Meta outage disrupts social media globally
A major IT outage at Meta has affected services on its three core platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, for millions of users on an apparently…
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IT leaders dial back cloud-first strategies as hybrid IT becomes more of an investment priority
Cloud-first IT strategies seem to be falling out of favour with technology decision-makers and business leaders, suggests data from the TechTarget/ESG 2024 Technology Spending Intentions…
IT chiefs fear Kubernetes data log overload
Over half of IT leaders polled by Coleman Parker in a global survey for Dynatrace believe their technology stacks will grow in complexity. In a…
Keepit brings backup and restore to unprotected SaaS applications
Organisations often use up to 200 different cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, and should be able to back them up with one product. That’s the…
American Express customers exposed through third-party breach
American Express has written to customers warning that their account details may have been breached after a third-party supplier to various merchants reported unauthorised access…
Derby City Council extends AI project with multi-million deal after saving £200,000 with chatbots
Derby City Council has signed a £7m contract to extend the use of artificial intelligence (AI) copilot technology across more of its services, after the…
Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud
The European Commission (EC) approved the Project of Common European Interest – Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) programme in late 2023. In this programme, around…
Banning ransomware payments back on the agenda
The topic of whether or not it would be appropriate to enact a legal ban on making or facilitating a ransomware payment is once again…
AI-acceleration deployments curbed by datacentre design considerations
The latest financial results from PC server manufacturers show sales have been boosted by demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-accelerated servers. There is pent-up demand as…
Own Data targets SaaS backup and offers analytics insight
Cloud-based SaaS applications don’t have backup built-in, so third-party products have to fill that gap. Also, customers often never really gain the full benefit of…
Going up? Senior tech pay trends – and how to influence them
The past few years have seen a boom in demand for technology services as businesses digitised and transformed following the pandemic. But last year, this…
G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements ‘under review’ by CCS after SME supplier backlash
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is reviewing its decision to ramp up the insurance cover needed by prospective suppliers on its flagship cloud computing framework,…