Cloud company checks the reliability of its big hard drives
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You might want to rethink the 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000

Cloud backup specialists Backblaze, a company with more than 100 thousand hard drives in operation, decided to have a look at the failure rates of its hard drives, and they don't make pleasant reading for those who own the 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000.

Juniper hopes cloud will improve its bottom line soon
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But it is still running at a loss

Juniper turned in a loss for the first quarter of the financial year 2018 but thinks things will get better soon thanks to increased cloud projects.

Akamai boosted by aggressive push to cloud security
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Beat Wall Street predictions

Akamai topped analysts’ estimates for first quarter revenue and profit thanks to its aggressive push to cloud security and its business of speeding up media content delivery stabilised.

Microsoft tops estimates
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More sign up for Azure cloud computing services and Office 365

Software King of the Wolrd Microsoft is doing well thanks to more people signing up for its cloud-based services than anyone expected.

Amazon doubles profits
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Thanks to cloud


US president Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump's favourite US company, Amazon, more than doubled its profit on Thursday and predicted strong spring results – the outfit was so pleased with its results it jacked up the price for its US Prime subscribers.