IT Budget stories
Most organisations are scaling AI in database management without formal controls, Redgate says, despite adoption rising to 44% last year.
More than half of UK technology leaders now rank cyber risk as their top concern, even as hiring shortages threaten security plans.
Most large companies have shifted AI into live use, but senior leaders remain split on whether it will drive hiring or cuts.
More than half of UK organisations say digital transformation projects overrun, as competing priorities and integration hurdles keep delaying delivery.
Higher budgets have not sped delivery, with most UK digital transformation programmes running late as implementation issues bite.
The four-year deal should help Defra replace legacy systems and speed up digital services across environmental regulation and biosecurity.
Teams under pressure from AI-driven telemetry growth can now query logs in object storage without indexing, cutting storage and search costs.
IT teams on Apple fleets can now set rules, spot unsanctioned tools and generate compliance reports as AI use spreads across Macs.
Cost pressures are emerging as UK and Irish firms move generative AI from pilots to production, with 41% calling model spend prohibitive.
The open-source release gives enterprises a single control layer for fragmented AI agent tools, with governance and cost controls built in.
Weaker oversight could turn AI-generated code into a costly drag, with security flaws and technical debt rising in enterprise projects.
Rising costs, security worries and data sovereignty are pushing more firms to run production AI inferencing in private cloud, a Broadcom survey shows.
New compute funding and billions in private pledges are set to widen access to AI tools, sharpening Britain's bid for investment and growth.
Asia Pacific enterprises are driving stronger demand for observability tools as LogicMonitor steps up regional execution to win more contracts.
It aims to close monitoring gaps as firms adopt multiple AI coding assistants, with spending, productivity and compliance now harder to track.
Nearly half of small businesses suffered cyber incidents last year, despite most saying they were confident in their defences.
Firms racing to deploy generative AI are exposing themselves to data incidents and compliance gaps, Wallarm says, as oversight lags.
Infrastructure spending is surging as businesses expand data centres for AI, with Europe's tech outlay set to reach USD $1.3 trillion in 2026.
British businesses are recovering slowly from attacks, with fewer than half back to normal within 10 days despite rapid detection.
Smaller firms' shift towards higher-spec devices is widening Europe's pricing gap, with reseller average selling prices rising far faster than retail chains.
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