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17 Sep 2025
AHIP pledges vaccine coverage ahead of ACIP meeting
By Jacqueline LaPointeAHIP members commit to covering vaccines, including the latest flu and COVID-19 jabs, through next year as the CDC's vaccine advisory panel plans to debate common immunizations.
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17 Sep 2025
MongoDB adds MCP server, expands AI development capabilities
By Eric AvidonWhile the database vendor isn't breaking new ground with its updated features, they combine to provide customers with valuable tools that will help to build modern applications.
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17 Sep 2025
Fewer hospitals posting prices despite price transparency push
By Jacqueline LaPointeThe new report shows fewer hospitals are posting dollar-and-cents prices in their public files, undermining healthcare price transparency requirements.
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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 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
Government confirms North East as location of second AI growth zone
By Caroline DonnellyUK government has selected two sites near to Newcastle as the home of its second AI growth zone, with one of them confirmed to be housing compute infrastructure for OpenAI's Stargate UK initiative
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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
Waltham Cross to get heating from Google datacentre
By Cliff SaranThere is potential to attract talent to the region as Google pushes out its renewables-powered datacentre strategy
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16 Sep 2025
National Grid partners with AI firm to test dynamic management of datacentre energy demands
By Caroline DonnellyNational Grid is partnering with Emerald AI for a live trial to test how the pressure artificial intelligence datacentres place on the grid could be altered according to workload demands
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16 Sep 2025
Turkish state tightens grip on comms
By Mark BallardTurkish subscriptions to fixed broadband were the lowest in Europe in 2024 and half as common as those in more developed countries
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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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12 Sep 2025
TechUK report on datacentre water usage habits criticised
By Tiago VenturaNon-profit questions the reliability of TechUK’s study on water use, arguing that its anonymous, self-reported data may give a misleading picture of the sector’s environmental impact.
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12 Sep 2025
TechUK report on datacentre water usage habits criticised
By Tiago VenturaNon-profit questions the reliability of TechUK’s study on water use, arguing that its anonymous, self-reported data may give a misleading picture of the sector’s environmental impact.
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11 Sep 2025
Nokia ups the ante in AI-optimised datacentre networking
By Joe O’HalloranStrategic partnership designed to bring AI-optimised datacentre solutions to enterprises to reduce deployment time and operational costs and improve efficiency
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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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09 Sep 2025
The digital forensics crisis in policing: What’s going wrong?
By Sophia SheeraForensics experts say that most crime has a digital footprint, but the police are unable to keep up with the soaring number of devices that require analysis
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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
Dell AI server revenues leap but storage waits on Project Lightning
By Yann SerraDuring the past quarter, Dell’s datacentre sales went through the roof due to new server and networking products for AI – but storage has not shared the same dynamic
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08 Sep 2025
Gibraltar government backs plans to build 250MW datacentre on island to tap into AI boom
By Caroline DonnellyThe government of Gibraltar is throwing its weight behind a plan to build a £1.8bn datacentre on the island
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08 Sep 2025
Rising network outages are proving costly to businesses
By Joe O’HalloranResearch finds ongoing rise of network outages has cost over a third of organisations between $1m and $5m over the past year, putting datacentres at risk of significant disruption
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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
Water efficiency of English datacentres scrutinised in TechUK report
By Tiago VenturaTechUK survey suggests English datacentres are consuming less water than perhaps expected, but concerns persist about how transparent the sector is being about its water usage
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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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03 Sep 2025
Microsoft shows potential of analogue optical computing in AI
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft has worked with Barclays on a financial optimisation problem using consumer-grade electronics
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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
Fujitsu’s roots in government go too deep
By Karl FlindersMPs and peers call on prime minister to review Japanese supplier’s ‘eligibility’ to bid for government contracts
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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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01 Sep 2025
Flash drive prices grow quickly while SAS and SATA diverge
By Antony AdsheadManufacturers have throttled back production of flash drives to tackle over-supply and it shows in rising prices
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29 Aug 2025
HPE ups ante in self-driving net ops with enhanced Mist agentic AI
By Joe O’HalloranMerged company simplifies IT operations portfolio with aim of elevating user experiences with more autonomous actions delivered via agentic workflows and expanded digital experience twinning
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29 Aug 2025
DFA, Ciena fibre test reveals capacity record
By Joe O’HalloranPlanned deployment of optical connectivity technology designed to future-proof South African wholesale network and drive economic growth across country
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29 Aug 2025
Enterprises believe networking will make or break AI adoption
By Joe O’HalloranResearch reveals more than 40% of enterprises in advanced stages of GenAI adoption plan to integrate artificial intelligence into 20-30 applications, further raising the stakes for modernised networks
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28 Aug 2025
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang lobbies Trump administration to sell Blackwell to China
By Cliff SaranThe AI acceleration technology provider is looking at the massive opportunity in selling high-end chips to China
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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
Broadcom CEO doubles down on private cloud at VMware Explore
By Shane SniderHock Tan talked only for several minutes during the keynote at VMware Explore 2025, but in that time, he laid the groundwork for a host of VMware updates.
