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Datacentre Operators Are Facing Skills Shortages. Here’s How to Bolster Your Recruitment
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...
Five Ways AI Could Transform Your Customer Service in 2021
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...
Smart Chips: How AI is Shaping the Future of Processing
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...
Three Key Trends in Cloud Security for 2021
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...
Failure to Get to Grips with Data Holding Back Workplace Diversity – Report
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...
Three Trends That Could Shape the Future of Data Analytics
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...
COVID is Accelerating Cloud Adoption. But What’s the Impact on Infrastructure?
There is no escaping the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on business technology and computing practices. We all know cloud adoption has been one of the biggest trends in IT over the past decade or so. But in response to COVID, uptake of cloud technology has...
GPT 3: What is It, and Why All the Excitement?
In the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is plenty of discussion about how far the technology can go, how much of what we currently call ‘work’ we will eventually be able to automate, and what the most beneficial applications for business will be. How...
How to Handle Redundancies in the Remote Working Age
There are a couple of topics dominating the agenda in HR at the moment, both of which link directly to the topic that has a monopoly on all conversations right now, COVID-19. One of them is the remote/home working trend, which is creating a debate on everything from...
What Does Good Cybersecurity Governance Look Like?
The stakes on getting cybersecurity right have never been higher for businesses. With threats multiplying, the frequency of attacks accelerating and the average cost per breach increasing, the incentive for organisations of all types and sizes to get their...
The Gig Economy Gets a Bad Press. But Should the Tech Sector Embrace It?
You’d be forgiven if your immediate, instinctive response to the very phrase ‘the gig economy’ is negative. It is a concept which, to put it mildly, has acquired a lot of baggage. Like its more modern but equally maligned cousin, zero-hours contracts, much of the...
IT Faces a Critical Moment in Addressing the Gender Gap
One of the well-documented side effects of COVID-19’s economic impact has been the disproportionate harm it has done to employment for women. According to global analysts McKinsey, more than half (54%) of global job losses during the pandemic have been of female...