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25 Mar 2025
ETSI launches first post-quantum encryption standard
European telco standards body launches its first post-quantum cryptography cyber standard, covering the security of critical data and communications
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25 Mar 2025
UK internet trade bodies issue best practice guidance for telecoms poles
Trade associations for providers of internet services in the UK offer guidance outlines that encourage a community-conscious approach to telecoms infrastructure deployment
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25 Mar 2025
Pharma R&D returns improve amid rising costs, competition
Deloitte reports pharma R&D returns improved to 5.9% in 2024 driven by new blockbuster drugs, rising costs, trial competition and patent expirations threaten future growth.
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24 Mar 2025
Why I am challenging Yvette Cooper’s ‘secret back door’ order against Apple’s encryption
I took steps to lock down all personal data after I was named as an opponent of Russia. Now I am again worried about my family's safety after the home secretary issued a secret order against Apple
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24 Mar 2025
Oracle plants agentic AI flag in business process automation
Oracle promotes its Agentic AI Studio, unveiled at OracleCloud World Tour London, as an avowed business process automation accelerant
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24 Mar 2025
APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft
Most Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on
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23 Mar 2025
How Jetstar is tapping data analytics
Low-cost carrier Jetstar is using the Snowflake data platform to optimise the number of meals to carry onboard and to generate flight schedules, among other data analytics initiatives to improve its operations
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21 Mar 2025
Nvidia CEO leads expert panels on quantum computing
Nvidia's Jensen Huang and experts set realistic expectations for quantum computing and discuss its place next to traditional high-performance computing.
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20 Mar 2025
Hyperscale datacentre capacities continue to rise off back of AI boom
Market data from Synergy Research Group confirms that artificial intelligence is fuelling growth of datacentres in both number and capacity terms
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20 Mar 2025
Snowflake founders reveal ‘cuckoo cloud’ vision that disrupted big data
Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes reveal the journey that led to their data platform, their bet against Hadoop and why they still code on weekends to stay connected to their creation
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19 Mar 2025
Air New Zealand takes off with digital transformation deal
The airline aims to become a digital leader with TCS’s help to improve fleet management, crew scheduling and ground services through the use of artificial intelligence
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19 Mar 2025
Softcat boss feeling optimistic as firm shares H1 results
As Softcat shares its H1 numbers, its CEO outlines why the channel player is well-positioned to take advantage of improving customer demand
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19 Mar 2025
Nvidia readies Vera Rubin to replace Blackwell
Nvidia's upcoming advanced GPUs, Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin, give it as much as a two-year lead over competitors, an analyst says.
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18 Mar 2025
Largest ever cyber deal reflects Google’s CNAPP ambitions
In a signal of its future ambitions, Google lays down $32bn to acquire cloud-native application protection platform Wiz, reflecting the increasing need to secure multicloud environments
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18 Mar 2025
Shares rise on North American performance at Computacenter
UK performance in contrast to North America is disappointing as customers continue to show hesitancy in signing off orders
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18 Mar 2025
Bytes signals financial milestone has been hit
In a trading statement ahead of its full-year results, channel player Bytes indicates it has broken through the £2bn barrier on gross invoiced income
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18 Mar 2025
AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it
The rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy
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18 Mar 2025
Seaco charts course for unified security strategy
Shipping container leasing giant consolidates security tools onto a single platform, leveraging AI and extended detection and response to improve security operations
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17 Mar 2025
How Oracle is using AI to combat financial crime
The tech giant is leveraging artificial intelligence to surface fraudulent financial transactions and improve the efficiency of financial crime investigations, offering relief to banks battling high costs and alert fatigue
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14 Mar 2025
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will win out
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14 Mar 2025
Microsoft, DE-CIX plot MAPS for SaaS enterprise connectivity
Noting that 82% of enterprises underestimate the lagging effect of packet loss on the performance of SaaS applications, global internet exchange operator and IT behemoth partner to optimise cloud connectivity
