It’s no surprise to me that financial services organisations missed the 17 January2025 deadline to be in compliance with the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). I personally have not met a CIO or CISO who thought this deadline was realistic.Even back in January, research from Orange Cyberdefense saw 43% of respondents in the…
Anyone who has been held in a customer service phone loop trying to resolve issues relating to products, services, accounts and so on will know the feeling – customer service can be a frustrating, time-consuming experience. It feels like technology has not helped that much, so when Gartner trumpeted the prospects of agentic artificial intelligence…
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Europe has started taking steps to fix the immense problems it believes have hampered its competitiveness and left it with an under-developed artificial intelligence (AI) industry that cannot compete on the world stage. Leaders of European Union (EU) nations, having called for urgent measures, set terms for political negotiations to simplify onerous rules governing financiers and…
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott hailed AI as an “absolute requirement” for the survival of humanity at the supplier’s Knowledge 2025 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. “AI is civilization’s opportunity of this century. It is a gateway to prosperity. It is the only $22tn global market opportunity between now and 2030. It’s the only…
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In another move beyond the bounds of strictly hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), Nutanix has launched Cloud Native AOS. In other words, this is the operating system (OS) that underlies all its HCI products but available for deployment separately and without the need for a hypervisor. In this way, Nutanix hopes to enable its customers to extend…
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Financially motivated threat actors – including ransomware crews – remain the single biggest source of cyber threat in the world, accounting for 55% of active threat groups tracked during 2024, up two percentage points on 2023 and 7% on 2022, demonstrating that cyber crime really does, to a certain extent, pay. At least, this is…
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In this podcast, we talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, about the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on data, storage and compliance for CIOs. Gorge discusses the implications for data, its volume, the difficulties of keeping track of inputs and outputs from AI processing, and the need to keep up with law and…
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The iPhone has been around for nearly 18 years now. As it approaches its legal “adulthood,” plenty of myths about Apple’s iconic device continue to circulate, many of which can actually hurt your user experience. Let’s bust seven of the most common iPhone myths once and for all.There’s no “proper way” to charge your iPhoneiPhone…
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Organisations using VMware now have no choice but to buy an annual subscription for a bundled product if they plan to continue using the hypervisor. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, Broadcom has simplified the VMware product family, which is now only available as a subscription, licensed on a per-core basis. Some organisations, like Telefónica…
Markus Schümmelfeder has spent more than a decade looking for ways to help biopharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim exploit digital and data. He joined the company in February 2014 as corporate vice-president in IT and became CIO in April 2018. “It was a natural evolution,” he says. “Over time, you see what can be done as…
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