
Microsoft Pull-Back Casts Doubts on Local Data Centre Boom – AFR – 6 April 2025
Microsoft’s data centre pullback signals a reality check for AI’s endless growth, potentially impacting future cloud costs and availability for Australian organisations.

Microsoft’s data centre pullback signals a reality check for AI’s endless growth, potentially impacting future cloud costs and availability for Australian organisations.

Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes demand mid-sized organisations reassess their IT strategies and explore cost-effective alternatives.

Simplified, cost-effective graph databases are driving AI innovation, enabling advanced applications like RAG and agentic AI.
US tech’s push for unfettered market access clashes with national sovereignty, ignoring crucial privacy, intellectual property, and security concerns, risking a fragmented digital world.

ServiceNow has made a strategic acquisition of Moveworks to improve its AI and workflow automation capabilities. This move aims to boost employee support, enterprise search, and productivity across various business functions.

Enterprise platforms now embed industrial AI agents, shifting from bespoke solutions. ServiceNow focuses on governance; Salesforce on proactive automation, simplifying deployment and impacting various enterprise roles.

Salesforce’s Agentforce 2dx introduces autonomous AI agents for background tasks, boosting workforce productivity by proactively preparing and processing information, streamlining workflows.

Atturra’s Kitepipe acquisition expands its North American footprint, bolstering Boomi integration, crucial for TechnologyOne and Microsoft ecosystems, with Philippine support enhancing scalability.

dLLMs’ parallel processing offers tenfold speed gains, reducing costs and enabling sovereign AI on standard GPUs, a key strategic shift for ICT.