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14 Mar 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Exertis Supplies, Softcat, Konica Minolta Business Solutions, Fivetran, SUSE and Centreon
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13 Mar 2025
Chinese espionage group UNC3886 targets Juniper routers
Advanced persistent threat group UNC3886 deployed custom backdoors on end-of-life Juniper Networks routers, underscoring the need for timely patching and advanced security monitoring
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13 Mar 2025
Channel express concerns over lack of cloud skills
The pressure is on to meet customer demand for hosted services, but some resellers lack the cloud skills to meet that need
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13 Mar 2025
Major strike by Fujitsu staff at ‘cash cow’ HMRC
Fujitsu staff working at government department will strike for 22 days in protest over pay offer
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13 Mar 2025
Supercars team BJR taps Extranet Systems for racing edge
As the demands of motorsports grow, Supercars team Brad Jones Racing turns to IT specialist Extranet Systems to manage crucial areas such as security, backup and disaster recovery
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11 Mar 2025
Singapore Airlines to roll out Salesforce Agentforce
Singapore’s flagship carrier is deploying Salesforce’s Agentforce AI agent platform to improve customer interactions and personalise experiences
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11 Mar 2025
Report hails benefits of ‘socially integrating’ datacentres into local communities
Research report, featuring input from datacentre market stakeholders and sociological experts, makes case for socially integrating server farms into society
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11 Mar 2025
Secret London tribunal to hear appeal in Apple vs government battle over encryption
Campaigners call for High Court hearing to be held in public as tech giant appeals against UK government order to open a backdoor into its encrypted iCloud service
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10 Mar 2025
How CISOs are tackling cyber security challenges
Security chiefs at the recent Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Sydney share insights on navigating board communication, organisational resilience and the importance of understanding business needs
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07 Mar 2025
Experts stunned by Trump attack on CHIPS Act
President Donald Trump challenged the CHIPS Act, favoring tariffs to attract semiconductors, despite experts arguing that subsidies have successfully drawn investment to the U.S.
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07 Mar 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Schneider Electric and OVHcloud, while SonicWall and Sophos talk MDR
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07 Mar 2025
Interview: Madoc Batters, head of cloud and IT security, Warner Leisure Hotels
The hotel chain has embarked on a major cloud migration programme to improve innovation and enhance the security of its network and applications
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07 Mar 2025
Managing security in the AI age
Gartner experts offer guidance on harnessing AI’s power while mitigating its risks, from managing shadow AI to implementing security controls and policies
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06 Mar 2025
UK cyber security damaged by ‘clumsy Home Office political censorship’
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre secretly censors computer security guidance and drops references to encryption
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06 Mar 2025
European cloud providers unite over data sovereignty-focused API
Three of the continent’s cloud providers have joined forces to create an API that will make it easier for users to move apps, data and workloads from one European provider’s platform to another
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06 Mar 2025
Corndel adds to evidence of channel role in providing AI education
More research reinforces the sense of disconnect between business leaders and their staff when it comes to using artificial intelligence, presenting opportunitities for the channel
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06 Mar 2025
Wavenet working with Konversational to improve systems
MSP Wavenet chooses Irish firm to help deploy ServiceNow to improve its workflow processes
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06 Mar 2025
Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play
Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation
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06 Mar 2025
Big bank systems crashed for over 800 hours in last two years due to IT outages
Bank bosses forced to reveal extent of banking IT failures to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee
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05 Mar 2025
Apple IPT appeal against backdoor encryption order is test case for bigger targets
The Home Office decision to target Apple with an order requiring access to users’ encrypted data is widely seen as a ‘stalking horse’ for attacks against encrypted messaging services WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal
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05 Mar 2025
UBDS Digital taking lifecycle transformation approach
Transforming customers could mean more than just replacing legacy kit and rolling out some fresh apps
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05 Mar 2025
TSMC plans $100B investment boost for US AI chip production
TSMC said its historic $100 billion investment would create thousands of construction jobs and boost U.S. capacity for AI chips. However, its time frame is fuzzy.
