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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
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October 13, 2025
13
Oct'25
Interview: Shaping the future of AI in the UAE
At Gitex 2025 in Dubai, the largest tech show in the Middle East, Chiara Marcati, chief AI advisory and business officer at AI71, discusses the UAE’s ambition to become a global leader in artificial intelligence
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October 13, 2025
13
Oct'25
Microsoft and the UAE: Driving AI from strategy to real impact
Exploring how Microsoft and the UAE are turning AI ambition into practical solutions, empowering talent, and guiding CIOs to adopt AI at scale
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October 09, 2025
09
Oct'25
Meta to boost APAC connectivity with subsea cable
The 8,000km Candle subsea cable is expected to bolster internet capacity for more than a billion people as tech giants continue to invest in digital infrastructure across the region
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October 07, 2025
07
Oct'25
Middle East cloud ambitions get boost from IBM-AWS partnership
With demand for AI, datacentres, and smart city tech rising, Riyadh Innovation Hub promises tailored solutions for the region
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October 06, 2025
06
Oct'25
Enterprise software sales through cloud hyperscale marketplaces set to hit $163bn by 2030
Research from IT market watcher Omdia suggests enterprise IT buyers are getting increasingly comfortable with making purchases through the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud marketplaces
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October 02, 2025
02
Oct'25
Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment
Singtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty
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September 30, 2025
30
Sep'25
Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK
In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour
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September 29, 2025
29
Sep'25
Finland government tax proposal worries datacentre investors
Finland, like other Nordic countries, is targeting datacentre investment, but could tax reforms scupper this plan?
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September 26, 2025
26
Sep'25
AI infrastructure provider Nscale secures $1.1bn in series B funding
A week after it was revealed that Nscale would be working with Microsoft to build the UK's largest supercomputer, the company announces it has secured $1.1bn in series B funding
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September 25, 2025
25
Sep'25
Government launches AI growth zone taskforce to support expansion in North East England
The UK government is launching a coalition to support the accelerated development of its AI growth zone in the North East England
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September 25, 2025
25
Sep'25
Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth
The tech supplier’s infrastructure arm is tapping its partner ecosystem and as-a-service model to help the region’s enterprises move from AI experimentation to delivering tangible business outcomes
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September 24, 2025
24
Sep'25
Alibaba Cloud targets full-stack AI dominance
The Chinese cloud giant has unveiled the Qwen3-Max model, a suite of agent development tools and cloud infrastructure upgrades to position itself as a one-stop shop for AI development and deployment
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September 17, 2025
17
Sep'25
Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy
Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer
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September 17, 2025
17
Sep'25
Microsoft to invest $30bn in expanding its operations and AI infrastructure footprint in UK
Microsoft is making its biggest ever investment in building out its AI and general operations in the UK, citing the government’s commitment to making it easier for big tech to thrive in the country
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September 16, 2025
16
Sep'25
UK government signs US partnership to deliver Europe’s largest AI factory
Some 120,000 GPUs are set to be deployed in the UK over the next 12 months, as the government says it’s laser-focused on attracting talent and startups
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September 16, 2025
16
Sep'25
Startup Carbon3.ai sets sights on building UK-wide sovereign ‘national grid for AI’
Startup Carbon3.ai has a goal to link 30-plus UK-owned and operated datacentre sites across the UK that will host sovereign AI services
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September 15, 2025
15
Sep'25
Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit preview: Digital sovereignty in the public cloud
We look at how IT leaders need to balance data access, data residency and data sovereignty
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September 12, 2025
12
Sep'25
Ministry of Defence signs £400m sovereign cloud deal with Google
Google Cloud has signed a multimillion-pound deal with the Ministry of Defence that will see it provide the armed forces with access to sovereign cloud capabilities
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September 10, 2025
10
Sep'25
Could an environmental legal challenge derail government’s fast-tracked datacentre builds?
