Employees over 55 want new skills
Just over 30% of people over the age of 55 want to improve their digital skills in the hopes of new career opportunities before they…
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Lords question ‘extensive’ government online safety powers
Safeguards will be written into the Online Safety Bill to ensure the secretary of state does not unduly interfere with the work or independence of…
CEF selects HPE Greenlake to build out digitisation strategy
Electrical wholesale network City Electrical Factors (CEF) is set to deploy HPE GreenLake as the first stage of its digital transformation. CEF plans to use…
Royal Mail resumes some international parcel services from UK
Royal Mail continues to make steady progress on recovering its international letter and parcel export services following a suspected LockBit ransomware attack earlier in January.…
Final months of 2022 saw highest ever number of bank account switches
More people than ever before switched current account providers in the final three months of last year, with 376,000 moving to a new bank. In…
Microsoft 365 outage affecting Teams, Outlook and Azure users blamed on ‘networking fault’
Microsoft has identified a networking fault that has resulted in users being unable to access multiple services within its cloud-based portfolio of business productivity tools,…
NCSC exposes Iranian, Russian spear-phishing campaign targeting UK
Hostile advanced persistent threat (APT) groups aligned with the national interests of Iran and Russia are targeting UK nationals including academics, activists, charity and NGO…
Green storage: Savings to be made but tricky to achieve
With the rapidly rising cost of energy, the idea of green storage has regained some traction. While going green and reducing the carbon footprint has…
Leeds Building Society uses AIops in Dynatrace to improve observability
Leeds Building Society (LBS), has updated its systems management, replacing an existing hardware monitor tool with Dynatrace, enabling the building society to improve reliability and performance…
Will mass big tech lay-offs affect employment prospects of IT contractors in 2023?
The start of 2023 has seen several of the technology industry’s biggest names, including Microsoft, Amazon and Meta, announce tens of thousands of job cuts.…
State of DevOps: Success happens through platform engineering
The latest Global 2023 state of DevOps report from Puppet by Perforce has found that IT professionals whose organisations adopt “platform engineering” are more likely…
Arnold Clark cyber attack claimed by Play ransomware gang
Glasgow-based Arnold Clark – one of the UK’s largest car dealer networks, which made a billionaire out of its founder – is facing a multimillion-pound…