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Interview: Holland & Barrett CDO preparing a Michelin star-worthy data strategy

8 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, automation, business continuity, chatbot, ChatGPT, Computer, data science, digital transformation, e-commerce, machine learning, Meta, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

Restaurants with three Michelin stars represent the pinnacle of fine dining.  In the UK, The Fat Duck by Heston Blumenthal, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Core by Clare Smyth and The Waterside Inn in Bray are among the establishments in that illustrious bracket. And next up: the wellness products and services retailer, Holland & Barrett.…

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Building digital resilience in retail

8 minutes of reading / agile, AI, business continuity, disaster recovery, e-commerce, GDPR, internet of things, Tech / By

Retailers are not having an easy time. The June 2025 report from the CBI reveals that retail sales fell for the ninth consecutive month and are expected to continue their rapid decline throughout July. There was a thin sliver of light, as online retail sales volumes grew slightly and are predicted to rise again next month.…

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Burnout burden: why CISOs are at breaking point, what needs to change

6 minutes of reading / AI, automation, business continuity, compliance, cybersecurity, Tech / By

Let’s face it, no one talks about burnout in cybersecurity until it’s already too late. The pressure for CISOs and security leaders has been quietly mounting for years. Late nights, increasing number of incidents, shrinking budgets, ever changing landscape of regulations and threats and the constant expectation to be everywhere and be across everything. They’re…

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Podcast: Container storage challenges and how to overcome them

7 minutes of reading / automation, business continuity, containers, Google, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage’s Venkat Ramakrishnan about customer challenges when dealing with containers and storage and data protection. Ramakrishnan, vice-president of products and engineering for Portworx, talked about customers who take on container deployments without thinking through the future scale, technical requirements and cost they are likely to accrue. Here, Ramakrishnan…

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Restaurant fills DR gap with all-flash Pure and dodges higher cloud cost

4 minutes of reading / business continuity, disaster recovery, Tech / By

US restaurant chain Red Lobster opted to standardise on Pure Storage flash storage arrays as it tried to fill a gap in disaster recovery (DR) provision that would have left it severely exposed in case of an unplanned outage at its primary datacentre. The move to fully on-premise mirrored datacentres also meant it dodged cloud…

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M&S, Co-op attacks a ‘Category 2 cyber hurricane’, say UK experts

4 minutes of reading / business continuity, Computer, Tech / By

The Scattered Spider/Dragonforce cyber attacks that struck Marks & Spencer and Co-op during the spring have been classed as a Category 2 cyber event on the UK Cyber Monitoring Centre’s (CMC’s) recently launched ‘hurricane scale’, with total costs likely to end up somewhere between £270m and £440m. The CMC – an arm’s-length body set up…

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Where IT comes from: Pure Storage’s lean Czech assembly

4 minutes of reading / business continuity, disaster recovery, Foxconn, Tech, Tesla / By

As with Pure Storage’s research and development (R&D) efforts, its final product assembly also rests on a three-site system. Flash arrays put together at regional sites – two in Texas and one in Czechia – cater for regional demand. We visited its European assembly location in Pardubice, Czechia, to see how it works. Pure occupies…

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Backup technology explained: The fundamentals of enterprise backup

10 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Broadcom, business continuity, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, disaster recovery, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Snap, Tech / By

Backup is a fundamental protection required by any IT system. That’s all the more so in a world where ransomware attacks can take out company data in a stroke. Effective backup has also become more complex as IT departments deal with a variety of systems – including virtual servers and desktops, and containerised applications –…

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The most pressing challenges for CISOs and cyber security teams

5 minutes of reading / AI, business continuity, machine learning, quantum computing, Tech / By

The UK Ministry of Defence recently published its Global Strategic Trends report which sets out the developments that will shape the world over the next five years. These provide an insight into some of the challenges that CISOs and cyber security teams will face.The first threat is that of global and regional political instability. As…

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Six trends that will define cyber through to 2030

3 minutes of reading / AI, automation, business continuity, compliance, GDPR, Tech / By

Guessing the future is always a difficult task. Six trends for the next five years seem more apparent than others, and it will be interesting to re-read this article in 2029 to assess its accuracy. In the meantime, the six trends standing out as top priorities, in no particular order, are: Preparing the post-quantum cryptographic…

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