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Fusion and AI: How private sector tech is powering progress at ITER

5 minutes of reading / AI, Azure, chatbot, ChatGPT, Git, GitHub, Microsoft, Tech, virtual reality / By / Leave a Comment

In April 2025, at the ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop in Cadarache, something remarkable unfolded. In a room filled with scientists, engineers and software visionaries, the line between big science and commercial innovation began to blur.   Three organisations – Microsoft Research, Arena and Brigantium Engineering – shared how artificial intelligence (AI), already transforming everything from…

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European Commission should rescind UK data adequacy

6 minutes of reading / Apple, Azure, Cloud, Computer, GDPR, Microsoft, Tech, Technology / By / Leave a Comment

Seven civil society organisations are calling on European Commissioner Michael McGrath to rescind the UK’s data adequacy status, citing major concerns around the country’s ongoing erosion of privacy and data rights. Writing to McGrath in an open letter dated 3 June 2025, the organisations argue that current data handling practices in the UK – in…

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Interview: Rom Kosla, CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

8 minutes of reading / AI, Azure, data analytics, digital transformation, e-commerce, Git, GitHub, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, Tech / By

When Rom Kosla, CIO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), joined the technology giant in July 2023, the move represented a big shift in direction. Previously CIO at retailer Ahold Delhaize and CIO for enterprise solutions at PepsiCo, Kosla was a consumer specialist who wanted to apply his knowledge in a new sector. “I liked the…

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University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery

4 minutes of reading / Azure, Cloud, Computer, Dell, disaster recovery, DNS, hybrid cloud, Tech / By

The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery (DR) readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke to Computer Weekly at Nutanix’s .Next 2025 event in the US last week. The University of…

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May Patch Tuesday brings five exploited zero-days to fix

5 minutes of reading / API, Azure, Computer, DevOps, Microsoft, patch management, Tech, threat intelligence / By

Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of five new zero-day vulnerabilities out of a grand total of just over 70 addressable common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) on the fifth Patch Tuesday of 2025 – over 80 when third-party issues are accounted for. In numerical order, this month’s zero days are as follows: CVE-2025-30400, an…

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Secure Future Initiative reveals Microsoft staff focus

3 minutes of reading / Azure, DNS, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

Every Microsoft employee now has a metric dubbed Security Core Priority tied directly to their performance review. This is among the changes the software giant has put in place to enforce security internally.  In a blog post outlining the steps the company has taken to harden internal security, Charles Bell, executive vice-president of Microsoft Security,…

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Hitachi Vantara: VSP One leads revamped storage portfolio

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Azure, Cisco, cloud-native, containers, Flex, Hitachi, hybrid cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, Tech / By

In this storage supplier profile, we look at Hitachi Vantara, which is a small part of a very big organisation. Since we last looked at Hitachi Vantara, its storage portfolio has undergone something of a revamp, based around its VSP One family that offers block, file and object storage – with performance profiles that range…

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Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim

8 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, Atlassian, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, data science, Google, Jira, Kubernetes, machine learning, Microsoft, quantum computing, Tech / By

Markus Schümmelfeder has spent more than a decade looking for ways to help biopharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim exploit digital and data. He joined the company in February 2014 as corporate vice-president in IT and became CIO in April 2018. “It was a natural evolution,” he says. “Over time, you see what can be done as…

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Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, Git, GitHub, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, social media, Tech / By

Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…

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Can regulatory oversight alone unlock cloud competition?

6 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Azure, Broadcom, Cloud, cloud computing, compliance, digital transformation, fintech, Google, Google Cloud, hybrid cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

Cloud computing’s rise is a success story under scrutiny. It has been nothing short of transformative, enabling businesses to scale operations, innovate rapidly, and optimise costs. It has become an essential pillar of modern enterprise IT, supporting mission-critical workloads across industries. From finance and healthcare to artificial intelligence (AI) and retail, the cloud is now…

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