IT Budget stories
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.
Enterprises face uneven safeguards as TELUS Digital found no generative AI model was fully immune to attack in 620,000 tests.
Many SAP users face rising costs and migration risk as support deadlines loom, pushing demand for independent maintenance alternatives.
Strategic deployment, rather than bigger budgets, is emerging as the key way finance chiefs can turn AI into revenue and margin gains.
Higher average selling prices are offsetting weaker demand, lifting European notebook revenues 12% in early Q2 despite falling unit sales.
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.
Weak networks and poor data are leaving most UK AI projects short of returns, as firms keep ramping up spending to avoid falling behind.
Cloud demand lifted SAP New Zealand's annual profit to NZD $17.4 million, more than double the prior year, as revenue rose nearly 16%.
Refurbished kit is gaining ground as firms face cost pressure, yet weaker patching could leave ageing devices exposed to cyber attacks.
Rising flash prices and hardware shortages are pushing enterprises to buy storage-efficiency software sooner, helping StorONE post a record quarter.
.webp)
