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Amazon to sue Pentagon over grant of $10-billion contract to Microsoft

The 10-year contract, which is intended to transform and modernise the US military's cloud computing system, is considered significant, owing to its centrality to "new forms of war"

Pentagon-Microsoft $10-billion cloud deal awarded fairly: US Defence Secy

Esper said he was confident the competition 'was conducted freely and fairly without any type of outside influence'

Alphabet Q3 profit misses analysts' estimates; shares down over 1%

Alphabet shares have underperformed relative to some peers, rising 17% in the last 12 months entering Monday, compared with a 33% gain for Microsoft and 29% for Facebook

Microsoft to strengthen Pentagon ties after bagging $10-bn cloud contract

The Pentagon has said the cloud project, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, is intended to help bring American military technology into the modern era

Huge upset for Amazon as Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 bn 'war cloud' deal

Bidding for the huge government contract has attracted more attention than usual, sparked by speculation early in the process that Amazon would be awarded the deal

Oracle to hire 2,000 workers to expand cloud business to more countries

Jobs will be added in Oracle's software development hubs in Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area and India

As price pressure mounts, pharma companies tap analytics to cut costs

Cipla is the first company in the Asia Pacific to upgrade to a cloud-based pharmacovigilance solution

Google to buy Looker for $2.6 billion, seeks to expand cloud offerings

The deal is Google's biggest since it acquired smart home company Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in 2014.

Huawei, Infosys sign partnership pact for cloud computing business

The cloud computing system helps entities use software, store data and other IT related work without the need to buy complete software or hardware that they may need for computing purposes

India's cloud market expected to grow 3-fold to $7.1 bn by 2022: Nasscom

Globally, the cloud spending on IT is growing at 16.5% (CAGR) and is expected to touch $345 billion by 2022

Cloud computing to help generate over 1 mn jobs in India by 2022: Report

The rapid growth of cloud-native services and increasing acceptance of cloud-based environments

Cloud business a double-edged sword for IT companies, say analysts

TCS, for example, derives 25% of its overall revenues from the digital services

Cloud computing drives growth for big US tech firms

Amazon Web Services is still delivering far more revenue than any of its peers

Factoring in cloud

How does a leader make the right cloud choice which is built to help scale?

Microsoft, IBM among 11 firms selected for govt cloud service

Under cloud services, companies provide storage, software and computing capability through remote location generally on pay as per use model

India public cloud to cross $1bn in 2016: Zinnov

Cloud market likely to grow at 34% CAGR, hit $4 billion mark by 2020

Unlock your full potential

Cloud computing has crossed over to all industry segments as its advantages to the bottom line and to business are easily quantifiable