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Data centre market set to hit USD $1.08 trillion by 2034

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Cloud and AI boom to drive data centre investment as operators race to build power-hungry facilities and edge sites worldwide.
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Anthropic expands Amazon tie-up in USD $5 billion deal

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Amazon deepens Anthropic partnership with USD $5 billion injection and capacity for up to 5 gigawatts of new AI computing.
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Adobe unveils CX Enterprise Coworker for AI workflows

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Adobe launches CX Enterprise Coworker to connect fragmented marketing systems and let AI agents carry out customer experience tasks with human oversight.
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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 with stronger coding

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Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.7 with sharper coding, stronger image handling and new cyber safeguards, plus fresh API controls and review tools.
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Sentra & Wiz add data classification to cloud risks

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Sentra and Wiz link cloud risk findings to sensitive data, helping security teams prioritise the alerts most likely to expose PII, PHI or IP.
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Cloudflare, Wiz link AI security tools for unified view

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Cloudflare and Wiz team up to map shadow AI risks across cloud estates and protect sensitive data as firms race to secure chatbot deployments.
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Stop pouring money into cloud providers: The cost of inaction

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Britain's organisations are being urged to tackle cloud waste before cutting jobs, as FinOps discipline and independent oversight could trim costs by up to 30%.
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GitLab expands Google Cloud partnership for Vertex AI

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GitLab deepens Google Cloud partnership so Duo Agent Platform users can tap Vertex AI models, while counting the spend against existing commitments.
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Cloudflare Mesh links AI agents to private networks

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Cloudflare launches Mesh to give AI agents secure access to private networks across clouds, data centres and internal systems.
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Certes launches v7 with quantum-safe edge protection

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Certes says v7 extends quantum-safe data protection to edge systems, letting organisations secure hybrid workloads without application rewrites.
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Minor Hotels unveils global AI platform with Google

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Minor Hotels teams up with Google, Salesforce, OneTrust and Deloitte on an AI-led data platform to sharpen guest service across 640 properties.
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Intruder adds container image scanning to cloud platform

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Intruder expands cloud security platform with registry-level container image scanning for AWS, Google Cloud and Azure users.
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Nutanix adds AI & cloud tools amid infrastructure push

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Nutanix broadens AI and cloud platform with bare-metal Kubernetes, sovereign cloud support and wider hardware ties amid supply constraints.
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OpenAI raises USD $122 billion in record AI funding

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OpenAI secures USD $122 billion in funding as Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank back a rapid expansion in compute, enterprise tools and product plans.
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Rubrik launches Google Workspace protection for enterprises

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Rubrik unveils Google Workspace backup service for enterprises, promising faster recovery from cyber incidents with immutable Gmail and Drive protection.
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SIOS maps spring webinars on cloud & SQL resilience

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SIOS rolls out spring webinar and conference programme on cloud resilience, SQL Server uptime and Linux failover across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
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Unpacking the Impact of Agentic Commerce Across ANZ

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Woolworths and Google push AI shopping agents into retail as loyalty schemes face a real-time test in the emerging agentic commerce era.
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World Backup Day warnings over ransomware resilience gaps

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Cybersecurity experts say many firms are still relying on fragmented backup tools and untested recovery plans as ransomware attacks and cloud complexity surge.
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Red Hat & Google Cloud expand OpenShift integration

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Red Hat and Google Cloud broaden OpenShift tie-up with built-in console access, easier billing and new virtualisation support for mixed workloads.
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Google closes Wiz deal & unveils AI security tools

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Google folds Wiz into its cloud security arm and launches AI-driven tools to counter rapidly evolving, automated cyber threats.