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09 Jun 2025
Starmer opens London Tech Week with £1bn AI boost
Prime Minister unveiled plans to boost UK’s high-performance compute capacity 20-fold, along with funding to bolster skills
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09 Jun 2025
Government to create online platform for public sector tech buyers
The National Digital Exchange will be a one-stop shop for public sector tech buying, allowing organisations to rate and review products and gain access to pre-approved tech deals
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09 Jun 2025
Barclays rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 100,000 employees as AI adoption gathers pace
Barclays is doubling down on its adoption of artificial intelligence tools by moving to embrace Microsoft Copilot with a large-scale roll-out of the technology to 100,000 staff
Data Center News from the past 365 days
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06 Jun 2025
FTC sends message with Synopsys, Ansys divestiture order
To prevent the creation of a monopoly in software tools used to design semiconductors, the FTC wants two companies to divest assets before merging.
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06 Jun 2025
CSC, Surf and Nokia achieve 1.2 Tbps data transfer in supercomputer trial
Trial designed to help research networks prep for high-performance computing clusters and AI factories handling high-intensity workloads, confirming feasibility of multi-domain, high-capacity data transfers across multiple domains
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05 Jun 2025
UK backdoor order to Apple raises bipartisan concerns
U.S. officials fear that gaps in existing law may enable countries to target U.S. companies with data access requests that harm user privacy and security.
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04 Jun 2025
Amazon to launch $10B data center upgrade in North Carolina
As Amazon races to compete with Big Tech rivals for AI dominance, its Tar Heel State investment is part of a $100 billion capital expenditure effort slated for 2025.
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04 Jun 2025
Meta inks 20-year nuclear deal to power data center
The tech giant's agreement with Constellation Energy will secure an alternative source for power-hungry AI ambitions -- likely saving a once-doomed nuclear energy plant.
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03 Jun 2025
National Grid starts building large-scale substation to support growth of West London datacentres
The National Grid has started work on building a new substation on the outskirts of Greater London to ease pressure on local electricity transmission and distribution networks
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02 Jun 2025
Planning permission sought for UK’s largest AI datacentre campus
North Lincolnshire Council has received a planning permission application for another large-scale datacentre development, in support of its bid to become an AI Growth Zone
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02 Jun 2025
AI in IT services and the diminishing correlation between people and growth
While non-IT business professionals in the middle of their careers face the most disruption from generative AI, professionals in the IT services sector and their employers are prepared for change
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30 May 2025
Noisy quantum hardware could crack RSA-2048 in seven days
Research highlights the need for quantum safe cryptography given the speed with which quantum computing is evolving
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30 May 2025
Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy
Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud
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29 May 2025
Nvidia takes $4.5bn hit due to export restrictions
Nvidia warns it could miss out on $50bn market opportunity as China ramps up its AI capabilities
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28 May 2025
HPE Aruba Networking expands distributed services switch platform
Leading network tech and services provider extends offer with distributed services switches, and expanded wired and wireless portfolio, to meet increasing AI and high-performance computing demands
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28 May 2025
DSIT tells Ofcom to prepare to expand regulatory remit to include datacentres
During a recent audience with the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, Ofcom confirmed preparations are underway for it to start regulating the datacentre sector
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27 May 2025
Government launches search to link UK to European supercomputers
As part of Horizon 2020, the UK recently signed up to an EU initiative to support the expansion of high-performance computing for AI
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27 May 2025
Imec ITF World 2025: The hardware horizon for AI
At its recent ITF World 2025 conference in Antwerp, Belgian research institute Imec delivered a pointed message: as AI accelerates, the world needs new thinking – not just in software, but in the hardware ecosystems underpinning it
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26 May 2025
Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future
With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors
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26 May 2025
Gprnt platform to ease sustainability reporting
Singapore businesses can now automatically generate basic sustainability reports free of charge using Gprnt, a platform aimed at simplifying reporting and unlocking green financing
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23 May 2025
Data embassies and US embargo halt give Saudi AI hope
Gulf autocracy gets access to powerful AI chips subject to export ban and pursues legal reforms to make foreign computing firms feel comfortable about putting their data there
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22 May 2025
Dell Technologies customers building real-world AI apps
Enterprises and nonprofits at Dell Tech World 2025 are already deploying advanced AI, as Dell Technologies readies a new wave of products to meet future demand.
