Akamai signs USD $11.6bn cloud deal with Anthropic
about 6 hours agoThe seven-year pact gives Akamai a major anchor customer but also forces billions in upfront spending to secure AI cloud capacity.
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UK data centres warned over climate resilience gap
Older facilities may struggle as hotter summers, floods and grid strain threaten UK data centre uptime for essential services.
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Care for families in Greater Manchester could gain GBP £1 million as data centre executives brave a five-day Arctic trek in Finland.
Southampton's We UC launches Olatti business platform
The shift gives the group full control of calls, messaging and meetings for small firms, with data kept on UK infrastructure.
AVK Capital launches to fund data centre power sites
Developers could secure on-site electricity without upfront power costs, as AVK Capital and Partners Group target data centre projects facing grid delays.
Vaisala launches datacentre care service for sensors
Growing datacentre fleets could face less downtime as Vaisala bundles calibration, support and replacement probes into a single service package.
Oracle to invest USD $5 billion in UK cloud infrastructure
The spend will expand local cloud capacity as UK demand for AI and data services rises, with healthcare and finance among target sectors.
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DesignVerse targets U.S. firms with private cloud AI tools
DesignVerse is targeting U.S. aviation, defence and finance clients with on-premise AI tools as data sovereignty concerns reshape vendor choice.
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Exclusive: Cloudera builds Hadoop-free future platform
Existing customers get six years of support as Cloudera shifts new AI and analytics workloads to a Hadoop-free platform due in November.
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Early security design can improve uptime and reveal operational data in data centres, but only if cybersecurity is built in from the start.
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How businesses can avoid widespread harm from cloud outages
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Why the SOC needs to be re-engineered for AI
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Unlocking the hidden potential of data centres through heat zoning
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Virtus secures GBP £2.45 billion data centre financing
The package will fund VIRTUS's UK and European expansion as lenders chase rising demand for cloud and artificial intelligence capacity.
Bull wins €31 million AEMET supercomputing contract
Spain's weather forecasts will be backed by faster computing and lower energy use as AEMET upgrades systems under a four-year deal.
Vection Technologies posts record FY26 profit on AI growth
The shift to enterprise AI has lifted Vection to its first full-year operating cash flow and a stronger pipeline worth more than AUD $10.6 million.
Akamai signs USD $11.6 billion deal with Anthropic
Anthropic's seven-year commitment could lift Akamai's cloud revenue to USD $20 billion, underscoring surging demand for AI infrastructure.
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LG's 2.6MW cooling unit wins NVIDIA DSX qualification
As AI racks draw more power, data centre operators are shifting to liquid cooling, and LG's latest unit now meets NVIDIA's reference design requirements.
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AI drives bigger data storage needs, Western Digital study
AI adoption is pushing organisations to store far more data, with most now reactivating archives and prioritising cheaper long-term storage.
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Nutanix wins Gartner nods across three key reports
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A second straight top ranking underlines growing demand for firewall tools that span cloud and on-premise systems without separate stacks.
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