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31 Oct 2025
News brief: Nation-state threats evolve and escalate
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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30 Oct 2025
GitHub Universe: Large IT orgs share AI automation gains
Nordstrom saved 15,000 developer hours during a migration with AI agents, while Copilot Autofix helped Cathay Pacific address DevSecOps challenges, but there are also caveats.
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29 Oct 2025
Streaming specialist Confluent unveils AI development suite
In addition to a unified environment for building and deploying agents, the vendor launched a private cloud version of its platform and integrations that simplify data preparation.
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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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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 1 Tbps 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
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17 Oct 2025
SAP ECC customers bet on composable ERP to avoid upgrading
Organisations running SAP ECC 6.0 are finding it hard to justify upgrading to the latest SAP S/4Hana cloud-based subscriptions
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16 Oct 2025
Gitex 2025: Help AG aims to be global cyber force as UAE leads AI security transformation
Acting CEO Aleksandar Valjarevic discusses how Help AG is evolving from a regional cyber security authority into a global innovation-driven player, powered by sovereign services, AI automation and managed security models
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16 Oct 2025
Gitex 2025: Aramex partners with AWS to accelerate global IT modernisation
UAE-based logistics giant completes the migration of its Oceania datacentre to AWS, marking the start of a global transformation to build an AI-ready, cloud-native infrastructure
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16 Oct 2025
AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO
To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns
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16 Oct 2025
F5 admits nation-state actor stole BIG-IP source code
F5 discloses that a nation-state actor has stolen source code and unpatched vulnerability data for its widely used BIG-IP products, raising supply chain security concerns across the industry
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15 Oct 2025
AI World: Oracle brings agents to bear on world of finance
Oracle AI World has seen a host of new introductions, among them agentic capabilities for customer finance teams
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15 Oct 2025
Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI
The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson
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14 Oct 2025
Revenue generated by neoclouds expected to exceed $23bn in 2025, predicts Synergy
IT market watcher Synergy Research Group is predicting big things for the neocloud market through 2025 and beyond
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13 Oct 2025
Interview: Shaping the future of AI in the UAE
At Gitex 2025 in Dubai, the largest tech show in the Middle East, Chiara Marcati, chief AI advisory and business officer at AI71, discusses the UAE’s ambition to become a global leader in artificial intelligence
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13 Oct 2025
Microsoft and the UAE: Driving AI from strategy to real impact
Exploring how Microsoft and the UAE are turning AI ambition into practical solutions, empowering talent, and guiding CIOs to adopt AI at scale
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13 Oct 2025
UK police to upgrade illicit asset recovery system
A new system is being developed by the Police Digital Service and NEC Software Solutions to help manage the recovery of criminal assets, replacing 20-year-old legacy infrastructure
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09 Oct 2025
Infor debuts AI agents to tackle industry-specific tasks
Infor unveils role-based AI agents to automate workflows in niche sectors from dairy to automotive, as well as a new cloud migration programme to ease the transition to cloud
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09 Oct 2025
Canalys: MSP foundations are eroding
Experts at the Canalys Channel Forum believe the pressure to increase security and the demand for co-managed services are affecting the traditional approach to market
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09 Oct 2025
Meta to boost APAC connectivity with subsea cable
The 8,000km Candle subsea cable is expected to bolster internet capacity for more than a billion people as tech giants continue to invest in digital infrastructure across the region
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08 Oct 2025
Interview: Fausto Fleites, vice-president of data intelligence, ScottsMiracle-Gro
The data leader’s hands-on experience with machine learning has helped to build a three-part strategy to maximise the benefits of AI at the gardening specialist
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08 Oct 2025
Fujitsu boss said Post Office inquiry report wasn’t ‘that bad’, despite link to suicides
Computer Weekly reveals callous comments made by a senior Fujitsu executive about Post Office scandal inquiry report
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08 Oct 2025
AI levels the playing field for European MSPs
US MSPs aren’t ahead for once. When it comes to AI for MSPs, Europe is holding its own, says Pax8’s Rob Rae
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08 Oct 2025
Canalys: Channel success metrics have changed
The focus on simply transacting deals is being replaced by supporting the customer over a technology lifecycle, says Canalys
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08 Oct 2025
Canalys: Despite lack of reward, the channel must embrace AI
The revenues might not be flowing in the direction of partners, but choosing to delay embracing artificial intelligence is an unwise move
