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29 Dec 2025
Agentic orchestration, the next AI issue for CIOs to tackle
By Don FluckingerSalesforce, ServiceNow, AWS and others would like to manage all of your AI agents.
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19 Dec 2025
News brief: Browser security flaws pose growing risk
By Staff reportCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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18 Dec 2025
Agentic AI security focus of ServiceNow acquisition targets
By Don FluckingerServiceNow attempts to build one (secure) platform to rule them all.
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31 Dec 2025
2025 review: Channel stories of the year
By Simon QuickeA look back over the stories that generated headlines over the past 12 months
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31 Dec 2025
Top 10 police technology stories of 2025
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonHere are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2025
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31 Dec 2025
Top 10 business applications stories of 2025
By Brian McKennaThere is no doubt what took centre stage in the theatre of business applications in 25: agentic AI, surpassing pre-2022 AI, and generative AI. C-level executives bang the AI drum while enterprises find value
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30 Dec 2025
Top 10 technology ethics stories of 2025
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonHere are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025
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29 Dec 2025
Top 10 cyber security stories of 2025
By Alex ScroxtonAI dominated all tech conversations this year, but the concerns of cyber security professionals extend far beyond. From remote work to supply chains, quantum to identity, there were plenty of other topics for the industry to chew over in 2025.
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28 Dec 2025
Middle East tech trends 2026: AI, cyber security and sovereign infrastructure take centre stage
By Andrea BenitoAs artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to production and cyber threats escalate, the Middle East is entering a decisive phase of digital transformation, says Omdia chief analyst Trevor Clarke
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24 Dec 2025
Top 10 India stories of 2025
By Aaron TanFrom infrastructure expansion and sovereign AI innovation to regulatory maturity, Computer Weekly recaps the key developments that kept CIOs and technology suppliers across India busy in 2025
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23 Dec 2025
Top 10 ANZ stories of 2025
By Aaron TanThe 2025 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with major data breaches even as organisations continue to press on with their digital transformation efforts in areas such as AI and automation
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22 Dec 2025
Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2025
By Aaron TanSoutheast Asia’s 2025 tech landscape saw financial institutions, healthcare researchers and government agencies moving decisively from technology pilots to large-scale AI deployments and infrastructure modernisation
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22 Dec 2025
Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2025
By Aaron TanSoutheast Asia’s 2025 tech landscape saw financial institutions, healthcare researchers and government agencies moving decisively from technology pilots to large-scale AI deployments and infrastructure modernisation
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22 Dec 2025
Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2025
By Caroline DonnellyThe influence of the hyperscale tech giants over the industry was a major topic this past year, but we also saw the emergence of a new type of cloud player in the form of neocloud. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud computing stories of 2025
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18 Dec 2025
Pax8 heralds the year of the MIP
By Simon QuickeThe arrival of agentic AI is changing the way the channel operates, and that shift has been identified by the marketplace specialist
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17 Dec 2025
Readying data for AI remains a key channel task
By Simon QuickeGetting customers in shape before deploying artificial intelligence has been an activity partners have been engaged in all year, and it will continue to be so in 2026
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16 Dec 2025
Singlife taps Salesforce Agentforce to drive agentic AI strategy
By Aaron TanThe Singapore insurer has begun rolling out Salesforce Agentforce to assist customer service teams, with plans to extend the use of the technology to financial advisers and direct customer interactions
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16 Dec 2025
Nutanix sovereign cloud hits Broadcom with multi-cloud hook
By Beth PariseauNutanix expands its differentiation from Broadcom with a distributed sovereign cloud approach that supports both self-managed and multi-cloud deployments.
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16 Dec 2025
Dell CTO’s 2026 predictions highlight AI opportunities
By Simon QuickeIt is crystal ball gazing time, and who better to talk about what technology trends will emerge next year than a senior leader from the vendor?
