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19 May 2025
Dell Technologies pitches its hardware for AI data centers
By Tim McCarthyServers, networking and storage hardware take center stage at Dell Technologies World 2025, as well as a tightly integrated offering with AI titans such as Nvidia and Google.
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19 May 2025
Addition of new AI capabilities shows Starburst's growth
By Eric AvidonThe open source data lakehouse vendor continues to evolve beyond being a data mesh specialist with the additions of agentic tools, a development environment and a data catalog.
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19 May 2025
Chinese cyber spooks lure laid-off US government workers
By Alex ScroxtonA Washington DC-based think tank has published evidence that Chinese intelligence services have been running a network of digital ‘front’ companies targeting laid-off government workers as recruits
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19 May 2025
Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation
By Antony AdsheadDanish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library
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19 May 2025
Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential
By Stephen WithersOrganisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive
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16 May 2025
Kissflow finds its place in low-code market
By Aaron TanThe supplier of low-code software development tools that cater to both citizen developers and IT professionals is experiencing rapid growth in Southeast Asia where it has been doubling its revenue over the past four years
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15 May 2025
NHS asks suppliers to sign up to cyber covenant
By Alex ScroxtonNHS digital and security leaders call on their suppliers to commit to a cyber security charter as the health service works to improve its resilience in the face of growing threat levels
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14 May 2025
Ekco unveils fresh CEO as Evolve IP extends ecosystem
By Simon QuickeDevelopments in the managed service world as an experienced channel executive takes up a fresh leadership role and a partnership is struck to provide an MSP with more telephony options
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14 May 2025
HPE adds Morpheus Data to KVM hypervisor for enterprises
By Tim McCarthyA KVM hypervisor by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise evolves with technology and capabilities from Morpheus Data, an HPE acquisition, as the company also releases other products.
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14 May 2025
Australian public cloud spending to hit A$26.6bn in 2025
By Aaron TanGartner forecasts strong growth in cloud infrastructure and platform services even as Australian organisations grapple with scaling AI initiatives and managing rising cloud expenditure
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13 May 2025
NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty
Essex NHS wants to move some capacity to the Nutanix cloud, but can’t be certain prices will hold between product selection and when procurement plans gain approval
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13 May 2025
Australian data breaches hit record high in 2024
By Aaron TanMore than 1,100 data breaches were reported in Australia last year, a 25% jump from 2023, prompting calls for stronger security measures across businesses and government agencies
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12 May 2025
Italian bank signs 10-year deal with Google Cloud
By Karl FlindersUniCredit will transform operations through cloud, AI and data analytics technologies from Google Cloud
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12 May 2025
University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery
By Antony AdsheadUniversity of Reading set to save circa £500,000 and deploy Nutanix NC2 hybrid cloud that will allow failover from main datacentre
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08 May 2025
Nutanix opens up to all external storage
By Antony AdsheadCEO Rajiv Ramaswami says Nutanix will open its platform to all external storage, allowing it to profit from customers wanting to move away from VMware, as well as the hyper-converged curious
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08 May 2025
Climb increases AI support
By Simon QuickeDistributor looks to guide partners from start to selling to get more comfortable pitching artificial intelligence offerings
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08 May 2025
AI adoption: AWS addresses the skills barrier holding back enterprises
By Caroline DonnellyThe AWS Summit in London saw the public cloud giant appoint itself to take on the task of skilling up hundreds of thousands of UK people in using AI technologies
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08 May 2025
Oracle NetSuite’s Goldberg: Autonomous AI next applications phase
By Brian McKennaSpeaking with Computer Weekly at SuiteConnect 2025 in London, Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed how artificial intelligence in ERP is evolving
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08 May 2025
Data streaming matures, cultural shift is key
By Stephen WithersConfluent’s Tim Berglund warns that a cultural transformation towards creating valued data products is vital even as the technology for data streaming is maturing
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08 May 2025
UK government websites to replace passwords with secure passkeys
By Bill GoodwinGovernment websites are to replace difficult-to-remember passwords with highly secure passkeys that will protect against phishing and cyber attackers
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07 May 2025
Europe leads shift from cyber security ‘headcount gap’ to skills-based hiring
By Kim LoohuisResearch from Sans Institute reveals European organisations are leading a global shift in hiring priorities, driven by regional regulatory frameworks
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07 May 2025
Nutanix expands storage, Kubernetes and AI platforms at Next
By Tim McCarthyThe latest capabilities and partnerships highlighted at Nutanix's Next conference expand disaggregated storage to Pure Storage, more Kubernetes portability and new AI partnerships.
