Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco’s AI sales by a cool billion bucks Summary Cisco reported stronger-than-expected AI-related sales in FY2025 after webscale customers placed heavy orders. AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers…
Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns Summary Australia has agreed to help fund a pair of datacentres in Vanuatu as part of a broader security and…
Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops – even after thin client costs Summary Analyst firm Gartner says hosted desktops (DaaS) frequently have a lower total cost of ownership…
Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version Summary Redis 8.2 is now generally available and is once again distributed under an official free/open-source licence (the GNU AGPL).…
The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft? Summary The UK government’s five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft will see public sector spending of about £1.9bn a…
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one Summary Rupert Goodwins argues that the Linux kernel’s remarkable success rests heavily on Linus Torvalds’ unique…
Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack Summary UK-based Stock in the Channel (STIC), which offers stock‑availability and pricing tools to channel partners, pulled its website after a ransomware…
.NET 10 preview out now, likely to be near feature-complete Summary Microsoft has published Preview 7 of .NET 10, the next LTS runtime and framework release. The update adds a…
Italian hotels breached en masse since June, government confirms Summary Italy’s digital agency (AGID) has confirmed that a cybercriminal using the alias “mydocs” claims to have accessed hotel booking systems…
Amazon’s $100B DC spend similar to entire Costa Rica GDP Summary Omdia research shows Amazon’s annual datacentre capital expenditure now tops $100 billion — roughly equivalent to Costa Rica’s entire…
