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Security is NOT the enemy of innovation

Sashi Jayeratnam, Senior Director of Product Management for Spirent, explains how an unfortunate reality of modern cybersecurity is that it is often put at odds with the wave of innovation that is now happening in enterprise IT – security testing is often reactive and manual and generally cannot keep up with the complexity or pace that innovation brings about. Sashi describes a new approach, where innovation within an organization needs to be managed differently, with security testing embedded and automated throughout the change process so that changes can be tested before they are rolled out. From there security can become an embedded part of the innovation process.

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MSPs need to tread softly when it comes to security-stressed SMEs

Antoine Jebara, GM of MSP Business and co-founder at JumpCloud, explains how SMEs want help with any number of security-related challenges – including AI, the threat to innovation, ensuring a seamless user experience, shadow IT, tool sprawl and identity and access management – hence they are increasingly turning to MS(S)Ps. However, SMEs are also understandably nervous when it comes to security, so they want outside assistance but still want to feel in control.

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Foundation first, followed by agentic AI and AI sovereignty

James Hodge, GVP & Chief Strategy Advisor at Splunk and member of the TechUK AI Committee, discusses how AI remains a central focus, with numerous companies continuing to develop cutting-edge AI technologies at the same time as AI projects are falling short thanks to poor data management, overhyped promises and confused leadership. James offers some advice as to how to ensure AI success - avoiding wasted resources, frustrated boards, and a growing disillusionment with what AI can deliver.

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Key storage trends for 2025

Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, explains how Generative AI (GenAI) and next-generation data protection are driving new and interesting conversations about what enterprises will do with their storage infrastructure in 2025 to accommodate these significant developments, as part of the company’s Top 5 Storage Trends for 2025: 1) Generative AI: The Rise of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) 2) Next-Generation Data Protection: The Shift to Cyber Focus, Recovery First 3) Hybrid Multi-cloud Storage: The Best of Both Worlds (On-premises & Public Cloud) 4) Automation & Optimisation: The Demand for More Efficient Enterprise Storage Continues 5) Data Infrastructure Modernisation: The Next Steps with a Unified Approach

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AI transforming IT Operations

Taggart Matthiesen, Chief Product Officer of LogicMonitor, discusses the findings of the company’s latest research - Unleashing AI-Driven IT Operations: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Growth. Conducted in partnership with industry research firm EMA, the report offers a deep dive into the adoption of AI in IT Operations (ITOps), gathering insights from over 500 IT professionals worldwide to uncover pivotal trends, challenges, and the innovations driving the future of IT, as Taggart explains.

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Document processing - as easy as IDP

David Malan, Sales Director, DocuWare, provides an overview of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) – explaining how streamlined, future-proof automation powered by AI could be just the solution an organisation needs to accurately read, pre-process and classify documents for increased efficiency. He also introduces DocuWare IDP - which leverages AI and machine learning to provide customers with the fastest document lifecycle automation rates, greatly improving overall productivity and earnings.

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Reinventing the high-tech company of tomorrow

Deborah Garand, Managing Director - High Tech, Accenture, discusses the findings of the company’s recent ‘As a Service, at Your Service’ research report which looks at the challenges and opportunities for high-tech companies as they look towards as-a-service (aaS) offerings to improve customer value and operational flexibility. The stakes are high, with 97% of executives believing generative AI can expedite the organisation’s strategic shift toward aaS models, while 75% of executives believe that legacy technology hardware companies will no longer exist unless they begin acting more like software companies.

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AI-Native Unified Detection & Response Cybersecurity Platform for MSPs

Tal Eisner, Guardz VP of Product Marketing, discusses the findings of the company’s recent MSP survey, which are that MSPs are juggling as many as 10 cybersecurity point solutions to protect their SMB customers, are drowning in large volumes of security data and many are challenged by implementing advanced threat detection technologies as they strive to keep up with ever-evolving cybersecurity threats. Happily, with Guardz’s EMEA expansion via a partnership with Infinigate Cloud, help is at hand.

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Gender bias and wider DEI challenges - architecting change

Dina Knight, Chief People Officer, Logicalis, is accountable for all aspects of Logicalis’ and parent company, Datatec’s, people operations strategy from the board level down. In her role, Dina ensures that diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) are a major focus for the company, with a range of education and workplace initiatives around the globe practical examples of this IT industry-leading approach to true inclusivity.

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AI optimism is high, but challenges remain

Nicolas Leszczynski, Principal Solution Engineer at Riverbed, discusses the results of the recent Riverbed Global AI & Digital Experience Survey, which finds that organisations are at an inflection point as they accelerate their adoption of AI. Despite high optimism, the report reveals this reality – while 94% of those surveyed say AI is a top C-Suite priority and 91% agree it provides a competitive advantage, only 37% are fully prepared to implement AI projects now, as organisations address challenges ranging from data quality to scalability that are impacting their ability to realise the full benefits of AI.

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IT modernisation - the dos and don'ts

Neil Fowler, SVP of Hybrid Cloud Engineering at Rocket Software, discusses the challenges and opportunities of IT modernisation, offering some valuable insights as to the essential ingredients of a successful IT modernisation strategy, alongside some words of caution as to the pitfalls to avoid.

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AI Transform - Interview with NetApp

Kirsty Biddiscombe, AI, ML and Data Analytics lead for NetApp EMEA, discusses the challenges and opportunities of enterprise AI - with the focus very much on the current skills shortage.

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