The catastrophic fire that destroyed an OVH data centre in Strasbourg, France, is a timely (if unwelcome) reminder of a basic truth about digital operations that is all too easily forgotten in this hi-tech age. Like everything else in this world, technology is subject...

Official figures on the rate of cyber attacks against UK businesses make for sobering reading. In the 12 months to March 2020, 46% of organisations said they had suffered some form of cybersecurity breach. This figure, however, was skewed by the relatively low rate of...

If you were going to bet on what aspects of the working world will ever return to whatever we remember as the pre-COVID ‘normal’, the smart money would be on not very much at all. According to Gartner, the pandemic will even leave its mark on IT infrastructure and...

Robotic Process Automation is one of the great misnomers of technology. Despite the name, there are no ‘robots’ involved - not in the conventional sense, anyway. RPA (as it is generally known) is all about software ‘bots’ taking control of high volume, low-value...

Landmark technologies have a tendency to take a while before they realise their full potential. Like cloud computing, like IoT, like 5G mobile, we seem to have been hearing just how ‘transformative’ quantum computing will be for quite some time. The longer it takes...

Imagine the scene. You’re sat working from home, as has become the norm for you throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, when an email pings into your inbox, apparently from your company’s IT team. It says that, following a review of remote working security protocols during...

A first-of-its-kind study into recruitment in the datacentre sector has revealed some sobering stats for the sector. According to the US-based infrastructure resilience think tank The Uptime Institute, the number of datacentre operators reporting difficulties filling...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a massive impact on the way businesses operate across the board. From ‘smart’ robot-led automation to the incredibly precise (and predictive) business intelligence that can be gleaned from machine learning algorithms, AI is...

It’s probably not something you have ever considered, but is instantly recognisable the moment it is pointed out to you. Isn’t it strange how most conversations about Artificial Intelligence (AI) - most articles written about it, for that matter - are nearly always...

Cloud computing has always been the focus of fierce debate when it comes to cybersecurity. In its earliest days, there were many in the IT community who simply could not bring themselves to believe that transporting sensitive business data to some nameless...

A new report into inclusion and diversity (I&D) in UK workplaces has found that large numbers of companies are still failing to back up talk with meaningful action - and that a failure to engage with workforce data could be a key contributory factor. As reported...

Like everything else at the moment, even the world of data and analytics is being shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s the view of Gartner, at least. The market analyst recently published its latest Top 10 Trends in Data and Analytics outlook, framing this year’s...