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Legislators Request Pentagons IG To Investigate JEDI Contract Terms

Pentagons IG to Investigate JEDI Contract The call for proposals that was just concluded on 12 October by Pentagon for the $10 Billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) US military cloud contract, did not end without filed, verbal, published and…

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WIKILEAKS Exposes Amazon’s Secret Data Centers – In Revenge for Duty

Wikileaks Amazon Datacenter Locations Wikileaks; the whistle-blowing website, raised the eyebrows of the world on 11 October when it presented a document titled “Amazon Atlas” claimed to be an internal document from Amazon Web Services. The document, whose content is…

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Rackspace Launches Managed Disaster Recovery as a Service

Rackspace Launches Managed DR as a Service (DRaaS) A couple of days after the Uptime Institute issued a warning for data centers to improve their infrastructure to be prepared for the increase in natural disasters, Rackspace Inc. announced on their…

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AWS – To Launch Cloud Data Centers in Africa after 14 Years

AWS – To Launch Cloud Data Centers in South Africa after 14 Years! It actually started in South Africa: The powerful Amazon’s cloud-computing platform and web services (AWS) was originally built in 2006 at the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)…

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IBM Acquisition of Red Hat

IBM to buy Red Hat for $34bn IBM is intended to acquire Linux’s Red Hat for $34bn. It was announced by both companies on October 28. The offer presented by IBM was of $190 per Red Hat share, and increase…

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Alibaba Building Two UK Data Centres

ALIBABA CLOUD BUILDING TWO DATA CENTRES IN THE UK Alibaba Cloud is a subsidiary of the e-commerce giant Alibaba. In the last three years, it has become one of the most used cloud services globally and is expanding its cloud data…

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AWS the Continuous Cloud Market Leader / AWS on Top

AWS remain #1 Amazon Web Services (AWS) kept their position as the world’s biggest cloud provider and the supplier to beat during the third quarter of 2018. The result came on October 25th  when the company posted its financial performance,…

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Microsoft employees; not in support of US JEDI military project – Protests for a pull out

Microsoft employees protest US JEDI Military Contract It all started on March 7, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) requested for proposals for the award of its JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) military project. Tech giants have since then,…

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