The daily standup – How do you do it?
We’ve been rotating who runs our daily for over a year now. In general, there are four people who we cycle through. Each running the standup for a week at a time. That gives enough time to give the person running it context as the week progresses. Running a standup on a Monday (especially after a weekend) is far harder …
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Many executives aren’t sure they made the right pandemic tech investments
Looking at the past year, most senior decision-makers at UK businesses aren’t fully confident in the technology investments they made during the pandemic, a new poll suggests. A report from IT resilience company Sungard AS polling 500 senior decision-makers from the UK found that just above half (54 percent) are unsure whether or not the investments made during the pandemic …
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UK lagging behind on implementing remote networks
When it comes to adopting Zero Trust security measures, UK firms are falling well behind the rest of the world, a new report from ManageEngine has found. Polling 1,210 IT professionals worldwide, including 302 in the UK for its 2021 Digital Readiness Survey report, ManageEngine found that just above a quarter (27 percent) of UK organisations have implemented Zero Trust …
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What is anonymous hosting? | ITProPortal
Every time you launch a new website, information about things like your domain name registrar and hosting provider are made publicly available. In many cases, resourceful (and sometimes malicious) third parties can access this and a range of more personal data, which can cause privacy and security issues. Fortunately, the best anonymous hosting solutions are designed to help you …
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Business innovation can kickstart after the pandemic
The pandemic has served as a catalyst for innovation, but in order to continue riding the innovation wave, businesses will need a little bravado, a little diversity, and a little agility, suggests a new report. A survey from Lenovo polling senior decision-makers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Asia Pacific found that businesses identified a clear correlation …
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Why automation is key to keeping applications secure in the cloud-native era
In the past year, we saw a surge in digital transformation that reflected the accelerated delivery of many organizations’ multiyear technology roadmaps. McKinsey claims we’ve now passed a tipping point that may have forever adjusted business operations. The use of multicloud environments and cloud-native architectures based on microservices, containers, and Kubernetes is at the heart of this transformation. While these …
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Bridging the gap: Bringing software development methods to BizApps (Part 1)
This is the first blog post in a trilogy about how enterprises can solve the challenges of managing and configuring today’s increasingly complex business applications. Current practices are slow and inefficient. Smart organizations are discovering the secret of using tested, proven practices and tools from the world of software development. Software development is hard. In 1987, computer scientist and Turing …
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Most workers want more AI in the workplace
Employee attitude towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace seems to be shifting, with workers now calling for deeper adoption of the technology in their everyday routines. A report from SnapLogic polling 400 office workers in the US and the UK found that more than two-thirds (68 percent) called upon their employers to deploy more AI-based technology. At the moment, …
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Many UK CISOs don’t feel like they have control of their organisation
Many Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) in the UK don’t feel like they’re in control over what goes on inside their organization from a cybersecurity perspective, new research has found. Cybersecurity solutions provider BlueFort Security found things like remote working, shrinking budgets, and widening skills gaps were creating the “perfect cybersecurity storm”. Polling 600 CISOs from various UK businesses, BlueFort …
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The best cloud storage for photos: free and paid
With the arrival of the smartphone camera, photos have become the primary medium for documenting our day-to-day lives, as well as our most precious moments. Now, we take pictures almost all the time—be it for family albums or social media. The challenge, however, is how to securely store all these photos. For that, we need a platform that’s safe as …
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