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15 Dec 2025
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026
By Aaron TanEnterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends
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15 Dec 2025
Reinventing the Arabic newsroom: How Al-Masry Al-Youm is harnessing AI, data, and cloud to transform
By Andrea BenitoAl-Masry Al-Youm CIO Omar Badr reveals how Egypt’s leading independent daily has navigated a decade of digital disruption, balancing editorial freedom with cutting-edge technology
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15 Dec 2025
Microsoft taps Indian IT giants for agentic AI rollout
By Aaron TanThe partnership with Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and Wipro follows a $17.5bn pledge by the tech giant to bolster India’s cloud and AI infrastructure
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12 Dec 2025
University of York plumps for Workday to spruce up HR and finance
By Brian McKennaThe University of York is replacing 57 HR and finance systems with a Workday platform, supported by KPMG, aiming for real-time insights and simpler processes
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11 Dec 2025
Beyond Now and Azul expanding channel options
By Simon QuickeVendors outline benefits of fresh ownership and acquisition to generate increased opportunities for partners
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10 Dec 2025
How digital twins are helping people with motor neurone disease speak
By Bill GoodwinTech companies, a charity and academics have collaborated to create AI-powered avatars that are helping people with motor neurone disease hold natural conversations
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10 Dec 2025
Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonResearch highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions
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09 Dec 2025
Interview: Meet the competition lawyer taking Microsoft to task over its cloud licensing tactics
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft’s approach to cloud licensing has been labelled anti-competitive and cost-prohibitive to enterprises by regulators, and now Maria Luisa Stasi is the competition lawyer looking to take the company to task over its behaviour
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09 Dec 2025
How Oracle Red Bull Racing is driving Formula 1 into the future with cloud, AI and data
By Andrea BenitoAccess to the F1 team’s garage in Abu Dhabi reveals how Monte Carlo simulations, artificial intelligence and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure power split-second decisions, strategy and championship-winning performance
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09 Dec 2025
Tricentis looks to agentic AI as firms risk losses from untested code
By Aaron TanWith 42% growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the software testing firm is pushing autonomous AI agents to help enterprises balance the pressure for speed against the high cost of software failures
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08 Dec 2025
AI widening data analytics opportunities
By Simon QuickeThose in the channel with the skills to support customers keen to get real-time insights should find evolving technology makes data analytics offerings more attractive
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08 Dec 2025
Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer
By Aaron TanWhile AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
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05 Dec 2025
AWS CloudOps hones multi-cloud support for AI, resilience
By Beth PariseauNetwork, observability and Kubernetes management news at re:Invent aligned around themes of multi-cloud scale and resilience amid AI growth and cloud outage concerns.
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04 Dec 2025
Salesforce UK boss stresses the importance of partners
By Simon QuickeAs Salesforce outlines an increasingly agentic AI future, the need for the channel to play a role in delivering that vision has been underlined
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04 Dec 2025
Western coalition supplying tech to Ukraine prepared for long war
By Bill GoodwinRussia is deploying hybrid warfare against Europe as western nations supply critical IT and telecoms equipment to Ukraine’s front line
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03 Dec 2025
Post Office avoids £1m fine over botched website upgrade data breach
By Karl FlindersThe Information Commissioner’s Office considered fining the Post Office £1m for a 2024 data breach that let subpostmasters down again
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03 Dec 2025
Women in Cybersecurity Middle East marks five years of impact at Black Hat MEA
By Andrea BenitoAs AI reshapes the regional cyber security landscape, diversity and skills development remain at the heart of building a resilient digital workforce
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03 Dec 2025
AWS CEO Garman pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future
By Brian McKennaAt Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data
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02 Dec 2025
AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent
By Aaron TanAt AWS re:Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics
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02 Dec 2025
Small businesses need help to unlock AI data insights