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07 May 2025
Nutanix breaks the bounds of HCI again with Pure Storage linkup
By Antony AdsheadHyper-converged infrastructure pioneer adds external Pure Storage arrays in a move that it touts as a way for customers to get off VMware, but which also helps them scale for AI
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07 May 2025
Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS
By Antony AdsheadHyper-converged infrastructure provider offers its operating system independently of a hypervisor to allow containerised apps to run at the edge or on Kubernetes runtimes in the Amazon cloud
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07 May 2025
Bill Gates hails ‘stunning’ AI progress, urges focus on global equality
By Aaron TanThe Microsoft co-founder underscored AI’s transformative potential in healthcare, education and agriculture while highlighting the need to ensure its benefits reach lower-income nations
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06 May 2025
Fintech summit reveals what’s next for sector
By Karl FlindersThe UK’s fintech sector attracted $3.6bn investment last year, which was only bettered by the US, but how will UK fintech continue to grow?
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06 May 2025
Park Place Technologies expands UK presence with CSI buy
By Simon QuickeMove will add more multi-cloud support skills to the business and expand its coverage across the country
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05 May 2025
How AsiaPac transformed into a multicloud powerhouse
By Aaron TanAsiaPac CEO Andrew Cheng outlines the company’s growth from a laptop PC distributor to a regional technology service provider known for its multicloud capabilities
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02 May 2025
India’s Hexaware targets public sector business as it expands UK operation
By Karl FlindersIndian heritage IT services firm opens office in Canary Wharf and sets is sights on growing its UK public sector business
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01 May 2025
UK delivers for Computacenter in Q1
By Simon QuickeChannel player’s first-quarter 2025 trading update indicates that it has enjoyed a promising start to the year
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01 May 2025
Microsoft commits to European datacentre footprint growth despite ‘geopolitical volatility’
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft makes ‘digital commitments’ amid pledge to continue growing its European datacentre footprint, in the face of growing geopolitical uncertainty
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30 Apr 2025
Current SaaS delivery model a risk management nightmare, says CISO
By Alex ScroxtonJPMorgan Chase security chief Patrick Opet laments the state of SaaS security in an open letter to the industry and calls on software providers to do more to enhance resilience
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30 Apr 2025
AWS continues to strengthen commitment to partners
By Simon QuickeA senior channel executive at Amazon Web Services shares insights into where the cloud giant has been gaining ground with its ecosystem
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30 Apr 2025
AWS targeting SME market with channel
By Simon QuickeCloud giant indicates that growing its presence across a segment it believes is largely untapped – SMEs – is a priority
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29 Apr 2025
VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features
By Yann SerraVeeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup
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29 Apr 2025
Kaspersky calls for cyber immunity amid growing cyber threats
By Aaron TanThe rise of professional cyber crime groups and state-sponsored actors targeting critical infrastructure requires a move towards inherently secure ‘cyber immune’ systems, says Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky
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25 Apr 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Datatonic, Parallels, Central Technology Group, Cowbell and FiberLocator
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24 Apr 2025
South East Water modernises through Google Cloud
By Karl FlindersUtility’s five-year transformation project sees it adopt Google Cloud technologies to help change how it works
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24 Apr 2025
ASEAN telcos going beyond the 5G hype
By Aaron TanTelcos from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are moving beyond the 5G hype as they focus on driving enterprise 5G and AI adoption to drive value for customers
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23 Apr 2025
UK acquisitions fuel Advania growth
By Simon QuickeChannel player shares numbers for FY ’24, with the business set up to repeat that performance again this year
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23 Apr 2025
Qualys goes to bat for US cricket side San Francisco Unicorns
By Alex ScroxtonCloud security specialist Qualys partners with US T20 cricket squad San Francisco Unicorns and its Sparkle Army fanclub as the team prepares for its summer 2025 campaign
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22 Apr 2025
Fujitsu targets private AI with Japanese LLM on Nutanix
By Aaron TanFujitsu’s Takane large language model, optimised for Japanese language and business use, is aimed at supporting private AI deployments
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22 Apr 2025
AI-powered APIs proving highly vulnerable to attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe growth of AI is proving a double-edged sword for API security, presenting opportunities for defenders to enhance their resilience, but also more risks from AI-powered attacks, according to report
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21 Apr 2025
Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards
By Aaron TanCitic Telecom, CapitaLand Investment and DBS Bank were among the region’s top industry innovators recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025