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27 Aug 2025
Intel filing shows risks of US government stake
By Cliff SaranThe US government now has a significant stake in Intel’s business. This could effect its ability to obtain grants from other governments
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27 Aug 2025
Home Office Fujitsu contract is ‘de facto’ conflict of interest in Post Office police probe
By Karl FlindersFujitsu supplies police with the network that supports national investigations, while its former staff are part of a national investigation
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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
Qualcomm claims enterprise mobile processor world first
By Joe O’HalloranNew chip combines integrated RFID with AI and advanced connectivity, enabling edge devices across retail, commercial and industrial sectors to connect, compute and interact in smarter, proximity-aware ways
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25 Aug 2025
Experts: Intel government stake won't fix long-term woes
By Beth PariseauA deal giving the U.S. federal government a 10% stake in Intel in exchange for funds won't necessarily ensure the company's ultimate survival, according to industry analysts.
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22 Aug 2025
AWS launches virtual servers with custom Intel Xeon 6 chips
By Shane SniderThe companies tout a collaboration that will offer better price performance and memory bandwidth for memory-intensive workloads.
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20 Aug 2025
Nasa and IBM apply artificial intelligence to tackle solar digital disruption
By Cliff SaranSolar storms and flares can have a big impact on digital society, which is why IBM and Nasa are forecasting solar weather with AI
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20 Aug 2025
Metropolitan Police contract with Fujitsu is ‘potential conflict of interest’ amid Post Office probe
By Karl FlindersFreedom of information request reveals sub-contract between Fujitsu and the police force leading nationwide investigation of the IT firm’s part in the Post Office scandal
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20 Aug 2025
UK chip strategy needs an AI acceleration slant
By Cliff SaranAnalysis for the government shows gaps in Labour’s AI plan of action, but the big opportunity is in optoelectronics
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20 Aug 2025
India banks on mature-node chips to build semiconductor niche
By Mastufa AhmedIndia is doubling down on mature-node chips that power cars, healthcare and electronics, using incentives and global supply shifts to make its mark
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19 Aug 2025
HPE taps into AI market demand with Nvidia Blackwell-powered servers
By Tiago VenturaHPE’s latest Nvidia Blackwell-powered GPU servers are due to start shipping soon, but could enterprises face delays when trying to get hold of them?
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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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15 Aug 2025
Nvidia introduces entry-level RTX Pro GPU
By Shane SniderThe company's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU and RTX Pro Server offer companies using smaller-scale enterprise infrastructure a way to do more AI on-premises.
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15 Aug 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at ANS, Node4, Cohesity, Phoenix Software, Dell and Chainguard
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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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14 Aug 2025
What’s going on inside Intel?
By Cliff SaranChipmaker Intel has had a tough couple of weeks: job cuts, Donald Trump calling for the CEO’s resignation, and now an attack by its former chief executive
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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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11 Aug 2025
Trump fee for Nvidia, AMD China exports could face legal battle
By Shane SniderThe administration's unprecedented move may conflict with the U.S. Constitution's rules against export taxes.
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11 Aug 2025
Why Intel’s woes show the fragility of the European Chips Act
By Cliff SaranIntel is facing political pressure and stress across its business, with its 2022 plans to manufacture in the EU one of the casualties
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08 Aug 2025
Interview: How PXP shifted off VMware
By Cliff SaranWhen a business begins to see less and less value from an incumbent IT provider, especially as its software becomes more expensive, it might be time to switch. Here’s how one company did just that
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07 Aug 2025
Trump slaps 100% tariffs on chips to get tech onshore
By Cliff SaranThe chip sector is being shaken up by the US administration’s plans to levy a tariff on semiconductors imported into the United States
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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
Biglobe selects DE-CIX for faster Japan, Europe connectivity
By Joe O’HalloranOne of Japan’s leading IT companies connects to Frankfurt-based internet exchange for remote peering services, looking to optimise intercontinental data routing without needing a physical presence in Europe
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05 Aug 2025
Broadcom's Jericho4 boosts data center AI networking
By Shane SniderThe company's latest networking chip promises better bandwidth, security and connectivity throughout and between data centers.
