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Ross Kelly is ITPro's News & Analysis Editor, with a keen interest in cyber security, business leadership and emerging technologies.

He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and joined ITPro in 2022 after four years working in technology conference research.

In his spare time, Ross enjoys cycling, walking and is an avid reader of history and non-fiction.

You can contact Ross at ross.kelly@futurenet.com or on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks we're burying our heads in the sand on AI job losses

News With AI set to hit entry-level jobs especially, some industry execs say clear warning signs are being ignored

Pure Storage wants to simplify storage for the AI era

Analysis The firm’s Storage as a Service offering is paying dividends, so it wants to strike while the iron is hot

By Ross Kelly Published 13 June 25

Analysis
LockBit data dump reveals a treasure trove of intel on the notorious hacker group

News An analysis of May's SQL database dump shows how much LockBit was really making

By Ross Kelly Published 13 June 25

News
Global cloud spending is booming again

News AWS might be the industry leader by market share, but sluggish growth in Q1 was eclipsed by Microsoft and Google

By Ross Kelly Published 13 June 25

News

Marc Benioff’s agentic AI gambit is paying dividends

Analysis Agentforce is dominating the agenda at Salesforce – and it appears to be working

By Ross Kelly Published 12 June 25

Analysis
Enterprises are worried about agentic AI security risks – Gartner says the answer is just adding more AI agents

News Not content with deploying agents for frontline operations, some enterprises might double down with ‘guardian agents’ to monitor their bot-based workforces

By Ross Kelly Published 12 June 25

News
‘We’ve got some fabulous conditions’: Salesforce UK chief exec Zahra Bahrololoumi touts the country's tech industry potential

News The UK remains a “priority market” for Salesforce, according to its regional CEO

By Ross Kelly Published 11 June 25

News

Get used to working with AI teammates in Slack

News The workplace collaboration app is all-in on AI agents

By Ross Kelly Published 11 June 25

News
Cisco eyes network security gains for agentic AI

News New network security updates aim to secure AI agents across enterprises

By Ross Kelly Published 11 June 25

News
Keir Starmer’s tech skills drive welcomed by UK industry

News The ‘TechFirst’ program aims to shore up the UK’s digital skills to meet future AI needs

By Ross Kelly Published 10 June 25

News

Tech professionals are on the job hunt again – here’s what they’re looking for

News Work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexibility are key motivators for tech workers seeking new opportunities

By Ross Kelly Published 9 June 25

News
AI security and compliance concerns are driving a private cloud boom

News A new survey suggests AI workloads may be a serious motivation behind moving back to private cloud and on-premise infrastructure

By Ross Kelly Published 9 June 25

News
Cisco patches critical flaw affecting Identity Services Engine

The networking giant has urged enterprises to update immediately

By Ross Kelly Published 6 June 25

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski's vision for customer service could be a nightmare

Opinion Premium and ‘VIP’ customer service options that connect you with a real human worker sound hellish

By Ross Kelly Published 6 June 25

Opinion
Confused at all the threat group names? You’re not alone. CrowdStrike and Microsoft want to change that

News CrowdStrike and Microsoft hope to "bring clarity and coordination" to the cyber industry by unifying threat group naming conventions.

By Ross Kelly Published 4 June 25

News
Fresh Microsoft layoffs hit software engineering roles, documents show

News The latest batch of layoffs at Microsoft's Washington headquarters mark the second in the space of a month.

By Ross Kelly Published 4 June 25

News

CEOs want AI in everything, but software engineers are pushing back

News Demands to embed AI within applications are becoming a huge "pain point" for software engineering teams, new research shows.

By Ross Kelly Published 4 June 25

News
A mysterious cyber vigilante is dumping information on notorious ransomware criminals

News An anonymous whistleblower has released large amounts of data allegedly linked to the ransomware gangs

By Ross Kelly Published 3 June 25

News
Snowflake targets PostgreSQL gains with Crunchy Data acquisition

News The Snowflake Postgres platform aims to simplify development and deployment of AI agents

By Ross Kelly Published 3 June 25

News

NinjaOne completes $270 million Dropsuite acquisition in 'major step forward' for data protection capabilities

News The addition marks a “major step forward” for NinjaOne’s data protection and resilience efforts, said CEO Sal Sferlazza

By Ross Kelly Published 3 June 25

News
Big tech promised developers productivity gains with AI tools – now they’re being rendered obsolete

Opinion Big tech promised software developers huge benefits with AI tools, but now they face job cuts as companies ramp up automation.

By Ross Kelly Published 3 June 25

Opinion
Scottish startup raises $25 million to drive agentic AI in the legal profession

News The funding round for Wordsmith AI will be used to scale infrastructure and global expansion

By Ross Kelly Published 3 June 25

News

Enterprises are caught in a vicious ‘legacy dependency’ cycle

News Balancing customer needs with technology demands is causing headaches for IT leaders

By Ross Kelly Published 2 June 25

News
Sick and tired of spreadsheets? Perplexity’s new tools can help with that

News Perplexity Labs is available now for Pro subscription users

By Ross Kelly Published 2 June 25

News
Why Salesforce’s Informatica acquisition could be the key to Benioff’s agentic AI dream

Analysis Industry analysts have described the Informatica acquisition as a "bold and highly strategic move".

By Ross Kelly Published 30 May 25

Analysis

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