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May 24, 2022 24 May'22
JPMorgan’s UK digital retail bank reaches half-million customer mark

Chase Bank in the UK has already reached the half-million customer mark, but expects a profit to be some years away
May 20, 2022 20 May'22
Microsoft urged to do more to address European cloud antitrust complaints

In the wake of Microsoft setting out its first steps towards addressing the antitrust complaints directed at it by some European cloud providers, one complainant said the firm needs to go further by making more of its off-premise portfolio open ...
May 20, 2022 20 May'22
Third of organisations to outsource more IT amid talent shortage

Cutting costs is not the main reason for outsourcing IT in the UK, according to a major study
May 18, 2022 18 May'22
Veeam to continue growth momentum in APAC

Veeam expects its backup offerings that protect ‘strategic workloads’ such as Microsoft 365 and Salesforce to continue driving its growth momentum in the region

The time is now: Edge datacentres come of age

After years of hype and speculation, could the post-pandemic period see a resurgence in interest in the build-out of edge datacentres and compute environments as enterprises look to dust off projects that Covid-19 forced them to shelve? Continue Reading
Backup types explained: Full, incremental, differential, synthetic

We look at backup – on-prem and cloud – and the key variants available, from full backup to synthetic full, via incremental, differential, incremental forever and reverse incremental Continue Reading
Storage suppliers put Kubernetes platforms centre stage

How to orchestrate the orchestrator? Storage suppliers’ Kubernetes management platforms aim to meet storage and data protection challenge in containerised application environments Continue Reading

Frustrated with your company’s cloud obsession? What goes around, comes around

Many of you reading this will be familiar with the experience of having to bite your lip as you watch your organisation pursue a ‘cloud first’ agenda in an almost religious manner. You know that ... Continue Reading
Of cats and clouds: a lifetime TCO question

For better or worse, we are a cat household. Various moggies have come and gone over the years. These have mainly originated from shelters or people trying to offload excess kittens arising from ... Continue Reading
The DX Moment Is Still Around The Corner For Many – If That Corner Is Still There…

Among the many conversations I have with vendors and end users themselves – via various online events – one of the most common buzz phrases of the past few years that still recurs more than it ... Continue Reading

Security Think Tank: Your path to understanding attack paths

The modern-day abundance of platforms, apps and IT tools presents malicious actors with a web of interconnection that is easily exploited to move rapidly through the network to compromise critical assets. Security teams need to understand these attack pathways better in order to fight back Continue Reading
Why it makes sense to use best-of-breed SaaS to power a business strategy

A hybrid multicloud model is playing an ever greater role as the IT platform of choice in driving a business-first strategy Continue Reading
Achieving agility, collaboration and data control in the cloud

Organisations have historically had to make a trade-off between the proven benefits of the cloud and maintaining full control of their data, but with the right strategy it is possible to have both Continue Reading

How Zoom is keeping pace with demand for conferencing tools

Magnus Falk, CIO advisor at Zoom, offers insights on how the company is scaling up its resources to meet the growing usage of its service