Online home furnishings retailer Wayfair has ditched its hybrid cloud strategy by shuttering its datacentres and shifting all of its applications and workloads to Google’s public cloud infrastructure. The migration involved moving Wayfair’s entire database, application data stores, compute frameworks and data analytics tools to Google Cloud and took 16 months to complete. According […]
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The new UK Government, headed by prime minister Liz Truss and chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, held its first significant event on 23 September. Labelled as a mini-Budget, it was anything but. The largest reshaping of tax burdens in decades will have a significant impact on individuals, through adjustments to both the basic and top rate […]
Retail has hardly changed in more than 100 years, says JJ Van Oosten, chief customer and digital officer of B&Q owner Kingfisher. For the majority of that time, the industry has operated with a self-service model. The advent of e-commerce marked a gradual evolution, he notes, but the procurement and then supply of goods […]
Morrisons lost its place as part of “the big four” UK grocers in terms of market share in September, but it has since joined the top three supermarket chains – Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda – in launching its own retail media network. In the same month, Kantar data showed that Aldi usurped Morrisons as […]
Officials from Ukrainian cyber agency the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) and its European Union (EU) counterpart, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), have held high-level talks in Athens with the objective of developing deeper cooperation on cyber issues during the ongoing Russian invasion. SSSCIP deputy head Viktor Zhora and […]
Containers have quickly become a fundamental part of DevOps. Their lightweight and portable nature makes them attractive to all sizes of organisation, from small startups trying to reduce costs to large multibillion-pound companies wanting to ensure service availability. Compared with traditional hypervisor-based virtualisation, containers are not weighed down by emulated hardware, or the bloat […]
Over the past decade, environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles have become increasingly tied to corporate reputation and pages and pages of companies’ annual reports have been filled with declarations and promises related to sustainability and ethics. Then regulators came to burst the bubble. As consumers and shareholders became savvier and more sceptical and […]
Application programming interfaces (APIs) expand ecosystems and market presence for major services such as Google Maps, Lyft and Facebook, and they have created new market channels and products for traditional players including Pitney-Bowes (location-related information services, for example), Capital One (bank accounts, credit card offers, rewards, and so on), and the Chicago Transit Authority […]
A report on food poverty data from the Open Data Institute (ODI) has revealed that the North East of England and black families throughout the country are suffering most from food poverty. The ODI is making available the data visualisation tool, built using Tableau, behind the findings available to explore. Louise Burke, managing director […]