By Simon QuickeThere is a willingness among SMEs to use technology to improve market knowledge, but a failure by many to turn that into action
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02 Dec 2025
ASEAN enterprises moving from ‘AI-first’ to ‘AI-native’
By Aaron TanOrganisations across Southeast Asia are reimagining business processes, going beyond the experimentation phase of AI adoption, according to AWS’s head of the region
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01 Dec 2025
Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonIt is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working
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01 Dec 2025
Google Cloud withdraws complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing tactics
By Caroline DonnellyMore than a year has passed since Google filed a complaint with the European Commission, outlining its concerns over Microsoft’s licensing tactics, and now the internet search giant has withdrawn it
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01 Dec 2025
Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO, Checkout.com
By Karl FlindersCheckout.com’s chief technology officer has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry, and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it
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27 Nov 2025
Databricks predicts AI tipping point as ANZ firms fix data issues
By Stephen WithersAs AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI
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27 Nov 2025
Google Cloud launches ‘PanyaThAI’ to spur AI adoption in Thailand
By Aaron TanThe cloud supplier is offering training and its AI technology stack to unlock an estimated 730bn baht in economic value for Thai businesses such as Thai Wacoal and SE-Education
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27 Nov 2025
SAP selects Tata Consultancy Services to transform its IT operations
By Karl FlindersSoftware firm agrees five-year IT transformation project with Indian outsourcing giant, taking relationship up to 20 years
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26 Nov 2025
FSP and Redsquid hit the acquisition trail
By Simon QuickeThe channel players are using M&A as a route to expanding capabilities and market reach
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26 Nov 2025
US breach reinforces need to plug third-party security weaknesses
By Karl FlindersCyber breach at US financial sector tech provider highlights the risk of third-party vulnerabilities in finance ecosystems
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25 Nov 2025
AI Singapore taps Alibaba Cloud to power Sea-Lion model
By Aaron TanThe fourth iteration of the regional LLM leverages Alibaba’s Qwen foundation model to improve multilingual accuracy and performance on consumer-grade hardware
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25 Nov 2025
Interview: IBM on breaking hyperscaler lock-in
By Aaron TanBig Blue’s general manager for Asia-Pacific Hans Dekkers talks up why APAC enterprises are rethinking their reliance on public cloud, the resurgence of the mainframe via LinuxOne, and how it used its own AI tools to cut internal costs
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24 Nov 2025
Monday.com touts AI as cure for productivity slump
By Stephen WithersAt its Elevate conference in Sydney, the workflow management supplier showed off new artificial intelligence capabilities to tackle burnout, while showcasing customer wins from Tennis Australia, Ray White and Freedom
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24 Nov 2025
UAE’s e& enterprise drives growth with AI and sovereign cloud
By Andrea BenitoActing chief revenue officer Majd Coussa outlines how the digital transformation company is turning innovation into measurable business outcomes for 2025
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24 Nov 2025
MWC25 Doha debut marks a new chapter for MENA mobile innovation
By Andrea BenitoGSMA’s Jawad Jalal Abbassi outlines how Qatar’s first Mobile World Congress will accelerate digital transformation, 5G adoption and AI integration across the region
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24 Nov 2025
Softcat shares customer priorities for 2026
By Simon QuickeSecurity, artificial intelligence and delivering a positive user experience through the digital workplace are areas where users plan to invest
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24 Nov 2025
Google wins multimillion-pound contract to supply sovereign cloud services to Nato
By Caroline DonnellyGoogle follows up recent Ministry of Defence sovereign cloud contract win with Nato deal
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21 Nov 2025
MSP Evolution Summit: Acceleration towards services model
By Simon QuickeThe portion of business derived from services has increased across the channel as partners move away from older revenue streams
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20 Nov 2025
UK government outlines next wave of AI investment plans
By Caroline DonnellyThe UK government continues to build on the release of its AI Opportunities Action Plan, with the announcement of another AI Growth Zone plus investment opportunities for the nation's startup community
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20 Nov 2025
The big three grab two-thirds of $107B cloud market in Q3
By Kathleen CaseyCloud dominance intensifies as AWS, Microsoft and Google capture 63% of the $107B market. AWS leads at 29%, despite erosion, while Microsoft and Google rise with AI-driven growth.
