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August 25, 2021 25 Aug'21
Microsoft launches Azure Government Top Secret cloud

Microsoft's Azure Government Top Secret offers more than 60 cloud services to U.S. spy agencies, the Department of Defense and federal civilian organizations.
April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21
IBM boosts vertical cloud push with financial services cloud

IBM doubles down on its investment in vertical markets, rolling out a financial services cloud that shares workloads with clouds in telecommunications and healthcare.
November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19
IBM's financial services cloud offers developer opportunity

IBM hopes to bring developers to its new financial services cloud that runs on the IBM Cloud platform and uses Red Hat OpenShift as its Kubernetes environment.
May 11, 2017 11 May'17
Healthcare's public cloud adoption highlights market's maturity

The healthcare sector is the latest to show it's ready to embrace the public cloud amid greater familiarity and improved security from the major providers.

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