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28 Jan 2026
Alteryx launches in-warehouse data prep tool for BigQuery
By Eric AvidonLive Query for BigQuery eliminates the need to move data between systems, saving customers from spending on data egress and reducing the risk of security leaks.
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28 Jan 2026
Dynatrace AI agents draw on new observability integrations
By Beth PariseauDynatrace rolls out AI agents grounded in a newly consolidated observability data back end and user interfaces, as enterprise AI ROI now hinges on context engineering.
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28 Jan 2026
Domo adds App Catalyst to platform to aid AI development
By Eric AvidonBy combining natural language code generation with enterprise-grade security and governance, the vendor aims to help customers more successfully build cutting-edge applications.
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30 Sep 2025
Enterprises want to go faster on the AI front
By Simon QuickeResearch 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
By Karl FlindersTrump 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
By Antony AdsheadObject 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
By Gerard O'DwyerFinland, 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
By Aaron TanSabrina 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
By Karl FlindersBusiness 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonMicrosoft’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
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Crayon, SoftwareOne, Exclusive Networks, Arrow and Westcon-Comstor
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26 Sep 2025
TD Synnex beats expectations in Q3
By Simon QuickeRevenues rise as channel player enjoys growth across its products portfolio and geographies
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26 Sep 2025
TD Synnex beats expectations in Q3
By Simon QuickeRevenues 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
By Caroline DonnellyA 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
By Simon QuickeHardware 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
By Kim LoohuisNetwork 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
By Caroline DonnellyThe 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
Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth
By Aaron TanThe 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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25 Sep 2025
Zoom includes AI at no extra cost to crack enterprise adoption puzzle
By Kim LoohuisZoom bets on free AI to drive enterprise adoption, despite evidence the highest return on investment comes from back-office automation
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24 Sep 2025
Internet shutdowns in Africa on upward trajectory
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA 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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Caroline DonnellyInnovation 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
By Aaron TanRather 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
By Antony AdsheadIn 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
By Simon QuickeExperts 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
By Beth PariseauOracle 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
By Simon QuickeReport 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
By Alex ScroxtonA 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
By Simon QuickeThe 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
By Bill GoodwinA 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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Simon QuickeChannel 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
By Simon QuickeComments 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
By Stephen WithersGeopolitical 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
By Antony AdsheadSurvey 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
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft’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
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft 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
By Aaron TanGoogle’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
By Cliff SaranSome 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’
By Caroline DonnellyStartup Carbon3.ai has a goal to link 30-plus UK-owned and operated datacentre sites across the UK that will host sovereign AI services
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15 Sep 2025
Amnesty: AI surveillance risks ‘supercharging’ US deportations
By Tiago VenturaAmnesty International says AI-driven platforms from Palantir and Babel Street are being used by US authorities to track migrants and revoke visas, raising fears of unlawful detentions and mass deportations
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15 Sep 2025
Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit preview: Digital sovereignty in the public cloud
By Cliff SaranWe look at how IT leaders need to balance data access, data residency and data sovereignty
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12 Sep 2025
Ministry of Defence signs £400m sovereign cloud deal with Google
By Caroline DonnellyGoogle Cloud has signed a multimillion-pound deal with the Ministry of Defence that will see it provide the armed forces with access to sovereign cloud capabilities
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12 Sep 2025
Service Express and Park Place tie-up creates major services player
By Simon QuickeThe bringing together of two channel players, Service Express and Park Place, will create a combined business that spans the globe
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11 Sep 2025
GTDC: CROs can grow with distribution
By Simon QuickeIndustry organisation GTDC delivers a guide to inform those pulling the purse strings about the benefits of working with the channel
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10 Sep 2025
Jaguar Land Rover admits data has been compromised in cyber attack
By Brian McKennaThe car maker revealed that data was stolen in the cyber attack that began on 31 August, as its production line continues to be affected
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10 Sep 2025
Could an environmental legal challenge derail government’s fast-tracked datacentre builds?
