Data breaches are becoming almost routine. Over the past few days alone, organisations ranging from a major French telecoms company and one of the world's largest private equity firms to a children's hospital, charities, a government department and a hardware wallet provider have disclosed incidents involving the theft or exposure... read more →
Aug
25
Aug
18
We need more digital infrastructure - we need the data centre. We also need to build and operate it better and perhaps, as importantly, it is time we all understood a little more about what sits behind the digital world we now take for granted. Take a moment to think... read more →
Aug
11
For much of the cloud era, geography was becoming less important. The promise of cloud computing was that businesses could access computing power, storage and applications wherever they needed them, without having to worry too much about the physical location of the underlying infrastructure. Workloads could move between data centres,... read more →
Aug
05
For years, the conversation around enterprise infrastructure was framed as a choice between cloud and the data centre. The assumption was simple: as cloud adoption accelerated, traditional infrastructure would gradually disappear. Reality has proved rather different. Today’s organisations are not operating in a purely cloud world. They are running increasingly... read more →
Jul
29
"This time it's personal” was the tagline for Jaws: The Revenge – a film that, despite failing to make much of a splash with critics or audiences, introduced a different kind of threat. This wasn't a shark randomly attacking unsuspecting swimmers. It was portrayed as hunting a specific family. Nearly... read more →
Jul
23
"The Three Laws are perfect... but they are not enough." When I, Robot hit cinemas in 2004, audiences were introduced to VIKI – the Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence. Designed to oversee a new generation of intelligent robots, VIKI reached a conclusion that her creators never intended. If the purpose of... read more →

