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IT services and outsourcing

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Pure DC launches €7.5bn Finland AI datacentre campus

  550MW AI datacentre project – with Microsoft reportedly signed up – reflects shift as European market moves north to bypass power constraints in traditional Flap-D hubs

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Scottish Building Society subscribes to embedded AI to begin a new journey

  Oldest remaining building society becomes first customer to sign up to embedded AI offering from current supplier SBS

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Couchbase eyes APAC growth as enterprises confront data problem

  Having been taken private by private equity firm Haveli Investments, the NoSQL database supplier is pitching its newly launched AI data plane as the fix for the fragmented data layers

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Cyber body Crest launches AI security charter

  Crest’s industry-backed AI charter commits signatories to supporting responsible AI adoption and aims to foster trust in AI-enabled security services.

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Tech giants come under watch of UK finance regulators

  IT suppliers critical to the UK finance sector are now within the remit of the UK’s financial services regulators

• July 10, 2026 10 Jul'26

  AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier

  Once dismissed as legacy tech on the way out, the mainframe is being reframed as the trusted anchor of hybrid, AI-era architectures

• July 09, 2026 09 Jul'26

  Capita to lose money on pension debacle but ‘has government’s private parts in its grip’

  Joint select committee grilling reveals that the tech Capita planned to use to increase process automation did not work

• July 09, 2026 09 Jul'26

  Insurer Unum aims to deliver benefits of $20m using AI to re-write old Cobol code

  We speak to Shelia Anderson, chief information and digital officer of insurance company Unum, about its project to ‘reimagine’ mainframe software

• July 09, 2026 09 Jul'26

  UK’s largest businesses dangerously exposed to cloud outages

  British businesses, particularly those in the FTSE 100, are dangerously dependent on large cloud providers, with hypothetical large-scale outages at AWS or Azure regions likely to cause major economic damage, according to the Cyber Monitoring Centre

• July 08, 2026 08 Jul'26

  Post Office Horizon replacement contract delayed further

  The Post Office has once more extended the standstill period before putting pen to paper on EPOS system

• July 07, 2026 07 Jul'26

  SNP council backs datacentre halt and creates Burnham dilemma

  As Scottish National Party council passes a motion for Scotland datacentre moratorium, Andy Burnham’s avowed ‘power to the regions’ views face strain in light of critical national infrastructure designation

• July 07, 2026 07 Jul'26

  Capita civil service pension contract ‘prime candidate’ for insourcing, says government minister

  Minister said the government will make Capita pay for the government resources used to support it on pension administration scheme

• July 07, 2026 07 Jul'26

  Can Oman become the Gulf’s third AI infrastructure hub?

  The Sultanate is leveraging subsea cables, lower costs and regulatory stability to position itself alongside regional AI giants, but a large ecosystem scale gap remains

• July 06, 2026 06 Jul'26

  Capita’s rush to hit civil service pension deadline risking errors, say staff

  Staff working on Civil Service pension administration transition concerned over pressure forcing unnecessary risks

• July 05, 2026 05 Jul'26

  How Zoho’s full-stack strategy keeps it in control of cost and sovereignty

  Zoho’s ANZ lead Rakesh Prabhakar explains how building its own infrastructure keeps the SaaS firm in control of cost, pricing and data sovereignty

• July 03, 2026 03 Jul'26

  Breach of IBM-managed environment exposes personal data of 70,000 in Singapore

  Unauthorised access to a development and testing environment managed by IBM has exposed the names, NRIC numbers and property addresses of about 70,000 people held by the Singapore Land Authority

• July 02, 2026 02 Jul'26

  UKtech50 2026: The most influential people in UK technology

  Computer Weekly has announced the 16th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector

• July 02, 2026 02 Jul'26

  Data dive: Kill switch and catch-up – can Europe close the sovereignty gap?

  As the US demonstrates it can wield an AI ‘kill switch’, the EU and UK unleash a wave of sovereign tech measures. Can state-led industrial policy bridge a $2tn revenue chasm?

• July 01, 2026 01 Jul'26

  Danske Bank extends AWS agreement for next phase of transformation

  Danish multinational bank and cloud service giant will work together on GenAI initiatives as part of the bank’s transformation strategy

• July 01, 2026 01 Jul'26

  Union calls for insourcing of pension contract as Capita ‘shit show’ goes on

  Outsourcer had until 30 June to fix issues with Civil Service Pension Scheme administration deal it took over in December 2025, but problems persist

• June 30, 2026 30 Jun'26

  Post Office delays signing Horizon replacement for third time

  The Post Office has extended standstill period before formally signing contract for new EPOS system

• June 30, 2026 30 Jun'26

  Finland bets industrial recovery on health AI, maths and quantum

  The ‘world’s first’ national AI model leads Finnish plan to concentrate national resources on industrial revival

• June 29, 2026 29 Jun'26

  India’s Hexaware to add 1,200 UK tech staff

  Indian heritage IT supplier plans to have 1,200 UK staff across multiple sites, with research and development centres to open this year

• June 29, 2026 29 Jun'26

  Tencent Cloud powers cloud migration for Indonesian telco

  Using AI agents to replace months of manual labour, Tencent Cloud consolidated XLSmart’s fragmented, multicloud IT estate into a unified platform and migrated over 15TB of core data assets in record time

