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14 Apr 2025
Computer and law experts respond to call for opinions on computer evidence
By Karl FlindersIT and legal experts have made submissions to a government consultation on the use of computer evidence in court
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14 Apr 2025
AI provides foundation for Atlassian customer service app
By Don FluckingerAtlassian will enter the world of customer service by extending its current internal ticketing tool to its users' customers.
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14 Apr 2025
CMS proposes 2.4% inpatient Medicare reimbursement hike
By Jacqueline LaPointeThe FY 2026 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) proposed rule would increase inpatient Medicare reimbursement by about $4 billion.
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14 Apr 2025
Nokia networking backbone firms up ResetData AI factory
By Joe O’HalloranDeployment of networking backbone to support immediate roll-out of Australia’s first sovereign and sustainable liquid immersion-cooled data centres looks to gain 75% reduction in energy consumption over previous generations
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14 Apr 2025
SUSE CEO champions open source choice
By Stephen WithersDirk-Peter van Leeuwen warns against suppliers diluting open source to lock in customers, and touted SUSE’s commitment to providing choice and support across multiple Linux and Kubernetes distributions
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14 Apr 2025
BT stretches Fabric further through Google Cloud partnership
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading telco announces step forward in partnership with IT giant, deepening collaboration to offer customers cloud WAN routes via its Global Fabric network platform
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11 Apr 2025
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation
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11 Apr 2025
Google Cloud, Juniper Networks accelerate enterprise campus deployment
By Joe O’HalloranAI-native networking platform to use Google’s Cloud WAN service to help accelerate new branch deployments, and offer simplified branch operations with security and agility
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10 Apr 2025
Google bets on unifying security tools to ease CISO pain
By Alex ScroxtonAt Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google launches its Unified Security platform with the goal of bringing together disparate security solutions to help cyber leaders and practitioners address their most keenly felt pain points
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10 Apr 2025
Mattel taps into Google Cloud to accelerate product innovation in response to customer feedback
By Caroline DonnellyBarbie doll manufacturer Mattel reveals how leaning on Google Cloud has enabled it to respond to customer feedback quicker and speed up its product development processes
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10 Apr 2025
Lloyds Bank moves AI work onto Google Cloud platform
By Karl FlindersBanking group is cutting its emissions and accelerating the development of AI platforms by moving work onto Google Cloud
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10 Apr 2025
NetSuite bets big on built-in AI
By Stephen WithersAt its customer event in Sydney, Oracle NetSuite unveiled a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into its platform at no extra cost in a bid to make AI more accessible to customers
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09 Apr 2025
Microsoft’s April 2025 bumper Patch Tuesday corrects 124 bugs
By Brian McKennaMicrosoft is correcting 124 vulnerabilities in its March Patch Tuesday, one of which is being actively exploited in the wild, and 11 of which are ‘critical’
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09 Apr 2025
EU sets out plans to ‘at least’ triple its AI datacentre capacity over the next seven years
By Caroline DonnellyThe European Union wants to reduce its dependence on non-EU datacentres in support of its plan to become an artificial intelligence superpower
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08 Apr 2025
Global law firm Freshfields embarks on AI-led digital transformation with Google Cloud
By Caroline DonnellyFreshfields has enlisted the help of Google Cloud and its artificial intelligence portfolio to help streamline its processes, as its global chief innovation officer sets about empowering staff to confidently use AI in their everyday work
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08 Apr 2025
UK authority’s search for answers over deleted Julian Assange emails comes too late to retrieve data
By Stefania MauriziThe Crown Prosecution Service has finally searched for information about the destruction of emails from the WikiLeaks founder’s lawyer – but too late to retrieve data about the deleted documents
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07 Apr 2025
India’s tech talent adapts to AI era
By Pratima HarigunaniIT professionals in India need to unlearn old skills and embrace artificial intelligence, automation and specialised domains as the country cements its position as a global tech hub
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04 Apr 2025
Norway and Nordic financial sector ramps up cyber security
By Gerard O'DwyerFinans Norge sets up cyber security unit CTSU to support the finance sector in Norway amid increasing threats
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04 Apr 2025
Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses
By Cliff SaranOn 4 April 1975, Paul Allen and Bill Gates formed Microsoft, a company that defined the PC era and opened up computing for all
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03 Apr 2025
Are LLM firewalls the future of AI security?
