​​The current lockdown has prompted even fence-sitters to begin using these tools, as they face constraints in accessing critical information that resides on systems in company premises

While workloads are increasingly moving from traditional to cloud data centers - both private and public, hybridization has allowed mission-critical workloads to stay on-premise. Multi-cloud adoption is also being driven by the evolution of new orchestration and management services that are helping to define and run cloud processes and create competitive solutions.

Data is the lifeblood of any business looking to thrive and excel today. All organisations, from the bakery down the street to the banks at the centre of the city’s financial district are somewhere on the journey to unlocking the value of that data. Collectively, there is a massive amount of data constantly being used, stored, and processed.

Misconfigurations are the primary cause of cyber security issues in the Cloud, according to a new report.

Going forward, cloud will play a major role in transformation at every firm.

While Amazon Web Services, or AWS, and Microsoft are restructuring some large contracts on a case-by-case basis, according to people familiar with the decisions, smaller companies aren’t receiving the same flexibility.

As remote work and collaboration intensifies, cloud computing has emerged as an ally for enterprises. Is this the catalyst that technology companies longed for?

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India are set to benefit from a $30 million global "anti-COVID" programme that Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, launched on Thursday.

Google is reportedly in negotiation to acquire enterprise cloud software company D2iQ for over $250 million, the media reported.

The cloud giants have seen a drop-off in new contracts from big clients for server storage and to overhaul tech.

TONIK Financial, Asean’s first licensed digital-only bank, is leveraging cloud to mitigate the risks of Covid-19.

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would create its first datacentre region in Italy under a $1.5 billion investment plan as the U.S. company expands its cloud computing services to more locations across the world.

IT advisory IDC estimates that domestic IT spending will decline 4.5% to $55.5 billion this fiscal

We have already crossed the AI Rubicon, and the future lies in the symbiosis of machine and human intelligence.

With the latest deal, Jio Platforms is set to net a combined Rs 60,596 crore for the unit of Reliance Industries which comprises mainly its telecom business under Reliance Jio Infocomm

The company is planning to develop tools that will give more controls to meeting hosts and allow users to securely join a meeting.

The group has been very active during the last five years, especially in 2019-20.

CIOs role is set to evolve post-Covid-19 with new demands coming in from the business. Here’s how they can be prepared.

As Indian firms realign their focus on revenue growth, they need to leverage customer and market behaviour to place their bets on long-term, sustainable growth, a new report said.

Hackers on Thursday disrupted a virtual session of South Africa's parliament, posting pornographic images in the second such incident since the coronavirus outbreak.

The emergence of new business environment in the wake of Covid-19 is expected to boost cloud services and digitisation as companies overhaul their digital infrastructure to deal with new ways of working, they said.

The flurry of transactions show the tycoon's ambitions to pivot Reliance Industries into an Indian technology titan are going into hyperdrive

The headcount has now come down from more than 1,000 employees a year ago, with the majority of job cuts in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak that forced shutdowns in the February-April period. The headcount comprises staff on the company’s rolls as well as those on contract and outsourced manpower.

IIF urged that the hearing should specially involve medical health professionals, academics from IITs and digital rights and public policy experts to provide inputs.

IT firm says margins to remain under 16-17%, sees a $50-70-million hit from ransomware Maze attack

Zoom was the most downloaded non-game app worldwide for April 2020 with close to 131 million installs, a 60x growth from April 2019

"Accenture has no professional relationship with Unacademy, and any implication or assertion otherwise is erroneous. Accenture has suffered no data breach or loss of any records or client information as a result of this incident," Accenture said in a statement.

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would create its first datacentre region in Italy under a $1.5 billion investment plan as the U.S. company expands its cloud computing services to more locations across the world.

Tech giants Google and Facebook allowing most of their workforces to WFH through the end of this year.

There was significant spike in downloads and uploads per user, owing to the high volume of work and streaming content across India.

NITES, said that this went against the government guidelines of not firing people or cutting salaries during the pandemic.

DDoS attacks during the first three months of this year have seen a significant spike in attacks on educational websites.

Modular data centres are attractive options to power next-gen applications such as Internet of Things (IoT), industrial process control and smart cities. Radical edge computing possibilities are on offer.

India has been recording unprecedented growth in data and this requires that service providers, like Airtel, increase the number of data centers, the telecom gear maker said.

The new center takes the total number of Customer Support Centres of Excellence to ten, five of which are based in Asia.

Amazon is beefing up its data centre infrastructure and cloud services business in India as the clamour around data localisation grows louder everyday.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Cloud arm of retail giant Amazon has announced the third availability zone in its Mumbai Cloud Region.

The data centre market, currently pegged at around $4 billion, is likely to grow to $7 billion by 2020 or 2022, say industry players.

The first project is to develop an automated real-time email-communication solution for customer queries and reduce turn-around time on redressal.

The new construction will add to Google’s existing data-centre complex in Hamina on the south coast of Finland.

These proposed regulations overlap and in some cases even contradict, and these issues have been flagged by global companies such as Google and IBM.

Adani expects to invest Rs 700 billion to build data parks in India over the next two decades.

From big businesses to real estate companies to global technology firms, everybody is talking of setting up data centres or of making aggressive expansions. Priyanka Sangani delineates the new trend.

Visa has outlined a detailed framework with its partner entities on how it plans to update its systems to comply with RBI laws

While Edge data centers will be providing an array of services independently, a more centralized data center can be backing them up with cloud services and analytics.

The overall server market in India witnessed a Year-over-Year (YoY) growth of a dismal 0.8 per cent in terms of revenue to reach $280.1 million in the third quarter (Q3) versus $277.8 million in Q3 of 2018, a new report by International Data Corporation (IDC) said on Wednesday.

This expansion adds up to 15 data centres under STT GDC India’s ownership and management, and increases the power capacity to more than 90 megawatt of critical IT load across eight cities, further strengthening its market-leading position, said the company.

The company’s data centers are currently located in Singapore. “We don’t have a stated plan yet but we may look at opening an Indian data centre to be closer to customers in India. Some customers prefer local presence,” said Nikhil Arora, managing director, GoDaddy India.

With close to 450 million Internet users, India is already the largest market for companies like Facebook in terms of users.

The investment follows a Rs1,715 crore infusion into Amazon’s payments and wholesale arms last month.