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21 Aug 2026
AI attacks lack stealth -- nation-state actors are changing that
Today's AI attacks are still hard to miss and easy to stop, but nation-state threat actors are quietly pioneering low-and-slow adversarial AI. Learn what the shift means for defenders.
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20 Aug 2026
Zuckerberg's manifesto: Do Meta's promises and actions align?
Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto on the future of AI sounds promising, with democratized AI and superintelligent personal agents for everyone. But is this vision too good to be true?
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19 Aug 2026
Data observability specialist Bigeye puts focus on AI spend
With agentic AI costing more than many organizations expected, the data observability specialist's latest alerts users when the expense of an agent suddenly changes.
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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
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
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23 Jul 2026
AI takes centre stage at Microsoft partner event
Talk of evolving models and expanding skillsets dominated the MCAPS Start for Partners agenda
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23 Jul 2026
Why AI coding agents won’t kill SaaS
Investors may fear that AI coding agents will wipe billions off SaaS valuations, but SiteMinder CTO Tom Varsavsky thinks the technology will speed up software delivery, reduce tech debt and force IT leaders to master token economics
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22 Jul 2026
Singapore to hold CII boards accountable as AI reshapes OT threat landscape
The Cyber Security Agency’s first update to its critical infrastructure code of practice since 2022 will make boards directly answerable for cyber resilience
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22 Jul 2026
‘Modest but notable’ regional spread of fintech funding in UK
Hubs outside London have made some headway in the UK fintech sector, but overall funding has dropped
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21 Jul 2026
Leaseweb picks up ITQ’s white label VCSP customer base
IaaS specialist bolsters its position as a VMware Pinnacle Partner with the addition of more customers across Europe
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21 Jul 2026
Kanishka Narayan takes on AI sovereignty in Burnham cabinet
AI minister will attend cabinet meetings held by UK prime minister Andy Burnham, with focus on ownership of UK tech
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20 Jul 2026
How Lithuania became a tech startup nation
Lithuania has built a network of tech startup companies the hard way, through bootstrapping. Today, it claims six companies with valuations over a billion dollars
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20 Jul 2026
Westcon-Comstor UK sales lead looking for growth
The freshly appointed UKI executive shares her priorities and first impressions of the task ahead
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17 Jul 2026
Frustration as Post Office Horizon replacement contract signing delayed again
If signed off, cloud-based EPOS system will replace controversial Horizon software from Fujitsu
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17 Jul 2026
Check Point builds homegrown AI model as attack barriers collapse
The company is training a security-only small language model as AI hands attackers industrial-scale capabilities and pushes cyber defence towards full automation
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16 Jul 2026
Palantir: Can anyone else do what it does?
Palantir is a US defence-intelligence company, born from the CIA's venture arm that now operates inside the UK public sector. We examine the claim that its technology does what no other supplier can
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16 Jul 2026
Denmark debates ‘emergency’ energy plan to curb datacentres
To fix grid crisis caused by mismanagement under her previous administrations, Danish prime minister opens third term in office with laws against datacentres
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15 Jul 2026
Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders
Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds
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15 Jul 2026
Prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham takes aim at outsourcing
Soon-to-be-appointed prime minister adds weight to government’s existing plan to ‘end era of outsourcing’
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15 Jul 2026
Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI
The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs
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15 Jul 2026
Devolutions move for Mizo taking AI into MSP management space
Managed service providers are under pressure to respond to tickets, and AI is emerging as a method to lighten that load
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15 Jul 2026
Inside AWS’s $1bn forward-deployed engineering initiative
The cloud giant is embedding cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists and strategists with customers, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia among those already seeing results
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14 Jul 2026
IDCA warns of ‘delay tax’ as AI datacentre power surges 50%
Global datacentre electricity consumption reaches 1.9% of all generation, with ‘zombie workloads’ wasting 3GW of US capacity alone and a 100MW project delay costing up to $1bn
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14 Jul 2026
PAC raises more questions over Capita’s role in government
Report demands answers on Capita’s suitability to run HR and payroll services to 250,000 civil servants
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14 Jul 2026
Pure DC launches €7.5bn Finland AI datacentre campus
550MW AI datacentre project – with Microsoft reportedly signed up – reflects shift as European market moves north to bypass power constraints in traditional Flap-D hubs
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14 Jul 2026
Couchbase eyes APAC growth as enterprises confront data problem
Having been taken private by private equity firm Haveli Investments, the NoSQL database supplier is pitching its newly launched AI data plane as the fix for the fragmented data layers
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13 Jul 2026
Tech giants come under watch of UK finance regulators
IT suppliers critical to the UK finance sector are now within the remit of the UK’s financial services regulators
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10 Jul 2026
AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier
Once dismissed as legacy tech on the way out, the mainframe is being reframed as the trusted anchor of hybrid, AI-era architectures
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09 Jul 2026
Cyber field doubts promise of Cyber Shield
The NCSC has shared more details of its national AI Cyber Shield initiative, but experts say the project faces serious delivery challenges
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09 Jul 2026
Strong Q2 buoys Computacenter
Trading statement from channel firm indicates it is on track to double pre-tax profits in H1 compared with the same period last year
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09 Jul 2026
UK’s largest businesses dangerously exposed to cloud outages
British businesses, particularly those in the FTSE 100, are dangerously dependent on large cloud providers, with hypothetical large-scale outages at AWS or Azure regions likely to cause major economic damage, according to the Cyber Monitoring Centre
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08 Jul 2026
Post Office Horizon replacement contract delayed further
The Post Office has once more extended the standstill period before putting pen to paper on EPOS system
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08 Jul 2026
European Central Bank demands AI security ‘action plan’
European Central Bank gives banks deadline to outline their plans to defend against artificial intelligence-based security threats
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07 Jul 2026
TSG, Databarracks and Genesys hit acquisition trail
Trio of channel players take steps to add more expertise and depth to their service offerings
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07 Jul 2026
SNP council backs datacentre halt and creates Burnham dilemma
As Scottish National Party council passes a motion for Scotland datacentre moratorium, Andy Burnham’s avowed ‘power to the regions’ views face strain in light of critical national infrastructure designation
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07 Jul 2026
Can Oman become the Gulf’s third AI infrastructure hub?
