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Ofcom and CMA target AWS and Azure with UK cloud market antitrust probe

An antitrust investigation has been opened into cloud computing in the UK after concerns were raised about the dominance of…

Microsoft makes quantum cloud breakthrough

Microsoft has hit a new major milestone in the path to quantum computing at scale by more closely integrating quantum…

Where are the hyperscale cloud providers building their data centres?

Cloud computing users, whether they are consumers, developers or enterprise IT departments, rarely consider where their data is stored. But,…

Public cloud spending grows 26% as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud cash in

Global spending on public cloud grew by 26% to reach $126bn in the first quarter of 2022, new figures show,…

AWS heading for 50% public cloud market share

Despite continued growth, Amazon's share of the hyperscale public cloud market is likely to shrink towards 50% as challengers Microsoft…

A CFO’s guide to cloud cost optimisation

Cloud computing is an ever-growing slice of many organisations’ operating costs.  The mass adoption of AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google…

Microsoft Wobbles Again: Do Azure Staging Procedures Need a Rethink?

Given the scale of its user base and with a contract worth up to $10 billion in the bag to…

Five Announcements You May Have Missed at Microsoft Ignite 2020

Microsoft's Ignite 2020 event has been jam-packed with announcements of new features which it hopes will help improve productivity and…

Azure UK South Outage: Overheating Cloud Dried Up Services for Customers

UK South -- one of Microsoft Azure's two local cloud regions -- crashed offline on Monday after an outage triggered…

New £30m Ofgem Digital Framework Offers Opportunities for Cloud Experts

Ofgem is launching a £30 million digital framework as it gears up to deal with the big changes coming in…