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22 Oct 2026
AI factories package Nvidia reference architecture, but who's buying?
Nvidia partners bundle the OpenShell Reference Architecture's infrastructure-level AI safeguards in AI factories, but enterprise adoption numbers remain a mystery.
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22 Oct 2026
Max-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers run code on servers
A high-impact GitLab flaw lets unauthenticated attackers run code on self-managed servers. Every release since 2014 is affected.
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22 Oct 2026
PHP2Shell disclosure unravels after leaks forced early patch drop
Although website shutdowns were inevitable to patch critical PHP flaws, early leaks and a broken embargo turned routine maintenance into an emergency scramble.
Cloud Computing News from the past 365 days
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09 Sep 2026
Dell touts platform play as AI demand goes beyond cloud suppliers
Enterprises and sovereign buyers are accounting for a growing share of Dell’s AI infrastructure business, and its chief strategy officer has some advice for buyers still waiting for the market to settle
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09 Sep 2026
Zayo advances network as a service with agentic networking
Digital network infrastructure provider claims first production Model Context Protocol server built specifically for networking
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08 Sep 2026
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft updates address almost 1,000 flaws
Microsoft has released another record-breaking Patch Tuesday update with almost 1,000 flaws in scope
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08 Sep 2026
UK committed datacentre pipeline grows to more than 14GW
Barbour ABI data show UK’s datacentre pipeline has grown to 173 projects and more than 14GW of capacity, driven by AI demand and large sites in Scotland and the North East
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08 Sep 2026
Computacenter delivers record-breaking H1
Channel player experiences growth across its offerings, as well as geographically in the first half
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08 Sep 2026
Interview: Huawei targets Saudi Arabia’s shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption
As enterprises move beyond artificial intelligence pilots, Huawei is positioning its cloud, computing and partner ecosystem to help organisations build scalable AI platforms while maintaining control over data, models and infrastructure
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08 Sep 2026
Lendi Group taps agent swarm to reshape mortgage broking
The Australian mortgage group has built its own orchestration platform to run the specialised agents that now guide customers through the early stages of a loan application
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08 Sep 2026
Citi pulls data out of regional silos to pave the way for AI
The bank’s wealth arm has spent 18 months moving client and market data off five regional datacentres and onto one cloud platform, cutting reporting times from weeks to days
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07 Sep 2026
Advania welcomes fresh UK CEO
After a search that has lasted almost seven months, the channel player has settled on its preferred candidate to run the UK business
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07 Sep 2026
Advania welcomes fresh UK CEO
After a search that has lasted almost seven months, the channel player has settled on its preferred candidate to run the UK business
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04 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping NHS hyperscaler dependence
Mapping NHS DNS data reveals a heavy reliance on US hyperscalers, with Microsoft 365 routing email and infrastructure for the vast majority of trusts in a tangled web of connections
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04 Sep 2026
Billion-dollar AWS financial services investment builds on a decade of work
The US tech giant committed to the financial services sector a decade ago, which has seen its offering develop alongside the industry
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03 Sep 2026
Interview: Oracle accelerates Middle East cloud expansion as demand for sovereign AI rises
The company is expanding its regional cloud footprint, growing sovereign cloud deployments and investing in AI skills development as governments and enterprises seek control over data, compliance and artificial intelligence
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03 Sep 2026
CDW expands AI expertise
Distributor acquires more data and analytics expertise, while Genesys shares a momentum update on the positive impact of demand for AI tools
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01 Sep 2026
The Security Interviews: Abby Kearns, ActiveState
ActiveState CEO Abby Kearns discusses open source’s ‘existential crisis’, how AI is changing the secure software playbook, and why it’s time to have a different conversation about open source security
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01 Sep 2026
Pay more, check nothing: Councils buy Microsoft but don’t test
A Computer Weekly analysis of FOI responses from 37 English councils found 32 have never run a competitive procurement in which an alternative to Microsoft could have won
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01 Sep 2026
Snowflake: dashboard-era access controls won’t govern AI agents
