UAE’s datacentre boom powers AI ambitions and digital sovereignty
The UAE is undergoing a shift in its digital infrastructure landscape, with a wave of data centre and cloud investments reshaping the nation into a…
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Business leaders raise concerns over public cloud data sovereignty
Kyndryl’s second annual Readiness report has found that geopolitical pressures have become more important in IT decision-making compared with 12 months ago. According to the…
AWS apologises for 14-hour outage and sets out causes of US datacentre region downtime
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued an apology to its customers inconvenienced by its largest US datacentre region suffering a 14-hour outage on 20 October,…
Jaguar Land Rover attack to cost UK £1.9bn, say cyber monitors
Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) – a non-profit dedicated to analysing and categorising cyber incidents in the UK – has declared the Jaguar Land Rover…
Government faces questions about why US AWS outage disrupted UK tax office and banking firms
The UK government is being pressed for a response as to why a major, multi-hour Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US disrupted UK-based organisations,…
More openness on the cards for Apple and Google’s mobile platforms
Following a nine-month investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has designated Google’s provision of its mobile platform with strategic market status (SMS). The CMA…
Atos boss ‘utterly determined’ not to allow GenAI to pull up career drawbridge
Michael Herron, the UK head at French IT service provider Atos, has told Computer Weekly that ensuring future talent can get on the first rung…
Podcast: SSD for high performance, but HDD suits ‘warm’ workloads
In this podcast, we talk to Axel Stoermann, Kioxia’s vice-president and chief technology officer for memory and solid-state disk (SSD) products in Europe, about energy efficiency…
Container storage: Five key things you need to know
Most enterprises now run applications in containers, and so they must pay attention to how they store and manage data for containerised applications. The Nutanix…
Inspired by the EU: Sweden eyes open standard for encrypted chat services
Government departments in Sweden are considering deploying “open network” encrypted messaging services as an alternative to proprietary collaboration tools. Some 40 of Sweden’s government agencies…
Do government services need a rethink for AI and automation?
Operational Delivery Profession (ODP), the public face of the civil service, must keep pace with advances in technology and artificial intelligence (AI), which has implications…
OpenInfra Summit Europe: Migrating off VMware
During the weekend of the OpenInfra Summit Europe in Paris, a whole day was dedicated to VMware migration. Open source developers lined up throughout the…