UK companies are taking a cautious and conservative approach to IT and general internal business investment in 2023, but with an eye to a post-crisis future, according to comments by spokespeople for Oracle and the Confederation of British Industry (the CBI). Oracle’s Siobhan Wilson, who is senior vice-president of EMEA, applications customer officer and UK […]

Almost half (46%) of IT decision-makers who took part in a Census-wide buyer’s sentiment survey for Rimini Street admitted the cost-of-living crisis has led to the inability to meet salary expectations for new and existing staff. The survey found that chief information officers (CIOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs) are embracing the new talent […]

The long-held view that moving to the public cloud is a low-risk, flexible and inexpensive alternative to on-premise IT will be increasingly challenged throughout 2023, prompting some enterprises with complex infrastructure needs to slow down or press pause on their migrations. That’s one of the key predictions put forward by datacentre resiliency think tank […]

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) responded to 2,194 cyber incidents during 2022, 25% of them targeting the government and local authorities, with the defence and security, energy, financial services, IT and telecoms, and logistics sectors also paying a heavy price for Russia’s aggression. The statistics were disclosed this week by brigadier […]

The advisory board set up to oversee compensation awards to 555 victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal has agreed a goal of returning them to the financial position they would have been in had the scandal not happened. Thousands of former subpostmasters were blamed for accounting shortfalls caused by errors in the Post […]

A US-based hyperscale datacentre operator has completed the first phase of its nuclear-powered datacentre campus, and claims the facility is now ready to receive its first tenant. Cumulus Data claims its facility is on course to become the first in the country to be powered exclusively by nuclear energy, following the completion of its […]

The latest IT spending forecast from analyst Gartner points to a 2.4% increase in IT spending this year. This figure is down from the previous quarter’s forecast of 5.1% growth. Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.5tn in 2023. In spite of this revised expectation, Gartner’s forecast shows that enterprise IT spending is set […]

The financial secretary has come under fire for claiming that no additional costs were incurred as a result of the government announcing a repeal of the IR35 reforms and then U-turning on that decision 24 days later. Victoria Atkins, who was appointed financial secretary to the treasury in October 2022, made the claim in […]

The operators of a “disproportionate” number of websites specialising in online piracy or counterfeiting are routinely abusing content delivery network (CDN) services offered by Cloudflare, a report has revealed. In a whitepaper, Simon Baggs, president of brand and content protection at Corsearch – a specialist in trademark and brand protection services – revealed that […]

UK payments infrastructure financial technology firm Paddle is reducing its workforce of over 350 by 8% after a boost to its business during the Covid-19 pandemic comes to an end. The company, which provides payments infrastructure to software-as-a-service providers, said it experienced “incredible levels of growth” during the pandemic when people and businesses began […]