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• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace

  At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage

  One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components

• February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25

  UK government under fire over public sector guidance on using overseas clouds

  The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s recently published guidance on supporting public sector bodies with adopting a multi-region cloud strategy is facing criticism

• February 07, 2025 07 Feb'25

  AWS sees full-year profit and revenue growth as AI and public cloud demand soars

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) reports full-year results and reveals capital expenditure toll the AI boom will take on its business in 2025

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Google Cloud revenue soars as Alphabet continues to ride AI wave

  Alphabet’s fourth-quarter results revealed a 30% increase in revenue for the company’s cloud arm, fuelled by demand for its artificial intelligence offerings

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  APAC organisations to ramp up tech spending in 2025

  Organisations across the region are prioritising cyber security, customer experience and application development, even as they navigate cloud repatriation and a growing skills gap in AI and security

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market

  Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the Competition and Markets Authority’s suggestion that their dominant hold on the UK cloud market requires a targeted intervention

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  DSIT issues guidance to support public sector hosting of cloud workloads in overseas datacentres

  The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has issued guidance to support public sector organisations that want to host workloads and applications in overseas datacentres for cost and resilience reasons

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  Google AI paves the way for ‘self-healing’ potholes

  Google’s artificial intelligence technology is being used to support the work of university researchers who are developing a ‘hands-off’ approach to maintaining and fixing the UK’s pothole-riddled roads

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  Australian government doubles down on AWS

  Federal government signs three-year whole-of-government agreement with Amazon Web Services, expanding access to cloud services for all levels of government

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  First international AI safety report published

  A global cohort of nearly 100 artificial intelligence experts publish first international AI safety report ahead of the third AI summit, outlining an array of challenges posed by the technology that will be used to inform upcoming discussions

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Microsoft’s results show cloud AI balancing act

  CEO acknowledges efficiency of DeepSeek and need to assess model optimisation rather than just buying more AI servers

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Interview: Volvo’s engineering lead discusses tech stacks

  Volvo Cars’ approach to manufacturing is becoming more software-defined, built on top of what it calls ‘a superset tech stack’

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  AWS and Microsoft could face ‘targeted intervention’ from CMA over UK cloud competition concerns

  The CMA has published provisional findings from its investigation into the UK cloud infrastructure market and is considering action against AWS and Microsoft over the competitive impact from their hold on the sector

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  DeepSeek: Welcome to US artificial intelligence’s Sputnik moment

  In spite of the US’s financial might, Russia’s Sputnik was the first satellite. Is something similar about to happen thanks to a new Chinese LLM?

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?

  Pure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an unnamed hyperscaler, be the first nails in the coffin for HDD?

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs

  AWS Elastic Block Storage is often over-provisioned. Datafy virtualises EBS volumes to allow customers to scale capacity up and down, and says it will not charge customers if it doesn’t cut their costs

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  DC01UK’s plan to build ‘Europe’s biggest AI datacentre’ wins local council approval

  Plans to build a hyperscale datacentre to host artificial intelligence and cloud workloads on green belt land in Hertfordshire have been waved through by local planning officials

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  NAO flags shortcomings in government preferential pricing deals with big tech suppliers

  Shortcomings in the UK government’s tech buying power have been highlighted in separate reports in recent days by the National Audit Office and The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  CMA adds ex-Amazon UK boss to board as provisional judgement in cloud probe nears

  The former UK boss of Amazon UK has joined the CMA as its interim chair

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  Elon Musk distances himself from Trump’s Stargate AI mission

  Just a few days into the Donald Trump presidency and there appears to be a disagreement brewing around funding of OpenAI and the Stargate Project

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Weak supplier management hinders digital government

  Procurement, legacy systems, data fragmentation and the changing IT market are among the issues highlighted in a review of digital services

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Hyperscalers to spend a trillion dollars on AI optimised hardware

  The market for AI optimised servers is growing, driven by hyperscalers and IT services firms developing AI-enabled services

• January 20, 2025 20 Jan'25

  Power grid constraints threaten Dutch digital innovation ambitions

  The Netherlands risks falling behind in crucial digital innovations such as artificial intelligence as power grid congestion reaches critical levels across the country

• January 20, 2025 20 Jan'25

  Telehouse research highlights UK knowledge gap about what datacentres do

  Despite the government’s efforts to champion the datacentre sector as a critical component of the country’s future growth, research shows the general public is largely unaware of what server farms are and what they do

