A new study has revealed the considerable burden on data compliance workers in the UK.
Skillcast, a company that teaches compliance online, crunched the numbers to determine how much personal data one compliance worker has to deal with.
The results are shocking: on average, one compliance worker has to look after the data of a whopping 14,315 people and businesses. That’s more than the population of some towns.
They got this figure by adding up each company’s employees, customers, and clients.
The maker of expensive business software, which no one is sure what it does, SAP is implementing a company-wide restructuring this year, including job buyouts and job changes for up to 8,000 employees or more than seven per cent of the application giant’s workforce.
The restructuring is part of what SAP described as its “ambition for 2025” plan that increases its focus on “key strategic growth areas” – business AI in particular – and to “transform its operational setup to capture those difficult to hunt organisational synergies, AI-driven efficiencies and to prepare the company for highly scalable future revenue growth,” the company said in a statement.
Not one to miss out on a year of AI-themed results presentations, the topic took up a significant chunk of IBM’s Q4 earnings call.
Big Blue delivered three per cent revenue growth over the quarter, while software revenue was up two per cent.
CEO Arvind Krishna highlighted the progress made in recurring revenue and IBM’s consulting book, which grew 5.5 per cent over the quarter.
As expected, the earnings call’s significant focus was on IBM’s progress in AI.
Krishna highlighted the successful launch of Watsonx, IBM’s flagship AI and data platform. Introduced in the fourth quarter, Watsonx governance drove a substantial portion of IBM’s book during the period.
Microsoft’s search engine Bing, browser Edge, and advertising services might be spared from Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulation.
In 2022, the European Commission named the world’s most notorious tech giants, including Microsoft, as internet “gatekeepers,” who would be subject to special rules.
The DMA, which has been in force since November 2022, was meant to protect consumers while giving rivals more chances to survive against big tech companies.
Microsoft’s widely used services such as Windows, Bing search and the Edge browser came under the eagle eye of European antitrust regulators. As a result, the Redmond-based tech giant was added to the gatekeepers list.
Last year, both Apple and Microsoft tried to get iMessage and Bing off the EU’s tech gatekeepers list, with Microsoft arguing their platforms had neither hit the set thresholds nor attained the size to qualify as a gatekeeper.
Cloudy Exclusive Networks has been getting closer to its existing vendors in new places and deeper ways.
That plan worked well for the company last year, with the firm boasting it had kept its vendor relationships, and there is no sign of that changing as it enters 2024.
In its latest full-year figures for 2022, the distributor claimed it had gained from maintaining solid relationships, with its vendor and customer loyalty rates up by more than 100 per cent yearly.
Cloudy and spicy Wasabi Technologies has snapped up Curio AI from GrayMeta.
The deal includes the Curio AI software and the brains behind it, including GrayMeta’s boss, Aaron Edell, who will join Wasabi as the big cheese of AI and ML.
Wasabi will use the Curio AI tech to create a new type of smart storage for the media and entertainment industry, which it plans to launch in spring 2024.
Curio AI will make a detailed index of every second of video stored in Wasabi.
Wasabi’s top dog, David Friend, said that a video archive without proper metadata is like a library without a card catalogue.
Search engine outfit Google has invested £800 million in a new data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, to boost its cloud and AI capabilities across the UK.
The tech giant has bragged that the 33-acre site will create jobs for the locals, who will be thrilled to have a massive power-hungry facility in their backyard.
The new data centre will give businesses nationwide more computing power. They can use Google’s AI tools and cloud services if they can afford it.
Google has also claimed that it cares about the environment and has set a target to run all its data centres and offices on green energy by 2030.
To help with this, Google signed a deal with ENGIE for wind power from Scotland’s Moray West farm, which will start in 2022.
Westcon-Comstor has splashed out on Rebura, an AWS cloud expert and partner, to beef up its cloud offerings and flog more services to its partners.
Westcon-Comstor’s partners reckon the deal will give them access to a range of AWS solutions, from cloud advice, moving to the cloud, FinOps, AWS Marketplace tricks and security services.
Rebura, based in London, was set up in 2017 and helps AWS cloud moves, updates, SaaS and DevOps across the UK, Nordics and central Europe.
Rebura and AWS inked a strategic deal in 2023, which shows Rebura’s worth. Rebura has seven AWS badges, including migration, Microsoft workloads, and DevOps.
As an AWS advanced partner, Rebura helps firms of all sizes build and improve their apps and workloads on AWS, boosting productivity, scalability, efficiency, and security.
The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has made a mess of the legality of police forces using US-based cloud providers to process sensitive law enforcement data.
