The competition watchdog has published the provisioning findings from its long-running investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market, which shows that competition in the sector is not working as well as it could be. For this reason, Kip Meek, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said it is advising…
The State of digital government review, published by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, has portrayed the highly fragmented nature of public sector digital services. A root cause of the problems with public sector digital services, according to the review, is that fragmentation is a feature of the system. One of the challenges noted…
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) should embrace artificial intelligence (AI) to maintain its military advantages, which will require nurturing the country’s private AI defence sector and ensuring there is interoperability with the systems used by its allies, the Commons Defence Committee has said. In December 2023, the committee launched an inquiry examining how the…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) sent shockwaves through the tech industry in October 2023 when it announced its investigation into potential anti-competitive practices in the UK cloud infrastructure services market. The CMA is not ploughing a lonely furrow: regulators across the world – from Spain and Denmark to South Africa and (if reports…
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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has become a landing zone for Whitehall’s various digital functions since the new government came to power in July 2024. Responsibility for running the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) has transferred from the Cabinet Office to DSIT, but it seems…
More than 50 million people passed through one of Manchester Airports Group’s (MAG) three sites in 2023, travelling to one of 250-plus destinations around the globe. As well as the millions of passengers flying in and out of Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, MAG handled 395,000 tonnes of cargo out of the latter,…
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IT leaders should address their internal processes to minimise their organisations’ IT security risk exposure and attack surface. This becomes ever more complex as business IT environments evolve. Leaders not only need to consider which employees and job roles require access to which IT systems, but also non-human access controls where either an internal or…
Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and the industry recognising that some workloads will always be run on-premise; some may run both on the public cloud and on-premise; and some may be wholly cloud-based. Artificial intelligence (AI)…
Beyond the continuous upgrades to the cars throughout the Formula One racing season, there is a constant stream of tech innovation driving fan engagement and supporting broadcasters who want to put viewers closer to the race action. For AWS principal sports partnership manager Neil Ralph, Formula One is fundamentally an interesting use of technology, which demonstrates…
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Organisations are constantly looking to identify different use cases to integrate AI into their business processes and accelerate the adoption of generative AI technologies. Companies are also finding ways to build innovative AI solutions to meet this demand. As a result, the usage of cloud infrastructure and, thereby, the global cloud computing footprint continues to…
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