What is a clean desk policy (CDP)? A clean desk policy (CDP) is a corporate directive that specifies how employees should leave their work space when they leave the office. Most CDPs require employees to clear their desks of all papers at the end of the day. In the past, implementation of a clean desk […]

Current and former staff of the Post Office, Fujitsu, the government, as well as lawyers, must face questioning in the current phase of the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal, insist victims. Victims are demanding that the people who were directly involved in decisions that led to the scandal, as well as […]

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty obvious because databases, especially in busy and mission-critical environments, are subject to a lot of changes from a lot of […]

Growth in end-user cyber spending is being driven by the increase in remote and hybrid working models, the ongoing transition from virtual private networks (VPNs) to zero-trust network access (ZTNA) and the shift to cloud-based delivery models, according to statistics published by Gartner’s number-crunchers. The analyst said spending on security and risk management products […]

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. October-December 2022 CW Middle East: Qatar strengthens cyber defences ahead of FIFA World Cup Share this item with your network: Being the first Arab country to host the World Cup is pressure enough on Qatar, but there is also a massive cyber security challenge associated with […]

The Alan Turing Institute has announced the formal launch of an AI Standards Hub that the government trialed in January 2022. The institute has teamed up with the British Standards Institution (BSI) and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to form the hub, which is also supported by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and […]

High-speed non-volatile memory express (NVMe)-based flash array maker Pavilion Data appears to have hit a wall. The US-based startup had dreamt of being a leading player in the storage market with its high-performance NVMe-based HFA all-flash arrays. It was all set to brief IT journalists as part of the IT Press Tour in Silicon […]

Everyone wants to live greener, right? The same now goes for companies. Firms are being increasingly judged on their sustainability credentials, with ever more searching questions and scrutiny from customers, shareholders and partners on their approach to sustainability. For many firms, this means having to make sure their upstream suppliers are as green as […]

A union has claimed that workers at Google’s US-based datacentres are finding themselves on the receiving end of retaliation and harassment for demanding “basic” workplace benefits. The Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America (AWU-CWA) claims staff working within the tech giant’s US datacentres are “constantly” having to organise to secure basic benefits that are […]

Cloud bursting is a way to deal with one of IT’s constant challenges. Namely, balancing demand with the compute and storage capacity needed to fulfil it. Cloud bursting allows an organisation to rapidly migrate datacentre workloads to the cloud’s theoretically unlimited compute and storage when required. In this, hybrid cloud infrastructure combines fixed, on-premise […]