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04 Mar 2025
N-able: MSP growth coming from security and AI demand
Survey of managed services community reveals that the majority feel optimistic about revenue prospects for this year
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04 Mar 2025
CrowdStrike and Okta reach AWS Marketplace milestones
Security players underline the volume of sales that can be generated by distributors, MSPs and ISVs on the AWS Marketplace platform
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03 Mar 2025
CMA urged to expedite proposed ‘targeted interventions’ against AWS and Microsoft
AWS has doubled-down on its claim that subjecting it to targeted curbs to bolster competition in the UK cloud market is an unwarranted step, while its rivals call on the CMA to speed up the process
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03 Mar 2025
Amazon, Google, Microsoft race for first in quantum computing
Amazon, Google and Microsoft prioritize quantum computing reliability for future enterprise applications.
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02 Mar 2025
AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts
Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications
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28 Feb 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Nebula, Everything Tech Group, Check Point, monday.com, Scality, Horizon3.ai, TD Synnex, DTP Group and CrowdStrike
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27 Feb 2025
Peer demands Fujitsu cough up £300m interim payment towards Post Office scandal bill
Kevan Jones tells fellow peers in the House of Lords that Fujitsu should also be barred from bidding for public sector contracts
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27 Feb 2025
CVE volumes head towards 50,000 in 2025, analysts claim
Many trends, notably a big shift to open source tools, are behind an expected boom in the number of disclosed vulnerabilities
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27 Feb 2025
Nvidia reports strong Q4, prepares for new AI GPUs
Nvidia's revenue soared 78% to $39.3 billon, driven by strong AI GPU demand. With Blackwell's success, a more powerful variant launches later this year.
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26 Feb 2025
Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models
The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops
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26 Feb 2025
US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard probes UK demand for Apple’s encrypted data
A secret order issued by the UK against Apple would be a ‘clear and egregious violation’ if it provides back door access to Americans’ encrypted data, says US director of national intelligence
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26 Feb 2025
Cisco, Nvidia expand AI infrastructure partnership
The broader Nvidia-Cisco partnership includes Cisco building systems that combine its OS with Nvidia's Ethernet technologies for optimized AI performance.
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26 Feb 2025
Channel education needed to support more successful AI adoption
Research from WalkMe underlines the dangers of rolling out artificial intelligence tools and software without preparing users
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26 Feb 2025
WWT and Kyndryl expand customer support centres
Firms invest in more logistics and enablement capability to increase the assistance they can offer those users looking for help with digital transformation and artificial intelligence
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26 Feb 2025
IoT and SaaS will underpin government legislation introduced to protect rivers
Tech platform will enable water companies, regulators and the public to monitor pollution levels in rivers
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26 Feb 2025
Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI
The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes
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25 Feb 2025
Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience
New advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats
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25 Feb 2025
Intel unveils more Xeon 6 chips for AI servers
Intel launches Xeon 6 processors, the 6700P and 6500P, targeting AI systems and multi-socket servers, and enhancing performance for enterprise applications while reducing prices.
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24 Feb 2025
Zendesk to acquire Local Measure, boosting AI-powered voice capabilities
The acquisition will strengthen Zendesk’s contact centre offering and integration with Amazon Connect, targeting larger enterprise clients
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24 Feb 2025
Government seeks payments tech partner through £49m contract
UK government wants tech partner to help it embed open banking functionality into its Gov.uk Pay platform
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24 Feb 2025
Can TSMC save Intel chip manufacturing?
Analysts question whether TSMC could do a better job than Intel at turning around its manufacturing operations.
