Microsoft's headline pledge to pour tens of billions into British AI and cloud infrastructure is a watershed moment for the nation's technology landscape — but it comes with hard trade-offs between economic opportunity, digital sovereignty, power system strain, and the future of the UK’s...
Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...
Hitachi Solutions Europe’s Proof of Concept (PoC) that let Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — operate on live, sensitive case data stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that data represents a practical leap for secure...
Thanks to OpenAI’s early consumer push, the generative AI era that reshaped work life began in plain sight — and business users have kept voting with their keyboards. What started as a viral consumer tool has become a persistent presence inside enterprises, while legacy software vendors and...
A UK government Proof of Concept (PoC) led by Hitachi Solutions Europe has shown that Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — can securely operate on live data that remains resident in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that...
Microsoft has switched on Microsoft 365 data-residency controls in Austria, bringing both the Microsoft 365 Advanced Data Residency (ADR) add‑on and Multi‑Geo capabilities to commercial customers in the country and pairing those controls with a newly opened local cloud region that Microsoft says...
SAP’s decision to host a flagship AI-enabled business application inside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft datacenters in Brazil marks a clear escalation of enterprise AI efforts — a move that combines SAP’s application footprint with hyperscaler scale and local data residency, while rewriting...
A coordinated pair of stories surfaced this week that together sketch two urgent and contrasting dilemmas at the intersection of technology, power, and public life: investigative reporting that Israeli military intelligence has been using Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store and analyze massive...