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• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency

  Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  APAC organisations can cut carbon emissions with AWS

  Accenture study reveals that APAC organisations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by migrating workloads from on-premise datacentres to AWS

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  CMA cloud licensing: Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of ‘muddying’ anti-trust debate

  Microsoft's response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into its cloud licensing practices sees it hit out at cloud rivals for claiming its tactics are anti-competitive

• July 23, 2024 23 Jul'24

  Digital Catapult confirms participants for AI-focused startup accelerator for the creative industry

  Digital Catapult is offering each participant in its latest accelerator programme access to £50,000 in funding so they can use their AI prowess to revamp how the creative industry and economy works

• July 23, 2024 23 Jul'24

  Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023

  Huawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads

• July 22, 2024 22 Jul'24

  CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’

  The concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous

• July 19, 2024 19 Jul'24

  Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims

  The contents of Amazon’s annual sustainability report has come in for criticism from both past and present employees of the company, as well as independent IT sustainability experts

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Police Digital Service CEO Ian Bell resigns as company director following news of staff arrests

  Two weeks after news emerged that two employees of the Police Digital Service had been arrested on suspicion of bribery, fraud and misconduct, Companies House confirms PDS CEO Ian Bell has resigned as company director

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  AWS, Microsoft and Google urge datacentre kit suppliers to improve Scope 3 data collection

  AWS, Microsoft and Google put their names to an open letter, calling on third-party datacentre construction and equipment providers to do a better job with helping calculate Scope 3 emissions of cloud platforms

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Massive hyperscaler GenAI spend raises questions on costs

  How much will IT buyers be expected to pay, as hyperscalers ramp up investment in AI-powered servers to support GenAI?

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Microsoft and CISPE’s settlement in long-running cloud antitrust dispute proves controversial

  Microsoft and trade body CISPE have reportedly reached a $22m settlement in their long-running antitrust dispute, but cloud market stakeholders are not happy with the outcome

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Datacentre market supports Labour government’s review of blocked server farm builds

  New government has wasted no time in lowering planning permission barriers to new datacentre builds, with its disclosure that two previously denied projects are being placed under review

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Microsoft and Google’s GHG emissions gains call viability of net-zero targets into question

  Microsoft and Google cite expansion of their datacentres due to demand for AI services for their greenhouse gas emissions increasing. What does this mean for their 2030 carbon reduction commitments?

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  Police Digital Service employees arrested on suspicion of fraud, bribery and misconduct

  The Police Digital Service has confirmed an internal review of its processes will be undertaken in the wake of staff arrests

• June 28, 2024 28 Jun'24

  How FWD is driving its digital strategy

  FWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Halo Trust partners with AWS to accelerate AI-led landmine clearance in Ukraine

  Landmine clearance organisation Halo Trust is drawing on AWS’s AI expertise to see if the technology can accelerate the pace of its work in Ukraine

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Gulf Edge to operate Google Distributed Cloud in Thailand

  The Gulf Energy subsidiary will offer Google’s sovereign cloud service in Thailand with a focus on air-gapped configurations

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  European Commission declares Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with M365 anti-competitive

  The European Commission has informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that selling Microsoft Teams bundled in with its Office 365 suite is anti-competitive

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  UK government’s M365 use under scrutiny after Microsoft’s ‘no guarantee of sovereignty’ disclosure

  Microsoft’s hold on government IT is under scrutiny, following a disclosure to a Scottish policing body that saw the software giant advise that it cannot guarantee data sovereignty in its cloud-based Microsoft 365 suite

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  SAP public cloud migration requires architectural rethink

  Research from analyst Gartner has identified common issues IT leaders may encounter when moving S/4HANA to the public cloud

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Kmart taps event streaming for real-time insights

  Retailer’s Hamilton event streaming platform delivers real-time insights on container shipments, sales and customer interactions to support its online retail business

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Macquarie Cloud debuts Australia-first hybrid offering

  Macquarie Flex brings Azure services to a broader set of workloads that are not suited to run natively on public cloud

