The Israeli Government has penned a $1 billion+ deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google for public sector and military cloud services. The tech giants are thought to have beaten Microsoft, Oracle and IBM to a tender in April 2021 for the four phase project, dubbed Nimbus. It will not be a centralised system… … Read more

Ocean Network Express (ONE), owner of the world’s sixth largest containership fleet, has selected Google Cloud to help with its digital transformation.  The next-generation shipping company hopes to boost its operational efficiency by running its mission critical SAP systems on Google Cloud, unlocking business insights and accelerating time to insight leveraging data analytics services like… … Read more

Over the last year, businesses have been challenged with maintaining growth during a period of unprecedented change. Now, many are looking to the future and preparing for life after Covid-19, assessing the impact of the pandemic, and working out how to stay ahead of the competition as we move towards a ‘new normal’. Adopting new… … Read more

Spend on cloud infrastructure services by US-based companies grew 29% in Q1 2021 to a record $18.6 billion (£13.10bn), after global cloud spend consolidated in 2020. Total cloud expenditure in the US increased $4.2bn (£2.96bn) in the past year and $621 million (£437m) in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest Canalys… … Read more

La Liga, the foremost Spanish football league, has expanded its partnership with Microsoft Azure to focus on machine learning (ML), over the top (OTT) services, as well as augmented reality. The two companies promise to ‘digitally transform the sports experience globally’, and are focusing on improvements for fans, broadcasters and stadia operations alike. Azure Event… … Read more

Oxford University has selected Oracle to help speed up the identification of COVID-19 variants. A specialist platform developed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will help with global genomic sequencing and examination, thereby mitigating the impact of potentially dangerous strains. The emergence of more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus is threatening to slow the global recovery… … Read more

Few, if any, industries escaped the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even in the technology sector, where change is a normal part of business, many professional services and technology consulting firms struggled to cope with the disruption. That seems almost paradoxical given that organisations across just about every market sector had to embrace work-from-home operations… … Read more

NHS Scotland has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new COVID-19 track and trace system as coronavirus-related restrictions begin to ease. The solution uses QR codes that, when scanned with a device, take the user to a secure Government website where they can submit their name and contact details. An app has also been… … Read more

Kubernetes (K8s) is the key component in the data centres modernising and adopting cloud-native development architecture to deliver applications using containers. Capabilities such as orchestrating VMs and containers together make Kubernetes the go-to platform for modern application infrastructure adopters. Telecom operators are also using Kubernetes to orchestrate their applications in a distributed environment involving many… … Read more

Impersonation attacks are on the rise as attackers switch gears to target an increasingly remote and distracted workforce. Impersonation not only enables cybercriminals to gain trust and manipulate victims into disclosing sensitive data, but also significantly boosts their ability to successfully execute cybercrime. Such attacks are usually hard to detect and at times, leverage legitimate… … Read more