The company’s chief data and AI officer talks up efforts to move access controls into the data layer, the cost of dynamic model routing and why governance cannot be baked into model weights
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31 Aug 2026
Why AI may need fewer datacentre GPUs than you think
The focus on inferencing, allied to smaller models, purpose-built silicon and on-device processing, is loosening the grip of hyperscale GPU clusters on enterprise AI workloads
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27 Aug 2026
Post Office Horizon replacement ‘screw-up’ ends in challenge, more cost and delay
IT supplier Escher challenged the award of the Horizon EPOS replacement contract, leading to months of delay and additional costs
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27 Aug 2026
Deutsche Bank selects Thought Machine to support core system reduction
Thought Machine’s Google-inspired banking technology has now been adopted by 20 global Tier 1 banks
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27 Aug 2026
AI agents will try every door – and find the ones left unlocked
Enterprises are working out how to give AI agents identities of their own, says Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand, just as frontier models start finding vulnerabilities faster than anyone can patch them
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26 Aug 2026
UK government set to adjudicate on ‘risky’ tech purchases
Proposals for amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would enable the UK government to clamp down on purchases of technology from suppliers linked to hostile foreign countries
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25 Aug 2026
Networks must be upgraded to unlock AI benefits
Global survey of the CSP community from Ciena underlines the importance of getting infrastructure into a position to support demanding technologies
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25 Aug 2026
LINX, JPIX go live with London-to-Tokyo low latency connectivity
Network route launched connecting European networks to one of Asia’s largest interconnection hubs, facilitating low latency internet and networking and local peering opportunities
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24 Aug 2026
How AI has improved customer support for Aussie firms
Support leaders for carsales at Catapult Sports and Sealy of Australia explain how Zendesk’s AI tools have changed their service operations, from providing round-the-clock support to ticket triage in over 60 languages
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24 Aug 2026
Mimecast CEO on why AI risk starts with the user
Ranjan Singh talks up the security supplier’s focus on human risk management, the behavioural data he believes rivals can’t match, and why having a local datacentre is a condition of doing business in APAC
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20 Aug 2026
Cloudera unveils Anywhere Cloud as enterprises pull AI back on-premises
The modular platform lets enterprises run data and AI services across public clouds, private datacentres and air-gapped sites, with early adopter ExxonMobil getting it up and running in just over an hour
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20 Aug 2026
Will Scottish datacentre ruling nudge spec builds into the open?
Scotland forces councils to flag 50MW-plus datacentre bids to ministers within seven days, as mooted gigawatt campuses prove to be vapour or stall on grid connections
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20 Aug 2026
PoliceAI outlines plans to test and assure AI for policing
Computer Weekly speaks with PoliceAI – a national body set up to build, test and assure artificial intelligence models for policing contexts – about how it plans to approach the development and implementation of automated policing tools
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19 Aug 2026
Proofpoint launches AI security engineering centre in India
The security supplier is hiring over 200 engineers in Hyderabad to develop models that can interpret the intent behind the actions of AI agents, Proofpoint’s latest investment in a market where its business has tripled in a year
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19 Aug 2026
How AI is changing the economics of customer service
Jon Aniano, Zendesk's senior vice-president and general manager of customer experience, talks up the rise of voice AI agents, the limits of average handle time and why automated resolution frees human agents for the calls that matter
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18 Aug 2026
Alibaba Cloud opens third South Korea datacentre
The Chinese cloud supplier has expanded its Korean footprint with its third datacentre as it looks to capture a bigger slice of a crowded market dominated by Western and local players
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17 Aug 2026
Natural History Museum’s ‘living laboratory’ logs 11 million environmental records in first year
More than 50 sensors feed temperature, humidity and acoustic readings into the Museum’s AWS Data Ecosystem, which found woodland soils stayed 10°C cooler in June’s heatwave
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14 Aug 2026
Supplier challenge delays Post Office Horizon replacement
Losing bidder challenges the Post Office’s decision to award Horizon replacement contract to OneView Commerce
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13 Aug 2026
Ahead Foundry to increase support for UK and European customers
Firm opens facility to help users looking to design and deploy high-performance AI computing solutions
