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AT&T strikes Amazon cloud deal, strengthens IBM partnership

2016-10-06 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

Multi-year AWS partnership centres on cloud networking, IoT, security.

Microsoft doubles cloud investment in Europe to USD 3 bln

2016-10-03 14:25:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Microsoft wants to push the development of cloud computing in Europe and will more than double investment to USD 3 billion. CEO Satya Nadella and president Brad Smith have unveiled a plan which starts with the intention to deliver Microsoft Cloud services from datacentres in France from next year. Cloud services include Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Dynamics 365. The executives also unveiled 78 public policy recommendations in "A Cloud for Global Good", with topic running from next-generational skills, enhancing security and privacy in the digital age, to environmental sustainability, keeping communities safe, and securing a bright future for all children.

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Amazon adds Nvidia GPU firepower to its compute cloud

2016-10-03 13:30:58| Extremetech

If you've ever wanted to take 8 Nvidia K80 GPUs for a test drive (without buying 8 K80's worth of graphics hardware), now is your chance.

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Oracle takes on Amazon in cloud services market

2016-09-19 13:17:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Oracle has presented a range of new cloud services at its Oracle OpenWorld event, announcing its intent to challenge Amazon in the cloud infrastructure market. The flagship offering is the release of the Oracle Database software 'as a service', hosted in the cloud. The company also presented more than 20 new Oracle Cloud Platform and Application services. Oracle said the new DBaaS is "orders of magnitudes faster and more scalable than other cloud database services" and also offers new adaptive intelligence applications based on machine learning. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said: "Amazon's lead is over. Amazon is going to have serious competition going forward", adding as well that the Oracle Data Cloud is even bigger than Facebook.

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