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07 Oct 2025
Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications
Nato has chosen Oracle and Druid to secure private 5G networks for cyber defence, war gaming and research, using Oracle Cloud and edge technology
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07 Oct 2025
The Security Interviews: David Bradbury, CSO, Okta
Okta’s chief security officer talks security by default and explains why he thinks time is running out for the shared responsibility model
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07 Oct 2025
Middle East cloud ambitions get boost from IBM-AWS partnership
With demand for AI, datacentres, and smart city tech rising, Riyadh Innovation Hub promises tailored solutions for the region
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07 Oct 2025
Airbus climbs in industrial digitisation with private 5G deployment
Global aircraft manufacturer advances factory digitisation with private 5G connectivity at production sites supporting critical initiatives such as 3D simulation, augmented reality, improved traceability and predictive maintenance
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06 Oct 2025
Data sovereignty demand pushes Herabit to get S3 storage
Italian service provider gets Cubbit DS3 distributed S3 storage to provide up to 2PB of cloud services to customers demanding data sovereignty, while cutting costs by up to 50%
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06 Oct 2025
SAP: AI is commoditising business applications
Business applications are at risk of being commoditised with artificial intelligence increasingly becoming the new interface that lets businesses execute tasks across different systems, according to a senior SAP leader
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06 Oct 2025
A year of channel progress at Jamf
As the vendor sits down with partners this week at its event in Denver, a senior channel executive has talked of efforts made to improve its partner ecosystem
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06 Oct 2025
Enterprise software sales through cloud hyperscale marketplaces set to hit $163bn by 2030
Research from IT market watcher Omdia suggests enterprise IT buyers are getting increasingly comfortable with making purchases through the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud marketplaces
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05 Oct 2025
Nakivo expands Proxmox backup and DR capabilities in v11.1
Latest version of Backup & Replication adds MSP features, plus Proxmox VM backup functionality, while Nakivo responds to critical vulnerability it was tipped off about in February
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03 Oct 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Conscia, GTT Communications, Epson, TD Synnex, AutoRek, ANSecurity and BCS
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02 Oct 2025
Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment
Singtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty
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01 Oct 2025
Home Office issues new ‘backdoor’ order over Apple encryption
A second Home Office technical capability notice requires Apple to provide access to encrypted data and messages of British users stored on its iCloud service
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01 Oct 2025
AvePoint points to clear partner AI opportunities
Vendor uses partner event to call for wider adoption of artificial intelligence and outline areas where partners can work with customers
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01 Oct 2025
Why AI agent projects are stalling in production
A Confluent technology strategist explains why multi-agent workflows become brittle monoliths and how access to real-time, streaming data is key to the success of agentic AI deployments
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01 Oct 2025
How AI is driving a rethink of storage architecture
Pure Storage’s head of AI infrastructure, Par Botes, argues that the growing use of artificial intelligence will require storage systems with audit trails and versioning to ensure trust and traceability
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30 Sep 2025
Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK
In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour
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30 Sep 2025
Infinidat doubles InfiniBox Hybrid array capacity
Enterprise array maker boosts capacity by two times to 33PB, promises high-density QLC flash drives in the fourth quarter, and adds native object storage that can be set up as customers configure volumes
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30 Sep 2025
Google unveils AI-powered security to trap ransomware attacks
The new security capability, available at no extra cost for most Google Workspace users, detects mass file encryption during ransomware attacks, stops the attacks from spreading and allows for restoration of files
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30 Sep 2025
Enterprises want to go faster on the AI front
Research from Climb Channel Solutions lifts the lid on current customer attitudes towards artificial intelligence
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30 Sep 2025
Google to pay $24m to settle lawsuit with president Trump
Trump launched legal challenge after being blocked from posting on his YouTube channel, which Google is now seeking to settle
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30 Sep 2025
Cloudian launches object storage AI platform at corporate LLM
Object storage specialist teams up with Nvidia to provide RAG-based chatbot capability for organisations that want to mine in-house information in an air-gapped large language model
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29 Sep 2025
Finland government tax proposal worries datacentre investors
Finland, like other Nordic countries, is targeting datacentre investment, but could tax reforms scupper this plan?
