Tech³Podcast
By Tech3Podcast
Host Information
Ben Shonubi
Twitter: twitter.com/obiwonshinobe
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/benshonubi/
Andy Tebb
Twitter: @Andy_Tebb
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtebb/
Tech³PodcastMar 09, 2021
Shorts 1 - Team Topologies at Scale with Matthew Skelton
On episode 14 of the Tech3Pod we have the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Skelton, the co-author of Team Topologies and Head of Consulting at Conflux. A specialist in Continuous Delivery, operability and organisation dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.
On this podcast moment, we look at Matthew's views on Scaled Agile SAFe and what it means for organisations. Its very important as agilist and organisation we can pick up any framework we think might work but sometimes we don't take the time to really understand what will be good for the team as a whole. Matthew does a great job in explaining what he thinks of SAFe and offers an alternative bases on his experience.
Check out the full episode HERE
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Matthew Skelton
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Andy Tebb
Ben Shonubi
Ep 27 - Skipton Building Society Recording with Becky Allsop and Craig Goold
In a world where every business is striving to be customer-focused, what does it mean to truly put the customer first?
We invited Craig Goold and Rebecca Allsop from Skipton Building Society to the Tech3 Podcast to discuss how Skipton Building Society put their people first, the merit of a quantitative and qualitative approach to data and what steps are being taken to leave Skipton Building Society in a better place for customers and employees who come next.
Not only did Craig and Becky share some incredibly inspirational use cases, they demonstrated the value of empathy and gave us a glimpse into the start of their omni-channel customer journey.
A big thank you to them both, and to Skipton Building Society for sharing their stories and experiences with us.
More about the speakers:
Craig Goold, is the Head of CX and Change Demand and has been part of Skipton Building Society for more than 11 years, helping them to align Customer Experience and Investment in creating new capabilities that make a difference for our customers and colleagues. Craig is also Chairman of Skipton Business Finance - Helping SME’s in the UK realise their potential through Invoice Discounting and Debt Factoring; supporting over £1bn invoices per year across 750+ clients.
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-goold-863a335/
Rebecca Allsop is the Head of Customer Strategy and planning with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Similar to Craig, Rebecca has enjoyed a long run at Skipton Building Society with over 9 years under her belt. Skilled in Data Analytics, Customer Experience & Research, Marketing Technology, Database Management, Marketing Automation, Marketing Planning and Team Leadership, she has a breadth of experience that many can only dream of and it’s a pleasure to have both Rebecca and Craig with us today.
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-allsop-b27a4a4/
Skipton Building Society – https://www.skipton.co.uk/
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Eloisa Tovee | LinkedIn
Ep 26 - Tech4Pets with Roger Zorlu and Sami Alsindi
Tech4Pets is a not-for-profit company that works with charities to improve animal welfare using technology solutions and big data. The Data Science team here at GlobalLogic* saw an immense opportunity to get hands-on with an interesting dataset, whilst helping a heart-warming cause. On this episode, we talk with Sami Alsindi, Principal Technical Consultant (Data Science) at GlobalLogic and Roger Zorlu, Data Science Consultant at GlobalLogic about how this project came about, why they thought it was a good idea, the type of information they gathered while undertaking this project and how Tech4Pets is helping the pet community fight crimes through data analysis and Machine Learning.
This is a great episode you don't want to miss.
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Blog Post: Paws for Thought
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Sami Alsindi, PhD | LinkedIn
Roger Zorlu | LinkedIn
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Ben Shonubi | LinkedIn |Twitter
Eloisa Tovee | LinkedIn
*GlobalLogic completed its acquisition of ECS in April 2022 so references to ECS are made during the episode
Ep 25 - The Great Skill Shortage with Ashley Strachan (Part 3)
Hello wonderful Tech Cubers we are here with another episode of the Tech³Podcast. This is episode 3 of the Skills shortage series we are doing. On episode 1 we spoken to Mark Capaldi looking at the shortage from an organisational stand point. On episode 2 we spoke to Martyn Scott where we looked at the shortage from a talent and people perspective and on episode 3 we stay with the people theme and speak to Ashley Strachan, a Senior HR and Immigration Advisor at ECS. Ely and Ben discuss with Ashley about the effects on employee experience if talent is not developed and grown. Has she experienced any additional pressure to offer additional training opportunities for employees and her thoughts if she is seeing a skills shortage in the industry.
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Eloisa Tovee | LinkedIn
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Ep 24 - The Great Skill Shortage with Martyn Scott (Part 2)
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Tech³Podcast. As we discussed on our last episode we are doing a three part series where we dive into the skills shortage from different aspects. On the last episode we spoke to Mark Capaldi, Head of Design and Engineering where we look at the skill shortage from a company stance. On this episode we speak to Martyn Scott, Head of Talent and Development at ECS and we delve into the more people aspect on the skills shortage paying particular the type of requests he receives for current employees when it comes to talent and development. The challenges organisations face in keeping up with the digital skills demand and what ways can someone enter the industry either as a graduate or someone looking for a second career.
As always please like share and subscribe to our podcast. It really does help in more ways than you know.
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Ben Shonubi | LinkedIn |Twitter
Eloisa Tovee | LinkedIn
Ep. 23 - The Great Skills Shortage with Mark Capaldi (Part 1)
This is a 3 part series looking at the skills shortage in the UK which has been highlighted by big organisations such as Amazon who have recently put out a mass of free online learning for cloud tools. With this in mind, we wanted to see if this is true from the people on the ground. We first spoke to Mark Capaldi head of design and engineering at ECS a Global Logic Company. We shed some light on whats actually going on including his thoughts on how companies can attract and retain talent with in the industry. How companies can develop in house training if they don't have any to keep their staff up to speed on the latest trends and what steps managers and individuals can take to solve the problem of the skills shortage.
As always please like share and subscribe to our podcast. It really does help in more ways than you know.
Host Information:
Ben Shonubi
Andy Tebb
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 108
It’s Friday Tech Round Up time! In episode 108, we explore the UK government’s new ties with Japan, UK energy tech startups struggling to scale – quoting Luke Smith at Forward Partners, #IWD brings a closer look at equality in the tech industry – UK Tech News, Crunchbase explains why FinTech funding is faltering and safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars.
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 107
We’re back with another Friday Tech Round Up In episode 107, AWS releases a new carbon footprint tool, huge investments into smart greenhouses, Telefonica Tech’s move to become an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Toyota experiences a cyber attack and a breakthrough for dry-climate regions. Also, we have a brand-new Tech³ Podcast episode out, where Flavilla Fongang, Founder of TLA Black Women in Tech, joins us to speak about the barriers black women in tech face today, and also the motives of writing The Voices in the Shadow book. And we remind you to save the date for our panel discussion on Tuesday 8th March at 12noon, discussing how we can begin to close the 7% gap in leadership roles and the importance of allyships in achieving change.
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Ep. 22 - Software Testability with Ash Winter and Rob Meaney
On Episode 21 of the Tech³Podcast we sit down and speak to Ash Winter and Rob Meaney about everything software testability, their start in the industry, their thoughts around how to get started in testing plus much more. This is an amazing conversation and we would like to thank Rob and Ash for taking the time to go through all of their amazing thoughts with us.
Please be sure to like, share and subscribe to the podcast and tell your friends, to tell and friend. We appreciate the love.
Host Information:
Ben Shonubi
Andy Tebb
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Ep. 21 - TLA Black Women In Tech with Flavilla Fongang
Flavilla Fongang is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of 3 Colours Rule — an award winning creative branding and marketing agency. Notable in her industry, Flavilla won the 'She's Mercedes' businesswomen award, placed within the top two most influential tech women in the UK in 2021 and is the chosen brand ambassador for the BBC.
Determined to create a movement that would benefit generations to come, Flavilla founded TLA — Black Women in Tech, hosts a podcast 'Tech Brains Talk' and worked alongside 51 black women to curate 'Voices in the shadow' — a inspirational look into the journeys these women have been on, and the legacies they will leave behind.
We are so grateful to Flavilla for taking the time to record this episode. Not only do we gain a better understanding of the motives for this book, plans for volume two and the movement Flavilla has been so instrumental in creating, we discuss some of the barriers black women in tech face today and the importance of roles models.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts.
Listen to the Tech Brains Talk Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1QAZRf6DRuR4Ftrqayn1Xh
Buy the Voices in the Shadow book: https://theblackwomenintech.com/the-voices-in-the-shadow-campaign/
Join the TLA — Black Women in Tech community: https://theblackwomenintech.com/
Host Information:
Ben Shonubi
Andy Tebb
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up, Round Up - February 2022
Welcome back to the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up! If you’ve not joined us before, your hosts – Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee – use the next 45mins to discuss tech news that made the headlines over the month of February. We cover the development of offshore wind projects in India, holographic calls and Minecraft libraries. All before ending on two feel good stories.
If you’re interested in attending the International Women’s Day Panel Discussion on March 8th, 12pm, set a reminder for the live stream here – https://youtu.be/PkCR2NqZ_ko
Below are all the news piece for this month’s Friday Tech Round Ups – available to watch on the ECS YouTube channel.
- Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 106
- Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 105
- Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 104
- Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 103
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 106
Are you ready for another Friday Tech Round Up?
In episode 106, the energy sector suffers the most cyber-attacks, Wired reveals how Big Tech wants in of the success of digital banks like Monzo and Revolut, RWE and Tata Power announce a collaboration, major FinTechs like Starling and Monzo come together to encourage an overhaul of regulation and The Guardian discusses the five ways AI is saving wildlife. Also, we remind you to save the date for our panel discussion on Tuesday 8th March at 12noon, discussing making change happen in the 21st-century business landscape. Five incredibly talented women will be diving into topics like how we can begin to close the 7% gap in leadership roles and the importance of allyships in achieving change.
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- https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4045395/energy-sector-most-attacked-uk-report
- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/big-tech-versus-big-banks
- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/21/rwe-tata-power-to-scope-offshore-wind-projects-in-india.html
- https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-fintech-bosses-call-on-government-to-ramp-up-efforts-to-overhaul-regulation/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/21/five-ways-ai-is-saving-wildlife-from-counting-chimps-to-locating-whales-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 105
What can you expect in this week’s Friday Tech Round Up? In episode 105, New Relic puts the last pieces of their project in place, Vodafone adopts new tech to ramp up their 5G offerings – Oracle, TechCrunch explores what fintech investors are looking for in 2022, solar power that can convert carbon dioxide into fuel and National Grid ESO & Octopus Energy launch a winter flexibility trial. Also, we remind you to reserve your seats for our free Data Science Immersion Day on the 15th and 16th March!
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- New Relic launches its new infrastructure monitoring experience
- Vodafone UK adopts new tech to ramp up their 5G offerings
- What are fintech investors looking for in 2022?
- The berserk pace of fintech investing outshines the global VC boom
- Breakthrough in converting CO2 into fuel using solar energy
- National Grid ESO and Octopus Energy launch winter flexibility trial
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 104
Time for another Friday Tech Round Up! This week, we look into a sevenfold increase in fintech investment, a €43 billion euro chip supply investment, TechCrunch questions whether journalistic news media missing a huge opportunity, Cloud ME technology – Alibaba Cloud and the Financial Times discusses revolutions in the energy grid. We also shoutout out our free Data Science Immersion Day on the 15th and 16th March, and End Youth Homelessness’ latest fundraiser – Gaming for Good.
Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!
#TechNews #FridayThoughts #FridayFeatures #FinTech #Cloud #DigitalEcoSystem #Hiring
For all links mentioned in the FTRU, visit our Friday Tech Round Up blog
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- UK fintech investment sees sevenfold increase in a year
- EU plans €43 billion chip supply investment
- Energy grid tech is on the charge
- “Cloud ME” Technology is bringing people closer together for the Beijing Winter Olympics
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 103
Time for another Friday Tech Round Up! Today we discuss HSBC investing in green tech, a Minecraft library making censored journalism accessible worldwide, Nationwide Building Society embracing API tech, BP and HyCC committing to greener projects and AmazeVR forging the future of immersive concerts. We shoutout out the launch of e-Comply – a tech solution which helps companies review and automatically redact personable identifiable information when a consumer has a data subject access request.
Thank you to Tilly Kenyon FinTech Magazine, Cian Maher The Verge, Karl Flinders Computer Weekly, Power Technology and Kate Park TechCrunch for their pieces this week, and to Louise Fenn for delivering the goods.
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- HSBC invests in green tech
- Minecraft makes journalism accessible
- Nationwide embraces digital transformation
- BP & HyCC commit to green projects
- AmazeVR receives huge funding boost
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up, Round Up - January 2022
Welcome back to the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up – your monthly deep dive into off all the tech news covered in January’s Friday Tech Round Ups (episodes 99-102 specifically)
Rather than running through all the news week by week – you can do that in a much more efficient way by watching the FTRU on YouTube– Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee look at the trends that popped up over the month of January, drawing parallels between stories and exploring the knock-on effects of particular bits of news. From the benefits of big tech, to collusion and games of chicken, this is your one stop shop for January’s tech headlines.
Oh, and Bruce Willis makes an debut appearance on the podcast too!
Links that came up in the episode:
Generation UK AWS re/Start Webinar – February 9th - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing-the-digital-skills-gap-in-scotland-tickets-244385422377
Gaming for Good charity event - https://gaming-for-good-2022.justgiving-sites.com/?utm_content=195731610
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 102
It’s Friday Tech Round Up time!
Today we discuss Starling Bank’s plan for mortgage lending – which would them ahead of rivals Monzo Bank and Revolut, Meta has unveiled their new supercomputer, Intel Corporation and Samsung Electronics are to invest in new chip-making plants, a bug endangering Linux distributions worldwide and the UK is to launch its first Government Cyber Security Strategy. We shoutout out End Youth Homelessness and their latest fundraiser, Gaming for Good – which will see our ECS gaming community battle it out head-to-head and do something they love for a great cause. Also, make sure to check out our monthly round-up of the news with Eloisa Tovee and Andrew Tebb on our Tech³Podcast. Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!
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- High flying Starling swoops into mortgage lending
- Meta says its new AI supercomputer is among the fastest in the world
- Global chip shortage: US says firms' stocks have plunged
- PwnKit bug endangers Linux distributions worldwide
- UK to launch first Government Cyber Security Strategy to secure its public services
- ECS Gaming for Good
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Ep. 20 - Wardley Mapping with Simon Wardley
On this episode of the Tech3Podcast Ben and Andy sit down and chat with thought lord Simon Wardley. In this conversation we dive deep into his history of being the CEO of Fotango and what that taught him, his thoughts and ideas around mapping plus much, much.
As always if you liked this episode please let us know by sharing your thoughts on LinkedIn or twitter where you can find both Andy and Ben.
Host Information:
Ben Shonubi
Andy Tebb
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 101
Today we dive into a game of corporate chicken between Amazon and Visa, an Oracle article revealing the need for smart cities, a no-code and low-code update from TechCrunch, a report by Rolling Stone revealing the UK Government’s plan to tarnish end-to-end encryption’s reputation and a record-breaking Telsa vehicle. Also, we shoutout our latest inaugural ‘Cloud Cost Optimisation’ blog and our ‘how to stand up a contact centre in 15 minutes' blog,
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- 🐔 UK Amazon users can continue using Visa credit cards after dispute is settled
- 📊 Smart cities, powered by startups
- ⛔ Softr’s Series A is a reminder that the no-code boom continues
- 🔚 UK government to launch astroturf campaign against end-to-end encryption
- 🔋 TESLA TRAVELS 1,200KM ON A SINGLE CHARGE WITH BREAKTHROUGH BATTERY
- 📈 CostOps starts where blame ends
- ☎️ How to stand up a Contact Centre in 15 minutes
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 100
Celebrating 100 episodes of the Friday Tech Round Up! 🥳 Today we dive into an AI-powered transcription platform called DeepScribe trying to unburden doctors from tedious data entry, Cloud giants are to face greater scrutiny from UK financial regulators, Meta losses an attempt to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit demanding it sells WhatsApp and Instagram, an open-source developer corrupts a pair of open-source libraries and the World Economic Forum warns that cyber security failure is one of the biggest risks facing countries and businesses.
Also, we shoutout Fraser Brown for his latest blog on homomorphic encryption and our podcast with guest, Niall McDonagh, and hosts, Ben Shonubi and Andrew Tebb, where they discuss different types of adversity working in technology, as well as Niall’s extraordinary journey navigating different reactions to his sexuality at various points of his career.
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- AI-powered transcription platform DeepScribe raises $30M to unburden doctors from tedious data entry
- Cloud giants to face greater scrutiny from UK financial regulators
- Facebook loses attempt to dismiss antitrust lawsuit demanding it sells WhatsApp and Instagram
- Open source developer corrupts own libraries
- Cyber security failure one of biggest risks facing countries and businesses, warns WEF
- Homomorphic encryption – hard to say, even harder to break.
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 99
Hello and welcome to the very first #FridayTechRoundUp of the new year!
Today, we dive into Apple becoming the world's first $3 trillion company, Google is accused of paying Apple billions to keep it away from the internet search market, the FTC stating they will come after companies that fail to patch Log4j flaws, West Midlands £1.1m boost for digital skills training and Google buying Israeli security start-up Siemplify.
Also, we shoutout John Deere's self-driving tractors, the Autonomous Flight looking for funding for flying taxis and two new Tech³ Podcasts with hosts Andrew Tebb, Ben Shonubi – the first being a recap of AWS re: Invent with Sunil Tailor, Neal Makh and the second being the final podcast in our Celebrating International Men’s Day series with Niall McDonagh.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed!
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- Apple becomes world's first $3 trillion company
- 🔍 Google accused of paying Apple billions to keep it away from internet search market
- 🐱💻 West Midlands gets £1.1m government funding for digital skills training
- 🔐 Google buys Israeli security startup Siemplify for $691m
- 🚜John Deere breaks new ground with self-driving tractors you can control from a phone
- 👂🏾 Ep. 18 - AWS Re:Invent Recap with Sunil Tailor and Neal Makh
- 🎧 Ep. 19 - International Men's Day Part 4 with Niall McDonagh
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Ep. 19 - International Men's Day Part 4 with Niall McDonagh
Niall McDonagh is a programme manager at ECS and has been for just over 6 years. Throughout his journey is has faced different types of adversity but this has not stopped him from purusing his dream and following his career path. In this final episode for International Men's Day 2021 we take an extraordinary trip with Niall as he walks us through what it has been like being gay in a very male dominated industry.
This wraps up our series of international men's day. We hope you enjoyed it!
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Ben Shonubi
Andy Tebb
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Ep. 18 - AWS Re:Invent Recap with Sunil Tailor and Neal Makh
AWS Re:Invent is a week long event which is hosted by Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas. 2021 was the first time the event has been live in 2 years and it brought a whole host of great talking points. AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community. The in person event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to 1,500+ technical sessions, the Expo, after-hours events, and so much more. With a new CEO at the helm it was a great time to see everything new and updates to the company. ECS send some lucky consultants along to enjoy the ride and this year it was Neal Makh who attended on the AWS grant, and Sunil Tailor who is an AWS veteran.
- The launch of AWS Amplify Studio, a new visual development environment that allows developers to create web application user interfaces (UIs) with minimal coding, while still being able to fully customise the apps’ design and behaviour using familiar programming languages such as JavaScript.
- The launch of AWS Cloud WAN
- A new Sustainability Pillar for the AWS Well-Architected Framework, to help organisations learn, measure, and improve their workloads using environmental best practices for cloud computing
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 98
Welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up, where Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee take a deep dive into the news from week commencing December 13th.
In this episode they discuss the nearly-ubiquitous Java log4j vulnerability – otherwise known as the worst cyber security flaw ever discovered. They also look at extracting passwords and manipulating traffic on a WiFi chip, the NHS website crashing as thousands try to book their COVID vaccination and calls for an online safety bill overhaul.
Take a listen and let us know what you think on the ECS Twitter or LinkedIn channels.
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- ☕ Why does the Log4j vulnerability have tech firms worried?
- 🐛 Bugs in billions of WiFi, Bluetooth chips allow password, data theft
- 💉 Covid: Website crashes as thousands try to book boosters
- 🧸 MPs call for online safety bill overhaul to protect children and penalise tech firms
- 🗺️ UK publishes roadmap to create an 'AI assurance ecosystem'
- 🎅🏽 ECS's 358 Christmas Charity Santa Run
- 🏴 Scotland – a true hub of innovation.
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Ep 97
This week, your hosts Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee explore AWS’s outage, CloudBees becoming a unicorn and HashiCorp’s IPO. They also drop hints about two upcoming podcasts and discuss Congress taking on cryptocurrency after calling for tougher regulation.
All that and more!
Have a listen and let us know what you think on ECS LinkedIn or Twitter pages.
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- An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries
- A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future
- Cryptocurrency executives to be questioned in Congress
- HashiCorp Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
- AWS Announces AWS Mainframe Modernization
- Employee Experience: a business priority
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 96
Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee are back with another Friday Tech Round Up Round Up!
In this episode, they discuss the UK government's pledge to make algorithms more transparent, Richard Moore, MI6 chief, seeking help from tech firms and Parag Agrawal taking over as CEO of Twitter from Jack Dorsey. They also jump into the infamous AWS re:Invent, looking at the latest announcements from the cloud giant. Have a listen and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!
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- Government aims to make its 'black box' algorithms more transparent
- MI6 chief seeks help from tech firms to counter hostile state threats
- Who is Parag Agrawal? The new Twitter CEO replacing Jack Dorsey
- AWS re:Invent 2021: All the latest news, announcements and more
- Tech firm zaps cow slurry with artificial lightning to cut methane emissions
- ECS Instagram
- Ep. 17 - International Men's Day Part 3 with Mark Farrington
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 95
On episode 95 of the Friday Tech Round Up Round up Eloisa and Andy discuss a major cloud training announcement made by the new Chief Executive at AWS, Adam Selisky, Apple sues Israeli spyware firm for surveillance of users, the NCSC commits to new diversity measures, Atom Bank introduces a four-day work week and NASA launches it’s first ever asteroid deflection mission.
Shoutout our third Tech3Podcast celebrating International Men’s Day – our CEO Mark Farrington talks about his journey and the decision he made to put family first during his career. Have a listen and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!
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- ☁️ Why Amazon is opening an in-person cloud skills center to train workers for other companies
- 🔍 Apple sues Israeli spyware firm NSO Group for surveillance of users
- 🙌🏿 NCSC commits to new diversity measures
- 💲 Four-day week introduced for staff at digital bank
- ☄️ NASA Dart spacecraft: Space agency launches first ever asteroid deflection mission
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster.
Ep. 17 - International Men's Day Part 3 with Mark Farrington
Mark Farrington is the Chief Executive Officer at ECS, a GlobalLogic owned Company. Looking at him, at face value you might think he's got it all figured out, but talk to him about his story, his journey and you'll understand what he's had to go through, just to get to where he is. In episode 17, we chat with Mark about some of the decision's he had to make about his career, how he decided to but family first and how he still kept his mind and his focus on track.
With the final episode in our International Men's week, we round off in the only way we know we could. From all the team working on the Tech3Podcast, we would like to thank you for your audience.
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 94
We’re back with another Friday Tech Round Up Round Up!
This week, Ely and Andy dive into the UK government pledging to make their tech sustainable, Snowflake rolling out native support for Python into its Snowpark engineering tool, and Starling Bank's CEO, Anne Boden, having their sights set on Barclays.
We also give a little behind the scenes review of the last Tech3 Podcast International Men’s Day series and give you all the scoop on the next DevOps Playground – taking place Thursday 25th November.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts by using #fridaytechroundup on social.
For all links mentioned in the FTRU, click on the links below:
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- 🍃 Creating a new sustainability point for the Technology Code of Practice
- 💳 Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK
- ☀️ COP26: Lord Maude on using open source to help fight against climate change
- 🐍 Snowflake Piles Python Into Snowpark, Realizes Data Cloud
- 🏦 Starling Bank CEO: Barclays ‘firmly in our sights’ as we’ll be bigger within five years
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster.
Ep. 16 - International Men's Day Part 2 with Chris Dunkley
Episode 16 we invited Chris Dunkley who works in Delivery Assurance at ECS. As we navigate through International Men's Day, we aim to show the different aspects and themes that men are faced with. This can include mental health, the stigma around what a man should be and manhood. In this very personal episode, Chris shares his story of what its been like for him growing in the male dominated IT industry and his battle with testicular cancer. This is a touching story which we hope you take something away from.
From everyone at the Tech³Podcast, we would like to thank Chris for sharing this very personal story and hope it helps others who may be going through similar challenges.
Some issues which are explored during the episode include:
- Why is promoting positive conversations about men important?
- How do you start positive conversations with men?
- Formal and informal support networks – will remote working affect access to this?
- Men’s health – do you find there is still a stigma around actively seeking medical help? Is there still a badge of honour for burnout and working through a cold?
- 1 in 215 UK males will be diagnosed with testicular cancer in their lifetime – did your own experience affect your view on or feelings towards manhood/masculinity?
Make sure you listen and keep up to date with the latest episodes
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 93
Welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round up.
In this week’s episode, Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee dive into news from w/c Nov 8th, taking a look at new funding aimed at the digitisation of diagnostics, Gartner urging Heads of IT to consider how they take their role forward, the Bank of England taking steps in its digital money plan and so much more!
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, on one our ECS social channels.
#TechNews #FridayThoughts #FridayFeatures #MedTech #Quantum
For all links mentioned in the FTRU, click on the links below:
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- 🏥 NHS gets £250m boost to accelerate digital diagnostics plan
- ☁️ Gartner: Why CIOs need to replan their roadmap
- 💡 UK and US governments to partner to develop quantum technology
- 🏦 Bank of England takes next steps in digital money plan
- 💻 MICROSOFT IGNITE BOOK OF NEWS March 2-4, 2021
- 🐼 ECS MeetupHands on with Container Security
- 🛏️The Sleep Out Friday 12th November
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 92
Welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up!
This week we dive into HSBC’s multi-year DevOps deal with CloudBees, Microsoft's new 3D avatars, the decline in bank branch visits making way for FinTech, DBS Bank tackling climate change following COP26 and a report by Invicti Security showing DevOps and security professionals under increased pressure.
We also wish the ECS team all the best at this year’s European Software Testing Awards on November 9th and draw attention to Friday November 12th when ECS will be taking part in the End Youth Homelessness Sleep Out. If you’d love to donate to the cause, we’ve dropped a link before.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts on your preferred ECS social channel (LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram)
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For all links mentioned in the FTRU, click on the links below:
- ☁️HSBC signs multi-year DevOps deal with CloudBees
- 🧛🏿Microsoft Teams adds 3D avatars as it lays out Metaverse ambitions
- 🏦Quarter of people don’t plan to visit a bank branch again
- 🦶DBS to launch tool on banking app that allows clients to track their carbon footprint
- 🔐DevOps teams to be overwhelmed by security tasks
- 💤SLEEP OUT 2021
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster.
Ep. 15 - International Men's Day Part 1 with Eloisa Tovee
Episode 15 we invited Eloisa Tovee on the show to kick off a series of episodes celebrating International Men's Day, a day to celebrate men and also take a closer look at some of the challenges men face in todays world.
The aim of International Men's Day is to celebrate positive male role models and to raise awareness of men's issues. These include topics such as mental health, toxic masculinity and the prevalence of male suicide. This year’s theme: “Better relations between men and women.”
Some issues we will be exploring during the series include
- People still hold onto the buccaneering cowboy vision of the alpha male which creates an unrealistic standard for men – especially since we left the Wild Wild West in the early 20th century
- And in the same breath, we teach our sons and our men that they are dispensable. They are more likely to be drafted into the army, lose custody court cases, end up homelessness (70%)
- Whilst the number of countries where paternity leave is enshrined in law has more than doubled to about 90 in the last 20 years; paternity is still openly criticised – latest example was Joe Lonsdale, founder of software giant Palantir Technologies on Twitter last week who tweeted “Any man in an important position who takes 6 months of leave for a newborn is a loser. In the old days men had babies and worked harder to provide for their future - that’s the correct masculine response.”
- 3/4 suicides are men – more women attempt suicide (in the US suicide attempt 1.2 times as often as men), but men use more violence methods making them it less likely for them to receive help
- The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that suicide represents half of all male violent deaths worldwide
- 95% of people who die at work at men
- Men’s health (including male cancers) – The National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that one in two men and one in three women will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime
- Shorter life expectancy (on average 6 years less than women
Make sure you listen and keep up to date with the latest episodes
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 91
Welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up with hosts Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee!
In this episode we look at the potential repercussions to the recently announced profit surcharge cut for banks, the future of drag and drop developers and IBM’s new publicly traded company, Kyndryl.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!
#TechNews #FridayThoughts #FridayFeatures #data #cloud #fintech
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- 🏦 TechUK slams government gift to big banks that will disadvantage fintechs
- 📈UK to phase out multi-billion pound tax on tech giants after global reforms
- 🕵️♀️ Sovereignty? We've heard of it. UK government gives contract to store MI5, MI6 and GCHQ's data to AWS
- 👩💻 Low-code and no-code to be more widely implemented
- ☁️ IBM’s Kyndryl Spin-Off Cleared For November After Board OK
- 🏆 KPMG Best Agile Project
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 90
Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up with your hosts Eloisa Tovee and Andy Tebb!
In this week’s episode we discuss the complexities around the issues The Linux Foundation are trying to solve with their new DevOps bootcamp, we look at a future with Metaverse in it and the suggestions for Facebook’s new name. We also dee pdive into the automated future of retail, new investments into UK farm tech and how Teams might be moving us closer to a 1984 paradox.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts.
#TechNews #FridayThoughts #FridayFeatures #DevOps
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- Linux Foundation to introduce new DevOps Bootcamp
- Facebook to hire 10,000 in EU to work on metaverse
- Facebook reportedly planning to rebrand the company with name change
- Tesco tech play: Supermarket giant launches checkout-free GetGo store in London
- UK government allocates £17.5m to farming innovation programme
- Microsoft is introducing a Teams feature that may cause a lot of cursing
- Welcome to my very first post on LinkedIn! Jes Staley Group Chief Executive Officer at Barclays
- Introducing the Hitachi Sustainability Report 2021
- Hands-on with Stateful apps on Kubernetes with Ondat (formerly StorageOS)
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster.
Ep. 14 - Team Topologies with Matthew Skelton
Episode 14 we invited Matthew Skelton, the co-author of Team Topologies and Head of Consulting at Conflux. A specialist in Continuous Delivery, operability and organisation dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.
In this episode we speak to Matthew about a multitude of items including key themes in the Team Topologies book around the importance of communication within an organisation, how organisations should use their people to setup the org chart to maximise their teams, team cognitive load and how it can be measured plus his thoughts on team topologies at scale and SAFe.
Make sure you like, share and subscribe wherever you may be listening.
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Ben Shonubi
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 89
Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up where you can listen to Andy and Ely deep in conversation about this week’s latest and greatest tech news.
We discuss FinTechs resistance to adopt open-source as part of their overall digital ecosystem, Google unintentionally putting a target on their own backs and the effectiveness of facial-recognition technology in the hands of the UK police force.
Links for the stories features below:
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- 👮Ban UK police use of facial-recognition, House of Lords told
- 👥 Ondat : Formerly Known as StorageOS, Adds Key Executives, Doubles Team in 2021
- ♾ Fintech leaders to implement more open-source software and strategies
- 👾 Chrome Has Four New ‘High’ Rates Security Threats, Google Confirms
- 🚨 Ransomware is 'the most immediate danger to UK businesses', warns cyber chief
- 🐼 28th October: Hands-on with Stateful apps on Kubernetes with Ondat (formerly StorageOS)
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 88
Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up where Eloisa Tovee and Andy Tebb run through the latest tech news from the past week – and this week they are getting social!
Not only do Andy and Ely address the three-headed dog in the room – namely the Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram outage, they discuss Twitch’s data breach, Facebook’s whistleblower giving evidence to a parliamentary committee and CloudBees’ latest global c-suite security survey.
Links for the stories features below:
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- 👎 Facebook outage: what went wrong and why did it take so long to fix after social platform went down?
- 💡 Is CX Day Dying? 2nd Annual CX Day Eve Event
- 📢 Facebook whistleblower - Haugen called ‘21st century hero’ by Senate as Zuckerberg told toxic time is up
- ☁️🐝 Global C-Suite Security Survey
- 👾 Twitch confirms massive data breach
- 🐼 Hands-on with Stateful apps on Kubernetes with Ondat (formerly StorageOS)
- 💸 https://ecs.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/5/home?c=ecs
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 87
We are back with another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up where we look at the unveiling of new fully integrated feature flag controls from CloudBees, Barclays’ new Women In Tech Start Up initiative and what Ireland can do to reduce its energy consumption when it comes to data centres. All that and more! Links for the stories features below:
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts.
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- 🇮🇪 Data centres could use 70% of Ireland’s electricity by 2030, committee to hear
- ☁️ 🐝 CloudBees Unveils End-to-End Feature Flag Control within Software Delivery Platform
- 🏦 Scam ‘epidemic’: Big tech firms must join fight, says Nationwide chief
- 💸 Women in fintech welcome Barclays initiative and demand more from the sector
- 🇨🇳 China demands internet companies create governance system for algorithms
- 🤖 Digital Design Weekend 2021
- ✈️ Spirit of Innovation takes to the skies
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 86
Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp
In this episode, we dive into New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton planning to run entirely on renewable energy, an Opinion Matters study that revealed employers worry about remote work productivity, major IT firms singing up to 'Race to Zero' – Adobe and Oracle, European Digital Rights says AI cannot be regulated by technical measures alone and 15 million users' details that have been exposed in an Epik breach. Also, we shoutout our latest blog written by Louise Fenn discussing the potential drawbacks and what’s next on the horizon for AI – with an expert opinion from Sean Robertson, remind you of the Amazon Web Services Contact Centre Innovation Day on Monday and shoutout our next free DevOps playground on the 30th Sept, where we’ll be taking you through containers and teaching you all about Docker and Podman.
Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!
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- 🌎 New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton plans to run entirely on renewable
- 💻 Employers worry about remote work productivity, but fail to invest in tech solutions
- 🌿 Over a third of major IT firms sign up to 'Race to Zero' campaign
- 🤖 AI cannot be regulated by technical measures alone
- ❌ 15 million users' details exposed in Epik breach
- 📱 Artificial Intelligence… the next Beyoncé?
- 🗣 Transform and modernize your contact center
- 🐼 Docker and Podman - twins, rivals or strangers
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 85
Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp Round Up with Eloisa Tovee and Andy Tebb.
In this episode, we dive into Snowflake's Financial Services Data Cloud, Michelle Bachelet Jeria – The United Nation’s High Commissioner on Human Rights calls for a moratorium on AI, The Metropolitan Police Commissioner – Cressida Dick – says tech giants are hindering efforts to stop terrorists, Doccla secures £2.4m to further develop technology and The Galleri test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer.
Also, we shoutout our latest blog written by Sean Robertson discussing – A North Star for Data Modernisation, Amazon Connect Immersion Lab on the 28th and 29th September, in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the UKTN (UK Tech News) top 10 tech startups
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- ❄️ Snowflake FS Data Cloud
- ❌ AI moratorium
- 📱 Tech hindering efforts to stop terrorists
- 🏥 Doccla, the virtual ward
- 🧬 The Galleri cancer test
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 84
Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp
In this episode, we dive into the Crown Commercial Service opening a £2billion chest for big data analytics, the top programming language for 2021 – Python, JavaScript NPM library exposing apps to hijacking, the Lords Communications and Digital Committee calling for evidence on digital regulation and Jeff Bezos funding an age-reversal company.
Also, we shoutout TLA Black Women in Tech for their new book encouraging black women to pursue a career in tech, our ECS Academy that is still open for applications and announce our next Amazon Connect Immersion Lab, in partnership with AWS, on the 28th and 29th September.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts.
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For all links mentioned in the FTRU, click on the links below:
- 🤑Government opens £2bn chest for big data analytics
- 🐍Python to be the top programming language for developers in 2021
- 📱JavaScript NPM library with 3 million weekly downloads exposed apps to hijacking
- 🧑💻Lords committee calls for evidence on digital regulation
- 🧬Jeff Bezos: Amazon founder 'funds' new age-reversal company opening in UK
- 📚TLA Black Women in Tech to launch book about tech role models
- ✍️Challenge yourself. Study Digital Engineering at the ECS Academy
- 🗣Amazon Connect Immersion Lab
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 83
Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp Round Up
In this episode, we take a look at the rising lobbying spend in Europe, explore the latest WNS study on digital transformation and empathise with the buyer who was tricked into buying a fake Bansky NFT.
For the avid technologists out there looking to break into the world of DevOps and digital transformation, apply for the upcoming ECS Academy (last link below). We’ll also have our fingers crossed for the ECS Team who are up for three awards at the FSTech this Wednesday.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts on our social channels.
#TechTrends #TechNews
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For all links mentioned in the FTRU, click on the links below:
- 🖋️ UK's attempts to rewrite laws could risk data arrangement with the EU
- 💰 WhatsApp issued second-largest GDPR fine of €225m
- 🎨 Collector buys fake Banksy NFT for £244,000
- 🇪🇺 Google, Facebook, Microsoft top EU lobbying spending - study
- ♾️ Digital transformation to be at the core of innovation
- 👩💻 Challenge yourself. Study Digital Engineering at the ECS Academy
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 82
Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp Round Up with Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee.
In this episode, we dive into Microsoft Power Apps misconfigurations that expose millions of records, Linux’s 30th Birthday, conversational intelligence that Level AI is building, Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot and tech giants promising to bolster US cybersecurity – Google, Microsoft and Apple.
Also, we shoutout our newest blog – taking a look under the hood of legacy system – and announce another round of recruitment for our ECS Digital Engineering Academy.
- ❌ Microsoft Power Apps misconfigurations
- 🥳 Linux’s 30th Birthday
- 💬 Conversational intelligence
- 🤖 Telsa Bot
A big thank you to Dev Kundaliya, Thomas Claburn, Ron Miller, Frédéric Lambert and Makena Kelly for reporting on their pieces this week.
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 81
Good morning and welcome to this week’s #FridayTechRoundUp.
In this episode, we explore the United Nations’s peacemaker digital transformation initiative, HashiCorp & Fortinet’s new integration that promises to automate and simplify cloud security and a major breakthrough in quantum computing. We also learn a little more about the hacker responsible for one of the world’s largest digital coin heists.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts on social media using the hashtag #FTRURoundUp
- 🧩 Scientists discover 'missing piece' in quantum computing breakthrough
- 🌱 UK government tells firms to use cloud to curb their carbon emissions and fight climate change
- ♾️ UN launches strategy for digital transformation of peacekeeping
- 💰‘White hat’ hacker behind $610m crypto heist returns most of money
- 🤝 Fortinet and HashiCorp Empower DevOps with Terraform and FortiManager Integration
- 🔮 Beyond Digital Transformation - Whats Next in Digital Transformation
Extras
- 💻 https://ecs.co.uk/digital-engineering/about-us/careers/academy/
- 🐼 devopsplayground.co.uk
- 📝 https://ecs.co.uk/type/blog/
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 80
Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp. In episode 80, we dive into Forbes list of top private cloud companies – including Canva, HashiCorp and GitLab, Microsoft and AWS in other battle over a government cloud contract, finance firms using AI to combat money laundering, an increase in the number of students taking the Cloud computing A-Level and ransom demands and payments hitting new records - Unit 42.
- 🏆Forbes top cloud companies
- ☁️Microsoft and AWS at war
- 🤖AI combats money laundering
- 📈More students take Computing A-Level
- 💰Ransom demands and payments hit new records
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Ep. 13 - The Importance of Agile In Business Part 1
On episode 13 we are joined by some very special guest, Martina Srdoc, Coach | Team Coach | Agile Coach | Mental Health 1st Aider | D&I champion at ECS Digital as well as co-host Andy Tebb, Head of Pre-Sales at ECS Digital. We talk about everything from Martina's amazing journey in becoming an agile coach, some key aspects of what makes a good coach, views on how the industry views female coaches and some brilliant tips for new coaches. Check out this episode of the Tech³Podcast Powered by ECS.
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Martina Srdoc
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Andy Tebb
Ben Shonubi
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 79
Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp. In this episode, we dive into results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Zoom is set to pay $85 million for lying about encryption and selling data to Facebook and Google, The Ministry of Defence pays ethical hackers to uncover IT flaws which Christine Maxwell describes as an “essential step”, Dropbox Data centres achieve their 100% renewable energy goal and Tech Crunch suggests we have even more phases in the evolution of enterprise AI.
- % Stack Overflow Developer Survey
- 🔐IT Zoom lies about encryption
- 💻MOD pays ethical hackers
- 🌎Dropbox Data centres go green
- 🤖UK Another phase of enterprise AI to come
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Ep. 12 - Zero Trust with John Boero from HashiCorp
On episode 12 we are joined by some very special guests. Jeff Hemmen a DevOps & Continuous Delivery Consultant at ECS Digital and John Boero Channel Solution Engineer at HashiCorp and new co-host Andy Tebb, Head of Pre-Sales at ECS Digital. We talk about everything Zero Trustwho manage and how it is not something which has just burst onto the scene but is picking up traction. What should CIO, CISOs and cyber security engineers look out for? Is the new cycle in shifting security left the introduction of continuous identity? And what is HashiCorp Boundry? Check out this episode of the Tech³Podcast Powered by ECS.
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John Boero
Jeff Hemman
Co-Host Information
Andy Tebb
Ben Shonubi
About ECS
ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.
Friday Tech Round Up - Episode 78
Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp. In this episode, we dive into a costly new law designed to regulate AI in Europe, a new IT skills crisis that sees over 100,000 tech job vacancies per week, scientists voice their concern over space tourism whilst Jeff Bezos offers NASA billions of dollars to take part in space missions, Apple, Google and Microsoft report booming profits and amazing tech at this years’ Olympics. Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!
- 💶New AI law
- 📈IT skills crisis looms
- 🚀Concern over space tourism
- 🌕Booming profits for tech giants
- 🏋️♂️UK Tech at the Olympics
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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.
Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.