The Sultanate is leveraging subsea cables, lower costs and regulatory stability to position itself alongside regional AI giants, but a large ecosystem scale gap remains
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05 Jul 2026
How Zoho’s full-stack strategy keeps it in control of cost and sovereignty
Zoho’s ANZ lead Rakesh Prabhakar explains how building its own infrastructure keeps the SaaS firm in control of cost, pricing and data sovereignty
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03 Jul 2026
Breach of IBM-managed environment exposes personal data of 70,000 in Singapore
Unauthorised access to a development and testing environment managed by IBM has exposed the names, NRIC numbers and property addresses of about 70,000 people held by the Singapore Land Authority
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03 Jul 2026
SAESL turbocharges aircraft engine maintenance with data and AI
The world’s largest supplier of Rolls-Royce engine maintenance services is working with Kyndryl to modernise its IT infrastructure, build a single source of truth for data, and scale up the use of AI across its business
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02 Jul 2026
Nutanix CEO urges partners to become AI experts
As users wrestle with rising costs and struggle to understand what’s being used, the vendor has rolled out a solution its channel can pitch
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02 Jul 2026
Data dive: Kill switch and catch-up – can Europe close the sovereignty gap?
As the US demonstrates it can wield an AI ‘kill switch’, the EU and UK unleash a wave of sovereign tech measures. Can state-led industrial policy bridge a $2tn revenue chasm?
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01 Jul 2026
Danske Bank extends AWS agreement for next phase of transformation
Danish multinational bank and cloud service giant will work together on GenAI initiatives as part of the bank’s transformation strategy
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01 Jul 2026
Tata Communications strengthens India-Singapore connectivity corridor
AI-ready connectivity investments look to enable enterprises to connect across continents with secure, high-speed, dynamic, self-managed and low-latency infrastructure
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01 Jul 2026
SCC to invest £100m into ramping up AI capabilities
Channel player outlines multi-year plan to bolster its position as a key technology supplier
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30 Jun 2026
Post Office delays signing Horizon replacement for third time
The Post Office has extended standstill period before formally signing contract for new EPOS system
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30 Jun 2026
Nordic datacentre investments surge amid tightening licence rules
Strains on national power grids in the Nordic region are pushing the region’s governments towards tougher regulation
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29 Jun 2026
India’s Hexaware to add 1,200 UK tech staff
Indian heritage IT supplier plans to have 1,200 UK staff across multiple sites, with research and development centres to open this year
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29 Jun 2026
Tencent Cloud powers cloud migration for Indonesian telco
Using AI agents to replace months of manual labour, Tencent Cloud consolidated XLSmart’s fragmented, multicloud IT estate into a unified platform and migrated over 15TB of core data assets in record time
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26 Jun 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Axians UK, TD Synnex, Commvault, N-able, Beyond Now, NTT Data and Scality
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26 Jun 2026
Met Palantir pilot: The DPIA that raises more questions than answers
We examine the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Metropolitan Police’s Palantir Foundry pilot, and the governance gaps it exposes around surveillance, transparency and staff consultation
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26 Jun 2026
Secure Code Warrior CEO on surviving the AI ‘vulnerability apocalypse’
As enterprises embrace agentic AI and vibe coding, Secure Code Warrior CEO and co-founder Pieter Danhieux warns that code-generating models are still producing critical security flaws
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25 Jun 2026
Risk management firm Optro opens Singapore hub
The AI-powered governance, risk and compliance platform aims to disrupt the underserved Asia-Pacific market and help customers such as Singapore’s OCBC Bank modernise their audit functions
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25 Jun 2026
Nokia accelerates AI for networking drive
Spate of activity sees global comms tech provider announce expanded collaboration with hyperscaler, as well as a joint proof of concept with data and AI company to support autonomous networks for the AI era
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24 Jun 2026
Digital surveillance tech facilitates ‘arbitrary’ border abuses
Outsourcing migration processes to third countries via the transfer of powerful digital surveillance technologies is entrenching an ‘arbitrary and deterrent’ approach to border management that is hard to scrutinise and ultimately undermines the human rights of migrants
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24 Jun 2026
Cost the major barrier in AI’s race to space
Space-based datacentres are becoming technically feasible in the next decade, with one in eight AI workloads running in space by 2040, according to Boston Consulting Group – but costs will pose a major barrier to its adoption
