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I'm a technology journalist who's been working at IT Pro since 2012.
As deputy editor, I'm help marry up commercial and editorial strategy, take care of the IT Pro Network, and co-host the IT Pro Podcast, which I helped develop and launch in 2019.
I originally joined IT Pro when it was part of Dennis Publishing in 2012 and before becoming deputy editor, I was features editor at IT Pro, Cloud Pro and Channel Pro. Prior to that I was a staff writer at the same three titles and I also spent a year working at sister magazine, PC Pro.
Prior to joining Dennis Publishing I was a freelance b2b specialising in international business and finance.
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Antonio Neri, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) used the opening keynote of the company's annual Discover conference to hail what he calls the "Age of Insight". According to Neri, the information age was defined by a focus on the volume, velocity and variety of data collection.
On International Women's Day last year, I argued - perhaps provocatively - that it was time to get rid of women in tech, at least as a concept.
When people talk about the use cases for edge computing, often they're discussing situations where any level of latency is a huge problem and cable networking is impossible, such as in autonomous cars or deep sea oil platforms. The reasons are obvious: If you're in a fully self-driving car, you don't want to wait for information collected by its sensors to be sent to the cloud for processing and then returned before it takes action to avoid crashing into a wall.
While 2020 in general can hardly be described as "mobile", with people worldwide under lockdown for most of the year, from a tech standpoint mobile has very much been at the forefront of the shift in working patterns seen over the past 12 months.
If you'd asked me this time last year, while covering Appian World from my COVID fallout shelter (aka my house) where I'd be in 2021, my answer would likely have been "In the US, covering Appian World".
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO Antonio Neri reaffirmed his company's commitment to delivering everything as a service, saying he would be happy if the GreenLake name became more well known than HPE. Speaking to reporters and analysts ahead of the company's annual Discover conference, Neri said: "That's the trend, right.
HPE has announced GreenLake Lighthouse, a new element of its GreenLake portfolio that aims to reduce complexity when provisioning cloud services. Launched during HPE's virtual Discover conference, Lighthouse is described by the company as a "secure, cloud-native platform" that will allow customers to provision new cloud services easily in just a few clicks, reducing the time they wait between ordering and availability to just a few minutes.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has acquired open source artificial intelligence (AI) startup Determined AI. The four-year-old company, which only brought its product to market in 2020, specialises in machine learning (ML), with the aim of training artificial intelligence (AI) models quickly and at any scale.
HPE GreenLake now supports Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and SQL Server. The announcement of the new integration came just ahead of the company's annual HPE Discover conference, held virtually for the second time in a row, where GreenLake is expected to take centre stage.
Dell Technologies has kicked off its annual conference with the announcement of Project Apex, its plan to consolidate its 'as a service' offerings. Described by Sam Grocott, senior vice president of Dell Technologies Business Unit marketing, as a "radically simplified as a service and cloud experience", the new project acknowledges that the future of enterprise IT is "really going to be a hybrid, multi-cloud world".
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A giant of the tech industry with a history stretching back many decades and a footprint in most large organisations - and many smaller ones - finds itself struggling against the tide of digital transformation and the shift to cloud.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger last year said "multi-cloud is the new model for enterprise IT" while explaining the company's acquisition of Pivotal just before the kickoff of its annual VMworld conference in California. Since then, a lot has changed.
It's been quite the week for green IT. On Monday, Google announced it's aiming to go carbon free by 2030 (something 1,000 of its employees demanded back in November last year), while Facebook upped the ante by declaring it will be powered by 100% renewable energy by the end of the year.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is under fire over plans that would see a woman's alcohol consumption during pregnancy automatically recorded on their child's medical records.
This article originally appeared in The Business Briefing Issue 1. Sign up now to receive your weekly digest of all the insights and information that matter direct to your inbox. The word "disruptive" has been flung around in business circles so much in recent years it had almost become meaningless.
IT Pro is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more The CBI has warned that remote working could lead to the death of city centres, but the reality is more complex There's a café near my house that I have come to believe is cursed.
IT Pro is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more When will those in government learn that technology isn't magic? Let's be clear: artificial intelligence (AI) and its offspring are wonderful things.
There's nothing quite like being hit by a terrible inevitability. We all knew the coronavirus pandemic would eventually infect the economy as well as the people of this country, but news of the deepest recession since records began still stopped me in my tracks a bit this morning.
IT Pro is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more An ever present anxiety that automation will take our jobs is being replaced by a fear that it won't I am inherently suspicious of automation.
Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona is under investigation by the country's data protection regulator over the use of a new facial recognition system in 40 of its stores. The company introduced the AI-powered facial recognition system on 2 July in the cities of Zaragoza and Mallorca, as well as its home city of Valencia.