By Caroline DonnellyThe UK government is under fire after details emerged that it has waved through three large-scale datacentre planning applications without conducting an environmental impact assessment first
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10 Sep 2025
HPE channel boss praises partner Q3 impact
By Simon QuickeThe lid is lifted on the role the channel played in delivering the vendor’s decent quarterly numbers
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10 Sep 2025
EU Data Act prompts Google to scrap data transfer fees for UK multicloud users
By Caroline DonnellyWith the EU Data Act coming into effect, Google has confirmed that users of its cloud services across the UK and Europe will no longer pay to transfer data between its platform and competitors’ clouds
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09 Sep 2025
Rimini Street CEO sounds death knell on ERP software
By Aaron TanBelieving monolithic ERP applications will become obsolete in a decade, Seth Ravin is positioning Rimini Street to help enterprises transition to agentic ERP processes
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08 Sep 2025
Splunk.conf: Splunk and Cisco showcase unified platform
By Alex ScroxtonWith 18 months having elapsed since Cisco closed its acquisition of Splunk, joint platform capabilities and developments are being showcased at the annual Splunk.conf fair
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08 Sep 2025
AI boom to push Australian IT spending past A$172bn
By Aaron TanAustralian IT spending is set to grow by 8.9% in 2026, driven by growing investments in artificial intelligence, datacentre systems and cloud, according to Gartner
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05 Sep 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments of note this week at Synaxon, Ricoh Europe, Zyxel Networks, SentinelOne and Sharp
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05 Sep 2025
How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation
By Aaron TanThe Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings
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04 Sep 2025
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team chooses SAP Cloud ERP to gain edge
By Brian McKennaFormula 1 team Mercedes-AMG Petronas has chosen SAP Cloud ERP to help it comply with upcoming regulatory changes from the FIA
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03 Sep 2025
Google/DoJ antitrust ruling: Google must share data
By Cliff SaranThe search engine giant will be able to continue offering the Chrome browser, but there will be no more exclusivity distribution agreements
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03 Sep 2025
Fastly CEO plots course through AI and security
By Stephen WithersChief exec Kip Compton explains how Fastly’s unified platform is solving the web’s biggest challenges, from content scrapping by AI bots to distributed denial-of-service attacks
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02 Sep 2025
OpenAI targets India with datacentre push
By Mastufa AhmedThe AI firm is planning to open a one-gigawatt datacentre in India, which could reduce latency, ensure regulatory compliance and give it an edge over hyperscalers
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02 Sep 2025
Meet the IT leader In Lebanon who became an IT entrepreneur
By Martin VeitchNassib Chamoun says CIOs could follow his lead in swapping IT management for life as a startup, but they must be prepared to make sacrifices
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02 Sep 2025
Scottish Widows completes migration of millions of accounts to TCS platform
By Karl FlindersPension provider reaches milestone in its digital transformation with Indian IT services giant
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02 Sep 2025
AWS goes live in New Zealand
By Aaron TanThe AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, comprising three availability zones and powered by renewable energy, will enable organisations to store sensitive data in the country
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02 Sep 2025
JFrog extends DevSecOps playbook to AI governance
By Aaron TanThe software security specialist is leveraging its capabilities in DevSecOps to address security, data provenance and bias in AI models
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31 Aug 2025
Google Cloud brings on-premise Gemini AI to Singapore
By Aaron TanMove allows government agencies and regulated industries to run Google’s most powerful artificial intelligence models in their own datacentres, directly addressing data security and residency requirements to fuel the nation’s AI ambitions
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28 Aug 2025
Softcat and Pure Storage provide investor cheer
By Simon QuickeA trading update from the channel player and Q2 numbers from the vendor show both are heading in the right direction
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28 Aug 2025
Microsoft refuses to divulge data flows to Police Scotland
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTech giant Microsoft is declining to share key information with Police Scotland about where the sensitive data it uploads to Office 365 will be processed, leaving the force unable to comply with UK-wide data protection laws
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28 Aug 2025
VMware rides on private cloud renaissance in APAC
By Aaron TanAs enterprise rebalance workload placements and reinvest in private cloud infrastructure, Broadcom is positioning its VMware Cloud Foundation as the new standard for hybrid operations
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27 Aug 2025
FairPrice taps Google Cloud to build agentic AI workforce
By Aaron TanSingapore’s largest retailer is deploying a suite of agentic AI applications built on Google’s Gemini, Vertex AI and Agentspace to transform its customer experience and internal workflows
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27 Aug 2025
Microsoft shares insights from SI artificial intelligence initiative
By Simon QuickeVendor has been working with a selection of partners over the past few months to support wider cloud and AI adoption
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27 Aug 2025
How Meta's $10B cloud deal with Google helps it scale AI
By Esther ShittuThe move favors both companies: It shows Google's leadership in cloud infrastructure and furthers the social media giant's goal of becoming the leader in AI superintelligence.
