage Appliance
re:Invent 2015: AWS brings fight to business intelligence and big data transportation
IBM Opens Cognitive Business Unit, Buys Storage Firm Cleversafe
What happened to Smarter Planet? New consulting unit to help clients tackle 'cognitive business'
What Next For Tech Industry After Safe Harbour Suspension?
Technology, legal and privacy experts explain full implications of the ECJ's decision to suspend the Safe Harbour data sharing agreement between EU and US
Jimmy Wales: Good Luck Trying To Stop Wikipedia Doing What It Wants
Wikipedia's co-founder says ECJ's dismissal of the safe harbour agreement won't impact his company, but will be a nightmare for Facebook
Box: Apple, IBM And Microsoft Partnerships Show How Far We’ve Come
Box COO Dan Levin believes partnerships are evidence of Box's superiority, but will it change now it's part of the IT establishment?
IBM Teams Up With AT&T For Greater Mobile Cloud Security
Partnership will provide scalable and secure platforms for businesses to rely on
FireEye And F5 Networks Will Co-Develop Security Products
Firms join forces to offer integrated security products to help customers combat growing threat of cybercrime
IBM Inks $1B, 10-Year Cloud Deal With EVRY
IBM continues to advance its cloud momentum with a $1 billion deal with EVRY, a Nordic IT services company
Google Expands Cloud Launcher With New Partners
Google—on the same day that it formally became part of Alphabet Inc.—announced plans to expand Cloud Launcher by collaborating with new partners
IBM Launches Bluemix Local, Advances Hybrid Cloud
IBM announces the delivery of Bluemix Local, its platform as a service (PaaS) that runs behind an organization's firewall
Paris Residents Fight “Noisy” Interxion Data Centre
Interxion's PAR7 data centre target of noise complaints, with residents claiming they weren't even consulted about the build
Google Launches US East Coast Cloud Region
US-east1 region is opened to give East Coast Google customers lower latency and better options for disaster recovery
HP Restructures Cloud Business Before November Split
Meg Whitman makes organisational changes to hybrid cloud game plan to "allow synergies to shine through"
Aberdeen Gets First Microsoft Azure-Enabled Data Centre In Scotland
Photos: brightsolid’s new data centre will hold the equivalent computer power of over 100,000 MacBooks
China Is Home To The Second Largest Amount Of Data Centres In The World
Fuelling its 700 million internet users, China makes up for 10 percent of the world’s major cloud and internet data centre sites
Box Will Let Customers Use Third Party Cloud Storage
Box adds new security, data protection features and will let users control storage, network and encryption keys
Box And IBM Share First Fruits Of Cloud Partnership
IBM to integrate ECM products into Box and offer up its cloud platform to joint-customers, but why was it keen to partner?
Microsoft Says It ‘Tries Harder’ Than AWS
After a flurry of Azure updates, Microsoft's cloud division claims it will simply have to put more effort in than its competitors
Former Cisco CEO: USA Is Only Major Country Without Proper Digital Agenda
Former Cisco CEO John Chambers says the US government is not doing enough and country risks falling behind in digitisation race
Sierra Wireless IoT Platform Gains Industrial Converts
Customer wins for Sierra Wireless Acceleration platform reveals IoT need among large industrial players
Everything We Know About Microsoft’s Indian Data Centres
Microsoft goes live with Azure cloud services in India, opening three data centres and planning Office 365 local launch
Box Adds Video And Imaging Features, Announces Box Platform
Box announces new 'dynamic' content features and developer packages at its BoxWorks conference
A Closer Look At Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud
Microsoft showcases plethora of Azure updates at this year's AzureCon
Amazon Web Services Under Threat From Crypto Key Vulnerability
Researchers claim attackers can exploit co-located virtual machines to scoop up RSA keys of other users on Amazon's EC2 cloud service
Microsoft Goes Live With First Azure Hosted Service That Runs On Linux
HDInsight running on Ubuntu and Hortonworks goes into general availability for Azure
IT Life: Flying High
Citrix's Christian Reilly tells us about his IT Life, including why he's happiest when in the air
Google Launches Service For Managing Hadoop, Spark Clusters
Cloud Dataproc will make it easier to administer and manage clusters, the company says
What To Do When The Cloud Comes Crashing Down
BLOG: Major cloud services are reliable, until they suffer an outage that can bring your business to its knees for hours or longer. You should have a Plan B