French cloud computing company, OVHcloud, has experienced a network outage on October 13, just two days before it was due to launch one of the country’s largest initial public offerings of 2021. The firm’s founder and chairman, Octave Klaba, said the downtime was caused by “human error” while one of its US-based datacentres was being… … Read more

Tuesday October 12 marks Ada Lovelace Day, an annual celebration championing the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Lovelace, who helped implement visionary insights on computing, leaves a lasting legacy of the importance of female diversity. Yet, despite her achievements, there were one million women in STEM roles in 2020, equating… … Read more

Oracle has signed a collaborative agreement with Telecom Italia (TIM) and its cloud division Noovle to bring multi-cloud services to enterprises and public sector organisations in Italy. The new partnership plans to “utilise advanced cloud infrastructure technologies to support [the] goal of advancing Italy’s digital modernisation”, a press release said. Within the alliance, Noovle will… … Read more

Today’s enterprise organisations are having to play by a new set of cyber and physical security rules. Hackers are getting more advanced, and finding new and faster ways to breach security protocols. The traditional models, in which cybersecurity and physical security teams operate as separate entities, can no longer ensure companies stay protected from the… … Read more

Thales, the French aerospace and defence company, is joining forces with Google to offer state-approved cloud services to French enterprises and the country’s public sector. The sovereign cloud offering will be operated by a joint company that Thales will be the majority shareholder in. Despite this majority, the partnership between Thales, Europe’s largest defence electronics… … Read more

The US Supreme Court has dismissed Oracle’s challenge to how the Pentagon awarded its now-cancelled $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) cloud contract. A lower court ruling found that the enterprise software company could not have been harmed by any Pentagon errors in awarding the contract as Oracle did not qualify for it… … Read more

Video conferencing giant Zoom has abandoned its bid to buy cloud software provider Five9 as part of a $14.7 billion (£10.8bn) deal announced in July. The collapse of the deal comes just weeks after the US Department of Justice dialled up its investigation of the acquisition due to national security concerns. Following a shareholder meeting… … Read more

Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM and Microsoft have joined forces with the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council – a multi-industry trade association – to publish a data management framework for the cloud. The resultant cloud data management capabilities (CDMC) framework was developed by more than 100 companies. It involved devising a comprehensive set of… … Read more

Google Cloud is considerably reducing the amount of revenue it takes from third-party software sales on its cloud marketplace. The platform’s percentage revenue share will soon be changed from 20% to 3% according to an inside source, which Google has since verified. As the third largest global cloud infrastructure provider, the move comes as an… … Read more

The University of Lincoln (UoL) has launched a first-of-its-kind cloud computing course to support the development of digital skills. Created as part of a shared goals agreement between Microsoft and UoL, the postgraduate MSc course is designed to prepare graduates for professional roles as cloud developers, solution architects, DevOps, or data specialists. The programme will… … Read more