Alyx MacQueen - author at diginomica

Alyx started their comms career managing communications and leading on strategic planning and policy development, using data and analytics for c-suite dashboards and change programmes after a project with JISC Data Labs. Alyx works closely with diginomica's industry content and thought-leadership partners.

Articles by Alyx MacQueen

NatWest launches Venture Banking with AWS partnership - and the data architecture story behind it

AWS’s Lisa Lewison on why financial services AI ambitions live or die on data consolidation - and what NatWest, Allianz, LSEG, and Nationwide are doing about it.

How Norway's welfare system moved 400GB of daily logs to managed OpenSearch without a service interruption

The Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) pays out 33% of Norway’s state budget. A thousand developers rely on its central logging infrastructure every day. At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, platform engineer Hans Kristian Flaatten and Aiven Product Director Dmitry Kan walked through how they swapped out the underlying search engine while the lights stayed on – and what happened when a last-minute integration problem turned up three days before Christmas.

NAV's Hans Kristian Flaatten and Aiven's Dmitry Kan at OpenSearchCon 26 © AlyxMacQueen

Vector search is table stakes - OpenSearch Foundation bets on data sovereignty and enterprise trust instead

OpenSearch Software Foundation Executive Director Bianca Lewis and Governing Board Chair Carl Meadows on why the new Long-Term Support accreditation program matters for enterprise AI infrastructure - and why the industry's obsession with vector search benchmarks is chasing the wrong metric.

Carl Meadows speaking at OpenSearchCon Europe © AlyxMacQueen

Why is enterprise AI stuck? OpenSearchCon Europe 2026 says the bottleneck has moved from the model to the data

Three keynote speakers, one consistent argument. The hard part of enterprise AI in 2026 is not the model – it is getting the right data, with the right context, into the right place at the right time. OpenSearch thinks it has an answer.

Cloudsmith warns - most teams won't meet the EU Cyber Resilience Act's software supply chain deadline

Most organizations can see their software security risks. Far fewer can act on them fast enough to matter – and with the EU Cyber Resilience Act coming into enforcement in September 2026, the difference between visibility and action is about to become a legal liability. At KubeCon Europe 2026, Cloudsmith made its case for closing it.

Keynote stage at KubeCon Europe 2026 © CNCF Events

Qlik's most important AI feature is knowing when to say nothing . Boring is brilliant

Qlik has made its agentic analytics experience and MCP server generally available, and announced a new ServiceNow partnership at Qlik Connect this week. The reason it holds together has less to do with agents and more to do with a decade of unglamorous governance work.

Martin Tombs of Qlik during a video call

PyTorch Foundation adds Helion and Safetensors - and the open AI stack gets a little harder to ignore

Mark Collier briefed me on two updates under embargo at KubeCon Europe 2026 last month: Helion, which opens up GPU kernel programming to a far wider pool of developers, and Safetensors, which fixes a security problem in open source AI that was stubbornly overlooked for too long. The embargo's lifted - here we go.

Mark Collier of PyTorch at KubeCon Europe © CNCF Events

Why Elastic thinks your observability data and your security data are the same problem

Elastic markets itself as a Search AI company. Massimo Merlo, AVP for UK, Ireland, Iberia and Italy, would rather talk about why that label is almost beside the point.

Why UiPath is re-designing its platform around agents that build automations, not just run them

UiPath's latest product session was billed as an investor briefing, but the most consequential announcement was a pivot in who - or what - the platform is actually built for.

AI agent and robotics concept with robotic hand interacting © teteescape - Canva

SUSE wants to take the cognitive load out of infrastructure – and Liz is how it plans to do it

How many vendors at KubeCon Europe 2026 said they were not an AI company? I only found one. Peter Smails, General Manager of Cloud Native at SUSE, was fairly insistent about it – and what he said instead is worth looking into.

Vibrant chameleon on branch © Rino Adamo - Canva

diginomica enterprise data health research - the data is broken and everybody knows it

Enterprise technology leaders respond to the Enterprise Data Health Study - and in several cases extend its findings in directions the research didn't fully anticipate.

Every GPU has to work with PyTorch to reach the market - so who's making sure it stays open?

Every time a new chip ships and a CEO takes the stage to announce it, there is a question that does not get asked from the podium: can it actually run AI workloads? The answer, almost without exception, runs through PyTorch.

Mean time to innocence - Splunk's case for why your observability data is as much a political problem as a technical one

When a VIP customer calls and the trace has been discarded, you can't prove the issue wasn't yours. Splunk's Stephane Estevez has a name for that problem - and an argument for why fixing it starts long before the incident.