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IT Sustainability Think Tank: How cloud AI technologies can help enterprises go green

4 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google, Microsoft, Tech / By

The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieving net zero by 2050. In support of these goals, obligations will come to the fore as organisations develop…

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How Co-op is preparing for the move off SAP ECC

5 minutes of reading / Azure, Microsoft, SAP, Tech, Technology / By

Retailer Co-op has been running a retail business transformation programme powered by SAP’s Retail ECC (enterprise core components) suite on Hana software to improve stock visibility and forecasting across its stores. It has now migrated all its SAP systems onto the SAP Rise cloud as a stepping stone to migrating off ECC and onto S/4Hana…

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CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’

3 minutes of reading / business continuity, Microsoft, Tech / By

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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NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists

3 minutes of reading / Intel, Microsoft, Tech / By

Opportunist cyber criminals are the most pressing immediate threat arising from the 19 July Microsoft outage, which caused millions of machines worldwide to crash as the result of an error made at cyber security firm CrowdStrike during an update, security agencies are warning. As has been seen repeatedly over the years, malicious actors have been…

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Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites

6 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, AWS, Computer, Microsoft, Tech / By

A graphical user interface (GUI) is the way many people interact with computing devices, ranging from smartphones and smart TVs, to laptops, desktops and website navigation. Although smart speakers and the likes of Siri on iOS devices have given people an alternative user interface, where they can request information and do a limited range of…

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Riding the cloud database wave

6 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Alibaba, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Database, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Netflix, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Tech, Workday / By

It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…

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CrowdStrike security update fails Windows PCs globally

3 minutes of reading / Azure, disaster recovery, Microsoft, Tech, Twitter / By

Systems using Microsoft Windows software were affected by a major global outage due to a configuration which caused PCs to crash with a “blue screen of death”. The BBC reported that Sky News and a number of airlines including KLM were affected by the outage. Some services are now back online, but others are still…

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Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments

5 minutes of reading / AI, automation, chatbot, compliance, digital transformation, machine learning, Microsoft, Tech / By

Derby City Council aims to save almost £12.5m a year in costs by rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) tools to its staff. The council, which covers the East Midlands city of some 264,000 people, has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements. Within that, the council is focusing on 54 areas where…

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What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

5 minutes of reading / agile, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a Crowdstrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…

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CrowdStrike update chaos explained: What you need to know

6 minutes of reading / branding, cloud-native, Microsoft, Sony, Tech, threat intelligence / By

On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not thousands – of organisations. The disruption began in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia, before spreading quickly across Asia, Europe and the Americas, with the travel industry among…

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