Payments resilience playbook: building future-ready systems

Resilience used to mean a disaster recovery document in a drawer and a secondary data centre on standby. But new payment methods, rising fraud, tougher regulation, and global expansion plans mean that resilience now depends on payment systems that can flex, reroute, and recover without sacrificing performance or compliance. Done well, resilience becomes a growth […]

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Exploring crypto power consumption and sustainable data centres

Crypto has become a phenomenon that marks a new era in online finance; however, it has also introduced greater concerns regarding the environmental footprint of the industry. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies utilise intricate networks of computers to authenticate transactions, which is an incredibly energy-intensive process. The advent of blockchain technology worldwide has generated considerable demand […]

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Google’s €5.5B Germany investment reshapes enterprise cloud and AI

Google’s €5.5 billion plan to expand its presence in Germany is about more than new buildings and servers. Running from 2026 to 2029, the investment shows how global cloud and AI providers are starting to link technology growth with sustainability, workforce skills, and energy efficiency — priorities now central to how European enterprises plan and […]

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Managing AI-era cloud storage costs with Datadog

The growing use of AI is driving up cloud storage costs as enterprises struggle to track what data they’re storing, why it’s kept, and how to manage it efficiently. To help address this, Datadog has launched Storage Management, now generally available for Amazon S3 and in preview for Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage. […]

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Famous.ai review: The AI app builder turning simple prompts into real software

Author: Rene Mulyandari Famous.ai is an AI app builder that turns plain-language prompts into complete, production-ready applications, including frontend, backend, database, hosting, and mobile publishing. It’s a no-code AI platform for building apps, websites, and landing pages quickly, even without technical experience. Pros Cons What Is Famous.ai and how does it work? Famous.ai is a […]

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AWS rolls out new tool to simplify regional cloud planning

Planning where to deploy workloads in the cloud can be tricky, especially for large companies that rely on consistent infrastructure across multiple regions. AWS is looking to take the guesswork out of that process with a new tool called Capabilities by Region. The tool gives users a clear view of which AWS services, tools, and […]

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IBM extends serverless computing to GPU workloads for enterprise AI and simulation

The challenge of running simulation and high-performance workloads efficiently is a constant issue, requiring input from stakeholders including infrastructure teams, cybersecurity professionals, and, of course, ever-watchful finance officers. Running these types of high-compute tasks often involves thousands of concurrent processes and are costly to run on traditional infrastructure. IBM’s latest update to its Cloud Code […]

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New data centre partnership gives Microsoft access to Nvidia chips

Microsoft has reached a $9.7 billion agreement with data-centre operator IREN, gaining access to advanced Nvidia chips that could ease the strain on the company’s infrastructure and support AI services such as ChatGPT. Limited access to computing power has slowed growth across the sector, and large tech firms have pointed to capacity shortages during recent […]

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How configuration management can become an asset for enterprises

Configuration has become an invisible yet dramatic risk for today’s enterprises rolling-out large technology platforms. From airline system outages to data exposure incidents, small misconfigurations can now trigger multi-million-dollar losses. As enterprises integrate AI models, microservices, API connections, and increasingly, autonomous agents into their operational fabric, the risks multiply. There is a need for configuration […]

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Combating online meeting fraud and deception

In many organisations, online meetings have taken the place of many gatherings that previously would have taken place in-person. The enforced home-working of the COVID epidemic kick-started the trend, and many now turn to an online platform to collaborate, interview, exchange ideas, and even socialise with colleagues in professional contexts. A new collaboration between cybersecurity […]

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