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Five resellers won one in seven UK public sector IT deals in 2025-26. UK public bodies awarded 7,994 IT contracts worth £91bn in the year to August 2026, a figure flattered by framework ceilings, while the typical award was worth £164,000 @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/3666…
Public sector risk and double standards over occupied Palestine. The UK bans cloud and software for Russia, but sanctions illegal Israeli settlements only narrowly – while AWS, Google and Microsoft run the IT infrastructure of occupation computerweekly.com/news/3666… @ComputerWeekly
The GPU mirage on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I tried to spin up my own Whisper transcription server and get an afternoon of sold-out zones and vanishing GPUs – a worm's-eye view of the shortage the industry talks about computerweekly.com/opinion/T… @ComputerWeekly @runpod @googlecloud
AI – who will reap the benefits? Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general intellect’ – holds the key to why (weekend long read) computerweekly.com/feature/A… @ComputerWeekly
Shambles on @EastMidRailway this morning. 2x trains from Sheffield cancelled (mine, the 1000) because "more trains than usual needed repairs". How do you run out of trains? Are these railway companies running such stripped back operations that they don't have spare equipment?
Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline? Looking at datacentre development internationally, we see the UK's relative decline, the response to AI, and what MW vs GDP can tell us. With data from @CushWake, Barbour ABI, @IMFNews computerweekly.com/feature/D…
SSD prices shoot up with more rises predicted for 2026. Flash SSD prices jumped sharply this quarter as NAND chip costs surged, driven by AI-fuelled demand and tight supplier control, while HDD prices stayed mostly flat storagesoup.co.uk/ssd-prices…
Rescuing Blades’ season: Final third possession is key #twitterblades #Championship
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A tough ask for #SUFC, with Sky Blues flying high, in the league and in chances created and allowed as measured by xG. The good news in the background for #twitterblades is that the gap between xG and xG is narrowing. It wasn't until the intl break but now it is
Vox pop: Digital transformation in the Arab world
We asked exhibitors at UAE startup event @expandnorthstar about the challenges faced by startups and digital businesses in the Middle East @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/3666…
UAE AI minister: ‘We’ll have 10,000 AI companies in five years’. Gulf state plans to encourage AI companies with certification and ranking based on AI competence and UAE presence at startup event in Dubai last week @expandnorthstar @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/3666…
Get HDD temperature right, or risk more drive failures. We talk to Rainer Kaese of @ToshibaStorage about the right temperature to run hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks higher failure rates than what would normally be expected @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/3666…
Podcast: How to get value from unstructured data. In this podcast, we talk to @Nasuni founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez about the obstacles to getting the most value from enterprise unstructured data, especially via metadata @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/3666…
Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty. Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/3666…
Podcast: Data sovereignty and what you need to do about it. Patrick Smith, EMEA CTO of @PureStorage , talks about data sovereignty, what’s driving heightened interest in it, and how to prepare for it @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/podcast/P…
VMware virtualisation alternatives and the storage they need. We look at the main choices available to those that want to migrate away from @VMware and the core requirements for storage to support virtualisation environments @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/feature/V…
Storage is key to AI projects that succeed.
Artificial intelligence is a key project for enterprise IT currently, but the difference between success and failure rests on having the right infrastructure, especially in data storage @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/feature/S…
Agentic AI: Storage and ‘the biggest tech refresh in IT history’. We talk to Jeff Denworth of @VAST_Data about a future where employees are outnumbered by AI agents and even smaller enterprises may need supercomputing levels of resources @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/podcast/A…
Flash drive prices grow quickly while SAS and SATA diverge. Manufacturers have throttled back production of flash drives to tackle over-supply and it shows in rising prices @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/news/3666…
AI and backup: How backup products leverage AI. We look at how AI helps with backup, from AI analysis of backup jobs and their integrity through natural language support functionality to ransomware and anomaly detection @ComputerWeekly computerweekly.com/feature/A…
