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Amazon Lightsail Global Rollout Begins For AWS

Service to quickly launch virtual private servers on AWS expanded to UK, Europe, and Asia

Scotland Launches Its Largest-Ever Data Centre To Support The Nation’s Cloud Ambitions

The data centre hopes to attract the attention of Google, Microsoft, and AWS

Large Enterprises Plagued By Latency & Bandwidth Issues After Office 365 Rollout

Large businesses look to direct connections to solve capacity and latency issues caused by cloud office suite.

British Airways Blames Power Surge For IT Outage, But Questions Still Remain

ANALYSIS: BA's IT outage could have been caused by more than just a power surge

Ocado Technology’s Kubermesh Open Source Package Aims To Remove Data Centre Reliance From Smart Factories

Kubermesh is free to use for developers and organisations looking to setup smart warehouses

Tales In Tech History: Unix

Unix was one of the most popular server operating systems, but its life has been marred by bitter legal battles

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LinkedIn, HPE Create Open19 Foundation For Open Data Centre Servers

Watch out OCP? Open19 Foundation will push its data centre blueprint for next generation, standardised servers

AMD Signals Data Centre Return With EPYC Chips

What's in a name? AMD raids the naming repository for Ryzen Threadripper, EPYC, and Vega chips

UEFA CIO: How To Build Pan-Continental Infrastructure For Euro 2020

INTERVIEW: UEFA head of ICT Daniel Marion talks about providing the infrastructure to support European football and plans for Euro 2020

IBM Builds Its Most Powerful Quantum Processor To Date

Big leap forward claimed as new processor doubles compute power of IBM Q Commercial Systems

Nutanix Targets Critical Enterprise Workloads With IBM Deal

Data cruncher. Nutanix will combine IBM Power servers with its cloud data centre offerings

Dell EMC World 2017: Why There’s No Stopping The Dell Technologies Juggernaut

IN DEPTH: Dell EMC World 2017 is over, but this is just the beginning for the Michael Dell-led conglomerate

BBC Agrees Enterprise IT Deal With Atos In Final ‘Aurora’ Project Contract

BBC says new contract will save a third on existing deal as corporation seeks to overhaul its IT state

How VMware Is Helping Google Make Chromebooks More Relevant For Business

DELL EMC WORLD 2017: It does make a modicum of sense that the world’s virtualisation king would get involved with a connected device that is devoid of a hard drive

HPE & Nvidia Join Forces To Power AI And Deep Learning Neural Networks

Servers from HPE will get access to Nvidia's graphics tech based on next-generation Volta architecture

IT Life: James Markarian, SnapLogic CTO

SnapLogic CTO James Markarian talks us through his career in IT and why the bicycle is the best technology ever created

IBM Cloud Targets AI, Compliance And Science Collaboration

Smorgasbord of announcements from IBM includes cloud for deep learning, cloud for compliance, and cloud for scientists

Snowden Advocates the Need for Open Source And OpenStack

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says that open source and OpenStack can help users avoid the silent vulnerability of things they don't control or influence

Cloud Growth Sees Nvidia Revenues Surge With Data Centre Hardware

Strong growth in the data centre arena gives Nvidia a robust business on which to build out innovative product and services

Gumtree CTO: Giving Up Control Is Worth It To Foster Tech Responsibility

INTERVIEW: Gumtree UK CTO Bas Anneveld talks cloud, microservices, big data, security and the abolition of top down development

OpenStack Summit Emphasizes Emerging Deployment Models

The OpenStack Summit kicks off with discussion on moving beyond just the private cloud model to a managed private-cloud-as-a-service approach

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd Says Enterprise Cloud Migration In Early Stages

Oracle executives discuss the company’s enterprise cloud strategy and announced a big deal with AT&T affecting 70,000 service personnel

Trump Vows To ‘Transform’ US Government IT

The presidential administration has invited dozens of tech executives to advise the American Technology Council at a June meeting

RBS Natwest Online Banking Issues Cause Payment Chaos On Payday

RBS says Natwest online banking issue is resolved while Lloyds and Halifax customers suffer issues ahead of bank holiday

Tech Quiz: Women In Tech

Today is Girls In ICT Day, hoping to inspire the next generation of women to pursue a career in tech and build on the contributions of female pioneers