Worldwide cloud infrastructure services expenditure grew 52.3% year on year in Q2 2016, reflecting the ongoing adoption by businesses and expanding use of consumer-centric services, such as social media, gaming and video streaming. Amazon’s AWS remained the…
Australian interconnection upstart Megaport has long been planning to invade Europe this year. Today they not only formally launched their elastic interconnection platform on the continent, but they revealed two acquisitions that let them hit the ground…
AWS has launched two data centers in Mumbai, taking the total number of Availability Zones to 35 across 13 technology infrastructure regions globally. With these data centers, Mumbai becomes AWS’ sixth region in Asia Pacific. The new AWS Mumbai Region…
NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational provider of information and communication technology products and services with headquarters in Tokyo. The 117-year-old firm started operations in the Philippines some 20 years ago when the local subsidiary NEC…
With the rise of cloud computing in business practices worldwide, Microsoft is encouraging Indonesian industries and businesses to take advantage of this technology in their day-to-day operations, mainly due to the cost-cutting advantages that it offers.…
In March, the Hawaiki cable project announced its contract with TE Subcom had come into force. They had raised the necessary funds to kick off the construction phase, and yesterday we learned where some of those funds came from. Amazon’s AWS division has…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to dominate the cloud infrastructure services market with a 31% worldwide market share, dwarfing the chasing pack, according to new Q1 data from Synergy Research Group. The big three followers – Microsoft, IBM and Google –…
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled a series of new products aimed at expanding its IoT, hybrid cloud, storage and security capabilities. At its Shenzhen Summit last week, Alibaba Cloud launched version 1.0 of IoT, its one-stop platform for IoT and cloud computing.…
Europe’s second largest airline Air France-KLM has handed Tata Communications a multi-million dollar deal to provide next-generation network connectivity to 170 sites. Tata Communications will provide Air France-KLM with an MPLS WAN in the Middle East, Africa…
Alibaba Cloud’s “Ai,” an artificial intelligence program was put on the spot to predict the winner at the grand finale of “I’m a Singer,” the popular Chinese reality television produced by Hunan TV. The competition is major annual event and attracts…
Fujitsu has commenced operations at its new Tatebayashi Data Center. The newly opened Annex C, featuring optimized air conditioning systems and operating environment, meets Japan’s highest environmental performance standards. Fujitsu built the facility with a…
Oracle has launched a new family of services designed to help remove some of the biggest obstacles to cloud adoption. While organizations are eager to move their enterprise workloads to the public cloud, many have been constrained by business, legislative and…