The top 10 cloud stories of 2020

2020 may be gone but the developments that occurred during it are not likely to be forgotten any time soon. 

As we begin 2021, we take a quick look at the cloud stories posted to CRN that our readers took the most interest in last year. 

Use your keyboard arrow keys or the buttons on the edge of each image to scroll through the slideshow. 

Deloitte ‘doubling down’ on US$750M AWS business

In September it was revealed that Deloitte Consulting’s AWS practice had grown to an approximately US$750 million business in its four-year partnership with the industry’s top cloud computing provider.

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IBM shutters Melbourne data centre

In November, CRN reported that IBM Cloud would close its MEL01 data centre in Melbourne at the end of that month as part of a modernisation program.

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10 new Google Cloud products you need to know about

In August it was reported that Google Cloud was stepping up its product development to boost its hybrid and multi-cloud strategy to address new customer demands brought on by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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The top Azure announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020

In September Microsoft Azure revealed uit was expanding its cloud portfolio with additional multi-cloud and multi-edge hybrid capabilities, a fully managed communication platform, new cloud region availability zones and more.

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What you need to know about AWS Snowcone

In June, AWS showed off its new Snowcone, a small, 4.5-pound, portable and rugged edge computing device for collecting, processing and transferring data to the AWS cloud from disconnected environments outside traditional data centres.

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The ten hottest enterprise cloud services of 2020

New sixth-generation EC2 instances from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud’s hybrid and multi-cloud Anthos on AWS and HPE GreenLake “building block” cloud services were among CRN’s picks for the 10 hottest enterprise cloud computing services as of August 2020.

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Newcastle Uni goes all-in on AWS with Deloitte

In July The University of Newcastle became the country’s first tertiary institution to migrate its digital data to public cloud thanks to a project with Deloitte and AWS.

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AWS still king of cloud in Australia

In June we reported that the Australian cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market would hit $1 billion this year due to dominance of global public cloud giants, according to a study from Telsyte.

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AWS: more Aussie partners adopting data, analytics and going global

In December, AWS’ Davinia Simon sat down with CRN to discuss the strength of the vendor’s partner ecosystem in Australia and New Zealand. 

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Pictured: Davinia Simon (AWS)

Microsoft working on Arm-based chips for Azure, Surface

It was reported in December that Microsoft was reportedly designing Arm-based chips for Azure servers and some Surface PCs, signaling the computer giant’s increasing willingness to lower its reliance on Intel.

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