Tag Archives: Digital

Node4 Enables Faster Evidence Processing For West Midlands Police

West Midlands Police is the second biggest police force in the UK. With data volumes per individual case routinely passing the four terabytes mark, the on-premise IT infrastructure was being pushed to its storage limits and data analysis was becoming very time-consuming. To resolve these challenges, Node4 — in partnership with Microsoft and Exterro, and with regular input from the detective and other key stakeholders within the West Midlands Police Force — built and delivered FTK Central, the UK’s first cloud-based digital forensics analysis solution.

Students pursue digital skills to improve careers

Standout findings include that two fifths (41%) of students in England can currently code or are learning to, and almost a third (27%) can do so in more than one language.
The figures for learning to code across Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland were 38%, 32% and 25% respectively.

Global Real-Time Payments Transactions Surge During Pandemic

More than 70.3 billion real-time payments transactions were processed globally in 2020, a surge of 41 percent compared to the previous year, as the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated trends away from cash and checks toward greater reliance on real-time and digital payments, a new global report from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) and GlobalData reveals.