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Finnish Data Centres name Antti Poikola Managing Director

Thu, 29th Jan 2026
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Finnish Data Centre Association taps Antti “Jogi” Poikola as Managing Director to bolster the country's growing sustainable data hub ambitions.
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Why lenders need fintech-level payments

Wed, 28th Jan 2026
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Lenders clinging to legacy payment rails are losing borrowers to fintechs that can approve, fund and collect on loans in near real time.
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Avalara expands AWS Marketplace access for tax tools

Wed, 28th Jan 2026
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Avalara inks multi-year AWS deal to push its AI-driven tax tools via AWS Marketplace, promising simpler cloud procurement and billing.
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Microsoft unveils Maia 200 AI chip to power inference

Wed, 28th Jan 2026
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Microsoft has unveiled its Maia 200 AI chip, claiming up to 10 PFLOPS FP4 performance to power large-scale inference and “reasoning AI”.
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Cloudflare reports sharp global fall in shutdowns, outages

Wed, 28th Jan 2026
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Cloudflare reports government-ordered internet shutdowns plunged in late 2025, even as cable damage, storms and war kept outages high.
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Mantas raises USD $1.77m to insure against cloud downtime

Wed, 28th Jan 2026
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Mantas raises USD $1.77m seed to launch parametric insurance that pays out automatically when verified cloud outages hit businesses.
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XYZ Reality hires Operations & Finance Chiefs to scale

Tue, 27th Jan 2026
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XYZ Reality names new Operations and Finance Chiefs to steer global expansion as demand surges for its mission-critical construction platform.
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Rising data complexity undermines UK AI security gains

Tue, 27th Jan 2026
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UK firms risk weaker AI security and wasted investment as soaring data complexity outpaces their ability to govern and protect systems.
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OVHcloud buys Seald to boost end-to-end encryption

Tue, 27th Jan 2026
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OVHcloud snaps up French encryption specialist Seald to bake end-to-end protection into its cloud services and bolster zero-knowledge security.
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Cloudflare reports Q4 fall in shutdowns amid outages

Tue, 27th Jan 2026
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Cloudflare logs steep Q4 drop in state-ordered shutdowns, but flags more than 180 2025 outages from cable damage, storms and conflict.
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AI goals outpace IT infrastructure, Netskope warns

Tue, 27th Jan 2026
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AI ambitions are outstripping legacy IT, as Netskope finds most infrastructure leaders doubt they can meet rising performance and security demands.
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New Relic links AI observability to faster deployments

Tue, 27th Jan 2026
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New Relic data links use of its AI observability tools to 27% less alert noise, 25% faster fixes and up to fivefold higher deployment rates.
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Dynatrace wins top observability & cloud security nods

Tue, 27th Jan 2026
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Dynatrace wins dual accolades as Gartner customers' choice and ISG Leader for observability and cloud-native security in 2025 reports.
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Microsoft unveils Maia 200 AI chip to cut token costs

Tue, 27th Jan 2026
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Microsoft launches Maia 200 AI chip in US data centres, claiming 30% cheaper token generation and triple FP4 speed over Amazon Trainium.
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Nokia picks Pure Storage to power Red Hat telco cloud

Tue, 27th Jan 2026
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Nokia taps Pure Storage and Red Hat OpenShift for a new telco cloud blueprint targeting cloud-native, AI-ready, low-energy networks.
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Gigamon honours global partners in channel-first push

Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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Gigamon crowns top global partners as it doubles down on a channel-first strategy and claims 50% share of deep observability market.
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AI reshapes fire protection design for data centres

Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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AI-ready data centres push fire protection into early design, as liquid cooling and high-density racks reshape risk, resilience and recovery.
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Oracle adds VMware licence portability to cloud VCF

Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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Oracle now lets customers bring eligible VMware Cloud Foundation licences to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, unifying hybrid cloud licensing.
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Misconfigured cloud training labs open paths to attacks

Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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Misconfigured cloud training labs on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure expose major firms to live attacks via overly permissive access roles.
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Motivair unveils 2.5MW liquid cooling unit for AI data

Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
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Schneider launches 2.5MW coolant unit for liquid-cooled AI data centres, scaling to 10MW+ to match next-gen GPU and AI factory demands.