Marks & Spencer (M&S) chief digital and technology officer Rachel Higham is to leave the retailer, in the wake of a ransomware attack on its core systems from which it is still recovering. Higham, who had been in post for less than two years, will be replaced by current retail director Sacha Berendji, according to…
Cloud block storage allows organisations to run applications that depend on high throughput and low latency in the cloud. The latest block storage offerings make use of the cloud’s advantages, without sacrificing performance. Such offerings allow customers to run applications in the cloud and use block storage there, such as proof-of-concept projects before they’re rolled…
Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts, Wickes chief David Wood, and Fortnum & Mason boss Tom Athron were among the executives to sign an open letter in August calling on the government to legislate to better protect service workers. Headline signatory Jo Causon, CEO of the Institute of Customer Service (ICS), and her co-signatories from retail, hospitality…
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.…
Interview: Holland & Barrett CDO preparing a Michelin star-worthy data strategy Read More »
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.…
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…
Burnout burden: why CISOs are at breaking point, what needs to change Read More »
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…
Podcast: Container storage challenges and how to overcome them Read More »
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…
Restaurant fills DR gap with all-flash Pure and dodges higher cloud cost Read More »
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…
M&S, Co-op attacks a ‘Category 2 cyber hurricane’, say UK experts Read More »
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…
Where IT comes from: Pure Storage’s lean Czech assembly Read More »
