The Department for Transport (DfT) is embracing digital transformation by migrating its first in-house developed application to Google’s Cloud Platform. The department has moved its Latest Earnings Networked Nationally Overnight (LENNON) application to Google’s public cloud platform in an attempt to move away from legacy data centres into a more flexible and scalable environment. LENNON is […]

Microsoft has unveiled its first data centre in Africa, showcasing new facilities in Cape Town and Johannesburg for customers wanting to access the company’s Azure cloud service. The move will enable local businesses to take advantage of Microsoft’s cloud for building apps and services, while also attracting significant revenues for the global tech firm as […]

The majority of police forces are still heavily reliant on legacy infrastructure to access and manage their apps and services, according to new data. Although the government has pushed for all of its divisions to take a cloud-first attitude, the police service has seemingly not taken this advice and 75% are yet to migrate to […]

ScienceLogic has pledged its support for innovation in the cloud industry by signing up as headline sponsor of this year’s UK Cloud Awards.  Established by the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), in association with Cloud Pro, the awards are designed to celebrate the cloud-based success of vendors and end-user organisations across the UK.  Judging – led by Jez […]

Lancaster University has launched a chatbot for students to help them navigate their way through the university world, including serving up information about their studies and social life. Built on AWS, the chatbot allows students to ask questions and receive contextual replies, as if they’re chatting to a human. They can ask questions about their […]

Salesforce has launched myTrailhead, a branded learning experience platform to help businesses offer their employees enhanced skills training. myTrailhead builds upon Salesforce’s Trailhead, but allows organisations to brand the platform with their own logo, tone of voice and resources in just a few clicks. Employees can learn the skills they want, when they wish, developing […]

A report into the global cloud market has revealed that the value of cloud services could grow by an annual rate of 18% between 2019 and 2023 as businesses look to automate more services and deliver better experiences to customers. Other primary growth drivers are that businesses want to save costs and obtain a higher […]

Huawei has extended its reach across Eurasia, renting 500 racks in data centres across Russia to localise their services for the market. The racks are residing in facilities owned by 3Data, IXcellerate and DataPro, according to Russian news site Kommersant. Russia has pretty extreme data sovereignty laws, stipulating that any information held by Russian companies […]

Microsoft has announced a new inbuilt security information and event management (SIEM) tool for its Azure cloud customers, which promises to use AI to slash the number of alerts that security teams need to respond to. The new tool, dubbed ‘Azure Sentinel’, will help infosec professionals monitor and defend their cloud environments by collating all […]

Facebook has revealed its paid Workplace enterprise communications platform is now being used by two million people worldwide, a little over two years after its launch. The social network said more than 150 large companies (with more than 10,000 employees) have signed up to its corporate collaboration tool, offering workers a centralised place to communicate […]