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Microsoft announces $1 bn investment for digital transformation in Poland

The initiative extends over the next seven years and combines extensive digital transformation expertise with a strong focus on upskilling local talent with the latest cloud-based competencies

Google sees jump in cloud infra use as India stays at home during lockdown

We're pushing limits to bring tech to every user, says Google Cloud India head Karan Bajwa

Microsoft revenue beats estimates as Covid-19 crisis boosts cloud business

Microsoft benefited from strong demand for its Teams collaboration software, which now has 75 million users

Video meeting app Zoom ties up with Oracle Cloud to cater to growing demand

Oracle says its cloud infrastructure will help Zoom to continue to deliver flawless service to its customer base

Google Cloud plans to acquire enterprise cloud software firm D2iQ: Report

D2iQ investors include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Khosla Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz and T. Rowe Price Associates

Google appoints Karan Bajwa as Managing Director for India Cloud business

Prior to IBM, Bajwa worked with Microsoft for nine years, his last role being the Managing Director for the company's operations in India

US court grants Amazon motion for pause in Microsoft's Pentagon deal

The Pentagon, which had planned to start work on the contract on Friday, said it was disappointed in the ruling.

Public cloud computing can add 240,000 jobs to economy by 2023: Report

The business efficiencies and growth resulting from public cloud deployments have the potential to generate up to 2.4 lakh jobs

Amazon asks court to pause Microsoft's work on $10-bn Pentagon contract

Amazon blames Donald Trump for bias against the company and for improperly pressuring the Pentagon in the cloud computing contract.

Amazon's cloud-computing empire faces threat from edge of the network

Cloud computing has done more to fuel Amazon's earnings in recent years than its e-commerce business

Wipro, NASSCOM jointly launch 'Future Skills' to boost engineering teaching

President of NASSCOM, Debjani Ghosh said, "The platform enables learning the skills required in emerging technologies. More importantly, it helps individuals develop an aptitude for learning."

Amazon moves federal court against Pentagon's cloud contract to Microsoft

The company did not explain the basis for its complaint

Google unveils cloud acceleration programme for enterprises on SAP platform

The Cloud Acceleration Programme is an evolution of Lighthouse

Google buys US-based CloudSimple to fortify its enterprise cloud business

Terms of the deal were not disclosed

Amazon to sue Pentagon over grant of $10-billion contract to Microsoft

The 10-year contract, which is intended to transform and modernise the US military's cloud computing system, is considered significant, owing to its centrality to "new forms of war"

Pentagon-Microsoft $10-billion cloud deal awarded fairly: US Defence Secy

Esper said he was confident the competition 'was conducted freely and fairly without any type of outside influence'

Alphabet Q3 profit misses analysts' estimates; shares down over 1%

Alphabet shares have underperformed relative to some peers, rising 17% in the last 12 months entering Monday, compared with a 33% gain for Microsoft and 29% for Facebook

Microsoft to strengthen Pentagon ties after bagging $10-bn cloud contract

The Pentagon has said the cloud project, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, is intended to help bring American military technology into the modern era

Huge upset for Amazon as Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 bn 'war cloud' deal

Bidding for the huge government contract has attracted more attention than usual, sparked by speculation early in the process that Amazon would be awarded the deal

Oracle to hire 2,000 workers to expand cloud business to more countries

Jobs will be added in Oracle's software development hubs in Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area and India