Lucid Software: Miscommunication affecting day-to-day work
18 October 2024
Lucid Software has released data from its latest survey - ‘The Agile advantage: Transforming collaboration for modern teams’ - which uncovers key areas of opportunity for teams to become more agile and deliver business value faster. The data reveals trends, challenges, and opportunities facing knowledge workers in the UK.
The survey found that in 46% of UK businesses, teams can take up to three hours to decide on how to progress business objectives. This suggests firms are wasting money on ineffectual meetings which don’t deliver clear action plans.
Ransomware victims who paid up double in 2024
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17 October 2024
The number of ransomware victims who paid a ransom in 2024 (16.3%) more than doubled on the previous year (6.9%), according to new research from Hornetsecurity.
Data loss has also increased dramatically, from 17.2% in 2023 to 30.2% in 2024. Alarmingly, 5% of organizations reported a complete loss of all affected data.
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Women in telecoms are crucial for UK innovation
16 October 2024
The telecoms and connectivity sector has a diversity problem: only 12% of its engineers are women. And as the industry faces a major talent shortage, we’re presented with an opportunity to try and rebalance our sector.
Key to this is diversifying the talent pool and encouraging greater inclusivity, addressing the industry’s skills shortage and helping drive better business outcomes for UK telecoms.
Leveraging AI for sustainable data centres
09 October 2024
Andy Connor, Channel Director EMEA, Subzero Engineering
Over the last few years and looking to the near future, the demand for data processing has soared exponentially at rates previously thought inconceivable. Goldman Sachs Research estimates that while data centres currently consume approximately 1-2% of the world’s overall power, this is expected to grow by 160% by the end of the decade, and 2022-2030 carbon emissions are predicted to double!
The rise in demand for data processing
The increase in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) must take responsibility for its part in this increased data consumption. The International Energy Agency reports that a Google search requires just 0.3 watt-hours of electricity, compared with a hefty 2.9 watt-hours for a single ChatGPT query. But while AI commands greater power requirements, it does have the potential to make data centres much more energy efficient.
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