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• December 28, 2025 28 Dec'25

  Middle East tech trends 2026: AI, cyber security and sovereign infrastructure take centre stage

  As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to production and cyber threats escalate, the Middle East is entering a decisive phase of digital transformation, says Omdia chief analyst Trevor Clarke

• December 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

  Top 10 India stories of 2025

  From infrastructure expansion and sovereign AI innovation to regulatory maturity, Computer Weekly recaps the key developments that kept CIOs and technology suppliers across India busy in 2025

• December 22, 2025 22 Dec'25

  Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2025

  Southeast Asia’s 2025 tech landscape saw financial institutions, healthcare researchers and government agencies moving decisively from technology pilots to large-scale AI deployments and infrastructure modernisation

• December 22, 2025 22 Dec'25

  Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2025

  The influence of the hyperscale tech giants over the industry was a major topic this past year, but we also saw the emergence of a new type of cloud player in the form of neocloud. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud computing stories of 2025

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Microsoft taps Indian IT giants for agentic AI rollout

  The partnership with Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and Wipro follows a $17.5bn pledge by the tech giant to bolster India’s cloud and AI infrastructure

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Interview: Meet the competition lawyer taking Microsoft to task over its cloud licensing tactics

  Microsoft’s approach to cloud licensing has been labelled anti-competitive and cost-prohibitive to enterprises by regulators, and now Maria Luisa Stasi is the competition lawyer looking to take the company to task over its behaviour

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  AWS CEO Garman pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future

  At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Google Cloud withdraws complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing tactics

  More than a year has passed since Google filed a complaint with the European Commission, outlining its concerns over Microsoft’s licensing tactics, and now the internet search giant has withdrawn it

• November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  Google Cloud launches ‘PanyaThAI’ to spur AI adoption in Thailand

  The cloud supplier is offering training and its AI technology stack to unlock an estimated 730bn baht in economic value for Thai businesses such as Thai Wacoal and SE-Education

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Interview: IBM on breaking hyperscaler lock-in

  Big Blue’s general manager for Asia-Pacific Hans Dekkers talks up why APAC enterprises are rethinking their reliance on public cloud, the resurgence of the mainframe via LinuxOne, and how it used its own AI tools to cut internal costs

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  MWC25 Doha debut marks a new chapter for MENA mobile innovation

  GSMA’s Jawad Jalal Abbassi outlines how Qatar’s first Mobile World Congress will accelerate digital transformation, 5G adoption and AI integration across the region

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Google wins multimillion-pound contract to supply sovereign cloud services to Nato

  Google follows up recent Ministry of Defence sovereign cloud contract win with Nato deal

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  UK government outlines next wave of AI investment plans

  The UK government continues to build on the release of its AI Opportunities Action Plan, with the announcement of another AI Growth Zone plus investment opportunities for the nation's startup community

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Qualcomm and Humain launch AI engineering centre in Riyadh

  Saudi Arabia strengthens its artificial intelligence ambitions under Vision 2030 with a new Qualcomm-powered datacentre hub, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlights tech innovation during his US visit

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  EU sets out plans to cut red tape on digital

  Changes have been proposed to simplify AI Act compliance for smaller businesses, easier cyber security reporting and tweaks to GDPR

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Apple denies ‘locking in’ iCloud users as £3bn legal claim brought by Which? reaches court

  Consumer tech giant Apple has dismissed a legal claim brought by Which? that alleges the pricing strategy for its iCloud service has ‘locked in’ 41 million users in the UK

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  European Commission launches AWS and Microsoft-focused cloud competition probes

  The European Commission has launched three investigations into how the continent’s cloud market operates, with two focused specifically on Microsoft and Amazon Web Services

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  CCS under fire over ‘anti-SME’ supplier requirements for G-Cloud 15

  Government procurement chiefs have shared details of how IT suppliers can participate in G-Cloud 15, but concerns are being raised about changes that may render the framework inaccessible to SMEs

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion

  US chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped

  ING warns grid congestion threatens Dutch datacentre leadership, while the country’s championed hydrogen solution remains largely untapped

• November 06, 2025 06 Nov'25

  Police Digital Service defends IT contractor cuts amid concerns over IT project delivery

  The Police Digital Service has defended its decision to cut the size of its flexible IT workforce, as sources raise concerns about low staff morale and hampered IT project delivery times

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  Insurer Vitality forges closer ties with Google for AI-powered customer health boost

  Health insurance firm Vitality wants to help its customers take a more preventative approach to managing their health and fitness, with the help of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence portfolio

• November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

  AWS hails return to accelerated growth with Q3 results

  Despite having to make allowances for paying out close to $2bn in severance payments, Amazon’s results show its cloud arm is continuing to go from strength to strength

• October 31, 2025 31 Oct'25

  Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide

  US and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server

• October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25

  Equinix acquires DC01UK’s mega-datacentre site in Hertfordshire and plots £3.9bn investment

  Colocation giant Equinix has acquired a plot of land in Hertfordshire where datacentre developer DC01UK secured planning permission to build a hyperscale campus in January 2025

• October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25

  Microsoft CEO speaks of global cloud factory as Azure stalls

  Alongside Microsoft's posted cloud revenue of $49bn was a configuration error that caused a global outage affecting many customers

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  AWS emerges as ‘sole bidder’ for HMRC’s £500m datacentre migration project as rivals exit

  A week after HM Revenue & Customs’ reliance on Amazon Web Services came under scrutiny from MPs, the public cloud giant remains the only supplier in the running for the tax agency’s £500m datacentre exit project

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

  Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  AWS apologises for 14-hour outage and sets out causes of US datacentre region downtime

  Days after its largest US datacentre region experienced a lengthy outage, causing service disruption to web users across the globe, Amazon Web Services issues an explanation and apology regarding what happened

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Business leaders raise concerns over public cloud data sovereignty

  The unpredictable geopolitical climate is having an impact on IT strategies, a report from Kyndryl has found

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  UAE’s datacentre boom powers AI ambitions and digital sovereignty

  Surging investments in cloud infrastructure and hyperscale capacity position the UAE as a regional digital powerhouse and a magnet for global tech giants

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  AWS confirms it is working to 'fully restore' services after major outage

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) users have experienced an outage after the public cloud giant's North Virginia datacentre region became beset with technical difficulties

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Du racks up 1Tbps Middle East milestone

  Leading UAE operator Du achieves record-breaking peak traffic through its datamena platform and marks milestone for internet exchange in the Middle East to reach performance level

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  Gitex 2025: Aramex partners with AWS to accelerate global IT modernisation

  UAE-based logistics giant completes the migration of its Oceania datacentre to AWS, marking the start of a global transformation to build an AI-ready, cloud-native infrastructure

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Revenue generated by neoclouds expected to exceed $23bn in 2025, predicts Synergy

  IT market watcher Synergy Research Group is predicting big things for the neocloud market through 2025 and beyond

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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?

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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