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Submer appoints Anupam Shrivastava to steer green AI push

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Submer hires ex-BSNL Chief Anupam Shrivastava to drive green, liquid-cooled AI data centre expansion and sovereign AI efforts across India.
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Manulife picks Akka to power enterprise agentic AI

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Manulife taps Akka's runtime to harden and scale its beta enterprise agentic AI platform for regulated, business-critical workloads.
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Acronis 2025 ESG report spotlights AI & emissions cuts

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Acronis' 2025 ESG report touts responsible AI rollout, a 40% emissions cut across Scopes 1-3, and expanded partner and community programmes.
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CIOs warn AI adoption is outpacing governance skills

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CIOs say AI adoption is racing ahead of governance, with skills gaps, risk fears and sustainability concerns stalling efforts to scale.
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Broadcom unveils VMware Telco Cloud to cut costs, power

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Broadcom launches VMware Telco Cloud Platform 9, promising operators up to 40% TCO savings and 30% lower power use in data centres.
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AI's rising energy demands put climate pledges at risk

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AI's insatiable power demands risk a global energy crunch, forcing business and governments to reinvent how data centres go green.
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Targa Telematics shifts core systems to Equinix hubs

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Targa Telematics moves core systems to Equinix data centres in Milan and Frankfurt to bolster data sovereignty, resilience and growth.
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McLaren wins Ada's first 70MW Docklands data centre

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McLaren wins shell-and-core deal for Ada's first 70MW Docklands data centre, launching a 210MW AI-ready campus in London's Royal Docks.
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Namibia above and before space when it comes to data centers

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As tech titans eye orbital servers, sun-rich Namibia emerges as a cheaper, greener and sovereign hub for Africa's booming data demand.
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Vertiv unveils UK UPS trade-in to cut e-waste & costs

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Vertiv launches UK-wide UPS trade-in, offering up to 40% discounts plus free collection and recycling to cut costs and e-waste.
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Synsira unveils Kind, a private desktop AI search tool

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Synsira launches Kind, an AI desktop app that privately searches users' own files for grounded answers instead of trawling the open web.
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AI pushes dense, decentralised & sustainable data centres

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AI-hungry workloads are forcing data centres to go high-density, pushing power, cooling and sustainability to the top of the IT agenda.
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NTT DATA maps six AI trends shaping mass intelligence

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NTT DATA's 2026 foresight flags six AI trends driving an 'age of mass intelligence', reshaping autonomy, security and chip sovereignty.
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Smart CT wins Toshiba deal to support 32 UK retailers

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Smart CT secures three-year Toshiba deal to maintain tills and tech for 32 UK high street retailers, handling 10,000 callouts annually.
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UK firms lack data to prove AI's green credentials

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Most UK IT chiefs hail AI as vital to net-zero, yet over half admit they cannot accurately measure its carbon emissions or green impact.
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Forrester maps ten edge & IoT trends set to shape 2025

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AI at the edge, observability and Zero Trust security head Forrester's ten edge and IoT trends it says will redefine enterprise tech in 2025.
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Nokia picks Pure Storage to power Red Hat telco cloud

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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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Logitech unveils Rally AI cameras for hybrid boardrooms

Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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Logitech launches Rally AI cameras with in-wall mounting, multi-camera Teams and Zoom support, and automated framing for hybrid boardrooms.
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MedExpress automates one million patient letters a month

Tue, 20th Jan 2026
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UK online pharmacy MedExpress is automating up to one million monthly patient letters after deploying Quadient's cloud-based Impress platform.
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Broadband Forum revamps TR-181 to cut home energy use

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Broadband Forum updates TR-181 with new power controls so home routers, repeaters and set-top boxes can slash energy use across Europe.