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Feb 14 2025

Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Google, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By Comkex

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the UK competition watchdog’s proposal to take a targeted approach to levelling the playing field for smaller providers operating in the UK cloud services market.The published provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into how the UK cloud infrastructure services…

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Feb 5 2025

The CMA anti-trust investigation into AWS and Microsoft explained: Everything you need to know

11 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Dell, Google, Google Cloud, HP, Microsoft, Tech / By Comkex

Cloud computing has always been marketed to enterprises as a more cost-effective way for companies to access the compute resources they need, because they only pay for what they use and can easily scale back how much they are using, based on demand. Enterprises were encouraged, on the back of these benefits, to streamline their…

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Feb 3 2025

Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs

3 minutes of reading / AWS, Azure, Google, Kubernetes, Tech / By Comkex

AWS EBS – Elastic Block Storage – customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity and pay way more than they should. Capacity utilisation on EBS is between 10% and 30%, according to Datafy, a startup that claims it can slash AWS customers’ EBS bills by adding greater granularity to their cloud block storage deployments. According…

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Feb 3 2025

Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Dell, HP, Meta, Tech / By Comkex

Pure Storage thinks things are slotting into place for its predicted imminent demise of enterprise spinning disk. In December 2024, it announced an unnamed hyperscaler had inked an agreement to take Pure’s DirectFlash Modules (DFMs) as components for storage infrastructure. Meanwhile, Pure Storage now counts Nand flash makers Micron and Kioxia as supply chain partners.…

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Feb 1 2025

AWS and Microsoft could face ‘targeted intervention’ from CMA over UK cloud competition concerns

4 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By Comkex

The competition watchdog has published the provisioning findings from its long-running investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market, which shows that competition in the sector is not working as well as it could be. For this reason, Kip Meek, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said it is advising…

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Jan 19 2025

Labour’s AI Action Plan – a gift to the far right

18 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, automation, AWS, ChatGPT, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Tech / By Comkex

Labour has published its AI Opportunities Action Plan (The Plan). The Prime Minister is very bullish about The Plan, and peppers his foreword with muscular terms like growth, revolution, ambition, strength and innovation. In itself, The Plan is full of claims that AI is essential and inevitable, and urges the government to pour public money…

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Jan 17 2025

Backup technology explained: The fundamentals of enterprise backup

10 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Broadcom, business continuity, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, disaster recovery, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Snap, Tech / By Comkex

Backup is a fundamental protection required by any IT system. That’s all the more so in a world where ransomware attacks can take out company data in a stroke. Effective backup has also become more complex as IT departments deal with a variety of systems – including virtual servers and desktops, and containerised applications –…

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Dec 24 2024

CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Tech / By Comkex

The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…

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Dec 24 2024

AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Tech / By Comkex

Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…

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Dec 22 2024