The Cloud

Amazon, not Twitter, is the bigger threat to the internet

Moderating speech is certainly Twitter’s job, but Amazon’s withdrawal of cloud access from Parler sets a troubling precedent

James Titcomb 18 Jan 2021, 6:00am
Software company Snowflake overtakes IBM in value just three months after going public

Shares in the young 'data warehousing' firm have surged by up to 45pc after its first financial results showed rapid growth

By Laurence Dodds 8 Dec 2020, 8:32pm
Widespread Amazon outage wipes out a portion of the internet

Roomba smart hoovers, the New York train system and major newspapers were knocked offline

By Margi Murphy 25 Nov 2020, 10:50pm
IBM 'to axe 2,000 jobs in the UK' ahead of services unit sale

By Morgan Meaker 25 Nov 2020, 4:14pm
It will not be Covid that kills the city… but the cloud

Garry White 16 Oct 2020, 6:00am
Questor: WhatsApping clients, video calls with doctors – this firm is ready for life after Covid

By Richard Evans 16 Oct 2020, 5:00am
IBM to spin off its $19bn IT infrastructure unit

By Michael Cogley 8 Oct 2020, 2:57pm

British tech firm WANdisco partners with AWS to accelerate shift to cloud

The partnership comes amid a huge surge in demand for cloud computing services during the pandemic

By Hasan Chowdhury 17 Sep 2020, 7:00am
We are at the mercy of Google's cloud services – and it could cost us dearly

Such is the public and private sector’s dependence on Google and its rivals that the five-hour outage will likely be felt at GDP level

David Richards 20 Aug 2020, 5:38pm
SAP to float Qualtrics less than two years after buying it for $8bn

The surprise about-face signals a strategic shift under new SAP chief executive Christian Klein

By Michael Cogley 27 Jul 2020, 10:07am

US tech giant Salesforce moves European sales out of Britain due to Brexit pound movements

Software firm looking to increase investment in Ireland and book sales in local markets

By James Titcomb 18 May 2020, 7:00am
Salesforce chief Marc Benioff: ‘A number of bosses are still quite brainwashed’

The Salesforce chief is keen to develop a more progressive form of capitalism

By James Titcomb 10 May 2020, 6:01am

Salesforce back-to-work software could let office workers book lift space and lunch breaks

Work.com software developed by tech giant Salesforce is designed to allow staff to return to workplaces safely

By James Titcomb 4 May 2020, 5:01am
Alibaba to invest $28bn in cloud services

It comes amid a surge in demand for cloud technology in China following the coronavirus outbreak

By Hasan Chowdhury 20 Apr 2020, 10:52am
Amazon to block Microsoft from working on $10bn 'war cloud' contract

By Tom Hoggins 14 Jan 2020, 10:48am
Does cloud gaming mean game over for the home console?

By Tom Hoggins 19 Nov 2019, 8:29am
Heads in the cloud: how worried should we be that so much of our data is in the hands of the few?

Robin Pagnamenta 19 Oct 2019, 5:00pm
Lavish parties, skyscrapers and hip hop: the imperial ambitions of Marc Benioff's Salesforce - the biggest tech company you've never heard of

By Robin Pagnamenta 9 Sep 2019, 11:35am
Why you should think twice about signing up to Google's 'Netflix for games'

Tom Hoggins 20 Aug 2019, 2:06pm
Wandisco boss David Richards on bringing one of Britain's biggest tech companies back from the brink

By Robin Pagnamenta 13 Aug 2019, 12:04pm

Is the world's growing reliance on a handful of cloud computing giants setting us on a path to disaster?

By Tom Hoggins 5 Aug 2019, 6:00am
As UK start-up launches 'Netflix for retro gaming', would you pay £9.99 a month to play Dizzy and Double Dragon?

By Tom Hoggins 5 Jul 2019, 5:31pm
Questor: this American ‘cloud computing’ firm is growing at astonishing speed. Buy

By Richard Evans 8 May 2019, 5:53am

Are financial services firms about to face their David Bowie moment?

Olivier Colinet 23 Apr 2019, 7:36pm
50 women sue US software giant Salesforce for enabling sex trafficking website

By Margi Murphy 27 Mar 2019, 5:53pm

'Netflix-style' gaming is the latest way Apple wants to take your money

Tom Hoggins 29 Jan 2019, 3:40pm
Apple plans ‘Netflix for games’ subscription service, report claims

By Tom Hoggins 28 Jan 2019, 4:44pm
'Signs of recovery' at Sage after year of change at the top

By Matthew Field 17 Jan 2019, 9:28am
Software maker SAP to acquire US firm Qualtrics for $8bn

By Matthew Field 12 Nov 2018, 9:04am
Computacenter shares plunge by 20pc as revenue growth slips

By Matthew Field 31 Oct 2018, 11:32am
The $34bn deal that could help IBM compete with Amazon

By Hannah Boland 29 Oct 2018, 3:08pm
Xbox One games headed to mobile as Microsoft announce xCloud streaming service

By Tom Hoggins 9 Oct 2018, 9:20am
Sunday Interview: Dropbox chief executive Drew Houston: ‘Nobody is born a CEO, you are doing the job for the first time’

By Matthew Field 30 Jun 2018, 1:59pm

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