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• 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

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Breakthrough may herald secure home quantum computing

  An emerging approach to quantum security dubbed blind quantum computing may one day help spur mass adoption of quantum computing safely and securely, using technology that is already available today

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Google Cloud embeds Gemini across product portfolio

  Google Cloud’s Gemini model will power a slew of AI assistant capabilities across its portfolio to bring the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  AWS cuts several hundred jobs to tackle ‘inefficiency’ as customer cloud cost-cutting continues

  Public cloud giant AWS is embarking on another round of job cuts, with analysts citing the fact it’s losing ground to Microsoft in the AI race

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  UK-based cloud provider Civo offers ‘unconditional’ data egress fees waiver to customers

  Stevenage-based ‘open’ cloud champion Civo becomes latest provider to waive data egress fee charges for customers, but claims its offer is unconditional, unlike how the hyperscalers are approaching the same issue

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’

  Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix

• March 21, 2024 21 Mar'24

  CCS holding firm on G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements for prospective Lot 4 suppliers

  The government’s procurement arm is seemingly refusing to give in to supplier calls to extend its decision to revise down the insurance requirements for G-Cloud 14 to the framework’s fourth Lot

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  Oracle Cloud: A discussion about public cloud, dedicated regions and Alloy

  We speak to Oracle cloud chief technical architect Pradeep Vincent about cloud deployment scenarios

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  AWS Public Sector Day: AI-enabled care homes and using big data to ease biodiversity crisis

  At this year’s AWS Public Sector Day, delegates heard how AI and cloud-based data processing tools are helping address skills shortfalls in the health and social care sector, as well as the UK’s biodiversity crisis

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  Singtel to host Vultr’s GPU workloads in AI datacentres

  Vultr users will be able to deploy large-scale clusters of Nvidia H100 GPUs in Vultr’s Singapore region hosted in Singtel’s AI datacentres by the third quarter this year

• March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  CCS slammed over errors in G-Cloud 14 data protection documents

  The government’s procurement arm is under fire again, after prospective suppliers to the G-Cloud 14 framework raised complaints about CCS’s quality control procedures

• March 15, 2024 15 Mar'24

  Global McDonalds IT outage result of third-party error

  An IT outage that forced McDonald's to temporarily shutter thousands of restaurants has been blamed on a configuration error by a third-party supplier, but there is no suspicion of foul play

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne

  The Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services

  Microsoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  IT leaders dial back cloud-first strategies as hybrid IT becomes more of an investment priority

  Latest data from TechTarget and ESG reveals changing attitudes towards cloud deployments within the enterprise

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Unexpected costs hit many as they move to cloud storage

  A Wasabi survey of cloud storage customers finds more moving to the cloud, but they are experiencing busted budgets and unexpected fees, and expect big demands from artificial intelligence workloads

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud

  The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Keepit brings backup and restore to unprotected SaaS applications

  SaaS backup specialist keeps data in its own cloud datacentres, protects cloud data across numerous platforms and aims to give customers the ability to rapidly add data sources

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Own targets SaaS backup and offers analytics insight

  Targeting a growing market – SaaS applications that lack backup – Own offers backup, fine-grained restores and analytics on data stores that can bring business insight

• March 04, 2024 04 Mar'24

  G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements ‘under review’ by CCS after SME supplier backlash

  CCS has confirmed to Computer Weekly the insurance requirements for Lots 1 to 3 of the G-Cloud 14 framework are under review, as SME-focused minister pledges to investigate matter

• March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

  APAC firms bullish on IT spending

  More than half of organisations plan to spend more on key areas such as cyber security, generative AI and cloud in a sign of growing optimism across the region

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan

  The University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  CCS accused of pricing G-Cloud SMEs out of framework with £20m insurance cover hike

  The Crown Commercial Service’s commitment to helping SMEs win more government cloud deals is being called into question again, following news that it is planning to up the insurance cover required by G-Cloud 14 suppliers by £20m

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  Microsoft goes public with pledges to foster innovation and drive competition in AI economy

  Microsoft lists all the ways it wants to ensure competition and support innovation in the AI economy by taking a proactive and constructive stance to working with regulators

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  TechUK warns datacentre operators government could get powers to enforce heat reuse

  UK tech trade body publishes report about challenges datacentre operators may face if the government gets powers that require them to join heat reuse schemes

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Competition in the cloud: Microsoft's ‘unfair’ licensing tactics go under the microscope

  Microsoft’s share of the global cloud infrastructure market is growing at a time when its customer recruitment and retention techniques are coming under increased regulatory scrutiny

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Alibaba Cloud debuts Model Studio

  Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio provides access to its Qwen family of foundation models and other third-party models and a suite of tools to speed up training and deployment of large language models

• February 19, 2024 19 Feb'24

  Virtus plots colocation campus in Buckinghamshire as demand for London datacentres soars

  Virtus is committing to bringing a new datacentre campus online by 2026, as data shows the demand for colocation capacity continues to outstrip supply

• February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

  Insurance company Admiral partners with Google Cloud for digital transformation push

  Insurance company Admiral has made Google its strategic cloud partner, as it embarks on a push to boost the efficiency of its operations and improve the experience it offers to customers

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  Oracle cloud: Generating value with AI

  Is Oracle’s Fusion GenAI leap a bandwagon move or will it add real power to boost customer happiness?

• February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

  HSBC and Google Cloud partner up for climate tech startup growth push

  Banking giant HSBC will work with Google Cloud-affiliated climate tech startups to help them access funding to support their future growth

• February 08, 2024 08 Feb'24

  Microsoft in discussions with CISPE to remedy ‘unfair’ cloud software licensing practices

  Software giant Microsoft has opened discussions with a European cloud trade body that has previously raised a formal complaint against the firm over its ‘unfair software licensing practices’

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  Inside NetApp’s cloud and AI strategy

  NetApp’s senior executives talk up the company’s efforts to support AI initiatives and deliver first-party storage services on public cloud platforms

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  AWS talks up Q4 increase in large customer wins as global market share drops

  Amazon Web Services clocked up double-digit revenue growth during the final quarter of 2023, but analyst figures show the company is losing market share to Microsoft