Ed Targett

London

Founder and Editorial Director at The Stack

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Articles

Saudi Arabia splashes the cash on NVIDIA hardware

2 days ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

To those who remember that dissident Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered within seven minutes of entering a Saudi Arabian consulate in 2019, the name of the kingdom’s AI fund may conjure up a dry chuckle.
"Cloud dissatisfaction" is on the rise, says Gartner

2 days ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

A quarter of organisations will have experienced “significant dissatisfaction with their cloud adoption by 2028, due to unrealistic expectations, suboptimal implementation and/or uncontrolled costs.” Get the full story: Subscribe for free Get the story, a weekly newsletter (you can turn that off if you want) and support independent journalism. Subscribe today.
AWS takes the egress hit as DHH actually exits the cloud

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

AWS has waived a $250,000 data egress bill for a company abandoning its S3 cloud storage environment in favour of an on-premises Pure Storage flash array – making good on a March 5, 2024 promise for all customers.
Are we treating ransomware like it's sexually transmitted?

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

In November 2023, aerospace heavyweight Boeing volunteered to publicly share the details of how it was hit by ransomware – including the “indicators of compromise” (IOCs) that would allow other potential victims to threat-hunt for similar hallmarks of the attackers, and work to shore up the security of their IT estates.
Hacker used DeepSeek to create LangFlow exploit

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

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Liverpool FC is transforming its stack with AI

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

“All Red” is the code name for Liverpool Football Club (LFC)’s digital media transformation programme. And if there is a day to interview Drew Crisp, LFC’s SVP, Digital about it, it’s the day after five strikes against a supine Tottenham Hotspurs team sends LFC into the history books with a 20th English title and 61,000+ fans in Anfield into paroxysms of joy. Outside the stadium, the air is sulfuric and crimson as riotous supporters spark flares in every direction; All Red indeed.
How Eurocommercial built its own ERP system using Causeway

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

Eurocommercial Properties – a Dutch investment firm with a €4 billion portfolio of shopping centres in Belgium, France, Italy, and Sweden – has done something distinctly unusual: It has developed its own in-house ERP system to manage assets and invoices on open-source software (OSS).
Bank of England (finally) switches on new settlement engine

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

After many years of immensely careful planning the Bank of England has migrated to its new Real Time Gross Settlements (RTGS) engine. That’s a new hardware and software stack, which on day one of operations on Monday, settled bank payments totalling £778 billion. The switch was revealed by Dave Ramsden, deputy governor, markets and banking, at the Innovate Finance Global Summit 2025 on Tuesday.
Spain’s power outage: An Odessa event, not a cyber one?

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince wasn’t the only tech executive wondering aloud what the heck an “induced atmospheric vibration” was as Spain and Portugal were plunged into darkness on Monday. The term was one given by Portuguese grid operator REN as an explanation for Europe’s worst power outage in memory; but two days later, with electricity supplies restored, debate continues to rage about the cause.
“We want it back” - Synadia tries to claw NATS back from a shocked CNCF

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

NATS, an open-source messaging service widely used as middleware for microservices architectures, was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) by Synadia in 2018 and made available under a permissive Apache 2.0 open-source licence.