Oracle loses JEDI appeal
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03 September 2020

Oracle loses JEDI appeal


The force was not strong in this one

A US appeals court rejected Oracle's challenges to the Pentagon's disputed $10 billion cloud-computing contract.

Equinix reviewed UPS failure at Docklands datacentre
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How did that happen?

Equinix is conducting a review into the resiliency of its power supplies after an outage at one of its London-based datacentres blighted the operations of hundreds of clients on 18 August 2020.

German enterprises look to the cloud to support intelligent ERP
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Lebensraum

Enterprises in Germany are slowly adopting SAP’s S/4HANA database, with many companies looking for cloud-based infrastructure from service providers to support the intelligent ERP system, according to a new ISG report.

Microsoft provides open service to match Google’s Istio
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The Volish love of open stuff takes on Google

While the world worries about the governance of Google's Istio service mesh, Microsoft has seen an opportunity to offer a simple and truly open alternative.

Microsoft takes Minecraft off Amazon’s cloud
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Stop supporting its rival

Microsoft will stop relying on Amazon to help it run the popular Minecraft video game.