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• December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24

  Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light

  The government has granted the developers of a proposed datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, permission to press ahead with the project after the local council blocked the plans on Green Belt protection grounds

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2024

  Southeast Asia’s 2024 tech landscape saw major companies embracing AI, shifts in open source and the emergence of local large language models to address the needs of a diverse region

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

  Amazon Web Services has renewed its cloud deal with Hackney Council, with the local authority receiving a minimum discount of 22% in exchange for agreeing to grow its AWS cloud footprint by 8% each year

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

  Questions are being asked about whether CCS has breached procurement regulations by failing to re-tender a contract with AWS that has increased in value by 89% midway through

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Digital Ethics Summit 2024: recognising AI’s socio-technical nature

  At trade association TechUK’s eighth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials and industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with the proliferation of artificial intelligence tools globally and ...

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2024

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2024

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  VMware customers seek alternatives amid licensing changes

  Research reveals that while most VMware customers are satisfied with their current software, they are exploring alternatives due to concerns over rising costs

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Microsoft shares details of plans to reduce water usage of AI datacentres

  Microsoft has released details of the latest initiative to minimise the environmental footprint of its datacentres

• 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 06, 2024 06 Dec'24

  What do the home secretary’s policing reforms mean for the future of the Police Digital Service?

  The government is to create a new central body for policing with IT strategy in its proposed purview, but what does this mean for the Home Office-backed Police Digital Service?

• December 04, 2024 04 Dec'24

  Grab deepens AWS partnership to fuel AI ambitions and growth

  Southeast Asian super app Grab names AWS as its preferred cloud provider to optimise costs, enhance infrastructure and support its growing AI workloads

• December 04, 2024 04 Dec'24

  AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations

  At AWS Re:Invent 2024, CEO Matt Garman shared details of how its GenAI technologies are helping enterprises accelerate the pace of Microsoft and VMware datacentre migrations

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  AWS unveils new generative AI models

  The Amazon Nova family of GenAI models boasts faster speeds and lower costs, and caters to needs from text and image generation to video creation and multimodal applications

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  Microsoft hit with £1bn UK legal claim over ‘anti-competitive’ cloud licensing tactics

  A legal claim, valued at more than £1bn, has been filed with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal regarding Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing tactics

• 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 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  AWS doubles down on ASEAN with cloud and AI investments

  The cloud giant is fuelling growth in Southeast Asia with new infrastructure, skills development programmes and a focus on generative AI, empowering startups and enterprises alike

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  AWS signs multi-year deal with GenAI platform provider to decarbonise its datacentres

  Amazon Web Services has signed a multi-year deal with Orbital Materials that will draw on GenAI skills to develop technologies that could decarbonise its datacentres

• 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

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Eurocontrol works with Atos to support public cloud move

  Air traffic management organisation Eurocontrol has deployed a multi-region public cloud environment as part of a wider digital transformation of its operations, which is being undertaken with support from Atos

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance

  Dutch political parties have warned about the Netherlands’ growing reliance on US tech giants

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Google Cloud research highlights potential for GenAI to transform public sector service delivery

  Research commissioned by Google Cloud suggests encouraging the public sector to step up its adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies could have a transformative impact on the public purse

• November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24

  Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware

  Continent 8 consolidates infrastructure for cloud services and backs Nutanix as it gains influence over product roadmap and cools on VMware amid customer dissatisfaction over licence changes

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  RWE bets on HPE Private Cloud AI for green energy push

  Energy firm RWE has selected the HPE Private Cloud AI setup to help it model and glean insights from weather data with greater ease

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  AI readiness stalls in APAC

  Despite significant investment in AI, only 15% of organisations in Asia-Pacific are ready to deploy the technology today, according to Cisco’s latest regional AI readiness survey

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Nationwide Building Society backs HPE GreenLake for hybrid cloud push

  Nationwide Building Society's digital transformation efforts are continuing apace, with the company enlisting the help of HPE GreenLake to meet its hybrid cloud goals

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Apple hit by Which? with £3bn legal claim that iCloud service charges are ‘anti-competitive’

  UK consumer rights advocate Which? has appointed legal representation, as it sets about challenging Apple on anti-competitive grounds over its treatment of UK iCloud users

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  Gartner warns GenAI demand will lead to datacentre energy shortages

  IT market watcher Gartner is warning enterprises that the growing demand for generative AI workloads will have a knock-on impact on energy supply and pricing in future years

• November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

  Gartner Symposium: Time to get rid of the dead wood

  IT architecture complexity is set to increase in a way that means IT departments are juggling multicloud and legacy environments

• November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

  Research: UK residents demonstrate ‘low-level’ understanding of what datacentres do

  Research commissioned by colocation giant CyrusOne reveals there is work to be done by operators when it comes to educating UK residents on the benefits that datacentres being built in their local communities can bring

