US antitrust enforcers have broadened their scrutiny of Amazon.com beyond its retail operations to include its massive cloud computing business, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Amazon Web Services has developed a more powerful version of its own chips to power services for cloud computing customers in a major challenge to market leader Intel.
Amazon Web Services plans to invest more than R365-million in developing 100% black-owned small ICT businesses in South Africa as part of an “equity equivalence” programme.
Microsoft has won the sought-after Jedi cloud computing contract with the Pentagon, dealing a blow to the market leader, Amazon.com, which had been the front-runner.
IBM reported third quarter revenue that missed Wall Street estimates, with the long-awaited revenue infusion from Red Hat failing to compensate for continued declines in other parts of its business.
Amazon Web Services said on Wednesday that Old Mutual has struck a wide-ranging deal with the South African financial services group to shift a large portion of its IT workload to the cloud.
US enterprise software giant Oracle has listed South Africa as one of the countries where it plans to invest in cloud data centre facilities before the end of next year.
Oracle has unveiled an operating system that runs without the need for human oversight, part of a raft of new software tools meant to ease the company’s rocky transition to cloud computing.
Nedbank has partnered with Microsoft to migrate components of its IT infrastructure into the cloud, the financial services company said on Monday.