Kate Bennett
CEO of Disruptive LIVE
As the CEO of Disruptive LIVE, Kate has a demonstrated track record of driving business growth and innovation. With over 10 years of experience in the tech industry, I have honed my skills in marketing, customer experience, and operations management. As a forward-thinking leader, I am passionate about helping businesses leverage technology to stay ahead of the competition and exceed customer expectations. I am always excited to connect with like-minded professionals to discuss industry trends, best practices, and new opportunities.
£210 Million for Government Cyber Security. Good. But Let's Talk About What Actually Matters.
The government's new £210 million cyber action plan is a proper investment. But will the guidance be usable by the small businesses who need it most?
Why Your Keyboard Isn't Going Anywhere
Voice dictation is three times faster than typing. The tech finally works. So why are we still hammering away at keyboards? The answer is sitting in the desk next to you.
Designing a Greener Cloud Together
If you’ve been in a meeting lately where “sustainability” was mentioned, there’s a good chance someone said, “Yes, we should look into that,” and the conversation quietly moved on. It’s not that peopl...
How to take advantage of the Cloud
In today's interconnected business landscape, organisations across all sectors face the critical challenge of secure document exchange. Whether it's legal firms handling sensitive client data, financi...
Data Loss in the Cloud
By Murray Moceri, Marketing Director, CloudAlly We live in a world increasingly powered by the cloud. We entrust our most valuable data to platforms like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, S...
Business Needs AI Now More Than Ever
No, AI in the workplace wasn’t just a ‘flash in the pan’. Two years ago, it was the shiny new gadget that companies flaunted at board meetings but rarely embedded into core operations. Today, it’s the...
Why I welcome AI software development
Today, I will be taking you on a journey, learning about communication from ancient times to today's software development and machine scientists. The purpose of this blog is to understand how...
How Small Businesses Can Start Using AI Today
“Let me start this blog by saying that the threats of your business extinction due to not deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) are greatly exaggerated. “ The first paragraph should, I hope, set th...
Are Cloud and AI driving the need for Universal Basic Income?
I keep hearing the words Universal Basic Income (UBI) across many social and blog networks. This has led me to think: Why not try to explain the concept to those of us who wish to learn more? here goe...
The Pros and Cons of Consumption vs Subscription Models
As a newly appointed CEO one of my first tasks was to deep-dive into the impact of Artificial intelligence (AI) on the business I manage and run. The Disruptive brands that I am custodian of have been...
The Uncanny Valley of AI Writing
As I often do, I like to check the submissions from our press releases and blog request inbox. After a quick drink of my early morning tea (a British essential), I noticed something strange.Each blog...
Disruptive Live Announces Seasons Winter 2021
Find out more here and apply to view or register as a speaker. https://disruptive.live/virtual-events/disruptive-seasons/ https://player.vimeo.com/video/636110437?h=69b6e162eb&badge=0&autop...
Big Data, Big Deal
By Daniel Steeves, Partner at HBVP Prime Advantage, Director at Beyond Solutions It is easy to drown in big data articles, let alone the numbers that they quote: companies counting customer transactio...
Server Flash and Flash Hypervisor solution lowers application latency
[quote_box_center] CASE STUDY "The Pernix[Data]-Kingston acceleration solution allowed us to extend the service life of our existing SAN solution by two to three years. It's been an economical alterna...
Choosing the right CSP – how important are multiple sites?
By Russel Ridgley, Head of Cloud Services at Pulsant Selecting the right cloud service provider or colocation partner is a complex task that can have long-term consequences on different aspects of you...
Flash Systems: The Future of Data Storage.
By Steve Hollingsworth, Director at Applied Technologies As more and more businesses and individuals migrate into the Cloud, it is predicted eventually data storage centres will gradually become a thi...
UK Entrepreneur delivers more server computations using up to 90 percent less electricity
[quote_box_center] CASE STUDY "One of the requirements to building a reliable server is to ensure that each of the components that we install into it are themselves reliable. We have found Kingston's...
By Frank Jennings, Cloud Lawyer at DMH Stallard LLP
Our understanding of government surveillance changed in June 2013 when The Guardian published the first revelations of the NSA’s PRISM and GCHQ’s Tempora snooping programmes. My post that same month H...
The Network Risks for Online Gaming
By Frank Puranik, Product Director for iTrinegy I've spent decades looking at networks and their impact on application delivery in different industries and none more so than network/online gaming. The...
Are Enterprise App Stores a vital ingredient for any successful BYOD strategy?
Rick Delgado's recent Compare the Cloud article about a subject gaining a lot of traction at the moment, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), raised some interesting questions about the realities of implemen...