I don't think virtual conferences will ever replace the real thing, particularly those that have shifted from being immense shows to video streams you can watch in your pyjamas (or Hawaiian shirt, shorts and flip flops, given the weather).
HPE's edge-to-cloud mantra continues to permeate its products, with the company announcing new cloud offerings available through its GreenLake "as a service" platform at its HPE Discover 2020 virtual event. Machine learning, operations, containers, virtual machines (VMs), storage, compute, data protection, and networking are now all available through the GreenLake Central self-service console.
IT Pro is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Company talks up importance of its software division at HPE Discover 2020 Not three years since it spun out its Software Business Segment to Micro Focus in an $8.8 billion deal, HPE has launched a new overarching software portfolio called HPE Ezmeral.
As it gears up for its first virtual Discover conference, HPE has announced five new offerings to help businesses in their efforts to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
When I heard that the UK government had decided to abandon its efforts to create a bespoke COVID-19 test and trace app in favour of using the decentralised API developed by Apple and Google, I can't say I was surprised. In fact, the only thing that shocked me is how long it took to happen.
Dell Technologies has unveiled Dell EMC PowerScale, a new family of storage appliances designed to deal with the "onslaught of data" being faced by organisations today. The product range is designed for object storage and is underpinned by the company's OneFS operating system, which is best known from its Isilon range.
HPE has launched a new product to help communications services providers (CSPs) get more value from 5G by offering edge services to enterprises. Edge Orchestrator is a SaaS-based offering that focuses on situations where low latency is key.
DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to give it its full name, is the source of some of the most important technologies upon which our society is built today.
Aruba, Hewlett Packard Enterprise's networking business, has used the opening day of its Atmosphere virtual conference to announce Aruba ESP, a new platform that the company believes will transform the way it does business.
It's a strange experience for me writing this article. For the past several years, I've been writing "View from the Airport" columns analysing the events of the major tech conferences I've attended. By this point in any normal year, I would have attended at least two of these get-togethers and written an analysis for each of them.
Appian has unveiled three new apps intended to help organisations better weather the storm created by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The three apps, COVID-19 Response, Paycheck Protection Program and Workforce Safety & Readiness, were all built and released over the course of the fast two months and address different aspects of the challenges businesses are facing right now.
The distributed workplace is here to stay and the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic will have a lasting impact. These are two of the key messages from the Day One keynote of the annual Appian World conference.
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced in May 2018, replacing the previous Data Protection Directive. The law's arrival caused worry among companies big and small, as non-compliance with the updated data and privacy rules could see huge fines issues that have the potential to cripple the majority of businesses.
There was a time - just a few years ago - when you couldn't move at tech get-togethers, or even speak to someone in the industry on the phone, without them mentioning Uber and Airbnb in glowing terms. These were the disruptors. The future of tech and business.
Tech giant Nvidia is set to gobble up networking software firm Cumulus Networks in a bid to further enhance its data centre credentials. Cumulus, which was founded in 2010, is an open source-focused firm that specialises in helping organisations optimise their data centre networking stack through its Linux distribution for network switches, as well as various network management tools.
Google's parent company, Alphabet, is rumoured to be selling off robotics division Boston Dynamics because of internal tension and a fear of what people think about robots. The research arms of Toyota and Amazon are both in the frame as potential buyers of the firm that produces bipedal and quadrupedal military and search-and-rescue robots, which Google bought in 2013, according to .
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is set to scrutinise the UK government's plans for bulk data collection and retention at an emergency hearing on 12 April. Its intervention was demanded by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales to help decide whether existing government spying measures are incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
At 2.6TB, the Panama Papers is by far the biggist data leak to happen this decade and, it is claimed, the biggest cache of data ever handed over to journalists. The 11.5 million documents handed over to Süddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) comprised nearly five million emails, three million database files, two million PDFs, one million images, 320,166 text documents and 2,242 other unclassified files.
Trump Hotel Collection, the hotel business belonging to US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump, has fallen victim to an attack on its credit card systems, the company has confirmed, blaming the attack on "cyber terrorists".
Huawei wants its consumer devices to compete with the likes of Samsung and Apple on the global stage. Speaking at the company's annual analyst conference in Shenzhen, rotating CEO Eric Xu said Hauwei intends to "leverage its technical expertise to build a premium, high end brand [of smartphones]."
Businesses are suffering from a reverse IT skills gap, according to research from VCE, the converged infrastructure wing of the EMC Federation. The investigation, which has been published in a report called Endangered IT, showed many IT workers are at risk of becoming obsolete because they are too specialised in disciplines that are increasingly being outsourced.
Telcos must place the same premium on video services as they do on voice in order to succeed in the future, according to Huawei. During his opening keynote to delegates at Huawei Analyst Conference 2016, Eric Xu, Hawei's rotating CEO, said carriers have been very focused on data transfer speeds so far, but not in a way that consumers have noticed.