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22 May 2025
Dell arms partners with resiliency and automation tools
Vendor has used Las Vegas event to make a number of announcements that are designed to improve its security, datacentre management and AI position
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22 May 2025
HMRC begins escape from Fujitsu’s grip through £500m contract
HMRC looking for a supplier to support its planned exit from three Fujitsu datacentre contracts
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22 May 2025
How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt
Gartner analysts explain how infrastructure and operations teams can address the accumulation of outdated systems and make a compelling business case for upgrades
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22 May 2025
Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands
As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI
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21 May 2025
M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July
M&S says it has moved into recovery mode after a ransomware attack, but expects some disruption to persist throughout the coming weeks
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21 May 2025
Fujitsu raked in £80m from HMRC in March alone, despite Post Office scandal
HM Revenue & Customs described as a UK ‘cash cow’ for the Japanese IT giant at the centre of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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21 May 2025
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities
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21 May 2025
Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum
Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week
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20 May 2025
Early-stage tech companies comb through data, software code
Software startups participating in the 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium's Innovation Showcase take on the challenge of picking out the key signals from vast amounts of data.
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20 May 2025
Dell makes private cloud optionality a priority
Dell Technologies wants to enable automation and choice on its data center hardware, with third-party support for Dell NativeEdge and new software, including Dell Private Cloud.
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20 May 2025
Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy
Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems
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20 May 2025
Dell Technologies CEO expects AI ubiquity in the enterprise
Michael Dell says he anticipates smaller, focused AI deployments for enterprise applications, but IT experts foresee challenges in adoption and security.
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20 May 2025
Ireland sets out chip plan
Ireland has a long history of attracting high-tech firms. Building on the EU Chip Act, it now aims to be a leader in semiconductors
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20 May 2025
Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning
Windows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows
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19 May 2025
Dell Technologies pitches its hardware for AI data centers
Servers, networking and storage hardware take center stage at Dell Technologies World 2025, as well as a tightly integrated offering with AI titans such as Nvidia and Google.
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19 May 2025
Trump visit bolsters Saudi AI
A new AI datacentre is among the initiatives the White House announced during the president’s Middle East visits
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19 May 2025
Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation
Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library
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18 May 2025
AI’s thirst for power pushing enterprises into supercomputing
The compute and energy demands of large-scale AI are turning enterprise AI infrastructure into supercomputing, though the search for a killer app and concerns over initial infrastructure costs remain
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15 May 2025
How close is quantum computing to commercial reality?
At a recent event, experts explored the progress towards logical qubits and how these will be applied to empower business IT
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13 May 2025
NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty
Essex NHS wants to move some capacity to the Nutanix cloud, but can’t be certain prices will hold between product selection and when procurement plans gain approval
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12 May 2025
University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery
University of Reading set to save circa £500,000 and deploy Nutanix NC2 hybrid cloud that will allow failover from main datacentre
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09 May 2025
Nutanix platform may benefit from VMware customer unrest
Nutanix's Next 2025 conference attendees are jumping ship to the platform after Broadcom's VMware buy, as Nutanix executives plan enterprise-driven evolutions for the platform.
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09 May 2025
Apple to play modest role after datacentre heat breakthrough in Denmark
Country at forefront of industrial heat recycling expects datacentres will take only modest role in heating homes after government paved way with widely celebrated law
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08 May 2025
Nutanix CEO talks customer challenges and platform updates
Many customers are still looking for a VMware exit and need a modernized platform, Nutanix President and CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says in this Q&A with Informa TechTarget.
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08 May 2025
Nutanix opens up to all external storage
CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says Nutanix will open its platform to all external storage, allowing it to profit from customers wanting to move away from VMware, as well as the hyper-converged curious
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07 May 2025
Nutanix breaks the bounds of HCI again with Pure Storage linkup
Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer adds external Pure Storage arrays in a move that it touts as a way for customers to get off VMware, but which also helps them scale for AI
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07 May 2025
Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS
Hyper-converged infrastructure provider offers its operating system independently of a hypervisor to allow containerised apps to run at the edge or on Kubernetes runtimes in the Amazon cloud
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07 May 2025
Cisco lays out plans for networking in era of quantum computing
The network equipment provider has opened a new lab and developed a prototype chip as it fleshes out its quantum networking strategy
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07 May 2025
Datacentre outages decreasing in frequency, Uptime Institute Intelligence data shows
Datacentre outages are becoming less common and severe, but power supply issues remain enduring cause of most downtime incidents
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07 May 2025
DSIT aims to bolster expertise with year-long secondments
To drive forward its Plan for Change, the Labour government is looking to hire 25 experts for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Fellowship programme
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06 May 2025
CIOs prepare for recession with greater cost control