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21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: M1 aims to become digital-native telco
By Eileen YuThe digital-first telco is running all its back-end systems on the cloud, enabling it to speed up decision-making and enhance customer service
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21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: Transforming cyber security with AI
By Ai Lei TaoFacing rising cyber threats and a shortage of experts, Citic Telecom International CPC developed an AI-powered penetration testing tool to automate security audits and reduce costs
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17 Apr 2025
Consolidation continues with M Group snapping up Telent
By Simon QuickeMove will bring together critical infrastructure specialists serving customers across both public and private sectors
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16 Apr 2025
Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim
By Mark SamuelsThe pharmaceutical giant has built a digital and data platform based on cloud and standardisation, from which it is exploring technology opportunities in AI and quantum computing
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16 Apr 2025
Security leaders grapple with AI-driven threats
By Aaron TanExperts warn of AI’s dual role in both empowering and challenging cyber defences, and called for intelligence sharing and the need to strike a balance between AI-driven innovation and existing security practices
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15 Apr 2025
UK challenger bank targets US’s mid-tier banking sector with tech platform
By Karl FlindersStarling Bank expands its banking as a service platform sales operation into the North American market
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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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15 Apr 2025
Alibaba Cloud bolsters AI offerings
By Aaron TanThe Chinese hyperscaler has launched new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades for international customers following plans to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure
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14 Apr 2025
Nokia networking backbone firms up ResetData AI factory
By Joe O’HalloranDeployment of networking backbone to support immediate roll-out of Australia’s first sovereign and sustainable liquid immersion-cooled data centres looks to gain 75% reduction in energy consumption over previous generations
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14 Apr 2025
SUSE CEO champions open source choice
By Stephen WithersDirk-Peter van Leeuwen warns against suppliers diluting open source to lock in customers, and touts SUSE’s commitment to providing choice and support across multiple Linux and Kubernetes distributions
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14 Apr 2025
BT stretches Fabric further through Google Cloud partnership
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading telco announces step forward in partnership with IT giant, deepening collaboration to offer customers cloud WAN routes via its Global Fabric network platform
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11 Apr 2025
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation
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11 Apr 2025
Google Cloud, Juniper Networks accelerate enterprise campus deployment
By Joe O’HalloranAI-native networking platform to use Google’s Cloud WAN service to help accelerate new branch deployments, and offer simplified branch operations with security and agility
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10 Apr 2025
Google bets on unifying security tools to ease CISO pain
By Alex ScroxtonAt Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google launches its Unified Security platform with the goal of bringing together disparate security solutions to help cyber leaders and practitioners address their most keenly felt pain points
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10 Apr 2025
Mattel taps into Google Cloud to accelerate product innovation in response to customer feedback
By Caroline DonnellyBarbie doll manufacturer Mattel reveals how leaning on Google Cloud has enabled it to respond to customer feedback quicker and speed up its product development processes
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10 Apr 2025
Lloyds Bank moves AI work onto Google Cloud platform
By Karl FlindersBanking group is cutting its emissions and accelerating the development of AI platforms by moving work onto Google Cloud
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10 Apr 2025
NetSuite bets big on built-in AI
By Stephen WithersAt its customer event in Sydney, Oracle NetSuite unveiled a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into its platform at no extra cost in a bid to make AI more accessible to customers
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09 Apr 2025
Microsoft’s April 2025 bumper Patch Tuesday corrects 124 bugs
By Brian McKennaMicrosoft is correcting 124 vulnerabilities in its March Patch Tuesday, one of which is being actively exploited in the wild, and 11 of which are ‘critical’
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09 Apr 2025
EU sets out plans to ‘at least’ triple its AI datacentre capacity over the next seven years
By Caroline DonnellyThe European Union wants to reduce its dependence on non-EU datacentres in support of its plan to become an artificial intelligence superpower
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08 Apr 2025
Global law firm Freshfields embarks on AI-led digital transformation with Google Cloud
By Caroline DonnellyFreshfields has enlisted the help of Google Cloud and its artificial intelligence portfolio to help streamline its processes, as its global chief innovation officer sets about empowering staff to confidently use AI in their everyday work
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08 Apr 2025
UK authority’s search for answers over deleted Julian Assange emails comes too late to retrieve data
