Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Find out what IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), what it is used for, which companies are using IaaS, and the types of infrastructure included in this category of cloud services.
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News
12 Jun 2026
Singapore to transform industrial island into AI-ready datacentre hub
A joint report by Singapore government agencies and industry players details how the city-state's Jurong Island will be redesigned into a highly secure, circular digital infrastructure hub by 2050 Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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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
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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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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
SKT teams up with Nvidia on gigawatt-scale AI cloud
The Korean telco continues its push to become a global artificial intelligence powerhouse, leveraging Nvidia’s DSX architecture to build an AI factory for sovereign workloads and token generation 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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08 Jun 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
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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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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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Feature
02 Jun 2026
The great datacentre backlash: The campaigners
In part one of a series looking at attitudes to datacentres, we look at the organisations that oppose new builds, concerns and motivations, what the industry thinks and what solutions might resolve the various impasses Continue Reading
By- Andrew Donoghue
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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: 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
27 May 2026
Datacentre dive: AI factory power draw changes the grid calculus
We look at energy as the key driver – and bottleneck – in development, and why water use is less of an issue now datacentres use liquid cooling over air cooling Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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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: ‘We’re at Chinese levels’ at TeraWulf 750MW AI factory
We see the latest in artificial intelligence factory technology and construction at TeraWulf’s Lake Ontario datacentre, where a former coal-fired power station is the site of a rapid transformation 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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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
19 May 2026
Africa Congo Internet Exchange becomes first distributed IX in DRC
Global internet exchange operator enters partnership with NGO to see Democratic Republic of Congo become home to latest internet hub cutting costs for users across equatorial Africa Continue Reading
By- Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly
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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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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
IDCA datacentres report: Global concentration and the Goldilocks zone
International Data Center Authority report shows capacity concentrated in a few developed nations, while ‘Goldilocks index’ shows which states can benefit from rapid development Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
12 May 2026
Microsoft releases rare zero-day free Patch Tuesday update
No zero-day flaws were addressed in May’s Patch Tuesday update but as usual there is much for admins to chew over in the coming days Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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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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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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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
How Singapore firms are scaling AI initiatives
At AWS Summit Singapore, Certis and Grab showed how they are embedding AI in their business, such as automating finance operations and deploying robots in public safety and security patrols Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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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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News
05 May 2026
IBM: Enterprise AI to shift from ‘light bulb’ to ‘electric motor’ era
Enterprises are set to make productivity gains as business shifts from point use cases for artificial intelligence to orchestrated, policy-driven deployment of agentic AI, says IBM CEO Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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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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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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News
27 Apr 2026
DSIT gets sums badly wrong on AI datacentre carbon footprint
Government revises July 2025 projections for AI-driven datacentre carbon footprint upwards by around 100x, but Carbon Brief suggests the numbers could be much higher still Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
23 Apr 2026
Google Cloud Next: It’s time to create value, not slop, from the AI boom
Attendees at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas are backing AI all the way to the bank. But as AI turns up in everything, everywhere, all at once, we’re going to need to get a lot stricter about what we use it for. Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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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
Microsoft faces court battle in £2bn Windows Server class action
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has allowed the unfair licensing case against Microsoft to go ahead Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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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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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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News
15 Apr 2026
Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline?
Looking at datacentre development internationally, we see how the UK faces apparent relative decline, how countries are responding to the AI age, and what MW vs GDP can tell us Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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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
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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News
13 Apr 2026
India’s push for sovereign AI to lift Asia’s tech ecosystem
A landmark AI infrastructure deal between Yotta and Gorilla Technology aims to deploy up to 36,000 GPUs in India, creating a blueprint for commercially viable AI at scale across the region Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
10 Apr 2026
OpenAI ‘pauses’ Stargate UK: Sudden setback or calculated move?
