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…

Reforming The Internet 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 a fault line of hate.…

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…

Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home? On Wednesday last week, Google's Fiona Cicconi wrote to company employees. She announced that Google was bringing forward its timetable of moving people back into the office. As of the 1st of September, she said, employees wishing to work from home for more than 14…

25% of UK Workers Let Their Children Use Their Work Device A quarter (25%) of UK workers allow their children to use their corporate device for home schooling and other purposes, according to a YouGov survey conducted by iomart. The survey of more than 2000 UK employees highlighted that insecure practices among home workers are prevalent, which…

More Than a Quarter of Threats Never Seen Before Over a quarter (29%) of threats spotted in Q4 2020 had never before been detected in-the-wild, giving attackers an advantage over their victims, according to HP Inc. The tech giant’s latest Quarterly Threat Insights Report was compiled from data gathered from its global customers’ Sure Click virtual machines…