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29 Sep 2025
Interview: GitLab CTO on freeing developers for innovation with AI
Sabrina Farmer explains how GitLab’s platform for the software development lifecycle is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate developer toil and drive innovation
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26 Sep 2025
Over half of India-based companies suffer security breaches
Business supply chains, which include Indian companies, are at risk of attack as more than half of suppliers were breached last year
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26 Sep 2025
Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight
Microsoft’s own documentation confirms that data hosted in its hyperscale cloud architecture routinely traverses the globe, but the tech giant is actively obfuscating this vital information from its UK law enforcement customers
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26 Sep 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Crayon, SoftwareOne, Exclusive Networks, Arrow and Westcon-Comstor
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26 Sep 2025
TD Synnex beats expectations in Q3
Revenues rise as channel player enjoys growth across its products portfolio and geographies
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26 Sep 2025
AI infrastructure provider Nscale secures $1.1bn in series B funding
A week after it was revealed that Nscale would be working with Microsoft to build the UK's largest supercomputer, the company announces it has secured $1.1bn in series B funding
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25 Sep 2025
Dell and Lenovo hand partners fresh products to pitch
Hardware suppliers identify private cloud and the SME market as areas where they and their channels can make an impact
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25 Sep 2025
Netherlands establishes cyber resilience network to strengthen public-private digital defence
Network will connect organisations in a cyber crime defence initiative that goes way beyond information sharing
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25 Sep 2025
Government launches AI growth zone taskforce to support expansion in North East England
The UK government is launching a coalition to support the accelerated development of its AI growth zone in the North East England
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25 Sep 2025
Zoom includes AI at no extra cost to crack enterprise adoption puzzle
Zoom bets on free AI to drive enterprise adoption, despite evidence the highest return on investment comes from back-office automation
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25 Sep 2025
Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth
The tech supplier’s infrastructure arm is tapping its partner ecosystem and as-a-service model to help the region’s enterprises move from AI experimentation to delivering tangible business outcomes
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24 Sep 2025
Internet shutdowns in Africa on upward trajectory
A comparative analysis of internet shutdowns in African countries highlights how the tactic is increasingly used to repress dissent and political opposition, depriving millions of people and businesses access to vital digital tools that sustain their social, economic and political life
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24 Sep 2025
Alibaba Cloud targets full-stack AI dominance
The Chinese cloud giant has unveiled the Qwen3-Max model, a suite of agent development tools and cloud infrastructure upgrades to position itself as a one-stop shop for AI development and deployment
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24 Sep 2025
Digital Catapult sets sights on boosting AI take-up in agrifood sector
Innovation organisation announces details of its agrifood startup accelerator programme, which is geared towards boosting adoption of artificial intelligence in the sector
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24 Sep 2025
Salesforce shifts focus from AI models to agentic AI
Rather than being preoccupied with large language models, Salesforce is now focused on building AI agents, with an eye on achieving what it calls ‘enterprise general intelligence’
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23 Sep 2025
Podcast: How to get value from unstructured data
In this podcast, we talk to Nasuni founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez about the obstacles to getting the most value from enterprise unstructured data, especially via metadata
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23 Sep 2025
Channel faces AI tool sprawl and inefficient workflows
Experts across the channel speak of opportunities for partners to help customers that are overwhelmed by the number of tools they are working with
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22 Sep 2025
Beyond Stargate: Oracle OCI ups cloud infrastructure appeal
Oracle has struck market-shaking deals with frontier AI model makers, but experts say it has also intensified its challenges to the Big Three in enterprise IaaS.
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22 Sep 2025
Nebula: AI is supporting channel ESG efforts
Report from services player highlights the positives of artificial intelligence for those looking to cut emissions and improve social responsibility
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19 Sep 2025
UK cyber action plan lays out path to resilience
A report produced for the government by academics at Imperial College London and the University of Bristol sets out nine recommendations to strengthen the UK’s cyber sector
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19 Sep 2025
Jitterbit alerts partners to AI agent sprawl
The rush by users to embrace the technology is creating its own headaches, presenting the channel with an alternative to pitch
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19 Sep 2025
French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack
A decision by the French supreme court may pave the way for defendants to challenge the lawfulness of France’s hacking of the EncroChat and Sky ECC cryptophone networks used by organised crime groups
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19 Sep 2025
Pentera expands in APAC, taps AI to outsmart attackers
The penetration testing specialist is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and deploying AI-driven capabilities as it eyes acquisitions and a potential IPO
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18 Sep 2025
Bytes shows resilience in first half of 2025
Channel player Bytes shares trading update covering its first half, with the business remaining on track
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18 Sep 2025
Partners across channel welcome US tech investments
Comments from across the channel express support for the significant sums of money that are going to be ploughed into the UK in the next few years
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17 Sep 2025
Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy
Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer
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17 Sep 2025
Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty
Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust
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17 Sep 2025
Microsoft scores win against Office 365 credential thieves
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit disrupts a major phishing-as-a-service operation that targeted and stole Office 365 usernames and credentials
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17 Sep 2025
Microsoft to invest $30bn in expanding its operations and AI infrastructure footprint in UK
Microsoft is making its biggest ever investment in building out its AI and general operations in the UK, citing the government’s commitment to making it easier for big tech to thrive in the country
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17 Sep 2025
Google Cloud unveils open protocol for agentic payments
Google’s Agent Payments Protocol is an open standard developed with more than 60 global partners to create a secure standard for AI-driven transactions
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16 Sep 2025
UK government signs US partnership to deliver Europe’s largest AI factory
Some 120,000 GPUs are set to be deployed in the UK over the next 12 months, as the government says it’s laser-focused on attracting talent and startups
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16 Sep 2025
Startup Carbon3.ai sets sights on building UK-wide sovereign ‘national grid for AI’
Startup Carbon3.ai has a goal to link 30-plus UK-owned and operated datacentre sites across the UK that will host sovereign AI services