Aotearoa facility in Auckland will be the first major cloud facility in the country

Oracle wasn't even considered

Will Oracle give up?

But don't worry, the company had a record quarter

Azure's latest acquisition will help business, execs say

Microsoft will be nesting its new region in Milan, Italy

New Zealand hopes it can keep its data secure by letting cloud providers set up shop

Zoom has apparently used AWS - and its own data centers - for a long while

And plans to expand the site further

Plus Microsoft considers how do deal with capacity constraints

Microsoft wants to “immediately invest” in Indonesia

The scramble for the Middle East is well underway

As it moves to the cloud

Hermetically sealed data centers for efficient heat transfer

Delivered from new data centers announced in 2018

Colocated within same data center as Microsoft Azure cloud

Privacy conscious country wants data sovereignty

But the future of its data centers and Open19 support is unclear

In-house applications move to two clouds, in exchange for AT&T's networking expertise

"Time is too short, resources too thin and the impact too large to wait for all the answers to act"

Still two regions, but now with more zones

The cloud giant has opened its first African data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg to make Azure Cloud locally available.

While growth continues, the BA failure has opened a faultline in outsourcing. But for how long can data centers continue to ignore the rest of the world?

Microsoft has a terrible week

The enemy of your enemy is your friend

Amazon’s cloud division leads the way, followed by the usual suspects, Microsoft and Google 

’Microsoft Cloud Deutschland’ project with T-Systems doesn’t seem to have worked out

Lower latency and CPU utilization for virtual machines, thanks to FPGA-based network interface cards