Welcome to the tenth issue of IT Pro 20/20, our digital magazine that brings all of the previous month's most important tech issues into clear view.
Diversity has always been a challenge for the technology industry. It's one of those few industries that struggles to maintain a varied talent pool, with white males still taking the single biggest share of the employee demographic.
This is a problem we've known about for a long time, and even though the figures have improved very little in recent years, awareness has. Unfortunately, there's a very real danger that what work UK businesses have put in to make their workforce as diverse as possible could be entirely undone by the pandemic.
When faced with shrinking budgets, it's easy to imagine companies choosing to sideline or even close some of the newer, more costly, diversity initiatives. We also know from recent research in the US that women are more likely to be furloughed than their male colleagues as, by the nature of recent diversity efforts, women are more likely to be holding those very vulnerable entry-level positions.
In this month's issue, we aim to show why a struggling business should start thinking of diversity as less of a business luxury and more as a route to recovery and, ultimately, a competitive advantage in a fractured post-pandemic market.
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Apple’s Siri overhaul is a ‘watershed moment’ in its long-awaited AI pushNews The revamped Siri AI could put to rest questions over its lackluster approach to AI, providing it nails the roll-out
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AMD chief exec Lisa Su touts UK’s AI potential as firm eyes £2bn investmentNews The deal will see a new AI supercomputer built in Cambridge and partnerships with Imperial College London and Oriole Networks
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Sage strengthens leadership bench with double executive hireNews The software vendor has announced the appointments of Krish Vitaldevara as chief product officer and Anand Swaminathan as chief strategy officer
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nLighten eyes fresh growth under new CEO and CFONews Dame Dawn Childs and Matthew Harris join the data center provider’s executive team as it looks to meet growing edge infrastructure demand
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Nebula names Eric Dodd as new chief financial officerNews The experienced leader adds deep financial expertise as the CPaaS provider looks to build on recent growth momentum
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Lakeside Software ramps up EMEA strategy push with new appointmentNews Oli Giordimaina will help shape the vendor’s regional strategy amid increasing digital employee experience (DEX) demand
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Veeam ramps up growth plans with trio of leadership hiresNews The data resilience vendor has reshaped its senior leadership team to deepen partner engagement and streamline customer success in the AI era
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Lisa Su says AI is changing AMD’s hiring strategy – but not for the reason you might thinkNews AMD CEO Lisa Su has revealed AI is directly influencing recruitment practices at the chip maker but, unlike some tech firms, it’s led to increased headcount.
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IDC: The business value of IBM MaximoWhitepaper Integral to the transformation of asset management
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Keeper Security expands federal bench with latest senior hiresNews The security vendor has bolstered its federal team to support zero-trust access, operational execution, and government modernization efforts
