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• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  UK competition watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware deal green light to go ahead

  After several months of deliberation, the UK Competition and Markets Authority has concluded its investigation into Broadcom's $61bn bid to acquire VMware

• August 16, 2023 16 Aug'23

  AI is the most hyped technology of 2023

  Gartner's 2023 hype cycle puts generative AI at the peak of inflated expectations in its latest analysis of emerging tech trends

• August 14, 2023 14 Aug'23

  US Cyber Board to probe cloud security after latest Exchange hack

  CSRB review of cloud security comes in the wake of a major Chinese cyber attack on US government bodies orchestrated through Microsoft’s cloud services

• August 12, 2023 12 Aug'23

  Datacentre management vulnerabilities leave public clouds at risk

  At the annual DEF CON hacking convention, researchers from Trellix have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in key datacentre products underpinning the world’s public cloud infrastructure

• August 09, 2023 09 Aug'23

  AI interview: Krystal Kauffman, lead organiser, Turkopticon

  Remote Mechanical Turk workers are responsible for training artificial intelligence algorithms and completing other data-related business processes - we hear about the workplace issues they face

• August 07, 2023 07 Aug'23

  Microsoft fixes Azure flaw that was subject of researcher criticism

  Microsoft has confirmed a potentially-dangerous flaw in the Azure platform has now been fully fixed, and moved to reassure customers that despite criticism it is committed to responsible disclosure and timely fixes

• August 04, 2023 04 Aug'23

  CCS urged to do more to make Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to SMEs

  The government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are coming under fire from the SME supplier community over accusations it could do more to make the £1.3 bn Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to smaller suppliers

• August 04, 2023 04 Aug'23

  Amazon CEO cites enterprise shift in cloud spending priorities for upbeat Q2 results

  After a succession of downbeat quarterly results, Amazon's Q2 figures suggest a return to form

• August 03, 2023 03 Aug'23

  Cozy Bear hijacks SME Microsoft 365 tenants in latest campaign

  Microsoft shares intelligence on a newly observed Cozy Bear campaign that saw the APT take over genuine Microsoft 365 tenants and subvert them to try to phish its victims

• August 03, 2023 03 Aug'23

  Microsoft attacked over ‘grossly irresponsible’ security practice

  The CEO of Tenable has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft, asserting that the organisation is deliberately keeping its Azure cloud customers in the dark about dangerous vulnerabilities and accusing it of a culture of ‘toxic obfuscation’

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play

  SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through

  Government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  IBM debuts Cloud Carbon Calculator to help enterprises manage their GHG emissions

  Tech giant IBM has announced the general availability of a tool designed to help enterprises track and curb the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their on-premise and cloud-based activities

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear

  Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Google reveals how AI and machine learning are shaping its sustainability strategy

  Google's latest annual environmental report reveals details about how the technology giant's ‘artificial intelligence-first’ policy is shaping its ongoing efforts to minimise the environmental footprint of its customers’ operations

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  How datacentres might avoid price hikes and keep more customers

  The most promising strategies for ensuring minimal price rises to customers require operators to start dissecting their approach to packaging and selling their wares

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows

  The latest global public cloud market data from Gartner suggests Google is gaining ground on its rivals, as it achieves higher annual growth than AWS and Microsoft

• July 18, 2023 18 Jul'23

  The FA draws on Google Cloud to support Women's World Cup training push for The Lionesses

  The Football Association is drawing on its long-standing technology partnership with Google Cloud to collect match and player data to support the Lionesses in their training regimes for the Women's World Cup

• July 13, 2023 13 Jul'23

  Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon

  Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments

• July 11, 2023 11 Jul'23

  Legal & General signs seven-year datacentre migration deal with IBM spin-off Kyndryl

  Financial services giant L&G has enlisted the help of its long-standing technology partner to help accelerate the pace of its cloud-focused digital transformation plans

• July 10, 2023 10 Jul'23

  How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming

  Confluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services

• July 07, 2023 07 Jul'23

  Microsoft and AWS caution Ofcom against referring UK cloud market over to CMA

  As the UK cloud market braces itself for the publication of Ofcom's final report into the state of the market, Amazon and Microsoft's responses to regulator's interim findings have been made public

• July 06, 2023 06 Jul'23

  VMware ramps up on sovereign cloud in APAC

  VMware is working with local partners to deliver sovereign cloud services in the region, amid growing sovereignty interests among governments and the need maintain business continuity

• July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

  Google research highlights UK economic benefits of widespread AI adoption

  Google's Economic Impact Report highlights the positive benefits the wider use of AI technologies throughout society could have on the UK economy