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26 Aug 2025
Broadcom bundles private AI into VCF, adds security automation
By Aaron TanAt VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom unveiled an integrated private cloud stack with VMware Private AI now included in VCF subscriptions, alongside cyber security services and support for cloud-native object storage
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26 Aug 2025
Okta makes AI identity play with Axiom acquisition
By Alex ScroxtonOkta says Axiom Security’s technology will reinforce its own offerings in privileged access management, especially when it comes to the growing number of non-human identities
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21 Aug 2025
BT Group ramps up its cloud transformation efforts with another five-year AWS deal
By Caroline DonnellyBT Group's multi-year cloud transformation effort is moving on from workload migrations to building out a cloud-native infrastructure, with the help of AWS
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20 Aug 2025
Without a data strategy, AI will just scale your chaos
By Stephen WithersSnowflake’s chief data analytics officer, Anahita Tafvizi, explains why a data strategy focused on governance, consistency and accuracy is the only way to build artificial intelligence that users will trust
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18 Aug 2025
Workday hit in wave of social engineering attacks
By Alex ScroxtonA campaign of voice-based social engineering attacks targeting users of Salesforce’s services appears to have struck HR platform Workday
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18 Aug 2025
Docusign moves beyond e-signatures with AI-powered contract platform
By Aaron TanDocusign CEO Allan Thygesen explains how the company is leveraging its brand recognition and GenAI capabilities to solve decades-old problems in how businesses create, negotiate and manage contracts
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15 Aug 2025
Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience
By Aaron TanZendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience
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15 Aug 2025
India revives national datacentre policy amid AI push
By Mastufa AhmedThe government is pushing for single-window clearances and distributed infrastructure to prepare India for AI and cloud workloads in its national datacentre policy
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15 Aug 2025
SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure
By Aaron TanThe South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders
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13 Aug 2025
SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI
By Stephen WithersThe German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne
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12 Aug 2025
Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack
By Aaron TanThe Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure
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12 Aug 2025
UK state-owned bank goes cloud-native
By Karl FlindersState-owned National Savings and Investments bank used contract renewal as an opportunity to keep pace with changes in the market
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12 Aug 2025
Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India
By Aaron TanKrutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs
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11 Aug 2025
Aspire sets sights on £100m revenue
By Simon QuickeStrength of channel player’s 2024 fiscal year gives it the confidence to go for an ambitious growth target
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11 Aug 2025
Watching the watchers: Is the Technical Advisory Panel a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ?
By Bill GoodwinDame Muffy Calder is chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a small group of experts that advises the Investigatory Powers Commissioner on surveillance technology. Do they have what it takes to oversee the intelligence community?
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08 Aug 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Lenovo, Exertis Enterprise, Phoenix Software, NTT DATA and WatchGuard Technologies
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07 Aug 2025
Interview: Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer, Thomson Reuters
By Mark SamuelsAs a technologist who also runs corporate operations, Thomson Reuters’ CTO believes her tech background gives her a unique edge as the business information group looks to transform its products with AI
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07 Aug 2025
Ingram Micro CEO addresses ransomware attack
By Simon QuickePaul Bay, CEO of Ingram Micro, shared an update while discussing the distributor’s second-quarter numbers
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06 Aug 2025
OVHcloud rejigs partner team and increases support
By Simon QuickeCloud player makes a fresh hire and a couple of promotions to change the lineup responsible for delivering partner programmes
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06 Aug 2025
Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft
By Aaron TanThe five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities
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06 Aug 2025
Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel
By Aaron TanThe Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom
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05 Aug 2025
How Australian firms are using graph databases
By Stephen WithersBanks, miners and police forces in Australia are among those using graph databases to provide the context and data relationships needed for more accurate and trustworthy AI, moving projects from experimentation to production
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05 Aug 2025
How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security
By Aaron TanAlvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security
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04 Aug 2025
Proliferation of on-premise GenAI platforms is widening security risks
By Alex ScroxtonResearch finds increased adoption of unsanctioned generative artificial intelligence platforms is magnifying risk and causing a headache for security teams
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04 Aug 2025
Agentic AI a target-rich zone for cyber attackers in 2025
By Brian McKennaAt Black Hat USA 2025, CrowdStrike warns that cyber criminals and nation-states are weaponising GenAI to scale attacks and target AI agents, turning autonomous systems against their makers
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04 Aug 2025
Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector
By Aaron TanA partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures
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03 Aug 2025
NUS and Google team up on AI research centre
By Aaron TanThe National University of Singapore and Google will set up a joint research centre focused on applied AI in education, law, and public health while also building a talent pipeline for the city-state
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01 Aug 2025
AWS reports 17.5% growth, fails to impress investors
By Shane SniderAmazon's cloud business delivered better-than-expected growth in the second quarter, but pales in comparison with results from Google and Microsoft.
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01 Aug 2025
AWS sees revenue and profit rise in Q2, bats away competitive concerns
By Caroline DonnellyAWS has filed its Q2 results, reporting another quarter of revenue and profit rises, but questions are being asked about how the company is coping with the rising competitive pressure it is under
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01 Aug 2025
Microsoft, DISG launch AI agent accelerator programme
By Aaron TanMicrosoft and DISG’s programme will provide cloud credits, training and tools to local businesses as part of a national push to create ‘frontier firms’ where humans work alongside autonomous AI agents
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31 Jul 2025
Climb Global Solutions hints at further M&A
By Simon QuickeDistributor shares Q2 progress, with CEO talking of willingness to make strategic investments to expand the business
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31 Jul 2025
CMA told to expedite action against AWS and Microsoft to rebalance UK cloud market
By Caroline DonnellyThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a summary of the final conclusions it has reached following the completion of its long-running probe into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market
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31 Jul 2025
Microsoft reports massive cloud uptick as CMA questions licensing
By Cliff SaranThe company’s latest quarterly results show that the Microsoft cloud is booming. But the CMA is not happy with how it’s winning business
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31 Jul 2025
Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk for $25bn
By Aaron TanThe deal marks Palo Alto Networks’ entry into the identity and access management space amid the growing need to secure human, machine and emerging AI agent identities
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31 Jul 2025
ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play
By Aaron TanThe workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market