Having seen tech giants in other parts of the world benefit from the results of their work for many years, Belgian researchers may have found a way of growing big tech companies closer to home. Venturing is one of two ways Imec is helping build a startup community. The venturing team focuses on deep […]
Banks are investing huge sums in legacy payment technology, but missing out on potential revenue opportunities available through the lates cloud-native platforms, according to IDC research. According to IDC Financial Insights, global finance firms will spend £57bn on legacy payments technology in 2028, compared with £36bn in 2022. Meanwhile, it is suppliers that are […]
The promotion of Scotland as a viable alternative location for hyperscale and colocation datacentre operators to site their facilities is continuing apace, with the publication of a report flagging 20 locations north of the border that would be suitable for large-scale server farm developments. The report, compiled by Host in Scotland, is in support […]
Keytrade Bank is moving from legacy core banking technology to a cloud-based platform from Infosys’s Finacle subsidiary in a move that will help it “leapfrog” in-house development. The Benelux-based online bank, with operations in Belgium and Luxemburg, is replacing its legacy core banking system with Infosys Finacle’s core banking software as a service, hosted […]
The push towards cloud has created more demands on business networks, in particular how secure and effective they are, and aiming to address these needs, Cato Networks has announced a secure access service edge (SASE) throughput record, achieving 5Gbps on a single encrypted tunnel with all security inspections enabled, as well as introducing cloud […]
Thousands of people whose personal data was exfiltrated and publicly leaked by the Play ransomware gang following a cyber attack on the systems of nationwide car dealer network Arnold Clark in 2022 are now coming forward to participate in what may become one of the largest group action law suits yet seen in the […]
In an interview run on the second day of London Tech Weekly, Labour leader Keir Starmer stressed the importance of looking at the workforce impact of artificial intelligence (AI). “More broadly, AI is accelerating so very fast that some of the jobs that are being done now by people will almost certainly be done […]
Retailers are losing a large amount through abandoned baskets, with Primer finding the value of abandoned online transactions averaging at £213.84. Almost 40% of online shopping carts are being abandoned, reported the no-code automation firm, which found that there was a disconnect when looking into what consumers are having difficulties with and what online retailers […]
Skills shortages are the most common reason why enterprises are struggling to realise their multicloud ambitions, suggests the third annual State of cloud strategy survey. The Forrester Consulting poll, commissioned by cloud infrastructure automation firm HashiCorp, revealed high levels of interest in adopting and investing in multicloud technologies, but its findings also showed that […]
RISC-V, the open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) alternative to Intel and ARM, held its first European summit on 5 to 9 June 2023 in Barcelona. Originally developed in 2010 at University of California, Berkeley, Risc-V is an open source hardware and software platform managed by RISC-V International, which is optimised for system on […]