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We are now living in the Zettabyte Era. Equivalent to a billion terabytes or a trillion gigabytes, it can be difficult to reconcile exactly what a zettabyte of data looks like, but this is very much t...
The cost-of-living crisis isn’t just affecting customers – it is having a massive impact on financial services. Typically, banks are accustomed to navigating disruption and managing risk. Yet, the new...
While organisations have typically survived in data silos for years and with companies having access to more data than ever before in the digital world, data is now recognized as a vital enterprise as...
Last month, the Chancellor set out his vision for prosperity in the UK, noting his ambition to turn the UK into “the world’s next Silicon Valley”. He celebrated the UK’s “world beating” fintech sector...
There aren’t many sectors that haven’t benefited from the use of data. In fact, the ability to collect, assess and utilise data has allowed many sectors to flourish over the past decade. The fintech i...
In the absence of a national privacy referendum—similar to the EU’s GDPR—states are taking matters into their own hands with individual privacy laws. As of June 2022, five states—California, Colorado,...
London Tech Week is back – the UK’s tech flagship event that brings together some of the brightest minds across the industry to discuss the positive role that data and technology can play in our globa...
The rush to digitally transform over the past two years, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, has left many organisations dangerously exposed to data threats, such as ransomware. When businesse...
Since the online revolution, we’re collectively flooding the world with unprecedented amounts of digital data. Several years ago it was estimated that by 2020 the amount of information in the digital ...
Organisations face many competing priorities and demands on their resources. But in the wake of the pandemic, the importance of resilience is foremost in the minds of many business leaders. Everyone u...
The 25th May marked the third anniversary of GDPR – and in many ways, it’s hard to believe it’s been three years. Precisely 661 fines since the regulation’s arrival have been issued, and many data pro...
Covid-19 has caused so much disruption and completely changed the way we live, work and play. While in many ways it has pressed pause on our lives, in other ways the pandemic has initiated G-force ind...