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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

• 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

• 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

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Microsoft given until 25 July to respond to UK cloud licensing legal claim

  The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has given Microsoft just over a month to prepare a response to a group legal claim over its cloud licensing practices

• June 09, 2025 09 Jun'25

  Barclays rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 100,000 employees as AI adoption gathers pace

  Barclays is doubling down on its adoption of artificial intelligence tools by moving to embrace Microsoft Copilot with a large-scale roll-out of the technology to 100,000 staff

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store

  The supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy

  Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  DSIT tells Ofcom to prepare to expand regulatory remit to include datacentres

  During a recent audience with the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, Ofcom confirmed preparations are underway for it to start regulating the datacentre sector

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  HMRC’s hunt for hyperscaler to lead £500m datacentre exit project deemed ‘anti-competitive’

  HMRC is seeking a hyperscaler to manage a decade-long migration of its server workloads to the cloud, but the proposed deal is raising eyebrows among UK IT market experts

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum

  Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy

  Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential

  Organisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Australian public cloud spending to hit A$26.6bn in 2025

  Gartner forecasts strong growth in cloud infrastructure and platform services even as Australian organisations grapple with scaling AI initiatives and managing rising cloud expenditure

• 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 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 22, 2025 22 Apr'25

  Fujitsu targets private AI with Japanese LLM on Nutanix

  Fujitsu’s Takane large language model, optimised for Japanese language and business use, is aimed at supporting private AI deployments

• April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

  CW Innovation Awards: M1 aims to become digital-native telco

  The digital-first telco is running all its back-end systems on the cloud, enabling it to speed up decision-making and enhance customer service

• 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 14, 2025 14 Apr'25

  SUSE CEO champions open source choice

  Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen warns against suppliers diluting open source to lock in customers, and touts SUSE’s commitment to providing choice and support across multiple Linux and Kubernetes distributions

• 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 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

• 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 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 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Largest ever cyber deal reflects Google’s CNAPP ambitions

  In a signal of its future ambitions, Google lays down $32bn to acquire cloud-native application protection platform Wiz, reflecting the increasing need to secure multicloud environments

• 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

• 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 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 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 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