Working from home has offered people a glimpse of how things could be different
I had begun to forget the sensation of hope. This is the year that I scaled hopefulness back: it became bread in the oven or bulbs in the ground – small packages of potential, just significant enough to give the soul a little lift. Then, the news of not one, but two pioneering vaccines, and […]
The role of cloud native at the edge
Could cloud-native tame edge computing’s ‘Wild West’? We examine the synergy between the two By 2025 analyst firm Gartner predicts that three-quarters of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed at the edge – meaning outside of a traditional data centre or cloud and closer to end-users. The Linux Foundation defines edge computing as the […]
Hotel Booking Firm Leaks Data on Millions of Guests
A hotel software provider has exposed the personal data of millions of guests around the world after misconfiguring an AWS bucket, according to a new report from Website Planet. The tech site’s security team discovered an exposed cloud database belonging to Spanish developer Prestige Software, whose platform enables hotels to automate their availability on booking […]
The 5 Biggest Cloud Computing Trends In 2021
The events of 2020 have turned most predictions for 2021 on their head. Top trends such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) will still define the ways in which tech reshapes our lives in the next year. However, the most significant use cases now involve helping us to adapt and survive […]
Cybersecurity: One in three attacks are coronavirus-related
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is ‘stepping up support’ for the National Health Service to help protect UK hospitals and other healthcare organisations against cyberattacks. The NCSC’s Annual Review 2020 reveals that the cyber arm of GCHQ has handled more 200 cyber incidents related to coronavirus during the course of this year – almost a […]
Microsoft Teams to get multi-account sign-in support in December
Microsoft Teams is finally slated to get multi-account sign-in as of December 2020, according to a new addition to its Microsoft 365 roadmap. But it turns out it’s for a single person and work account, not multiple work accounts. Microsoft has added to its Microsoft 365 roadmap a much-requested Teams feature:Â the ability to add multiple […]