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19 May 2025
Dell Technologies pitches its hardware for AI data centers
By Tim McCarthyServers, 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
Addition of new AI capabilities shows Starburst's growth
By Eric AvidonThe open source data lakehouse vendor continues to evolve beyond being a data mesh specialist with the additions of agentic tools, a development environment and a data catalog.
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19 May 2025
Chinese cyber spooks lure laid-off US government workers
By Alex ScroxtonA Washington DC-based think tank has published evidence that Chinese intelligence services have been running a network of digital ‘front’ companies targeting laid-off government workers as recruits
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19 May 2025
Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation
By Antony AdsheadDanish 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
By Aaron TanThe 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?
By Cliff SaranAt 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
By Antony AdsheadUniversity 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
By Tim McCarthyNutanix'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
By Mark BallardCountry 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
By Tim McCarthyMany 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
By Antony AdsheadCEO 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
By Antony AdsheadHyper-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
By Antony AdsheadHyper-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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Caroline DonnellyDatacentre 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
By Cliff SaranTo 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
By Cliff SaranTariffs 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
By Aaron TanAsiaPac 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
By Karl FlindersIndian 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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’
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft 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
By Alex ScroxtonJPMorgan 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Stephen WithersJuniper’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
By Caroline DonnellyThe 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
By Yann SerraVeeam 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
By Don FluckingerPerficient 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
By Cliff SaranSome 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
By Joe O’HalloranResearch 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
By Aaron TanAt 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
By Aaron TanFujitsu’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
By Alex ScroxtonMany 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Joe O’HalloranAnalyst 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
By Cliff SaranThere 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
By Joe O’HalloranDistributed 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Joe O’HalloranDeployment 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Stephen WithersDirk-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
DARPA quantum computing benchmark test seeks 'utility scale'
By John MooreDARPA aims to evaluate up to 20 vendors -- from startups to large tech companies -- using a benchmarking framework that spans multiple types of quantum computing.
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11 Apr 2025
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe 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
By Cliff SaranWhen 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
By Joe O’HalloranAI-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
By Aaron TanWidespread 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
By Caroline DonnellyThe 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
By Tim McCarthyA 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
By Cliff SaranIBM 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?
By Cliff SaranMoore’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
By Caroline DonnellyThe 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
By Cliff SaranDeveloper 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
By Tim McCarthyThe 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
By Makenzie HollandMoving 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonKnowTheChain’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
By Joe O’HalloranTool 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
By Cliff SaranPeople 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
By Antone GonsalvesIntel 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
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
By Caroline DonnellyUS 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
By Antone GonsalvesAMD 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
By Cliff SaranA 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
By Cliff SaranHMRC’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
By Cliff SaranWe 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
By Antony AdsheadAs 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
By Joe O’HalloranDE-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
By Simon QuickeDevelopments 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
By Caroline DonnellyMarket data from Synergy Research Group confirms that artificial intelligence is fuelling growth of datacentres in both number and capacity terms
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20 Mar 2025
The datacentre energy deficit: How worried should operators be about power outages?
By Caroline DonnellyThe UK government’s plans to lower the barriers to new datacentre developments has left industry watchers querying how all these server farms will be powered. But are they worrying about nothing?
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20 Mar 2025
VMware dominance remains, despite challengers
By Tim McCarthyCustomers aren't rotating off VMware by Broadcom, despite gripes on pricing and the rise of enterprise virtualization alternatives.
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20 Mar 2025
NAS storage: TrueNAS aims to make it big in Europe
By Yann SerraAimed at the SME market, but with NAS systems that go to tens of petabytes, iXsystems brings dual controllers, NVMe and hybrid flash, AI-capable storage, and container support
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18 Mar 2025
Digital Realty enters Indonesia through joint venture
By Aaron TanNew joint venture, Digital Realty Bersama, will develop and operate datacentres across Indonesia to meet the increasing demand for digital infrastructure in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy
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18 Mar 2025
Largest ever cyber deal reflects Google’s CNAPP ambitions
By Alex ScroxtonIn a signal of its future ambitions, Google lays down $32bn to acquire cloud-native application protection platform Wiz, reflecting the increasing need to secure multicloud environments
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18 Mar 2025
Shares rise on North American performance at Computacenter
By Simon QuickeUK performance in contrast to North America is disappointing as customers continue to show hesitancy in signing off orders
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18 Mar 2025
AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it
By Antony AdsheadThe rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy
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17 Mar 2025
Hetzner enhances datacentre core network infrastructure
By Joe O’HalloranHosting company taps tech provider to futureproof datacentre and core network infrastructure to support growing digital demands with architecture supporting 400G and 800G interconnectivity
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14 Mar 2025
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonGovernments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will win out
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14 Mar 2025
Microsoft, DE-CIX plot MAPS for SaaS enterprise connectivity
By Joe O’HalloranNoting that 82% of enterprises underestimate the lagging effect of packet loss on the performance of SaaS applications, global internet exchange operator and IT behemoth partner to optimise cloud connectivity
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13 Mar 2025
YouFibre takes 400G connectivity option at Manchester internet exchange
By Joe O’HalloranIndependent full-fibre broadband provider becomes first ISP to take a 400G port at the London Internet Exchange’s regional interconnection hub in Manchester
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13 Mar 2025
Major strike by Fujitsu staff at ‘cash cow’ HMRC
By Karl FlindersFujitsu staff working at government department will strike for 22 days in protest over pay offer
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13 Mar 2025
Supercars team BJR taps Extranet Systems for racing edge
By Stephen WithersAs the demands of motorsports grow, Supercars team Brad Jones Racing turns to IT specialist Extranet Systems to manage crucial areas such as security, backup and disaster recovery
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12 Mar 2025
Intel appoints ex-Cadence CEO amid turnaround struggles
By Antone GonsalvesIntel appoints chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the next CEO responsible for revitalizing the struggling chipmaker and transforming it into a contract manufacturer.
