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28 Sep 2026
Nvidia launches AI safety platform after agent security breaches
The vendor's new system is designed to contain rogue AI agents as companies race to secure increasingly autonomous systems. But it has not been proven yet.
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28 Sep 2026
Microsoft’s Copilot redesign provides an experimental opportunity
The revamp transforms Copilot from a simple AI assistant into a content workspace, providing knowledge workers with advanced developer tools.
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28 Sep 2026
Software contracts can lock CIOs in long before they need to leave
Exit readiness starts at signing. CIOs need contract terms that preserve data access, migration options and leverage if a vendor relationship changes.
Cloud Computing News from the past 365 days
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28 Sep 2026
UiPath’s Cartographer agent interviews staff to map how businesses run
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says the company’s Cartographer agent will capture the institutional knowledge AI agents lack by interviewing employees and learning from the corrections they make
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27 Sep 2026
Vast Data pitches confidential AI to APAC’s regulated industries
DataEnclave, due in the coming months, protects artificial intelligence models and sensitive data while they are processed on GPUs, with Australian neocloud Sharon AI among the cloud providers lined up to offer it
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25 Sep 2026
A bright future for distribution?
Where is the world heading for disties? Billy MacInnes canvases a range of opinions to find out
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25 Sep 2026
Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust
Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud?
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25 Sep 2026
Cost a major barrier to wider AI adoption
The channel must not lose sight of the importance of demonstrating return on investment if artificial intelligence pilots are to be turned into full-scale projects
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25 Sep 2026
TD Synnex boss talks of widening AI impact
Talking about the distributor’s third-quarter numbers provides a chance to touch on the opportunities the firm is taping into now as well as ones emerging in the near future
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25 Sep 2026
Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox
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24 Sep 2026
IBM extends consultancy depth with Logiq Consulting buy
Vendor continues to follow a pattern of using M&A to add more support options to put in front of public sector customers
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24 Sep 2026
US military confirms existence of orbital weapons
The US military has for the first time confirmed the existence of orbital weapons, but has not divulged details of their capabilities or whether they have been integrated with Space Force’s growing arsenal of AI systems
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24 Sep 2026
US military confirms existence of orbital weapons
The US military has for the first time confirmed the existence of orbital weapons, but has not divulged details of their capabilities or whether they have been integrated with Space Force’s growing arsenal of AI systems
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24 Sep 2026
Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath
With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365
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24 Sep 2026
Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency
A draft architecture published under the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy spells out what full software sovereignty requires and why full hardware sovereignty remains out of reach
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24 Sep 2026
Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin
The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asia’s first enterprise to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents
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23 Sep 2026
Phoenix47 grows as it plugs the channel’s services gap
Firm shares update on progress as it expands geographically and invests in its ability to support partners and customers
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23 Sep 2026
Informatica wants AI agents to stop making up the numbers
Informatica, owned by Salesforce, is making its catalogue metadata machine-readable, and adding trust indicators to answers in Claude so customers can see where a figure comes from before they act on it
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22 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence
Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler
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22 Sep 2026
Cisco: Partners can fill AI security capability gap
Vendor shares research indicating the areas where the channel can assist users with AI, as ISACA research warns that customers are struggling
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22 Sep 2026
NTU uses AI agents to uncover flaws in mobile networks
Nanyang Technological University’s agentic AI tool checks mobile core network code against 3GPP specifications and has found 84 vulnerabilities, including one that lets an attacker hijack a subscriber’s internet session
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21 Sep 2026
IBM enabling partners to deliver a consultative sell
Vendor increases investment in education to arm partners with the tools to deliver AI guidance to users