OpenAI’s decision to pause Stargate UK, much vaunted and based on a memorandum of understanding with government, cites energy costs and regulation, but may be driven by wider uncertainties 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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News
08 Apr 2026
Optical networks to bridge the AI compute-consumption gap
With AI spurring gigawatt-scale datacentre builds across APAC, Ciena is deploying ultra-fast, energy-efficient optical networking and AI-driven automation to ensure AI services can reach consumers Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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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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News
06 Apr 2026
Digital Realty CTO on AI tokenomics and datacentre infrastructure
Chris Sharp talks up the pace of AI silicon innovation, the growth of inferencing workloads, and why boasting about datacentre megawatts misses the point Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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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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News
31 Mar 2026
CMA to launch strategic market status investigation into Microsoft; Amazon Web Services off the hook
CMA to investigate whether Microsoft should be given strategic market status. Amazon escaped, but both companies will need to make changes to egress fees and interoperability Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
31 Mar 2026
Agoda scales AI strategy, opens new APAC tech hub
The digital travel platform has set its sights on becoming an AI-powered travel companion as it changes how it builds software and moves its tech workforce into a new facility in Bangkok Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
30 Mar 2026
Getting started with measuring AI’s carbon footprint
We speak to industry experts about how demand for AI acceleration is driving new approaches to measuring greenhouse gas emissions Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
- Adrian Bridgwater
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News
26 Mar 2026
Oracle opens Sydney customer excellence centre to boost AI adoption
Facility will help organisations across Australia and Oceania navigate technology challenges and turn AI experimentation into business value Continue Reading
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News
26 Mar 2026
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: The bare metal facts
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appears to have more in common with datacentre hosting than with public infrastructure-as-a-service providers Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Opinion
25 Mar 2026
Platformisation or platform theatre? Navigating cyber consolidation
The Security Think Tank looks at platformisation, considering questions such as how CISOs can distinguish between a truly integrated platform and 'integration theater, and how to protect unified platforms. Continue Reading
By- John Bruce, Quorum Cyber
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Opinion
24 Mar 2026
Cyber platformisation is a skills issue for security teams
The Security Think Tank looks at platformisation, considering questions such as how CISOs can distinguish between a truly integrated platform and 'integration theater, and how to protect unified platforms. Continue Reading
By- Haris Pylarinos, Hack the Box
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Opinion
23 Mar 2026
Cyber platformisation: Don't fall into the 'integration debt' trap
The Security Think Tank looks at platformisation, considering questions such as how CISOs can distinguish between a truly integrated platform and 'integration theater, and how to protect unified platforms. Continue Reading
By- Rik Ferguson, Forescout
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News
19 Mar 2026
AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report
Regulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
18 Mar 2026
Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade
Jensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Opinion
17 Mar 2026
Beyond integration theatre: Building stronger cyber platforms
The Security Think Tank looks at platformisation, considering questions such as how CISOs can distinguish between a truly integrated platform and 'integration theater, and how to protect unified platforms. Continue Reading
By- Joe Mayhew and Ahmed Tikail, PA Consulting
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Opinion
16 Mar 2026
Azure Local Disconnected looks the part for sovereignty. It isn’t.
Despite fanfare, Microsoft’s air-gapped cloud offer is far from GA-ready, can’t run Azure Kubernetes Service, maxes out workload clusters, and at scale can’t be truly disconnected Continue Reading
By- Owen Sayers, Secon Solutions
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Opinion
13 Mar 2026
How CISOs can build a truly unified and resilient security platform
The Security Think Tank looks at platformisation, considering questions such as how CISOs can distinguish between a truly integrated platform and 'integration theater, and how to protect unified platforms. Continue Reading
By- Vaibhav Dutta, Tata Communications
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Feature
12 Mar 2026
The rise of the splinternet? Data sovereignty risks and responses
We look at the political, legal and economic risks around data sovereignty, the fears for digital dependency and massive hyperscaler penetration in the UK public sector Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
12 Mar 2026
Enormous AI growth zone datacentre gets planning approval
North Lincolnshire Council approves 1GW datacentre with nearby electricity generation, but environmental campaigners say the developers did their sums wrong Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
11 Mar 2026
Met Office ‘supercomputing as a service’ one year old
Artificial intelligence is not key to the weather picture, as the forecasting and climate prediction agency lauds the benefits of moving from on-site supercomputers to cloud computing for scientific modelling Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
11 Mar 2026
Why the CMA must act now on cloud before the UK loses its digital future
The UK competition watchdog is prevaricating over tackling the dominance of AWS and Microsoft in the cloud market - it needs to enforce change soon or UK businesses will suffer Continue Reading
By- Bill McCluggage
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News
11 Mar 2026
Neurons over silicon: Singapore plans first biological datacentre
DayOne and Cortical Labs are bringing ‘wetware’ computing to the city-state, using living neurons grown from stem cells to support the demand for AI while addressing sustainability concerns Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
10 Mar 2026
Public and private sector key to Digital Realty in West Africa
As Digital Realty opens its first datacentre in Ghana, executives explain how the country – and wider continent – sits in its global strategy, and how local partnerships are vital Continue Reading
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News
09 Mar 2026
AI factory builder Nscale announces another $2bn of funding
Nscale has a pipeline of 1.3GW of capacity across the UK, Norway and the US, with contracted supply of 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, and is name-checked as a British supplier of AI factories Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
06 Mar 2026
Platformisation without illusion: Separating integration from theatre
The Security Think Tank looks at platformisation, considering questions such as how CISOs can distinguish between a truly integrated platform and 'integration theater, and how to protect unified platforms. Continue Reading
