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12 Dec 2025
News brief: Future of security holds bigger budgets, new threats
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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12 Dec 2025
Geek gifts 2025: nostalgia and a human touch
Believe it or not, even tech geeks can use a break from technology sometimes. This year, authentic gifts that bring back memories are a gift giver's best bet.
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11 Dec 2025
Salesforce adds Informatica to Data 360, MuleSoft fold
Informatica brings a potentially stronger data foundation to Data 360 and, by extension, Agentforce.
Cloud Computing News from the past 365 days
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12 Dec 2025
University of York plumps for Workday to spruce up HR and finance
The University of York is replacing 57 HR and finance systems with a Workday platform, supported by KPMG, aiming for real-time insights and simpler processes
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11 Dec 2025
Beyond Now and Azul expanding channel options
Vendors outline benefits of fresh ownership and acquisition to generate increased opportunities for partners
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10 Dec 2025
How digital twins are helping people with motor neurone disease speak
Tech companies, a charity and academics have collaborated to create AI-powered avatars that are helping people with motor neurone disease hold natural conversations
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10 Dec 2025
Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID
Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions
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09 Dec 2025
Interview: Meet the competition lawyer taking Microsoft to task over its cloud licensing tactics
Microsoft’s approach to cloud licensing has been labelled anti-competitive and cost-prohibitive to enterprises by regulators, and now Maria Luisa Stasi is the competition lawyer looking to take the company to task over its behaviour
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09 Dec 2025
How Oracle Red Bull Racing is driving Formula 1 into the future with cloud, AI and data
Access to the F1 team’s garage in Abu Dhabi reveals how Monte Carlo simulations, artificial intelligence and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure power split-second decisions, strategy and championship-winning performance
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09 Dec 2025
Tricentis looks to agentic AI as firms risk losses from untested code
With 42% growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the software testing firm is pushing autonomous AI agents to help enterprises balance the pressure for speed against the high cost of software failures
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08 Dec 2025
AI widening data analytics opportunities
Those in the channel with the skills to support customers keen to get real-time insights should find evolving technology makes data analytics offerings more attractive
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08 Dec 2025
Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer
While AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
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08 Dec 2025
Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer
While AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
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05 Dec 2025
AWS CloudOps hones multi-cloud support for AI, resilience
Network, observability and Kubernetes management news at re:Invent aligned around themes of multi-cloud scale and resilience amid AI growth and cloud outage concerns.
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04 Dec 2025
Salesforce UK boss stresses the importance of partners
As Salesforce outlines an increasingly agentic AI future, the need for the channel to play a role in delivering that vision has been underlined
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04 Dec 2025
Western coalition supplying tech to Ukraine prepared for long war
Russia is deploying hybrid warfare against Europe as western nations supply critical IT and telecoms equipment to Ukraine’s front line
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03 Dec 2025
Post Office avoids £1m fine over botched website upgrade data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office considered fining the Post Office £1m for a 2024 data breach that let subpostmasters down again
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03 Dec 2025
Women in Cybersecurity Middle East marks five years of impact at Black Hat MEA
As AI reshapes the regional cyber security landscape, diversity and skills development remain at the heart of building a resilient digital workforce
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03 Dec 2025
AWS CEO Garman pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future
At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data
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02 Dec 2025
AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent