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20 Nov 2025
Focus firmly on AI at Microsoft Ignite
By Simon QuickeVendor announces several enhancements to its cloud partner programme to encourage the development of expertise around artificial intelligence products and services
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20 Nov 2025
MSP Evolution Summit: AI is here to stay
By Simon QuickeNot only is it important for the channel to deliver and support artificial intelligence technology, but managed service providers need to have their own take on the AI story
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20 Nov 2025
Qualcomm and Humain launch AI engineering centre in Riyadh
By Andrea BenitoSaudi Arabia strengthens its artificial intelligence ambitions under Vision 2030 with a new Qualcomm-powered datacentre hub, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlights tech innovation during his US visit
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19 Nov 2025
Government-backed coalition to end gazumping in property market
By Karl FlindersThe government wants a digital platform that can address ‘inefficiencies’ causing stress for homeowners and inflicting huge costs to the economy
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19 Nov 2025
EU sets out plans to cut red tape on digital
By Cliff SaranChanges have been proposed to simplify AI Act compliance for smaller businesses, easier cyber security reporting and tweaks to GDPR
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19 Nov 2025
Apple denies ‘locking in’ iCloud users as £3bn legal claim brought by Which? reaches court
By Caroline DonnellyConsumer tech giant Apple has dismissed a legal claim brought by Which? that alleges the pricing strategy for its iCloud service has ‘locked in’ 41 million users in the UK
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19 Nov 2025
Workday sets out to reinvent ERP with agentic AI platform
By Brian McKennaAt Workday Rising EMEA, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier signalled a new phase of development as an agentic AI platform provider that might disrupt traditional ERP
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19 Nov 2025
Inside the Middle East tech ambition: How A2RL is shaping the future of AI-driven mobility
By Andrea BenitoDriverless cars push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, real-time decision-making and data-driven mobility at Yas Marina Circuit
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18 Nov 2025
UK channel still working on AI skills
By Simon QuickeAlthough many accept in the industry accept there is more to do when it comes to AI skills, the UK channel is more confident in its abilities than peers in other countries
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18 Nov 2025
European Commission launches AWS and Microsoft-focused cloud competition probes
By Caroline DonnellyThe European Commission has launched three investigations into how the continent’s cloud market operates, with two focused specifically on Microsoft and Amazon Web Services
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18 Nov 2025
NHS signs another major IT deal with the Indian IT sector
By Karl FlindersFive-year NHS deal sees Tata Consultancy Services continue to grow its UK public sector business
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18 Nov 2025
CCS under fire over ‘anti-SME’ supplier requirements for G-Cloud 15
By Caroline DonnellyGovernment procurement chiefs have shared details of how IT suppliers can participate in G-Cloud 15, but concerns are being raised about changes that may render the framework inaccessible to SMEs
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18 Nov 2025
Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion
By Stephen WithersUS chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium
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17 Nov 2025
UK investment bank IT outages cost £600k an hour
By Karl FlindersSurvey respondents say there are barriers to resilience for UK investment banks, including a skills shortage and internal resistance
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14 Nov 2025
Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped
By Kim LoohuisING warns grid congestion threatens Dutch datacentre leadership, while the country’s championed hydrogen solution remains largely untapped
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14 Nov 2025
Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026
By Aaron TanLenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history
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12 Nov 2025
IT services companies and datacentres face regulation as cyber security bill reaches Parliament
By Bill GoodwinThe Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will require large IT services companies, including datacentres, to report security incidents within 24 hours
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11 Nov 2025
New high-accuracy GPS aims to end navigation woes
By Aaron TanGrab and its tech partners are trialling a system that promises lane-level accuracy, a first for ride-hailing in Southeast Asia
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11 Nov 2025
Google: Don’t get distracted by AI, focus on real cyber threats
By Aaron TanWhile hackers are using artificial intelligence to optimise attacks, many of the most damaging breaches still rely on old-school methods, says a top security analyst from Google
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11 Nov 2025
North American fleet management systems to show double-digit growth to 2029
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from IoT analyst reveals installed base of fleet management systems in North America to reach 33 million units over the next three years, dominated by a handful of providers with installed bases in the millions
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09 Nov 2025
Nikkei data breach exposes personal data of over 17,000 staff
