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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Not that long ago, a software developer’s career path was pretty straightforward, at least in terms of where you would look for work. Software engineers worked for software companies. Simple. At the very least, the idea that, as a software developer, you would be more...

Among the many things that will emerge from our collective experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the positives is the way that it has triggered serious conversations about how and where we work. Particularly in industries like the tech sector, remote working was...

It is almost an act of modern-day sacrilege to say anything that suggests data is fallible. In the increasingly intertwined worlds of business and technology, data rules supreme. For organisations that learn to harvest the rivers of data generated by digitalisation...

The COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered as one of those profound before-and-after era-defining moments that litter history. No doubt we will be spending the next few years unpicking exactly how the world has changed in the wake of it. We’re already getting glimpses...

There was a time when a phrase along the lines of you can’t teach an IT infrastructure pro new tricks would have been apt. There wouldn’t have been much need to try - IT infrastructure, dominated as it was by on-premise servers and other expensive hardware, was a very...