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Execs see AI and automation as long-term strategic investments

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A number of surveys conducted towards the end of 2025 suggest that IT decision makers and board-level executives see the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation as long-term objectives. The C-suite imperative report from Rimini Street, which based its findings on a Censuswide survey of 4,295 chief financial officers (CFOs), chief information security officers…

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Gitex 2025: Aramex partners with AWS to accelerate global IT modernisation

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Aramex has announced a landmark collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will redefine the digital foundation of one of the world’s leading logistics and transportation providers. The partnership, announced at the Gitex Global 2025 conference in Dubai, has begun with the successful migration of Aramex’s Oceania datacentre to the AWS cloud. Headquartered in the…

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How UK firms can get ready for the implementation of NIS2

7 minutes of reading / business continuity, cloud computing, compliance, Computer, disaster recovery, GDPR, internet of things, Palo Alto Networks, risk management, Tech / By

The European Union’s landmark cyber security bill NIS2 is just months away from coming into force. With a compliance deadline of 17 October, the law aims to improve the bloc’s ability to fight rising levels of cyber crime by ensuring all member states follow the same cyber security rules and procedures.  Under this directive, each EU member…

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Podcast: Storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31

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In this podcast, we look at storage features expected in Kubernetes 1.31 with Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases. Pronin talks about storage functionality expected in this week’s 1.31 release, but also what he sees as some of the gaps in terms of storage…

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World’s largest companies at near-universal risk of supply chain breach

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Out of the world’s 2,000 largest companies, 1,980 have a direct connection to a technology supplier that has experienced a recent cyber security incident or data breach, highlighting escalating risk levels to the global economy presented by multi-party supply chain attacks. In research released to mark the opening day of the annual Black Hat security…

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CrowdStrike chaos: Enterprises urged to take protective action in wake of botched software update

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Microsoft users across the globe should review the state of their infrastructure security setups in the wake of the botched CrowdStrike software update that took millions of Windows devices across the world offline on Friday 19 July 2024.  As stated in a blog post, authored by Microsoft’s vice-president of enterprise and operating system security, David…

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CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’

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The global Microsoft outage caused by a botched update from security firm CrowdStrike has highlighted the dangerous business continuity risk arising from concentrating so much of the world’s technology infrastructure in the hands of a very small number of businesses, experts are warning. The outage, which began late on Thursday 18 July 2024 before spreading…

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Hybrid cloud storage vs on-premise: What data goes where?

5 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, hybrid cloud, multicloud, SAP, Tech / By

For enterprises that want to extend their storage strategy, the public cloud is a place to start that can bring quick wins. After all, cloud technology is quick to deploy, needs little to no capital outlay, and can grow quickly with the business to store more data, especially unstructured data. Analyst Gartner predicts that enterprises…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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Security Think Tank: Securing today’s ubiquitous cloud environment

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Today’s digital, on-demand age sees many organisations rely heavily on multiple cloud services for the day-to-day running of their operations. But the third-party nature of this functionality introduces additional security risks and, with bad actors ever-present to take advantage of porous network perimeters, cyber security professionals must ensure they are rigorous in safeguarding the enterprise.…

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