Cloud computing software
Cloud computing has been one of the hottest topics for IT managers in recent years, and many organisations are already introducing cloud services into their IT infrastructure. Getting the most from cloud computing software means changing the way you think about software delivery, through platforms such as software as a services (Saas), infrastructure as a service (Iaas) and platform as a service (Paas), not to mention the vital role of virtualisation. We follow the latest trends and examine how organisation are using cloud computing software.
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Opinion
17 Jun 2026
Why AI monetisation, not 6G, is the real prize for telcos
In the first of a three-part series exploring the role of telcos in the AI economy, we examine why operators must look beyond next generation 6G networks and focus on capturing the value of AI workloads Continue Reading
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News
09 Jun 2026
Brace for cloud price hikes and AI failures amid pressure to modernise
Organisations risk losing control of their IT infrastructure unless they embrace platform-centric models, modernise procurement and cut through the agentic AI hype, Gartner analysts warn Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jun 2026
Linux Foundation details intent to launch Agent Name Service
We need a new open standard to extend the Internet’s existing DNS infrastructure to enable portable identity, verification and discovery for the emerging agentic web. But what is the DNS ... Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2026
Overwhelming support for Microsoft SMS designation in CMA responses
Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
24 Jun 2026
The £1,100 lock-in: CMA Microsoft probe exposes software ecosystem at a crossroads
A parish council, a £60m public sector bill, and the AI question that could define UK digital competition for a generation in responses to the CMA’s Strategic Market Status investigation Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
23 Jun 2026
Why sovereign cloud is a marketing fix, not an architectural one
Sovereign cloud wrappers fail against physical and legal risks. True sovereignty requires building mathematically-enforced, multi-jurisdictional infrastructure, not vendor contracts Continue Reading
By- Dominic Williams, founder, Dfinity
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News
23 Jun 2026
nLighten CEO Dawn Childs on edge datacentres and sovereignty
We talk to the CEO of nLighten about the limits of the UK power grid, why that makes ‘edge’ datacentres a good idea, and navigating contemporary data sovereignty requirements Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
23 Jun 2026
Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management
We talk to PHP pioneer and Google agentic data cloud vice-president about ensuring agentic quality, including having agents voting against each other, and the risk of LLM lock-in Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
23 Jun 2026
Australian government cloud mandate sparks migration warnings
As Australia prepares to enforce its whole-of-government cloud policy, industry experts warn agencies against rushed migrations, supplier lock-in and treating AI readiness as an afterthought Continue Reading
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Opinion
22 Jun 2026
AI’s next compute layer is likely to come from outside Silicon Valley
AI infrastructure is moving beyond hubs like Silicon Valley. Nations like India, Brazil, and the UAE are building sovereign, power-conscious capacity to solve local compute scarcity Continue Reading
By- Ilman Shazhaev, founder and CEO of Dizzaract
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Opinion
22 Jun 2026
The power crunch: How energy constraints reshape datacentre strategy
AI growth is now hitting a hard limit – electricity. With power shortages causing delays, firms are pivoting to on-site energy, liquid cooling, and edge computing to sustain scaling for AI Continue Reading
By- Jason Donham, senior director analyst, Gartner
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Opinion
22 Jun 2026
Datacentres are a great target and AZs don’t help, so we need edge
When the redundancy model and the threat model encounter each other in the real world, the redundancy model loses, says Adhum Carter Wolde-Lule, director at Prism Power Group Continue Reading
By- Adhum Carter Wolde-Lule, director at Prism Power Group
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Blog Post
19 Jun 2026
The decay problem developers need to address in AI security
AI model releases aren't step changes, says Alan LeFort, CEO, StrongestLayer. He thinks there are points on a predictable curve and wants to explain why software application developers working in ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Jun 2026
Linux Foundation launches Appia Foundation to build standardised specifications for AI
The Linux Foundation this week announced the formation of the Appia Foundation. Why did the LF do this? Regulations around the world are moving to active enforcement and firms require evidence of ... Continue Reading
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News
19 Jun 2026
Google Cloud boosts for enterprise agentic at London Summit
Hyperscaler prioritises process automation in UK showcase, with frontier models, agent platforms and development tools to the fore, with customers such as Unilever in the spotlight Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
18 Jun 2026
Earnix AIOS ensures insurers get 'anchored intelligence' for native AI tools & services
