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16 Apr 2025
Tariffs and CX: Hold on to customers during an economic storm
By Don FluckingerDelivering excellent customer experience is a tough job on regular days. Now add rising prices because of tariffs.
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16 Apr 2025
Medicaid work requirements might spur 5M in coverage losses
By Sara HeathExperts say complex documentation requirements might cause those meeting Medicaid work requirement criteria to lose their coverage.
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16 Apr 2025
Footballers object to processing of performance data
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonFootball players are seeking to gain more control of their performance data through ‘stop processing’ requests, in an attempt to strike a better balance between firms’ commercial interests and the data rights of footballers
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16 Apr 2025
AI chip restrictions limit Nvidia H20 China exports
By Cliff SaranThe US government’s export controls have come into effect, limiting Nvidia’s ability to sell its H20 chip in China
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16 Apr 2025
Fibre fine but US tariffs to take hit on broadband equipment
By Joe O’HalloranAnalyst predicts effect of US tariffs on telecoms and communications industry, revealing probable winners and losers
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15 Apr 2025
Roadmap for commercial adoption of quantum computing gains clarity
By Cliff SaranThere has been plenty going on in the world of quantum computing, suggesting that commercial systems are on the horizon
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15 Apr 2025
Qwilt covers more than 2,000 edge cloud nodes across six continents
By Joe O’HalloranDistributed edge network technology provider claims milestone in Edge Cloud infrastructure through shift in how enterprises can deliver content and deploy latency-sensitive applications
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14 Apr 2025
Expect a tariff on semiconductors within two months, says US commerce secretary
By Cliff SaranThe Trump administration has separated out semiconductors in a bid to bring back manufacturing to the US
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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
Government injects extra funding to drive quantum growth
By Cliff SaranThe UK government has ploughed an extra £121m into quantum to drive development of the technology
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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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11 Apr 2025
DARPA quantum computing benchmark test seeks 'utility scale'
By John MooreDARPA aims to evaluate up to 20 vendors -- from startups to large tech companies -- using a benchmarking framework that spans multiple types of quantum computing.
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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
IT strategy implications of US tariffs
By Cliff SaranWhen is the best time to buy IT equipment? With tariffs in place that are set to increase, tech CEOs have signalled price rises ahead
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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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11 Apr 2025
Warranty fraud fuels hidden army of hardware hackers
By Aaron TanWidespread warranty fraud is not only costing companies billions but also creating a breeding ground for advanced hardware exploits, warns hardware hacker and researcher Bunnie Huang at Black Hat Asia 2025
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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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09 Apr 2025
Google Cloud Platform adds WAN and on-premises AI services
By Tim McCarthyA handful of infrastructure announcements for the Google Cloud Platform debut at Next 2025 including a Cloud WAN service, on-premises Gemini AI and new AI chips.
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08 Apr 2025
IBM boosts AI mainframe capabilities with Z17
By Cliff SaranIBM continues to try to break out of the mindset that mainframes are just for transaction processing. The latest server offers greater AI capabilities
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08 Apr 2025
What is the impact of US tariffs on datacentre equipment costs?
By Cliff SaranMoore’s Law predicts that every 18 months, IT buyers can get more for the same outlay. But US tariffs may mean they end up paying a higher price
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07 Apr 2025
UK government to address balancing energy sustainability with AI growth demands
By Caroline DonnellyThe government is to host its inaugural AI Energy Council meetup, as it seeks a route to ensuring its goal of making the UK an artificial intelligence superpower does not come at the expense of the nation’s energy security
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07 Apr 2025
KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up
By Cliff SaranDeveloper overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address
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03 Apr 2025
Broadcom VMware hardens vDefend, drops Tanzu branding in VCF
By Tim McCarthyThe VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform sheds the Tanzu branding for Kubernetes and adds new capabilities to vDefend, but are prices hikes coming?
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03 Apr 2025
Trump aims to consolidate federal IT contracts
By Makenzie HollandMoving billions of dollars' worth of contracts into the General Services Administration could create workload challenges as the federal agency navigates staffing cuts.
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02 Apr 2025
Tech sector still failing to rid supply chains of forced labour
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonKnowTheChain’s latest benchmark analysis of the IT sector’s efforts to address forced labour in supply chains shows there has been very little improvement in their due diligence practices over the last half decade
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02 Apr 2025
Keysight introduces AI network architecture validation, optimisation tool
By Joe O’HalloranTool designed to validate the network performance of AI workloads and system infrastructure by adjusting and optimising parameters
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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
Intel CEO Tan to revamp Intel development for AI
By Antone GonsalvesIntel CEO Lip-Bu Tan plans to leverage AI for semiconductor design, shed non-core assets and foster a culture of innovation to turn around Intel.
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31 Mar 2025
Top 1,000 IT service providers in scope of UK cyber bill
By Alex ScroxtonThe government’s proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is set to include regulatory provisions covering both datacentre operators and larger IT service providers
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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
AMD teams up with Rapt AI to boost GPU performance for AI
By Antone GonsalvesAMD is partnering with Rapt AI to focus on workload management and performance optimization when running AI models on AMD's Instinct GPUs.
