Caroline Donnelly
Senior Editor at Computer Weekly
Computer Weekly senior editor. Cloud/datacentre aficionado. Professional guinea pig and good dog evangelist. News tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly
Accelerating AI adoption The pace at which AI adoption is progressing was a key theme of the AWS Summit keynote, with Alison Kay, vice-president and managing director for the UK and Ireland at AWS, shining a light on how various startups are using AI to their advantage. “Just 12 months ago, we talked about the extraordinary potential of generative AI, and today we are no longer just talking about the potential, but witnessing real, great [developments],” she said.
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1 week ago |
computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly
Power supply problems remain the most common cause of “impactful” datacentre downtime incidents, but ransomware attacks are the leading cause of major public outages, research from Uptime Institute Intelligence reveals. The datacentre market watcher’s Annual outage analysis report 2025 tracks the frequency and severity of datacentre outages suffered by respondents to its surveys.
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1 week ago |
lemagit.fr | Caroline Donnelly
Microsoft veut affirmer haut et fort qu’il est l’ami des Européens et spécialement en matière de cloud. À l’occasion d’un nouvel ensemble « d’engagements numériques » conçus pour « soutenir la résilience numérique de l'Europe » et protéger la confidentialité des données stockées sur le continent, l’hyperscaler se prépare à augmenter la capacité de ses centres de données européens de 40 % au cours des deux prochaines années.
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2 weeks ago |
computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly
Microsoft is preparing to increase its European datacentre capacity by 40% over the next two years and will appoint a board of directors to oversee its continental server farm operations. The plans are part of a five-point set of “digital commitments” from Microsoft, designed to “uphold Europe’s digital resilience” and protect the privacy of data stored on the continent in support of its plans to build a broad artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud ecosystem.
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2 weeks ago |
computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly
The government has received more than 200 responses from local authorities across the UK that want their areas to become artificial intelligence (AI) growth zones, it has been revealed. Local councils were asked in February to express their interest in supporting the development of these zones, which will be used to house the datacentre infrastructure needed to help the UK government deliver on its AI ambitions.
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