The datacentre industry plays an important role in keeping the UK’s increasingly digital economy ticking over, with many facilities now classified as critical national infrastructure. The work the industry does is notoriously energy-intensive and this is why operators are already mobilising in response to warnings about how the ongoing volatility in the European energy […]

UK energy provider EDF has deployed Alluvio Aternity from Riverbed to improve the digital customer experience across its corporate, consumer and generation business units. The software is being used to help EDF UK to optimise how business-critical applications run on end-user devices. The energy provider began using Alluvio Aternity in its contact centres to […]

Pen testing and ethical hacking specialist Intigriti has launched a free-to-use comparison tool that it believes will help bug bounty programme owners match their payout rates to market conditions and community sentiment. Intigriti said that newcomers to the concept of bug bounties often have difficulty deciding what payment rates to set, while others pour […]

French genome sequencing lab SeqOIA deployed quad-level cell (QLC) flash-based Universal Storage from Vast Data to meet government targets of 6,000 patient analyses per annum by 2025. In fact, it was on course to meet that objective well before year-end and has been able to add storage controller resources without needing to add array […]

Enterprises’ rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) during the pandemic has left workers across the UK vulnerable to range of algorithmically induced harms, including invasive surveillance, discrimination and severe work intensification, MPs have been told. In a session examining how AI and digital technology generally are changing the workplace, the Business, Energy and Industrial […]

A tribunal has found that an NHS Trust that deleted as many as 90,000 “potentially” critical emails during a legal hearing brought by a whistleblower had not deliberately attempted to conceal evidence. Chris Day, a former junior doctor at Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) in Woolwich, brought a tribunal case against Lewisham […]

In recent weeks, two tech giants have started large-scale redundancy exercises. Twitter notified 50% of its staff of layoffs by email in what has been described by some as a digital P&O dismissal, and Meta announced cuts of 13% of its workforce. With recession now a reality, this is unlikely to be the end […]

We are in the midst of an unstructured data revolution – with 80% of data likely to be unstructured by 2025, according to IDC. The rise of advanced analytics and in particular artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) has allowed intelligence to be gained from the vast reservoir of previously opaque free text, images, voice recordings, […]

As businesses increasingly rely on their digital infrastructure, downtime has a proportionally greater impact. However, while attention to reducing outages in the datacentre appears to be paying off, the costs per outage are not falling. Andy Lawrence, executive director of research at Uptime, says a trend for “small improvements” in annual outage rates may […]

The arrival of Elon Musk at Twitter headquarters on 26 October 2022, bearing a no-doubt hastily acquired basin to deploy in the service of what can only be described as a dad joke, has prompted seismic changes in the world of social media. Twitter, one of the longest-established social platforms, has been a touchstone […]