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05 Aug 2025
Broadcom unveils Jericho4 for distributed AI networking across datacentres
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions provider scales over one million specialised processing unit clusters beyond single facility limits
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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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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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31 Jul 2025
DOJ firings spark fresh HPE-Juniper deal scrutiny
By Shane SniderReported involvement from intelligence agencies, lobbyists may have helped push the merger through before a planned antitrust trial, causing infighting at the Justice Department.
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31 Jul 2025
Datacentre operators ‘faltering’ on collecting sustainability data, Uptime Institute data shows
By Caroline DonnellyDatacentre operators are ‘quietly retiring’ their net-zero strategies, as Uptime Institute data shows downturn in the number tracking key server farm sustainability metrics
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31 Jul 2025
Meta prepares for gigawatt datacentres to power ‘superintelligence’
By Cliff SaranMeta’s latest results show a big jump in datacentre costs as it builds out personal AI capabilities
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30 Jul 2025
UK flights suspended after air traffic control outage
By Alex ScroxtonFlights arriving and departing from the UK were disrupted by an outage affecting technical systems at air traffic control body NATS’ Swanwick facility
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30 Jul 2025
AWS tables Virginia data center after community pushback
By Shane SniderThe proposed 7.2 million-square-foot operation -- one of the world's largest -- would have added to Amazon's $35 billion data center plan in Virginia.
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29 Jul 2025
Logicalis targets APAC’s mid-market with ‘GSI quality’ services
By Aaron TanThe global technology service provider is banking on its ‘think global, act local’ strategy, a deep focus on application modernisation and security to differentiate itself in the region
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28 Jul 2025
Kioxia launches 245TB LC9, the biggest flash drive on the market
By Yann SerraJapanese drive maker piles one card on top of another to produce 245.76TB E3.L drive, with lower capacity variants in 2.5in and E3.S formats, and claimed low energy use benefits
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25 Jul 2025
Intel cuts spending, eyes data center recovery after mixed Q2
By Shane SniderCEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company's layoff plan is mostly complete as Intel tries to rebound after financial woes in recent years.
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24 Jul 2025
Trump's fossil-fueled AI Action Plan pushes deregulation
By Shane SniderThe Trump administration's AI Action Plan and executive orders include deregulation that would fast-track data center and chip buildouts while boosting the power grid.
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24 Jul 2025
US seeks ‘unquestioned’ AI dominance
By Alex ScroxtonUS AI action plan sets out aims to expand American dominance in the world of artificial intelligence
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24 Jul 2025
IBM chief confident AI isn’t eroding other parts of the business
By Cliff SaranChairman, president and CEO Arvind Krishna talks of growth and margin expansion as Big Blue expects artificial intelligence to deliver internal savings of $4.5bn this year
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23 Jul 2025
Subpostmasters shoulder costs of Fujitsu’s Post Office IT outage
By Karl FlindersFujitsu datacentre outage hit subpostmaster sales for two hours, leaving subpostmasters to seek compensation
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22 Jul 2025
FuriosaAI to fuel LG Exaone LLM: Is it a challenge to Nvidia?
By Shane SniderThe South Korean semiconductor startup scored LG as its first major customer, as companies compete to take advantage of the AI boom.
