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Pandemic accelerated Cloud adoption among broadcasters: Amagi CEO

The Indian media and entertainment (M&E) industry has shown remarkable resilience during the pandemic. According to a PWC report, it is expected to reach 4.1 lakh crore by 2025 with a CAGR growth of 10.75 per cent, making it the fastest-growing entertainment and media market globally in terms of consumer and advertising revenue.

Amazon restores cloud services after power outage hits data center

Amazon earlier said the outage had affected its platform that provides computing capacity to cloud network operated by its unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cloud & Indian businesses: Foreign companies want in

Everyone is eyeing India's cloud market as a potential high return on investment (ROI) sector

Amazon says 'unexpected behaviour' caused huge cloud service outage

Amazon's cloud division last suffered a major incident in 2017, when an employee accidentally turned off more servers than intended during repairs of a billing system

Major outage hits Amazon Web Services; many sites affected: Report

Amazon's cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites

Few Indian firms are using just one cloud environment today: IBM Cloud CTO

In a Q&A, Hillary Hunter talks about the trends shaping multi cloud strategies for enterprises, the industries shaping new trends, and the way forward

Oracle to double down on India as key growth market in 2022

India was one of the first few countries where Oracle opened two local, next-generation cloud regions (Mumbai and Hyderabad) in quick succession

Swiss court rejects Google appeal over government cloud computing contract

A Swiss court has dismissed Google's bid to block the award of a government cloud computing contract worth up to 110 million Swiss francs ($119 million) to rival bidders

VMware sees tremendous growth potential in multi-cloud solutions in India

Cloud computing company VMware on Wednesday said it is investing in the Indian market as it sees "tremendous growth potential" in its multi-cloud solutions in the country

Airtel conducts cloud gaming session on 5G as part of ongoing trials

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Thursday said it has successfully conducted India's first cloud-gaming session in a 5G environment. The demonstration was conducted in Manesar, Gurgaon, as part of the ongoing 5G trials, using spectrum allotted by the Department of Telecom, the company said. Speaking to reporters at a virtual briefing, Randeep Sekhon, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Bharti Airtel, said mobile gaming is a new phenomenon and gaining popularity. Cloud gaming will be one of the biggest use cases of 5G, given the combination of high speed and low latency, he added. "This is just the beginning of an exciting digital future that Airtel will enable for its customers as we prepare to roll out 5G in India," Sekhon noted. Cloud gaming enables users to stream and play games in real-time without having to download these or invest in gaming hardware. With the advent of 5G networks, cloud gaming is expected to become the "new normal" as users would be able to experience high-

Cloud and new tech shift, localisation law drive data centre push in India

The Indian Data Centre (DC) industry is expected to more than double to 1,007 Mw by 2023 from its existing capacity of 447 Mw, says a JLL report

Spending on big data, analytics to touch $2 billion in 2021: IDC

Indian enterprises are investing in big data analytics to base decisions on real-time data, and spending on such solutions is poised to grow by 11.5 per cent in 2021 to touch USD 2 billion

From zero to Rs 11,400 cr: How Murthy's retail business got a 'scrap' boost

As Bezos and Narayana Murthy end their joint venture, their prolific growth cannot be discounted

Neuron7 raises $4.2 mn from Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures

Cloud software start-up Neuron7 on Tuesday said it has raised seed investment of $4.2 million from Nexus Venture Partners and Battery Ventures.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google grab 63% of $42 bn Cloud infra market

The enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $42 bn in Q2, increased by $2.7 bn from the previous quarter and up 39 per cent from the Q2 of 2020, according to a new report

Microsoft posts $46.2 billion revenue riding on Azure Cloud growth

Microsoft has posted a healthy revenue of $46.2 billion, up 21 per cent, with $16.5 billion in net income that rose 47 per cent in the June quarter

Microsoft sees steady cloud growth after record April-June quarter profit

Microsoft Corp posted its most profitable quarter on Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations for revenue and earnings

Zoom to buy cloud-based call centre operator Five9 in $15-billion deal

Teleconferencing services provider has become a household name and investor favorite since the coronavirus pandemic.

Zoom Video to buy cloud software provider Five9 in $15 billion deal

Zoom Video Communications Inc has agreed to buy cloud software provider Five9 Inc in an all-stock deal worth about $14.7 billion to target more business clients looking to boost customer engagement

IBM and Nasscom train about 5,000 students, make them employment ready

IBM and Nasscom Foundation worked with 23 colleges across various states to teach certify students with emerging technology courses; over 2,000 students get jobs