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24 Feb 2025
Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI
Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth
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23 Feb 2025
Check Point co-founder on AI, quantum and independence
Gil Shwed, Check Point’s co-founder and executive chairman, discusses the company’s focus on artificial intelligence-driven security and his commitment to remaining an independent force in the cyber security market
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21 Feb 2025
Apple withdraws encrypted iCloud storage from UK after government demands ‘backdoor’ access
After the Home Office issued a secret order for Apple to open up a backdoor in its encrypted storage, the tech company has instead chosen to withdraw the service from the UK
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21 Feb 2025
Fujitsu’s £600m-plus prize with His Majesty’s ‘cash cow’ in 2025
Controversial supplier continues to reap the rewards of government IT contracts despite its participation in ‘ghastly fraud’
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20 Feb 2025
How organisations can secure AI agents
Dan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents
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19 Feb 2025
Kaseya boss looks back on his time at the helm
As he moves into a vice-chairman position, the boss at the managed service provider tools specialist reviews the progress made under his leadership
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19 Feb 2025
TD Synnex hands Andy Brown responsibility for driving AI programme
Distributor continues to put muscle behind data, analytics and artificial intelligence with latest senior appointment
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18 Feb 2025
Singapore pledges S$150m to boost enterprise AI capabilities
The Enterprise Compute initiative will provide local enterprises with access to AI tools and expertise in a bid to spur AI adoption
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18 Feb 2025
DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments
The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy artificial intelligence on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story
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18 Feb 2025
Evolve IP teams up with Cavell to share market insights
Comms channel player working with market watcher to make sure partners can identify opportunities provoked by an evolving landscape
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18 Feb 2025
South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre
Construction of a datacentre that is projected to be 3GW in size is set to start later this year in South Korea
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18 Feb 2025
Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation
Meta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents
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18 Feb 2025
MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage
Autodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume
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18 Feb 2025
CPX 2025: Check Point CEO talks up hybrid mesh security
At CPX 2025 in Bangkok, Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir outlined a vision for network security centred on hybrid mesh architecture and AI-powered capabilities
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17 Feb 2025
‘Times are hard’ for fintech but latest report reveals glimmer of recovery
Fintech investment in the UK hit a four-year low last year, as the wider EMEA region saw the lowest numbers in eight years
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17 Feb 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Last week saw ATSG solidify its management structure after the Evolve IP merger, plus some personnel moves at BCS, Fivetran, Armis and Rimes
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14 Feb 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Geographic expansion, partner programmes, fresh warehouses and attempts to increase trust levels in artificial intelligence have all been happening over the past few days
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14 Feb 2025
Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data
Some of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data
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13 Feb 2025
UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple
US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-US Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users
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13 Feb 2025
EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins
Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?
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13 Feb 2025
Insight lists AI, security and 5G among channel opportunities
Channel player Insight is the latest to share its view of which trends are worth getting involved with this year
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13 Feb 2025
UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers
The UK government has imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime syndicate responsible for aiding ransomware attacks, targeting the group and individual members
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12 Feb 2025
AvePoint increases MSP support as Acronis warns they are targets
Managed service providers set to benefit from improvement to vendor’s platform at a time when criminals have them firmly in their sights
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12 Feb 2025
Crayon looking for public sector growth
Ahead of its tie-up with SoftwareOne, the firm’s CEO outlined its fourth quarter performance and touched on her hopes for 2025
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12 Feb 2025
Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore
Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace
At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence
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11 Feb 2025
Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs
A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries
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11 Feb 2025
Intel loses AI head Justin Hotard to Nokia
AI and data center chief Justin Hotard will leave Intel to become Nokia's CEO as the company struggles to regain its footing in the data center market.
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11 Feb 2025
Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal
Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape
The focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up
A number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris
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11 Feb 2025
New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage
One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components
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10 Feb 2025
Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons
Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems
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10 Feb 2025
UK government under fire over public sector guidance on using overseas clouds
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s recently published guidance on supporting public sector bodies with adopting a multi-region cloud strategy is facing criticism
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09 Feb 2025
Allianz PNB Life modernises insurance operations with cloud
Philippine insurer implements a cloud-based health insurance policy management system from DXC Technology to reduce policy issuance times and speed up product launches
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07 Feb 2025
Amazon to spend $100B on AWS AI infrastructure
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said investors will eventually be happy he spent the money on the 'biggest technology shift in business since the internet.'
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07 Feb 2025
AWS sees full-year profit and revenue growth as AI and public cloud demand soars
Amazon Web Services (AWS) reports full-year results and reveals capital expenditure toll the AI boom will take on its business in 2025
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07 Feb 2025
Westcon-Comstor driving data-sharing strategy
The distributor’s recently appointed digital sales leader shares his ambitions for the year ahead, and the importance of passing insights to partners
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05 Feb 2025
Malaysian public sector embraces generative AI
Nearly half a million civil servants set to get access to Google Workspace with Gemini to improve delivery of public services