Featured The Great Chip Shortage: From boilers, to the cloud, what does 2022 bring? Seeking a new gas boiler for The Stack’s bracingly cold HQ, we were told this week that the model sought was unavailable. Why? A global semiconductor shortage that has caused shortages in unexpected industries, quoth the gasman. Boilers increasingly use wireless control units that, like most things digital, require
Cloud AWS unveils a new mainframe modernisation toolkit at Re:Invent, but what's really new? But where's the truly new stuff here?
Cybersecurity New Lloyd's cyber insurance clauses: buyers, make sure you read the "war" exclusions closely "Underwriters should consider... the impact on exposures across the portfolio."
Cybersecurity Cloud Postgres honeypots breached within seconds -- and your IP filter is unlikely to save you IP-blocking won't do much...
Featured Join NATO's CIO at our exclusive dinner, November 26. Focussed on change management, this intimate dinner on November 26 will...
Featured Dave Jones on becoming a fractional CIO -- and what he sees on the job... Working extensively with manufacturing and construction companies, CIO Dave Jones...
Cybersecurity US Agencies given two weeks to patch 100+ exploited vulns -- but who's forcing compliance? It took TWO YEARS for all agencies to meet an earlier 45 day deadline
Enterprise IT New Group CDTIO takes the reins at Standard Chartered Bank has doubled its technology spend, moved from defensive to offensive
Enterprise IT HSBC standardises CI/CD platform for 23,000 developers Deal follows CloudBees' poaching of HSBC's global CTO...
Featured Job(s) of the Week: MOD seeks a "people" CDIO; AIG's on a UK CIO hunt Every week The Stack will now be running a “job of the week” feature – typically featuring CIO or equivalent roles, with a UK focus. This Monday we’re starting with a brace of notable CIO vacancies for our readers – at the Ministry of Defence (MOD), and one at insurer American
Cloud AWS pokes MSFT in the eye with a free SQL Server > PostgreSQL migration tool AWS has come good on its December 2020 promise to open source a tool that lets users migrate SQL Server-based apps to the free and opensource PostgreSQL database with minimal drama, much to the delight of many in the industry -- a step that should prove of considerable interest to
Cloud AWS is building a new storage backend for S3 on 40k lines of Rust S3 team open-sources a library for testing concurrent Rust code as part of...
ESG/ClimateTech Expect to hear a lot more about XBRL. Here's why "Probably the single thing that will help with information flow"
Featured GXO Logistics CIO Sandeep Sakharkar on robots and the future CIO Meet the man overseeing the digital side of a sprawling 3D Tetris operation
Enterprise IT TV maker Vizio sued for alleged copyleft violations -- after failing to disclose source code Vizio allegedly uses 14 software programmes licensed under the GPLv2, but...
Featured Server-side PDF software may be the unsung hero of your workflow iText CTO Raf Hens on bridging the data world and the document world
Enterprise IT C-Suite motivation is growing, but embedding sustainability into IT processes remains challenging UK business leaders “overwhelmingly motivated” to take environmental action, but...
Enterprise IT One to Watch #7: Top Goldman quant's new AI investment platform "SkopeAI" "We’re at this inflection point where you don’t necessarily need a lot of intermediaries"
Enterprise IT A quantum-proof network is coming to London within months BT and Toshiba are set to launch the world’s first commercial trial of a quantum network infrastructure. The landmark network will securely connect sites in London’s Docklands, the City and the M4 Corridor. The network will support quantum key distribution (QKD) -- a technology the two have been
Cybersecurity AXA survey shows cyber risk a top concern for the first time -- as insurers, tech get creative "Silent risk" remains a cyber insurance issue...
Enterprise IT LIBOR laggards win a "synthetic" reprieve from the FCA. Wait -- Artificial Intelligence didn't fix it? Nobody wants "widespread market disruption and a disorderly cessation"
Enterprise IT Nike's digital ambitions hit supply chain snags, as two worlds collide Nike is pursuing a more "direct, member-centric business model"
Cybersecurity Exploit warnings over critical (CVSS 9.8) VMware vCenter Server bug "The ramifications of this vulnerability are serious"
Enterprise IT National Highways puts £1B of procurement meat on the bones of its ambitious digital strategy Security, data management, IT cost analysis, DR... It's all needed.
Cloud Wells Fargo unveils new multi-cloud infrastructure strategy: Azure, GCP... and GreenLake? Hybrid-multi-Kubernetes-something...