Mark Rushworth, Founder and CEO of Finchetto, outlines the company’s mission to significantly reduce data centre energy use and accelerate cluster performance with the world’s first fully-optical passive network switch. Compared to today's state-of-the-art switches, Finchetto reduces power requirement by up to 26x while reducing latency by up 40x.
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Liz Blackman, Chief Marketing Officer at Avantra, discusses the continuing importance of DEI, despite some recent ‘push back’, explaining the importance of women's perspectives in creating balanced leadership teams, how diverse viewpoints lead to better solutions and innovation in technology, the responsibility of current women leaders in challenging stereotypes for future generations and some practical approaches to creating more equitable environments in male-dominated industries.
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Steve Petryschuk, Director, Product & Market Strategy in Product Management, Auvik, discusses the findings of the company’s recent 2025 IT Report, entitled: “Why IT is long on challenges but short on time,” which reveals that stress and burnout are approaching all-time highs amidst the Baby Boomer retirement era, underscoring the critical need for AI and automation solutions and giving rise to the IT generalist. Steve also highlights some recent innovations added to Auvik’s IT Operations platform.
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Lee Caswell, SVP, Product and Solutions Marketing at Nutanix, discusses the findings of its seventh annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. This year's report sheds light on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) adoption, investment priorities, and benefits along with key challenges organisations face to meet the demands of these emerging workloads.
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Jenny Briant, Academy Operations Director at the Ten10 Academy, shares valuable insights on empowering women in tech and promoting inclusive workplaces – including building a career in tech without a traditional tech background; the importance of DEI representation in AI and tech leadership; AI in recruitment: the need for human oversight; empowering women and Gen Z in tech; and just why a well-crafted DEI strategy can bring so many benefits to an organisation when it comes to both employee and customer interactions.
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Mike Hoy, CTO, Pulsant, outlines some of the end user uncertainties related to cloud - discussing network connectivity, data sovereignty and data migration concerns. With AI set to ask further cloud questions, Mike explains how Pulsant’s recently launched Pulsant Private Cloud solution could just be the answer for many UK-based organisations, as well as how the planned acquisition of two further UK data centres enhances the company’s platformEDGE strategy.
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Vivek Behl, Vice President, Strategy at WalkMe, discusses the findings of the company’s annual report, The State of Digital Adoption 2025, Special AI Edition. This year’s report focuses on AI adoption in the enterprise and highlights an alarming disconnect - while 79% of executives express confidence in meeting their AI transformation goals, only 28% of employees feel adequately trained and only 25% report being able to use AI to work more efficiently.
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Bill Andrews, ExaGrid President and CEO, addresses many of the misconceptions around the cost of different backup storage options, with many end users struggling to understand the long-term costs associated with CAPEX, Lease, Subscription, Consumption and the Public Cloud models. While most end users are embracing a hybrid IT model, where cost is one important factor among others (such as flexibility, scalability, security, speed of deployment and compliance), Bill cautions that, without a true understanding of backup storage lifecycle costs as part of their overall decision-making process, end users may well make a very expensive mistake. He also gives a ‘bonus’ preview of what to expect from ExaGrid during 2025.
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Emma Irwin, Director of Sales Engineering at Dataiku, the company’s recently published annual trends report, “5 GenAI Trends for 2025: Beware the AI Agent Reckoning,” highlighting five transformative trends that will shape the enterprise AI landscape. The report focuses on the next frontier of generative AI (GenAI): the game-changing rise of AI agents and their potential to deliver a transformative impact on enterprises worldwide. Topics covered include AI investment and ROI, data privacy and governance, the LLM ‘mess’ and upskilling the workforce.
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Ojonimi Bako, CEO and co-founder of Kaya AI, explains how, by leveraging artificial intelligence, data analytics and automation, the company streamlines procurement processes, enabling faster, more efficient, and sustainable project delivery. Kaya AI’s platform is designed to augment human productivity – simplifying procurement tracking and automating routine workflows, empowering teams to accomplish more with fewer resources.
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Nathan Parks, Sr Specialist, Research at Gartner, discusses the findings of its recent survey, which found that only 14% of security leaders successfully balance data security and business objectives. Nathan explores the reasons as to why this situation exists and shares Gartner’s five recommendations to help ensure that security and risks managers can help organisations successfully achieve both data protection and business enablement goals.
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Jairo Fraile, vice president of global partner sales at Sectigo, discusses the company’s recently introduced cybersecurity innovations – the CaaS subscription-based certificate management solution, which revolutionises how partners manage and monetise digital certificates, empowering them to automate and future proof their customers’ businesses; and Sectigo PQC Labs, which addresses today's urgent need for a quantum-safe, practical and scalable platform to test, validate and support an organisation’s safe transition to quantum-resistant cryptography.
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