Caroline Donnelly

The government is facing questions about why a multi-hour outage originating in a US-based cloud region belonging to Amazon Web Services caused service disruption to UK banking giants and HMRC.

Much-hyped artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nscale has parted ways with one of its founding directors, Companies House documents confirm

Amazon Web Services (AWS) users have experienced an outage today after the public cloud giant's North Virginia datacentre region became beset with technical difficulties

Two House of Commons committees have turned their attention this week to the lack of transparency concerning the size of the UK government’s legacy IT estate, and what this means for its ability to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s inquiry into DSIT’s priorities hears evidence about the risk posed to the UK’s ability to lead in the field of quantum computing without more government support.

IT market watcher Synergy Research Group is predicting big things for the neocloud market through 2025 and beyond.

The Natural History Museum has deployed a network of sensors across its newly revamped gardens, which are on course to make it one of the most intensely monitored urban spaces in the world

Research from IT market watcher Omdia suggests enterprise IT buyers are getting increasingly comfortable with making purchases through the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud marketplaces

Plans are afoot to position the nation as an AI superpower, by making use of the technology more pervasive across society. Ramping up adoption of AI technologies will require more datacentres to host these compute-intensive workloads, which is where the government's AI Growth Zone strategy comes into play

A week after it was announced that Nscale would be working with Microsoft to build the UK's largest supercomputer, the company announced it has secured $1.1bn in series B funding