• June 26, 2026 26 Jun'26

  Met Palantir pilot: The DPIA that raises more questions than answers

  We examine the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Metropolitan Police’s Palantir Foundry pilot, and the governance gaps it exposes around surveillance, transparency and staff consultation

• June 25, 2026 25 Jun'26

  Former Post Office legal boss referred to disciplinary council

  Post Office general counsel, who led court case against subpostmasters, failed to appear at statutory public inquiry

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Cost the major barrier in AI’s race to space

  Space-based datacentres are becoming technically feasible in the next decade, with one in eight AI workloads running in space by 2040, according to Boston Consulting Group – but costs will pose a major barrier to its adoption

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Overwhelming support for Microsoft SMS designation in CMA responses

  Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  The £1,100 lock-in: CMA Microsoft probe exposes software ecosystem at a crossroads

  A parish council, a £60m public sector bill, and the AI question that could define UK digital competition for a generation in responses to the CMA’s Strategic Market Status investigation

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Roundtable: UK tech chiefs on agentic AI, workforce culture and tokenomics

  Tech leaders from THG Ingenuity, Kingfisher, Rightmove and Deloitte speak at the Google Summit London about the transition to agentic systems and the rising focus on token costs

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  nLighten CEO Dawn Childs on edge datacentres and sovereignty

  We talk to the CEO of nLighten about the limits of the UK power grid, why that makes ‘edge’ datacentres a good idea, and navigating contemporary data sovereignty requirements

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management

  We talk to PHP pioneer and Google agentic data cloud vice-president about ensuring agentic quality, including having agents voting against each other, and the risk of LLM lock-in

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Philippine government taps Google Cloud to deploy AI agents

  The Filipino government will equip public servants with Gemini Enterprise AI tools, launch a cross-agency cyber defence alliance and upgrade subsea network infrastructure

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Australian government cloud mandate sparks migration warnings

  As Australia prepares to enforce its whole-of-government cloud policy, industry experts warn agencies against rushed migrations, supplier lock-in and treating AI readiness as an afterthought

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  UK government publishes guidelines to ‘end era of outsourcing’ – will IT be in scope?

  New strategy will see UK government apply Public Interest Test to outsourcing contracts worth £1m or more

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  nLighten completes £15m refurbishment of Bristol ‘edge’ datacentre

  European datacentre operator doubles potential AI-ready power capacity to 1.2MW with dry cooling at Bristol site as part of a wider £100m-plus UK modernisation programme

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Google Cloud boosts for enterprise agentic at London Summit

  Hyperscaler prioritises process automation in UK showcase, with frontier models, agent platforms and development tools to the fore, with customers such as Unilever in the spotlight

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  HSBC pens artificial intelligence deal with Google Cloud

  HSBC and Google Cloud agree a multi-year contract to support UK bank’s adoption of artificial intelligence

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Post Office delays signing Horizon software replacement contract

  Lot 2 of the contract to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon EPOS system has still not been signed off

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Everpure aims to bridge AI data gap with Universal Data Intelligence

  Storage-to-data-management firm expands Enterprise Data Cloud at Accelerate 2026 with OneTouch integration and AI pipeline automation to combat enterprise data sprawl

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Cabinet Office states Capita set to miss Civil Service Pension Scheme deadline

  Outsourcing firm’s botched takeover of civil service pension administration has seen scheme members experience financial hardship

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  STT GDC launches 30MW datacentre in South Korea

  The Singapore-based datacentre operator has entered the South Korean market with STT Seoul 1, a hyperscale-ready facility built though a joint venture with Hyosung Heavy Industries

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  MPs call for UK government to back sovereign IT

  Amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill calls for the government to publish a ‘digital sovereignty strategy’ to promote domestic technology

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  NHS trusts operating on fewer patients with Palantir FDP, warns Foxglove

  Around 30% of English hospitals that use Palantir’s FDP tools for scheduling are carrying out fewer procedures than before adoption, according to data from campaign group Foxglove

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  US mortgage provider moves beyond ‘superficial AI integrations’

  Pennymac Financial Services is using generative artificial intelligence tools from Amazon Web Services to bring borrowing up to date

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  Nordea Liv Norway migrates 58 million transactions to the cloud

  Life and pensions provider migrates to the cloud as part of wider multi-year transformation project

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  How AngelHack uses hackathons to ease AI adoption

  From internal hackathons to accelerator programmes, Singapore’s AngelHack is empowering everyday employees to build their own AI applications while expanding its reach in the US, Brazil and Australia

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  Ineffable Intelligence strikes Google Cloud deal for Vera Rubin GPU power

  London-based ‘anti-LLM’ developer led by AlphaGo founder David Silver selects Google Cloud Vera Rubin GPU infrastructure to build reinforcement learning ‘superlearners’

• June 15, 2026 15 Jun'26

  Data dive: Dodgy data derails datacentre water debate

  The Government Digital Sustainability Alliance reports that we are on track for a massive water supply shortfall. The dataset it used suggests not. We look at the datacentre water use debate

• June 15, 2026 15 Jun'26

  Swedish industrial AI deal exemplifies Indian software fix to AI threat

  As India does big deals in the Nordics, the sub-continent’s role for the artificial intelligence age begins to become apparent