TechUK report on datacentre water usage habits criticised
A TechUK report that claimed datacentres in England use less water than previously thought has been accused of containing “methodological flaws” designed to appease tech…
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Retailers turn to tech as in-store crime soars
Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts, Wickes chief David Wood, and Fortnum & Mason boss Tom Athron were among the executives to sign an open letter in…
How AI can help to optimise supply chains under pressure
The flow and ebb of international supply chains is far from new, with the grand medieval churches of the Cotswolds partly paid for by wool…
Ministry of Defence signs £400m sovereign cloud deal with Google
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected Google Cloud to provide it with sovereign cloud capabilities in a deal worth £400m. The agreement will see…
Cloud block storage: Key benefits and use cases
Cloud block storage allows organisations to run applications that depend on high throughput and low latency in the cloud. The latest block storage offerings make…
Post Office Horizon accounts are still a mess and replacement system is years away
Fujitsu’s Horizon system continues to produce erratic figures in branch accounts, which the Post Office can’t explain, with millions of pounds being written off. As…
M&S parts ways with CTO after cyber attack
Marks & Spencer chief digital and technology officer Rachel Higham is to leave the retailer, in the wake of a ransomware attack on its core…
Students an increasing source of cyber threat in UK schools
Students acting maliciously – often for fun – are increasingly the cause of cyber attacks affecting schools and colleges in the UK, according to new…
Chat Control: EU to decide on requirement for tech firms to scan encrypted messages
Law enforcement experts and policymakers are due to meet on 12 September to decide on proposals to require technology companies, such as Signal and WhatsApp,…
CIO interview: Sebastiaan Kalshoven, ASN Bank
When ASN Bank chief technology officer (CTO) Sebastiaan Kalshoven isn’t driving IT and business change at the Dutch retail bank, he can often be found…
Storage is key to AI projects that succeed
The hyperscaler cloud providers plan to spend $1tn on hardware optimised for artificial intelligence (AI) by 2028, according to market researcher Dell’Oro. Meanwhile, enterprises are…
Splunk.conf: Cisco and Splunk expand agentic SOC vision
At Splunk’s annual .Conf event, the Cisco-backed observability and data security specialist made its first run at the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) enhanced security operations…