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Zoom’s paying customers can now blacklist data centres, after privacy concerns raised

Zoom is now allowing its paying customers to select which data centres they want to route their calls through, after some users complained about...

Microsoft fails to acknowledge major Azure outage for five hours due to sleeping manager

Microsoft has admitted that its slow response in acknowledging a major outage that affected Azure customers in Europe late last month was due to...

Covid-19 fears invite new opportunities for cyber criminals  

New phishing lures, that use coronavirus as the hook, are emerging every day. Businesses needing protection being are offered free business-wide resistance tests to...

Jochem Steman, Datacenter.com’s CEO, to step down after four years

Datacenter.com has announced the departure of its CEO of four years, with Jochem Steaman set to leave the company in the coming months.  ...

Amazon’s Migration Acceleration Program for Windows simplifies the AWS migration process for Windows workloads

Amazon wants to make it easier for Windows customers to migrate their workloads over to AWS, which is why it has finally released the...

UK Government to set up Covid-19 data centre with help from Microsoft, Amazon, Google and more

The UK government is responding to the Covid-19 pandemic by enlisting the help of major tech firms. These firms will provide critical support in...

AI usage could account for 30% of business processes in just three years

MIT Technology Review Insights has released the first in a series of reports exploring trends in AI, dubbed ‘The global AI agenda: Promise, reality,...

Edge colocation start-up Proximity Data Centres receives £25m investment

Despite the coronavirus pandemic grinding many investments to a halt, Proximity Data Centres, a regional edge colocation provider, has just picked up a £25...

Skype usage spikes 70% with more than 40 million daily active users, despite Zoom’s dominance

Zoom may be the darling of the video conferencing world right now, but Skype has still seen a massive increase in usage during the...

Microsoft ditches Office brand for some subscriptions, transitions to Microsoft 365

Microsoft has announced that it is set to transition some users away from its Office 365 subscription service to one branded Microsoft 365. That’s...

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