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21 Sep 2026
Barnet council bringing Capita IT work in-house after alternative contract ‘abandoned’
London Borough of Barnet’s extended IT service contract with Capita finally comes to an end
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21 Sep 2026
Bumrungrad turns to AI agents to clear patient email backlog
Bumrungrad International Hospital is using Salesforce’s Agentforce to summarise and route patient correspondence, with automated appointment booking and voice agents on the cards
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18 Sep 2026
Data dive: London and M4 the datacentre hotspot, but not for long
A fresh count of the UK’s existing datacentres finds 1.6GW, mostly in London and the M4, while a projected 14.6GW heads north to get on the grid
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18 Sep 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at GTIA, Arrow, Bechtle, Westcon-Comstor and Inforcer
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18 Sep 2026
Softcat makes $1bn move for GDT
Acquisition of US business seen as delivering a host of benefits that will bring more growth options for the channel platter
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17 Sep 2026
Trustmarque Ultima ushers in TMU brand
Business unveils fresh look as it continues to integrate businesses that came together in a merger 10 months ago
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17 Sep 2026
Bytes talks of continued strong demand
Channel player shares trading update and indicates customers are continuing to invest in technology and services
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17 Sep 2026
MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions
Government pledges planning guidance by Christmas and environmental impact assessments for schemes of more than 50MW, with Scotland’s committed pipeline at 14 schemes and 2.4GW
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17 Sep 2026
TechUK calls for 10-year digital infrastructure strategy
UK tech association warns that the country’s economic growth, productivity and national resilience depend on urgent action to strengthen its digital infrastructure foundations
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16 Sep 2026
Salesforce wants ASEAN customers to stop thinking in tokens
The region’s customers have stopped bankrolling open-ended AI pilots, and Salesforce is responding with action-based pricing, forward-deployed engineers and tools that hand simple tasks to cheaper models
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16 Sep 2026
Anthropic picks Singapore for fifth APAC office
The Claude developer has hired a former Google Cloud executive to run its ASEAN business, days after CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to slow down
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15 Sep 2026
Capita doesn’t get to ‘walk away from’ civil service pension mess, says minister
UK government minister tells a packed-out Westminster debate that Capita must sort out Civil Service Pension Scheme problems before any decision on future of scheme
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15 Sep 2026
Splunk Conf 26: Splunk hopes to build confidence in agentic AI
With trust in AI agents close to rock bottom in the popular imagination, Splunk and Cisco unveiled a series of platform enhancements designed to enhance observability and confidence in agentic AI
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15 Sep 2026
Spor extends workplace proposition with Squaredot buy
Addition of design business will add depth to the solution the firm can pitch to customers
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15 Sep 2026
Salesforce puts Claude and Slack in front of its CRM
CRM giant productises the plumbing that lets its own and third-party AI agents operate on the Salesforce platform, and reveals Koa, a reasoning model built with Nvidia
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15 Sep 2026
Data dive: The revolving door between Whitehall and big tech
A Computer Weekly data analysis reveals a steady revolving door between Whitehall and major technology suppliers, mapping 63 moves by senior officials to AI and IT suppliers since 2010
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11 Sep 2026
US lawmakers call for UK court to lift secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ surveillance
Congress warns that the UK’s unprecedented secrecy over a ‘backdoor’ surveillance order against Apple is straining relations between the two countries
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11 Sep 2026
Civil service union welcomes pension scheme insourcing plan
PCS union chief met Cabinet Office minister to discuss troubled pension scheme run by Capita
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11 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must shape AI, use open source
As frontier models outpace cyber defences, two public sector voices set out different answers to the same security question – transparency and procurement leverage
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11 Sep 2026
Customers need to be guided through AI journey
The decision by Advania to bet big on AI and increase the support it can provide underlines the need for hand-holding if adoption dreams are going to become reality
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10 Sep 2026
Inside Google AI worker’s union drive to instil company ethics
‘Google is in the military kill chain’: Google DeepMind’s AI workers are attempting to unionise over ethical concerns around the provision of cloud and AI technologies to the US and Israeli militaries, but the company is pushing back
