Cloud computing adoption by enterprises has only accelerated since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Forrester Consulting 2021 Cloud Connectivity Buyer’s Guide, commissioned by Megaport, suggests that the pandemic “reinforced the substantial value and necessity of cloud technology. Business decision-makers have realised that networks are ‘the central nervous system of their businesses.’” With cloud technology playing such… … Read more

Amazon Web Services, (AWS), has entered into an agreement with Ferrari to become its official cloud, machine learning, and artificial intelligence provider.  Together, the companies will accelerate the pace of innovation across the entire Ferrari organisation, including their road cars department, GT Competitions, the Ferrari Challenge, and the Scuderia Ferrari FORMULA 1 (F1) team.  Ferrari… … Read more

In the ever-changing economic landscape, business intelligence is an integral part of an organisation’s ‘scalable success’. When employees make critical decisions for a company, it must be backed by real-time data to reduce missteps and increase the probability of future success. To clearly define business outcomes, organisations are increasingly looking at integrating business intelligence (BI)… … Read more

More than 650,000 companies in the United States use Excel to create financial projections. While Excel is surely a versatile tool, it forces manual processes onto finance departments and essentially hinders collaboration. Companies were locked into Excel in the past because cloud-based budget management and financial reporting software were only targeted at enterprises. These days,… … Read more

Italy plans to set up a national agency tasked with combating cyber attacks as it continues work on its unified cloud infrastructure. The country is one of many European nations attempting to enhance their cybersecurity capabilities. Many aspects of Italy’s digital security, which are dispersed among various Ministers and state bodies, are to be brought… … Read more

The global pandemic, and associated surge in remote work, has accelerated a massive move to cloud with cloud-first organisations now outnumbering on premise organizations by a ratio of three-to-one. This was highlighted in a study by Devo Technology, a cloud-native logging and security analytics company, which assessed the current state and pace of change with… … Read more

Professional services firm Cognizant has developed a dedicated Google Business Group (GBG) to help accelerate shared customers’ cloud modernisation journeys.  The GBG is an expansion of Cognizant’s long-standing relationship with Google Cloud, extending combined service capabilities and joint solutions development to accelerate client cloud transformation and meet the evolving needs of today’s businesses.    With a… … Read more

The rising adoption of cloud-native architectures, DevOps and agile methodologies has broken traditional approaches to application security. This is according to an independent global survey of 700 CISOs commissioned by Software intelligence firm Dynatrace. As organisations shift more responsibility ‘left’ to developers to accelerate innovation, increasingly complex IT ecosystems and outdated security tooling can slow… … Read more

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has launched an investigation into the use of cloud services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft under Cloud II contracts by European Union (EU) institutions, bodies and agencies (EUIs). It has also begun looking at the use of Microsoft Office 365 by the European Commission. These investigations… … Read more

There has been a strong post-pandemic push toward the adoption of cloud-based technology, according to a study by Galvanize, an SaaS governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software provider. The survey of GRC professionals revealed the critical value they bring to the C-suite, as well as the top concerns from, and the evolving role of, GRC… … Read more