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22 Jul 2025
Colt targets crypto traders with low-latency connectivity
By Aaron TanConnectivity service aims to give digital asset traders and enterprises deploying AI applications a performance edge by connecting cloud regions faster than native backbones
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22 Jul 2025
Microsoft confirms China link to SharePoint hacks
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft confirms two known China-nexus threat actors, and one other suspected state-backed hacking group, are exploiting vulnerabilities in SharePoint Server
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22 Jul 2025
UK government signs partnership with OpenAI
By Lis EvenstadDeal sees firm behind ChatGPT collaborate with government on AI security research to explore investment opportunities
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22 Jul 2025
AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage
By Antony AdsheadS3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases
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22 Jul 2025
Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack
By Stéphane LarcherHitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have
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21 Jul 2025
Linx, Megaport expand connectivity for London networks
By Joe O’HalloranLondon Internet Exchange announces a strategic partnership with global network-as-a-service provider offering one invoice, one port and one point of contact for engineering support
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18 Jul 2025
Peer warns IT suppliers against partnering with Fujitsu in government contracts
By Karl FlindersAccording to publicly available figures, Fujitsu has won over half a billion pounds in government business as prime contractor since January 2024, but there is more than what has been reported
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17 Jul 2025
UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity
By Cliff SaranIsambard-AI and Dawn are two of the supercomputers that mark the beginning of the UK’s goal to deliver 420 Exaflops of computer by 2030
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17 Jul 2025
Fujitsu outage crashes Post Office Horizon system
By Karl FlindersJapanese IT giant’s time serving the Post Office is due to end next year, but problems persist
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17 Jul 2025
LG adds extra gear to automotive content platform for Kia
By Joe O’HalloranElectronics giant’s Automotive Content Platform to power in-car streaming for European models of all-electric SUV, marking an expansion of in-car experience to key region following successful deployments in Korea
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15 Jul 2025
Meta, Google unveil massive AI data center investment plans
By Shane SniderMeta and Google tout aggressive AI infrastructure investments focused on data center builds and power.
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10 Jul 2025
Oracle, AWS partner for cloud database boost
By Shane SniderOracle Database@AWS combines the companies' tools to eliminate costly and complex data pipeline buildouts while adding to its collection of agreements with hyperscalers.
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10 Jul 2025
UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties
By Alex ScroxtonThe navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing
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09 Jul 2025
Broadcom discontinues vVols storage capability for VMware
By Tim McCarthyThe vVols capability, a VMware storage feature for the past decade, is being sunset in VCF 9 and discontinued in VCF 9.1 as Broadcom continues to winnow the VMware catalog.
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08 Jul 2025
Google slams claims it’s ‘misleading’ the public with its GHG emissions data
By Caroline DonnellyInternet search giant Google stands accused of “cherry-picking” data from its environmental sustainability report to portray itself as a “good climate actor”, after campaigners from Kairos Fellowship picked holes in the publication
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07 Jul 2025
Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern
By Cliff SaranWe speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology
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02 Jul 2025
Scattered Spider link to Qantas hack is likely, say experts
By Alex ScroxtonA developing cyber attack at Australian airline Qantas that started at a third-party call centre is already being tentatively attributed to Scattered Spider. Find out more and learn about the next steps for those affected
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02 Jul 2025
DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer
By Stéphane LarcherSpecialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025
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01 Jul 2025
The road to quantum datacentres goes beyond logical qubits
By Cliff SaranIndustry experts gathered in London to explore the missing pieces needed to deploy quantum computing at scale in datacentres
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30 Jun 2025
Second AI Energy Council meeting looks to forecast future demand
By Cliff SaranGiven Labour’s ambition to use AI to drive economic growth, questions need to be answered on how the nation’s energy grid will cope
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30 Jun 2025
How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape
By Pratima HarigunaniModular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing
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26 Jun 2025
UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years
By Karl FlindersA UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community
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25 Jun 2025
HPE launches software push with CloudOps bundle
By Tim McCarthyAt HPE Discover, the infrastructure vendor promises a 'great VM reset' on HPE Private Cloud and touts a new software push.
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24 Jun 2025
Agentic AI at the core of HPE networking, GreenLake updates
By Shane SniderThe infrastructure titan launched several new products and services aimed at bolstering customers' appetite and abilities for AI workload optimization.
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24 Jun 2025
HPE offerings dive into AI features and new bundle packages
By Tim McCarthyThe new HPE Cloud Ops Software suite bundles pieces of the vendor's private cloud data centering offerings, and HPE expands AI capabilities in software and hardware.
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24 Jun 2025
Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware
By Antony AdsheadWe talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training
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23 Jun 2025
Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations
By Cliff SaranLabour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation
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23 Jun 2025
Europe’s semiconductor leaders are racing to meet energy demands
By Pat BransInnovative ideas are discussed at Leti Innovation Days, as datacentres swell under the weight of AI workloads