Enterprise
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The human side of industrial IoT: giving operators better choices
Industrial AI is shifting operators from reconciliation towards informed decisions. Harpreet Gulati, SVP – Head of PI System Business at AVEVA, argues that contextualised industrial data can turn fragmented systems into more usable operational guidance.
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AI inference becomes an infrastructure decision
Equinix is building a distributed inference service with Nvidia and Together AI, betting that model location will become a cost, performance, and governance decision as enterprise AI moves deeper into production.
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Telecom security rules reach procurement
A five-year DDoS protection contract with an unnamed Tier-1 UK telecoms provider shows security regulation feeding directly into infrastructure procurement as operators face tighter requirements around resilience, control, and network operations.
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Age checks become a vendor governance problem
Ofcom has told online services to conduct regular due diligence on age-assurance suppliers, making explicit that buying third-party technology does not transfer responsibility for whether the resulting checks meet the regulator’s effectiveness standard.
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AI rollouts expose UK observability gap
A Virtana survey of 238 UK enterprise technology decision-makers finds organisations pushing AI further into production while engineers report weaker visibility into failures, costs, and infrastructure performance than senior executives believe they possess.
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Aize buys Samp to close AI’s data gap
Norway’s Aize has acquired French industrial AI company Samp, combining engineering-system data with AI-generated representations of physical assets as operators confront the gap between corporate records and what actually exists on site.
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atNorth deal concentrates Nordic AI capacity
CPP Investments and Equinix have completed their $4 billion acquisition of atNorth, putting substantial new capital behind Nordic data-centre capacity aimed at AI, cloud, and high-performance computing customers.
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Microsoft shifts AI governance into the runtime
Microsoft is rebuilding its AI controls around systems that act.
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Tokenised equities edge towards London markets
London Stock Exchange is testing tokenised structures for British equities.
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IRIS² moves from plan to factory floor
OHB has secured Europe’s first major IRIS² satellite manufacturing contract.