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13 Aug 2026
Everpure lands second hyperscaler design win for DirectFlash
A second top-five hyperscaler is set to take Everpure’s high-capacity flash modules, looking to displace HDDs in a specific price-performance tier of the storage stack
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13 Aug 2026
Ryanair signs five-year Google Cloud AI partnership
Ryanair adds Google Cloud to existing AWS estate, to deploy Gemini Enterprise and DeepMind models to 35,000 staff for crew scheduling and operational decision-making
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13 Aug 2026
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gets hybrid quantum capabilities
Oracle has partnered with Quantinuum to bring the company’s Helios system to OCI customers
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12 Aug 2026
Ant Group debuts physician platform to support patient care
The AQ for Doctor platform is integrated with a patient-facing app to help doctors conduct online consultations, manage patient records and support clinical decision-making
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12 Aug 2026
Dubai ranks second globally in AI adoption as investment in digital infrastructure accelerates
BCG’s Intelligent Cities Index highlights how the emirate is translating artificial intelligence ambitions into large-scale deployment, supported by investments in datacentres, sovereign AI initiatives and digital infrastructure
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12 Aug 2026
Sovereignty beyond residency: Why Gulf governments must rethink AI control
Vast Data’s Haider Aziz argues that auditability, portability and governance will determine the success of sovereign artificial intelligence initiatives across the Middle East
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12 Aug 2026
AI impact seen in Q2 numbers at Insight and CDW
Channel players share quarterly numbers that show growth across the board and benefit from UK operations
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06 Aug 2026
Capita CEO receives scathing rebuttal from employee over botched contract
Capita CEO criticised after making Civil Service Pension Scheme claims in a message to staff
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05 Aug 2026
ECI snaps up Prima
ERP specialist acquired as Tracxn Technologies shines a light on the general state of European technology investments
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03 Aug 2026
Apple files fresh claim against Home Office move to access encrypted cloud data
Apple has filed another legal complaint over a secret Home Office order requiring the supplier to provide access to encrypted iCloud data stored by UK customers
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03 Aug 2026
MPs demand answers on Fujitsu’s inclusion in lucrative frameworks
Controversial supplier Fujitsu was included in major government procurement opportunities in July 2026
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31 Jul 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Integrity360, TrustedTech, BCN, Exclusive Networks, Park Place Technologies, TD Synnex and AvePoint
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31 Jul 2026
Microsoft earnings reflect efficiency gains from faster GPU deployment
With delays in GPU orders, Microsoft has focused on getting its AI chips installed in Azure datacentres more quickly
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30 Jul 2026
Meta results reveal people are vying for its compute
While it builds out its own AI infrastructure, Meta appears to be considering a new revenue stream, as a provider of processing power
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30 Jul 2026
Climb benefits from vendor portfolio performance
Channel player shares Q2 numbers that were buoyed by an acquisition and the performance of its leading suppliers
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30 Jul 2026
Subpostmasters anxious over Horizon replacement as it is delayed yet again
Mounting delays in signing the Post Office Horizon replacement contract are fuelling widespread anxiety and uncertainty across the subpostmaster network, raising operational concerns
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29 Jul 2026
GTDC: Distribution continues to evolve
Industry group underlines the ability of its members to respond to the needs of vendors, resellers and the wider ecosystem
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28 Jul 2026
UK public don’t trust Fujitsu, but government does
Quick poll reveals that the public mistrust Fujitsu two and a half years on from its public shaming
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28 Jul 2026
DBS holds off on letting AI agents run on their own as controls lag capability
The bank has strung together as many as 80 agents to prepare credit approvals for big corporate clients but says the industry’s ability to police such systems is advancing at a fraction of the pace of the technology itself
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24 Jul 2026
SAP signals channel role as AI becomes increasingly embedded
Research from SAP Engagement Cloud underlines the shift in the market and the need for experts who can talk data, privacy and customer experience
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24 Jul 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at 11:11 Systems, Ignition Technology, Phoenix Software, Bechtle, Keepit and BCE
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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