Earnix is an AI company for insurance decisioning. The company claims to offer “production-grade” AI and decisioning technology into the workflows and decisions that shape insurance performance ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
17 Jun 2026
Why AI monetisation, not 6G, is the real prize for telcos
In the first of a three-part series exploring the role of telcos in the AI economy, we examine why operators must look beyond next generation 6G networks and focus on capturing the value of AI workloads Continue Reading
By- Edwin Lin
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Feature
16 Jun 2026
The great datacentre backlash: The industry response
In part two of a two-part series looking at attitudes to datacentres, we look at how developers and operators have responded to the wave of anti-datacentre sentiment sweeping through communities and what their plan is to avoid further escalation Continue Reading
By- Andrew Donoghue
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News
16 Jun 2026
Ineffable Intelligence strikes Google Cloud deal for Vera Rubin GPU power
London-based ‘anti-LLM’ developer led by AlphaGo founder David Silver selects Google Cloud Vera Rubin GPU infrastructure to build reinforcement learning ‘superlearners’ Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
15 Jun 2026
Data dive: Dodgy data derails datacentre water debate
The Government Digital Sustainability Alliance reports that we are on track for a massive water supply shortfall. The dataset it used suggests not. We look at the datacentre water use debate Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2026
The role of software engineers in the AI datacentre fabric
When software engineers think about AI, the conversation almost always gravitates toward the compute side: GPUs, model architecture, parallelism frameworks and inference optimisation. But the ... Continue Reading
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News
12 Jun 2026
The digital pivot: How HSS transformed hire with agentic AI
HSS ProService underwent a profound transformation from asset-heavy hire business to digital marketplace set to deploy agentic AI. CEO Tom Shorten tells us how it did it Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
10 Jun 2026
An answer to the token economics phenomenon: Linux Foundation Tokenomicon
Tokenomics, for the uninitiated, is a practice designed to analyse the economic design, supply and distribution mechanisms governing an AI agent's utility token use and wider ecosystem. Following ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
10 Jun 2026
The UK cannot afford a box-ticking solution to cloud dominance
Big tech companies often find ways out of regulatory directives, so the CMA must come up with enforceable commitments, across the whole investigation, and quickly Continue Reading
By- Nicky Stewart
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News
10 Jun 2026
Interview: Pegasystems’ Don Schuerman on how to keep the lid on skyrocketing AI costs
Pegasystems offers an alternative take on how enterprises can use artificial intelligence to automate their business processes without burning through their budgets Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor
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News
09 Jun 2026
Brace for cloud price hikes and AI failures amid pressure to modernise
Organisations risk losing control of their IT infrastructure unless they embrace platform-centric models, modernise procurement and cut through the agentic AI hype, Gartner analysts warn Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jun 2026
Encoding the agentic carbon layer: IFS Zero evolves greentech with Emissions Operating System
Industrial AI software company IFS this month detailed the workings of its new IFS Zero offering. This is an agentic Emissions Operating System designed for the world’s most asset-intensive ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
09 Jun 2026
Inside the AI factory of the future
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we visit the latest in AI factory technology and construction at TeraWulf’s Lake Ontario datacentre, where a former coal-fired power station is being rapidly transformed. American Express talks about the latest digital innovations being introduced at the credit card giant. And we ask the hyperscalers – can you really deliver a sovereign cloud? Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
09 Jun 2026
Alibaba Cloud opens Johor cloud region
Chinese tech giant unveils two new datacentres in Johor, cementing its largest infrastructure presence in Southeast Asia while capitalising on spillover demand from Singapore Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
08 Jun 2026
Councils exit 10-year Capita deal to boost decision and project velocity
Two councils that were once part of a five-council group outsourced to Capita take back control of their IT to allow for decision-making and IT projects that aren’t bound by the slowest member Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jun 2026
Pushing pilots-to-production: NTT DATA expands collaboration with Google Cloud
NTT DATA (hereafter NTT Data) wants software application developers to be able to go from pilot to production (not a branded or de facto industry term, but it should be) in the most fluid, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Jun 2026
Harness tightens up AI ROI spend with new tools
Software delivery company Harness produced two new products recently. The directly-named AI DLC Insights and Cloud & AI Cost Management arrive with a promise of their ability to give software ... Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2026
EU unveils full-stack sovereignty package to build Euro tech muscle
European Commission launches package spanning chips, cloud and energy to reduce dependency on US and Chinese supply chains and to foster a sovereign vertical domestic stack Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Jun 2026
Arcjet brings bot detection into code to protect AI workflows without CAPTCHAs
Arcjet is a runtime trust layer for modern applications. Developers use it to enforce security policy directly in code, where application context such as identity, route, session, permissions and ... Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2026
SIT Committee urges Palantir exit in push to end US cloud grip
A Science, Innovation and Technology Committee report contains recommendations that would radically alter UK public sector IT, procurement and relationship with hyperscalers if adopted Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
03 Jun 2026
AI afterburn: Why software quality is crashing in the rush for speed
AI is good, but, that ‘goodness’ comes with casualties, complexities and responsibilities. These caveats are (of course) driven by the need to ensure data provenance - and indeed data handling, ... Continue Reading
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News
02 Jun 2026
Data dive: Mapping the UK public sector’s hyperscale dependence
UK government and local authorities have built critical infrastructure amid a web of US hyperscaler cloud and other providers, which brings risks of exposure to a narrow set of non-UK suppliers Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Jun 2026
Capital idea, Nutanix ups case for AI workloads with Nvidia cert
Some companies like to add AI (or .ai) to their core organisational designation and moniker these days... it’s cute enough, but one imagines it’ll be superseded by the next big thing once agentic ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 May 2026
Why cloud sovereignty matters in today’s fragmented digital world
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andre Reitenbach, CEO and co-founder of Gcore. Gcore accelerates AI training, provides comprehensive cloud services, ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
28 May 2026
Realities of the AI age force sustainability to the fore
New standards force carbon accounting to be location-free. Meanwhile, AI and its energy appetite mean we have to build sustainability into an organisation's competitive edge Continue Reading
By- Shane Herath , Eco-Friendly Web Alliance
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News
27 May 2026
Datacentre dive: Do AI datacentre physics make on-premise unviable?
Does substantial GPU power draw and liquid cooling mean the end of the on-premise datacentre? We look at the AI factory revolution and find that a hybrid path for enterprises will likely still exist Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
27 May 2026
Datacentre dive: From rust belt to megawatt AI factory
We visited Terawulf’s Lake Ontario 750MW datacentre development. Photos and recordings weren't allowed, so we took notes and wrote them up in more traditional ways Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
25 May 2026
How APAC companies are rewiring their tech for the AI era
At Dell Technologies World, APAC tech leaders reveal how they are relying on hyperconverged infrastructure and digital sovereignty to shield themselves from supply chain shocks Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
20 May 2026
Sagacious software: WisdomAI analytics agents act autonomously, with context
Just “doing” is no longer the standard by which we judge any agentic function’s worth, suitability or credibility. As the depth of agent-driven services in enterprise software stacks now elevates ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 May 2026
Tricentis delivers agentic AI Testing for SAP Business Transformation
As we collectively build the new era of agentic AI automation services, we will need to constantly and consistently test agents. That core truth means we need to test agents, so that’s agentic ... Continue Reading
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News
19 May 2026
As AI costs spiral, Dell pitches return to on-premise datacentres
With agentic AI driving up public cloud consumption, Dell Technologies is pitching local and hybrid infrastructure to shield enterprises from soaring token costs Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
19 May 2026
Hot, or not? Why are there so few datacentre waste heat projects in the UK?
There are some on the way, in London and Yorkshire, but the UK lags behind other European countries. We look at the challenges of providing district heating from datacentre waste heat Continue Reading
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News
14 May 2026
Bradford datacentre with heat reuse gains planning consent
Deep Green’s 5.6MW AI datacentre will take 24 months to build and will link up to an energy centre to heat buildings across Bradford city centre via pre-laid pipes Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
13 May 2026
SAP Sapphire showcases ‘new SAP’ with agentic AI infrastructure ecosystem & tools
SAP Sapphire is always a guaranteed firehose of product and service announcements (in a good way, usually) and an opportunity to engage with key spokespeople from the company’s board itself and, ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
13 May 2026
How to build a cloud carbon data supply chain
Why better architecture – not better promises – is the key to sustainable cloud computing. The data isn’t perfect but there are steps IT leaders can take to build the right structure Continue Reading
By- Luke Sperrin, senior practice lead for energy and sustainability at Digital Catapult
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Opinion
13 May 2026
Can data sovereignty become a liability in war?
