A host of Microsoft’s cloud services including Azure Government Cloud and LinkedIn sustained a global authentication outage just a few days after users were blocked from accessing Office 365 in Europe. Users in parts of Europe, the US, as well as Australia and Japan were blocked from logging into their services between 9pm GMT yesterday […]

Cisco has confirmed its commitment to the IoT, with the announcement of new developer tools, networking products and partnerships to establish its position in the IoT world. The first major facilitator is the launch of its Catalyst industrial switches and integrated services routers that have been specifically built for IoT environments. Both tools are managed […]

SAP has unveiled its fourth quarter financials, presenting year-on-year revenue growth of 9%. The company said it met or exceeded all expectations, although has made the decision to restructure its business to take advantage of new opportunities on the horizon. Operating profit increased by 22% over the entire year, with new cloud bookings up a […]

In my last blog post, I talked about how we are seeing more and more use cases where customers are using multiple clouds to build the next generation of digital experiences. It’s clear to me that many of these cloud use cases involve successfully spanning across multiple environments on and off-premises. For example, this week […]

Dropbox has announced that it’s acquiring eSignature and document workflow management platform HelloSign for $230 million, making it easier for the company’s customers to sign documents and complete forms on the go. It’s good news for HelloSign’s customers too, with the company explaining that the tie up will allow its users to take advantage of Dropbox’s services […]

Microsoft has acquired database business Citus Data in the hope it’ll be able to offer customers access to scalable databases on PostgreSQL. The company said it wants to offer developers access to more scalable and flexible systems to deal with larger data volumes in a faster fashion. It says the integration of Citus Data’s software […]

AWS has released its Neo-AI code as an open source project, encouraging developers and other AI experts to contribute to the platform. The company explained that usually, ensuring a machine learning model works across a variety of hardware platforms (especially those running on edge networks) is difficult because there are so many factors and limitations […]

Lloyds bank is planning to move 500,000 customer accounts from its Intelligent Finance division out of its legacy IT onto a cloud-based banking platform built by Thought Machine, according to the FT. Intelligent Finance is a sunsetted business which services existing customers and doesn’t take on new ones. Back in November, Lloyds announced a partnership […]

Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-powered productivity suite went down yesterday morning across Europe, with users reporting issues connecting to the cloud-hosted email servers at around 9.30am. The tech giant confirmed that it was experiencing problems with its servers and it was working on a fix to get email back up and running. “We’re investigating an issue […]

If you’ve got a cloud success story to share, now is the time to share it today is the last day the early bird discount for the UK Cloud Awards is valid.  Although the window for entries is open until 22 February, you can benefit from a big discount on the application fee if you get […]