technologyreseller.co.uk 07 BULLETIN More than a quarter (28%) say their organisations are collecting environmental data from people’s homes, such as lighting and air quality, while 36% have plans to collect this data in the future. Tom Martin, CEO of Kinly said: “With so many employees working from home, businesses can no longer guarantee a high-quality work environment. The result is people working longer hours, in conditions that wouldn’t have been acceptable at the office. IoT technology is becoming an increasingly popular way to address this, using at-home AV equipment to monitor everything from air quality to working hours and screen time. Of course, adopting this tech means being transparent with employees. It cannot be used without their express consent.” .... Out of control Nine out of 10 organisations believe that the complexity of their technology stack has increased in the last 12 months (88%); that the explosion of data produced by cloud-native technology stacks is beyond the ability of humans to manage (86%); and that the number of tools, platforms, dashboards and applications IT teams rely on adds to the complexity of managing a multicloud environment (85%). On average, organisations use 10 different monitoring and observability tools to manage applications, infrastructure and user experience. The average multicloud environment now spans 12 different platforms and services. (Source: Dynatrace State of Observability 2024) .... Guidelines key to AI success More than a quarter (28%) of UK workplaces have adopted AI, with 79% of AI users saying it is already improving their productivity. Even so, 46% of UK workers say they’ve received no guidance from their organisation on how to use AI tools at work. Desk workers at companies that have defined AI guidelines are nearly six times more likely to have tried AI tools, compared with desk workers whose companies have no guidelines around AI usage. (source: Workforce Lab from Slack, a Salesforce company) .... Cyber alert app The Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland has launched a free iOS/Android app that consolidates cyber and fraud threat intelligence from multiple sources and automatically delivers alerts to organisations throughout Scotland. The Cyber and Fraud Centre Threat Intel app applies three levels of threat severity to help users prioritise responses and gives users the option to customise alerts based on their industry sector, with bespoke alerts for the private sector, public sector, third sector and academia. The app also connects recipients to the Centre’s Incident Response Helpline, which provides support for organisations that have been affected by a cyber-attack. https://cyberfraudcentre.com .... FormulaE partners with Google Cloud Formula E, the world’s first all-electric motorsport, has signed a multi-year technology partnership with Google Cloud, marking what it hopes will be the first of many such deals with technology leaders. The partnership builds on a relationship that began last summer when NEOM McLaren Formula E Team driver Jake Hughes set a new indoor land speed record of 218.7km/h with the help of a gen AI ‘DriverBot’ created by Google Cloud for Formula E’s GENBETA race car development programme. This harnessed real-time data from Hughes’ car, alongside historic race data, to help smash the existing Guinness World Record by more than 50 km/h. The new partnership will enable Formula E to use Google Cloud infrastructure, gen AI tools and data and analytics technologies to make further technological advances through its GENBETA programme; to create highly targeted marketing campaigns by analysing massive datasets of fan behaviour, preferences and demographics; and to build pathways into motorsports and science for young women through Formula E’s FIA Girls on Track programme. www.FIAFormulaE.com
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