The recent Middle East conflict shows the contradictions inherent in modern data systems and the need to focus less on who controls data and more on how to protect the infrastructure Continue Reading
By- Moinul Zaber, research fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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News
13 May 2026
Data dive: Power grid data shows birth of AI in UK datacentres
Electricity supply utilisation ratios show datacentre developer ‘land grab’, capacity switch-ons, the coming of Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, and usage ramping during training runs Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
12 May 2026
In video games of the future, your AI teammates will actually listen
Ubisoft executives offer a glimpse into the engineering behind its generative AI middleware, including the use of small language models, prompt optimisation and on-device processing to bring virtual teammates to life Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
11 May 2026
Finding NemoClaw, Solo fishes out production agentic runtime for Kubernetes
Cloud-native connectivity and infrastructure company Solo has announced support for NemoClaw within kagent, the production-grade agentic runtime. Popular with retail, financial services and ... Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2026
Core42 partners with Solutions+ on Mubadala sovereign AI
Agreement announced at Make it in the Emirates will see Core42 provide sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure while Solutions+ delivers implementation services and enterprise AI applications across Mubadala portfolio companies and government entities Continue Reading
By- Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly
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News
11 May 2026
Australian public cloud spending to surpass A$33.6bn in 2026
As hyperscalers such as AWS and Microsoft pour billions into Australian datacentres, Gartner predicts local public cloud spending will grow by 17.9% in 2026, driven by the growth in AI infrastructure demands Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
10 May 2026
Sysdig has a head for headless agent-aligned cloud security
Sysdig has had a busy month on the newswires (which, in fairness, is most months at the company we know as a cloud-native security specialist offering real-time visibility and threat detection for ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 May 2026
Astronomer Otto: A data engineering agent built for Apache Airflow
Data engineering and data science are the modern software engineering disciplines that run enterprises today. These are the processes needed to keep dashboards current, AI models trustworthy and ... Continue Reading
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News
08 May 2026
Node4: AI and agentic the future, but culture the key to unlock it
UK mid-market supplier showcases the three stages of AI – assistance, co-work and orchestration – but faces a reality in which most users have yet to arrive at first base Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
07 May 2026
BlueRock open sources MCP Python Hooks
Headquartered in San Mateo, BlueRock provides observability, guardrails and control for agentic AI systems operating in production environments. The company has this month announced the open source ... Continue Reading
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News
07 May 2026
Data residency becomes the GCC’s next AI battleground
As sovereign AI strategies accelerate across the Gulf, organisations are shifting their focus from ‘how do we use AI?’ to ‘where does the data live?’, turning data residency into a strategic differentiator rather than a compliance exercise Continue Reading
By- Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly
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News
07 May 2026
Nutanix CEO maps out agentic AI strategy, targets VMware defectors
Rajiv Ramaswami talks up Nutanix’s agentic AI play, the growing demand for sovereign cloud capabilities, and why decoupling storage from HCI is hastening migrations from VMware Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
06 May 2026
Atlassian builds enriched AI‑native engineering with new functions in DX
Atlassian acquired DX around eight months ago. DX is used by enterprises to analyse the productivity levels of their software engineering teams are and identify bottlenecks slowing them down. The ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 May 2026
What to expect from Alteryx Inspire 2026
Alteryx is known for its analytics automation platform and its capabilities in end-to-end automation and data-driven decision-making. The Computer Weekly Developer Network last attended Alteryx ... Continue Reading
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Feature
06 May 2026
Beyond telesurgery: How Proximie uses AI to optimise surgery logistics
AWS customer Proximie delivers AI-driven operating theatre logistics and tele-surgery. We spoke to its engineering vice-president about the challenges of cloud in a life or death environment Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
06 May 2026
Cloud and data sovereignty caught in a paradox
We asked the hyperscalers how they would respond to US court-ordered eavesdropping on foreign citizen data – and got responses that highlight a paradoxical situation Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Feature
06 May 2026
Is cloud data sovereignty all just a case of ‘Trust me, bro’?
