New whitepaper launched to help the retail industry keep up with AI tech evolution
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09 July 2025
Retail Express has released a new whitepaper to help retailers plot a path to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in retail. Titled ‘Retail’s Journey To AI’, it provides a comprehensive guide to AI integration in retail, presenting AI as a journey that retailers can undertake to gain critical advantages in efficiency, customer experience, and market competitiveness.
AI represents a transformative opportunity for retail, enabling better decision-making and operational efficiency. AI will provide the analytics that will support and even secure retail's future with a new way of doing business. However, AI adoption isn't optional but essential for competitive survival, with the guide emphasising that it is critical for retailers to take those first steps, however small, towards AI today.
Research from ESET highlights urgent need for greater cybersecurity investment
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Amid escalating cyber threats and a series of high-profile breaches, new findings reveal concerning gaps in UK businesses’ cybersecurity preparedness.
According to ESET’s recent research, 15% of UK organizations still do not allocate any budget to cybersecurity measures, and nearly a quarter (23%) do not plan to increase their investment over the coming year. This raises serious questions about their resilience in facing today’s increasingly sophisticated cyber landscape.
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Marque Group Solutions modernises IT infrastructure with Node4
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Marque Group Solutions (MGS) has successfully migrated its diverse hosting environments to Microsoft Azure, thanks to a strategic partnership with managed service provider Node4.
MGS’s rapid growth through mergers and acquisitions resulted in a fragmented IT landscape — some operations relied on costly on-premises hosting, others on AWS, and parts managed by Node4 — necessitating a unified, flexible cloud approach.
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Matthew Terry, Senior Product Manager, WatchGuard Technologies
Cyber adversaries grow more agile and sophisticated every day. This means that the level of security that an enterprise needs, has to go far beyond simply installing traditional firewalls and antivirus software. All UK enterprises these days are dealing with advanced malware and ransomware, as well as persistent, targeted attacks.
With that in mind, some top tips for choosing a hybrid network security solution, that fully protects remote and office users, include:
