Zoopla is a comprehensive portal for property sales and lettings in the UK. The website and app provide users with information on sold property prices and current value estimates, area trends and statistics, as well as a directory of expert local estate agents. Conga, a specialist in commercial operations transformation, helped Zoopla transform its commercial… … Read more

Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered an outage on December 7 that knocked out a number of websites and services, including Coinbase, Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon’s own e-commerce site. AWS’ website notified users that it was experiencing issues with a number of APIs and the AWS Management Console. Problems were confined to AWS’ main US-East-1 region,… … Read more

KPMG, a multinational professional services firm, has broken the Guinness World Records title for the most views on a cloud technology learning video on YouTube in 24 hours. From noon on November 17 until noon November 18, 2,964 people watched the lesson video as part of KPMG’s ‘Cloud Curious Challenge’. Viewers included KPMG employees from… … Read more

At this year’s re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled its latest Graviton processor chip and a new machine learning chip called Trainium. The Graviton 3 is the newest generation of Amazon’s ARM-based processor and is designed to compete with Intel and AMD central processors. Heralded as 25 percent faster than the last generation, AWS… … Read more

If 2021 stood out for one thing in the cybersecurity industry, it would have to be the rise in security breaches. From lone ransomware incidents on small, digitising businesses to US government data breaches through SolarWinds software, the pandemic instilled a before unseen vitality into cyber criminals and bad actors. BitSight, currently celebrating its 10th… … Read more

Tencent Cloud, China’s second largest cloud provider after Alibaba, has launched its first internet data centre in Latin America. Located in Brazil’s financial capital São Paulo, the facility adds to Tencent’s global network of 27 cloud regions and 68 availability zones. The company’s expansion into Latin America comes to meet the growing demand for digitisation… … Read more

Threatlocker was founded in 2017. What was it set up to do? Endpoint security, and we do that by following zero trust. Now, the problem is zero trust is not the best name to describe things. And it’s kind of this industry buzzword or buzz term that’s come out that we kind of had to… … Read more

The prolonged JEDI war – between Amazon and Microsoft, not Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker – for the $10 billion contract to modernise the US Department of Defence’s (DoD) cloud infrastructure has entered a new saga. Microsoft won the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) contract back in 2019, although its victory was short-lived when Amazon… … Read more

The International Data Corporation (IDC) has dubbed 2021 The Year of the Multicloud, and with good reason. Even prior to the pandemic, the market for cloud tools was broadening and becoming increasingly complex, giving businesses a lot to think about as they started to ramp up their digital transformation efforts. For small to medium-sized businesses in… … Read more

Amazon Web Services is opening its AWS Skills Centre in downtown Seattle to break down barriers to entry into the cloud computing industry. Described as an “in-person cloud learning space”, the AWS Skills Centre will provide free training, career networking, and job placement events for anyone curious about a future career in the cloud industry.… … Read more