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Microsoft CEO speaks of global cloud factory as Azure stalls

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On the day CEO Satya Nadella discussed Microsoft’s “planet-scale cloud and AI factory,” Azure cloud – the IT infrastructure underpinning this – was offline for more than eight hours. According to the company’s latest quarterly results, Microsoft cloud revenue surpassed $49bn, an increase of 26% compared to the same quarter last year. Overall, Microsoft posted revenue…

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Government faces questions about why US AWS outage disrupted UK tax office and banking firms

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The UK government is being pressed for a response as to why a major, multi-hour Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US disrupted UK-based organisations, including HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Lloyds Banking Group. The outage, which AWS confirmed started just before 8am UK time on 20 October, originated in AWS’s US-East-1 datacentre region…

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AWS apologises for 14-hour outage and sets out causes of US datacentre region downtime

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued an apology to its customers inconvenienced by its largest US datacentre region suffering a 14-hour outage on 20 October, in a blog detailing the precise nature of the technical difficulties its services suffered. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the outage originated in the public cloud giant’s US-East-1 datacentre…

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Enterprise software sales through cloud hyperscale marketplaces set to hit $163bn by 2030

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Sales of enterprise software through hyperscale cloud marketplaces hosted by the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google are expected to top $163bn by 2030, having hit $30bn in 2024. According to research from IT market watcher Omdia, the rise in sales can be attributed to increasing enterprise use of hyperscale cloud procurement…

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Okta CEO: AI security and identity security are one and the same

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At its annual Oktane customer conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, identity and access management specialist Okta has been expanding its vision to be a first port of call to securing non-human identities (NHIs) as a swelling wave of artificial intelligence (AI) agents causes their numbers to swell dramatically. Among the announcements made today are new…

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Cloud file storage: Key benefits and use cases

4 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, cloud computing, containers, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, Microsoft, serverless, Tech / By

File servers are at the core of almost all IT infrastructures. File sharing is essential to collaboration and is a vital component of growing volumes of unstructured information. File storage is a key part of general document storage, and access to the information therein is vital for analytics, including artificial intelligence (AI). File systems also…

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CIO interview: Sebastiaan Kalshoven, ASN Bank

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When ASN Bank chief technology officer (CTO) Sebastiaan Kalshoven isn’t driving IT and business change at the Dutch retail bank, he can often be found at the local swimming pool training his daughter and other kids to become competitive athletes.   His 10-year-old daughter dreams of winning Olympic gold, so three times a week Kalshoven trains…

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Cloud block storage: Key benefits and use cases

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes, machine learning, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Snap, Tech / By

Cloud block storage allows organisations to run applications that depend on high throughput and low latency in the cloud. The latest block storage offerings make use of the cloud’s advantages, without sacrificing performance. Such offerings allow customers to run applications in the cloud and use block storage there, such as proof-of-concept projects before they’re rolled…

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Bridging the SLA gap: A guide to managing cloud provider risk

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, compliance, email marketing, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, risk management, Tech / By

As organisations increasingly rely on cloud services to drive innovation and operational efficiency, chief information security officers (CISOs) face a persistent challenge: what happens when a cloud provider’s service level agreement (SLA) doesn’t align with your enterprise’s security and availability requirements? This scenario is more common than many leaders realise. Whether it’s a cutting-edge AI…

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BT Group ramps up its cloud transformation efforts with another five-year AWS deal

3 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Amazon, AWS, cloud-native, digital transformation, machine learning, microservices, Tech / By

BT Group is doubling down on its cloud-led digital transformation efforts with Amazon Web Services (AWS) by signing another five-year strategic agreement with the public cloud giant. The agreement is in support of BT Group’s Build, Connect and Accelerate strategy, which is geared towards positioning the company as the UK’s “most trusted connector”. As detailed…

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