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11 Mar 2025
Report hails benefits of ‘socially integrating’ datacentres into local communities
By Caroline DonnellyResearch report, featuring input from datacentre market stakeholders and sociological experts, makes case for socially integrating server farms into society
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11 Mar 2025
Pure aims at AI beyond the enterprise with FlashBlade//Exa
By Antony AdsheadFlashBlade//Exa targets use cases between the enterprise and hyperscalers with a disaggregated architecture and its DFM flash modules to be available separately for the first time
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10 Mar 2025
Peter Kyle sets stage for making tech work
By Cliff SaranDuring his speech at the Tech Policy conference, Kyle announced a number of initiatives to support AI and other new technologies
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07 Mar 2025
Latest Alibaba AI model demos AI improvements
By Cliff SaranThe latest model from Chinese public cloud provider Alibaba shows how reinforced learning is driving AI efficiency
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06 Mar 2025
Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play
By Aaron TanElastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation
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05 Mar 2025
French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software
By Stéphane LarcherOceanogaphic research institute keeps Atempo backup software for near a quarter century with no plans to replace it for protection of critical data helping map the world’s oceans
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05 Mar 2025
TSMC plans $100B investment boost for US AI chip production
By Antone GonsalvesTSMC said its historic $100 billion investment would create thousands of construction jobs and boost U.S. capacity for AI chips. However, its time frame is fuzzy.
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04 Mar 2025
Jio, AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build telecom AI platform
By Aaron TanIndia’s Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco and Nokia have teamed up to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform aimed at improving the efficiency and security of telco networks through artificial intelligence and automation
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04 Mar 2025
Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration
By Cliff SaranA recent event held by VMware rival Nutanix attracted many people new to the hyperconverged infrastructure provider
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04 Mar 2025
Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce
By Antony AdsheadFlash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%
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03 Mar 2025
Amazon, Google, Microsoft race for first in quantum computing
By Antone GonsalvesAmazon, Google and Microsoft prioritize quantum computing reliability for future enterprise applications.
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02 Mar 2025
AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts
By Stephen WithersAmazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications
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27 Feb 2025
Peer demands Fujitsu cough up £300m interim payment towards Post Office scandal bill
By Karl FlindersKevan Jones tells fellow peers in the House of Lords that Fujitsu should also be barred from bidding for public sector contracts
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27 Feb 2025
Nvidia CEO claims reasoning models will boost GPU demand
By Cliff SaranThe availability of the DeepSeek-R1 model resulted in a big drop in Nvidia’s share price, but CEO Jensen Huang believes this is just a blip
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27 Feb 2025
Nvidia reports strong Q4, prepares for new AI GPUs
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia's revenue soared 78% to $39.3 billon, driven by strong AI GPU demand. With Blackwell's success, a more powerful variant launches later this year.
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25 Feb 2025
Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience
By Aaron TanNew advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats
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25 Feb 2025
Quantum innovation balances on commercial tightrope
By Cliff SaranWhile there is plenty of innovation in quantum technology, the industry needs greater collaboration to develop commercially viable systems
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24 Feb 2025
Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI
By Aaron TanChinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth
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21 Feb 2025
Fujitsu’s £600m-plus prize with His Majesty’s ‘cash cow’ in 2025
By Karl FlindersControversial supplier continues to reap the rewards of government IT contracts despite its participation in ‘ghastly fraud’
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20 Feb 2025
Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car
By Cliff SaranNvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack
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20 Feb 2025
Microsoft overcomes quantum barrier with new particle
By Cliff SaranIt has taken 20 years of development, but researchers now have a device that can scale to millions of qubits without errors rising exponentially