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27 Mar 2025
Research team demonstrates certified quantum randomness
By Cliff SaranA 56-qubit trapped ion quantum computer from Quantinuum has demonstrated quantum supremacy as a random number generator
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26 Mar 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use AI to catch wealthy tax dodgers
By Cliff SaranHMRC’s use of artificial intelligence is one of many initiatives outlined in Chancellor’s Spring Statement
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25 Mar 2025
Interview: The role of IT innovation at Royal Ballet and Opera
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the Royal Ballet and Opera’s head of IT delivery, Keith Nolan, about how IT lowers costs and helps power stage innovations for world-class performances
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24 Mar 2025
Storage players ride the Nvidia bus at GTC 2025
By Antony AdsheadAs artificial intelligence’s big beast holds its annual shindig, storage firms line up to launch everything from new array products to validations, certifications and vague ideas around data ecosystems
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24 Mar 2025
DE-CIX launches neutral internet exchanges in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
By Joe O’HalloranDE-CIX opens two internet exchanges, partnering with datacentre operators Equinix, Elea and Ascenty to boost enterprise connectivity, and connect to 60 locations and over datacentres in 600 cities
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21 Mar 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at CMS Distribution, SoftwareOne, Dell, Integrity360, Evolve IP and Softcat
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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
The datacentre energy deficit: How worried should operators be about power outages?
By Caroline DonnellyThe UK government’s plans to lower the barriers to new datacentre developments has left industry watchers querying how all these server farms will be powered. But are they worrying about nothing?
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20 Mar 2025
VMware dominance remains, despite challengers
By Tim McCarthyCustomers aren't rotating off VMware by Broadcom, despite cgripes on pricing and the rise of enterprise virtualization alternatives.
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20 Mar 2025
NAS storage: TrueNAS aims to make it big in Europe
By Yann SerraAimed at the SME market, but with NAS systems that go to tens of petabytes, iXsystems brings dual controllers, NVMe and hybrid flash, AI-capable storage, and container support
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18 Mar 2025
Digital Realty enters Indonesia through joint venture
By Aaron TanNew joint venture, Digital Realty Bersama, will develop and operate datacentres across Indonesia to meet the increasing demand for digital infrastructure in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy
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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
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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17 Mar 2025
Hetzner enhances datacentre core network infrastructure
By Joe O’HalloranHosting company taps tech provider to futureproof datacentre and core network infrastructure to support growing digital demands with architecture supporting 400G and 800G interconnectivity
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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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13 Mar 2025
YouFibre takes 400G connectivity option at Manchester internet exchange
By Joe O’HalloranIndependent full-fibre broadband provider becomes first ISP to take a 400G port at the London Internet Exchange’s regional interconnection hub in Manchester
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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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12 Mar 2025
Intel appoints ex-Cadence CEO amid turnaround struggles
By Antone GonsalvesIntel appoints chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the next CEO responsible for revitalizing the struggling chipmaker and transforming it into a contract manufacturer.
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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
Pure aims at AI beyond the enterprise with FlashBlade//Exa
By Antony AdsheadFlashBlade//Exa targets use cases between the enterprise and hyperscalers with a disaggregated architecture and its DFM flash modules to be available separately for the first time
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10 Mar 2025
Peter Kyle sets stage for making tech work
By Cliff SaranDuring his speech at the Tech Policy conference, Kyle announced a number of initiatives to support AI and other new technologies
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07 Mar 2025
Latest Alibaba AI model demos AI improvements
By Cliff SaranThe latest model from Chinese public cloud provider Alibaba shows how reinforced learning is driving AI efficiency
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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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05 Mar 2025
French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software
By Stéphane LarcherOceanogaphic research institute keeps Atempo backup software for near a quarter century with no plans to replace it for protection of critical data helping map the world’s oceans
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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
Jio, AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build telecom AI platform
By Aaron TanIndia’s Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco and Nokia have teamed up to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform aimed at improving the efficiency and security of telco networks through artificial intelligence and automation
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04 Mar 2025
Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration
By Cliff SaranA recent event held by VMware rival Nutanix attracted many people new to the hyperconverged infrastructure provider
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04 Mar 2025
Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce
By Antony AdsheadFlash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%
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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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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
Nvidia CEO claims reasoning models will boost GPU demand
By Cliff SaranThe availability of the DeepSeek-R1 model resulted in a big drop in Nvidia’s share price, but CEO Jensen Huang believes this is just a blip
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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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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
Quantum innovation balances on commercial tightrope
By Cliff SaranWhile there is plenty of innovation in quantum technology, the industry needs greater collaboration to develop commercially viable systems
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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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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
Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car
By Cliff SaranNvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack
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20 Feb 2025
Microsoft overcomes quantum barrier with new particle
By Cliff SaranIt has taken 20 years of development, but researchers now have a device that can scale to millions of qubits without errors rising exponentially
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20 Feb 2025
Microsoft unveils quantum chip Majorana 1 for future advances
By Antone GonsalvesMicrosoft unveils Majorana 1, a quantum chip with 8 qubits, aiming for 1 million. It focuses on scalability for breakthroughs in various fields despite current challenges.
