ANALYSIS: Amazon Web Services still remains "in a league of its own" though, according to latest Synergy Research Group statistics
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Google Cloud Grows But AWS Shines Again
Google Cloud Platform helped push a 21 percent revenue gain while AWS posts £2.2bn quarterly sales
ARM Revenues Up 17 Percent Ahead Of £24bn Softbank Takeover
ARM Q2 revenues up to £267.6 million as licensing revenue goes up again
IBM Launches DeepFlash 150 For Big Data Workloads
The DeepFlash 150 rounds off IBM's all-flash portfolio
OpenStack Gets Core Infrastructure Initiative Green Light
OpenStack earns CII best practices badge for security, quality, and stability
European Science Community Launches £4.5m Hybrid Cloud Tender
Ten top European research bodies, including the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council, support the tender
Estonia Wants UK ‘Data Embassy’ To Protect Citizen Data Amid Cyberattack Fear
Threat of cyberattacks prompt Estonian officials to investigate possibility of using UK data centres for citizen data
Dell Rolls Out Flex Pay Hybrid Cloud Options In Europe
Try before you buy, says Dell, as six month hybrid trial gets EMEA support
Salesforce Buys Cloud Infrastructure Startup Coolan
Salesforce sips the Open Compute Project Coolan, picks up startup making software for server optimisation
Intel Posts Reduced Profit Amid Data Centre Slowdown
Intel reports a better than expected profit, but hefty cost cutting impacts chipmaker's bottom line
BT Broadband Suffers Second Day Of Outages After Telehouse Data Centre Power Failure
UPDATED: A second data centre power failure in as many days, this time at Telehouse North, causes disruption for BT broadband services
Google Uses DeepMind AI To Slash Data Centre Energy Use
Artificial intelligence platforms predicts power needed for cooling, resulting in 40 percent energy saving
Equinix Admits To Power Failure That Knocked Out BT Internet
Equinix’s Telecity LD8 data centre in London’s Docklands suffers brief outage, in turn affecting BT’s services from LINX
Microsoft Azure Cloud Revenue Grows 102 Percent
Azure growth offsets poor performance in PC and phone market as Microsoft ups pressure on AWS
Does £24bn ARM Sale End UK’s Last Hope Of Creating A Tech Giant?
ANALYSIS: ARM will stay in Cambridge and its UK workforce will double, but the UK's biggest hope for a tech titan is now lost
Microsoft Blasted Over Severe Azure Stack Delay
Microsoft reveals big Azure Stack changes, will only sell platform through certified hardware partners such as HPE, Dell and Lenovo
Cisco Brings More Security to Its Networking DNA
Cisco Live 2016: Cisco shows off new offerings designed to make it easier for enterprises to address increasing security threats
Trust Cloud And Reap Profits, Finds Google-Backed Study
Google-sponsored Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research finds businesses with a higher trust in cloud computing find profit boost
Gartner: Brexit Threatens Improved IT Spending Outlook
IT spending forecast to be flat this year according to Gartner, but that prediction assumes the UK will not exit the EU
British Software Vendors Could Lose AWS Business After Brexit
AWS Marketplace is now accepting software sellers based in the EU, but AWS doesn’t know how Brexit will affect UK companies
Brexit Won’t Stop Amazon Building Its AWS UK Data Centres
AWS still won't give official launch date, but it is understood UK data centres will open between November and February
Public Cloud Spending Almost Double That Of Private Cloud
IDC cloud tracker: Boost comes as IT infrastructure spending for non-cloud deployments falls again
E-Shelter Offers Up Managed Ubuntu OpenStack Through Canonical
Ubuntu funnels Hosted BootStack through e-shelter data centres for end to end private cloud management
Google Buys 236MW Of Wind Energy From Sweden and Norway
Google wants more of its European operations to be powered by clean energy
Board Room Data Centre Efficiency Discussions Are ‘Not Happening’
The Green Grid says that important conversations about keeping data centres green are still not hitting the top brass
Amazon Web Services Expands With First India Data Centres
Amazon Web Services has established two cloud data centres in Mumbai, expanding the total to 35 worldwide
MongoDB Launches Atlas Cloud Database As A Service
Atlas provides complete pay-per-hour infrastructure and management cloud tools over AWS, Azure and Google
BT Offers Direct Access To Oracle Cloud
BT Cloud Connect will link to Oracle data centres in London and Amsterdam
US To ‘Regain’ Supercomputer Crown In 2018
The Summit supercomputer will have roughly double the power of China's top system, according to the DOE
Western Digital Boosts VMware vSphere Performance
WD develops FlashSoft software and virtualisation system to speed up vSphere environments