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Microsoft to buy 4% of LSE Group as part of $2.8-billion cloud deal

The partnership will speed up the migration of its markets to the cloud and allow it to develop new products and services

Nearly all cloud-based data storage will now be end-to-end encrypted: Apple

As part of an ongoing privacy push, Apple said Wednesday it will now offer full end-to-encryption for nearly all the data its users store in its global cloud-based storage system. That will make it more difficult for hackers, spies and law enforcement agencies to access sensitive user information. The world's most valuable company has long placed customer security and privacy at a premium. Its iMessage and Facetime communications services are fully encrypted end-to-end and it has sometimes locked horns with law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, over its refusal to unlock devices. But nearly everything that customers backed up remotely using Apple's iCloud service including photos, videos and chats has not been protected by encryption. That made it far easier for crooks, spies and criminal investigators with court orders to get at it. No longer. The loophole that law enforcement had for getting at iPhone data will now be considerably narrowed. Apple, which is based in ...

Amazon Luna to allow users to play Ubisoft PC games they own for PC

Users can link their Ubisoft account to Luna to play owned PC games and can also purchase new ones

Accenture partners with AWS to launch cloud acceleration platform

Accenture and AWS plan to expand their portfolio of differentiated solutions across industries to accelerate innovation powered by Velocity

Amazon Web Services launches 'SimSpace Weaver' computer service

The new service allows users to connect external clients to their simulations so that they can interact and view the simulations with multiple users in real-time

Reliance Jio launches JioGamesCloud: What is it, how to sign-up, and more

JioGamesCloud is a cloud gaming service currently available in beta on the JioGames app for smartphones, web browsers, and the Jio Set Top Box

AWS announces Digital Sovereignty Pledge to protect customers assets

All AWS services already support encryption, with most also supporting encryption with customer managed keys that are inaccessible to AWS

AWS launches second infrastructure region in India, to support 48,000 jobs

The construction and operation of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region is also estimated to add approximately $7.6 billion (Rs 63,600 crore) to India's gross domestic product by 2030

Google Cloud joins hands with DSCI for boosting cloud adoption

"Secure with cloud" initiative will also provide industry best practices and frameworks with Start-up and mobile app ecosystems on privacy and security

Google starts rolling out refunds for Stadia gamers before the shutdown

In September this year, Google announced to shut down its cloud gaming service Stadia, admitting that it had not gained the traction the company had expected

Netflix expands cloud gaming infra by opening new studio in US: Know more

Since announcing its entry into the gaming market, Netflix has 35 games available and 14 more in development in its own studios

There's a sea change in public sector cloud in India: AWS' Rahul Sharma

Digital India's mindset acted as a catalyst to bring this transformation of citizen-facing services, says Rahul Sharma, Regional Head, AWS India

Data centre business to double by 2024, demand to help real estate: Reports

Investments in data centres expected to surpass $20 billion by 2025, with smaller cities gaining too

Amazon Seller Services reports Rs 3.6K-crore loss; revenue up 32%

E-commerce firm's units for digital payments and selling cloud service report losses too for FY22

Invested $3.71 billion in Cloud infra, jobs in India since 2016: AWS

Amazon Web Services has invested $3.71 billion in building local Cloud infrastructure and creating jobs in India in the last six years, said a top company executive

Accenture to acquire Inspirage to boost its Oracle Cloud capabilities

Inspirage helps to break down silos across innovation and product life cycle management, supply chain, logistics, enterprise finance, and analytics to achieve operational excellence

Jio Cloud PC: Will it be a game changer for small and medium businesses?

Analysts believe India would finally usher in the home broadband segment

Microsoft outlines changes in European cloud-licence terms after complaints

The changes will make it simpler for customers of rival cloud-service companies in Europe to move their existing software to these other networks, Microsoft said

Sify aims Rs 3,500 cr revenue this fiscal, bullish on cloud services

IT services company Sify Technologies is bullish on the cloud services business and aims to clock revenue of Rs 3,500 crore in the current fiscal, a senior official of the company said on Saturday. Sify Technologies CEO Kamal Nath said that the company is expanding its data centre footprint and partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise for implementing its Greenlake technology to provide cost efficiency as well as predictability in the cost of cloud computing requirements of business organisations. Nath said that the company is seeing huge opportunities in the adoption of the hybrid cloud business. "Hybrid cloud promotes our data centre business, network business. It promotes all our business. We are already at a run rate of Rs 3,000 crore. We are eyeing Rs 3,500 crore (this fiscal)," Nath said on the sidelines of the CIO and Leader Conference here. The company had revenue of Rs 2,702.6 crore in 2021-22. In the first quarter ended June 30, 2022, the company's revenue grew 19.5 per

Slowdown in hyper-scalers could impact the revenue of the IT companies'

Major IT companies in India including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro, Infosys and HCL earn nearly 50 per cent of their revenue from digital solutions supported by hyper-scalers like AWS, Azure