Tariffs and the risk of economic slowdown have brought IT budgets into focus, with many IT leaders dropping projects and reducing tech investments
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05 May 2025
How AsiaPac transformed into a multicloud powerhouse
AsiaPac CEO Andrew Cheng outlines the company’s growth from a laptop PC distributor to a regional technology service provider known for its multicloud capabilities
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02 May 2025
India’s Hexaware targets public sector business as it expands UK operation
Indian heritage IT services firm opens office in Canary Wharf and sets is sights on growing its UK public sector business
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01 May 2025
Tariffs could cost Meta $8bn in extra datacentre costs
The owner of Facebook and WhatsApp has forecast an increase in CapEx due to higher IT infrastructure costs to power its AI strategy
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01 May 2025
Microsoft commits to European datacentre footprint growth despite ‘geopolitical volatility’
Microsoft makes ‘digital commitments’ amid pledge to continue growing its European datacentre footprint, in the face of growing geopolitical uncertainty
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30 Apr 2025
Current SaaS delivery model a risk management nightmare, says CISO
JPMorgan Chase security chief Patrick Opet laments the state of SaaS security in an open letter to the industry and calls on software providers to do more to enhance resilience
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30 Apr 2025
Government funds training to build UK chip skills
The UK semiconductor sector needs talent but a report highlights challenges
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30 Apr 2025
Juniper doubles down on AI as HPE deal faces scrutiny
Juniper’s ANZ chief highlights strong enterprise adoption of the Mist networking platform, with AI-powered automation delivering cost savings and operational benefits for customers
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30 Apr 2025
Government bags 200 bids from local authorities wanting AI growth zones in their areas
The government has received 200 expressions of interest in response to its AI growth zones application push, and is now seeking to progress some bids
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29 Apr 2025
VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features
Veeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup
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28 Apr 2025
AI adoption hovers around 25% for office workers
Perficient and Thomson Reuters surveys show that AI adoption is limited in some sectors, but there's lots of experimentation and evaluation happening.
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28 Apr 2025
Japanese researchers advance combinatorial problem solving
Some tasks cannot be solved easily on classical computers. Quantum mechanics offers one approach, but an Ising machine tackles the problem differently
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25 Apr 2025
Omdia: All-photonics infrastructure key to safer, smarter, more sustainable world
Research revealed at Innovative Optical and Wireless Network global forum outlines future of digital economy, powered by all-photonics networks
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25 Apr 2025
How AI workloads are reshaping datacentre design
At Gitex Asia 2025, industry leaders discuss how the computational demands of advanced AI models are forcing a rethink of datacentre power, cooling and networking infrastructure
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22 Apr 2025
Fujitsu targets private AI with Japanese LLM on Nutanix
Fujitsu’s Takane large language model, optimised for Japanese language and business use, is aimed at supporting private AI deployments
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17 Apr 2025
Tariff turmoil is making supply chain security riskier
Many businesses around the world are taking the decision to alter their supplier mix in the face of tariff uncertainty, but in doing so are creating more cyber risks for themselves, according to a report
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16 Apr 2025
AI chip restrictions limit Nvidia H20 China exports
The US government’s export controls have come into effect, limiting Nvidia’s ability to sell its H20 chip in China
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16 Apr 2025
Fibre fine but US tariffs to take hit on broadband equipment
Analyst predicts effect of US tariffs on telecoms and communications industry, revealing probable winners and losers
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15 Apr 2025
Roadmap for commercial adoption of quantum computing gains clarity
There has been plenty going on in the world of quantum computing, suggesting that commercial systems are on the horizon
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15 Apr 2025
Qwilt covers more than 2,000 edge cloud nodes across six continents
Distributed edge network technology provider claims milestone in Edge Cloud infrastructure through shift in how enterprises can deliver content and deploy latency-sensitive applications
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14 Apr 2025
Expect a tariff on semiconductors within two months, says US commerce secretary
The Trump administration has separated out semiconductors in a bid to bring back manufacturing to the US
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14 Apr 2025
Nokia networking backbone firms up ResetData AI factory
Deployment of networking backbone to support immediate roll-out of Australia’s first sovereign and sustainable liquid immersion-cooled data centres looks to gain 75% reduction in energy consumption over previous generations
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14 Apr 2025
Government injects extra funding to drive quantum growth
The UK government has ploughed an extra £121m into quantum to drive development of the technology
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14 Apr 2025
SUSE CEO champions open source choice
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen warns against suppliers diluting open source to lock in customers, and touts SUSE’s commitment to providing choice and support across multiple Linux and Kubernetes distributions
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11 Apr 2025
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
The use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation
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11 Apr 2025
IT strategy implications of US tariffs
When is the best time to buy IT equipment? With tariffs in place that are set to increase, tech CEOs have signalled price rises ahead
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11 Apr 2025
Google Cloud, Juniper Networks accelerate enterprise campus deployment
AI-native networking platform to use Google’s Cloud WAN service to help accelerate new branch deployments, and offer simplified branch operations with security and agility
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11 Apr 2025
Warranty fraud fuels hidden army of hardware hackers
Widespread warranty fraud is not only costing companies billions but also creating a breeding ground for advanced hardware exploits, warns hardware hacker and researcher Bunnie Huang at Black Hat Asia 2025
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09 Apr 2025
EU sets out plans to ‘at least’ triple its AI datacentre capacity over the next seven years
The European Union wants to reduce its dependence on non-EU datacentres in support of its plan to become an artificial intelligence superpower
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09 Apr 2025
Google Cloud Platform adds WAN and on-premises AI services
A handful of infrastructure announcements for the Google Cloud Platform debut at Next 2025 including a Cloud WAN service, on-premises Gemini AI and new AI chips.
