AI dependency is the next cyber resilience risk
AI dependency is creating hidden concentration risk as organisations rely on shared models, cloud platforms and infrastructure, making resilience, optionality and exit planning increasingly critical.
Thought Leadership
Invisible change: two years on from CrowdStrike, the risk was never the update
Two years after CrowdStrike’s outage, Kashif Nazir examines why invisible configuration drift, automated change and limited visibility remain the greater risks for IT teams today.
The top three priorities for modern CISOs
Modern CISOs must embrace AI-powered defence, secure inference pathways and unify infrastructure management to counter machine-speed threats while improving visibility, resilience and operational control capabilities.
How AI governance can help, not hinder innovation
Strong AI governance helps organisations scale customer communications safely, protect trust, reduce operational risk and give engineering teams greater freedom to innovate with confidence successfully.
Why AI literacy will prove transformative for UK business leaders
Dael Williamson explains how AI literacy, natural-language data access and unified foundations can help UK business leaders turn trusted insights into lasting competitive advantage today.
Delivering on AI’s promise is impossible without operational alignment
Mark Simpson explains how operational alignment, trusted data, governance and focused use cases help UK businesses scale AI successfully and deliver measurable long-term value growth.
Security in the age of BYOD: why silent authentication is a must-have
As BYOD becomes standard, silent authentication helps organisations strengthen security, reduce password fatigue, improve productivity, and protect users without disrupting everyday work.
Identity is becoming the UK’s most valuable digital asset, and its biggest security risk
Digital identity could transform UK public services, but stronger IAM, risk-based authentication and resilience are essential to protect citizens from identity-led cyberattacks.
The changing face of music rights
Howard Ricklow examines the evolving music rights landscape, exploring how film and video game soundtracks demand global, multi-platform copyright strategies
Bringing it home: The real reasons UK enterprises are moving regulated workloads off the hyperscalers
UK enterprises are reassessing hyperscale cloud for regulated workloads, prioritising sovereignty, resilience, jurisdictional control and smarter hybrid infrastructure decisions.
Separating genuine insight from AI “slop”
Chris Ackerson of AlphaSense explores how enterprises can avoid AI slop by prioritising trusted data, domain-specific intelligence, transparency and human oversight.
How the FIFA World Cup 2026™ shows enterprise AI starts with devices, not the data center
Myles Spittle of Lenovo explains how the FIFA World Cup 2026™ shows enterprise AI value begins with intelligent devices, real-time data and edge computing.
The future of engineering depends on diverse perspectives
Engineering’s future depends on diverse teams, visible role models and inclusive leadership as AI, manufacturing and digital infrastructure reshape society and industry.
Beyond the pilot phase. What it takes to scale agentic AI
Joshua Clay of Dynatrace UK&I explores how organisations can scale agentic AI securely by building trust, governance, observability, and human oversight into workflows.
The invisible back-office payment problem slowing the creator economy
Rob Israch of Tipalti explains why unreliable creator payouts threaten trust, growth and scalability across music, gaming and the wider creator economy.
Inside the mechanics of the AI factory
AI factories and sovereign AI are reshaping data centre infrastructure, demanding advanced cooling, rigorous commissioning, digital twins, and integrated energy management.
Breaking the enterprise AI bottleneck: Why technology isn’t the problem, but our systems are
Enterprise AI is failing to scale not because of weak models, but because fragmented workflows, siloed data, disconnected systems and poor governance hold it back.
How AI is reshaping cloud economics
Laurent Gil of Cast AI explains how AI workloads, GPU waste and token economics are reshaping cloud costs, making automated optimisation essential for enterprises.
Before you run with AI, you must crawl the hard yards and learn to walk
AI adoption succeeds when organisations crawl, walk and run, building governance, focused use cases and operational maturity before scaling automation across the business.
Enhancing tunnel construction safety with next-gen networks
Katsutoshi Itoh explores how photonics-powered networks can improve tunnel construction safety, enable remote inspections, and support smarter infrastructure maintenance across the sector.
The loyalty economy: Why shoppers will share data when they reap the rewards
Al Williams of Commerce explores why shoppers share data when brands deliver value through personalisation, frictionless checkout, reliable fulfilment and transparent post-purchase experiences.
The deepfake explosion: Why AI-driven fraud is a board level concern
Deepfake fraud is reshaping cyber risk. Organisations must protect decision-making processes, not just systems, as AI-enabled impersonation attacks rapidly increase in scale and sophistication.
Culture still eats strategy for breakfast: Closing the AI productivity gap
AI investment alone will not close the productivity gap. Lasting business impact depends on culture, transformation, operational alignment, and leadership readiness for change.
GenAI’s data reckoning: Why AI success now depends on what you feed it
Generative AI success no longer depends on models alone. Gartner reveals why data readiness, metadata and governance now determine scalable AI performance.
The invisible infrastructure powering the next chapter of storytelling
How invisible digital infrastructure, composable architecture, and omnichannel delivery are reshaping storytelling, enabling publishers and media brands to deliver seamless audience experiences globally.
The power of people and technology
Inside the Swedish company transforming global logistics
Tapping technology’s potential
Transforming the UK’s biggest water company to deliver a service revolution for its customers.
Fragmented Reality: Duncan Cousins & Henrik Nilsson
In this episode, Duncan Cousins and Henrik Nilsson from Apptio debate ‘quantum computing’, ‘digital evangelist’, ‘DevOps’ and more.
