‘Embrace cloud environments’
Gartner says companies should not shy away from cloud migration. According to the IT consulting firm, these services are unlikely to ever go down for long periods of time, reports The Register.
We recently reported on a Google Cloud datacenter outage in Paris. Since then, the problem is said to ... Read more
Amazon faces cloud slowdown as shares gains erased
Amazon has reported its quarterly sales and profit, which exceeded expectations. However, the company's long-standing growth in cloud services is expected to face a slowdown.
The announcement had initially led to a $125 billion increase in Amazon's stock value in extended trading. However, the e... Read more
Ofcom calls for competition probe into UK cloud market
The regulator says its recent market study uncovered practices and features that could limit competition
The UK's communications services regulator, Ofcom, is proposing to ask the country's competition regulator to investigate the cloud services market, the agency announced this week.
Ofcom s... Read more
Cloud infrastructure market grows slower, Microsoft Azure gaining on AWS
The combination of a robust US dollar and a sluggish Chinese economy led to a decline in growth for the cloud infrastructure market. Down to 21% from the previous year's 36%. Despite the slowdown, Synergy Research reports that the market still surpassed $61 billion for the quarter, with 12-month tr... Read more
Horizontal hold, Alluxio widens multi-tenant architectures
Data moves. While some data will inevitably come to rest and reside in a storage repository with one or other level of accessibility (depending on mission-criticality, cost of storage or other factors), data mostly moves between application workloads, analytics engines and more.
This core cade... Read more
US and European cloud prices set to soar in 2023
Big tech stands to benefit the most from the price increases.
Public cloud prices are forecast to jump by almost a third in Europe next year, according to a report in The Register. The jump is due to the rising cost of borrowing and energy "squeezing providers", the article says. In the US, pric... Read more
‘Microsoft, Google, and AWS own 72 percent of European cloud spending’
A report by Synergy Research Group indicates that six US giants are ruling the European cloud market. Nearly three-quarters of customers' spending is owned by Google, Microsoft and AWS.
Synergy's numbers highlight that the European cloud market is almost five times as prominent as it was in 2017... Read more
UK telco regulator announces probe into the cloud services market
Ofcom, the UK's national telecom regulator, announced a probe into the competition in the cloud services market, a segment dominated by hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Ofcom announced that it would investigate additional digital marketplaces within the next year, coverin... Read more
OVHcloud prepares for power shortages by stockpiling diesel generators
OVHcloud, France's largest in-house cloud provider, is preparing for anticipated power outages by stockpiling diesel generators. Its CEO confirmed the move on Monday.
In the aftermath of the Ukraine conflict, Europe is attempting to reduce its reliance on Russian gas ahead of the approaching wi... Read more
Orange and Equinix partner to improve telco efficiency
Network operator Orange and infrastructure provider Equinix join forces to enhance the efficiency of the Telco Cloud Platform networking service for customers.
Operators look for innovative technology providers to up their game of network services. Similarly, Orange will be carrying the bare met... Read more