Computer Weekly exposed in 2020 that dozens of police forces are breaking the law using the cloud-based Microsoft 365 software to process more than a million people’s data.
A major Police Scotland IT system is using Microsoft’s Azure cloud despite having major data protection issues. The Scottish biometric commissioner (SBC) asked the ICO for advice about the system’s legality.
After a cosy meeting with information commissioner John Edwards in early December 2023, SBC Brian Plastow wrote a letter that said the ICO was happy to give the green light to the dodgy cloud deployments. He said the ICO believed that the UK and US governments signed a deal to share data, which overrules the UK’s data protection laws.
The security outfit which knows no vowels, Snyk, has bought a start-up that snoops on live applications, Helios.
For those not in the know, Helios is named after the Roman sun god and has developed some fancy technology to spot security bugs in running apps.
Snyk did not say how much it paid for Helios or how many staff it would keep.
Snyk said the acquisition was a “milestone” in its quest to dominate the application security posture management (ASPM) market. ASPM is a buzzword that means keeping track of all the apps in your environment and ensuring they are secure.
Helios will help it to offer “comprehensive visibility” across app environments, “more effective” prioritisation of risk, and “full-stack” runtime data. In other words, the company said that Snyk will be able to see everything, tell you what to fix, and collect a lot of data.
Open saucy Red Hat is shaking up its partner programme to make it easier, better, and faster for partners to cash in.
The company is rolling out new tools to help partners work together and get their paws on the hottest technology, training, and resources.
A new report by IDC says that 70 per cent of tech sellers will follow a customer-led approach by 2025, meaning they have to team up with partners to offer the best solutions, services, and flexibility that customers want now.
Red Hat wants to be ahead of the game by simplifying its partner model to make it clear and fair for everyone in the ecosystem and to focus on the customer’s needs.
A new report by Gartner says that global IT spending will soar by 6.8 per cent to a whopping $5 trillion this year!
In the UK, tech experts predict a massive 6.8 per cent growth in 2024 and a stunning 9.2 per cent CAGR.
The hottest markets will be cloud services, software, and infrastructure as businesses and consumers snap up the latest gadgets and gizmos.
IT services will be the biggest slice of the pie, with a huge 8.7 per cent growth in 2024, reaching $1.5 trillion. That means more consultants, more outsourcing, and more cloud computing.
Gartner’s top analyst, John-David Lovelock, says that the consumer market is already saturated with phones, laptops, tablets, and printers, but businesses are still hungry for more IT.
BMG, the music giant behind stars like Kylie Minogue, Iron Maiden, and Dua Lipa, has partnered with Rackspace Technology to revolutionise the music industry with Google Cloud.
The world’s fourth-biggest music company has moved 95 per cent of its apps and services to Google Cloud, using Rackspace Technology’s Elastic Engineering team.
This means BMG can pay its artists and songwriters ten times faster and track their music 50 per cent faster than before, using Google Cloud’s cutting-edge AI and big data tools.
BMG has ditched its old distribution partners and struck direct deals with streaming giants like Spotify and Apple, giving its clients more control and access to their data.
According to a new CONTEXT report, small resellers are raking in the dough from cybersecurity sales to SMBs.
The market watcher says small resellers (SMRs) mainly deal with small, medium and home office customers.
CONTEXT claims that in France, and to a lesser extent, the UK and Italy, SMRs have cashed in on booming demand from an SMB market boosted by more investment and the need for custom-made solutions.
It says the year-on-year revenue sales performance of France shows how hot the market is, with figures for Week 52 of 2023 revealing the country is the top dog in cybersecurity sales through distribution.
Across Europe, cloud security revenue sales as of Week 52 shot up by four per cent year-on-year.
Fujitsu has admitted it has a moral duty to pay up for the hundreds of postmasters it helped to convict on false charges because of its dodgy software.
The postmasters were the victims of the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history. It saw some 700 local post office bosses branded as crooks and sent to prison or left penniless.
Some even killed themselves or died before they could clear their names after being accused of theft and fraud based on faulty data from Fujitsu’s Horizon system between 1999 and 2005.
“Fujitsu would like to apologise for our part in this horrific scandal,” Patterson, who joined the firm in 2019, told MPs investigating the outrage, which has sparked fury across the nation.
The Japanese IT giant’s boss, Paul Patterson, said sorry to the victims and said Fujitsu had a duty to pay out.
“We were involved from the very start. We did have bugs and errors in the system and we did help the post office in their witch-hunt of the subpostmasters. For that we are truly sorry.”
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