Cloud stories

Cloud and AI boom to drive data centre investment as operators race to build power-hungry facilities and edge sites worldwide.

Earth Day prompts businesses to turn ESG, AI and recruitment talk into practical change, as leaders cite data, energy limits and candidate scrutiny.

Telcos are turning music streaming into localised services for niche audiences, from Greenlandic heritage platforms to kid-safe apps and MENA billing deals.

Amazon deepens Anthropic partnership with USD $5 billion injection and capacity for up to 5 gigawatts of new AI computing.

Adobe widens AI alliances with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and agencies to embed agent workflows across customer experience tools.

Adobe unveils CX Enterprise to let brands run AI-powered customer journeys across partner platforms, with new agents, governance and orchestration tools.

Adobe launches CX Enterprise Coworker to connect fragmented marketing systems and let AI agents carry out customer experience tasks with human oversight.

Adobe expands Experience Manager with AI visibility tools as businesses race to control brand truth across chat services and AI-driven shopping.

Intuit's QuickBooks is under pressure as AI start-ups push automated bookkeeping, forcing accounting software to prove it can do more than digitise ledgers.

Liquid cooling is moving into the mainstream as AI workloads drive demand for denser data centres and operators seek lower energy use, forecasts show.

Xero unveils AI-native finance platform and JAX assistant to cut admin for small firms, with accountants and bookkeepers also in line for gains.

TestRail adds AI test script generation to version 10.2, aiming to cut boilerplate coding and help QA teams scale automation faster.

Dropbox brings file access, workplace search and scheduling into ChatGPT with new apps for customers, including Dash and Reclaim AI.

Anthropic replaces flat enterprise seats with token-based charges and monthly spending commitments, pushing more cost risk onto customers at renewal.

OVHcloud adds Quandela's Belenos quantum computer to its cloud platform, giving users in Canada remote access to a 12-qubit photonic system.

Equinix adds AI-driven network controls as enterprises race to scale distributed workloads.

Temenos forum in Copenhagen to draw 1,000 banking executives as AI, cybersecurity and legacy system upgrades dominate the agenda.

AI pushes software sellers towards hybrid billing as usage charges jump sevenfold and finance teams face rising invoicing risk.

Deloitte, Microsoft and Intel among SAS partner awards winners as global software vendor spotlights channel growth across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

GitLab 18.11 rolls out AI agents for security remediation, pipeline setup and delivery analytics, plus new spending caps on GitLab Credits.