It has become something of a truism to say that the pace of change in technology keeps on accelerating. But knowing that high-speed technological development is now a given doesn’t alter the real-life challenges organisations face in adapting to it. One of the areas...

Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) have been the default in database management for the past three decades at least. If you work in data, you have probably grown up with programmes like Oracle (the first commercially available RDBMS), Microsoft Access and...

As we slowly emerge blinking into the light post-lockdown, there are a lot of mixed feelings about the prospect of returning to the workplace. For some, the prospect of getting out of the house after months of trying to juggle work with childcare feels like an...

IT architecture is a phrase capable of giving many an enterprise CIO and business lead alike the shivers. It’s not hard to understand why - modern enterprise-grade IT systems are both absolutely necessary and highly complex. Despite the fact that no modern...

It is part of the human condition that we often don’t realise our capacity for embracing change and adapting to it until we really have to. The COVID-19 pandemic, by creating a pressing need to keep people apart, has shown us just how much we can do remotely these...

Data centres have transformed the way information technology and communications are organised the world over. Without the development of remote, dedicated facilities for running data storage and processing, there would be no cloud computing. And as use of the...

As with most things in life, it is always the more daring, sophisticated and, dare we say it, glamorous aspects of cybercrime that attract all the headlines. The audacious hacks that steal industrial volumes of personal data from major institutions. The...

The term ‘Augmented Analytics’ was only coined in 2017 by Gartner. But in many ways what it describes is a logical and perhaps inevitable technological progression - the marriage of Big Data analytics techniques with Artificial Intelligence (AI). It wasn’t that long...

Cloud and web applications are frequently and easily confused - sometimes even deliberately by software vendors looking to cash in on the kudos attached to cloud computing these days. Both are practical examples of remote computing in action, relying on access to data...

Digital transformation has gone from being a disruptive trend spearheaded by a minority of tech-savvy pacesetters to becoming a basic necessity if you want you to keep up in the modern business world. Nearly all organisations have by now taken some steps towards...

Few people in business these days would argue with the value of data. Data means intelligence, data means informed decision making, data means the ability to identify issues early and measure success in incremental steps. But data is also changing. The volumes of data...

As we reported in this blog last month, recruitment in the tech sector has suffered less disruption than most through the COVID-19 pandemic to date. But that, of course, does not mean firms are having it all their own way when it comes to finding and hiring the right...