Rory Bathgate
Rory Bathgate is a staff writer at IT Pro covering the latest news on UK networking and data protection, privacy and compliance. He can sometimes be found on the IT Pro Podcast, swapping a keyboard for a microphone to discuss the latest in tech trends.
In his free time, Rory enjoys photography, video editing and graphic design alongside good science fiction. After graduating from the University of Kent with BA in English and American Literature, Rory took an MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies at King’s College London. He joined IT Pro in 2022 as a graduate, after four years in student journalism. You can contact Rory at rory.bathgate@futurenet.com or on LinkedIn.
Latest articles by Rory Bathgate

What is 'multi-cloud by design'?
By Rory Bathgate published
ITPro Podcast A proper cloud strategy can unlock value with AI and the edge

Change individual behavior to improve cyber security, says expert
By Rory Bathgate published
News Organizations can deliver as much cyber security training as they want, but its value is limited unless it leads to actual behavior change

Dell unveils AI partnership with Nvidia, aims for on-premises deployment
By Rory Bathgate published
News Project Helix will see the two giants of tech collaborate to provide enterprise-grade AI

Dell Technologies World 2023: All the day-two announcements
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Live Blog Live coverage of the second day's keynote at Dell Technologies World 2023

Dell commits to multi-cloud by design with “largest-ever” Apex expansion
By Rory Bathgate published
News The hardware and cloud giant seeks to connect public cloud and on-premise IT

AI and storage to take center stage at Dell World 2023
By Rory Bathgate published
Analysis Energy efficiency and intelligent systems are likely to play key roles at Dell’s biggest ever annual conference

What does it take to spark a data revolution?
By Rory Bathgate published
ITPro Podcast The Borough of Newham could establish London as a world data capital

Cisco reveals exploit code is publicly available for critical switch vulnerabilities
By Rory Bathgate published
News Attackers could target UI vulnerabilities in Cisco switches to execute malicious code

BT to slash 55k jobs by 2030 in “brutal” cost-saving plan
By Rory Bathgate published
News The telco aims to become more lightweight through layoffs and digitization

US identifies and places $10 million bounty on LockBit, Hive ransomware kingpin
By Rory Bathgate published
News Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev was linked to specific ransomware attacks, including a 2021 raid on the DC police department

Transcript: The security challenges of cloud-native 5G
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ITPro Podcast Read the full transcript for this episode of the IT Pro Podcast

Is the new .zip top-level domain a cyber security risk?
By Rory Bathgate published
News While some experts have branded the new domain ‘unnecessary’, others dispute its usefulness for attacks

Vodafone announces largest layoff round in company history, 11,000 jobs to be axed
By Rory Bathgate published
News Jobs in the UK, Germany, and Italy are included in the three-year cost-saving plans

Breach at US Transportation Department exposes 240,000 employee records
By Rory Bathgate published
News An investigation is underway into the breach, which affected former and current employee data

Microsoft’s in-house AI chip could ‘hasten’ product rollout, cut costs
By Rory Bathgate published
News The firm has denied claims it is working with AMD on the new chips

The security challenges of cloud-native 5G
By Rory Bathgate published
ITPro Podcast New architecture is not free from legacy threats

Transcript: Can low-code development complement generative AI?
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ITPro Podcast Read the full transcript for this episode of the IT Pro Podcast

Duet AI vs Copilot: All the similarities and differences
By Rory Bathgate published
Analysis Google has embedded generative AI across the entirety of its Workspace apps, but how does it compare to Copilot and what are its advantages?

US reveals bespoke tool that took down Russian malware operation
By Rory Bathgate published
News Snake had been used to steal NATO countries’ data for 20 years

IBM watsonx is an as-a-service AI platform for businesses
By Rory Bathgate published
News The industry giant also unveiled data and governance platforms

Google’s inbound updates to Bard will close the gap with GPT-4
By Rory Bathgate published
Analysis The firm’s annual I/O conference could see it leap ahead of OpenAI once more

Can low-code development complement generative AI?
By Rory Bathgate published
ITPro Podcast Simpler training could sway AI-averse enterprises
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