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Ofcom has asked the UK’s antitrust authority to investigate AWS and Microsoft’s dominance of the UK cloud market.

AWS, Amazon’s cloud division, plans to open a development centre in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

A new report from AWS shows that for every 1% increase in cloud penetration, there is a 0.06% improvement in GDP growth.

Promoted | Contemporary rack enclosures are capable of enhancing hardware efficiencies and boosting productivity.

A tough economy has pressured cloud spending by businesses, sending Oracle’s shares down 9%.

Intel said the new data centre chip will handle more than double the amount of computing work for each watt of power used.

Promoted | Africa Data Centres and TechCentral recently held a roundtable discussion on unlocking the value of big data in Africa.

Despite being in its infancy in South Africa, there is a big appetite for cloud computing services, says CloudZA’s Jonathan Oaker.

Promoted | South African data warehouses are being moved to the cloud en masse due to cost and complexity.

Promoted | African data centres will have to focus more on the environment, security and privacy protection in future, says Huawei’s Zhou Yilin.