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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: TeenTech alumni call for AI literacy in schools
Maggie Philbin charity urges public sector leaders to mentor and sponsor, as students demand education reform, soft-skill extracurriculars and a ‘mission in AI literacy’
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10 Sep 2026
Nationwide consolidates 19 data stores to one in the cloud
Building society creates a single company-wide data platform using Microsoft cloud technology
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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: UHCW adds an operation a day with AI
UHCW added daily theatre capacity and got correct utilisation data using Proximie’s AI as part of what partners describe as the NHS’s largest surgical AI deployment
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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must move to full AI transformation
AWS says public sector AI adoption must move to ‘full transformation’ as it shows advanced workflow redesign yields 68% efficiency gains at its London symposium
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10 Sep 2026
Capita meeting self-imposed civil service pension targets ‘not sufficient’, says government
UK government views the outsourcer’s overall performance as ‘unacceptable’ after it reports meeting a self-imposed target
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10 Sep 2026
Qualcomm and Amazon team for next-gen AI datacentre infrastructure
Leading mobile platform provider collaborates with cloud giant across optical connectivity and customised silicon to support artificial intelligence infrastructure within datacentre networks
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09 Sep 2026
Dell touts platform play as AI demand goes beyond cloud suppliers
Enterprises and sovereign buyers are accounting for a growing share of Dell’s AI infrastructure business, and its chief strategy officer has some advice for buyers still waiting for the market to settle
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09 Sep 2026
Zayo advances network as a service with agentic networking
Digital network infrastructure provider claims first production Model Context Protocol server built specifically for networking
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08 Sep 2026
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft updates address almost 1,000 flaws
Microsoft has released another record-breaking Patch Tuesday update with almost 1,000 flaws in scope
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08 Sep 2026
UK committed datacentre pipeline grows to more than 14GW
Barbour ABI data show UK’s datacentre pipeline has grown to 173 projects and more than 14GW of capacity, driven by AI demand and large sites in Scotland and the North East
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08 Sep 2026
Computacenter delivers record-breaking H1
Channel player experiences growth across its offerings, as well as geographically in the first half
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08 Sep 2026
Interview: Huawei targets Saudi Arabia’s shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption
As enterprises move beyond artificial intelligence pilots, Huawei is positioning its cloud, computing and partner ecosystem to help organisations build scalable AI platforms while maintaining control over data, models and infrastructure
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08 Sep 2026
Lendi Group taps agent swarm to reshape mortgage broking
The Australian mortgage group has built its own orchestration platform to run the specialised agents that now guide customers through the early stages of a loan application
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08 Sep 2026
Citi pulls data out of regional silos to pave the way for AI
The bank’s wealth arm has spent 18 months moving client and market data off five regional datacentres and onto one cloud platform, cutting reporting times from weeks to days
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07 Sep 2026
Advania welcomes fresh UK CEO
After a search that has lasted almost seven months, the channel player has settled on its preferred candidate to run the UK business
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04 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping NHS hyperscaler dependence
Mapping NHS DNS data reveals a heavy reliance on US hyperscalers, with Microsoft 365 routing email and infrastructure for the vast majority of trusts in a tangled web of connections
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04 Sep 2026
Billion-dollar AWS financial services investment builds on a decade of work
The US tech giant committed to the financial services sector a decade ago, which has seen its offering develop alongside the industry
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03 Sep 2026
Interview: Oracle accelerates Middle East cloud expansion as demand for sovereign AI rises
The company is expanding its regional cloud footprint, growing sovereign cloud deployments and investing in AI skills development as governments and enterprises seek control over data, compliance and artificial intelligence
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03 Sep 2026
CDW expands AI expertise
Distributor acquires more data and analytics expertise, while Genesys shares a momentum update on the positive impact of demand for AI tools
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01 Sep 2026
The Security Interviews: Abby Kearns, ActiveState
ActiveState CEO Abby Kearns discusses open source’s ‘existential crisis’, how AI is changing the secure software playbook, and why it’s time to have a different conversation about open source security