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19 Feb 2025
ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity
By Cliff SaranMeta wants to make artificial intelligence available to everyone who uses its platforms, but scaling AI to over one billion people is not going to be cheap
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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
EY: Industrial companies worldwide stunted in emerging technology use
By Brian McKennaBusinesses globally are spending more on emerging technologies year-on-year, but struggle to expand experimental use cases, finds EY’s sixth annual Reimagining Industry Futures study
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18 Feb 2025
South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre
By Caroline DonnellyConstruction 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
Cyber Monitoring Centre develops hurricane scale to count cost of cyber attacks
By Bill GoodwinA non-profit company aims to measure the impact of cyber events on the economy using a 1 to 5 scale borrowed from hurricane classification
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18 Feb 2025
MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage
By Antony AdsheadAutodata 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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13 Feb 2025
EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins
By Cliff SaranTrump’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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12 Feb 2025
Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore
By Aaron TanAmazon 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: We will get better on AI power consumption
By Alex ScroxtonAt Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco execs shared their thoughts on the developing issues around how artificial intelligence is affecting datacentre power consumption
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace
By Alex ScroxtonAt 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
Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal
By Karl FlindersFujitsu 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: European AI investment ramps up
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA 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
By Antony AdsheadOne-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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07 Feb 2025
AWS sees full-year profit and revenue growth as AI and public cloud demand soars
By Caroline DonnellyAmazon 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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05 Feb 2025
AMD trims delivery time for MI350
By Antone GonsalvesAMD plans to send samples of the rack-scale AI chip to key customers in the current quarter.
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05 Feb 2025
APAC organisations to ramp up tech spending in 2025
By Aaron TanOrganisations across the region are prioritising cyber security, customer experience and application development, even as they navigate cloud repatriation and a growing skills gap in AI and security
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04 Feb 2025
IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space
By Karl FlindersCGI is building on its decade-long relationship with the European Space Agency, and as more and more satellites entering orbit, its role in processing data is not set to diminish
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04 Feb 2025
DE-CIX upgrades New York’s largest internet exchange backbone
By Joe O’HalloranDE-CIX upgrades one of the US’s largest internet exchange backbones as staying resilient and offering scale become priorities
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31 Jan 2025
Intel axes Falcon Shores amid market challenges
By Antone GonsalvesIntel decides its limited resources would be better spent on Falcon Shores' successor, Jaguar Shores.
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30 Jan 2025
VMware alternative vendors see 2025 as year to make a mark
By Tim McCarthyNumerous KVM-derived hypervisors are competing to claim the title of VMware alternative among enterprise customers, but actual adoption rates are still a question.
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30 Jan 2025
First international AI safety report published
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA global cohort of nearly 100 artificial intelligence experts publish first international AI safety report ahead of the third AI summit, outlining an array of challenges posed by the technology that will be used to inform upcoming discussions
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30 Jan 2025
Microsoft’s results show cloud AI balancing act
By Cliff SaranCEO acknowledges efficiency of DeepSeek and need to assess model optimisation rather than just buying more AI servers
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30 Jan 2025
Interview: Volvo’s engineering lead discusses tech stacks
By Cliff SaranVolvo Cars’ approach to manufacturing is becoming more software-defined, built on top of what it calls ‘a superset tech stack’
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28 Jan 2025
Concerns over Fujitsu billing application used at SSE Airtricity in Republic of Ireland
By Karl FlindersUnder-scrutiny IT services firm has escalated fears over problems with one of its applications, used at a Republic of Ireland energy firm, to its headquarters in Japan
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28 Jan 2025
DeepSeek: Welcome to US artificial intelligence’s Sputnik moment
By Cliff SaranIn spite of the US’s financial might, Russia’s Sputnik was the first satellite. Is something similar about to happen thanks to a new Chinese LLM?
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28 Jan 2025
Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?
By Yann SerraPure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an unnamed hyperscaler, be the first nails in the coffin for HDD?
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28 Jan 2025
Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs
By Antony AdsheadAWS Elastic Block Storage is often over-provisioned. Datafy virtualises EBS volumes to allow customers to scale capacity up and down, and says it will not charge customers if it doesn’t cut their costs
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27 Jan 2025
TCS to inject AI and quantum computing into aerospace through French delivery centre
By Karl FlindersIndian IT services giant opens IT delivery centre that will focus on technology that can address the challenges of the aerospace sector
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24 Jan 2025
Gartner tech spending forecast tempered by price hikes
By John MooreThe global IT market is projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, but an expected increase in the prices of vendor products and services will eat into CIOs' tech budgets.