At AWS re:Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics
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02 Dec 2025
Small businesses need help to unlock AI data insights
There is a willingness among SMEs to use technology to improve market knowledge, but a failure by many to turn that into action
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02 Dec 2025
ASEAN enterprises moving from ‘AI-first’ to ‘AI-native’
Organisations across Southeast Asia are reimagining business processes, going beyond the experimentation phase of AI adoption, according to AWS’s head of the region
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01 Dec 2025
Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear
It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working
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01 Dec 2025
Google Cloud withdraws complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing tactics
More than a year has passed since Google filed a complaint with the European Commission, outlining its concerns over Microsoft’s licensing tactics, and now the internet search giant has withdrawn it
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27 Nov 2025
Databricks predicts AI tipping point as ANZ firms fix data issues
As AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI
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27 Nov 2025
Google Cloud launches ‘PanyaThAI’ to spur AI adoption in Thailand
The cloud supplier is offering training and its AI technology stack to unlock an estimated 730bn baht in economic value for Thai businesses such as Thai Wacoal and SE-Education
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27 Nov 2025
SAP selects Tata Consultancy Services to transform its IT operations
Software firm agrees five-year IT transformation project with Indian outsourcing giant, taking relationship up to 20 years
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26 Nov 2025
FSP and Redsquid hit the acquisition trail
The channel players are using M&A as a route to expanding capabilities and market reach
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26 Nov 2025
US breach reinforces need to plug third-party security weaknesses
Cyber breach at US financial sector tech provider highlights the risk of third-party vulnerabilities in finance ecosystems
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25 Nov 2025
AI Singapore taps Alibaba Cloud to power Sea-Lion model
The fourth iteration of the regional LLM leverages Alibaba’s Qwen foundation model to improve multilingual accuracy and performance on consumer-grade hardware
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25 Nov 2025
Interview: IBM on breaking hyperscaler lock-in
Big Blue’s general manager for Asia-Pacific Hans Dekkers talks up why APAC enterprises are rethinking their reliance on public cloud, the resurgence of the mainframe via LinuxOne, and how it used its own AI tools to cut internal costs
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24 Nov 2025
Monday.com touts AI as cure for productivity slump
At its Elevate conference in Sydney, the workflow management supplier showed off new artificial intelligence capabilities to tackle burnout, while showcasing customer wins from Tennis Australia, Ray White and Freedom
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24 Nov 2025
UAE’s e& enterprise drives growth with AI and sovereign cloud
Acting chief revenue officer Majd Coussa outlines how the digital transformation company is turning innovation into measurable business outcomes for 2025
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24 Nov 2025
MWC25 Doha debut marks a new chapter for MENA mobile innovation
GSMA’s Jawad Jalal Abbassi outlines how Qatar’s first Mobile World Congress will accelerate digital transformation, 5G adoption and AI integration across the region
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24 Nov 2025
Softcat shares customer priorities for 2026
Security, artificial intelligence and delivering a positive user experience through the digital workplace are areas where users plan to invest
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24 Nov 2025
Google wins multimillion-pound contract to supply sovereign cloud services to Nato
Google follows up recent Ministry of Defence sovereign cloud contract win with Nato deal
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21 Nov 2025
MSP Evolution Summit: Acceleration towards services model
The portion of business derived from services has increased across the channel as partners move away from older revenue streams
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20 Nov 2025
UK government outlines next wave of AI investment plans
The UK government continues to build on the release of its AI Opportunities Action Plan, with the announcement of another AI Growth Zone plus investment opportunities for the nation's startup community
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20 Nov 2025
The big three grab two-thirds of $107B cloud market in Q3
Cloud dominance intensifies as AWS, Microsoft and Google capture 63% of the $107B market. AWS leads at 29%, despite erosion, while Microsoft and Google rise with AI-driven growth.