UK businesses are the most targeted by phishing attacks across the entire world, new research has found. In its latest annual Internet Security Threat Report, which examines global threat trends for the whole of the past year, the UK ranked number one for phishing attacks both in Europe and worldwide.
Chinese tech giant Huawei has suggested its latest radio access network, CloudRAN, could help solve some of the UK's mobile coverage issues and suggested it is a key component for the success of global 5G roll-out.
I don't think I could have picked a better first year to attend RSA Conference if I'd tried. Don't get me wrong, I love security and privacy, and I'll write about them any day of the week (especially Monday to Friday), but this year, with Apple and the FBI facing off in court over encryption, the stars really did align to make an interesting conference.
The UK and US are working on a deal that would make it easier for each country's law enforcement officials to gain access to data held by companies in the other country, it has been revelaed. The framework, which is yet to go before Congress or Parliament, was announced by US attorney general Loretta Lynch at RSA Conference in San Francisco.
When journalists and bloggers write about tech companies that "got it wrong" in the face of an evolving market and paid the ultimate price, nine times out of ten Nokia will be listed a recent example. Even its then-CEO, Stephen Elop, described Nokia in an internal memo as a "burning platform" back in 2011.
Small businesses must respond quickly to change, rather than risk irrelevance by ignoring it, it is claimed. Jonathan MacDonald, an entrepreneur and the founder of the Thought Expansion Network, opened day two of accounting software firm Xero's annual conference, Xerocon, by relating his own experience of trying to build a traditional business in an industry that was changing.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has cast doubt on the legality of new terms and conditions introduced by VTech that, it is claimed, leave parents responsible for any future data breaches. VTech's database was hacked last November, exposing five million customers' accounts to hackers, including around 200,000 children's names, genders and dates of birth.
SAP and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) have teamed up to launch SAP Tennis Analytics - new software that will improve courtside coaching and help the sports body enhance tennis fans' experience of the game. The new technology made its debut at the Bank of the West Classic tennis tournament, held at Stanford University, California.
The Snooper's Charter risks removing billions of pounds from the UK economy by effectively forcing cloud and hosting companies to leave, rather than give in to demands to weaken encryption, it is claimed.
Trinity Mirror Group is using a performance management tool to improve the user experience of dozens of its websites, including regional and national publications like the Daily Mirror and the Liverpool Echo. To ensure the UX is as good as possible across its 29 titles, the company has already overhauled its content management system (CMS) and, more recently, implemented performance analysis tool mPulse by SOASTA.
There are some invitations you don't turn down, and for me, a room full of robots is on that list. Earlier this week, at a Humanising the Robot Society seminar, I got a sneak-peak at prototypes of robots that could shape our society in the near future.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 31 Oct 2014 at 13:23 Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán has back tracked on plans to tax internet traffic after hundreds of thousands of citizens took to the streets to protest against the proposal.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 16 Oct 2014 at 11:33 Virtualisation firm Citrix has revealed a new version of its GoToMeeting app that will let users attend conference calls via their Android Wear smartwatch. The app lets users join a meeting with a single touch of the smartwatch.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 16 Oct 2014 at 10:07 Google has decided to have another bash at taking on Apple TV with Nexus Player, the first set-top box to run its new Android TV platform. The Asus-made device was an accompaniment to the Nexus 9 and Nexus 6, which also launched last night, and combines video streaming-service and gaming into a single unit.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 17 Oct 2014 at 14:14 People using Firefox Beta will soon be able to make free voice and video calls through their browser, even to people who aren't using Firefox themselves. Firefox Hello is powered by OpenTok, a WebRTC platform created by a company named TokBox, which was acquired by Telefónica in 2012.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 17 Oct 2014 at 17:46 The UK's five largest ISPs have been provisionally ordered to block access to six websites selling counterfeit goods in a landmark ruling made in the High Court in London today.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 29 Sep 2014 at 16:40 Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to get free Wi-Fi, security firm F-Secure has found - either that, or people still ignore the fine print.
Entertainment companies such as Amazon and Netflix should be role models for IT. So claimed Mark Templeton, Citrix's CEO, speaking at the company's annual Synergy conference in Los Angeles. IT organisations need to adopt an "experience first" strategy in order to truly succeed in an increasingly mobile world, according to Templeton.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 7 Oct 2014 at 14:10 Microsoft Research has revealed a thin, flexible screen that it claims could offer a new way for users to interact with their Surface tablets. Dubbed FlexSense, the transparent "paper-like" overlay provides an additional input layer and display for their device that faithfully recreates interactions between it and the user.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 10 Oct 2014 at 15:19 Microsoft and the Open Space Agency (OSA) have developed a 3D printed mini-observatory named Ultrascope, which will let users take photos of outer space using just their smartphone - assuming they have a Lumia 1020, of course.