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  CMA working paper outlines concerns about Microsoft’s competitive hold on UK cloud market

  Microsoft has dismissed the idea its cloud licensing practices are affecting its two biggest competitors, but stakeholders claim the CMA's latest working paper could signify a day of reckoning over its pricing strategy

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Tableau CEO on AI moves to ease analytics adoption

  Tableau’s head honcho Ryan Aytay talks up Tableau’s efforts to bring more consumerisation and personalisation capabilities to data analytics through the use of AI

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  Driving customer experience through cloud and AI

  Autodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Bond University deploys Nutanix for on-premise servers

  Australian university has migrated 700 on-premise servers to Nutanix following impending hardware refresh and desire to improve disaster recovery

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’

  Dataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business

• May 30, 2024 30 May'24

  CMA slammed for excluding public sector from UK cloud market antitrust user research

  The Competition and Markets Authority is under fire for instructing the firm overseeing the user research part of its antitrust probe into the UK cloud infrastructure services market not to include public sector buyers

• May 30, 2024 30 May'24

  FWD teams up with AWS on cloud

  The pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  Blackpool Council courts datacentre developers for tech-focused town regeneration project

  Blackpool Council is seeking the support of the datacentre community for its bid to create a sustainable technology campus that will capitalise on the town’s proximity to transatlantic undersea cables

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves

  Large organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy

• May 26, 2024 26 May'24

  Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI

  Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments

• May 23, 2024 23 May'24

  CMA: AWS and Microsoft deny cloud discounts have anti-competitive effect on market

  The CMA finds that IT buyers do not see the anti-competitive impact that discounts can have on the UK cloud market, despite acknowledging that preferential pricing can dictate their choice of cloud provider

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  G-Cloud 14: Overseas suppliers risk non-compliance as CCS changes stance on UK VAT requirements

  After assuring overseas suppliers multiple times during the G-Cloud clarification period that they did not need a UK VAT number to participate in the framework, government procurement chiefs have now backtracked on this guidance by telling non-UK ...

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves

  Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware

• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Akamai’s cloud computing play gains momentum

  The company’s compute business could eventually account for the majority of its revenues, surpassing its security and content delivery businesses, says CEO Tom Leighton

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to step down in June 2024

  After three years heading up the world’s biggest public cloud company, Adam Selipsky is stepping down to be replaced by long-time Amazon staffer Matt Garman

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements

  Google has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant

  The CMA has reignited concerns about how its use of AWS could constitute a conflict of interest, given the public cloud giant is the subject of an anti-trust probe by the watchdog

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Executive interview: AWS’s GenAI innovation opportunity

  We speak to the head of the GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services about AI, tech innovation and IT challenges

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs

  Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT

  IT modernisation programme covers datacentre migration to Azure cloud and roll-out of AI to boost shopping experience

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints

  A Spanish trade association has filed a complaint with the country's competition watchdog over accusations Microsoft’s ‘anti-competitive’ behaviour is harmful to startups

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves

  Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure

  The latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  AWS results see public cloud giant tap into surging GenAI demand

  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy claims AWS has turned a corner where its customers’ worries about cloud cost optimisation are concerned

• April 29, 2024 29 Apr'24

  Inside Oracle’s cloud adoption journey

  Oracle CIO Jae Evans outlines the company’s approach to migrating its own infrastructure and applications to cloud and what customers can learn from its cloud journey

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  How Manipal Hospitals is driving tech innovations in healthcare

  Manipal Hospitals’ video consultation services and a nurse rostering app are among the tech innovations it is spurring to improve patient care and ward operations

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  VMware’s APAC customers weigh in on licensing changes

  VMware customers in the region are concerned about higher costs even as they see the benefits of subscription-based pricing and product bundling in the longer term

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Nib shutters last datacentre, moves most workloads to AWS

  The Australian health and travel insurance provider has closed the last of its seven datacentres, marking the end of its nine-year cloud migration programme