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• 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

• 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

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2024

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2024

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  VMware customers seek alternatives amid licensing changes

  Research reveals that while most VMware customers are satisfied with their current software, they are exploring alternatives due to concerns over rising costs

• December 13, 2024 13 Dec'24

  How AWS is protecting customers from cyber threats

  Amazon Web Services reveals how its threat intelligence capabilities work under the hood to thwart cyber attacks and keep its customers’ data safe

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Microsoft shares details of plans to reduce water usage of AI datacentres

  Microsoft has released details of the latest initiative to minimise the environmental footprint of its datacentres

• December 06, 2024 06 Dec'24

  What do the home secretary’s policing reforms mean for the future of the Police Digital Service?

  The government is to create a new central body for policing with IT strategy in its proposed purview, but what does this mean for the Home Office-backed Police Digital Service?

• December 04, 2024 04 Dec'24

  Grab deepens AWS partnership to fuel AI ambitions and growth

  Southeast Asian super app Grab names AWS as its preferred cloud provider to optimise costs, enhance infrastructure and support its growing AI workloads

• December 04, 2024 04 Dec'24

  AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations

  At AWS Re:Invent 2024, CEO Matt Garman shared details of how its GenAI technologies are helping enterprises accelerate the pace of Microsoft and VMware datacentre migrations

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  AWS unveils new generative AI models

  The Amazon Nova family of GenAI models boasts faster speeds and lower costs, and caters to needs from text and image generation to video creation and multimodal applications

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  Microsoft hit with £1bn UK legal claim over ‘anti-competitive’ cloud licensing tactics

  A legal claim, valued at more than £1bn, has been filed with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal regarding Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing tactics

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  AWS doubles down on ASEAN with cloud and AI investments

  The cloud giant is fuelling growth in Southeast Asia with new infrastructure, skills development programmes and a focus on generative AI, empowering startups and enterprises alike

• December 01, 2024 01 Dec'24

  How SkyLab is democratising hybrid cloud management

  SkyLab is challenging the cloud status quo with its orchestration platform, which allows telcos and enterprises to seamlessly manage workloads across multiple cloud providers

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Eurocontrol works with Atos to support public cloud move

  Air traffic management organisation Eurocontrol has deployed a multi-region public cloud environment as part of a wider digital transformation of its operations, which is being undertaken with support from Atos

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance

  Dutch political parties have warned about the Netherlands’ growing reliance on US tech giants

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Google Cloud research highlights potential for GenAI to transform public sector service delivery

  Research commissioned by Google Cloud suggests encouraging the public sector to step up its adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies could have a transformative impact on the public purse

• November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24

  Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware

  Continent 8 consolidates infrastructure for cloud services and backs Nutanix as it gains influence over product roadmap and cools on VMware amid customer dissatisfaction over licence changes

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  RWE bets on HPE Private Cloud AI for green energy push

  Energy firm RWE has selected the HPE Private Cloud AI setup to help it model and glean insights from weather data with greater ease

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Nationwide Building Society backs HPE GreenLake for hybrid cloud push

  Nationwide Building Society's digital transformation efforts are continuing apace, with the company enlisting the help of HPE GreenLake to meet its hybrid cloud goals

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  AWS widening scope of MFA programme after early success

  AWS reports strong take-up of multi-factor authentication among customers since making it compulsory for root users earlier this year, and plans to expand the scope of its IAM programme in spring 2025

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Nvidia powers AI development in Japan and Indonesia

  Nvidia is deepening its presence in Japan and Indonesia through partnerships with local cloud providers and tech companies to build sovereign AI infrastructure and local large language models

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Apple hit by Which? with £3bn legal claim that iCloud service charges are ‘anti-competitive’

  UK consumer rights advocate Which? has appointed legal representation, as it sets about challenging Apple on anti-competitive grounds over its treatment of UK iCloud users

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts

  There has been a spate of developments in the server space, as manufacturers focus on supporting inference workloads at the edge

• November 11, 2024 11 Nov'24

  Fresh concerns over NHS England registries procurement

  Clinicians and technologists behind a number of medical devices registries being brought together by NHS England on a new common platform have accused the health service of flouting public sector procurement regulations

• November 08, 2024 08 Nov'24

  Inside Grab’s platform strategy

  Grab’s group CTO talks up the super app’s platform strategy, architecture and organisational structure behind its growth across diverse Southeast Asian markets