By Aaron TanAs large language models permeate industries, experts at Black Hat Asia 2025 debate the need for LLM firewalls and explore their role in fending off emerging AI threats
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02 Apr 2025
StarHub trials first 5G cloud RAN network in Southeast Asia
By Aaron TanSingapore telco trials cloud-based radio access network, unlocking new enterprise services and laying the groundwork for advanced 5G and 6G capabilities
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01 Apr 2025
Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging
By Cliff SaranPeople may try to lock up GPU resources even if they don’t need them all day – but not anymore, thanks to Nvidia KAI Scheduler
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01 Apr 2025
Apple devices are at ‘most risk’ in UK following government ‘backdoor’ order
By Bill GoodwinHome Office refuses to answer questions from Lords over technical capability notice issued against Apple’s iCloud Advanced Data Protection encryption services
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01 Apr 2025
How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease
By Aaron TanSingapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments
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31 Mar 2025
Reassessing UK law enforcement data adequacy
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonComputer Weekly takes stock of proposed changes to the UK’s law enforcement data protection rules and how it could affect data adequacy with the European Union
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31 Mar 2025
UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy
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31 Mar 2025
Microsoft restates commitment to OpenAI amid analyst note about datacentre expansion rollbacks
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft pushes back on analyst claims its changing relationship with OpenAI is forcing it to scale back its datacentre expansion plans in the US and Europe
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28 Mar 2025
Audi gears up for next-gen factory automation with smart manufacturing
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal auto manufacturer Audi deploys virtual private cloud environment platform to deliver enhanced automation, reconfiguring production line to accommodate a product mix change and scale compute and storage
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28 Mar 2025
Europe flat in TD Synnex Q1
By Simon QuickeDistributor TD Synnex shares results that indicate Europe did not match revenue growth seen in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Japan
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27 Mar 2025
Microsoft’s ‘fraying relationship’ with OpenAI blamed for datacentre expansion plan rollback
By Caroline DonnellyUS analyst TD Cowen publishes research note pointing to further rollbacks on Microsoft’s datacentre expansion plans
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27 Mar 2025
Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI
By Aaron TanThe Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare
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26 Mar 2025
Oracle bets big on AI, drives Australian business transformation
By Stephen WithersAt the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Sydney, Oracle executives talked up the company’s strategy to integrate AI across its entire technology stack, empowering Australian businesses to move beyond experimentation and into practical AI-driven solutions
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25 Mar 2025
Public Accounts Committee calls out legacy IT
By Cliff SaranUnsupported and out-of-date software and hardware are hindering the government’s artificial intelligence plans for the public sector
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24 Mar 2025
Oracle plants agentic AI flag in business process automation
By Brian McKennaOracle 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
By Aaron TanMost 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
By Stephen WithersLow-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
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia'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
By Caroline DonnellyMarket 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
By Stephen WithersBenoit 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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Simon QuickeAs 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
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia'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
By Alex ScroxtonIn 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
By Simon QuickeUK 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
By Simon QuickeIn 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
By Antony AdsheadThe 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
By Aaron TanShipping 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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonGovernments, 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
By Joe O’HalloranNoting 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
By Simon QuickeDevelopments 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
By Aaron TanAdvanced 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
By Simon QuickeThe 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
By Karl FlindersFujitsu 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
By Stephen WithersAs 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
By Aaron TanSingapore’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
By Caroline DonnellyResearch 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
By Bill GoodwinCampaigners 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
By Stephen WithersSecurity 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
By Antone GonsalvesPresident 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
By Simon QuickeDevelopments 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
By Mark SamuelsThe 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
By Stephen WithersGartner 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’
By Duncan CampbellBritain’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
By Caroline DonnellyThree 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
By Simon QuickeMore 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
By Simon QuickeMSP 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
By Aaron TanElastic’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
By Karl FlindersBank 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
By Bill GoodwinThe 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
By Simon QuickeTransforming 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
By Antone GonsalvesTSMC 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
By Simon QuickeSurvey 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
By Simon QuickeSecurity 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
By Caroline DonnellyAWS 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
By Antone GonsalvesAmazon, 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
By Stephen WithersAmazon 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
By Simon QuickeDevelopments 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
By Karl FlindersKevan 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
By Alex ScroxtonMany 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
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia'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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Bill GoodwinA 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
By Antone GonsalvesThe 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
By Simon QuickeResearch 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
By Simon QuickeFirms 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
By Karl FlindersTech 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe 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
By Aaron TanNew 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
By Antone GonsalvesIntel 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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Karl FlindersUK 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?
By Antone GonsalvesAnalysts 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
By Aaron TanChinese 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
By Aaron TanGil 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
By Bill GoodwinAfter 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
By Karl FlindersControversial 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
By Aaron TanDan 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
By Simon QuickeAs 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
By Simon QuickeDistributor 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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Simon QuickeComms channel player working with market watcher to make sure partners can identify opportunities provoked by an evolving landscape