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How Apograph uses proactive firewall upgrades to protect clients and control costs

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Apograph's £60-a-month firewall plan helps clients dodge emergency refresh costs, cut downtime and strengthen security across 1,500 endpoints.
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Cisco says Wi-Fi spend shifts to growth as AI bites

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Cisco report finds firms are ramping up wireless budgets as AI, security pressures and staff shortages push networks into a strategic role.
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F5 boosts Kubernetes AI inference with NVIDIA BlueField-3

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F5 taps NVIDIA BlueField-3 in BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes to speed AI inference, boosting token throughput and cutting latency at scale.
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Bell to build Canada's largest AI data centre near Regina

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Bell will spend CAD $1.7bn on a 300 MW AI data hub in rural Saskatchewan, billed as Canada's largest purpose-built AI centre.
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Musk floats Tesla 'terafab' chip plant & Intel talks

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Elon Musk says Tesla may build a vast in-house 'terafab' chip plant to secure AI supply and hints at potential manufacturing talks with Intel.
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Arcadian's AI success: Start small, solve real problems

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Arcadian Digital backs small, tightly scoped AI projects solving real business problems over hype-fuelled, grandiose rollouts.
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Schneider Electric unveils open software-defined DCS

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Schneider Electric launches EcoStruxure Foxboro SDA, an open software-defined DCS aimed at flexible, hardware-agnostic industrial control.
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Oracle Q3 boosted by AI cloud surge & USD $553bn RPO

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Oracle Q3 revenue jumps 22% to USD $17.2 billion as AI-fuelled cloud demand soars and contracted backlog swells to USD $553 billion.
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IDC says global server revenue hits USD $444.1 billion

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IDC says AI demand drives global server revenue to a record USD $444.1 billion, with hyperscalers and GPU-based systems leading the surge.
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External OEM storage revenue rises 3.9% to USD $33bn

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IDC says the external OEM enterprise storage market returned to growth in 2025 as delayed refresh cycles lifted spending, with all-flash arrays leading gains.
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Broadcom previews AI-native VMware Telco Cloud 9 for MNOs

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Broadcom has previewed AI-native VMware Telco Cloud Platform 9, targeting MNOs with cost savings, GPU sharing and sovereign cloud controls.
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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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Hudson's Bay collapse ends 355 years of Canadian retail

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Canada's oldest retailer closed all stores after 355 years, undone by debt, digital change and declining footfall.
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CloudRAN.AI, Firecell expand hardware for private 5G

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CloudRAN.AI and Firecell team up to broaden private 5G radio options, aiming to cut costs and speed deployments for mid-sized sites.
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Tariffs, AI, new trade routes reshape supply chains

Thu, 26th Feb 2026
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Tariff hikes, AI adoption and regional supply chains are redrawing global trade as firms diversify sourcing and tighten working capital.
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Most enterprises unprepared for HPE's virtualisation reset

Thu, 19th Feb 2026
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Most enterprises are unprepared for HPE's 'Great Virtualization Reset' even as two‑thirds plan major strategy changes within two years.
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Object First triples growth on ransomware-proof backups

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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Object First posts 183% bookings surge as demand soars for immutable on-premises backup storage to combat escalating ransomware threats.
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Nebula & Meter partner to scale global network services

Thu, 5th Feb 2026
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Nebula and Meter team up to speed global rollouts of subscription-based enterprise networks via resellers, promising faster, consistent support.
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YubiKeys promise 265% ROI & 99.99% cut in breach risk

Thu, 5th Feb 2026
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YubiKey rollout boosts ROI by 265% and slashes breach exposure 99.99%, Forrester study finds, delivering multi-million USD $ gains.
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YubiKey study touts ROI, breach risk plunge for firms

Wed, 4th Feb 2026
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YubiKey deployment delivers 265% ROI, USD $5.3 million NPV and 99.99% lower breach risk in Forrester model of a 5,000-staff enterprise.