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Amazon.com launches cloud software store

 19 April 2012

AWS 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 2012

As 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 2012

The 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 2012

Notion Capital has raised £62.9 million to invest in high-growth European cloud and SaaS companies

JANET reveals cloud suppliers

 20 March 2012

University 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 2012

Cloud-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 2012

Cloud 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 2012

The 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 2012

Lobbyist 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 2012

Simple 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 2012

Former Symantec CEO and current Virtual Instruments chief executive joins software giant's board of directors

Pharma giant Roche adopts Google Apps

 17 February 2012

Swiss 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 2012

Canopy 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 2012

Vivek 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 2011

Local authority pursues "infrastructure free" IT strategy with Google's cloud productivity service, anticipating £3m saving over four years

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