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20 Nov 2025
Focus firmly on AI at Microsoft Ignite
Vendor announces several enhancements to its cloud partner programme to encourage the development of expertise around artificial intelligence products and services
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20 Nov 2025
MSP Evolution Summit: AI is here to stay
Not only is it important for the channel to deliver and support artificial intelligence technology, but managed service providers need to have their own take on the AI story
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20 Nov 2025
Qualcomm and Humain launch AI engineering centre in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia strengthens its artificial intelligence ambitions under Vision 2030 with a new Qualcomm-powered datacentre hub, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlights tech innovation during his US visit
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19 Nov 2025
Government-backed coalition to end gazumping in property market
The government wants a digital platform that can address ‘inefficiencies’ causing stress for homeowners and inflicting huge costs to the economy
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19 Nov 2025
EU sets out plans to cut red tape on digital
Changes have been proposed to simplify AI Act compliance for smaller businesses, easier cyber security reporting and tweaks to GDPR
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19 Nov 2025
Apple denies ‘locking in’ iCloud users as £3bn legal claim brought by Which? reaches court
Consumer tech giant Apple has dismissed a legal claim brought by Which? that alleges the pricing strategy for its iCloud service has ‘locked in’ 41 million users in the UK
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19 Nov 2025
Workday sets out to reinvent ERP with agentic AI platform
At Workday Rising EMEA, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier signalled a new phase of development as an agentic AI platform provider that might disrupt traditional ERP
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19 Nov 2025
Inside the Middle East tech ambition: How A2RL is shaping the future of AI-driven mobility
Driverless cars push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, real-time decision-making and data-driven mobility at Yas Marina Circuit
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18 Nov 2025
UK channel still working on AI skills
Although many accept in the industry accept there is more to do when it comes to AI skills, the UK channel is more confident in its abilities than peers in other countries
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18 Nov 2025
European Commission launches AWS and Microsoft-focused cloud competition probes
The European Commission has launched three investigations into how the continent’s cloud market operates, with two focused specifically on Microsoft and Amazon Web Services
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18 Nov 2025
NHS signs another major IT deal with the Indian IT sector
Five-year NHS deal sees Tata Consultancy Services continue to grow its UK public sector business
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18 Nov 2025
CCS under fire over ‘anti-SME’ supplier requirements for G-Cloud 15
Government procurement chiefs have shared details of how IT suppliers can participate in G-Cloud 15, but concerns are being raised about changes that may render the framework inaccessible to SMEs
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18 Nov 2025
Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion
US chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium
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17 Nov 2025
UK investment bank IT outages cost £600k an hour
Survey respondents say there are barriers to resilience for UK investment banks, including a skills shortage and internal resistance
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14 Nov 2025
Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped
ING warns grid congestion threatens Dutch datacentre leadership, while the country’s championed hydrogen solution remains largely untapped
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14 Nov 2025
Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026
Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history
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12 Nov 2025
IT services companies and datacentres face regulation as cyber security bill reaches Parliament
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will require large IT services companies, including datacentres, to report security incidents within 24 hours
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11 Nov 2025
New high-accuracy GPS aims to end navigation woes
Grab and its tech partners are trialling a system that promises lane-level accuracy, a first for ride-hailing in Southeast Asia
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11 Nov 2025
Google: Don’t get distracted by AI, focus on real cyber threats
While hackers are using artificial intelligence to optimise attacks, many of the most damaging breaches still rely on old-school methods, says a top security analyst from Google
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11 Nov 2025
North American fleet management systems to show double-digit growth to 2029
Research from IoT analyst reveals installed base of fleet management systems in North America to reach 33 million units over the next three years, dominated by a handful of providers with installed bases in the millions
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09 Nov 2025
Nikkei data breach exposes personal data of over 17,000 staff
Hackers used stolen login details from an employee's computer to access the Japanese media giant’s Slack messaging platform, with names, email addresses and chat histories potentially exposed
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07 Nov 2025
City of London deploys SASE to future-proof public infrastructure
Managed services provider to deliver an end-to-end networking connectivity offering, encompassing what is said to be a UK-first enterprise secure access service edge roll-out for public services
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07 Nov 2025
AvePoint points to MSP contribution in Q3
Digital workplace player experiences a strong quarter with its channel continuing to play a pivotal role in delivering growth
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07 Nov 2025
How Palo Alto Networks is leveraging AI
Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel explains how the company is using AI to sieve through 90 billion security events a day, and why security and user experience are two sides of the same coin
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06 Nov 2025
Police Digital Service defends IT contractor cuts amid concerns over IT project delivery
The Police Digital Service has defended its decision to cut the size of its flexible IT workforce, as sources raise concerns about low staff morale and hampered IT project delivery times
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06 Nov 2025
HPE rolls out unified partner programme
Firm makes enhancements that should make life easier for partners across the channel looking to work with all or part of the vendor’s portfolio
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05 Nov 2025
Darktrace: Developer tools under constant attack
Attackers are using automated tools to target development environments within seconds of them going live, warns Darktrace’s global field chief information security officer
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05 Nov 2025
From ambition to action: How the Gulf is turning responsible AI into a global reality
The Middle East is rapidly advancing in artificial intelligence and digital transformation, driven by strong government strategies. Success in the region requires trust, cultural awareness and alignment with local regulations
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05 Nov 2025
Insurer Vitality forges closer ties with Google for AI-powered customer health boost
Health insurance firm Vitality wants to help its customers take a more preventative approach to managing their health and fitness, with the help of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence portfolio
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05 Nov 2025
SAP TechEd 2025: Make AI real, grind in data
SAP TechEd in Berlin put an accent on building agentic and generative AI systems to create real business outcomes, beyond what its executives say is excessive hype
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05 Nov 2025
Verizon Business, AWS seal fibre deal to accelerate AI applications at scale
Comms provider and hyperscaler unite on network infrastructure and suite of products designed to enable global enterprises to deploy AI workloads at scale
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04 Nov 2025
Cisco channel chief talks 360, AI and partner value
As the vendor pulls thousands of its partners together for its summit, its recently installed channel leader shares his thoughts on a range of issues
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04 Nov 2025
UAE Sovereign Launchpad begins nationwide roll-out with support from e& and AWS
The cloud infrastructure platform aims to strengthen digital resilience and regulatory compliance across government and regulated sectors in the United Arab Emirates
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04 Nov 2025
Microsoft’s $15.2bn investment in the UAE: A strategic bet on AI, talent and trust
Microsoft’s decade-long investment in the United Arab Emirates underscores its commitment to building a robust artificial intelligence ecosystem, advancing digital infrastructure and fostering local talent through a strategic partnership with G42
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03 Nov 2025
CrowdStrike: Europe second only to North America for cyber attacks
Europe faces rising cyber threats from criminals and nation-states, according to CrowdStrike. Ransomware attacks now take just 24 hours, with 22% of global victims being European
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03 Nov 2025
Cisco steps up security options for MSPs
Cisco’s cloud platform enhancements have been designed to make life easier for its managed service provider base
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03 Nov 2025
AWS hails return to accelerated growth with Q3 results
Despite having to make allowances for paying out close to $2bn in severance payments, Amazon’s results show its cloud arm is continuing to go from strength to strength
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03 Nov 2025
How Zoom is approaching agentic AI
Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning
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31 Oct 2025
Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide
US and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server
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31 Oct 2025
Capgemini and Siemens combine to make AI industrial tech
Siemens and Capgemini are expanding their partnership to create AI-based industrial technologies, said to boost efficiency, sustainability and innovation in manufacturing sectors
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30 Oct 2025
Equinix acquires DC01UK’s mega-datacentre site in Hertfordshire and plots £3.9bn investment
Colocation giant Equinix has acquired a plot of land in Hertfordshire where datacentre developer DC01UK secured planning permission to build a hyperscale campus in January 2025
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30 Oct 2025
Microsoft CEO speaks of global cloud factory as Azure stalls
Alongside Microsoft's posted cloud revenue of $49bn was a configuration error that caused a global outage affecting many customers
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30 Oct 2025
Peer angry as sales figures suggest Fujitsu has weathered Post Office scandal storm
