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…
The Middle East is no longer a follower in the global tech race, it’s a frontrunner. From Riyadh to Dubai, governments are not just adopting emerging technologies, they’re architecting national strategies around them. Artificial intelligence (AI), cloud infrastructure and data sovereignty are no longer buzzwords. But behind the glossy headlines and billion-dollar initiatives lies a…
From ambition to action: How the Gulf is turning responsible AI into a global reality Read More »
Most enterprises now run applications in containers, and so they must pay attention to how they store and manage data for containerised applications. The Nutanix enterprise cloud index, compiled for the cloud software supplier by VansonBourne and published earlier this year, found 54% of firms have containerised all their applications and as many as 98%…
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Cohesity has become a prominent name in cyber resilience, as enterprises worldwide look for smarter ways to secure and recover data in an age of increasingly sophisticated threats. For CEO Sanjay Poonen, the company’s mission reflects this shift in urgency: “Our mission is to protect, secure and provide insights into the world’s data. The largest…
In this podcast, we ask Patrick Smith, EMEA chief technology officer at Pure Storage, about the increased drive towards ensuring data sovereignty. Smith talks about drivers that include geopolitical trade and political uncertainty, new levels of sensitivity over data, and increased regulation and compliance requirements. He also talks about the risks of not addressing the…
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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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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…
Given digital technology is so central to how we live, work, transact and communicate, we have recently seen the finalisation of an unprecedented amount of digital regulation in both the UK and the EU. In such a fast-moving environment, this begs the question, how should companies stay ahead of the curve? Although the exact response…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit out at the UK competition watchdog for presenting “no credible evidence” to support its claims the public cloud giant’s anti-competitive behaviour is harming how the domestic cloud infrastructure market operates. The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) published the provisional findings from its multi-year antitrust investigation into the inner workings…
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In this storage supplier profile, we look at Dell storage, which is part of the infrastructure solutions group of the Texas-based giant Dell Technologies. Since the last profile we did on Dell, its acquisition of EMC, which formed such an important part of its storage portfolio, has been eclipsed as the tech world’s largest ever. But…
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