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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

Experts at the inaugural CYSAT Asia in Singapore warn of the urgency of securing space assets amid growing geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities Continue Reading

Hyperscalers are increasing AI capacity but IT buyers are now looking at their return on investment for this much-hyped technology Continue Reading

This week’s Computer Weekly ezine digs into the latest twist in a long-running datacentre planning saga, concerning a server farm in Iver, Buckinghamshire, that the government has now admitted it was wrong to grant planning permission for. We also hear from the head of advanced analytics at Dutch Bank ING about how its foray into using AI technologies is benefiting both its business and the customers it serves. Sticking with the AI theme, we take a deep dive into how the technology is being used as an enabler for the development of urban digital twins, and find out how it can be used to assist IT security teams. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

This week’s edition of the Computer Weekly ezine has a focus on digital sovereignty, as we delve into why the Open Rights Group thinks it is high time the UK government has a formalised strategy, championing homegrown tech providers. The last in our recent run of buyer’s guides also touches on this topic. Elsewhere, we hear from the CISO of online retailer Zalando about how she’s drawing on her career in tech to reshape the firm’s approach to security. Rounding out the ezine, we find out how the adoption of AI is affecting employee autonomy in the workplace. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

The FutureGrid Accelerator on Jurong Island will test the use of high-voltage direct current power systems, as traditional alternating current power systems can no longer address the growing energy needs of AI datacentres Continue Reading

Reds can tag video frame-by-frame with AI-based ML-as-a-service to get rapid search and ‘hyper-personalisation’ of footage for fan engagement and partner content Continue Reading

New Dubai and Abu Dhabi facilities support data sovereignty, providing CIOs with local access to more than 100 Zoho and ManageEngine cloud services Continue Reading

The two countries will work together to bridge the gap between quantum research and real-world commercialisation, marking Singapore’s first government-to-government pact dedicated to the technology Continue Reading
The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving Continue Reading

From hyperscale cloud and fintech regulation to AI skills and smart manufacturing, Bahrain is positioning technology at the heart of its economic diversification strategy, says Bahrain EDB’s Musab Abdullah Continue Reading

Continuing our look at the work of the IOWN project, we find out what use cases the next evolved generation of the infrastructure will support and which firms are likely to gain Continue Reading

As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to production and cyber threats escalate, the Middle East is entering a decisive phase of digital transformation, says Omdia chief analyst Trevor Clarke Continue Reading

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

A court date has been assigned for a legal action being brought against the government over its decision to grant planning permission for a datacentre in Iver Continue Reading

This guide contains essential information about the legal rule that enabled the Post Office to wrongly prosecute subpostmasters Continue Reading

In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, there is a focus on IT sustainability, as we dig into how to ensure the networking infrastructure underpinning our artificial intelligence workloads is as green as possible. We also speak to the chief sustainability officer of Genesys about how going green is helping the cloud software provider achieve its business objectives. With the fallout from the Autumn Budget still being keenly felt, we find out more about where the £300m promised to fund improvements in NHS technology is really going.And in the second of our three buyer’s guide features on self-service developer tools, we shine a light on how the technology can help organisations revamp their DevOps workflows. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

IT and networking provider to adopt open, full-stack AI platform engineered for large-scale AI workloads looking to deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity across massive AI clusters Continue Reading

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

GSMA’s Jawad Jalal Abbassi outlines how Qatar’s first Mobile World Congress will accelerate digital transformation, 5G adoption and AI integration across the region Continue Reading

Firms collaborate to design a connected network of large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, laying the groundwork for a quantum computing internet Continue Reading

IT behemoth reveals final phase of subsea cable connecting Africa and the world Continue Reading

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

Route connects two of the US’s fastest-growing AI, cloud hubs through first direct inland path, offering a resilient, diverse alternative to the existing corridor while expanding critical access to underserved communities Continue Reading

