The question every leader should ask this week:
"If my Cloud provider went down tomorrow, would my business stay online and remain trading?"
If the answer isn't a confident "yes," it's time to reconsider your business continuity strategy...

Recent outages from AWS (20-10-25) and Azure (30-10-25) left global organisations offline for hours. Critical applications went dark, disrupting entire operations, along with the associated revenue streams and the cost of a workforce unable to work!

Retailers - be they small local shops, online sellers, or top global brands - generate, transfer, and store more data than ever before, ranging from customer data (both online and in-store, as we have considered in previous articles), to supply chain and asset tracking data. Whether it's shopping online or utilising in-store apps to access the latest savings and special offers, the way customers shop has fundamentally changed forever, with the data they generate online and in person allowing retailers to build up unique personas that drive truly bespoke experiences.