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Snowflake opens UK office amid strong momentum across EMEA

Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, is opening a new UK office and Customer Experience Centre (CEC) in London, providing the ultimate workplace experience to employees and an area for collaboration with prospective clients.

This coincides with the company’s impressive growth...

Virgin Media and Amdocs’ Vubiquity expand collaboration in UK

Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, has revealed that its Vubiquity platform has been selected to continue to provide Virgin Media’s customers with Electronic Sell Through (EST) and Transactional Video on Demand (TVOD) content across different...

Cloud bursting can help businesses manage spikes in demand

Perry Krug, director of shared services at Couchbase, explains how cloud bursting is essential for those businesses that need to suddenly handle large spikes in demand.

Businesses in all sectors are continuing to migrate to the cloud as they look to capture and analyse large volumes...

VMware unveils Cross-Cloud managed services

VMware has launched VMware Cross-Cloud managed services, a set of prescriptive offers with enhanced partner and customer benefits that will enable highly skilled partners to expand their managed services practices.

Building on VMware’s success in creating an ecosystem of more than...

Intruder joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage

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Intruder, the vulnerability scanning and attack surface management platform, today announced it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program as a technology partner, giving organisations the ability to easily monitor their cloud systems for potential security breaches and...

Cost-of-living crisis fuelling a rise in cybercrime

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More than a third (34%) of organisations across UK critical national infrastructure (CNI) anticipate a rise in cybercrime as a direct result of the current economic crisis, according to new research by leading cyber security services firm Bridewell.

The ‘Cyber Security in CNI:...

Scottish cloud tech developer receives £5m backing

Edinburgh, Scotland.

Native cloud platform specialist, Forrit, will expand its operation after receiving scale up support from the Scottish National Investment Bank.

The £5million of funding will allow the Edinburgh headquartered technology developer to expand its workforce and target new...

VMware enhances VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria platforms

VMware has developed new capabilities across the VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria platforms to empower customers with the capabilities to take a cloud-smart approach to modern application delivery across any cloud.

Purnima Padmanabhan, GM and SVP, modern applications and management...

Aruba acquires two hydroelectric power plants in Bergamo, Italy

Bergamo, Italy.

Aruba, Italy's largest cloud provider and specialist in data centre, web hosting, e-mail, PEC and domain registration services, has acquired two hydroelectric power plants in the province of Bergamo, near the Global Cloud Data Centre in Ponte San Pietro, with a total capacity of...

GFT and CloudFrame help industries say ‘cheerio’ to COBOL

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GFT, a digital transformation pioneer, and CloudFrame, a provider of pathways to digital transformation for large organisations who are running mission-critical applications on COBOL, have partnered to help COBOL users make the transition to more efficient platforms that enable users to reduce...

41% of UK data is unused or unwanted

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Against the backdrop of the climate crisis and increasing energy costs, comes the worrying new findings that a lack of data management accountability in the UK means that two-fifths (41%) of data is being stored for no reason.

Conducted by NetApp, the Data Waste Index surveyed IT...

Encryption demand soars as 60% of business data kept on the cloud

The demand for cloud encryption is estimated to increase at a CAGR of 30.9% from 2022-2032. The market valuation is projected to increase by US$ 2.4 Bn by 2022 & US$ 34.8 Bn by 2032.

This is according to Future Markets Insight (FMI), which says organisations are investing in the...

BT brings 5G and the cloud to businesses on the move with AWS Wavelength

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BT has confirmed it is making a multi-million-pound investment to bring 5G and 4G mobile edge computing services to its UK business customers in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The work combines AWS's cloud expertise with BT’s market-leading 5G and 4G infrastructure....

VMware helps partners to capture the multi-cloud opportunity

VMware has revealed the next evolution of the company’s flagship VMware Partner Connect program is live worldwide.

Partner Connect is a singular, unified program for all partner types that is now more flexible and efficient, provides faster and simpler paths to progression,...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquires OpsRamp

Fidelma Russo, HPE CTO.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has agreed to acquire OpsRamp, an IT operations management (ITOM) company that monitors, observes, automates and manages IT infrastructure, cloud resources, workloads and applications for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including the leading...