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24 Jun 2026
Overwhelming support for Microsoft SMS designation in CMA responses
Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs
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24 Jun 2026
The £1,100 lock-in: CMA Microsoft probe exposes software ecosystem at a crossroads
A parish council, a £60m public sector bill, and the AI question that could define UK digital competition for a generation in responses to the CMA’s Strategic Market Status investigation
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24 Jun 2026
Cisco: Legacy networks can no longer support the new AI workforce
At Cisco Connect 2026 Singapore, tech leaders and policymakers warn that businesses must modernise their IT infrastructure and governance frameworks to pave the way for agentic AI
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23 Jun 2026
Iomart wraps up year of transition
Channel player shares full-year results as the business moves to concentrate on hybrid cloud and security
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23 Jun 2026
Roundtable: UK tech chiefs on agentic AI, workforce culture and tokenomics
Tech leaders from THG Ingenuity, Kingfisher, Rightmove and Deloitte speak at the Google Summit London about the transition to agentic systems and the rising focus on token costs
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23 Jun 2026
nLighten CEO Dawn Childs on edge datacentres and sovereignty
We talk to the CEO of nLighten about the limits of the UK power grid, why that makes ‘edge’ datacentres a good idea, and navigating contemporary data sovereignty requirements
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23 Jun 2026
Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management
We talk to PHP pioneer and Google agentic data cloud vice-president about ensuring agentic quality, including having agents voting against each other, and the risk of LLM lock-in
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23 Jun 2026
Philippine government taps Google Cloud to deploy AI agents
The Filipino government will equip public servants with Gemini Enterprise AI tools, launch a cross-agency cyber defence alliance and upgrade subsea network infrastructure
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23 Jun 2026
Australian government cloud mandate sparks migration warnings
As Australia prepares to enforce its whole-of-government cloud policy, industry experts warn agencies against rushed migrations, supplier lock-in and treating AI readiness as an afterthought
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19 Jun 2026
UK government publishes guidelines to ‘end era of outsourcing’ – will IT be in scope?
New strategy will see UK government apply Public Interest Test to outsourcing contracts worth £1m or more
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19 Jun 2026
nLighten completes £15m refurbishment of Bristol ‘edge’ datacentre
European datacentre operator doubles potential AI-ready power capacity to 1.2MW with dry cooling at Bristol site as part of a wider £100m-plus UK modernisation programme
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19 Jun 2026
Channel on way to accounting for majority of marketplace sales
Increased activity on hyperscaler offerings means it is imminent that the channel accounts for more than half of the business going via marketplaces
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19 Jun 2026
Google Cloud boosts for enterprise agentic at London Summit
Hyperscaler prioritises process automation in UK showcase, with frontier models, agent platforms and development tools to the fore, with customers such as Unilever in the spotlight
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18 Jun 2026
AWS launches FinOps agent, expands Bedrock cost tracking
At FinOps X 2026, AWS announced updates across FinOps tools, including an AI agent for cost analysis and new Bedrock attribution features for tracking AI spending.
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18 Jun 2026
Salesforce UK boss underlines role of channel
As the vendor pulls together partners and customers at its World Tour event, there has been a chance to promote its commitment to its channel base
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18 Jun 2026
Gulf CIOs shift focus from recovery to cyber resilience as regional threats intensify
Commvault’s Yahya Kassab says organisations across the Gulf are reassessing recovery strategies, AI risks and cloud investments amid growing cyber threats
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18 Jun 2026
Emerging tech is top growth priority for UK finance firms
Increasing numbers of banks see emerging technology as a priority of growth with artificial intelligence top of the list
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17 Jun 2026
AWS AI Agents hone DevSecOps chops amid GitHub troubles
The market's largest cloud infrastructure player added muscle to its agentic AI tools at an event in New York, while a coding-agent rival faced headwinds.
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17 Jun 2026
Kubus seals deal for Ammcom
Firm makes second deal in a matter of weeks as it continues to bulk out its managed services proposition
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17 Jun 2026
HSBC pens artificial intelligence deal with Google Cloud
HSBC and Google Cloud agree a multi-year contract to support UK bank’s adoption of artificial intelligence