Microsoft customers complain about restrictive Office licence terms
Customers, consultants and resellers are uneasy with Microsoft because its Office licences impose restrictions and higher costs for running in public cloud environments other than Azure.
In 2019, Microsoft changed the licensing terms for Office and Windows. The fine print of these terms states ... Read more
Europe to introduce a new deeptech research institute
A new computer science and AI institution, supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and DeepMind, is in the works. It is intended to nurture the next generation of deeptech firms and entrepreneurs.
In September 2022, Bulgaria's Sofia University will launch the Institute for Computer Scien... Read more
Community Grants program 2022 launched by the Rust Foundation
The Rust Foundation is offering assistance to its people with its Community Grant Program 2022. Applications open on April 1st, 2022.
The big guns like AWS, Google, and Huawei have allocated the Rust Community Grants Program budget for 2022, amounting to $625,000. The Community Grants Program wi... Read more
Cloud infrastructure giants boosted data center hardware and software spending
Public cloud infrastructure services like AWS, Google, and Microsoft have boosted the sales of data center hardware and software, increasing the profits of data center manufacturers like Cisco and Dell Technologies.
Over the past year, billions have been invested in launching new kits of data ce... Read more
EU’s Vestager says the cloud computing sector doesn’t raise antitrust alarms yet
Europe's Gaia-X program balances the cloud computing market. Amazon and Microsoft dominate the cloud market, trailed by Alphabet's Google, but it does not currently cause competition worries, according to EU antitrust boss Margrethe Vestager.
Demand for cloud computing services has risen dram... Read more
UK data centers get a 2.3 billion dollar AWS investement
Amazon to operate and build data centers in the UK.
On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services announced that they're spending around 2.37 billion USD on operating and building data centers in the UK.
The investment will be made over a period of two years. According to AWS, this move will almost doubl... Read more
MongoDB and AWS combine forces to ease cloud adoption
Strategic collaboration agreement to focus on accelerating customer workload migrations to the cloud
MongoDB and Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced a significant expansion of their multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA). Under this six-year agreement, MongoDB and AWS have ... Read more
‘Microsoft Azure overtakes AWS in public cloud adoption’
Microsoft Azure has reportedly become more popular than AWS. Popularity is rising among both light, moderate and heavy cloud users.
The trend is apparent from a recent survey by Flexera. According to the survey, Azure surpassed AWS in popularity. 80 percent of respondents said they started using... Read more
Nasuni announces record revenue and unveils new open source tools
The company has seen 80% growth in new customer revenue thanks to increased demand and ransomware threats.
Nasuni this week announced record results for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. Unprecedented demand for Nasuni’s cloud-native file services platform drove the growth. This happen... Read more
NetApp reports solid earnings with uncertain guidance, stock dips after-hours
NetApp surpassed analyst estimates for fiscal Q3 earnings and generated sales according to projections today. Still, its shares slumped 9% in extended trading after cautioning that revenues in the next quarter would likely fall short of analysts' expectations.
The firm reported $1.44 per share i... Read more