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Google starts rolling out refunds for Stadia gamers before the shutdown

In September this year, Google announced to shut down its cloud gaming service Stadia, admitting that it had not gained the traction the company had expected

Netflix expands cloud gaming infra by opening new studio in US: Know more

Since announcing its entry into the gaming market, Netflix has 35 games available and 14 more in development in its own studios

There's a sea change in public sector cloud in India: AWS' Rahul Sharma

Digital India's mindset acted as a catalyst to bring this transformation of citizen-facing services, says Rahul Sharma, Regional Head, AWS India

Data centre business to double by 2024, demand to help real estate: Reports

Investments in data centres expected to surpass $20 billion by 2025, with smaller cities gaining too

Amazon Seller Services reports Rs 3.6K-crore loss; revenue up 32%

E-commerce firm's units for digital payments and selling cloud service report losses too for FY22

Invested $3.71 billion in Cloud infra, jobs in India since 2016: AWS

Amazon Web Services has invested $3.71 billion in building local Cloud infrastructure and creating jobs in India in the last six years, said a top company executive

Accenture to acquire Inspirage to boost its Oracle Cloud capabilities

Inspirage helps to break down silos across innovation and product life cycle management, supply chain, logistics, enterprise finance, and analytics to achieve operational excellence

Jio Cloud PC: Will it be a game changer for small and medium businesses?

Analysts believe India would finally usher in the home broadband segment

Microsoft outlines changes in European cloud-licence terms after complaints

The changes will make it simpler for customers of rival cloud-service companies in Europe to move their existing software to these other networks, Microsoft said

Sify aims Rs 3,500 cr revenue this fiscal, bullish on cloud services

IT services company Sify Technologies is bullish on the cloud services business and aims to clock revenue of Rs 3,500 crore in the current fiscal, a senior official of the company said on Saturday. Sify Technologies CEO Kamal Nath said that the company is expanding its data centre footprint and partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise for implementing its Greenlake technology to provide cost efficiency as well as predictability in the cost of cloud computing requirements of business organisations. Nath said that the company is seeing huge opportunities in the adoption of the hybrid cloud business. "Hybrid cloud promotes our data centre business, network business. It promotes all our business. We are already at a run rate of Rs 3,000 crore. We are eyeing Rs 3,500 crore (this fiscal)," Nath said on the sidelines of the CIO and Leader Conference here. The company had revenue of Rs 2,702.6 crore in 2021-22. In the first quarter ended June 30, 2022, the company's revenue grew 19.5 per

Slowdown in hyper-scalers could impact the revenue of the IT companies'

Major IT companies in India including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro, Infosys and HCL earn nearly 50 per cent of their revenue from digital solutions supported by hyper-scalers like AWS, Azure

Reliance Jio partners with DigiBoxx to offer extra 10 GB cloud storage

In addition to the storage space of 20 GB available at present, Reliance Jio users can now have extra 10 GB space on DigiBoxx by signing up through the JioPhotos app

RailTel bags data centre management, cloud services orders from DRDO

RailTel Corporation of India Limited, a CPSU under the Ministry of Railways has bagged two separate orders pertaining to Data Centre management and cloud services both together amounting to Rs 54 cr

Chipmaker Broadcom to buy cloud services firm VMware in $61-bn deal

VMware shareholders will get $142.50 per share under the purchase, resulting in a premium of nearly 49% to the stock's close on May 22, when talks of the deal were first reported

Cloud-based digital solutions to empower Indian ITeS sector: Experts

Cloud-based digital solutions will enhance agility, empower hybrid workspaces and facilitate intellectual property-led innovation for the information technology-enabled services sector in India

Cloud communications firm Zoom pays over $1.8 mn to bounty hunters in 2021

In 2021, Zoom also recruited over 800 security researchers on the HackerOne platform.

Global Cloud infrastructure spending to reach $90 billion in 2022: IDC

Japan grew in the high single digits, while Western Europe grew in the low single digits

Cloud-based solutions an opportunity and challenge for government projects

There is also a need for departments to educate the members about cloud and usage and procurement as the financial contours are different

Kulmeet Bawa on plan to double India's contribution for SAP India

In a chat with Business Standard's Shivani Shinde, Kulmeet Bawa, President and MD for SAP Indian Subcontinent, talks about the ambitious target to turn its cloud business into a €22 bn revenue unit

L&T, Microsoft sign pact to develop regulated sector-focused cloud offering

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Microsoft India on Monday announced signing of a pact to develop a regulated sector-focused cloud offering to empower customers with the best-of-breed cloud computing and infrastructure services. In line with emerging regulations, L&T and Microsoft will co-engage with a defined set of large customers in regulated sectors to develop architectures and road maps to modernise their traditional data centres to potentially hybrid models and advance their digital transformation goals. Under the memorandum of understanding (MoU), the two industry leaders will set up a joint governance group to define future platform designs, investments, and commercial/business models to service the regulated sectors' emerging technology requirements, according to a statement. Senior leadership teams of both the organisations will be engaged collectively on this as the association evolves. "India is at the cusp of enormous cloud adoption, as innovation, scale and agility .