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Kyndryl signs agreement with HMRC to modernise critical tax infrastructure for UK citizens

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:52:43 +0000

Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure services provider, has partnered with HMRC through to end of September 2024. Drawing on Kyndryl’s position in managed services, the deal will see Kyndryl continue to manage a proportion of HMRC’s (His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) mainframe services while Kyndryl Consult will undertake discovery work to prepare for cloud migration and... Read more »

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Seagate, Erez Baum: How to deal with cloud security and compliance

Duncan MacRae — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:42:42 +0000

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OVHcloud submits antitrust complaint on Microsoft’s EU cloud services

Fin Strathern — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:33:01 +0000

OVHcloud, a French cloud computing company, has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft to the EU’s top competition regulator, the European Commission. The complaint, first reported on by the Wall Street Journal, focuses on Microsoft’s licencing of its products, such as its Office software suite. It was filed last summer but has only recently come... Read more »

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EU body to investigate public sector usage of cloud services

Fin Strathern — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:26:15 +0000

The EU’s privacy watchdog, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), has launched joint investigations with 22 national regulators into public sector usage of cloud services. More than 80 public bodies from across the European Economic Area (EEA) will be investigated, covering sectors from health and education to tax and finance, to ensure compliance with privacy... Read more »

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Singapore’s HTX taps Microsoft for city-state’s first sovereign cloud

Fin Strathern — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:12:11 +0000

Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology agency (HTX) has called on Microsoft to develop its sovereign cloud. The agency promotes technological adoption across Singapore’s Home Team departments, which are responsible for national security, policing, civil defence, and immigration. HTX said the project will accelerate digital transformation and allow domestic services such as the police to... Read more »

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Defence Innovation Unit taps Google Cloud for its cloud security

Fin Strathern — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:26:08 +0000

The Defence Innovation Unit (DIU), a part of the Department of Defence (DoD) focused on scaling commercial technology across the US military, has contracted Google Cloud for its secure cloud management (SCM) solution. With plans to be implemented across the DIU’s systems, Google anticipates the possibility of further adoption amongst defence agencies worldwide. SCM is... Read more »

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Alibaba’s cloud arm facing US national security probe

Fin Strathern — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:35:34 +0000

Alibaba’s cloud wing is being reviewed by the Biden administration to determine if it poses a risk to US national security, according to Reuters. The probe is investigating how the company stores US client data, including personal information and intellectual property, and whether the Chinese government could gain access to it. Concerns also centre around... Read more »

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Prudential Regulation Authority concerned over banks’ reliance on cloud

Fin Strathern — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:36:59 +0000

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), responsible for regulating UK banks, credit unions, and insurers, plans to increase its scrutiny of major cloud computing providers. Concerns stem from the growing reliance the banking sector has on the Big Three to maintain its systems and the threat an outage or hack could pose. As a result, the... Read more »

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JEDI: Oracle and Google enter the bidding war for Pentagon cloud contract

Fin Strathern — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:31:14 +0000

The prolonged JEDI war – between Amazon and Microsoft, not Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker – for the $10 billion contract to modernise the US Department of Defence’s (DoD) cloud infrastructure has entered a new saga. Microsoft won the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) contract back in 2019, although its victory was short-lived when Amazon... Read more »

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France unveils €1.8 billion fund for nation’s cloud sector

Fin Strathern — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:19:28 +0000

France has announced a €1.8 billion (£1.53bn) support plan for the nation’s cloud computing sector to keep the country competitive on a global scale. The plan is divided into a €667 million care package for public financing, a €444 million boost to European Union financing, and a €680 million stimulus for private co-financing. Thus far,... Read more »

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