The CLOUD act, enacted in 2018, allows US authorities to compel technology companies based in the US to provide them with data stored on their servers anywhere in the world. The law meant that any European or UK company using US-based tech service-providers have lived with the possibility that their data may be accessed by […]
Dell is offering a private cloud product that doesn’t behave like the private clouds people are used to. Instead of tying customers to one software stack or platform, the new service lets them build private clouds using tools from VMware, Nutanix, and Red Hat on Dell’s hardware. The company calls this Dell Private Cloud, though […]
Kyndryl is adding more services to its Distributed Cloud lineup, expanding how it works with Microsoft’s cloud stack. The update aims to help companies manage and modernise their tech setups more easily – especially when juggling hybrid, multicloud, edge, and IoT systems. The new services have been designed to fit into existing IT setups without […]
More than 400 partners from in Asia Pacific gathered in Thailand on May 9 for Huawei Cloud’s annual partner conference. The event focused on how companies can use AI to build better services and meet rising demand in industries. This year’s theme was “Go Together, Grow Together.” Jacqueline Shi, who leads Huawei Cloud’s global marketing […]
Data privacy laws are tightening, meaning businesses and global organisations need to be vigilant when choosing appropriate cloud provision for the workloads and storage needs. Certain regulations in different countries impose strict rules on how data is collected, processed and stored, and adherence to those policies and standards help ensure the proper management and security […]
Independent analyst and consultancy firm Omdia has released its market radar paper, exploring the sovereign cloud market and how cloud service providers (CSPs) responded to the trend. The 2025 IT Enterprise Insights study analysed the top five Western public cloud providers – AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle – and discovered they make up 86% […]
The sub-Saharan African data centre company, Raxio Group, has announced an agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) (a member of the World Bank Group), having secured $100 million in financing. The investment is set to boost Raxio’s expansion of data centres in Africa in the next three years. The funds will support data centre […]
Managed service providers (MSPs) are facing growing pressure on all sides. Customers want more, talent is harder to find and cloud environments are becoming increasingly complex — stretching teams and squeezing margins. For Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO and founder of Nerdio, this is exactly where MSPs have an opportunity to stand out. We sat down with […]
The origins of cloud computing are – rather appropriately – somewhat nebulous. It can be argued that the seeds of this transformational technology were sown in the 1960s when time-sharing systems opened the door to multiple users being able to access mainframe computers all at once. Fast-forward thirty years, and AT&T’s launch of its PersonaLink […]
Rob Vann, chief solutions officer at Cyberfort, explains how AI is fundamentally changing the threat landscape for cloud environments. How is AI fundamentally changing the threat landscape for cloud environments? This is an interesting question as, of course, AI is a tool that is useful to both good and bad actors. For now, let’s assume […]