
Ross Kelly
Ross Kelly is ITPro's News & Analysis Editor, with a keen interest in cyber security, business leadership and emerging technologies.
He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and joined ITPro in 2022 after four years working in technology conference research.
In his spare time, Ross enjoys cycling, walking and is an avid reader of history and non-fiction.
You can contact Ross at ross.kelly@futurenet.com or on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Partners have been ‘critical from day one’ at AWS, and the company’s agentic AI drive means they’re more important than ever
News The hyperscaler is leaning on its extensive ties with channel partners and systems integrators to drive AI adoption
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AWS says global alignment on AI can complement growth and success
Interview Serious discussions over global AI alignment will be needed in coming years to ensure no regions or nations are left behind
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AWS re:Invent 2025 live: All the news and announcements from day two in Las Vegas
Live Blog Keep tabs on all the latest announcements from day-two at AWS re:Invent 2025 in Las Vegas
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Want to build your own frontier AI model? Amazon Nova Forge can help with that
News The new service aims to lower bar for enterprises without the financial resources to build in-house frontier models
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AWS CEO Matt Garman says AI agents will have 'as much impact on your business as the internet or cloud'
News Garman told attendees at AWS re:Invent that AI agents represent a paradigm shift in the trajectory of AI and will finally unlock returns on investment for enterprises.
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Amazon S3 just got a big performance boost
News The Amazon S3 Vectors service now scales to two billion vectors per index
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AWS says new ‘frontier agents’ will transform software development
News A new class of AI agents promises days of autonomous work and added safety checks
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AWS targets IT modernization gains with new agentic AI features in Transform
News New custom agents aim to speed up legacy code modernization and mainframe overhauls
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says vibe coding has made software development ‘exciting again’
News Google CEO Sundar Pichai claims software development has become “exciting again” since the rise of vibe coding, but some devs are still on the fence about using AI to code.
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OpenAI hailed for ‘swift move’ in terminating Mixpanel ties after data breach hits developers
News The Mixpanel breach prompted OpenAI to launch a review into its broader supplier ecosystem
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Making the case for open source AI adoption
Analysis Open source AI models often perform on-par with closed source options and could save enterprises billions in cost savings, new research suggests, yet uptake remains limited.
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How AWS can show its mettle at re:Invent 2025
Analysis The hyperscaler will be betting big on its AI stack and infrastructure credentials
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Government CIOs prepare for big funding boosts as AI takes hold in the public sector
News Public sector IT leaders need to be mindful of falling into the AI hype trap
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Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy called for a 70 hour week last year — now he says that’s not enough
News Murthy thinks longer hours akin to China’s '996' approach are the key to success
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Salesforce customers face second third-party incident this year with Gainsight breach
News Customers impacted in the Gainsight breach have been contacted by Salesforce
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France is getting its first exascale supercomputer – and it's named after an early French AI pioneer
News The Alice Recoque system will be be France’s first, and Europe’s second, exascale supercomputer
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Microsoft wants Windows to become an 'agentic OS' – forgive me if I'm skeptical
Opinion We don’t need an ‘agentic OS’ filled with pointless features, we need an operating system that works
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Coursera teams up with Anthropic on Claude AI training
News New Coursera specializations aim to help Claude users of all levels brush up on their skills
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The Cloudflare outage explained
News Web users globally were met with error messages and site crashes yesterday after an outage at Cloudflare brought much of the web to a standstill – here's what happened.
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Microsoft's new Agent 365 platform is a one-stop shop for AI agents
News The new platform looks to shore up visibility and security for enterprises using AI agents
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A massive Cloudflare outage has taken down X and OpenAI – and even bricked outage tracker site Downdetector
News Web users trying to access X, OpenAI, and creative design platforms have been affected by the Cloudflare outage
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Gartner says ‘AI will touch all IT work’ by 2030, and admins face a rocky road to adapt
Analysis Training and reskilling will be critical for IT teams as an influx of AI tools transforms operations.
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Magnetic tape is still going strong in the age of AI
News Magnetic tape storage might seem like a relic of a bygone era, but it’s still going strong in 2025 – and new upgrades mean it’s set to get even better.
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Microsoft’s Windows chief wants to turn the operating system into an ‘agentic OS'
News While Microsoft touts an AI-powered future for Windows, users want the tech giant to get back to basics
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