By- Aditya K Sood, Aryaka
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News
06 Mar 2026
Regulate AWS and Microsoft, says UK cloud provider survey
Open Cloud Coalition survey, commissioned ahead of the CMA’s decision on measures against the two hyperscale giants, finds competing cloud providers demand regulation Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
04 Mar 2026
Weighing the trade-offs of neoclouds and sovereign clouds
Neocloud and sovereign cloud providers offer alternatives to hyperscalers for AI infrastructure and data sovereignty, but availability gaps and a lack of managed AI services can pose challenges to enterprise customers Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Opinion
27 Feb 2026
How mainframe modernisation is powering government digital transformation
Mainframes are no longer seen as a constraint on public sector digital transformation, with government agencies abandoning rip-and-replace strategies in favour of modernising mainframe systems with hybrid cloud and AI Continue Reading
By- Michael Vincetic
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News
27 Feb 2026
Australia inks five-year deal with Microsoft to drive AI and cloud adoption
The Digital Transformation Agency’s new agreement promises cost certainty, improved discounts, and a skills fund to support the government’s digital transformation agenda Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
24 Feb 2026
Singtel, Nvidia to help scale enterprise AI deployments
Singtel and Nvidia have teamed up on a multimillion-dollar facility to help organisations scale enterprise AI deployments, tackle extreme datacentre power densities, and prepare for the era of embodied AI Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
23 Feb 2026
Neoclouds: Meeting demand for AI acceleration
We look at how neoclouds can deliver access to artificial intelligence acceleration faster and cheaper than public cloud providers Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
19 Feb 2026
Nvidia backs India’s sovereign AI push with gigawatt-scale infrastructure
Chip giant unveils compute expansion with L&T, Yotta and E2E Networks at the India AI Impact Summit, paving the way for domestic heavyweights to build AI agents and physical AI applications Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
17 Feb 2026
Google Cloud supplants Azure as Unilever cloud of choice
Microsoft Azure provided ‘the bulk’ of provision when Unilever went all-in on cloud in 2023, but now Google will be the ‘destination’ for the multinational’s cloud and data platform Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
15 Feb 2026
Wesfarmers to deploy agentic AI in retail operations
Retail conglomerate behind Kmart and Officeworks signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for customer service and internal productivity Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
11 Feb 2026
APAC firms ditch Oracle Java to cut costs amid AI demands
Rising Oracle Java licensing fees and the massive infrastructure requirements of AI workloads are driving the region’s businesses to migrate to OpenJDK distributions Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
11 Feb 2026
UK government datacentre planning decisions queried over environmental oversight admission
The UK government’s admission that it made a mistake granting permission for a hyperscale datacentre to be built in Iver, Buckinghamshire, has raised questions about the validity of similar approved projects Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
06 Feb 2026
AWS Q4 results: Public cloud giant continues to reap rewards of enterprise demand for AI and IaaS
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services claims the final quarter of 2025 saw it achieve its fastest rate of growth in 13 quarters Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
30 Jan 2026
Police Digital Service future remains uncertain as ‘radical’ Home Office policing reform unveiled
The UK government’s long-awaited ‘radical’ policing reform whitepaper has finally dropped, but there is a distinct lack of detail in it about how exactly the Police Digital Service will fit into its vision for a nationally led policing sector Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
28 Jan 2026
The UK government’s AI growth zones strategy: Everything you need to know
Plans to make the UK an AI superpower imply pervasive use of the technology. Ramping up adoption of AI will require more datacentres to host compute-intensive workloads, which is where the AI growth zone strategy comes in Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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27 Jan 2026
Sovereign cloud and AI services tipped for take-off in 2026
Digital sovereignty is set to become a top investment priority in 2026, due to geopolitical and legislative changes. Continue Reading
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News
26 Jan 2026
Microsoft introduces AI accelerator for US Azure customers
The company has developed Maia 200, an AI accelerator that promises to boost inference workloads Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Feature
26 Jan 2026
Sovereign cloud and AI services tipped for take-off in 2026
Digital sovereignty is set to become a top investment priority in 2026, due to geopolitical and legislative changes Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
20 Jan 2026
Google Cloud opens Bangkok region to support Thailand’s AI economy
The hyperscaler’s Thai cloud region is part of a $1bn investment to meet the growing demand for cloud services in the kingdom Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
20 Jan 2026
Sovereign and edge AI drive return to on-premise Kubernetes
While public cloud services remain popular, the need to control sensitive data and maximise GPU performance is pushing enterprises to deploy Kubernetes in their own datacentres Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
19 Jan 2026
Considerations for ensuring a minimum viable digital sovereign cloud
Growing geopolitical uncertainty means CIOs need to consider the role of digital sovereignty in ensuring IT-powered services remain on tap Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
18 Jan 2026
APAC enterprises to boost AI spend by 15% in 2026
Lenovo’s CIO Playbook 2026 reveals that 96% of APAC organisations are planning to invest more in AI, with a growing reliance on hybrid infrastructure to manage rising inference costs Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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13 Jan 2026
Interview: Meet the competition lawyer taking Microsoft to task over its cloud licensing tactics
Microsoft’s approach to cloud licensing has been labelled anti-competitive and cost-prohibitive to enterprises by regulators, and now Maria Luisa Stasi is the competition lawyer looking to take the company to task over its behaviour. Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2026
Woolworths to power Olive digital assistant with agentic AI
The Australian retail giant is the first in the Asia-Pacific region to use Google’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience to turn its chatbot into a proactive shopping partner Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
08 Jan 2026
2026: Prepare for a year of uncertainty
What a start to 2026. Deloitte’s 74th quarterly survey of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and group finance directors of major companies in the UK revealed that geopolitics and poor UK ... Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
05 Jan 2026
Global cloud infrastructure spending hits $102.6bn in Q3 2025
The cloud infrastructure market grew 25% year on year, driven by enterprises moving from AI experimentation to scaled deployment, according to research from Omdia Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
