IT Budget stories
Higher average selling prices are offsetting weaker demand, lifting European notebook revenues 12% in early Q2 despite falling unit sales.
Customers can now buy more predictable storage and infrastructure contracts as the new terms tie costs to availability, performance and recovery.
Complexity is wiping out GBP £11.7 billion a year in wasted UK AI spending, as most IT leaders say outputs are creating daily rework.
Identity and data protection tools are taking a larger share of European security budgets as older perimeter products lose ground.
Infrastructure demand and vendor spending will drive most of the surge as AI outlays are set to jump 47% next year.
Outages are now costing Global 2000 firms USD $600 billion a year, as a single incident can wipe 3.4% off share prices.
Poor data governance and recovery gaps are undermining AI roll-outs, even as 97% of enterprises have deployed or are piloting agents.
Partners selling Dell's focus products will get quicker rebates and real-time pricing as the company moves to simplify AI dealmaking.
Mid-market buyers are increasingly favouring flexible workplace deals as YASH earns recognition for scalable cloud and security services.
The tie-up aims to help large companies run AI agents securely at scale, while keeping data, governance and spending under tighter control.
The hire signals a fresh push to win corporate spending on AI customer service tools as Crescendo scales across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Top Down Ventures closes oversubscribed USD $28 million fund backing AI-native software start-ups for managed service providers.
Skills shortages and uneven adoption could slow UK and Ireland IT providers as AI services become the main growth bet over two years.
The move strengthens Fastly's push for more enterprise and public sector spending in Australia and New Zealand as competition intensifies.
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.
The shift comes as 42% of firms use tech spend to cope with growth and regulation, up from 35% in the previous survey.
Confidence in defence remains patchy as 68 per cent of UK business leaders plan higher cyber spending and 46 per cent fear new tools widen threats.
Many US enterprises still cannot trace AI failures across infrastructure, leaving costly GPU bottlenecks and hidden risks unresolved.
AI workloads and cost controls are set to push Australian public cloud spending up 17.9% to AUD $33.6 billion in 2026.