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

Rumours of an organisation taking its systems offline during a cyber attack spurred conversation on the consequences of simply pulling the power, or internet access, to stop intruders. We consider the ethics and practicality Continue Reading

Rack-based AI acceleration hardware is being positioned as a cost-effective and straightforward way to power AI inference workloads Continue Reading

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

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

Much-hyped artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nscale has parted ways with one of its founding directors, Companies House documents confirm Continue Reading

Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres Continue Reading

IT and networking giant claims first of its kind network-aware distributed quantum compiler capable of running quantum algorithms across multiple processors while handling error correction across a network Continue Reading

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

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

Hardware security is vulnerability protection that comes in the form of a physical device rather than software installed on a computer system's hardware. It also refers to the protection of physical systems from harm. Continue Reading

We look at file storage in the cloud, its key benefits and how it can complement on-prem storage, in particular to burst to the cloud in times of increased application demand Continue Reading

Patrick Smith, EMEA CTO of Pure Storage, talks about data sovereignty, what’s driving heightened interest in it, and how customers, the tech industry and states are preparing for it Continue Reading

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

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

We look at block storage in the cloud, why you might want to use it, its key benefits, how it fits with on-premise storage, and the main block storage offers from the cloud providers Continue Reading

Artificial intelligence is a key project for enterprise IT currently, but the difference between success and failure rests on having the right infrastructure, especially in data storage Continue Reading

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

We talk to Jeff Denworth of Vast Data about a future where employees are outnumbered by artificial intelligence agents and even smaller enterprises may need supercomputing levels of resources Continue Reading

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

Planned deployment of optical connectivity technology designed to future-proof South African wholesale network and drive economic growth across country Continue Reading

Research reveals more than 40% of enterprises in advanced stages of GenAI adoption plan to integrate artificial intelligence into 20-30 applications, further raising the stakes for modernised networks Continue Reading

We look at how AI helps with backup, from AI analysis of backup jobs and their integrity through natural language support functionality to ransomware and anomaly detection Continue Reading

We look at the main choices available to those that want to migrate away from VMware and the core requirements for storage to support virtualisation environments Continue Reading

We look at the top eight enterprise storage suppliers’ market share, product offer and how they’ve responded to AI, hybrid cloud, as-a-service purchasing and containerisation Continue Reading

Solar storms and flares can have a big impact on digital society, which is why IBM and Nasa are forecasting solar weather with AI Continue Reading
India is doubling down on mature-node chips that power cars, healthcare and electronics, using incentives and global supply shifts to make its mark Continue Reading

We look at data management tools from storage array makers, who supplies them, what they can do, and whether they stretch to managing third-party storage in customer datacentres Continue Reading

Storage profile: We look at Lenovo, a key storage player that has played the partnership game to rise in the array maker rankings and corner the SME and entry-level market Continue Reading

Chipmaker Intel has had a tough couple of weeks: job cuts, Donald Trump calling for the CEO’s resignation, and now an attack by its former chief executive Continue Reading

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

We talk to DDN CTO Sven Oehme about key technical and organisational hurdles when taking AI projects from test to production, in storage and building the technical team Continue Reading

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

US AI action plan sets out aims to expand American dominance in the world of artificial intelligence Continue Reading

It’s easy to backup to the cloud, and we run lots of applications there now, too. So, running DR as-a-service in the cloud makes perfect sense for many. We look at the pros and cons Continue Reading

Deal sees firm behind ChatGPT collaborate with government on AI security research to explore investment opportunities Continue Reading

S3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases Continue Reading

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

In this podcast, MongoDB CTO Boris Bialek discusses how artificial intelligence can bring together multiple levels of corporate data to better automate processes and how agentic AI can be a key part of that Continue Reading

Storage profile: Pure Storage evolves its all-flash offer across multiple workloads while embracing cloud models in data management, as-a-service and containerisation Continue Reading

We talk to Toshiba’s Rainer Kaese about spinning disk performance, why HDDs are good at what they do and how hard disk drives still come out top in workloads that suit them Continue Reading