• November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

  TechUK calls for government support to help UK datacentre market reach growth potential

  UK tech trade body TechUK claims the UK’s datacentre sector could become one of the country’s fastest-growing sectors with more government support

• November 01, 2024 01 Nov'24

  Enterprise demand for GenAI fuels profit and revenue growth at AWS

  AWS claims demand for its GenAI offerings is supporting a ‘significant re-acceleration’ of its revenue and profit growth, following the publication of its third-quarter results

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  AI becomes Microsoft’s fastest-growing business

  Artificial intelligence has delivered $10bn to Microsoft’s bottom line, but the business is not in cloud GPUs for third-party inference engines

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Microsoft and Google in war of words following launch of anti-competitive cloud coalition

  Microsoft's claims that the newly formed Open Cloud Coalition is not all it seems, and merely a front for Google Cloud to ‘mislead’ competition authorities over the state of the public cloud market, are being challenged

• October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

  The Open Cloud Coalition makes debut to bolster competition in public cloud

  A new coalition has formed, focused on making the public cloud a more transparent and equitable place for enterprise IT buyers

• October 23, 2024 23 Oct'24

  Interview: Why Java is the future of cloud applications

  The CEO of Azul speaks to Computer Weekly about Java’s performance and its ability to run on different server chips in the datacentre

• October 23, 2024 23 Oct'24

  Oracle and IBM clinch 10-year cross-departmental cloud deal with UK government

  Several weeks after it emerged that Oracle and IBM had secured a decade-long cloud deal with the UK government, further details about what the contract covers have materialised

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Dell CTO: Enterprise AI poised to take off in 2025

  After a period of experimentation, the building blocks are in place for wider enterprise adoption of AI, says Dell Technologies’ global CTO, John Roese

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  Google launches Parallelstore file storage at cloud AI training

  Originally driven by Intel’s now-defunct Optane storage class memory, Parallelstore offers massive parallel file storage targeted at artificial intelligence training use cases on Google Cloud

• October 14, 2024 14 Oct'24

  AWS expands datacentre hardware recycling programme to Dublin

  The public cloud giant is expanding its reverse logistics programme to Ireland, as part of its ongoing net-zero push

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  UK’s cyber incident reporting law to move forward in 2025

  The UK government says that enforced cyber incident and ransomware reporting for critical sectors of the economy will help to build a better picture of the threat landscape and enable more proactive and preventative responses

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Nutanix courts VMware customers in APAC amid Broadcom concerns

  Nutanix is driving double-digit growth across the region by capitalising on the evolving cloud landscape with its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, as well as anxieties about the future direction of VMware under Broadcom’s ownership

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  AWS and Microsoft warn CMA that curbing cloud discounts harms UK customers and investment

  AWS and Microsoft are under fire for veiled threats in their submissions to the CMA's UK cloud market anti-trust probe, hinting that curbing the ability to offer committed spend discounts could hinder investment

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Wellcome Sanger Institute revamps genome sequencing datacentre to cut energy usage

  The home to one of Europe’s largest genomic research datacentres claims to have cut the energy consumption of its server farm by a third by revamping its power setup

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  Google invests $1bn in Thailand’s cloud future

  The five-year investment will bolster Thailand’s digital economy, create more than 10,000 jobs each year and support the country’s cloud-first policy

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  AWS accused of overstating competitive threat posed by cloud repatriation

  Amazon Web Services criticises regulator for failing to take into account competitive threat posed by enterprises moving workloads back on-premise - but critics say AWS is exaggerating the issue

• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  UK government secures £10bn AI datacentre investment from US firm

  The prime minister has announced that £10bn in overseas investment has been secured to fund the construction of a hyperscale, AI datacentre in Northumberland

• September 25, 2024 25 Sep'24

  Google Cloud files complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices

  Google Cloud has filed a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and its policy of charging customers more for running software they already own in its competitors’ clouds

• September 19, 2024 19 Sep'24

  CMA: AWS and Google slam Microsoft for claiming its cloud licensing tactics are not harming them

  The CMA published the summary hearings from Microsoft, AWS and Google this week, which revealed all three had quite a lot to say on the Redmond software giant’s cloud licensing practices

• September 19, 2024 19 Sep'24

  CMA extends investigation into anti-competitive behaviour in UK cloud market by four months

  The UK competition watchdog has secured a four-month deadline extension for its investigation into the cloud infrastructure services market, citing the need to probe Microsoft’s licensing practices as a causal factor in the decision

• September 19, 2024 19 Sep'24

  UK government adds datacentres to CNI regime: Why did it take so long?

  After years of lobbying, the UK government has agreed to classify datacentres as critical national infrastructure, with the tech industry claiming the move is long overdue, but also recognition of the importance of server farms to the economy