By Stefania MauriziThe Crown Prosecution Service has finally searched for information about the destruction of emails from the WikiLeaks founder’s lawyer – but too late to retrieve data about the deleted documents
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07 Apr 2025
India’s tech talent adapts to AI era
By Pratima HarigunaniIT professionals in India need to unlearn old skills and embrace artificial intelligence, automation and specialised domains as the country cements its position as a global tech hub
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04 Apr 2025
Norway and Nordic financial sector ramps up cyber security
By Gerard O'DwyerFinans Norge sets up cyber security unit CTSU to support the finance sector in Norway amid increasing threats
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04 Apr 2025
Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses
By Cliff SaranOn 4 April 1975, Paul Allen and Bill Gates formed Microsoft, a company that defined the PC era and opened up computing for all
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03 Apr 2025
Are LLM firewalls the future of AI security?
By Aaron TanAs large language models permeate industries, experts at Black Hat Asia 2025 debate the need for LLM firewalls and explore their role in fending off emerging AI threats
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02 Apr 2025
StarHub trials first 5G cloud RAN network in Southeast Asia
By Aaron TanSingapore telco trials cloud-based radio access network, unlocking new enterprise services and laying the groundwork for advanced 5G and 6G capabilities
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01 Apr 2025
Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging
By Cliff SaranPeople may try to lock up GPU resources even if they don’t need them all day – but not anymore, thanks to Nvidia KAI Scheduler
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01 Apr 2025
Apple devices are at ‘most risk’ in UK following government ‘backdoor’ order
By Bill GoodwinHome Office refuses to answer questions from Lords over technical capability notice issued against Apple’s iCloud Advanced Data Protection encryption services
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01 Apr 2025
How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease
By Aaron TanSingapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments
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31 Mar 2025
Reassessing UK law enforcement data adequacy
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonComputer Weekly takes stock of proposed changes to the UK’s law enforcement data protection rules and how it could affect data adequacy with the European Union
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31 Mar 2025
UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy
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31 Mar 2025
Microsoft restates commitment to OpenAI amid analyst note about datacentre expansion rollbacks
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft pushes back on analyst claims its changing relationship with OpenAI is forcing it to scale back its datacentre expansion plans in the US and Europe
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28 Mar 2025
Audi gears up for next-gen factory automation with smart manufacturing
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal auto manufacturer Audi deploys virtual private cloud environment platform to deliver enhanced automation, reconfiguring production line to accommodate a product mix change and scale compute and storage
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28 Mar 2025
Europe flat in TD Synnex Q1
By Simon QuickeDistributor TD Synnex shares results that indicate Europe did not match revenue growth seen in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Japan
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27 Mar 2025
Microsoft’s ‘fraying relationship’ with OpenAI blamed for datacentre expansion plan rollback
By Caroline DonnellyUS analyst TD Cowen publishes research note pointing to further rollbacks on Microsoft’s datacentre expansion plans
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27 Mar 2025
Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI
By Aaron TanThe Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare
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26 Mar 2025
Oracle bets big on AI, drives Australian business transformation
By Stephen WithersAt the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Sydney, Oracle executives talked up the company’s strategy to integrate AI across its entire technology stack, empowering Australian businesses to move beyond experimentation and into practical AI-driven solutions
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25 Mar 2025
Public Accounts Committee calls out legacy IT
By Cliff SaranUnsupported and out-of-date software and hardware are hindering the government’s artificial intelligence plans for the public sector
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24 Mar 2025
Oracle plants agentic AI flag in business process automation
By Brian McKennaOracle promotes its Agentic AI Studio, unveiled at OracleCloud World Tour London, as an avowed business process automation accelerant
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24 Mar 2025
APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft
By Aaron TanMost Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on
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23 Mar 2025
How Jetstar is tapping data analytics
By Stephen WithersLow-cost carrier Jetstar is using the Snowflake data platform to optimise the number of meals to carry onboard and to generate flight schedules, among other data analytics initiatives to improve its operations
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21 Mar 2025
Nvidia CEO leads expert panels on quantum computing
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia's Jensen Huang and experts set realistic expectations for quantum computing and discuss its place next to traditional high-performance computing.
