AI drives enterprise storage demand as data piles up
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Canada sets rules for responsible data centre growth
Local councils will get a national baseline as Ottawa seeks to curb power bills, water use and hidden impacts from new data centres.
Xanadu to open Toronto photonics plant with CAD $195m
Canada's quantum manufacturing push gets a lift as federal backing supports a Toronto site aimed at scaling photonic hardware production.
Many leaders struggle to define sovereign AI, study finds
A new study suggests boards are moving to sovereign AI for risk and data control, even though many executives still cannot define it.
Cisco launches sovereign critical infrastructure in Canada
Canadian government and critical service operators gain more control over data and systems as Cisco expands its sovereign technology push.
U.S. tariffs hit data processors, semiconductors, other tech
Canada's tech sector faces higher costs as Washington's 50 per cent tariffs also cover optical fibres, semiconductors and smart cards.
Where cultural context stands in AI's digital black box
Bias in AI is becoming a business risk as researchers warn English-language models still miss cultural nuance in non-Western markets.
How Telus and Bell became each others wholesalers
Bell and Telus once built networks to keep rivals out. Regulation has now made each company a wholesale customer on the other's turf.
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Equinix Americas head on the Canadian data centre advantage
Canada has become a bigger focus for Equinix as demand grows for data hubs that link cloud, hospital and vehicle systems.
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Exclusive: Cloudera builds Hadoop-free future platform
Existing customers get six years of support as Cloudera shifts new AI and analytics workloads to a Hadoop-free platform due in November.
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The internet times are a'changing Fastly
Bot traffic is forcing Fastly to adapt its edge cloud tools as publishers and AI firms battle over caching, access and data protection.
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Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Grafana Labs has launched six AI observability tools during its AI Week, including new capabilities for monitoring and investigating AI agents.
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AI for all can't mean AI for some: Why Canada's strategy must reach beyond the cities
Rural and Indigenous communities risk being left behind as Ottawa's new AI plan scales up in cities without fixing internet and local training gaps.
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Five control rooms, one tuesday afternoon
Alarm floods across data centres, pipelines and power grids can now be reduced to one incident, if operators can route and document fast enough.
about 1 month ago
How data centres make the FIFA World Cup possible
Broadcasters are using hybrid data-centre and cloud setups to stream 2026's expanded tournament live with lower latency and compliance risks.
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The Death of the Firewall
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Energy for AI, AI for energy: designing AI-ready data centres
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Danfoss starts oil-free valve production in Monterrey
North American chiller makers should see shorter lead times as Danfoss brings oil-free check valve output closer to them in Mexico.
Bitget launches GPU rental-price perpetuals for traders
Retail traders can now bet on AI chip rental costs, as Bitget opens around-the-clock perpetuals tied to Nvidia GPU indices.
HPE deepens Oracle tie-up on AI data centre networking
The multi-year rollout aims to ease bandwidth and latency bottlenecks as Oracle scales GPU-heavy cloud clusters across its global AI estate.
Ransomware attacks rise as backup recovery worsens
Only 39% of organisations recovered at least three-quarters of their data after ransomware, as outages and data loss worsened.
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AI drives enterprise storage demand as data piles up
Almost all firms are storing more because of AI, as archived data is being pulled back into use and storage costs climb.
Today
SUSE named Gartner Leader for container management
The ranking bolsters SUSE's pitch to businesses wanting one control plane for containers, virtual machines and AI workloads across mixed environments.
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Dragos tops Forrester OT security strategy ranking
Forrester said perimeter-only defences no longer suffice as industrial networks become more tightly tied to enterprise IT and cloud services.
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Equinix launches managed AI cloud connectivity service
Enterprises could cut the manual work of linking AI and cloud systems as Equinix readies a managed service built on an open standard.
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