GE Appliances has signed a multi-year partnership deal with Google Cloud to build the next generation of smart home technologies. The partners will combine their expertise – GE Appliances in hardware and Google Cloud in data, artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning – to deliver new smart home technologies and improved experiences. Viren Shah, CDO… … Read more

Deloitte has developed a new offering called ‘boost’, designed to help SAP customers increase the value of their business transformation with the RISE with SAP subscription service. Boost will combine SAP software with Deloitte’s portfolio of services to bring a streamlined approach to cloud-enabled digital transformation. The offering will function alongside RISE with SAP, which… … Read more

UK businesses are being told to accelerate cloud adoption in an upscaled effort to tackle climate change, the UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has advised. The recommendation is part of a series of steps that businesses are being told to consider to help curb their carbon emissions by making changes… … Read more

The global cloud services market is expected to garner £1.17 trillion by 2030, a 398% increase over its 2019 value of £235 billion. This is accoring to a report by Allied Market Research (AMR), which predicts a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.8% from 2021 to 2030. One key takeaway from the report is… … Read more

Enterprise management vendor Workday has partnered with Google Cloud to accelerate digital transformation for businesses around the world. Through the partnership, Google Cloud will help businesses across core industries such as retail and healthcare to run Workday enterprise applications for finance, HR, and planning. Chano Fernandez, co-CEO and co-founder at Workday, said: “The combination of… … Read more

In today’s post-pandemic operations, leaders are under increasing pressure to make decisions at speed and scale — and collaborate in real-time to adapt to change. A recent report revealed a whopping 89% of UK business leaders said without leveraging the cloud, running their businesses in the pandemic would have been impossible. Despite this trend, many… … Read more

Windows 365 launched earlier this week, yet Microsoft has already had to cancel free trials for its new PC cloud streaming service due to ‘significant demand’. The subscription-based service allows customers to rent a PC and then stream Windows 10 or 11 onto their device through a web browser. However, within a day of going… … Read more

By Allan Brearley, Enterprise Services Cloud Practice Lead, ECS Back in the swinging sixties the Rolling Stones’ track Get Off Of My Cloud vented the band’s frustration at the pressure heaped upon them to pen a follow-up to the global hit (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. Today many business leaders are feeling the pressure as… … Read more

Marvell Technology, a specialist in infrastructure semiconductor solutions, has acquired Innovium, a provider of networking solutions for cloud and edge data centres, in an all-stock transaction. Marvell has an extensive portfolio of Ethernet switch semiconductor solutions with a growing position in the enterprise and carrier segments it services. Given Marvell’s growing momentum in the cloud… … Read more

Spending on cloud infrastructure grew by more than a third from Q1 to Q2 this year, according to the latest research from analytics firm Canalys. Following the release of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) earnings, which made up 31% of global cloud infrastructure spending, it has been confirmed that total industry spending for this year’s second… … Read more