JML is a household name, with a £100m turnover. Known for promoting products via in-store video screens, the retail company is a recognisable presence on the high street and in some of the biggest retailers throughout the UK and Ireland. The company develops products in a variety of categories and sells them through its website,… … Read more

Could you tell us a little bit about ProcessUnity and what it does?  We’re a cloud provider of risk management program automation.  We help organisations make risk management activities more effective and efficient in their businesses. We have a core concentration around third-party risk and cybersecurity program management, but we also help customers across the entire GRC (governance, risk management, and compliance) landscape. We specialise in automating risk registers, control… … Read more

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to launch its first data centre region in New Zealand by 2024. Part of a NZ$7.5 billion (£3.9bn) investment strategy in the country over the next fifteen years, the data centre will form the bulk of Amazon’s new AWS Asia Pacific Region. The infrastructure hub will be owned and operated… … Read more

Cloud storage provider OVHcloud is looking to raise €400 million (£343m) in a Paris IPO that would bring its valuation close to €4 billion. The French firm will be listed on the Euronext stock exchange by the end of 2021. OVHcloud needs the IPO to finance its competition with major cloud providers like Amazon Web… … Read more

Atos and IBM, two key players in digital transformation and professional services, have partnered to help boost cloud migration for banks and insurance companies. The partnership will focus around a new “Atos Cloud Centre of Excellence”. The centre’s goal will be to increase security and regulatory compliance for financial services companies that are moving their… … Read more

Ransomware mitigation strategies have become an increasingly important aspect of major cloud providers’ offering following the pandemic. In recent weeks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have all published articles recommending mitigation tactics and best practice in the event of a ransomware attack. A ransomware attack occurs when company files are encrypted… … Read more

This free live webinar takes place on Wednesday 22 September | 2pm ET ABOUT THE WEBINAR Developers have long heard about the benefits of edge computing: lower latency for applications, better bandwidth and cost efficiencies, the ability to put points of presence closer to end-users, and more. The edge opens a new wave of opportunity… … Read more

Xbox Cloud Gaming is set to launch in time for Christmas this year. The new service from Microsoft will allow consumers to play games streamed to their devices through the cloud, as opposed to having to install them locally. Currently only available on PC and mobile devices, Microsoft plans to launch the service for its… … Read more

Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has unveiled plans to build a ‘sovereign cloud’ for German enterprises and its public sector alongside Google Cloud. The companies, which began collaborating on cloud-based solutions and services back in March 2020, hope to jointly innovate to “develop a large spectrum of next-gen sovereign cloud solutions and infrastructure”. T-Sytems will provide… … Read more

An Allied Market Research (AMR) forecast has shown that the global cloud services market will rake in $555 billion in revenues this year.  This indicates a 17.5% overall growth rate for the cloud computing industry from the previous year. There’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud adoption around the globe and, with… … Read more