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Amazon’s revenue growth markedly slowed during the second quarter of 2021, due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions lifting around the world.
The company posted an overall revenue for Q2 of $113bn, which constitutes a year-on-year rise of 27% compared with last year, while its profit was...
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Microservices is an approach to software development that has seen a rising tide of interest over the last decade or so, going hand-in-hand with other trends such as cloud-native, agile development and, most notably, the use of containers as a vehicle for deploying software components.
Adoption...
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Virgin Media has confirmed it is working to restore network connectivity to homes, businesses and schools across south-east London after an underground electrical power explosion damaged the network cabling it runs through the area.
The ISP confirmed to Computer Weekly that it is working with UK...
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The UK financial system’s growing reliance on a small number of cloud service providers (CSPs) could be subject to closer regulatory scrutiny, based on the findings of a report by the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC).
The FPC’s biannual Financial stability report sets out...
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Digital Realty continues to lead the colocation market across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), while its arch rival Equinix snaps at its heels in second place, according to Cloudscene’s half-yearly ranking of the world’s datacentre operators.
Australia-based Cloudscene has published the latest version of...
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Dublin in Ireland has benefited from enviable amounts of overseas tech investment over the past decade that has served to transform it into one of Europe’s largest hyperscale datacentre hubs.
And with no signs of a slowdown in demand for datacentre capacity, concerns are mounting about...
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The US Department of Defense (DoD) has cancelled a $10bn cloud services contract that was at the centre of a legal battle between Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The 10-year planned public cloud-focused project contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI), will be replaced...
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The European Commission has finally granted the UK data adequacy, only two days before the expiry of the extended transition period for data flows. This means that, for now, European businesses can continue to send data to the UK without additional safeguards and paperwork. This is great...
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Cloud is no longer a future or emerging trend, but a critical investment a financial institution must make to remain competitive.
It took the abrupt move to remote working at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic for financial institutions to push cloud investment to the top...
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Switzerland-based telco Swisscom is embarking on a cloud-first enterprise IT strategy to power its 5G roll-out plans, having named Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred public cloud partner.
The partnership will involve the migration of a wide range of core business applications to the AWS...
