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Why Africa’s cloud and data centre ecosystem will – eventually – be a land of serious opportunity

Take a look at the data centre footprint of the three largest cloud infrastructure vendors – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud – and you are met with a breathless marketing message. Azure (middle) promises 54 regions worldwide – the terminology differs for each one – promising ‘more global regions than any […]

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The history of AWS: A timeline of defining moments from 2002 to now

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was launched by the ecommerce giant Amazon in 2006, quickly growing into a company that has fundamentally transformed the IT industry in an era of widespread cloud computing and carved out a market-leading position. Synergy Research Group\’s figures in 2018 peg AWS as the clear market leader globally for public IaaS and PaaS

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Google Cloud launches fully managed serverless product Cloud Run

Google Cloud signalled its commitment to serverless computing today with the announcement of the public beta availability of Cloud Run, a fully managed environment for customers to deploy applications in a \’serverless\’ way. Serverless is a cloud computing architecture which allows developers to focus on writing code, rather than pre-provisioning infrastructure, as the cloud provider

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Microsoft introduces integrated Darktrace-a-like, Azure Sentinel

Microsoft has announced an AI-powered cloud-native security solution called Sentinel that is designed to integrate with the Azure public cloud platform, to comb for and predict threats from large volumes of data at enterprise scale. Microsoft has announced an AI-powered security solution called Sentinel that is designed to integrate with the Azure public cloud platform,

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Albertsons Companies To Transform Experiences For Shoppers With Microsoft Cloud And AI

Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, is betting on cloud solutions from Microsoft Corp., including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, to provide new and transformative experiences to customers and employees. By leveraging Microsoft Azure as the grocer’s preferred cloud platform, Albertsons Cos. will be able to reduce

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DCIG 2016-17 Hybrid Cloud Backup Appliance Buyer\’s Guide

DCIG is pleased to announce the availability of the 2016-17 Hybrid Cloud Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guidedeveloped from the backup appliance body of research. Other Buyer’s Guides based on this body of research include the recent DCIG 2016-17 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide and the forthcoming 2016-17 Integrated Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide. As core business processes become digitized, the ability

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