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Accenture and Microsoft help Unilever with huge cloud transition

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 10:11:59 +0000

Accenture, Microsoft and Unilever have completed one of the largest and most complex cloud migrations in the consumer goods industry. The migration has helped Unilever – whose 400+ brands are used by 3.4 billion people daily – become a cloud-only enterprise. Accenture and Microsoft, together with their joint venture, Avanade, worked closely with Unilever to... Read more »

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Teradata VantageCloud integrated with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:35:54 +0000

Teradata has integrated Teradata VantageCloud, an cloud analytics and data platform, with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML). VantageCloud’s scalability, openness and analytics – ClearScape Analytics – combined with Azure ML’s ability to simplify and accelerate the ML lifecycle could help customers unlock the full value of their data, even in the most complex and... Read more »

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Microsoft buys stake in London Stock Exchange Group in twist on digital transformation deals

James Bourne — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:25:55 +0000

Microsoft has announced a 10-year strategic partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to put the financial markets providers’ infrastructure and data analytics onto the Microsoft cloud – and has acquired a 4% stake in the group in the process. Seasoned cloud industry watchers will know how these sorts of strategic partnerships play out.... Read more »

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Snowflake becomes available in UK on Microsoft Azure

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 10:46:47 +0000

Snowflake, a data cloud company, has announced Snowflake’s general availability on Microsoft Azure in the UK, driven by high customer demand for local data residency from both the private and public sector in the UK. Snowflake enables institutions across multiple industries to deploy data and analytical workloads to suit their business-critical needs. With true multi-cloud... Read more »

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OVHcloud submits antitrust complaint on Microsoft’s EU cloud services

Fin Strathern — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:33:01 +0000

OVHcloud, a French cloud computing company, has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft to the EU’s top competition regulator, the European Commission. The complaint, first reported on by the Wall Street Journal, focuses on Microsoft’s licencing of its products, such as its Office software suite. It was filed last summer but has only recently come... Read more »

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Microsoft extends security offering for multi-cloud environments

Fin Strathern — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 11:23:45 +0000

Microsoft is extending its Defender for Cloud service to cover the Google Cloud Platform in an effort to simplify security for organisations utilising multi-cloud strategies. The move will see all three of the world’s largest public cloud providers protected under the same Microsoft solution for posture management and threat protection, with AWS and Azure already... Read more »

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Cloud infrastructure market grew to £131bn in 2021, up 37%

Fin Strathern — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 10:21:35 +0000

The cloud infrastructure market grew by 37% from £95 billion in 2020 to £131 billion in 2021, according to Synergy Research data. Focusing in on the final quarter, enterprise spending clocked out at £37 billion, marking a similar 36% increase over the previous year. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google continued to grow at astonishing rates considering... Read more »

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Microsoft profits up 21% as cloud and PC markets continue to boom

Fin Strathern — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:13:17 +0000

Microsoft profits soared 21% in the second quarter of its 2022 thanks, once again, to the ongoing growth of its cloud business. Whilst not quite the 44% surge the company saw at the beginning of 2021, the global PC and cloud markets continued to feel the benefits of pandemic demand throughout the year. Total revenue... Read more »

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JEDI: Oracle and Google enter the bidding war for Pentagon cloud contract

Fin Strathern — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:31:14 +0000

The prolonged JEDI war – between Amazon and Microsoft, not Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker – for the $10 billion contract to modernise the US Department of Defence’s (DoD) cloud infrastructure has entered a new saga. Microsoft won the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) contract back in 2019, although its victory was short-lived when Amazon... Read more »

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Informatica and Microsoft unveil program to launch Modern Cloud Analytics on Microsoft Azure

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:35:00 +0000

Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management firm, has created a joint Modern Cloud Analytics program with Microsoft Azure. It is hoped this will provide customers with one of the fastest, lowest cost, lowest risk paths to modernise PowerCenter ETL and on-premises data warehouses to Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloudä (IDMC) on Azure and Azure Synapse... Read more »

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