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21 Mar 2025
NCSC, DSIT enlist IBM to spearhead cyber diversity agenda
By Alex ScroxtonIBM signs on to a partnership deal in support of the popular NCSC CyberFirst Girls scheme designed to foster gender diversity in the cyber security profession
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21 Mar 2025
Google, OpenAI target state laws in AI action plan
By Makenzie HollandThe federal government is developing plans for AI policy in the U.S. Stakeholders want a federal policy preempting state laws as a top strategic priority.
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21 Mar 2025
UK government to make £45m connectivity investment in schools
By Joe O’HalloranUK government says ‘no child left behind’ as it releases plans to narrow the digital divide in education through setting core digital standards for all schools focused on high-speed, reliable and secure connectivity
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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.
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24 Jan 2025
DC01UK’s plan to build ‘Europe’s biggest AI datacentre’ wins local council approval
By Caroline DonnellyPlans to build a hyperscale datacentre to host artificial intelligence and cloud workloads on green belt land in Hertfordshire have been waved through by local planning officials
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22 Jan 2025
CMA adds ex-Amazon UK boss to board as provisional judgement in cloud probe nears
By Caroline DonnellyThe former UK boss of Amazon UK has joined the CMA as its interim chair
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22 Jan 2025
Elon Musk distances himself from Trump’s Stargate AI mission
By Cliff SaranJust a few days into the Donald Trump presidency and there appears to be a disagreement brewing around funding of OpenAI and the Stargate Project
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22 Jan 2025
E&, DE-CIX create Middle East SmartHub internet exchange
By Joe O’HalloranMiddle East telco partners with internet exchange operator to boost regional datacentre connectivity, with Fujairah hosting largest submarine cable landing station and new locations for Dubai
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21 Jan 2025
Intel Foundry gains new defense clients for 18A process
By Antone GonsalvesIntel Foundry secures defense contracts with Trusted Semiconductor Solutions and Reliable MicroSystems, highlighting confidence in its 18A manufacturing process.
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21 Jan 2025
Hyperscalers to spend a trillion dollars on AI optimised hardware
By Cliff SaranThe market for AI optimised servers is growing, driven by hyperscalers and IT services firms developing AI-enabled services
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20 Jan 2025
Power grid constraints threaten Dutch digital innovation ambitions
By Kim LoohuisThe Netherlands risks falling behind in crucial digital innovations such as artificial intelligence as power grid congestion reaches critical levels across the country
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20 Jan 2025
Telehouse research highlights UK knowledge gap about what datacentres do
By Caroline DonnellyDespite the government’s efforts to champion the datacentre sector as a critical component of the country’s future growth, research shows the general public is largely unaware of what server farms are and what they do
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19 Jan 2025
ST Logistics teams up with Lenovo on smart warehouses
By Aaron TanThe Singapore logistics firm is partnering with Lenovo to integrate AI and automation into its warehouse operations
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17 Jan 2025
Enterprises need to make better choices to reduce GenAI emissions
By Vipin ChimraniCapgemini says the high environmental costs of generative artificial intelligence systems mean organisations need to develop roadmaps to make their use more sustainable
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16 Jan 2025
Fujitsu staff at HMRC to strike for two days over pay
By Karl FlindersMore public image woes for Fujitsu as hundreds of staff to strike after colleagues at HMRC get significantly bigger pay rise
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16 Jan 2025
NAO calls for ‘cross-government’ revamp of IT procurement to improve ‘big tech’ project outcomes
By Caroline DonnellyThe National Audit Office has highlighted a series of shortcomings in the government’s approach to digital procurement
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16 Jan 2025
Global IT spending to soar in 2025
By Aaron TanS&P Global Ratings expects a 9% surge in global IT spending for 2025, fuelled by demand for AI and cloud technologies, despite potential trade headwinds and a slowing global economy
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16 Jan 2025
DDN seeks AI leadership as it bags $300m investment
By Yann SerraDDN aims to take high-performance computing expertise and become a leader in storage for artificial intelligence. It builds on years in the HPC space, and now has £300m from Blackstone, a fund with an AI focus
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15 Jan 2025
Biggest Patch Tuesday in years sees Microsoft address 159 vulnerabilities
By Alex ScroxtonThe largest Patch Tuesday of the 2020s so far brings fixes for more than 150 CVEs ranging widely in their scope and severity – including eight zero-day flaws
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14 Jan 2025
January Patch Tuesday resolves 3 Hyper-V zero-days
By Tom WalatThe number of vulnerabilities corrected for January Patch Tuesday is one of the highest in recent memory and includes three Hyper-V vulnerabilities exploited in the wild.
