Emma Woollacott
Emma Woollacott is a freelance journalist writing for publications including the BBC, Private Eye, Forbes, Raconteur and specialist technology titles.
Latest articles by Emma Woollacott

Westcon-Comstor bags major European distribution deal with AWS
By Emma Woollacott published
News The company plans to launch a dedicated European AWS cloud business unit

AWS opens physical sites for fast data uploads
By Emma Woollacott published
News Amazon Web Service (AWS) has launched a new Data Transfer Terminal service to allow customers to upload data to the cloud from a physical site.

Latos plans 40 new data centers in the UK
By Emma Woollacott published
News The company says it will open both hyperscale and edge facilities, with construction already underway in Cardiff

Small language models set for take-off next year
By Emma Woollacott published
News With lower costs, energy use, and a simpler compliance process, enterprises are warming to small language models

Google just opened a new London AI campus
By Emma Woollacott published
News The campus will see students working on real-world projects with 'cutting-edge- resources and mentoring

IT workers have become the cool kids on the block since the rise of AI
By Emma Woollacott published
News Budgets are increasing and IT leaders are gaining greater power within organizations

Major incident declared as Merseyside hospitals hit by cyber attack
By Emma Woollacott published
News The incident, which has led to cancelled appointments, is just the latest in a series of attacks on healthcare organizations

Everything you need to know about the Microsoft outage
By Emma Woollacott published
News After a day of chaos, the worst of the Microsoft outage appears to have passed, but some problems still remain

Workers are faking productivity levels, and it’s hitting businesses hard
By Emma Woollacott published
News Staff are busying themselves with meaningless tasks rather than getting on with the job in hand

French government plots new bid for Atos business unit
By Emma Woollacott published
News The deal could amount to €625 million and keep the company's critical technologies on home turf

Slow websites cost businesses thousands per year
By Emma Woollacott published
News Business owners tell Liquid Web they're losing traffic because of poor website performance with one in ten saying their bounce rates were over 50%

Firms warned to beware of fake IT workers
By Emma Woollacott published
News SentinelLabs has uncovered a network of front companies supplying North Korean remote workers under false identities

DoJ demands Google sells Chrome — and potentially Android too
By Emma Woollacott published
News Confirming earlier reports, the US Department of Justice filing calls for Chrome to be divested over monopoly concerns

IT leaders are less AI-ready than they were a year ago
By Emma Woollacott published
News Organizations feel pressure to deliver on AI as they lack infrastructure, data processing capabilities, and talent

Security incident recovery times are over 7 months on average
By Emma Woollacott published
News Businesses tell Fastly survey they have concerns about the reliability and quality across their security stack with three in ten considering a change of vendor

Severed subsea internet cables raise network security questions
By Emma Woollacott published
News With international communications links vulnerable to attack, researchers are working to provide dynamic routing via space

Majority of firms using generative AI experience related security incidents
By Emma Woollacott published
News Security teams eye larger budgets for AI responses as they stare down threats such as data breaches, deepfakes, and targeted attacks

FOI requests show the vast majority of UK data center applications are approved
By Emma Woollacott published
News Of the 88 applications put forward last year, only three were declined

New research network launched to bolster UK's cybersecurity
By Emma Woollacott published
News The CRANE network aims to pull together academics, government, industry, and non-profit organizations, to focus on existing and emerging threats

Organizations failing to use tech to reach sustainability goals
By Emma Woollacott published
News Businesses are urged to put sustainability at the heart of corporate strategy, and use AI to help

AI tools aren’t helping developers save time on software testing
By Emma Woollacott published
News The productivity benefits of AI aren't quite materializing for many developers

API attacks are spiraling out of control
By Emma Woollacott published
News Most UK organizations suffered an API attack over the last year, protection tools are seen as inadequate

Sluggish enterprise tech adoption has cost the UK economy billions
By Emma Woollacott published
News The UK economy could have grown dramatically had organizations accelerated digital adoption
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