Latest articles by Emma Woollacott
Four years on, how's UK GDPR holding up?
News While some SMBs are struggling, most have stepped up to the mark in terms of data governance policies
The open source industry is booming
News Four-in-ten firms contribute open source code on a daily basis
UK regulator to investigate IBM takeover of HashiCorp
News The CMA is concerned that the merger could affect competition in the cloud services market
Atos hits back at ransomware attack claims
News The company says it has no evidence that systems have been compromised, but is investigating the report
Equinix acquires BT's Irish data centers in €59 million deal
News As BT moves to an asset-light business model, Equinix looks to expand
AI 'slop security reports' are driving open source maintainers mad
News Low-quality, LLM-generated reports should be treated as if they are malicious, according to one expert
SoftwareOne to acquire Crayon in $1.4 billion merger deal
News The merged firm will be 'uniquely positioned' to capitalize on a $150 billion market
Equinix and Dell Technologies want to transform AI infrastructure
News Dell AI Factory technology will be integrated into the Equinix global network of data centers
CMA raises concerns over Synopsys-Ansys merger
News The CMA says that the companies need to make changes, or face closer scrutiny
Amazon's RTO mandate just hit a major roadblock
News The company has told staff in several locations that it won't have room for them all in time
More women are opting for computing degrees, but BCS warns there’s still a long way to go
News Figures show the gap in numbers between men and women is narrowing
GPU cloud startup Vultr secures AMD backing in $333 million investment round
News The firm plans to use the cash to expand AI infrastructure and cloud computing globally
Nearly all of the top US banks were impacted by third party breaches last year
News Third party data breaches continue to plague organizations despite globally
The data analytics market is booming – here's why
News Prescriptive analytics and a rise in AI-native vendors look set to fuel major growth over the next five years
Content creators wary of UK's AI copyright consultation
News Balancing the interests of content creators and AI firms is a tricky business
Machine identity attacks will be top of mind for security leaders in 2025
News Security leaders say access tokens and service accounts represent an increasing risk
‘SaaS dependency’ is becoming a major issue for tech leaders
News The survey highlighted issues around maintenance, innovation, and data
Security researchers set up an API honeypot to dupe hackers – and the results were startling
News A mock API attracted hackers immediately, with attacks coming from all over the world
Nokia hails success of Europe’s first commercial 5G cloud RAN deployment
News Elise says its 5G cloud network puts it in a strong position during a move towards 6G
Firms still slacking on gender diversity
News Male IT leaders remain complacent about gender diversity despite widespread skills shortages
Threat of personal liability has CISOs sweating
News With increased scrutiny, boards need to ramp up support for CISOs
Europol just took down 27 DDoS-for-hire sites
News The festive period period usually sees a big bump in DDoS attacks - but this year may be a little safer
Apple has invested £18 billion in the UK since 2019
News Apple has invested upwards on £18 billion in the UK and doubled its engineering headcount since 2019.
