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A quarter of UK businesses looking to downsize or close offices Applaud, the leading workforce experience layer, today reveals that UK business HR decision makers are paving the way for a new era of work post-pandemic, with organisations across the country looking to close or downsize their offices and focus instead on hybrid, remote working.…

Realizing The Financial Value Of Cloud As more and more organizations embark on the cloud journey or add further impetus to it, CIOs and CFOs are trying to grapple with an existential cloud question: How can they truly realize the financial and nonfinancial value of cloud? According to McKinsey's recent report, "75% of cloud's predicted…

Many firms expect to migrate to the cloud in full within five years Cloud adoption is on the rise, but challenges remain. Today, roughly five percent of organizations have moved their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. In five years’ time, however, that number is expected to swell to 64 percent. This is according to…

Tech Tent: The audio revolution? An audio start-up without revenue gets valued at $4bn (£2.8bn), Facebook is launching what it calls social audio experiences, while Twitter has a new feature called Spaces allowing users to start an instant chat room. What's going on? This week's Tech Tent explores whether good old-fashioned audio is the hot…

Who is coming out on top in the multi-cloud war? Multi-cloud infrastructure empowers organizations to mix and match platforms and vendors such that their workloads are not locked into individual cloud providers While the most significant impacts of multi-cloud strategies have yet to be seen, the power dynamics between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are…

UK technology job creation nears two-year peak Pace of recruitment accelerates and optimism reaches highest level since 2014, according to KPMG Technology recruitment in the UK is at its highest pace since 2019, according to a quarterly index of UK tech sector performance by consulting firm KPMG. The UK tech sector continued to hire during…

Major reasons for why is cyber security important Let’s exchange details about our lives for the convenience of quick searches and friendly connections. What’s the harm? Well, some 20 years of internet advancement has led to data breaches, privacy invasion, distorted information and sheer exploitation. The result is that much of America is divided along…

5 Major Reasons for “Why is Cyber Security Important?” Why is cybersecurity important? Familiarising With The Term Cyber Security You must have heard of the word cyber security, making headlines in the news, internet, social media, IT forums, etc. However, has it ever occurred to you that what is cyber security or why does the…

Keeping The Lights On During Your Cloud Journey Unless you are a “born-in-the-cloud” company, you are probably on your cloud journey or planning to start one. This means you have a traditional environment you will need to support and maintain while on the journey. Aside from the complexities of managing multiple, disparate environments, you will…

How To Train Remote-Working Employees On Cybersecurity Last year, the world experienced huge challenges created by the pandemic. Not only were we living in a state of uncertainty, but most of the workforce was also suddenly working from home offices and using their personal internet connections. Where once IT professionals could walk down a hallway…