Many UK firms still aren’t making effective use of technology
For the majority of UK businesses, the biggest challenge in the next twelve months will be making the most of their tech stack. This is according to a new report from secure IT, comms and cloud service provider Daisy Corporate Services (DCS). Polling 165 UK businesses, DCS found that this challenge is further exacerbated by the fact that improving their …
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If not now, then when? Making the business case for sustainable supply chains
Flooding in Germany and Belgium claims at least 70 lives and a ‘heat dome’ sitting over Northwest America proves even deadlier. These may be only some of the most recent headlines, but most would accept that the increased incidence of such extreme weather events reflects the impact of climate change. With an estimated 80 percent of global trade passing through …
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Making supply chains fit for the future
When we’re munching on asparagus in winter or sourcing hi-tech automotive components from the other side of the world, it’s easy to get the feeling that we’ve defeated distance and gained mastery of the globe. And then the pandemic hit. All of a sudden, the supermarket shelves we’ve long expected to be groaning with surplus were standing empty, and production …
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Cybercriminals are making a killing selling access to business networks
Hackers are earning massive amounts of money selling access to compromised networks on the dark web, a new paper from cyber threat intelligence firm IntSights asserts. The company’s researchers sifted through both Russian and English-speaking dark web forums and found that attackers often sell access to compromised networks to other groups. Sometimes they found they were not skilled enough to …
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IT leaders are making major commitments to sustainability
Businesses remain committed to their IT sustainability goals, despite distractions and disruptions related to the Covid-19 pandemic, research suggests. Google Cloud hired analyst firm IDC to investigate whether businesses have changed course on the topic of sustainability. As it turns out, many have redoubled their commitments. Polling 2,000 IT decision-makers around the world for the report, Google Cloud found that …
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Making agile work for your team: Starter tips
In the last years, we’re observing a surge in companies that want to adopt the Agile approach to leverage its benefits and progress in their business practices. However, the vast majority of these companies are still learning the ropes with only a fraction reaching a high level of competency in Agile. According to the 2020 State of Agile report, …
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Healthcare technology: making health equity possible
ccess to healthcare is vital. This may sound obvious, but when we look at statistics the impact this can have is shocking. Life expectancy in the UK varies disproportionally from region to region – according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Across the country there is an 11-year difference between the highest and lowest life expectancy at birth for …
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How businesses are making way for zero trust
Traditionally, the companies used to work on a castle-and-moat security principle. In this model, it is not easy to obtain access to the application from outside the network. However, anyone inside the network is considered a trusted source by default. The issue with this system was that once anyone gained access to the network, the attacker could easily access all …
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Many companies still aren’t making the best decisions using their data
Many organizations are still not making the best data-driven decisions, due to complexities in the way it’s stored and analyzed, according to a new report from software companies Starburst and Red Hat. The report states that analytics workloads and demands increased significantly during the pandemic, which has made data access even more critical for the majority of enterprises. However, with …
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Making your data work for you: Curbing reckless investment in technology
Let’s be clear, data is everybody’s business. It has—finally—moved beyond the remit of the IT and tech whizzes in an organization and now permeates every department, no matter how big or small. Despite this, businesses are still not adequately adjusting to the new reality, and as a result many are wasting money. Many businesses still expect technology to be a …
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