We talk to Pure Storage about the challenges of increased complexity, ‘technical debt’, skills needs of container deployments and why strategic thinking trumps tactical solutions Continue Reading

In the second of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil and how private sector customers have at least some flexibility in how to absorb their impacts Continue Reading

Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025 Continue Reading

NetApp market share has slipped, but it has built out storage across file, block and object, plus capex purchasing, Kubernetes storage management and hybrid cloud Continue Reading

Dell’s Stewart Hunwick explains why AIOps – artificial intelligence for IT operations – is key to gaining efficiencies in storage management and sustainability, and discusses reactive and proactive data security Continue Reading

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

In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage CTO Rob Lee about use of key-value stores in its storage OS, plus why its much-vaunted DirectFlash isn’t in the new FlashArray//ST product Continue Reading

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

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

In the first of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil in public sector IT procurement, the particular challenges faced by public sector procurement, and how the cloud and pay-as-you-go can help Continue Reading

Storage profile: We look at Big Blue’s storage offer, which spans file, block and object, on-premise, in the cloud, and mainframes, while also embracing containers and the cloud Continue Reading

Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference Continue Reading

Trial designed to help research networks prep for high-performance computing clusters and AI factories handling high-intensity workloads, confirming feasibility of multi-domain, high-capacity data transfers across multiple domains Continue Reading

Without careful planning, AI projects risk blundering into a legal and regulatory minefield. We look at the risks from hallucinations, basic errors and coming regulation Continue Reading

Podcast: We talk with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge about staying on top of compliance and artificial intelligence, where the danger is data that changes during AI processing and can also proliferate Continue Reading

We look at the areas of risk in artificial intelligence. Potential exposures abound, and include security and privacy issues, bias, accuracy and complete fabrication of results Continue Reading

Artificial intelligence operations can place different demands on storage during training, inference, and so on. We look at NAS, SAN and object storage for AI and how to balance them for AI projects Continue Reading

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

We review RSA 2025 with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge who looks at the impacts on compliance of AI’s expanding risk surface, the role of the CISO, and a changed supplier approach Continue Reading

Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities Continue Reading

Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems Continue Reading

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we report from the National Cyber Security Centre’s annual update on the state of UK security and examine the emerging threats. The chief data officer of Standard Chartered bank discusses preparing for artificial intelligence. We also look at the networking implications of GPU-based AI datacentres. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library Continue Reading

With insecure APIs creating vast blind spots and quantum computing poised to break current encryption, organisations will need to overhaul their cyber defences Continue Reading

At Nutanix’s recent .Next event in the US, customers talked about why they migrated away from VMware and the pain points that accelerated their decision to switch hypervisor Continue Reading

Essex NHS wants to move some capacity to the Nutanix cloud, but can’t be certain prices will hold between product selection and when procurement plans gain approval Continue Reading

Asia-Pacific countries are developing sovereign AI capabilities to address unique cultural, economic, security and data sovereignty needs of the region Continue Reading

University of Reading set to save circa £500,000 and deploy Nutanix NC2 hybrid cloud that will allow failover from main datacentre Continue Reading

We look at cloud vs on-premise for AI workloads, why cloud is sometimes best, and the technologies speeding AI in the cloud such as parallelism and GPUDirect Continue Reading

Tariffs and the risk of economic slowdown have brought IT budgets into focus, with many IT leaders dropping projects and reducing tech investments Continue Reading

Computer Weekly visited RAF Lossiemouth to see how its fleet of Boeing P-8A surveillance aircraft, supported by NetApp storage, keep watch over the North Atlantic gap Continue Reading

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

The owner of Facebook and WhatsApp has forecast an increase in CapEx due to higher IT infrastructure costs to power its AI strategy Continue Reading

Veeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup Continue Reading

Research revealed at Innovative Optical and Wireless Network global forum outlines future of digital economy, powered by all-photonics networks Continue Reading

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