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How Cloud Computing Saves Businesses Money
Date: August 3, 2022
By Michelle Stark, sales and marketing director of domain and server providers, Fasthosts. Is your business on the cloud? We’re not referring to cloud nine here, we’re talking about cloud computing. In a nutshell, cloud computing is when computing services are delivered by non-localised networks via the internet, using cloud servers rather than on-site ones....
Google Results Avoid Disaster, With Search Ads Topping Wall Street Targets
Date: July 26, 2022
By Paresh Dave and Nivedita Balu (Reuters) -Google parent Alphabet Inc on Tuesday posted quarterly sales close to Wall Street targets, sending shares up on relief that the world’s biggest seller of online advertising had avoided the deep disappointment of rivals including Snap. Sales from Google’s search ad business actually topped expectations, while revenue from...
User Experience Demands Will Drive Cloud-Native Adoption Within the Finance Sector, but Data Resilience Remains Vital
Date: June 15, 2022
By Dan Middleton, Regional VP for UK & Ireland at Veeam Over the past decade or so, two big shifts have taken place in how businesses build, deploy and use digital technology. The first is the consumerisation of IT. In 2005, Gartner pronounced consumerisation to be ‘the most significant trend affecting IT in the next...
Why Network Observability Matters for Today’s Digital Banking
Date: June 14, 2022
The banking industry has changed enormously in the last two decades – a 2021 report from Google found that the “vast majority” of financial services companies, including banks, are already using the public cloud and interest in multi-cloud migrations remains strong. But many banks’ underlying IT infrastructure is still catching up with these digital transformation...
Hybrid Cloud and Edge Computing Will Revolutionise Banks in 10 Years’ Time
Date: June 13, 2022
By Simon Michie, CTO, Pulsant Predicting the future of financial institutions is an inexact science. But in the era of open banking, 5G mobile connectivity and app-based customer experiences, banks know they must increase spending on cloud services so they can innovate on a grand scale. The growth of challenger banks, finance apps and fintech...
The Financial Services Sector Must Balance Modernisation With Security and Compliance
Date: May 19, 2022
By Prakash Pattni, Managing Director for Financial Services Digital Transformation, IBM The ability of viruses to evolve almost in step with our defences is something the world has become very familiar with. While nations have worked to vaccinate their populations at speed, organisations have faced a parallel challenge against the cyber equivalents of COVID-19. The...