Japanese IT supplier managed to grow its UK public sector business last year despite the fallout from the Post Office scandal
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29 Oct 2025
Rapid7: Cyber defences stuck in the 1980s as threats mount
The company’s chief product officer notes that many defence tactics are still stuck in the past, urging organisations to adopt AI-driven security platforms to improve threat detection and response
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29 Oct 2025
AWS emerges as ‘sole bidder’ for HMRC’s £500m datacentre migration project as rivals exit
A week after HM Revenue & Customs’ reliance on Amazon Web Services came under scrutiny from MPs, the public cloud giant remains the only supplier in the running for the tax agency’s £500m datacentre exit project
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29 Oct 2025
Monday.com eyes ASEAN growth with Singapore hub
The work management specialist’s Collier Quay office will serve as its hub for Southeast Asia as it looks to build deeper relationships with a growing customer base
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28 Oct 2025
Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI
E-commerce giant Amazon has cited artificial intelligence as a key driver of its decision to lay off thousands of its corporate employees
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27 Oct 2025
BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration
Zscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia
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24 Oct 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at NCC Group, Arrow Electronics, NTT Data, Hammer and Kaseya
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24 Oct 2025
AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion
Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region
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24 Oct 2025
Canva to save 30,000 work hours with agentic AI
The graphic design giant is training hundreds of staff on a low-code AI platform and agentic AI tools that are set to save around 30,000 person-hours this year and generate financial returns
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23 Oct 2025
AWS apologises for 14-hour outage and sets out causes of US datacentre region downtime
Days after its largest US datacentre region experienced a lengthy outage, causing service disruption to web users across the globe, Amazon Web Services issues an explanation and apology regarding what happened
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23 Oct 2025
Business leaders raise concerns over public cloud data sovereignty
The unpredictable geopolitical climate is having an impact on IT strategies, a report from Kyndryl has found
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23 Oct 2025
UAE’s datacentre boom powers AI ambitions and digital sovereignty
Surging investments in cloud infrastructure and hyperscale capacity position the UAE as a regional digital powerhouse and a magnet for global tech giants
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22 Oct 2025
Softcat CEO talks expansion, AI and growing in a tough market
With the publication of the channel player’s FY25 results, Softcat’s boss shares context around the firm’s strong performance
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22 Oct 2025
Container storage: Five key things you need to know
We look at container storage and backup, diving deep into how storage works in containers, container storage interface, container-native storage, and the management platforms storage suppliers offer
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22 Oct 2025
Softcat delivers again in FY ’25
Channel player has delivered growth for more than two decades as the focus on data and digital technology continues to pay off
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21 Oct 2025
AWS and e& launch AI and cloud training programme to build UAE’s future-ready workforce
The ‘AI Nation – Afaaq’ initiative will train 30,000 individuals in AI and machine learning, addressing critical skills gaps and supporting the UAE’s digital transformation ambitions
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21 Oct 2025
Evolve IP outlines partner growth ambitions
Recently appointed global sales lead shares a vision for how the cloud comms specialist will grow in 2026
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21 Oct 2025
New cyber resilience centre to help SMEs fend off cyber threats
Spearheaded by the Singapore Business Federation, the cyber resilience centre will equip SMEs in the city-state with cyber security capabilities to mitigate and recover from cyber attacks
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20 Oct 2025
France’s Atos eyes UK public sector with investment in secure UK infrastructure
French IT services supplier invests in highly secure and accredited UK-based infrastructure
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20 Oct 2025
AWS confirms it is working to 'fully restore' services after major outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) users have experienced an outage after the public cloud giant's North Virginia datacentre region became beset with technical difficulties
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20 Oct 2025
Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide
Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights organisations are calling for further action
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20 Oct 2025
Du racks up 1Tbps Middle East milestone
Leading UAE operator Du achieves record-breaking peak traffic through its datamena platform and marks milestone for internet exchange in the Middle East to reach performance level
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17 Oct 2025
UK Salesforce execs: Agentforce begins to stoke new business forms
Salesforce UK CEO Zahra Bahrololoumi and CTO Paul O’Sullivan put Dreamforce 2025 discourse about agentic AI into a UK context