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14 Jan 2025
Datacentre M&A deals reach record highs in 2024 fuelled by GenAI demand
By Caroline DonnellyFigures from Synergy Research Group reveal impact that generative AI is having on datacentre M&A deal values
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14 Jan 2025
Developing AI datacentres: Has the UK government got what it takes?
By Caroline DonnellyThe UK government has unveiled its 50-point AI action plan, which commits to building sovereign artificial intelligence capabilities and accelerating AI datacentre developments - but questions remain about the viability of the plans
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13 Jan 2025
Can UK government achieve ambition to become AI powerhouse?
By Cliff SaranThe artificial intelligence opportunities action plan has been largely well received, but there are plenty of questions about how it will be achieved
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13 Jan 2025
Third-party VMware support for perpetual licenses growing
By Tim McCarthyVMware support for perpetual licensed software by Broadcom may be dwindling, but third-party vendors are stepping up to fill the void.
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13 Jan 2025
UK government unveils AI-fuelled industrial strategy
By Cliff SaranLabour plans to implement the 50 recommendations set out by entrepreneur Matt Clifford to boost the use of AI in the UK
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10 Jan 2025
GenAI causing hyperscale datacentres to swell in size, research shows
By Caroline DonnellySynergy Research Group data shows impact that generative AI demand will have on the number and size of hyperscale datacentres in operation around the world
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09 Jan 2025
PC makers use CES to showcase AI PC efforts
By Cliff SaranA range of AMD, Intel and ARM-powered PCs with neural processing units are aiming to boost office productivity
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08 Jan 2025
AWS plants flag in Thailand with new cloud region
By Aaron TanAmazon Web Services’ latest regional expansion brings its cloud services to Thailand, promising a $10bn boost to the nation's GDP and support for more than 11,000 jobs per year
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08 Jan 2025
Custom software and silicon set to define next-gen chips
By Cliff SaranThe global chip supply crisis is not improving, but manufacturers are integrating new software and hardware techniques to stay ahead
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08 Jan 2025
GenAI demand fuels record sales of datacentre hardware and software in 2024
By Caroline DonnellyFigures from Synergy Research Group highlight how demand for generative AI and GPU technology has generated record amounts of spending in the datacentre hardware and software space during 2024
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08 Jan 2025
Nato membership boosts Finnish civil and military tech startups
By Gerard O'DwyerTech companies in Finland and Sweden that offer civil and military products are benefitting from Nato military alliance
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06 Jan 2025
Government develops quantum tech for military
By Lis EvenstadA high-tech atomic clock has been developed by a ‘secret lab’ and aims to decrease the reliance on GPS technology
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05 Jan 2025
Digital Edge secures $1.6bn to fuel regional expansion
By Aaron TanSingapore-based datacentre provider has raised over $1.6bn in equity and debt financing to meet growing demand for cloud and AI infrastructure across Asia
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02 Jan 2025
Government boosts Horizon R&D campaign
By Cliff SaranAs part of its Plan for Change, Labour is ramping up efforts to get more UK businesses to apply for Horizon funding
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27 Dec 2024
Top 10 ANZ stories of 2024
By Aaron TanThe 2024 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with developments spanning cloud migrations and AI adoption to heightened data security and real-time data streaming
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20 Dec 2024
Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light
By Caroline DonnellyThe government has granted the developers of a proposed datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, permission to press ahead with the project after the local council blocked the plans on Green Belt protection grounds
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19 Dec 2024
VMware by Broadcom changes to continue in 2025
By Tim McCarthyAfter a year of lawsuits, customer confusion and a restructuring of the core business, VMware by Broadcom has much to prove in 2025 to avoid future irrelevancy in the data center.