Google's bring your own keys program marries cost benefits of public cloud computing with robust encryption security, the company says
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Alibaba Pumps £640m Into Aliyun To Take On AWS
Alibaba funding will fuel global expansion as Aliyun set sights firmly on US cloud competitors
Windows 10 Is Now Available As A Free Update
Microsoft hails 'new era' as long-awaited Windows 10 hits PCs
Amazon Web Services Launches Aurora Database Engine
Amazon Web Services' Aurora claims to be five times faster than a typical MySQL database, handles 6 million inserts per minute
Huawei Kicks Off Open IT Ecosystem For Finance Industry
Huawei aims to help revolutionise finance IT with open standards-based technologies backed by major financial services providers
Cisco Ditches Flash Storage Efforts Under New CEO
Say goodbye to Cisco's Invictus storage array lineup as firm decides division was not profitable
IBM Buys DBaaS Provider Compose
IBM acquires another database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider, Compose, in its play to flesh out its cloud services
Intel And Rackspace Are Planning An OpenStack ‘Innovation Centre’
Firms double down on pushing OpenStack adoption with Texas centre that will focus on OpenStack code
Amazon’s Q2 Results Prove Just How Powerful AWS Cloud Is
AWS becomes $6bn service as Amazon stocks soar on Q2 announcement
Ukrainian City Turns To E-Governance To Improve Lives Of Citizens
Amid conflict in Ukraine, Lviv teams up with Microsoft to help businesses, tourism and make a better place to live with e-governance portal and the cloud
Notion Capital Launches £97m European Cloud SaaS Fund
$150m funding round from London VCs will focus on emerging and fast-moving cloud startups
Microsoft Touts Cloud Credentials Of Exchange Server 2016 Preview
Businesses can now download the next version of Microsoft's Exchange email server platform
IBM Flirts With Developers On Open Source Tech Platform
developerWorks Open platform allows developers to collaborate with IBM on a newly released set of open source technologies
HP To Buy Wind Power To Run Texas Data Centres
The giant tech vendor's agreement to buy wind energy over 12 years will help HP beat its greenhouse gas reduction goals by five years
Box Signs Up Airbnb, LinkedIn, Spotify And Twitter
Box adds digital businesses to its customer base, claiming firms of all sizes need to adapt to the cloud
Alibaba’s Ambitious US Cloud Plans Just Got Serious
Alibaba's cloud computing division Aliyun has unveiled plans to protect user data with a "Data Protection Pact" as the firm looks to expand in the West
Microsoft Figures Disappoint As Nokia Acquisition Starts To Sting
Microsoft Azure cloud helps stop commercial revenue from tumbling, but an 88 percent jump still less than previous quarters' 100 percent-plus growth rates
Google Hands Control Of Kubernetes To Cloud Native Computing Foundation
New group of industry partners, including Box, eBay and Cisco, will advance Kubernetes open-source container technology
IBM Sees 13th Consecutive Quarterly Revenue Decline
Growth in cloud computing and big data wasn't enough to compensate for declines in business services, software and hardware
Cloud Growth Weighs Down SAP Profits
SAP reported strong growth in its cloud-based products, but saw lower profits and margins as a result
Microsoft’s Azure Site Recovery Eases Multiplatform Cloud Migration
Businesses can now more easily transfer workloads running on VMware, Amazon Web Services, Hyper-V and physical servers to Microsoft's cloud
Dell Rolls Out All-Flash Array Cost Cutting Technology
Dell's TLC 3D NAND flash deployment with Samsung latest punch in flash war
Google Points To Mobile Growth As Advertising Boosts Revenues
Revenues increase 11 percent with Google claiming strong mobile performance, easing investor worries
Google Joins OpenStack In Massive Cloud War Offensive
Google pledges support for OpenStack Foundation, vows to help push container technology whilst scooping up precious enterprise cloud customers
Oracle Reveals Plans For Indian Data Centres
Oracle chases Microsoft in establishing data centre presence in India to meet growth in demand
IT Life: From Video Games To Human Data
Datasift CEO and co-founder Nick Halstead talks about his career in IT and video games
Microsoft Hit With Office 365 Cloud Outage
Customers in North America were unable to access Exchange Online Wednesday evening, with some reports suggesting outage went global
Ofcom Considers BT Openreach Split And Market Deregulation
Phase 1 of Ofcom's major communications market review confirms all options are on the table, including the retention of the current Openreach model
Quiz Of The Week: Data Centres
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Microsoft Mobile Cloud Adoption Gives Partners Pause
Cost saving is a primary driver for the move to the cloud, with nearly 68 percent of partners citing capital expenditure reduction as a major driver