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• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Singapore and Japan team up on quantum computing

  The two countries will work together to bridge the gap between quantum research and real-world commercialisation, marking Singapore’s first government-to-government pact dedicated to the technology

• January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

  Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin architecture to power AI agents

  The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving

• December 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

  Top 10 India stories of 2025

  From infrastructure expansion and sovereign AI innovation to regulatory maturity, Computer Weekly recaps the key developments that kept CIOs and technology suppliers across India busy in 2025

• December 19, 2025 19 Dec'25

  BT: UK’s next phase of quantum progress hinges on network build

  UK’s leading network provider reflects on the country’s quantum progress to date, and proposes what needs to happen next as funding and focus shift towards delivery

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Interview: Art Hu, global CIO, Lenovo

  The IT chief at the PC, servers and storage supplier is using his experience of rolling out tech internally to boost the growing services ambitions of the Chinese tech giant

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

  AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion

  US chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026

  Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  Unequal access: The digital divide in criminal justice

  Access to expert digital forensic analysis is biased towards the prosecution, says criminal defence

• October 31, 2025 31 Oct'25

  Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide

  US and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

  Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Singapore unveils efforts to govern agentic AI, prepare for post-quantum era

  Guidelines and tools will help organisations in the city-state manage risks from AI agents and prepare for a future where quantum computers could break current encryption

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  Dell Technologies accelerates AI and digital transformation across the Middle East

  Through strategic partnerships and innovations unveiled at Gitex 2025, Dell is helping UAE organisations harness AI, multi-cloud, and edge computing to drive faster, smarter business transformation

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth

  The tech supplier’s infrastructure arm is tapping its partner ecosystem and as-a-service model to help the region’s enterprises move from AI experimentation to delivering tangible business outcomes

• September 21, 2025 21 Sep'25

  NUS supercomputer enters global Top500

  Dubbed Hopper, the supercomputer can perform 25 quadrillion calculations per second and is already fast-tracking research in fields from biomedical engineering to clean energy applications

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty

  Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  eEVOS brings GUI-accessible VMware alternative for SMEs

  eEVOS from EuroNAS plays in the same space as ProxMox, but isn’t free. It does, however, offer a graphical UI so customers don’t need to flex the Linux CLI skills to use it

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  The digital forensics crisis in policing: What’s going wrong?

  Forensics experts say that most crime has a digital footprint, but the police are unable to keep up with the soaring number of devices that require analysis

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Dell AI server revenues leap but storage waits on Project Lightning

  During the past quarter, Dell’s datacentre sales went through the roof due to new server and networking products for AI – but storage has not shared the same dynamic

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation

  The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings

• September 01, 2025 01 Sep'25

  Flash drive prices grow quickly while SAS and SATA diverge

  Manufacturers have throttled back production of flash drives to tackle over-supply and it shows in rising prices

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  India banks on mature-node chips to build semiconductor niche

  India is doubling down on mature-node chips that power cars, healthcare and electronics, using incentives and global supply shifts to make its mark

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure

  The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack

  The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure

• July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

  Kioxia launches 245TB LC9, the biggest flash drive on the market

  Japanese drive maker piles one card on top of another to produce 245.76TB E3.L drive, with lower capacity variants in 2.5in and E3.S formats, and claimed low energy use benefits

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Microsoft confirms China link to SharePoint hacks

  Microsoft confirms two known China-nexus threat actors, and one other suspected state-backed hacking group, are exploiting vulnerabilities in SharePoint Server

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack

  Hitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

  Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware

  We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Microsoft declares era of logical qubits

  The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands

  As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI

• 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 05, 2025 05 May'25

  How AsiaPac transformed into a multicloud powerhouse

  AsiaPac CEO Andrew Cheng outlines the company’s growth from a laptop PC distributor to a regional technology service provider known for its multicloud capabilities

• April 25, 2025 25 Apr'25

  How AI workloads are reshaping datacentre design

  At Gitex Asia 2025, industry leaders discuss how the computational demands of advanced AI models are forcing a rethink of datacentre power, cooling and networking infrastructure

• April 11, 2025 11 Apr'25

  Warranty fraud fuels hidden army of hardware hackers

  Widespread warranty fraud is not only costing companies billions but also creating a breeding ground for advanced hardware exploits, warns hardware hacker and researcher Bunnie Huang at Black Hat Asia 2025

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  Interview: The role of IT innovation at Royal Ballet and Opera

  We speak to the Royal Ballet and Opera’s head of IT delivery, Keith Nolan, about how IT lowers costs and helps power stage innovations for world-class performances

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  Storage players ride the Nvidia bus at GTC 2025

  As artificial intelligence’s big beast holds its annual shindig, storage firms line up to launch everything from new array products to validations, certifications and vague ideas around data ecosystems

• March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

  Hetzner enhances datacentre core network infrastructure

  Hosting company taps tech provider to futureproof datacentre and core network infrastructure to support growing digital demands with architecture supporting 400G and 800G interconnectivity

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software

  Oceanogaphic research institute keeps Atempo backup software for near a quarter century with no plans to replace it for protection of critical data helping map the world’s oceans

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Jio, AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build telecom AI platform

  India’s Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco and Nokia have teamed up to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform aimed at improving the efficiency and security of telco networks through artificial intelligence and automation

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce

  Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%

• March 02, 2025 02 Mar'25

  AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts

  Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?

  Pure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an unnamed hyperscaler, be the first nails in the coffin for HDD?

• January 19, 2025 19 Jan'25

  ST Logistics teams up with Lenovo on smart warehouses

  The Singapore logistics firm is partnering with Lenovo to integrate AI and automation into its warehouse operations

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Global IT spending to soar in 2025

  S&P Global Ratings expects a 9% surge in global IT spending for 2025, fuelled by demand for AI and cloud technologies, despite potential trade headwinds and a slowing global economy

• 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 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Top 10 Kubernetes and storage stories of 2024

  In this 2024 review, Computer Weekly looks at Kubernetes’ evolution from stateless application runtime to enterprise-ready environment for cloud-native with persistent storage and data protection

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  IaaS firm uses Pure Storage as a service for ‘virtual datacentres’

  Espresso Gridpoint moved from largely NetApp to Pure Storage FlashBlade file and object for its ‘virtual datacentres’ business model that offers VMware, Hyper-V and ProxMox VMs

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp

  NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure

• 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