• January 17, 2025 17 Jan'25

  Enterprises need to make better choices to reduce GenAI emissions

  Capgemini says the high environmental costs of generative artificial intelligence systems mean organisations need to develop roadmaps to make their use more sustainable

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  NAO calls for ‘cross-government’ revamp of IT procurement to improve ‘big tech’ project outcomes

  The National Audit Office has highlighted a series of shortcomings in the government’s approach to digital procurement

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  DDN seeks AI leadership as it bags $300m investment

  DDN aims to take high-performance computing expertise and become a leader in storage for artificial intelligence. It builds on years in the HPC space, and now has £300m from Blackstone, a fund with an AI focus

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Biggest Patch Tuesday in years sees Microsoft address 159 vulnerabilities

  The largest Patch Tuesday of the 2020s so far brings fixes for more than 150 CVEs ranging widely in their scope and severity – including eight zero-day flaws

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Cohesity CEO on Veritas integration and IPO plans

  Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen shares his vision for integrating Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, uniting 12,000 customers, driving AI-powered innovation and building a public-ready company

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Datacentre M&A deals reach record highs in 2024 fuelled by GenAI demand

  Figures from Synergy Research Group reveal impact that generative AI is having on datacentre M&A deal values

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Developing AI datacentres: Has the UK government got what it takes?

  The UK government has unveiled its 50-point AI action plan, which commits to building sovereign artificial intelligence capabilities and accelerating AI datacentre developments - but questions remain about the viability of the plans

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Can UK government achieve ambition to become AI powerhouse?

  The artificial intelligence opportunities action plan has been largely well received, but there are plenty of questions about how it will be achieved

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  UK government unveils AI-fuelled industrial strategy

  Labour plans to implement the 50 recommendations set out by entrepreneur Matt Clifford to boost the use of AI in the UK

• January 10, 2025 10 Jan'25

  GenAI causing hyperscale datacentres to swell in size, research shows

  Synergy Research Group data shows impact that generative AI demand will have on the number and size of hyperscale datacentres in operation around the world

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  AWS plants flag in Thailand with new cloud region

  Amazon Web Services’ latest regional expansion brings its cloud services to Thailand, promising a $10bn boost to the nation's GDP and support for more than 11,000 jobs per year

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  GenAI demand fuels record sales of datacentre hardware and software in 2024

  Figures from Synergy Research Group highlight how demand for generative AI and GPU technology has generated record amounts of spending in the datacentre hardware and software space during 2024

• January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25

  How StarHub is tapping OpenShift in its cloud strategy

  StarHub is harnessing Red Hat OpenShift to power its hybrid multi-cloud platform, balancing control over critical infrastructure with the scalability and flexibility of public cloud

• January 05, 2025 05 Jan'25

  Digital Edge secures $1.6bn to fuel regional expansion

  Singapore-based datacentre provider has raised over $1.6bn in equity and debt financing to meet growing demand for cloud and AI infrastructure across Asia

• December 27, 2024 27 Dec'24

  Top 10 ANZ stories of 2024

  The 2024 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with developments spanning cloud migrations and AI adoption to heightened data security and real-time data streaming

• December 27, 2024 27 Dec'24

  Top 10 India stories of 2024

  India embraced AI in 2024, developing its own large language models, boosting supercomputing capabilities and applying the technology across sectors from healthcare to governance

• December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24

  Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light

  The government has granted the developers of a proposed datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, permission to press ahead with the project after the local council blocked the plans on Green Belt protection grounds

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2024

  Southeast Asia’s 2024 tech landscape saw major companies embracing AI, shifts in open source and the emergence of local large language models to address the needs of a diverse region

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

  Amazon Web Services has renewed its cloud deal with Hackney Council, with the local authority receiving a minimum discount of 22% in exchange for agreeing to grow its AWS cloud footprint by 8% each year

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

  Questions are being asked about whether CCS has breached procurement regulations by failing to re-tender a contract with AWS that has increased in value by 89% midway through

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Top 10 Kubernetes and storage stories of 2024

  In this 2024 review, Computer Weekly looks at Kubernetes’ evolution from stateless application runtime to enterprise-ready environment for cloud-native with persistent storage and data protection

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Digital Ethics Summit 2024: recognising AI’s socio-technical nature

  At trade association TechUK’s eighth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials and industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with the proliferation of artificial intelligence tools globally and ...

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2024

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2024

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2024

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2024

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  VMware customers seek alternatives amid licensing changes

  Research reveals that while most VMware customers are satisfied with their current software, they are exploring alternatives due to concerns over rising costs