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NxtGen plans to invest Rs 1,300 crore in data centres across the country

The company, whose investors include Intel, IFC, and Iron Mountain, is in the process of raising $100 million by the first quarter of 2022-23.

Curefoods raises $62 mn, says will continue to acquire major cloud kitchens

Cloud kitchen platform Curefoods on Wednesday said it has raised $62 million and will continue to acquire major cloud kitchen brands across the country.

Airtel Business, IBM deploy cloud solution for group of milk producer cos

These five large MPCs include Paayas in Rajasthan, Maahi in Gujarat, Shreeja in Andhra Pradesh, Baani in Punjab, and Saahaj in Uttar Pradesh

Cloud & Indian businesses: Foreign companies want in

Everyone is eyeing India's cloud market as a potential high return on investment (ROI) sector

Microsoft Corp, AWS prepare for new Pentagon $10 bn cloud contract

After witnessing a bitter war over the $10 bn JEDI Cloud computing contract, the Pentagon has announced a new cloud initiative that replaces the ill-fated JEDI contract.

Microsoft will end OneDrive updates to Windows 7, 8 in March 2022

Microsoft recently said that OneDrive users on Windows, 7, 8, or 8.1 will be unable to sync their content to the cloud starting on March 1, 2022.The news was shared via a blog post on Microsoft's Tech Community forum. OneDrive will also no longer receive updates if it's running on a system that doesn't have Windows 10 or Windows 11 installed, reported The Verge.Files will still be accessible from the OneDrive app no matter what version of Windows you are using -- they'll just no longer automatically upload to the cloud.To avoid any issues with OneDrive, Microsoft recommends upgrading to a newer version of Windows before March, next year. As for systems that aren't able to run Windows 10 or Windows 11, Microsoft said that users can still back up their files by uploading them to the OneDrive web app.In addition to halting updates and the ability to sync, OneDrive on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 will lose support on January 1. According to Microsoft, the reason for the change is "to focus ...

Rise in cloud adoption necessitates relook at security infrastructure

In the past year, a staggering 88% of Indian organisations suffered a business-impacting cyberattack, with 56% of respondents indicating the attacks targeted remote workers

Wipro to invest $1 bn in cloud technologies over next three years

Wipro has seen consistent growth in its cloud business and today employs over 79,000 cloud professionals and more than 10,000 people certified by the leading cloud service providers

Amazon Web Services shuts down Pegasus-owner NSO Group's infrastructure

After the massive Pegasus spyware controversy, Amazon Web Services, which is the Cloud arm of Amazon, has shut down infrastructure and accounts linked to the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group

Now sync content across all devices with Google Drive for desktop

Google is rolling out a slew of new features for Drive for desktop (Windows, macOS), a new unified tool that will let users easily sync their content across all devices and the cloud

Cloud gaming platform OnMobile Global posts Q4 EBITDA at Rs 15 crore

Cloud gaming platform OnMobile Global clocked 28 per cent growth in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) at Rs 15 crore in the January to March quarter as compared to Rs 12 crore in the same period of previous fiscal.Cost rationalisation efforts and optimum marketing investments helped the company reduce manpower cost and marketing cost which resulted in the growth.Operating profits grew by 47 per cent to Rs 13 crore in Q4 FY21 but profit after tax cracked 16 per cent to Rs 15 crore.Revenues witnessed a drop of 9.7 per cent to Rs 137 crore from Rs 152 crore in Q4 FY20 -- mainly due to low collections from Europe and Middle East & Africa.As on March 31, the company said it had total assets worth Rs 899 crore as compared to Rs 881 crore in previous year.OnMobile provides end-to-end mobile entertainment solutions that include platform, apps, content partnerships and professional services to carriers across the globe.

Shifting to the multi-cloud: VMware has adapted to work-from-anywhere model

Virtualisation software creates a virtual machine that acts like a real computer. This helps companies cut information technology costs by saving on server and storage space

India public cloud end-user spending to touch $4.4 billion in 2021: Gartner

End-user spending on public cloud services in India is expected to touch USD 4.4 billion in 2021, an increase of 31.4 per cent over the previous year, according to research firm Gartner

Parle Products to leverage on IBM hybrid cloud and AI to drive growth

With this, Parle hopes to find new ways to get its products to the consumer as the pandemic disrupts supply chain and mandates WFH for some employees

Accenture buys cloud analytics firm Core Compete for undisclosed sum

Core Compete enables digital transformation with cloud-native solutions that deliver AI and ML-based biz outcomes. It has clients across US and UK, with focus on supply chain, retail and fin services

Huawei launches cloud content delivery network service in India

The company claims to have been providing the service in 130 countries

Fintechs use power of Cloud to survive Covid disruption, expand reach

From reaching newer geographies in the hinterland, to building entire virtual contact centres, these enterprises are reinventing and thriving in the times of the pandemic

New Apple App Store rules put Cloud gaming providers in a bind

Apple has updated its App Store policy for game streaming services like Microsoft xCloud or Google Stadia to arrive on iOS devices but with big riders that has not gone well with the tech giants

Microsoft to launch xCloud game streaming service on September 15

Microsoft is all set to launch its much-anticipated game streaming service called xCloud on September 15 for Android users in 22 countries

Microsoft doubles down on app-based consent phishing attacks in Cloud

Microsoft has said it will double down on its investments and efforts to ensure its application ecosystem is secure, by enabling customers to set policies on the types of apps users can consent to