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• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Datrium makes European push as it targets storage ‘big guys’

  NVMe pioneer turned hybrid cloud and “data platform” provider makes a push for the enterprise and wants to take scalps from those selling “1990s SAN technology”

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Business ISP Giganet plugs into Openreach’s Salisbury network

  Local business ISP Giganet has started to roll out its own full-fibre broadband services in Salisbury, using Openreach’s new-build network

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Government urges businesses and charities to up cyber security

  The UK government is urging businesses and charities to take action to prevent cyber attacks as the costs go up, despite an overall reduction in breaches, partly driven by new data protection laws

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Why you need to link licensing tools to HR

  IT can be pretty good at setting up a PC for a new joiner, but what happens when someone leaves? How do you delete their cloud access?

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  MI5 and the Met ramp up use of analytics to tackle terrorism

  Police and intelligence organisations are working on technologies that will help “sharpen radars” around detecting terrorist intents

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Employees lack awareness of corporate data-sharing policies

  IT leaders believe their organisations are highly likely to lose data in the next 12 months due to accidental data breaches

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Marie Claire develops platform to encourage in-magazine shopping

  An in-house team at Marie Claire has developed a platform to encourage readers to shop while browsing the site

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Most business decision-makers and knowledge workers happy to work alongside robots

  Fears that automation will remove jobs for knowledge workers are reducing as opportunities emerge to upskill and eradicate mundane work

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Del Monte Foods enlists Accenture to help guide move to AWS cloud

  US-based food producer has moved hundreds of servers and business applications to the AWS public cloud as part of a push to modernise its IT estate and boost its overall business agility

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Government invests £10m in education technology strategy

  The UK government has launched a strategy encouraging technology companies to help schools use technology to reduce teacher workload, among other things

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Manchester startups help GCHQ tap into new source of ingenuity

  The first group of startups to emerge from a Manchester-based accelerator programme has contributed new ways of thinking to UK’s GCHQ intelligence agency

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Demand for edge datacentres set to grow in APAC

  More edge datacentres will be needed in the Asia-Pacific region to cope with greater adoption of edge computing and IoT when 5G networks are up and running

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Akamai to open second traffic scrubbing centre in Australia

  New centre in Melbourne will meet growing demand for scrubbing services to mitigate the impact of distributed denial of service attacks in Australia

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Women now almost a quarter of cyber security workforce

  Women in cyber security are younger, have achieved higher levels of education and are assuming leadership roles at higher rates than men, a study shows

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Government invests in knife-detection tech research

  The Home Office and the Department for Transport are channelling more than £460,000 into fast-tracking the development and deployment of technologies that can detect concealed blades in public spaces

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  SMEs forced into automation as Making Tax Digital goes live

  Small businesses are faced with all manner of challenges as the government presses ahead with its plan to digitise the UK tax system

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Four in 10 leading banks failing on email fraud protection

  Top UK traditional and challenger banks risk exposing customers to email fraud, a study reveals

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Cranfield gets Rubrik backup plus Nutanix in drive to the cloud

  Research-led university goes hyper-converged across the board with Rubrik backup appliances and Nutanix in a move to rationalise on-site physical needs and drive to the cloud

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Cyber attacks increasingly exploiting supply chain weaknesses

  Cyber attacks are increasingly characterised by supply chain attacks, counter incident response and lateral movement, research reveals

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Huawei reports record numbers despite tumultuous year

  Huawei has become one of the world’s largest technology companies by revenue, suggesting the accusations over its ties to the Chinese government are failing to have much impact

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Post Office could face huge costs bill for first Horizon trial

  Subpostmaster claimants’ legal team makes application for the Post Office to pay millions of pounds of costs associated with trial

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Public cloud fuelled bulk of datacentre infrastructure spend in 2018, research shows

  Latest datacentre infrastructure tracker from Synergy Research Group highlights the impact the growing demand for public cloud is having on the market

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Thales completes acquisition of Gemalto

  Multi-billion-euro acquisition gives Thales a global leadership position in digital identity and security

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Welsh government buys Microsoft Office 365 for teachers and pupils

