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Bull wins €30m contract for Sweden's Mimer AI factory

The five-year deal will give Swedish researchers and smaller firms cloud-style access to AI infrastructure as demand for Mimer grows.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Wed, 22nd Apr 2026

Private Cloud

NexGen Cloud adds NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 SE GPU to Hyperstack

NexGen Cloud has added NVIDIA's RTX Pro 6000 SE GPU to its Hyperstack platform, boosting on-demand AI computing power for businesses globally.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Mon, 25th Aug 2025

Data Protection

Northern Data & Gcore to launch AI platform collaboration

Northern Data Group and Gcore have teamed up to launch a comprehensive AI platform aimed at enterprises, targeting a projected USD $169 billion inferencing market by 2032.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 3rd Apr 2025

Digital Transformation

Lenovo CIO Playbook highlights AI growth in EMEA region

Lenovo's new CIO Playbook reveals a surge in AI spending across Europe and the Middle East, with AI expected to represent 20% of IT budgets by 2025.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 6th Feb 2025

Global Stories

AI-as-a-service stories

Virtualisation

Rafay launches Token Factory for token-based AI billing

AI infrastructure operators can now bill by usage rather than GPU rental as Rafay adds token metering and access controls to its platform.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Wed, 8th Apr 2026

Private Cloud

Nvidia & OpenNebula deepen integration for AI factories

Nvidia deepens its OpenNebula tie-up to automate multi-tenant 'AI factories', unifying GPUs, DPUs and networking under one control plane.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026

Smart Cities

Milestone boosts Hafnia with synthetic data, TaaS & VLMs

Milestone expands Hafnia with synthetic data, TaaS and VLMs to speed smart city vision AI training and cut bias in rare-event modelling.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026

Hyperscale

Salute & Phaidra unite to boost AI data centre cooling

Salute and Phaidra partner to blend AI-driven data centre controls with liquid cooling operations as operators ramp high-density AI loads.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026

Software-as-a-Service

Animoca & CryptoSlam unveil Animoca Minds AI agents

Animoca partners with CryptoSlam's Ethoswarm on Animoca Minds, a cloud platform for always-on AI agents aimed at non-technical users.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Fri, 6th Feb 2026

Smart Cities

Milestone unveils Hafnia traffic VLM & XProtect plug-in

Milestone launches traffic-tuned video AI tools for XProtect and APIs, promising faster reviews, fewer false alarms and easier integrations.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Tue, 13th Jan 2026

Software-as-a-Service

Sector-specific, process-led AI set to reshape firms

AI's next wave in business will be sector-specific, process-led services as firms shift from generic tools to trusted, compliant platforms.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Mon, 12th Jan 2026

Smart Cities

Milestone unveils traffic VLM & XProtect summarisation

Milestone launches Hafnia traffic VLM and XProtect video summarisation to cut review workloads and false alarms for operators and builders.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Tue, 30th Dec 2025

Software-as-a-Service

Enterprises pivot to smaller, measurable AI projects by 2026

Enterprises to shelve grand AI overhauls by 2026, funnelling budgets into smaller, measurable projects and AI-as-a-Service models.

By Shannon Williams • 5 min read • Fri, 19th Dec 2025

Software-as-a-Service

AI reshapes cloud spend as firms shift from SaaS to agents

AI is set to end SaaS dominance by 2026 as firms pay for domain-specific agents and governed cloud usage instead of per-seat software.

By Kaleah Salmon • 5 min read • Wed, 10th Dec 2025

Unified Communications

CelcomDigi unveils in-house AI tools for operational efficiency

CelcomDigi unveils AI-powered tools developed in-house to boost operations and serve SMEs via AI-as-a-Service, enhancing efficiency and customer support.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Fri, 15th Aug 2025

Hybrid Cloud

AI data centre market to reach USD $933.76 billion by 2030

The global AI data centre market is set to surge from USD $236.44 billion in 2025 to USD $933.76 billion by 2030, driven by rising AI workload demand.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 25th Jul 2025

Fintech

Ant International unveils Alipay+ GenAI Cockpit for fintech AI

Ant International has launched the Alipay+ GenAI Cockpit, an AI platform to help fintech firms and super apps develop AI-driven financial services in Asia.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 5th Jun 2025

Storage

Atturra expands sovereign cloud with NEXTDC datacentre deployment

Atturra bolsters its sovereign cloud capabilities through a strategic deployment in NEXTDC's S3 datacentre, addressing growing local demand for cloud services.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Mon, 5th Aug 2024