Esteban Prieto

The Home Office’s mega £450m public cloud hosting contract with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is concerning public sector market watchers as more details emerge about the contract’s content and how it was arranged. The three-year contract commenced on Friday 1 December 2023, and a redacted copy of the 114-page call-off contract for the deal … Leer más

There comes a time in every digital leader’s career when they fancy doing something different. Keith Woolley has a strong commercial background, but joined the University of Bristol four years ago because he wanted to grasp the opportunity to work in higher education. “I never thought this was a sector I was going to … Leer más

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, working alongside international allies, has called out a series of sustained and, as-yet, unsuccessful attempts by Russian state-backed cyber actors to interfere in British politics and democratic processes, attributing the group responsible to Centre 18 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor agency to the Cold … Leer más

The volume of ransomware and other cyber extortion attacks may have dwindled in 2022 in a trend most likely linked to Russia’s war on Ukraine, but with actors such as Clop/Cl0p making hay this year following their successful exploitation of vulnerabilities in popular managed file transfer services (MFTs), recorded victims of cyber extortion were … Leer más

Rising to the challenge of getting fibre into multi-dwelling units (MDUs) such as apartment blocks, Nokia has introduced an integrated, fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and Multimedia over Coax Alliance Access (MoCA Access) product to give cable operators additional options for addressing customers in such premises. Claiming to be able to link FTTH and MoCA Access seamlessly, … Leer más

Mental health charity Together For Mental Wellbeing has migrated its old server room to a virtual datacentre (VDC) hosted by Node4. Funded by the NHS and local authorities, the charity’s services include community support, supported housing and 24-hour residential accommodation, advocacy, and assistance for those experiencing mental distress in criminal justice settings such as … Leer más