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Global cloud spending might be booming, but AWS is trailing Microsoft and Google
Global cloud infrastructure spending is booming, according to new research from Canalys, reaching $90.9 billion in the first quarter of 2025. The spending surge marks a 21% year-on-year increase, the consultancy found, with widespread AI adoption programs playing a key role in recent growth. “Large-scale investment in both cloud and AI infrastructure remains a defining theme of the market in…
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Google links massive cloud outage to API management issue
Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday’s massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms. Google says the cloud outage started around 10:49 ET and ended at 3:49 ET, after causing issues for millions of users worldwide for over three hours. Besides Google Cloud, the incident also impacted Gmail, Google Calendar,…
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A Bunch of Websites, Online Games, and Cloud Services Are Down Right Now
If you’re finding some websites slow or totally unresponsive, you’re not alone. Much of the internet is currently impacted by outages. Downdetector, a site that tracks user reports of site outages, is reporting dozens sites and services that are impacted in some way. These platforms certainly run the gamut: There are games, including Rocket League, Pokémon Go, and Dragon Ball;…
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Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages
Update June 12, 17:41 EDT: In new updates, Cloudflare said that all services have been restored and are now fully operational, while Google stated it expects “recovery to complete in less than an hour.” Update June 12, 15:29 EDT: Cloudflare says its services were impacted by Google Cloud’s outage. “This is a Google Cloud outage. A limited number of services at Cloudflare…
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Crayon targets mid-market gains with expanded Google Cloud partnership
IT services specialist Crayon has announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud to include mid-market distribution and a focus on AI capabilities. The collaboration will leverage Crayon’s distribution capabilities across more market segments to help its channel network deliver the firm’s AI technologies and cloud solutions to businesses around the world. Resellers and channel partners operating in the…
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AI security and compliance concerns are driving a private cloud boom
Cost is a key driver behind the shift back to private cloud, but growing concerns over AI security and compliance appear to be having a bigger impact. That’s according to a survey by GTT Communications that found growth rates for private cloud far outstripping investment in public cloud, following a wider trend of cloud repatriation. The research follows a survey…
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Where is the cloud headed?
We’re past the peak cloud hype of the 2010s and now well into the era of cloud maturity. But even as businesses have come to terms with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models, new considerations have arisen, such as the growing push for cloud sovereignty and regional data center demand. AI has put additional pressure on firms to figure out exactly…
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Cloud breaches are surging, but enterprises aren’t quick enough to react
Cloud breaches are going undetected for hours or days, according to new research, with security workers pinning blunders on ‘alert fatigue’, fragmented tools, and clunky legacy applications. While nearly two-thirds of organizations suffered a cloud security incident in the past year, only 9% were detected within the first hour, according to Check Point’s 2025 Cloud Security Report. Notably, researchers found…
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Enterprises are keen on cloud repatriation – but not for all workloads
So long, public cloud, a whopping 97% of surveyed companies say they plan to ditch the public cloud in favour of in-house infrastructure. The growing trend of cloud repatriation doesn’t mean the end of the public cloud, however, as most of those companies aren’t shifting every workload over, just a few specific ones. Node4 surveyed 601 executives at mid-market firms…
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Download the ‘New Thinking about Cloud Computing’ Enterprise Spotlight
Download the June 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World. aria-label=”Embed of Enterprise Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing.”>Enterprise Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud ComputingDownload Source link
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