• July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

  Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking

  Indonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  NHS England signs five-year Microsoft 365 contract

  Hot on the heels of its earlier deployment of Microsoft Teams, NHS England is now going all-in on the rest of the software giant’s online productivity tools

• June 23, 2023 23 Jun'23

  Microsoft slammed for hitting European cloud users with ‘unfair, additional’ charges

  Research from non-profit Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe organisation suggests cost of digital transformation is going up for ‘unfair’ reasons

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  Cabinet Office updates decade-old public cloud-first mandate for central government

  A decade after it was first introduced, the government has updated its cloud-first guidance by including nine principles to guide public sector IT buyers through their off-premise purchasing decisions

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia

  Over half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  University of York shifts HPC workloads to Swedish EcoDataCenter colocation site in green IT push

  With the University of York using its HPC capabilities for climate research, it decided it was time to shift its IT infrastructure to a greener colo site in support of its net-zero goals

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  CGI to develop virtual, cloud-hosted ‘black box’ recorder technology for aircraft

  IT consultancy CGI is developing an alternative to the traditional ‘black box’ recorders found in aircraft that will allow teams on the ground to intervene quicker in the event of an emergency onboard

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  BBFC taps into AWS AI portfolio to speed up content classification

  The British Board of Film Classification has embarked on an exploratory piece of work to see how artificial intelligence could assist with classifying content

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Cloud remains IT investment priority for UK enterprises despite testing economic times

  Study by Tata Consultancy Services confirms enterprises from across the UK and Ireland are continuing to invest in cloud, and see doing so as the gateway to future innovation

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Google Cloud signs MoU to accelerate take-up of AI by UK defence sector

  Google Cloud is continuing to make in-roads into the UK public sector after signing MoU with The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  Scotland in renewed push to attract more hyperscale and colocation datacentre development

  Against a backdrop of the Scottish government continuing to court datacentre developers, Host In Scotland publishes report flagging 20 sites that are ripe for development

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  Skills shortages hold back enterprises from reaching multicloud goals

  Research highlights the impact skills shortages are having on the ability of enterprises to hit their multicloud goals

• June 12, 2023 12 Jun'23

  How Dell is easing edge deployments

  Dell’s NativeEdge platform could make it easier to deploy and manage edge computing applications and infrastructure through validated designs for industry-specific applications use cases

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

  Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Dell bolsters Apex to ease multicloud deployments

  In the biggest expansion of its Apex portfolio, Dell Technologies adds storage offerings and a trio of cloud platforms that integrate OpenShift, Azure and vSphere with Dell infrastructure

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  CBRE predicts strong growth for European colocation firms in 2023, but suggests tough times ahead

  CBRE's latest European colocation market tracker suggests 2023 will be a year of big growth for the sector, but suggests the slowdown in enterprise cloud spend might have a dampening impact on its prosperity in the years to come

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  HPE and CCS sign memorandum of understanding to accelerate pace of public sector cloud migrations

  Tech giant signs memorandum of understanding with UK government’s procurement chiefs to help public sector organisations sustainably move to cloud

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Imperial College London teams up with Intel and Lenovo for HPC push

  Imperial College London has joined forces with Lenovo and Intel to bolster its HPC capabilities for the benefit of its research teams

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Singapore's DBS Bank is driving IT automation

  DBS Bank’s Technology Marketplace portal has enabled the bank to speed up provisioning of infrastructure and applications through automation and improve developer productivity

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Google AI targets programmer productivity

  Google is opening up more capabilities in its generative AI model, with tools for peer programming and automatic code generation

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Google Cloud and SAP in enterprise open data push

  Long-time technology collaborators Google Cloud and SAP are embarking on a push to make it easier for enterprises to derive value from their data and put it to use in artificial intelligence and machine learning settings

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Kao Data unveils Tier II datacentre strategy by pledging to open Manchester facility in late 2025

  HPC-focused colocation provider Kao Data is expanding its datacentre footprint into the north of England by pledging to open a 40MW facility by late-2025

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Significance of cloud investments rises as economic woes bite

  Technology decision-makers across the UK and EMEA are increasingly looking to do more with cloud over the coming year, TechTarget/Computer Weekly research shows

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  AWS confirms Scope 3 GHG emissions data will be made freely available to customers in ‘early 2024’

  With regulators increasingly calling on companies to transparently report their greenhouse gas emissions data, Amazon Web Services has confirmed users will get access to Scope 3 data from early next year

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

  SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  AWS suffers year-on-year drop in profit and revenue growth as enterprises curb cloud spend

  The first quarter results for AWS show the firm is continuing to feel the effects of enterprise customers “optimising” their cloud spend