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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• May 08, 2025 08 May'25

  AI adoption: AWS addresses the skills barrier holding back enterprises

  The AWS Summit in London saw the public cloud giant appoint itself to take on the task of skilling up hundreds of thousands of UK people in using AI technologies

• May 05, 2025 05 May'25

  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

• May 01, 2025 01 May'25

  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

• April 16, 2025 16 Apr'25

  Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim

  The pharmaceutical giant has built a digital and data platform based on cloud and standardisation, from which it is exploring technology opportunities in AI and quantum computing

• April 15, 2025 15 Apr'25

  Alibaba Cloud bolsters AI offerings

  The Chinese hyperscaler has launched new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades for international customers following plans to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure

• April 10, 2025 10 Apr'25

  Mattel taps into Google Cloud to accelerate product innovation in response to customer feedback

  Barbie doll manufacturer Mattel reveals how leaning on Google Cloud has enabled it to respond to customer feedback quicker and speed up its product development processes

• April 10, 2025 10 Apr'25

  NetSuite bets big on built-in AI

  At its customer event in Sydney, Oracle NetSuite unveiled a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into its platform at no extra cost in a bid to make AI more accessible to customers

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  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

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  Global law firm Freshfields embarks on AI-led digital transformation with Google Cloud

  Freshfields has enlisted the help of Google Cloud and its artificial intelligence portfolio to help streamline its processes, as its global chief innovation officer sets about empowering staff to confidently use AI in their everyday work

• April 04, 2025 04 Apr'25

  Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

  On 4 April 1975, Paul Allen and Bill Gates formed Microsoft, a company that defined the PC era and opened up computing for all

• April 01, 2025 01 Apr'25

  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

• March 31, 2025 31 Mar'25

  Microsoft restates commitment to OpenAI amid analyst note about datacentre expansion rollbacks

  Microsoft pushes back on analyst claims its changing relationship with OpenAI is forcing it to scale back its datacentre expansion plans in the US and Europe

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  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

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI

  The Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare

• March 26, 2025 26 Mar'25

  Oracle bets big on AI, drives Australian business transformation

  At the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Sydney, Oracle executives talked up the company’s strategy to integrate AI across its entire technology stack, empowering Australian businesses to move beyond experimentation and into practical AI-driven solutions

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  Public Accounts Committee calls out legacy IT

  Unsupported and out-of-date software and hardware are hindering the government’s artificial intelligence plans for the public sector

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  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

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  Report hails benefits of ‘socially integrating’ datacentres into local communities

  Research report, featuring input from datacentre market stakeholders and sociological experts, makes case for socially integrating server farms into society

• March 07, 2025 07 Mar'25

  Interview: Madoc Batters, head of cloud and IT security, Warner Leisure Hotels

  The hotel chain has embarked on a major cloud migration programme to improve innovation and enhance the security of its network and applications

• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  European cloud providers unite over data sovereignty-focused API

  Three of the continent’s cloud providers have joined forces to create an API that will make it easier for users to move apps, data and workloads from one European provider’s platform to another

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  CMA urged to expedite proposed ‘targeted interventions’ against AWS and Microsoft

  AWS has doubled-down on its claim that subjecting it to targeted curbs to bolster competition in the UK cloud market is an unwarranted step, while its rivals call on the CMA to speed up the process

• March 02, 2025 02 Mar'25

  AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts

  Amazon 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

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments

  The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy artificial intelligence on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre

  Construction of a datacentre that is projected to be 3GW in size is set to start later this year in South Korea

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins

  Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore

  Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees

• 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 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 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

  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 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 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 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 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 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 ...