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01 Sep 2026
Pay more, check nothing: Councils buy Microsoft but don’t test
A Computer Weekly analysis of FOI responses from 37 English councils found 32 have never run a competitive procurement in which an alternative to Microsoft could have won
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01 Sep 2026
Snowflake: dashboard-era access controls won’t govern AI agents
The company’s chief data and AI officer talks up efforts to move access controls into the data layer, the cost of dynamic model routing and why governance cannot be baked into model weights
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31 Aug 2026
Why AI may need fewer datacentre GPUs than you think
The focus on inferencing, allied to smaller models, purpose-built silicon and on-device processing, is loosening the grip of hyperscale GPU clusters on enterprise AI workloads
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27 Aug 2026
Post Office Horizon replacement ‘screw-up’ ends in challenge, more cost and delay
IT supplier Escher challenged the award of the Horizon EPOS replacement contract, leading to months of delay and additional costs
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27 Aug 2026
Deutsche Bank selects Thought Machine to support core system reduction
Thought Machine’s Google-inspired banking technology has now been adopted by 20 global Tier 1 banks
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27 Aug 2026
AI agents will try every door – and find the ones left unlocked
Enterprises are working out how to give AI agents identities of their own, says Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand, just as frontier models start finding vulnerabilities faster than anyone can patch them
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26 Aug 2026
UK government set to adjudicate on ‘risky’ tech purchases
Proposals for amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would enable the UK government to clamp down on purchases of technology from suppliers linked to hostile foreign countries
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25 Aug 2026
Networks must be upgraded to unlock AI benefits
Global survey of the CSP community from Ciena underlines the importance of getting infrastructure into a position to support demanding technologies
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25 Aug 2026
LINX, JPIX go live with London-to-Tokyo low latency connectivity
Network route launched connecting European networks to one of Asia’s largest interconnection hubs, facilitating low latency internet and networking and local peering opportunities
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24 Aug 2026
How AI has improved customer support for Aussie firms
Support leaders for carsales at Catapult Sports and Sealy of Australia explain how Zendesk’s AI tools have changed their service operations, from providing round-the-clock support to ticket triage in over 60 languages
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24 Aug 2026
Mimecast CEO on why AI risk starts with the user
Ranjan Singh talks up the security supplier’s focus on human risk management, the behavioural data he believes rivals can’t match, and why having a local datacentre is a condition of doing business in APAC
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20 Aug 2026
Cloudera unveils Anywhere Cloud as enterprises pull AI back on-premises
The modular platform lets enterprises run data and AI services across public clouds, private datacentres and air-gapped sites, with early adopter ExxonMobil getting it up and running in just over an hour
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20 Aug 2026
Will Scottish datacentre ruling nudge spec builds into the open?
Scotland forces councils to flag 50MW-plus datacentre bids to ministers within seven days, as mooted gigawatt campuses prove to be vapour or stall on grid connections
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20 Aug 2026
PoliceAI outlines plans to test and assure AI for policing
Computer Weekly speaks with PoliceAI – a national body set up to build, test and assure artificial intelligence models for policing contexts – about how it plans to approach the development and implementation of automated policing tools
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19 Aug 2026
Proofpoint launches AI security engineering centre in India
The security supplier is hiring over 200 engineers in Hyderabad to develop models that can interpret the intent behind the actions of AI agents, Proofpoint’s latest investment in a market where its business has tripled in a year
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19 Aug 2026
How AI is changing the economics of customer service
Jon Aniano, Zendesk's senior vice-president and general manager of customer experience, talks up the rise of voice AI agents, the limits of average handle time and why automated resolution frees human agents for the calls that matter
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18 Aug 2026
Alibaba Cloud opens third South Korea datacentre
The Chinese cloud supplier has expanded its Korean footprint with its third datacentre as it looks to capture a bigger slice of a crowded market dominated by Western and local players
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17 Aug 2026
Natural History Museum’s ‘living laboratory’ logs 11 million environmental records in first year
More than 50 sensors feed temperature, humidity and acoustic readings into the Museum’s AWS Data Ecosystem, which found woodland soils stayed 10°C cooler in June’s heatwave
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14 Aug 2026
Supplier challenge delays Post Office Horizon replacement
Losing bidder challenges the Post Office’s decision to award Horizon replacement contract to OneView Commerce
