Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology at The Pensions Regulator (TPR), is building strong IT foundations as part of a five-year strategy to help transform the organisation from a compliance-based to a risk-based regulator. He explains what that change will mean in practice over the next few years. “As a regulator, we’ll obviously…
Mariano Albera describes himself as “a software engineer who was demoted to chief technology officer” (CTO). Now at global payments processing company Checkout.com, Albera heads up the operational and customer-facing IT team, made up of around 600 IT professionals. This is a significant portion of the fintech’s total workforce of 2,000, which – if you…
Google Cloud has confirmed the withdrawal of a complaint it filed with the European Commission (EC) in September 2024, relating to Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing strategy, whereby it charges customers higher fees for wanting to run its software in competing cloud environments. The issue has seen Microsoft repeatedly come in for criticism and scrutiny from…
Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight at the RAC, says the key to exploiting data assets is twofold – understanding the business problem and having a great team that’s capable of finding the right technological solutions. “I need people who are empowered, keen, enthusiastic and willing to share knowledge,” he says, outlining the importance…
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Web traffic protection specialist Cloudflare has issued an apology to its customers after an unspecified outage affecting its Access zero-trust platform downed multiple public-facing services, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, outage information aggregator DownDetector and social media platform X. The issue at Cloudflare, which is well known for its frontline cyber defensive work in blocking distributed denial…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s dominant hold on the cloud computing market is to come under renewed scrutiny, with the European Commission (EC) set to investigate the pair’s activities under the terms of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The EC has opened two separate investigations into AWS and Microsoft, which seek to ascertain if…
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The Police Digital Service (PDS) has dismissed concerns about the quality and pace of its work being hampered by a cost-cutting push to reduce headcount in its flexible IT workforce, while acknowledging its efforts to improve workplace culture remain ongoing. The Home Office-funded company is responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of the National…
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On the day CEO Satya Nadella discussed Microsoft’s “planet-scale cloud and AI factory,” Azure cloud – the IT infrastructure underpinning this – was offline for more than eight hours. According to the company’s latest quarterly results, Microsoft cloud revenue surpassed $49bn, an increase of 26% compared to the same quarter last year. Overall, Microsoft posted revenue…
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Industrial organisations continue to face growing cyber threats from adversaries – ranging from sophisticated state-sponsored groups to hacktivists and financially motivated criminals. These actors are not just targeting data or demanding ransoms, they are affecting physical processes and critical services. A common risk across many of these incidents is one that is still underestimated: insufficient…
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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with OpenAI to provide civil servants with access to ChatGPT Enterprise. The MoU includes the option of UK data residency for customers using the OpenAI API Platform, ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu. OpenAI technology is being used across the UK government to provide…
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