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IT Life: Anand Krishnan, Canonical Cloud

Canonical's head of cloud Anand Krishnan talks about his career, his favourite apps and the changing landscape of IT

8 years ago

Run Apps In Docker If You Want Application Security

Often, new technologies raise security concerns. However, two reports claim it's safer to run applications inside containers than outside of…

8 years ago

Rackspace Goes Private In £3.25bn Takeover

So the rumours were true. Cloud hosting firm Rackspace is taken over by private equity firm Apollo Global Management

8 years ago

Cross Channel: IBM Seeks EMC Customers And G-Cloud Concerns For SMBs

The latest news from the world of the IT channel. This week sees IBM making a flash storage push, a…

8 years ago

IBM Offers Secure Blockchain Testing Service

Secure business push as Big Blue offers businesses a cloud testing service for secure blockchain networks

8 years ago

Salesforce Enhances Shield Security With BYOK for Regulated Industries

The update to Salesforce Shield provides a set of integrated security services that lets companies use their own encryption keys…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

Microsoft’s Project Bletchley Adds Middleware To Azure Blockchain

Project Bletchley to extend use of Blockchains using middleware and cryptlets for open cloud platforms

8 years ago

G-Cloud Dream Is ‘Dying’, Claims Founding Adopter

Early G-Cloud adopter claims framework is dying, and slams “pitiful returns”, buyer attitudes and broken app store

8 years ago

IBM Signs 10-Year IT Deal With Emirates Airline

£200 million IT services deal for app building, passenger management and encryption. IBM also pushes out Apache Spark data science…

8 years ago

CoreOS Launches Torus Project for Cloud-Native Storage

While there are already multiple distributed storage systems, Torus aims to be cloud-native and integrate closely with Kubernetes.

8 years ago

Office 365 Security Risks Rise As Corporate Adoption Increases

Nearly three quarters of enterprise Microsoft Office 365 users have a compromised account each month and more than 200 files…

8 years ago

Why VCs Have Invested More Than $200M in Container Tech

ANALYSIS: Last week alone, investors—aiming to profit from the new approach to building, deploying and managing apps—poured $63M into container…

8 years ago

SAP HANA Will Run On Microsoft Azure Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure will be certified for all types of HANA workloads as SAP software and Office 365 get integrated

8 years ago

Microsoft Canadian Azure Data Centres Go Live, South Korea Region Planned

Microsoft Azure data centres open in Toronto and Quebec, offering Canadian customers additional data protection

8 years ago

IBM’s Quantum Computing Is For ‘Anyone’, But Is It For Everyone?

ANALYSIS: IBM goes public with its quantum computing experiment to enlist the help of scientists and researchers around the world,…

8 years ago

Poll: Does It Matter To You If Your Data Is Stored In The EU?

Cloud vendors are bringing customer data closer, but does being covered by European data protection laws matter to you?

8 years ago

Dropbox’s Ease Of Use Is ‘Essential’ To Attracting More UK Businesses

Dropbox pins hopes on usability to expand European business, arguing it will make companies more secure and productive if employees…

8 years ago

Dropbox Project Infinite Gives Terabytes Of Data With Gigabytes Of Storage

Project Infinite will give businesses control over files without the need to download them to desktop, Dropbox tells European customers

8 years ago

G-Cloud 8 Open For Applications Next Month As GDS Hints At G-Cloud 9 Shakeup

G-Cloud 6 suppliers will have to reapply, but G-Cloud 7 partners don't in most cases

8 years ago

Microsoft Is ‘Rapidly Growing’ Its Enterprise SaaS Revenue

Still a long way behind market leader Salesforce, but Microsoft is playing hard to catch up

8 years ago

Box: It Makes No Sense For Us To Build Data Centres When IBM Can Do It At Scale

IBM says only a few major players can deliver cloud scale and help other tech firms focus on their product,…

8 years ago

Security Concerns ‘Prevent’ Mainstream Container Adoption

Cloud experts believe security concerns will stop containers superseding VMs for now but, in 18 months, it could be a…

8 years ago

Box Zones Lets Customers Store Data In Europe In AWS, IBM Data Centres

Box Zones will launch in May, finally letting users store data in Ireland, Germany, Japan and Singapore, boosting privacy and…

8 years ago

IBM And SAP To Build On Cloud, Big Data Partnership With Cognitive Capabilities

IBM and SAP will work together on creating new services and boosting HANA with IBM cognitive capabilities

8 years ago

DocuSign Integrates eSignatures In IBM, Cisco Services

DocuSign reveals new partners, including deal with IBM for technology integration, collaboration and APIs via Bluemix cloud

8 years ago

Jive Updates Intranet And Customer Collaboration Platforms

Jive World 2016: Jive adds new content creation options for internal and external collaboration software, teases Jive 9

8 years ago

Dropbox Reaches Half A Billion Users, 8m Businesses

Dropbox founders are delighted with milestone, claiming there are now 3.3 billion connections between users

8 years ago

MWC 2016: Mirantis Rolls Out Public Cloud For Largest Middle Eastern Telco

Saudi Telecom will use OpenStack public cloud from Mirantis to support customers in nine countries across the Middle East and…

8 years ago