Google Cloud has confirmed the withdrawal of a complaint it filed with the European Commission (EC) in September 2024, relating to Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing strategy, whereby it charges customers higher fees for wanting to run its software in competing cloud environments. The issue has seen Microsoft repeatedly come in for criticism and scrutiny from…
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) stands accused of making parts of its flagship cloud computing framework, G-Cloud, inaccessible to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the hyperscalers, having set out a series of enhanced participation requirements for its cloud hosting lots. Government procurement chiefs began the invitation to tender (ITT) part of the procurement process…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s dominant hold on the cloud computing market is to come under renewed scrutiny, with the European Commission (EC) set to investigate the pair’s activities under the terms of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The EC has opened two separate investigations into AWS and Microsoft, which seek to ascertain if…
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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has begun a collaboration with OpenUK to offer open source guidance for the public sector. OpenUK, which is a non-profit organisation representing the UK’s open technology sector, was contracted by UKRI to provide the guidance, covering both how the UK public sector releases and curates open source software and how…
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If the UK’s digital economy is to enjoy a prosperous future, the nation’s electricity grids need to be urgently upgraded to ensure the datacentres underpinning it all have a consistent and reliable supply of high-capacity power. That’s according to a poll of 101 FTSE 250 executives, commissioned by the Energy Networks Association (ENA), where 90%…
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File servers are at the core of almost all IT infrastructures. File sharing is essential to collaboration and is a vital component of growing volumes of unstructured information. File storage is a key part of general document storage, and access to the information therein is vital for analytics, including artificial intelligence (AI). File systems also…
Europe’s quantum startups fear a bureaucratic European Union (EU) administration will take too long to implement its strategy to become a global leader in the emerging technology, while inhibitive native investors threaten to starve them out of business for want of capital.With the second administration of European Commission (EC) chief Ursula von der Leyen concerned with US…
The flow and ebb of international supply chains is far from new, with the grand medieval churches of the Cotswolds partly paid for by wool exports to continental Europe, centuries before the area became famous for hosting US vice-presidents. Levels of imports and exports rose worldwide during the 19th century and into the 20th during…
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In mid-June 2025, Microsoft made an announcement about a suite of “Sovereign Cloud solutions” designed to ensure that data belonging to European customers remains stored and processed entirely within Europe. Judson Althoff, executive vice-president and chief commercial officer at Microsoft, said this “evolution and expansion” will be offered across all existing European datacentre regions, for…
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Europe’s baulked attempt to curb Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) training will persevere and culminate at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said the data protection commissioner who is leading the challenge. Within days of European Union (EU) privacy commissioners giving Meta licence to train its popular open source Llama large language model (LLM) on public posts…