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20 Mar 2025
Hyperscale datacentre capacities continue to rise off back of AI boom
By Caroline DonnellyMarket data from Synergy Research Group confirms that artificial intelligence is fuelling growth of datacentres in both number and capacity terms
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20 Mar 2025
Snowflake founders reveal ‘cuckoo cloud’ vision that disrupted big data
By Stephen WithersBenoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes reveal the journey that led to their data platform, their bet against Hadoop and why they still code on weekends to stay connected to their creation
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19 Mar 2025
Air New Zealand takes off with digital transformation deal
By Aaron TanThe airline aims to become a digital leader with TCS’s help to improve fleet management, crew scheduling and ground services through the use of artificial intelligence
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19 Mar 2025
Softcat boss feeling optimistic as firm shares H1 results
By Simon QuickeAs Softcat shares its H1 numbers, its CEO outlines why the channel player is well-positioned to take advantage of improving customer demand
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19 Mar 2025
Nvidia readies Vera Rubin to replace Blackwell
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia's upcoming advanced GPUs, Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin, give it as much as a two-year lead over competitors, an analyst says.
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18 Mar 2025
Largest ever cyber deal reflects Google’s CNAPP ambitions
By Alex ScroxtonIn a signal of its future ambitions, Google lays down $32bn to acquire cloud-native application protection platform Wiz, reflecting the increasing need to secure multicloud environments
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18 Mar 2025
Shares rise on North American performance at Computacenter
By Simon QuickeUK performance in contrast to North America is disappointing as customers continue to show hesitancy in signing off orders
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18 Mar 2025
Bytes signals financial milestone has been hit
By Simon QuickeIn a trading statement ahead of its full-year results, channel player Bytes indicates it has broken through the £2bn barrier on gross invoiced income
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18 Mar 2025
AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it
By Antony AdsheadThe rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy
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18 Mar 2025
Seaco charts course for unified security strategy
By Aaron TanShipping container leasing giant consolidates security tools onto a single platform, leveraging AI and extended detection and response to improve security operations
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17 Mar 2025
How Oracle is using AI to combat financial crime
By Aaron TanThe tech giant is leveraging artificial intelligence to surface fraudulent financial transactions and improve the efficiency of financial crime investigations, offering relief to banks battling high costs and alert fatigue
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14 Mar 2025
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonGovernments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will win out
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14 Mar 2025
Microsoft, DE-CIX plot MAPS for SaaS enterprise connectivity
By Joe O’HalloranNoting that 82% of enterprises underestimate the lagging effect of packet loss on the performance of SaaS applications, global internet exchange operator and IT behemoth partner to optimise cloud connectivity
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14 Mar 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Exertis Supplies, Softcat, Konica Minolta Business Solutions, Fivetran, SUSE and Centreon
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13 Mar 2025
Chinese espionage group UNC3886 targets Juniper routers
By Aaron TanAdvanced persistent threat group UNC3886 deployed custom backdoors on end-of-life Juniper Networks routers, underscoring the need for timely patching and advanced security monitoring
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13 Mar 2025
Channel express concerns over lack of cloud skills
By Simon QuickeThe pressure is on to meet customer demand for hosted services, but some resellers lack the cloud skills to meet that need
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13 Mar 2025
Major strike by Fujitsu staff at ‘cash cow’ HMRC
By Karl FlindersFujitsu staff working at government department will strike for 22 days in protest over pay offer