Hyperscaler cloud is inherently global. Does that make data sovereignty unattainable – especially given the powers US courts hold? We grilled the hyperscalers in an attempt to find out Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
06 May 2026
The illusion of digital sovereignty and the reality of control
Digital sovereignty is hugely important to IT leaders but in most cases systems have been built on foundations they don’t control. Open standards are key to organisational agility Continue Reading
By- Astor Nummelin Carlberg, director open source sovereignty, SUSE
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Blog Post
05 May 2026
IBM lays down ‘Big Blue’ blueprint for AI operating model
Traditionally a favourite technology conference that draws in press and swathes of coders, fans of IBM developer events will remember days at the Swan & Dolphin, when the words “Rational” were ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 May 2026
Nutanix VP: Next steps in cloud-native & AI infrastructure
During KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026 Europe this year, the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) sat down with Dan Ciruli, vice president and general manager for cloud-native technologies at ... Continue Reading
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News
05 May 2026
Google AI workers vote to unionise over IDF and US military tech
Unions send letter to management requesting recognition for Google DeepMind employees, in particular over the company’s involvement in hi-tech systems used in Gaza and Iran wars Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
05 May 2026
Google’s Agentic Data Cloud to power ‘systems of action’
As enterprises move from reactive analytics to AI agents, Google Cloud’s data chief details new metadata, cross-cloud and database tools to help them govern and scale AI agents Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
04 May 2026
Pinecone Nexus offers a knowledge engine for agents
Pinecone’s Ash Ashutosh and Edo Liberty say that the primary user is changing. In their capacities as CEO and founder of Pinecone, the pair remind us that every technological paradigm shift ... Continue Reading
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News
04 May 2026
How Australian firms are using AI in customer experience
Local tech leaders from MYOB, Guzman y Gomez, and Aware Super reveal how AI is reshaping customer experience, streamlining business operations and driving efficiency Continue Reading
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Opinion
30 Apr 2026
Data is a sovereignty issue. And broader than just the hyperscalers
As data sovereignty comes under scrutiny the more chimera-like it looks, but ventures like Google’s S3NS in France show potential Continue Reading
By- Owen Sayers, Secon Solutions
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Blog Post
30 Apr 2026
Lens Agents governs AI agents with access & policy controls
Lens by Mirantis has come forward with Lens Agents, a governed platform for running AI agents across enterprise systems. The technology gives organisations a unified, policy-driven way to run, ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Apr 2026
Cloud revenues up 35% YoY in a hot market that’s accelerating
Synergy Research figures put Q1 cloud revenues at $129bn. Meanwhile, AWS, Microsoft and Google have 63% of the world market, which shows an acceleration delta of 13% Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
28 Apr 2026
Virtue AI PolicyGuard stacks custom AI guardrails with compliance frameworks
There’s a whole lot of discussion around the need to give enterprises control over how AI policy is defined and enforced across agents, models and applications. Deeper than those core parameters, ... Continue Reading
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News
23 Apr 2026
FairPrice to roll out AI-powered smart carts to more stores
Shoppers can expect smart carts that slash checkout times to just 36 seconds, while supermarket staff will get an AI sidekick to automate daily operations Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
23 Apr 2026
AI drives software productivity – and challenges – for Motorway
We talk to Ryan Cormack of used car marketplace Motorway about how AI-driven development increases the speed and productivity of engineering and the challenges it brings Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
23 Apr 2026
AI adoption is rapid but many stuck at basic levels, says AWS
The UK could unlock £35bn of productivity – equivalent to the economy of Manchester – if organisations can move from basic use of AI to productive, often agentic, modes of working Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
22 Apr 2026
Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs
With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
22 Apr 2026
Blackbox replaces two racks of HPE storage with 8U of Everpure
UK-based IaaS ‘sovereign’ provider, with multiple public sector-facing clients, replaced end-of-life 3PAR arrays with FlashArray storage that saw it reduce power consumption by 85% Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
21 Apr 2026
CloudBolt COO defines Kubernetes automation at the speed of trust
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yasmin Rajabi, COO at CloudBolt. CloudBolt is known for as the 'cloud ROI company' as it helps organisations be more ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
17 Apr 2026
AI, energy, and the new rules of cloud sustainability competition
AI has made cloud infrastructure core to enterprise architecture – more valuable, strategic, and resource-intensive. It has also made vague sustainability claims less defensible Continue Reading
By- Abhijit Sunil, senior analyst, Forrester
