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Amazon says 'unexpected behaviour' caused huge cloud service outage

Amazon's cloud division last suffered a major incident in 2017, when an employee accidentally turned off more servers than intended during repairs of a billing system

Microsoft unveils Azure Cloud availability zones in central India

Microsoft India on Wednesday announced new Azure availability zones in its central India data centre region, providing additional resilience and redundancy for customer workloads on its cloud

Major outage hits Amazon Web Services; many sites affected: Report

Amazon's cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites

Global cloud sales set to reach $474 bn in 2022 as demand surges

The global cloud revenue is forecast to reach $474 billion in 2022 as the ongoing pandemic and the surge in digital services are making cloud the centrepiece of new digital experiences.

Public cloud adoption in India to rise 30% to $7.3 bn in 2022: Gartner

The sector has accelerated since the onset of the pandemic, which was a tipping point for Indian businesses to realise its true value, says Gartner

Oracle's Mumbai, Hyderabad cloud regions certified for use by government

Oracle said MeitY had given approval, after a rigorous audit process that lasted a few months, for empanelment of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as an approved CSP

AWS leads $42 bn global Cloud services market in Q1, Microsoft follows

Amazon Web Services was the leading cloud service provider with 32% market share in Q1 2021, as cloud infrastructure services spending grew 35% to $41.8 bn in the first quarter

Microsoft sales grow on cloud strength, shares dip on heightened valuation

Net profit had included a favorable $620 million tax benefit from court rulings in India

Microsoft doubles down on cloud healthcare business with $16 bn Nuance buy

The deal comes after the companies partnered in 2019 to automate clinical administrative work such as documentation

'We want to be the leading hybrid cloud, AI player in world': IBM India MD

Sandip Patel talks about rising importance of IBM India's research centre and other things related to the tech giant

Ford Motor Co, Google join hands to offer cloud-based data services

Ford will offer its customers built-in Google apps, including its map and voice technology. It will deploy Google artificial intelligence technology to improve the efficiency of vehicle development

WhatsApp to offer in-app purchases, cloud hosting services to boost revenue

The world's biggest social media company has been trying to boost sales from higher-growth units such as Instagram and WhatsApp, which it bought in 2014 for $19 billion but has been slow to monetize

Invest19 Technologies launches cloud-basedstock investment ecosystem

Invest19 Technologies has launched a cloud-based stock investment ecosystem for the public after getting go-live approval from stock exchanges - BSE and NSE. The move is aimed at increasing the capital market size by making investment easy and transparent,Invest19 said in a statement. Invest19 is a registered independent software vendor with BSE-owned Marketplace Technologies. The company said it has made a scalable technology available in resolving the entry barriers for retail users in the stock industry like the complexity of trading platforms, financial literacy, understanding stock investment, and expensive fees of market experts. The users can now benefit from the tailor-made investment advice powered by AI (artificial intelligence) and free-of-cost dedicated expert for guidance,Invest19 Technologies said in the statement. Besides, scalable technology is available to enable brokers and other businesses to efficiently and quickly scale up their operations according to busines

Coronavirus has accelerated importance of AI, hybrid cloud: IBM CEO

Speaking during a keynote at the IBM's Think Digital 2020 conference, Krishna said the pace of adoption of transformation journeys by enterprises has been "compacted" into months

Arvind Krishna named IBM CEO as company fights for cloud business spot

IBM is a late entrant to the business of cloud services, a segment now dominated by Amazon and Microsoft.