AWS reveals all…but what the heck is cloud anyway?
Last week Amazon published financials for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business for the first time. These showed that the old man of public cloud computing is a $5bn business with...
Tech Outlook for 2019: Growth and Consolidation
Tech M&A has reached record levels in recent years and the outlook for 2019 is similarly robust. There are headwinds, such as global economic uncertainty, rising trade and tariffs wars as...
ServiceNow ‘Walks the Walk’ in healthcare, but can it ‘Talk the Talk’?
Frankfurt, October 2018, and more than 800 attendees are in the auditorium at the start of ServiceNow’s one day summit event. While the summit wasn’t specifically billed as a healthcare event,...
The Need for Effective Third-Party Risk Management in Financial Services
The last few years has seen the frequency of third-party cyberattacks grow against global financial institutions. One of the biggest reported attacks against financial organisations occurred in early 2016. In that...
Outsourcing IT more pros than cons
Businesses have been agonising over the pros and cons of outsourcing for years. In today’s competitive marketplaces, the consensus is that organisations need to run lean, and outsourcing, particularly among larger...
Data quality – the key to ensuring big data is good data
Big data has grown exponentially in recent years as new technologies have enabled the capture of data at an unprecedented volume and rate. In healthcare, analysis of big data has helped...
The collaboration demands of digital transformation
The types of Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation is one of the biggest buzz phrases around. A lot of research has already been done on this topic, though it typically examines Digital Transformation...
10 Best Cities for Tech Career Opportunities
If you work in Tech, you’ll know it’s one of the fastest growing industries. Digital jobs are fast becoming a necessity for strong growth and the professionals that work within this...
Data protection v Data privacy: regardless of sector every business is in the data...
Since GDPR came into force companies are still getting to grips with data processes and policies. Joe Collinwood, CEO at CySure explains the difference between data protection and data privacy, which...
Starting up a business: Avoid the common mistakes, part 2
This series of blogs hopes to secure your success by avoiding these common mistakes. These are mistakes I have both made and experienced through my clients. My blog last month detailed...
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Accelo expenses module is generally available
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Blocksyte, a blockchain supply chain application company focused on the food industry supply chain, and Caroli, a producer of high-quality, extra virgin olive oil...
SafeBreach warns of critical vulnerability in PC-Doctor
SafeBreach has released details of a vulnerability in PC-Doctor, a support tool used by several PC vendors including Dell. The software allows end users...
How SNIA is using Open Source to speed up storage standards
Developing a storage standard has always been a long, arduous and contentious process. It is the same for most standards.
However, with the speed that...
What to make of Facebook’s Libra?
On June 18th Facebook 'announced Calibra and Libra (though they will not be available until 2020). This is either a momentous event or an...
New but familiar player in Service Desk Software – SolarWinds
Following a slew of acquisitions, SolarWinds has launched a Service Desk solution. Solarwinds is a brand familiar to IT leaders with a wide range...
Microsoft, SalesForce and the Ethereum Foundation join Hyperledger
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Reports highlight future of Jobs in the digital age
Zigurat Innovation & Technology Business School and consultancy Setesca, have published a report "Future of Jobs in the Digital Era." The report highlights the...
Kaminario launches new Storage as a Service Offerings
Kaminario, a cloud storage software company, announced three new offerings and a unified licensing framework. The announcement is aligned to the company’s vision of...
Ripple partners with MoneyGram
Ripple, a provider of blockchain for global payments, entered into what it calls "a strategic partnership with MoneyGram". The latter is one of the...
TCS teams with SAP to transform surgical kit ecosystem
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FDA program to evaluate blockchain to protect pharmaceutical integrity
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has selected IBM, KPMG, Merck and Walmart for inclusion in a program which will support the U.S....