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13 Aug 2026
Ahead Foundry to increase support for UK and European customers
Firm opens facility to help users looking to design and deploy high-performance AI computing solutions
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13 Aug 2026
Everpure lands second hyperscaler design win for DirectFlash
A second top-five hyperscaler is set to take Everpure’s high-capacity flash modules, looking to displace HDDs in a specific price-performance tier of the storage stack
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13 Aug 2026
Ryanair signs five-year Google Cloud AI partnership
Ryanair adds Google Cloud to existing AWS estate, to deploy Gemini Enterprise and DeepMind models to 35,000 staff for crew scheduling and operational decision-making
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13 Aug 2026
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gets hybrid quantum capabilities
Oracle has partnered with Quantinuum to bring the company’s Helios system to OCI customers
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12 Aug 2026
Ant Group debuts physician platform to support patient care
The AQ for Doctor platform is integrated with a patient-facing app to help doctors conduct online consultations, manage patient records and support clinical decision-making
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12 Aug 2026
Dubai ranks second globally in AI adoption as investment in digital infrastructure accelerates
BCG’s Intelligent Cities Index highlights how the emirate is translating artificial intelligence ambitions into large-scale deployment, supported by investments in datacentres, sovereign AI initiatives and digital infrastructure
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12 Aug 2026
Sovereignty beyond residency: Why Gulf governments must rethink AI control
Vast Data’s Haider Aziz argues that auditability, portability and governance will determine the success of sovereign artificial intelligence initiatives across the Middle East
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12 Aug 2026
AI impact seen in Q2 numbers at Insight and CDW
Channel players share quarterly numbers that show growth across the board and benefit from UK operations
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06 Aug 2026
Capita CEO receives scathing rebuttal from employee over botched contract
Capita CEO criticised after making Civil Service Pension Scheme claims in a message to staff
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05 Aug 2026
ECI snaps up Prima
ERP specialist acquired as Tracxn Technologies shines a light on the general state of European technology investments
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03 Aug 2026
Apple files fresh claim against Home Office move to access encrypted cloud data
Apple has filed another legal complaint over a secret Home Office order requiring the supplier to provide access to encrypted iCloud data stored by UK customers
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03 Aug 2026
MPs demand answers on Fujitsu’s inclusion in lucrative frameworks
Controversial supplier Fujitsu was included in major government procurement opportunities in July 2026
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31 Jul 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Integrity360, TrustedTech, BCN, Exclusive Networks, Park Place Technologies, TD Synnex and AvePoint
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31 Jul 2026
Microsoft earnings reflect efficiency gains from faster GPU deployment
With delays in GPU orders, Microsoft has focused on getting its AI chips installed in Azure datacentres more quickly
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30 Jul 2026
Meta results reveal people are vying for its compute
While it builds out its own AI infrastructure, Meta appears to be considering a new revenue stream, as a provider of processing power
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30 Jul 2026
Climb benefits from vendor portfolio performance
Channel player shares Q2 numbers that were buoyed by an acquisition and the performance of its leading suppliers
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30 Jul 2026
Subpostmasters anxious over Horizon replacement as it is delayed yet again
Mounting delays in signing the Post Office Horizon replacement contract are fuelling widespread anxiety and uncertainty across the subpostmaster network, raising operational concerns
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29 Jul 2026
GTDC: Distribution continues to evolve
Industry group underlines the ability of its members to respond to the needs of vendors, resellers and the wider ecosystem
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28 Jul 2026
UK public don’t trust Fujitsu, but government does
Quick poll reveals that the public mistrust Fujitsu two and a half years on from its public shaming
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28 Jul 2026
DBS holds off on letting AI agents run on their own as controls lag capability
The bank has strung together as many as 80 agents to prepare credit approvals for big corporate clients but says the industry’s ability to police such systems is advancing at a fraction of the pace of the technology itself
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24 Jul 2026
SAP signals channel role as AI becomes increasingly embedded
Research from SAP Engagement Cloud underlines the shift in the market and the need for experts who can talk data, privacy and customer experience
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24 Jul 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at 11:11 Systems, Ignition Technology, Phoenix Software, Bechtle, Keepit and BCE