NODE Podcast: Episode 1
Debate, interviews and more on enterprise technology’s biggest topics. Ben, Rom and James chip in on Facebook’s perilous Libra project, our GIGA Data Centers case study and the emergence of the ‘Digital Workplace’ – and Rom gets ten seconds to define quantum computing.
Iron-clad mobile security
MobileIron’s Brian Foster says Unified Endpoint Management is more important than ever in the pandemic age
AI’s pathway to trust
Silicon Valley veteran Ben Lorica discusses removing bias in AI, “de-risking” and more
Thought Leadership
Financial services has outgrown its security model
AI adoption is accelerating financial services, but outdated governance and legacy security models risk undermining resilience, trust and innovation across increasingly connected institutions worldwide today.
Invisible change: two years on from CrowdStrike, the risk was never the update
Two years after CrowdStrike’s outage, Kashif Nazir examines why invisible configuration drift, automated change and limited visibility remain the greater risks for IT teams today.
The top three priorities for modern CISOs
Modern CISOs must embrace AI-powered defence, secure inference pathways and unify infrastructure management to counter machine-speed threats while improving visibility, resilience and operational control capabilities.
How AI governance can help, not hinder innovation
Strong AI governance helps organisations scale customer communications safely, protect trust, reduce operational risk and give engineering teams greater freedom to innovate with confidence successfully.
Why AI literacy will prove transformative for UK business leaders
Dael Williamson explains how AI literacy, natural-language data access and unified foundations can help UK business leaders turn trusted insights into lasting competitive advantage today.
Delivering on AI’s promise is impossible without operational alignment
Mark Simpson explains how operational alignment, trusted data, governance and focused use cases help UK businesses scale AI successfully and deliver measurable long-term value growth.
Security in the age of BYOD: why silent authentication is a must-have
As BYOD becomes standard, silent authentication helps organisations strengthen security, reduce password fatigue, improve productivity, and protect users without disrupting everyday work.
Identity is becoming the UK’s most valuable digital asset, and its biggest security risk
Digital identity could transform UK public services, but stronger IAM, risk-based authentication and resilience are essential to protect citizens from identity-led cyberattacks.
The changing face of music rights
Howard Ricklow examines the evolving music rights landscape, exploring how film and video game soundtracks demand global, multi-platform copyright strategies
Bringing it home: The real reasons UK enterprises are moving regulated workloads off the hyperscalers
UK enterprises are reassessing hyperscale cloud for regulated workloads, prioritising sovereignty, resilience, jurisdictional control and smarter hybrid infrastructure decisions.
Separating genuine insight from AI “slop”
Chris Ackerson of AlphaSense explores how enterprises can avoid AI slop by prioritising trusted data, domain-specific intelligence, transparency and human oversight.
How the FIFA World Cup 2026™ shows enterprise AI starts with devices, not the data center
Myles Spittle of Lenovo explains how the FIFA World Cup 2026™ shows enterprise AI value begins with intelligent devices, real-time data and edge computing.
The future of engineering depends on diverse perspectives
Engineering’s future depends on diverse teams, visible role models and inclusive leadership as AI, manufacturing and digital infrastructure reshape society and industry.
Beyond the pilot phase. What it takes to scale agentic AI
Joshua Clay of Dynatrace UK&I explores how organisations can scale agentic AI securely by building trust, governance, observability, and human oversight into workflows.
The invisible back-office payment problem slowing the creator economy
Rob Israch of Tipalti explains why unreliable creator payouts threaten trust, growth and scalability across music, gaming and the wider creator economy.
Inside the mechanics of the AI factory
AI factories and sovereign AI are reshaping data centre infrastructure, demanding advanced cooling, rigorous commissioning, digital twins, and integrated energy management.
Breaking the enterprise AI bottleneck: Why technology isn’t the problem, but our systems are
Enterprise AI is failing to scale not because of weak models, but because fragmented workflows, siloed data, disconnected systems and poor governance hold it back.
How AI is reshaping cloud economics
Laurent Gil of Cast AI explains how AI workloads, GPU waste and token economics are reshaping cloud costs, making automated optimisation essential for enterprises.
Before you run with AI, you must crawl the hard yards and learn to walk
AI adoption succeeds when organisations crawl, walk and run, building governance, focused use cases and operational maturity before scaling automation across the business.
Enhancing tunnel construction safety with next-gen networks
Katsutoshi Itoh explores how photonics-powered networks can improve tunnel construction safety, enable remote inspections, and support smarter infrastructure maintenance across the sector.
The loyalty economy: Why shoppers will share data when they reap the rewards
Al Williams of Commerce explores why shoppers share data when brands deliver value through personalisation, frictionless checkout, reliable fulfilment and transparent post-purchase experiences.
The deepfake explosion: Why AI-driven fraud is a board level concern
Deepfake fraud is reshaping cyber risk. Organisations must protect decision-making processes, not just systems, as AI-enabled impersonation attacks rapidly increase in scale and sophistication.
Culture still eats strategy for breakfast: Closing the AI productivity gap
AI investment alone will not close the productivity gap. Lasting business impact depends on culture, transformation, operational alignment, and leadership readiness for change.
GenAI’s data reckoning: Why AI success now depends on what you feed it
Generative AI success no longer depends on models alone. Gartner reveals why data readiness, metadata and governance now determine scalable AI performance.