Featured Why data sovereignty and trust will continue to be high on the agenda. "Synergies within GAIA-X are forming to support compliance and security"
Enterprise IT Rotten at the Core: The Open Source vs. Open Core Stakes Keep Ratcheting Up "Open core is a zombie business model that deserves to be put to rest"
Featured Supreme Court sides with Google on API "fair use", ending epic copyright clash with Oracle. "Enforcing the copyright risks causing creativity-related harms to the public"
Enterprise IT Opening up Nominet – what is changing, and what needs to change? Nominet has been under the lens of scrutiny ever since a group of members under the banner name of PublicBenefit forced an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on March 22, 2021. This led to a knife-edge majority of 53% cast for the motion and the resignation of the CEO, Russell Howarth
Cloud Should estimating the power consumption of AWS EC2 instances really be quite this hard? Understanding the power consumption of cloud resources is crucial to tracking emissions...
Policy CEOs are turning "risk on" - with major investments in technology and data science planned 88% of CEOs believe that data science will be a main differentiator
Cloud Timing-as-a-Service, anyone? Timestamps via the cloud is now a OPEX-friendly option. Users of hardware timing face growing risks.
Policy NatWest faces criminal proceedings for AML failures after £264m in cash deposits went unquestioned. Software doesn't fix stupid.
Enterprise IT HMRC seeks new technology partner: "Safe pair of hands" wanted for £23 billion framework. "Increased value through economies of scale and operational efficiencies" sought.
Enterprise IT OpenUK consortium urges closed-loop, carbon negative data centres in new blueprint. "A holistic, unified solutions blueprint that can be adopted immediately"
Enterprise IT With new leadership, it’s time to put the bunting back up at the GDS "It all starts with leadership..."
Enterprise IT The Kalifa Review: UK Fintech report urges robust gov't action, dollops of cash, in the shade of Brexit. "We've already seen stagnation in productivity, hiring of talent, cautious investment and lack of confidence"
Policy European finance regulators demand more powers to enforce "digital operational resilience" Lack of follow-up powers poses risk to "effectiveness of enforcement"
Enterprise IT Clock ticks on radical plans to overhaul, digitalise £290 billion in UK public procurement "A significant opportunity to foster institutional change"
Enterprise IT "Through a glass, darkly?" Making sense of Data Centre sustainability Can data centres ever be truly green? Are metrics meaningful? Are we even asking the right questions?
Enterprise IT A major new ESG report casts light on a complex market: Our digested read. "Providers not only have an issue with timeliness, but also with accuracy and reliability"
ESG/ClimateTech One to watch #2: Carbon management startup Persefoni. "Like GDPR in 2017. People know they need to comply, but not how..."
Enterprise IT FCA warns firms on remote working compliance: urges tight ship on call recording "There is a real risk of loss of monitoring and surveillance capability"
Cybersecurity NIS 2: Winds of change blowing as Europe sharply tightens up cybersecurity requirements. EU will carry out "coordinated security risk assessments of specific critical ICT services, systems or products supply chains"
ESG/ClimateTech Climate risk data is a hot mess. These open source pioneers want to set things straight. "This is a thorny problem that we have to solve"
Featured "Don't be evil: unionise" - Alphabet, Google workers form historic union amid rising staff discontent "Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support..."
Policy 6 things to know about the Brexit deal (from deprecated encryption to data equivalence) European Commission: "A series of further clarifications will be needed"
Featured The WHO Academy: From sexual health to hackathons, the pressure is on to deliver. The WHO Academy aims to reach 10m health workers by 2023. First, it needs to build hundreds of courses -- and a software platform.
Cloud Palantir's controversial "membership" of EU sovereign cloud project GAIA-X sparks outrage (and confusion) "The decision on all applications is yet to be made"