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6 ecommerce trends to watch

IBM Big Data Hub

Some forecasts suggest online retail might be responsible for half of all retail revenues by next year. In what McKinsey refers to as “the e-commerce catch-22,” many retailers with significant growth in ecommerce sales through 2020 and 2021 saw their margins decline.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. A spokesman for the London Stock Exchange Group, which maintains the database, confirmed the breach involved a data set illegally obtained from a third party. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

According to a Gartner report (link resides outside ibm.com), worldwide end-user spending on public cloud spending is forecasted to total $679 billion and is projected to exceed $1 trillion in 2027. It’s hard to imagine a business world without cloud computing. Google Workspace, Salesforce).

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