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Interview: Abhijit Dubey, global CEO, NTT Data

A merger between NTT Data and NTT Ltd has created a $30bn tech services and consulting business. We speak to its new CEO to find out what it has to offer IT leaders
Nexfibre nears 1.3 million premises passed

Quarterly report from joint venture fibre network operator shows just under 1.3 million premises passed by end of June 2024, and next stage of roll-out in 2025 and early 2026 to see high volumes of build
Ban predictive policing and facial recognition says civil society

A coalition of civil society groups is calling for an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance in the UK
T-Mobile, KKR form fibre joint venture to acquire Metronet

US 4G LTE and 5G network teams with global investment firm to take control of ISP, serving more than 300 communities across 17 states with multi-gigabit products to businesses
Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of ‘muddying’ CMA probe

Microsoft's response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into its cloud licensing practices sees it hit out at cloud rivals for claiming its tactics are anti-competitive
Frontier claims North American first with 100G broadband

US pure-play fibre provider teams with global comms tech firm to become first in region to trial record-breaking broadband speeds of 100G, 50G, 25G and 10G PON technologies simultaneously

The CMA anti-trust investigation into AWS and Microsoft explained: Everything you need to know

After regulator Ofcom raised red flags about the anti-competitive behaviour of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, the UK cloud market was referred to the Competition and Markets Authority – here’s why
CrowdStrike update chaos explained: What you need to know

A botched software update at cyber security firm CrowdStrike has caused IT chaos around the world. Learn more about the global CrowdStrike update outage as it develops
Kubernetes at 10: The long road to mastery of persistent storage

Jan Safranek of Red Hat saw containers emerge as an exciting new way of deploying applications, but it took several additions to make it the mature enterprise platform it is today

Overture Maps Foundation charts open maps datasets- Open Source Insider

The Overture Maps Foundation is described as a “collaborative effort” to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map services and products. The organisation has now announced the ... Continue Reading
Snowflake goes massive on Meta LLM for open source inference difference- Open Source Insider

Snowflake says it will now host the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual open source large language models (LLMs) in Snowflake Cortex AI for developers to build AI applications. The Data Cloud ... Continue Reading
CrowdStrike reveals Windows weakness- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

The bug that impacted 8.5m PCs last week was, says, CrowdStrike due to an update it refers to as “Rapid Response Content”, which is delivered as a “template instance”. This is data stored in a ... Continue Reading
Cohesity CTO: Turning 'backup into heads-up' through generative AI- CW Developer Network

The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down this month with Mark Molyneux, EMEA CTO at Cohesity to examine the methodologies, principles and practices that underpin a more proactive ... Continue Reading

Think Tank: Sustainable innovation at the level of the datacentre

The hype around AI is increasingly being matched with discussions about how the technology's adoption will affect the environment, so what can IT leaders do to ensure they keep the companies they work for on the forefront of innovation, without ...
Cyber crisis? How good PR can save your brand

Cyber attacks and data breaches can happen to anybody and often bring reputational damage and a loss of customer trust. How organisations publicly respond to such incidents can make or break them, and the importance of a good PR strategy cannot be ...
Cloud security challenges not just technological

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers how CISOs and security practitioners should ensure that the business can make use of public cloud services safely and securely and avoid accidental or deliberate data leakage.