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Amazon.com launches cloud software store
19 April 2012AWS Marketplace allows customer to buy infrastructure, developer tools and applications for use on its cloud platform
Post Office seeks IT services worth up to £100m
18 April 2012As it separates from the Royal Mail Group, post office operator seeks IT services suppliers and "service integrator"
GMail cuts out for "less than 10% of users"
18 April 2012The world's most popular webmail service unavailable to around 35 million users
Govt-backed fund to pump £40m into UK cloud start-ups
17 April 2012Notion Capital has raised £62.9 million to invest in high-growth European cloud and SaaS companies
JANET reveals cloud suppliers
20 March 2012University shared network operator names Dell, HP, Fujitsu, Capita and more in its cloud infrastructure framework contract
'Personal cloud' to eclipse PC in just two years – Gartner
12 March 2012Cloud-based services that allow users to access content from multiple devices will be the centre of users' 'digital lives' by 2014, analysts predict
Azure outage triggered by leap day, Microsoft thinks
01 March 2012Cloud service downtime that took out the UK government's CloudStore "appears" to have been triggered by extra day in the leap year
Microsoft Azure outage takes down govt CloudStore
29 February 2012The UK government's new cloud procurement portal taken offline after Microsoft's cloud service suffers outage
Lack of ISP takedown law 'hurts UK cloud readiness'
22 February 2012Lobbyist group the BSA counts the lack of a law obliging ISPs to take down copyright-infringing material against the UK's cloud readiness
AWS launches cloud-workflow automation service
22 February 2012Simple Workflow Service will make it easier for developers to build applications across distributed systems, says Amazon Web Services
John Thompson joins Microsoft board
21 February 2012Former Symantec CEO and current Virtual Instruments chief executive joins software giant's board of directors
Pharma giant Roche adopts Google Apps
17 February 2012Swiss drugmaker will roll out Google's email and collaboration suite to 90,000 employees across 140 countries
Atos, EMC and VMware enter cloud joint venture
15 February 2012Canopy will offer the full range of cloud-related services from private cloud consultancy to software-as-a-service applications
Salesforce.com hires former US govt CIO
16 January 2012Vivek Kundra has joined software-as-a-service provider as executive vice president of emerging markets
Hillingdon council puts 3,500 staff on Google Apps
20 December 2011Local authority pursues "infrastructure free" IT strategy with Google's cloud productivity service, anticipating £3m saving over four years
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