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Amazon's AWS reports outage after UAE data centre struck by 'objects'

March 03, 2026 8:44 am

The cloud division expected full recovery to "be many hours away" ⁠for both UAE and Bahrain.

Budget 2026 tech highlights: What govt announced on AI, chips, cloud and data infrastructure

February 02, 2026 9:52 am

The Union Budget 2026-27 details proposals ranging from the Semiconductor Mission 2.0 and tax breaks for cloud services to new AI tools for farmers and ports.

AWS competes with the cloud services offered by Google and Microsoft.

What the AWS outage reveals about the internet’s backbone

October 23, 2025 4:30 pm

AWS outage October 2025: The cloud computing market is said to have a brittle foundation because it is dominated by just a few hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Bharti Airtel partners with IBM to expand cloud services

October 15, 2025 7:05 pm

IBM and Airtel will also establish two new Multizone Regions, or MZRs, in Mumbai and Chennai soon.

(left to right) Manish Prasad, President and MD, SAP India Subcontinent; Oliver Beck, Chief Technology Officer, SAP Sovereign Cloud; and Martin Merz, President of Sovereign Cloud.

SAP launches Sovereign Cloud in India to enable local data storage, boost AI development

September 20, 2025 9:33 am

Amid the global push for AI and digital sovereignty, major tech players are investing heavily in sovereign cloud initiatives that keep user data within the country or region in compliance with local laws.

Oracle boosts cloud infrastructure revenue forecast, shares jump 23%

September 10, 2025 1:21 pm

Oracle also said it had signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers in the first quarter, helping a 12% increase in revenue to $14.93 billion.

Bharti Airtel's shares closed lower by 0.43 per cent at Rs 1,668.40 on the BSE on Tuesday. The firm has a market capitalisation of Rs 9.5 lakh crore.

Bharti Airtel enters cloud services market with launch of ‘Airtel Cloud’ for businesses in India

August 06, 2025 9:21 am

Airtel has forayed into the enterprise cloud services market amid efforts by the Centre to make India a global hub for data centres.

As India’s demand for secure, scalable, AI-enabled solutions grows, Google Cloud aims to deepen its roots across industries and unlock new digital opportunities under Sreedharan’s leadership.

Google Cloud appoints Sashikumar Sreedharan as new India MD, eyes next phase of AI-led growth

July 01, 2025 4:10 pm

Tech industry veteran Sashikumar Sreedharan is replacing Bikram Singh Bedi to lead Google Cloud’s go-to-market strategy in India.

Google Cloud's dashboard said engineering teams were working to resolve a few services still seeing some residual impact.

Google says it has resolved global service outage impacting multiple platforms

June 13, 2025 10:03 am

"The issue with Google Chat, Google Meet, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Cloud Search, Google Tasks, Google Voice has been resolved for all affected users," the company said.

Sharad Kumar, CTO of Qlik, discussed how generative and agentic AI are reshaping how businesses interact with data. (Express Image: LinkedIn)

From searching to answers: Qlik CTO explains how AI is reshaping data interaction

May 22, 2025 7:35 pm

Qlik CTO Sharad Kumar breaks down how enterprise data has evolved from simple spreadsheets to AI-driven decision engines, and why getting the basics right still matters.