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How Steatite relieved the burden on its IT team with a move to the cloud

Steatite designs, manufactures, and supplies highly reliable technology for use in harsh conditions, where failure is not an option. Operating in both the US and the UK, Steatite caters to a wide range of customers, from SMEs and government organisations to large multinationals.   The problem: The company’s legacy system, a highly customised on-premises ERP, was becoming […]

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Nerdio secures $500m in Series C investment from General Atlantic at $1bn+ valuation

Nerdio, the automated End-User Computing (EUC) platform transforming how organisations deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies, has signed a definitive agreement for a $500 million minority investment from General Atlantic, a global growth investor, with participation from Lead Edge Capital and StepStone. Upon closing, the investment will quadruple Nerdio’s valuation in just two years to […]

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10 real-life cloud security failures and what we can learn from them

As organisations increasingly migrate to the cloud, securing sensitive data has never been more critical. While cloud computing offers flexibility and scalability, it also opens the door to a range of security risks.  From simple misconfigurations to complex insider threats, cloud security breaches have cost companies huge sums of money and compromised millions of users’ […]

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Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Microsoft: From the Millennium Bug

Sarah Armstrong-Smith has built a career on risk management, resilience, and staying ahead of evolving cyber threats. As a leading cybersecurity speaker and chief security adviser at Microsoft Europe, she has spent more than two decades helping businesses navigate digital transformation while strengthening their security posture. We spoke with Sarah to explore the biggest cybersecurity […]

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Avishai Sharlin, Amdocs: The rise of post-quantum computing in the fight between good and evil

Recent advancements in quantum computing, including improvements in qubit count, coherence time and gate fidelity, have yet to provide a practical edge over classical computers. That was the conclusion of Forrester’s 2024 Quantum Computing Trends report. Quantum systems remain experimental and are unable to deliver the large-scale results needed to rival traditional computing methods. So […]

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International Women’s Day: Women in technology in 2025 on breaking the bias

A recent PwC study found that a career in the tech industry was a first choice for just 3% of female students, and women only make up for 22% of AI professionals. With the latest wave of companies scaling back on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, women in tech find themselves at a crossroads. […]

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How Zain Sudan restored mobile connectivity at a time of national crisis

Zain Sudan is a mobile service provider in Sudan, serving 23 million customers. It is a subsidiary of Zain Group, a leading mobile and data services operator in the Middle East and North Africa. The problem: In early 2024, Sudan was plunged into an escalating civil war that triggered a nationwide mobile connectivity blackout. This […]

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SAP debuts Business Data Cloud with Databricks to turbocharge business AI

Enterprise apps and business AI specialist, SAP, has unveiled SAP Business Data Cloud, which unifies all SAP and third-party data throughout an organisation, providing the trusted data foundation organisations need to make more impactful decisions and foster reliable AI. The solution harmonises data from organisations’ most mission-critical applications with data engineering and business analytics capabilities, […]

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Madoc Batters, Warner Hotels: The biggest challenge lies in affecting change

Warner Hotels, originally founded in 1932 as Warner Holiday Camp, is a hospitality company boasting numerous picturesque country and coastal properties dotted all around the UK – including North Wales, Somerset, Herefordshire, Berkshire, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Isle of Wight, Suffolk, Hampshire and Warwickshire. For the past four years, the company’s head of cloud and IT […]

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Apple scraps data protection tool for UK customers

Apple has pulled the plug on its highest level data security tool in the UK, with it confirming that the encryption of UK customer data stored on its cloud storage service, iCloud, has come to an end. The move follows a row between the American tech firm and the UK Government, which has demanded to […]

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