Cloud Adoption: Missteps & Key Lessons

Payments resilience playbook: building future-ready systems

CloudTech News — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:42:36 +0000

Resilience used to mean a disaster recovery document in a drawer and a secondary data centre on standby. But new payment methods, rising fraud, tougher regulation, and global expansion plans mean that resilience now depends on payment systems that can flex, reroute, and recover without sacrificing performance or compliance. Done well, resilience becomes a growth […]

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How configuration management can become an asset for enterprises

Cloud Tech — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:18:39 +0000

Configuration has become an invisible yet dramatic risk for today’s enterprises rolling-out large technology platforms. From airline system outages to data exposure incidents, small misconfigurations can now trigger multi-million-dollar losses. As enterprises integrate AI models, microservices, API connections, and increasingly, autonomous agents into their operational fabric, the risks multiply. There is a need for configuration […]

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TechEx Europe 2025: Insights for data centre and cloud leaders

CloudTech News — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:14:18 +0000

On 24–25 September 2025, Amsterdam’s RAI will host TechEx Europe, a two-day gathering of more than 8,000 professionals and 250+ speakers in five co-located events: IoT Tech Expo, Cyber Security & Cloud Expo, AI & Big Data Expo, Digital Transformation Week, and Data Centre Expo. For those operating in the data centre and cloud ecosystem, […]

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GlobalSign automates and future-proofs certificate management

Joe Green — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:01:07 +0000

Certificate Authority GMO GlobalSign has debuted LifeCycleX, its fifth certificate lifecycle management (CLM) solution, designed to help businesses centralise, automate, and protect digital certificate operations, preventing potential security risks. LifeCycleX is a unified system that allows companies to gather and manage their digital certificates into one place, even if the certificates are from different sources […]

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Supermicro’s redemption play: Can new leadership save the AI server specialist?

Dashveenjit Kaur — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:19:08 +0000

After months of governance scandals that saw its auditor resign and major clients flee to competitors, Supermicro is betting everything on a redemption play centred around new leadership appointments and cutting-edge technology. The AI server specialist has installed a new CFO, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief Accounting Officer and launched an ambitious product line – […]

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Bernard Montel, Tenable: Navigating the latest cybersecurity trends

Ryan Daws — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:34:03 +0000

As organisations worldwide continue to grapple with an ever-expanding threat landscape, understanding the latest cybersecurity trends has never been more crucial. Ahead of Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe, Bernard Montel, EMEA Technical Director and Security Strategist at Tenable, shed light on the shifts in cybersecurity over the past five years and offers valuable insights […]

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The day CrowdStrike broke the Internet, China was largely unaffected. Here’s why

Dashveenjit Kaur — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:56:51 +0000

On July 19, a routine software update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike unleashed digital chaos across the globe, exposing the fragility of interconnected IT networks. Within hours, Windows-based systems worldwide crashed, displaying the dreaded “blue screen of death,” affecting 8.5 million devices globally. From New York’s Times Square, where digital billboards went dark, to London’s Heathrow Airport, […]

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40%+ of firms lose revenue from technology downtime and cloud complexity

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:50:19 +0000

55% of enterprises are struggling to derive meaningful insights from their data, highlighting an industry-wide need to deliver technology faster, more reliably and in more places, according to a survey by Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi. The survey revealed ongoing challenges related to security, inflexible systems, isolated […]

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Asda chooses Veeam to mitigate risk of multi-million-pound retail downtime

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:54:53 +0000

Asda has selected Veeam Availability Suite to provide effective backup and restore for mission-critical systems. Following its divestiture from Walmart in early 2021, the supermarket chain has taken responsibility for protecting the large, virtualised infrastructure that underpins its business, and Veeam, a specialist in backup, recovery and data management solutions, has enabled it to do […]

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Downtime impact worsening as industry fails to curb outages

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 07:56:02 +0000

The digital infrastructure sector is struggling to achieve a measurable reduction in outage rates and severity, and the financial consequences and overall disruption from outages are steadily increasing. This is according to the Uptime Institute, which has released the findings of its 2022 annual Outage Analysis report. Andy Lawrence, founding member and executive director, Uptime […]

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Andrew Egoroff, ProcessUnity: On the increased cybersecurity threat and mitigating risks

Ryan Daws — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:53:45 +0000

Cloud Tech caught up with Andrew Egoroff, Senior Cybersecurity Specialist at ProcessUnity, to discuss the increased threat around the Russia-Ukraine crisis and how to mitigate risks from third parties. A business can implement excellent internal cybersecurity measures, but a slip-up from a third-party vendor can have devastating consequences. ProcessUnity specialises in helping businesses determine what […]

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Kronos Cloud hit by ransomware attack and warns of data breach

Fin Strathern — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 10:46:35 +0000

Kronos Private Cloud, a HR management platform, has suffered a ransomware attack which puts many of its high-profile customers’ data at risk. Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), Kronos’ parent company, said the attack will bring down the service for “several weeks” and advised customers to “evaluate and implement alternative business continuity protocols related to the affected […]

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