Imagine a typical classroom. What do you see? 25 children sat at desks facing the front, maybe? A teacher with a blackboard and chalk? If you're getting into real caricatures, you might also imagine the teacher in a mortarboard and gown.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 1 Aug 2014 at 12:02 A new malware has been developed that can take over PCs completely undetected. The attack, named badUSB, is delivered by infected USB keys. Since it sits on the thumb drive's firmware, not its flash storage, it can completely bypass existing countermeasures, researchers Jakob Lell and Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs in Germany have warned.
Modern technology is changing the way we think about our health, from monitoring our own wellbeing to how we expect to be treated should we develop a chronic condition or suffer a major physical injury. From the promise of smart medicines to dreams of transcendence, medical technology is accelerating at an unprecedented rate.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 9 Oct 2014 at 08:24 Apple has expressed surprise at sapphire screen supplier GT Advanced Technologies' (GTAT) decision to file for bankruptcy on Tuesday. However, it seems its own decision to withhold $139 million could be in part to blame.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 17 Oct 2014 at 11:24 Police forces around the UK investigating child abuse will soon have access to a central image database to help them co-ordinate operations and resolve cases quicker.
For many people, nanotechnology is a word that will either be associated with science fiction, or with headline development areas like graphene - or in some cases, maybe a bit of both. But, like robotics, there's more being done in the field of nanotechnology than first meets the eye.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 6 Oct 2014 at 13:20 If you've ever found yourself pining for a simpler time, when Micrososft's easy-to-use Windows 95 operating system was ubiquitous, we have good news. An American teenager has found a way to run the veteran OS on his Samsung Gear Live smartwatch.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 1 Aug 2014 at 09:45 Microsoft has lost its latest attempt to protect customer data in its Dublin data centre from seizure by US authorities. Earlier this year, the company was issued with a warrant to hand over a customer's emails, which were stored in the Irish data centre.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 31 Jul 2014 at 15:34 Fitness trackers and other wearables could allow users to be identified and followed without their knowledge. Research carried out by Symantec has shown that devices that use Bluetooth LE broadcast their unique hardware address, which is similar to a MAC address, even when they are seemingly offline.
Memex programme will 'individualise' access to information, claims US military tech unit.
By Jane McCallion Posted on 15 Aug 2014 at 16:16 Google is investing in shark-proof undersea fibre-optic cabling in order to fend off attacks from the sea's terrifying apex predators. The story was sparked by comments made by Dan Belcher, a product manager on Google's cloud team, during the opening keynote of the company's Cloud Roadshow in Boston last week.
Public sector cloud procurement programme need better promotion
Prism leaks show need for radical change, claims Labour leader.
Huddle has launched Huddle for Office, a new product that brings Microsoft Office to its cloud offering. According to the firm, the service allows users to save Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly into their Huddle workspaces and will also feature a full comment stream alongside it, where revisions and notes made by team members can be seen.
SaaS and social networking service for the security conscious launched by Opera founder
By Jane McCallion Posted on 10 Oct 2014 at 08:16 Symantec, the creator of Norton anti-virus software, has announced it's to become two separate companies, one focused on security, the other on storage and backup. In a statement to Yahoo Finance , CEO Michael A Brown said: "As the security and storage industries continue to change at an accelerating pace ...
Release of JBoss Data Virtualization 6 heralds greater collaboration between the two companies.
The IT Press tour is a five-day event taking place this week in San Francisco that seeks to introduce the UK media to tech firms doing some interesting things in Silicon Valley. IT Pro's Jane McCallion has joined the fray and here's her round-up of the second day's events...
OneDrive and OneNote update could herald arrival of Office Online
Lawmaker floats plan to cut water supply to controversial facility.
Internet giant continues emerging technology spending spree.
'Project Ophelia' could be answer to SMBs' hardware needs, claims hardware giant
Agreement will help all sectors fight online crime more effectively, software giant claims.
Company best known for batteries bounces into cloud storage space
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Jane Bordenave finds out how ING Seguros de Vida SA is helping the people of Chile change the way they see personal finance and plan for their future
By Jane McCallion Posted on 9 Jun 2014 at 11:30 Collaboration between police forces internationally is the only way to fight modern cybercrime, experts have said. The comments follow Operation Tovar, in which a host of international policing agencies and tech companies worked together to knock malware command and control servers offline for a few weeks.
Phumelela Racing's Robert Garner tells Jane Bordenave how the company has turned the sport into a profitable business in South Africa and how diversification and technology are taking it into the future
Home " News " Business " Celebrating Start-Ups: PLA Studios [Video] On the fringes of London's Silicon Roundabout, this tech start-up is making waves and winning awards As one of London's most deprived boroughs, and one of the poorest areas of the country, Tower Hamlets is perhaps not the first place you would think of to set up your business.