An explosion in AI computing, a big shift in workloads to the cloud, and difficulties in gaining value from hybrid cloud strategies are among the trends Australian cloud professionals will see to 2028.

TechRepublic identified the top five emerging cloud technology trends that businesses in the U.K. should be aware of this year.

Data cloud company Snowflake’s Arctic is promising to provide APAC businesses with a true open source large language model they can use to train their own custom enterprise LLMs and inference more economically.

Other announcements included a Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows, GitHub Copilot Extensions and the general availability of Azure AI Studio.

The Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11, which ship in June, will be able to run Copilot features on-device.

The report also notes reasons why the U.K. is not taking full advantage of AI, as well as how artificial intelligence could impact businesses and jobs.

Five new laptops use the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series processor to run AI. Dell AI offerings expand with NVIDIA, Hugging Face and others.

Plus, Google reveals plans to unleash Gemini across Workspace to make interpreting long email threads or creating spreadsheets easier.

Informatica PowerCenter, Microsoft Playwright and Oracle Database SQL top Udemy’s list of most popular tech courses.

In this RSA roundup, we cover AI news about IBM, AWS and Microsoft, as well as details about Cisco Hypershield.

Now you can get massive cloud storage without having to pay recurring fees every month, which should significantly help your bottom line forever after.

The deal is intended to strengthen IBM’s hybrid and multicloud offerings and generative AI deployment.

This secure storage platform uses open source code, zero-knowledge file systems, and end-to-end encryption to keep your online data truly private.

With seven web-based courses, this package is an ideal place to start for those new to AWS as well as practicing professionals that want to update their skills.

Plus, Salesforce bundles its AI implementation and data governance services.