How to ensure your cloud data remains secure with CSPM

Cloud storage and computing give businesses access to a range of advantages, but many mistakenly believe that simply by moving to cloud storage, their data becomes secure. Secure data, even in the cloud, requires management and time investment on the part of businesses, not trusting a cloud provider to take care of everything. Cloud computing […]

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Wesfarmers turns to Google Cloud to scale AI across its retail brands

The way people shop online and in stores is changing. Large retailers are trying new ways to make search, product discovery and support feel more fluid and more personalised. The Australian retail group Wesfarmers unveiled a partnership with Google Cloud designed to do just that, using advanced AI tools to build a new customer experience […]

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Europe’s soveriegn DCs on the ascent amid power and legislative pressure

Europe’s data centre sector has entered what the European Data Centre Association describes as a phase of expansion and change. The State of European Data Centres 2026 [email wall] report is based on a combination of analysis of its existing data and a survey covering operators responsible for 59% of installed colocation IT power. The […]

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G42 and Vietnamese firms plan $1B sovereign cloud push

In a move that underscores the changing role of sovereign cloud and artificial intelligence beyond traditional markets, Abu Dhabi-based technology group G42 has signed an agreement with a Vietnamese consortium to build national-scale cloud and AI infrastructure in Vietnam. The pact, announced in Ho Chi Minh City this week, calls for up to $1 billion […]

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Data centre investments drive Blackstone record assets

Blackstone, the largest commercial property owner worldwide, has reported record earnings to investors, having successfully sold off and cashing out of investments at a profit of almost $1 billion. The “world’s largest alternative asset manager” saw fourth-quarter results rise 3% to $2.24 billion ($1.75 a share). According to CEO Stephen Schwarzman, this is the firm’s […]

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Corning expands manufacturing to meet optical fibre demand

Fibre-optic equipment manufacturer, Corning, has set out plans to increase its number of manufacturing plants in North Carolina, in a deal with Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The agreement will see Corning supply its fibre optic technology to Meta’s data centres. Meta has reportedly agreed to a deal in which it […]

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What Carousell learned about scaling BI in the cloud

As companies like Carousell push more reporting into cloud data platforms, a bottleneck is showing up inside business intelligence stacks. Dashboards that once worked fine at small scale begin to slow down, queries stretch into tens of seconds, and minor schema errors ripple in reports. In short, teams find themselves balancing two competing needs: stable […]

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Alphabet boosts cloud investment to meet rising AI demand

Alphabet’s expanding AI cloud infrastructure push shows how demand is putting real pressure on the systems that power enterprise computing. Hyperscale providers are responding by sharply increasing spending on compute capacity, but supply remains tight as AI workloads grow faster than data centre buildouts. Alphabet’s latest earnings call offered a clear window into that tension. […]

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Snowflake and OpenAI push AI into everyday cloud data work

AI is starting to change how large organisations use cloud data platforms. What began as a way to store information cheaply and scale analytics has become central to reporting, dashboards, and business intelligence. The shift now is not where data lives in the cloud, but who can work with it and how quickly insights can […]

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Concentric AI: On how to get a secure GenAI rollout right

If you are a security leader, you will need to be able to answer the following questions: where is your sensitive data? Who can access it? And is it being used safely? In the age of generative AI, it’s increasingly becoming a struggle to answer all three. An October whitepaper from Concentric AI outlines the […]

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