Miya Knights
A 25-year veteran enterprise technology expert, Miya Knights applies her deep understanding of technology gained through her journalism career to both her role as a consultant and as director at Retail Technology Magazine, which she helped shape over the past 17 years. Miya was educated at Oxford University, earning a master’s degree in English, and has enjoyed a hugely varied career in leading roles such as a global technology research director at Planet Retail and a senior research analyst at IDC.
She has also co-authored two books on business technology: ‘Amazon: How the World's Most Relentless Retailer will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce’ and ‘Omnichannel Retail: How to Build Winning Stores in the Digital World’, the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award in the Sales & Marketing category.
Her role as a journalist has seen her write for many of the leading technology publishers in the UK such as ITPro, TechWeekEurope, CIO UK, Computer Weekly, and also a number of national newspapers including The Times, Independent, and Financial Times.
Latest articles by Miya Knights
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Nominet to review domain suspension policy
By Miya Knights published
News Internet registry goes back to drawing board after ISPs reject cyber defence plans.
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NPIA renegotiates £1m PNN3 contract saving
By Miya Knights published
News Cable&Wireless secure communications network contract extended for less money.
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Government publishes cyber security strategy
By Miya Knights published
News Government sets out plans to strengthen national defences over the next four years.
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EC clears Western Digital Hitachi deal
By Miya Knights published
News Merger approved as good for competition in storage market under the EU merger regulation.
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Nokia Siemens says 17,000 jobs will go
By Miya Knights published
News Thousands of jobs will go as part of a major global restructuring programme to refocus on mobile networks and services.
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Windows 8 promises setup improvements
By Miya Knights published
News Microsoft details changes to next operating system release to cut installation times by 90 per cent.
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Government sets out IT procurement plans
By Miya Knights published
News £50bn Whitehall procurement opportunity published online includes IT and facilities management.
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Mainframe skills shortage putting businesses in danger
By Miya Knights published
News Overlooked mainframe skills transfer challenges put mission-critical business operations at risk.
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Stackato free for 'micro clouds'
By Miya Knights published
News ActiveState commits to free, single-node non-commercial or internal use of its private PaaS
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Kroes speech fuels copyright debate
By Miya Knights published
News Digital agenda champion slams “straitjacket” of single model and calls on IT industry to find “transparent” tracking technologies.
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Intellect launches talent and innovation drive
By Miya Knights published
News New set of initiatives are launched to help Government harness the talent and innovation of UK tech firms.
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iPhone’s Siri hacked for Android
By Miya Knights published
News Mobile developers crack smartphone voice recognition software protocol for use on other devices
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Companies still clueless on security?
By Miya Knights published
News Surveys find half of laptops not protected and a lack of cyber attack awareness in smaller firms.
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Intel touts Knights Corner 1 teraflop performance
By Miya Knights published
News New accelerator chip based om Many Integrated Core architecture breaks the one-teraflop barrier
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ActiveState enhances Stackato PaaS
By Miya Knights published
News Infrastructure-agnostic, polyglot private cloud platform adds management, monitoring and Java support.
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McAfee updates cloud security platform
By Miya Knights published
News Adds identity management, loss prevention, secure email gateway modules.
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ForeScout introduces NAC-as-a-service platform
By Miya Knights published
News Packages access control software for managed service providers aiming to upsell value-added cloud SaaS.
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Cloud-based accounting system set to integrate Microsoft Outlook
By Miya Knights published
News Appetite for open SaaS accounting application development spikes during past year
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Caringo brings object storage to OpenStack
By Miya Knights published
News Announces availability of CAStor software platform for OpenStack to manage Swift storage object servers
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Government fleshes out its G-Cloud plans with app store
By Miya Knights published
News Strategic documents set out vision, timeline, programme of work and anticipated benefits and savings
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Cyber-Ark extends ID management to the cloud
By Miya Knights published
News Offers preventative, automated approach to managing and securing privileged accounts across virtual devices.
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Hitachi Data updates storage roadmap for cloud
By Miya Knights published
News Storage vendor realigns product portfolio around three-tiered infrastructure, content and information cloud strategy
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BlackBerry to support Microsoft Office 365 services
By Miya Knights published
News Business cloud services offer Exchange Online via RIM-hosted cloud management platform.
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