The UK government is under fire after details emerged that it has waved through three large-scale datacentre planning applications without conducting an environmental impact assessment first
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September 10, 2025
10
Sep'25
EU Data Act prompts Google to scrap data transfer fees for UK multicloud users
With the EU Data Act coming into effect, Google has confirmed that users of its cloud services across the UK and Europe will no longer pay to transfer data between its platform and competitors’ clouds
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September 05, 2025
05
Sep'25
How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation
The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings
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September 02, 2025
02
Sep'25
AWS goes live in New Zealand
The AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, comprising three availability zones and powered by renewable energy, will enable organisations to store sensitive data in the country
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August 31, 2025
31
Aug'25
Google Cloud brings on-premise Gemini AI to Singapore
Move allows government agencies and regulated industries to run Google’s most powerful artificial intelligence models in their own datacentres, directly addressing data security and residency requirements to fuel the nation’s AI ambitions
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August 28, 2025
28
Aug'25
VMware rides on private cloud renaissance in APAC
As enterprise rebalance workload placements and reinvest in private cloud infrastructure, Broadcom is positioning its VMware Cloud Foundation as the new standard for hybrid operations
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August 26, 2025
26
Aug'25
Broadcom bundles private AI into VCF, adds security automation
At VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom unveiled an integrated private cloud stack with VMware Private AI now included in VCF subscriptions, alongside cyber security services and support for cloud-native object storage
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August 21, 2025
21
Aug'25
BT Group ramps up its cloud transformation efforts with another five-year AWS deal
BT Group's multi-year cloud transformation effort is moving on from workload migrations to building out a cloud-native infrastructure, with the help of AWS
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August 15, 2025
15
Aug'25
India revives national datacentre policy amid AI push
The government is pushing for single-window clearances and distributed infrastructure to prepare India for AI and cloud workloads in its national datacentre policy
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August 15, 2025
15
Aug'25
SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure
The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders
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August 12, 2025
12
Aug'25
Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack
The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure
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August 12, 2025
12
Aug'25
Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India
Krutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs
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August 07, 2025
07
Aug'25
Interview: Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer, Thomson Reuters
As a technologist who also runs corporate operations, Thomson Reuters’ CTO believes her tech background gives her a unique edge as the business information group looks to transform its products with AI
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August 06, 2025
06
Aug'25
Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft
The five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities
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August 06, 2025
06
Aug'25
Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel
The Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom
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August 01, 2025
01
Aug'25
AWS sees revenue and profit rise in Q2, bats away competitive concerns
AWS has filed its Q2 results, reporting another quarter of revenue and profit rises, but questions are being asked about how the company is coping with the rising competitive pressure it is under
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July 31, 2025
31
Jul'25
CMA told to expedite action against AWS and Microsoft to rebalance UK cloud market
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a summary of the final conclusions it has reached following the completion of its long-running probe into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market
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July 31, 2025
31
Jul'25
Microsoft reports massive cloud uptick as CMA questions licensing
The company’s latest quarterly results show that the Microsoft cloud is booming. But the CMA is not happy with how it’s winning business
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July 28, 2025
28
Jul'25
Kioxia launches 245TB LC9, the biggest flash drive on the market
Japanese drive maker piles one card on top of another to produce 245.76TB E3.L drive, with lower capacity variants in 2.5in and E3.S formats, and claimed low energy use benefits
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July 24, 2025
24
Jul'25
Europe ‘sleepwalking’ into deeper dependency on Microsoft cloud technologies, claims OCC
Research compiled by global economic consultancy reveals deep hold that Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity tools have on public sector organisations in the European Union
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July 24, 2025
24
Jul'25
Google chief says cloud spend is paying off
While Google’s public cloud business ramps up thanks to artificial intelligence, agentic search is the new frontier to conquer
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July 22, 2025
22
Jul'25
Colt targets crypto traders with low-latency connectivity
Connectivity service aims to give digital asset traders and enterprises deploying AI applications a performance edge by connecting cloud regions faster than native backbones
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July 22, 2025
22
Jul'25
AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage
S3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases
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July 18, 2025
18
Jul'25
CISPE criticised over securing preferential cloud pricing on Microsoft products for members
Microsoft has signed an agreement with cloud trade body CISPE to secure more agreeable pricing on the software giant’s cloud products for its members, much to the chagrin of the wider European cloud community
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July 18, 2025
18
Jul'25
Is history repeating itself with the government’s push to open public sector cloud deals to SMEs?
The UK government wants to help public sector IT buyers do away with legacy tech and migrate to the cloud, with the help of a soon-to-be-launched procurement marketplace. But haven’t we heard all this before?
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July 16, 2025
16
Jul'25
UK government to invest £1m in building out regional tech clusters
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is leading a push to make the UK tech sector less London-centric
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July 15, 2025
15
Jul'25
Soaring cloud costs force firms to curtail IT staff hiring and AI efforts, research shows
Research from Akamai Technologies shines a light on how rising cloud costs are affecting business spending in other areas of IT
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July 09, 2025
09
Jul'25
UK government signs deal with Google Cloud to upskill 100,000 civil servants in AI by 2030
Technology secretary Peter Kyle announces deal with Google Cloud as part of a push to loosen the grip of legacy tech on the UK public sector, while also committing to growing the amount of money government spends with homegrown tech suppliers
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July 02, 2025
02
Jul'25
Law professor urges CMA to take swift and urgent action over Microsoft cloud licensing
University of Leeds law professor has published an academic paper calling on the UK Competition and Markets Authority not to drag its heels on correcting Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing habits
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June 26, 2025
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Jun'25
UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years
A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community
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June 16, 2025
16
Jun'25
CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows
Open source leaders highlight breakthroughs in projects like OpenTelemetry and discuss the open source community’s role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence workloads and fostering global collaboration amid geopolitical tensions
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June 11, 2025
11
Jun'25
AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation
At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges