All articles by Lara Williams

Lara Williams

Lara Williams is managing editor of Verdict technology. An experienced writer, Lara previously worked as deputy editor of the Financial Times’s fDi Magazine. Lara has a background in technology journalism writing for the UK’s Computing magazine and has spent almost a decade living in Silicon Valley.

Are orbital data centres the answer to AI compute demand?

A strategic merger and an IPO are both milestones in Elon Musk’s ambition to build data centres in space. But how close are we to orbital data centres becoming viable?

Stop asking which tool to buy. Start asking what Mythos exposed.

Tanium CTO, Harman Kaur, says enterprises cannot patch their way out of the security vulnerabilities that Anthropic’s Mythos has exposed.

What if building more grid capacity isn’t the answer? Solving ‘phantom compute’ could address data centre efficiency

Phantom compute is theoretical compute power that only exists in infrastructure plans but is effectively ‘phantom’ capacity in the real world, says Hitachi Vantara’s Simon Ninan.

PagerDuty CIO on the shift from seat-based to usage-based pricing for AI

Eric Johnson outlines the profound shift in the SaaS business model as AI rollout continues within enterprise workflows.

ArvatoConnect CEO Debra Maxwell on AI transformation in high-churn BPO operations

With BPO attrition rates often reaching 70%, employee engagement in AI initiatives could support greater retention.

Interview: GoodData.AI CTO says the enterprise AI bubble is real, but so is AI’s transformational power

Is the AI bubble about to burst or is this just AI transformation in play? GoodData.AI CTO Peter Fedoročko thinks both things can be true.

How can businesses make sovereign cloud a reality?

Oracle’s SVP of technology engineering for EMEA, Jason Rees, warns businesses against approaching sovereign cloud as a tick box exercise.

Enterprise IT infrastructure must enable AI upskilling

Daniel Pell, VP and UK&I country manager at Workday, contends that AI upskilling within the enterprise requires a dynamic skill-based platform.

Is ‘nearly right’ AI generated code becoming an enterprise business risk?

Code that might appear correct but actually misses edge cases or generates inaccurate results can trigger outages, faulty automation and ultimately affect a business’s bottom line.

Quantum and AI begin to converge in hybrid computing experiments

On World Quantum Day, Berenice Baker examines AI’s potential to accelerate quantum software development, while quantum processors could enhance certain AI workloads.