By Aaron TanHackers used stolen login details from an employee's computer to access the Japanese media giant’s Slack messaging platform, with names, email addresses and chat histories potentially exposed
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07 Nov 2025
City of London deploys SASE to future-proof public infrastructure
By Joe O’HalloranManaged services provider to deliver an end-to-end networking connectivity offering, encompassing what is said to be a UK-first enterprise secure access service edge roll-out for public services
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07 Nov 2025
AvePoint points to MSP contribution in Q3
By Simon QuickeDigital workplace player experiences a strong quarter with its channel continuing to play a pivotal role in delivering growth
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07 Nov 2025
How Palo Alto Networks is leveraging AI
By Aaron TanPalo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel explains how the company is using AI to sieve through 90 billion security events a day, and why security and user experience are two sides of the same coin
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06 Nov 2025
Police Digital Service defends IT contractor cuts amid concerns over IT project delivery
By Caroline DonnellyThe Police Digital Service has defended its decision to cut the size of its flexible IT workforce, as sources raise concerns about low staff morale and hampered IT project delivery times
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06 Nov 2025
HPE rolls out unified partner programme
By Simon QuickeFirm makes enhancements that should make life easier for partners across the channel looking to work with all or part of the vendor’s portfolio
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05 Nov 2025
Darktrace: Developer tools under constant attack
By Stephen WithersAttackers are using automated tools to target development environments within seconds of them going live, warns Darktrace’s global field chief information security officer
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05 Nov 2025
From ambition to action: How the Gulf is turning responsible AI into a global reality
By Andrea BenitoThe Middle East is rapidly advancing in artificial intelligence and digital transformation, driven by strong government strategies. Success in the region requires trust, cultural awareness and alignment with local regulations
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05 Nov 2025
Insurer Vitality forges closer ties with Google for AI-powered customer health boost
By Caroline DonnellyHealth insurance firm Vitality wants to help its customers take a more preventative approach to managing their health and fitness, with the help of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence portfolio
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05 Nov 2025
SAP TechEd 2025: Make AI real, grind in data
By Brian McKennaSAP TechEd in Berlin put an accent on building agentic and generative AI systems to create real business outcomes, beyond what its executives say is excessive hype
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05 Nov 2025
Verizon Business, AWS seal fibre deal to accelerate AI applications at scale
By Joe O’HalloranComms provider and hyperscaler unite on network infrastructure and suite of products designed to enable global enterprises to deploy AI workloads at scale
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04 Nov 2025
Cisco channel chief talks 360, AI and partner value
By Simon QuickeAs the vendor pulls thousands of its partners together for its summit, its recently installed channel leader shares his thoughts on a range of issues
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04 Nov 2025
UAE Sovereign Launchpad begins nationwide roll-out with support from e& and AWS
By Andrea BenitoThe cloud infrastructure platform aims to strengthen digital resilience and regulatory compliance across government and regulated sectors in the United Arab Emirates
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04 Nov 2025
Microsoft’s $15.2bn investment in the UAE: A strategic bet on AI, talent and trust
By Andrea BenitoMicrosoft’s decade-long investment in the United Arab Emirates underscores its commitment to building a robust artificial intelligence ecosystem, advancing digital infrastructure and fostering local talent through a strategic partnership with G42
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03 Nov 2025
CrowdStrike: Europe second only to North America for cyber attacks
By Brian McKennaEurope faces rising cyber threats from criminals and nation-states, according to CrowdStrike. Ransomware attacks now take just 24 hours, with 22% of global victims being European
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03 Nov 2025
Cisco steps up security options for MSPs
By Simon QuickeCisco’s cloud platform enhancements have been designed to make life easier for its managed service provider base
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03 Nov 2025
AWS hails return to accelerated growth with Q3 results
By Caroline DonnellyDespite having to make allowances for paying out close to $2bn in severance payments, Amazon’s results show its cloud arm is continuing to go from strength to strength
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03 Nov 2025
How Zoom is approaching agentic AI
By Aaron TanZoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning
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31 Oct 2025
Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide
By Alex ScroxtonUS 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
By Brian McKennaSiemens 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
By Caroline DonnellyColocation 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
By Cliff SaranAlongside 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
By Karl FlindersJapanese 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
By Stephen WithersThe 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
By Caroline DonnellyA 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
By Aaron TanThe 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