Zach Marzouk
Zach Marzouk is a former ITPro, CloudPro, and ChannelPro staff writer, covering topics like security, privacy, worker rights, and startups, primarily in the Asia Pacific and the US regions. Zach joined ITPro in 2017 where he was introduced to the world of B2B technology as a junior staff writer, before he returned to Argentina in 2018, working in communications and as a copywriter. In 2021, he made his way back to ITPro as a staff writer during the pandemic, before joining the world of freelance in 2022.
After studying an undergraduate degree in Arabic and Spanish at the University of Leeds, Zach completed a journalism internship at The Argentina Independent in Buenos Aires where he wrote about the country’s history, politics, and technology.
Contact him at zach.marzouk@futurenet.com or find Zach’s thoughts (and more) on Twitter @ZachMarzouk
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Most business leaders think their digital transformation efforts are failing and directionless
News Attempts to digitise organisations have mostly failed and have increased the amount of admin tasks placed on staff
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Defra signs new AWS contract worth £20 million
News The deal is reportedly worth six times more than the previous contract between the government department and hyperscaler
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GitHub launches paid remote internships
News The launch follows a successful trial and will initially be available for students in ten countries
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Arm listing in the US shows the UK's tech strategy is in shambles
Opinion Why was Arm even sold to a Japanese investment fund in the first place?
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WH Smith hit by cyber attack, current and former staff data accessed
News The company stated that it is notifying staff members who have been affected
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UK set to appoint second-ever tech envoy to Indo-Pacific region
News The role will focus on India after Joe White was made the first technology envoy, a role focused on the US, in 2020
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Colt begins construction of 57MW London data centres
News The company is aiming to attract large businesses and cloud service providers as customers
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Lenovo to launch 24/7 business support service, new ThinkPads
News Lenovo Premier Support Plus aims to provide maintenance services at rapid speed, while device launches cater to the hybrid work crowd
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Australia commits to establishing second national cyber security agency
News The country is still aiming to be the most cyber-secure country in the world by 2030
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IT admins notified as Microsoft revokes Exchange antivirus exclusions
News The tech giant warned that using the exclusions may prevent companies from detecting IIS webshells or backdoor modules
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Medibank bleeds $26 million in cyber costs following hack
News The company believes this figure could rise to $45 million for the 2023 financial year
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Princeton Digital Group reveals "wise" $1 billion+ Indonesia data centre
News The new investment will help customers located in Singapore expand their infrastructure
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TikTok's two new European data centres 'won't solve all its problems'
News The company is under pressure to prove its user data isn’t being accessed by the Chinese state
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Dutch hacker steals data from virtually entire population of Austria
News The data was stolen from a misconfigured cloud database found by the attacker through a search engine
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Report: Regulatory and monetary incentives needed to adopt safer programming languages
News Companies have been urged to create plans on how they intend to get rid of memory-unsafe code in their products
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Turning back the clock on hybrid work is a huge mistake
Opinion Executives who renege on promises of flexibility and freedom could soon find it a challenge to retain top talent
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Suncorp signs three-year Azure deal to complete multi-cloud migration by 2024
News The financial services firm seeks to wind down its on-prem data centres and wants 90% of its workloads in the cloud by the end of the year
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Japanese telco NTT to invest $3.5 billion in Indian data centres
News The money marks a steep increase in the telco's investment compared to recent years
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AWS splashes $35 billion to expand data centres in Virginia
News The massive figure is close to the total sum AWS has previously invested in the state since 2006
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Google to cut global workforce by 12,000 roles
News This comes after Microsoft revealed earlier this week it’s set to let go of 10,000 workers
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Bharti Airtel continues data centre "expansion spree" with £200m Hyderabad investment
News This company is expecting to triple its capacity over the next four years
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Survey: How are IT decision makers spending their money this year?
News Take our short survey and be part of our Future Trends 2023 report
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China’s Tencent cracks down on corruption and fires more than 100 employees
News More than ten employees have been arrested, with one reportedly sentenced to three years in prison
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Dell unveils 13 new PowerEdge servers to boost data centre performance
News The new hardware contain 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and the company claims they offer a 3x performance improvement when compared to the 14th Gen PowerEdge servers from 2017
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