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Cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve – for better and worse
  • Posted on 25th October 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Ryan Kovar, Distinguished Security Strategist and Leader of SURGe at Splunk, discusses the findings of the company’s 2023 CISO Report – with AI being seen as both a cybersecurity opportunity and threat, CISOs receiving more recognition, concerned over security tool sprawl and seen as enablers of cross-department collaboration. Ryan also offers some great insights as to how companies need to get the balance right when it comes to focusing on both preventing cyber attacks and addressing the consequences of a data breach – with extortion-ware a growing threat.

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Decentralised storage delivers improved data management and security
  • Posted on 20th October 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Saswata Batu, founder of Züs, explains how he has developed the dStorage decentralised storage platform using blockchain and delivering key benefits, such as the elimination of single points of failure, enhanced data privacy and security, cost-effectiveness, transparency, and improved access and management.

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Delivering an optimised digital customer experience
  • Posted on 27th September 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Emily Bristow, SVP Global Head of Professional Services at SS&C Blue Prism, discusses the use of both automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technology solutions to enhance the digital customer experience. She shares some great insights as to the way in which these technologies can help to optimise customer interactions, emphasising that these solutions are primarily designed to augment, rather than replace, human experience.

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Mastering data complexities
  • Posted on 11th September 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Erast Wortel, Syniti’s new vice president, go-to-market for EMEA North, shares some great insights and advice on data management challenges and opportunities – topics discussed include data quality, data lakes and swamps, data governance, data migration and master data management – with some great customer examples along the way.

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Simple, efficient and fast file management
  • Posted on 1st September 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Jimmy Tam, CEO of Peer Software, discusses the need for modern file management and orchestration solutions to be able to meet today’s digital data demands. He explains the essential technology components of an active/active high availability system and the benefits it provides end users.

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UEC to focus on high-performance networking
  • Posted on 31st August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Eric Eppe, Head of Portfolio & Strategy, HPC/AI/Quantum at Eviden, Atos Group and also the UEC Secretary, discusses the formation of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI & HPC at scale.

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An object lesson in storage
  • Posted on 30th August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Enrico Signoretti, VP Product & Partnerships, Cubbit, explains the company’s DS3 geo-distributed storage solution, provides some background on how the company is developing its presence in then market, and talks of a new technology solution arriving this autumn.

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Automation key to cybersecurity success
  • Posted on 30th August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Steven Wood, Director, Solution Consulting (EMEA, APAC), OpenText Cybersecurity, provides some brilliant insights into what actually happens during a security breach, how organisations can address the pain points of skills shortages and the need to consolidate security solutions, and explains how OpenText’s cybersecurity platform provides MSPs and MSSPs with a great opportunity to help end users optimise their cyber resilience strategies.

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Business Email Compromise – time to act?
  • Posted on 22nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, discusses the company’s recent 2023 report on Business Email Compromise (BEC) Trends, warning of the dangers of email impersonation, payment interception, phishing and hybrid vishing, before going on to explain how businesses can optimise their email security through considered use of technology, training and processes.

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Commvault adds advanced security features
  • Posted on 17th August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Jason Gerrard, Director of International Systems Engineering at Commvault, explains the advanced security features recently added to the company’s data protection solutions portfolio, featuring on-prem and SaaS management integration, risk analysis, threat scan and advisor, auto recovery and Microsoft and CyberArk integrations.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle – Dell’s sustainable materials journey
  • Posted on 9th August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Allison Ward, Senior Sustainable Materials Engineer at Dell Technologies, explains how the company balances the priorities of the circular economy alongside ensuring that sustainable materials innovation doesn’t come at a performance cost. She shares some brilliant insights as to the work Dell is doing around sustainability innovation, both internally and working with its supply chain, strategic partners and, importantly, customers.

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Application modernisation and digital data management
  • Posted on 6th August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Martin James, VP EMEA at Aerospike, discusses the importance of application modernisation, efficient software and IT consolidation – all of which should mean the need for less databases, but with richer feature sets. He outlines both the pitfalls of holding onto legacy applications and systems and the benefits of modernisation and consolidation, with Aerospike well positioned to help customers with the attendant data management challenges and opportunities.

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SD-WAN – not all solutions are created equal (or fully integrated)!
  • Posted on 2nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Jon Selway, Aryaka’s Vice President of Channel Sales – EMEA, discusses the SD-WAN, and not unrelated SASE and ZTNA, opportunities, both for small and medium sized enterprises and, therefore, the Channel organisations which serve them. He explains the various SD-WAN solutions available, advising end users, VARs and MSPs to ensure that when they do evaluate both networking and security solutions, there are no hidden surprises – with native and fully integrated stack solutions offering perhaps the best way forward.

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Database modernisation – time for a migration?
  • Posted on 2nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

David Walker, Field CTO, EMEA, Yugabyte, the leading open source distributed SQL database company, warns of the problems associated with legacy databases, discusses the importance of database modernisation - covering the requirements, benefits and potential pitfalls of the migration process - and outlines the many advantages of migrating to open source cloud native databases.

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Redefining risk
  • Posted on 2nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

David Tattam, Chief Research and Content Officer and Co-Founder, Protecht, discusses the company’s mission ‘to redefine the way the world thinks about risk’, with some engaging and informative insights as to how organisations can develop and grow an effective, dynamic risk management framework, with the people-related aspect – culture and conduct – at its core.

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