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08 Apr 2025
IBM boosts AI mainframe capabilities with Z17
IBM continues to try to break out of the mindset that mainframes are just for transaction processing. The latest server offers greater AI capabilities
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08 Apr 2025
What is the impact of US tariffs on datacentre equipment costs?
Moore’s Law predicts that every 18 months, IT buyers can get more for the same outlay. But US tariffs may mean they end up paying a higher price
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07 Apr 2025
UK government to address balancing energy sustainability with AI growth demands
The government is to host its inaugural AI Energy Council meetup, as it seeks a route to ensuring its goal of making the UK an artificial intelligence superpower does not come at the expense of the nation’s energy security
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07 Apr 2025
KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up
Developer overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address
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03 Apr 2025
Broadcom VMware hardens vDefend, drops Tanzu branding in VCF
The VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform sheds the Tanzu branding for Kubernetes and adds new capabilities to vDefend, but are prices hikes coming?
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03 Apr 2025
Trump aims to consolidate federal IT contracts
Moving billions of dollars' worth of contracts into the General Services Administration could create workload challenges as the federal agency navigates staffing cuts.
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02 Apr 2025
Tech sector still failing to rid supply chains of forced labour
KnowTheChain’s latest benchmark analysis of the IT sector’s efforts to address forced labour in supply chains shows there has been very little improvement in their due diligence practices over the last half decade
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02 Apr 2025
Keysight introduces AI network architecture validation, optimisation tool
Tool designed to validate the network performance of AI workloads and system infrastructure by adjusting and optimising parameters
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01 Apr 2025
Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging
People may try to lock up GPU resources even if they don’t need them all day – but not anymore, thanks to Nvidia KAI Scheduler
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01 Apr 2025
Intel CEO Tan to revamp Intel development for AI
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan plans to leverage AI for semiconductor design, shed non-core assets and foster a culture of innovation to turn around Intel.
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31 Mar 2025
Top 1,000 IT service providers in scope of UK cyber bill
The government’s proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is set to include regulatory provisions covering both datacentre operators and larger IT service providers
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27 Mar 2025
Microsoft’s ‘fraying relationship’ with OpenAI blamed for datacentre expansion plan rollback
US analyst TD Cowen publishes research note pointing to further rollbacks on Microsoft’s datacentre expansion plans
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27 Mar 2025
AMD teams up with Rapt AI to boost GPU performance for AI
AMD is partnering with Rapt AI to focus on workload management and performance optimization when running AI models on AMD's Instinct GPUs.
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27 Mar 2025
Research team demonstrates certified quantum randomness
A 56-qubit trapped ion quantum computer from Quantinuum has demonstrated quantum supremacy as a random number generator
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26 Mar 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use AI to catch wealthy tax dodgers
HMRC’s use of artificial intelligence is one of many initiatives outlined in Chancellor’s Spring Statement
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25 Mar 2025
Interview: The role of IT innovation at Royal Ballet and Opera
We speak to the Royal Ballet and Opera’s head of IT delivery, Keith Nolan, about how IT lowers costs and helps power stage innovations for world-class performances
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24 Mar 2025
Storage players ride the Nvidia bus at GTC 2025
As artificial intelligence’s big beast holds its annual shindig, storage firms line up to launch everything from new array products to validations, certifications and vague ideas around data ecosystems
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24 Mar 2025
DE-CIX launches neutral internet exchanges in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
DE-CIX opens two internet exchanges, partnering with datacentre operators Equinix, Elea and Ascenty to boost enterprise connectivity, and connect to 60 locations and over datacentres in 600 cities
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21 Mar 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at CMS Distribution, SoftwareOne, Dell, Integrity360, Evolve IP and Softcat
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20 Mar 2025
Hyperscale datacentre capacities continue to rise off back of AI boom
Market data from Synergy Research Group confirms that artificial intelligence is fuelling growth of datacentres in both number and capacity terms