Global Stories

Cloudian extends AWS alliance, bringing greater storage options to businesses

Cloudian's HyperStore achieves AWS Outposts Ready status, enabling on-premises Amazon S3-compatible storage for latency-sensitive use cases in various sectors.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Wed, 9th Jun 2021

Data Analytics

BlackRock and Snowflake enter partnership, look to serve investment management market

BlackRock and Snowflake partner to deliver a next-generation investment management solution with the launch of Aladdin Data Cloud.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 23rd Feb 2021

Outage

Revealed: COVID-19's impact on internet disruptions

Global internet disruptions have surged by 63% during the COVID-19 pandemic, with ISPs particularly affected, according to a report by ThousandEyes.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Wed, 5th Aug 2020

Distributed Denial of Service

OVHcloud launches managed web hosting in APAC

The global cloud provider offers a turnkey solution for resellers and partners in response to the rising demand for digitisation in businesses.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Wed, 1st Jul 2020

Hyperscale

Cloudscene launches Google Cloud connectivity map

The Cloud Pathfinder app is designed for enterprises that wish to instantly find service poviders that deliver connectivity to Google Cloud's global nodes.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Tue, 1st Oct 2019

DataCentre infrastructure

3 ways cloud & colocation providers can use renewables

Schneider Electric's John Powers discusses the renewable revolution that is underway and how providers can jump on board.

By John Powers • 5 min read • Wed, 15th May 2019

Gaming

Cloud providers increasingly jumping into gaming market

Aa number of major cloud service providers are uniquely placed to capitalise on the lucrative cloud gaming market.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 19th Mar 2019

Hyperscale

Big cloud providers continue to squeeze out smaller players

Last year saw almost manic growth in revenue for cloud providers as businesses continue to seek the benefits the services can provide.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 5th Feb 2019

Hyperscale

AWS and Azure spending big bucks on data centres to get ahead

A new report from Canalys has revealed what the world's two largest cloud providers have been up to – and they've certainly been busy.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Fri, 1st Feb 2019

Hyperscale

Hyperscale data centres surging globally, 132 more on the way

Global demand for data surge fuels a boom in hyperscale data centres, with 132 new facilities set to bolster the current 430, a rise led by Amazon and Google.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 10th Jan 2019

Distributed Denial of Service

More pie for me: Alibaba Cloud's aggressive EMEA expansion

After elbowing its way into the EMEA market last month, the Chinese cloud provider has now unveiled the full extent of its product portfolio for the region.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Sat, 24th Nov 2018

Partner Programmes

Service providers must act now to stay relevant in a cloud-first world

Gartner says if the majority of providers don't act now, in five year's time 75 percent of today's IT service providers will become irrelevant.

By Rene Buest • 2 min read • Thu, 23rd Aug 2018

Digital Transformation

South Africa overtakes other nations in leapfrog up cloud curve

The country may have been late to the party when it came to cloud strategies, but the Routed MD says this has resulted in some positives.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 20th Sep 2017

Virtualisation

CloudEthernet Forum to fight cloud fragmentation

Every cloud provider has its own technologies, its own buzzwords, its own APIs – and that's a challenge for enterprises.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Mon, 2nd Jun 2014

Disaster Recovery

Four things you didn't know about SAS IT

SASIT, a legacy Kiwi IT provider founded in 1974, now specialises in cloud hosting and boasts influential partnerships and exceptional customer retention.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 21st Feb 2013