What is peak-to-peak (pk-pk)? Peak-to-peak (pk-pk) is the difference between the highest and the lowest values in a waveform. In alternating current (AC) the peak-to-peak value is twice the peak value or 2.828 times the root-mean-square (RMS) value. Peak-to-peak voltage is indicated by VPP. The difference between peak-to-peak, peak, amplitude and RMS In alternating current […]
Experiencing a cyber attack can be so discombobulating for ordinary employees that over half of office workers say they would reconsider working for a company that had recently fallen victim to an incident, with only a third saying they would be unphased. This is according to a study of office workers, C-suite executives and […]
It is organisational complacency, rather than the specific actions of cyber criminals and other threat actors, that poses the greatest source of risk to British businesses, information commissioner John Edwards has warned. Speaking as the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined construction firm Interserve £4.4m over a 2020 ransomware incident that saw the data of […]
Sanchit Juneja presented at the Digital Transformation Week conference in Amsterdam in September, explaining how data and machine learning ecosystems change as organisations scale. Juneja is director-product of the data science and machine learning platform at Booking.com and is based in Amsterdam. He presented an ideal data ecosystem for a large tech company and […]
Berlingske Media has become the first Nordic publishing group to confirm plans to phase out the printed edition of a national daily newspaper. It is preparing to end the production of Berlingske Tidende and transition to a fully digital “newspaper” in 2023. The decision was shaped by societal changes in Denmark regarding how the […]
Interviews conducted by Forrester suggest that artificial intelligence (AI) has not yet helped transform finance, yet it is advancing rapidly in some areas. Procure-to-pay (P2P), for example, uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) and has shown immediate returns, while order-to-cash and audit analytics show near-term benefits from AI. Furthermore, predictive analytics […]
HSBC has chosen Oracle’s [email protected] service to upgrade and migrate some of its database systems. The bank will use Oracle’s managed infrastructure service in its own datacentres. The service is part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The two organisations said the platform will enable HSBC to continue its existing use of the supplier’s databases to […]
For firms that want to optimise application delivery – especially during demand spikes – cloud bursting is an attractive option. Cloud bursting allows organisations to call on the elastic, pay-as-you-go cloud storage and compute resources to handle peaks in demand. This can help avoid capital expenditure, and is a quicker way to add capacity […]
Despite eight months of warfare, Ukraine’s IT industry remains open for business. Indeed, it is one of the only sectors in Ukraine registering growth, and with a resilient, committed and highly tech-savvy workforce, is ready and eager to work hand-in-hand with UK tech companies to address collective digital challenges. That was the message delivered […]
British government sources have refused to say if Liz Truss personally gave orders to RAF high-tech spy planes to fly at high speed over the Black Sea and head directly toward Russian defence forces near Sochi. But they have admitted to the risks they created – and that, on 29 September, a Russian Air […]