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Opinion
17 Apr 2026
Welcome to agentic AI. Welcome to per-agent licensing
Microsoft seems to have a new wheeze: Charging per-agent. Having made Copilot pervasive in the Microsoft stack, it looks like customers may face per-agent billing Continue Reading
By- Owen Sayers, Secon Solutions
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Opinion
15 Apr 2026
Drone strikes show why key military principles apply to cloud data
One key thing every soldier knows is that bunching up under fire is a very bad idea. Here, a retired French general says CIOs need to apply the same principle to data in the cloud Continue Reading
By- Major General Laurent Boïté (retired)
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E-Zine
14 Apr 2026
How a risky move paid off for Nvidia
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to Nvidia, the chip company at the centre of the AI revolution, about how its 20-year technology bet paid off. Oracle is laying off 30,000 workers – we find out what’s behind the controversial move. And we analyse the risks and opportunities from edge AI. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
13 Apr 2026
UK reliance on US big tech companies is ‘national security risk’, claims report
UK government urged to follow European countries by backing technology based on open standards Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor
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Blog Post
13 Apr 2026
Sapiom CEO: Software is becoming the ‘customer' of the Internet
For twenty years, the Internet economy has been designed for humans. We built interfaces for human eyes, authentication for human devices, and financial, fraud, and risk models that assume a person ... Continue Reading
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News
13 Apr 2026
Go West! US datacentres head for available and cheap energy
Texas the hotspot as US datacentres enter the GW age, Virginia set to hold its status as ‘datacentre alley’, while constrained west coast states set for market share decline Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
09 Apr 2026
Zencoder zaps zero-sum zonking with Zenflow Work
Zencoder describes itself as the orchestration layer for AI engineering and the company says its platform is designed to build reliable software with AI. In recent months, the platform has been ... Continue Reading
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News
08 Apr 2026
Azure customers up in arms over ‘full’ UK South region
Microsoft customers report being refused capacity, migration projects stuck halfway, and accusations that AI is being prioritised over ‘bread and butter’ offerings Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
08 Apr 2026
Hyperscaler datacentres set to dominate by 2031
Driven by artificial intelligence deployments, hyperscaler datacentres are expected to comprise more than two-thirds of all capacity by 2031. Meanwhile, on-premise datacentre capacity will shrink to 20%, down from 56% in 2018 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Blog Post
08 Apr 2026
Nutanix Agentic AI drives neoclouds, NKP Metal forges bare-metal Kubernetes
Nutanix has had plenty to say at its .NEXT 2026 conference, held in Chicago this April. The company will now introduce new capabilities for its Nutanix Agentic AI service that are designed to help ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Apr 2026
Nutanix aligns to agentic AI era with platform & ecosystem overhaul
Nutanix used its .NEXT 2026 Americas conference in Chicago this week to lay out a framework of technologies that it promises will deliver a complete platform for the agentic AI era. The hybrid ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
07 Apr 2026
Sustainability accounting can be difficult, but can differentiate
It's difficult to get a handle on sustainability metrics, not least because of supplier efforts to obfuscate them. But building in a true and bigger picture can become a differentiator Continue Reading
By- Daniel Smith, Astralis Technology
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Opinion
07 Apr 2026
What you need to know before emissions regulators come knocking
Carbon emissions reporting is becoming mandatory. But accounting is not the same as reducing, especially given the smoke and mirrors in some carbon footprint reporting Continue Reading
By- Jay Dietrich, Uptime Institute
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Opinion
07 Apr 2026
Navigating the opaque fog of public cloud carbon footprints
Cloud providers make it impossible to really assess carbon footprint. Differing definitions mask the true impact, especially in emissions from hardware production Continue Reading
By- Shane Herath , Eco-Friendly Web Alliance
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Blog Post
02 Apr 2026
BlueRock forges Trust Context Engine to help developers control agentic systems
BlueRock is a company known for its provision of observability, context and control for agentic AI systems operating in production. The platform itself is designed to helps developers and data ... Continue Reading
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News
01 Apr 2026
Microsoft to invest $5.5b in Singapore’s AI and cloud infrastructure
The tech giant is spending over $5bn through 2029 to bolster its footprint in the city-state while rolling out programmes to equip students, educators and non-profit leaders with AI skills Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
01 Apr 2026
GreenOps - Starburst: Abstracting the complexity of (legacy) distributed data estates
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jitender Aswani in his role as senior vice president of engineering at Starburst. Aswani writes in full as follows… There ... Continue Reading