  The Welsh government will provide Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus across 1,521 maintained schools in Wales

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Black Hat Asia 2019: Get ready for the cyber arms race

  The arms race is now squarely in the cyber realm as defence teams and threat actors arm themselves with AI tools

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  How Australia’s Curtin University is transforming the digital classroom

  The Perth-based institution has been using collaborative learning spaces to better engage students and bring its classes to the world

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Azure Stack HCI: Hyper-converged, but not as Azure as you’d think

  Microsoft has re-branded Windows Server Software Defined to put hyper-converged to the fore, but Azure Stack HCI isn’t totally in sync with the Azure Stack on-premise cloud platform

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Fidor founder leaves as parent bank plots future

  The founder of digital challenger bank Fidor leaves company as traditional banking parent company tries to sell business

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Rapidly multiplying IoT cyber attacks use well-known weaknesses

  Internet of things threats and attacks are increasing rapidly, but rely on well-known security weaknesses, security researchers discover

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Digital industries lead UK economy

  Technology, media and creative businesses are leading national economic growth, according to research

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Consumers still important as Dutch satnav pioneer maps B2B future

  TomTom is focusing on the business-to-business sector, but its consumer base is an important part of its strategy

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  CLA calls for government intervention on rural 4G coverage

  Country Land and Business Association urges government to consider broadband-style interventions to improve 4G mobile network coverage in rural areas

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Broadband compensation rules come into force

  Regulations that guarantee consumers’ rights to automatic compensation from broadband providers when things go wrong have come into force, and many suppliers have a lot of work to do

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Zuckerberg calls for new internet regulation

  Facebook chief calls for new internet regulation in four key areas to define clear responsibilities for people, companies and governments, including more GDPR-aligned data protection rules

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Singapore government to review data security in public sector

  A high-level committee comprising ministers and private sector security experts will review data security practices and recommend measures to better protect citizens’ data

• March 31, 2019 31 Mar'19

  Frame founder talks up VDI approaches in Australia

  The founder of Nutanix-owned Frame discusses VDI adoption trends in Australia, including the issue of bandwidth

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  How research firm Icon is using analytics and wearables to enhance clinical trials

  The company is investing in emergent technology to boost the attractiveness of trials as a care option and attract more participants, while enhancing internal efficiency around drug and device development.

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Met Office seeks chief information security officer

  The national weather service wants to recruit a new leader to spearhead a cyber security enhancement programme

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Middle East countries accelerate quantum computing research

  Gulf countries must invest in quantum computing research to ensure they continue to to remain digital pioneers

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Magento e-commerce sites urged to apply security update

  Security experts are urging companies using the Magento e-commerce site to apply security updates without delay to avoid a disastrous hacking campaign

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Major shake-up of TSB IT after core banking system migration disaster

  TSB has restructured its IT team to give its internal team control of its core banking system

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  ICO kicks off sandbox beta to support innovation

  The UK’s privacy watchdog has launched the first phase of an initiative aimed at enhancing data protection while supporting business innovation

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Interview: Mark Gray, director of digital transformation, Crown Prosecution Service

  The introduction of fully digital services to improve stakeholder engagement is among the highlights of a world-first transformation initiative in the criminal justice system

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Commvault adds “tape killer” AWS Glacier Deep Archive cold storage

  Backup provider to offer 1-cent-a-gigabyte AWS Glacier Deep Archive as a target in a move that mirrors a trend towards the cloud and away from tape among Commvault customers

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Huawei looks to ISPs for enterprise business growth

  The Chinese technology bigwig is counting on internet service providers to fuel its enterprise business in the South Pacific region

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Swan lands in Scottish Highlands

  Capita’s Scottish public sector network, also known as Swan, is to be extended to 150 sites in the Highland towns of Fort William, Inverness, Thurso and Wick

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Infosec pros slam government-mandated backdoors

  Government-mandated encryption backdoors increase vulnerability to nation-state attacks, according to the majority of cyber security professionals

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Huawei making no progress on addressing security concerns

  Huawei has made no material progress on addressing the issues identified last year by the NCSC, according to the latest highly critical report from its HSCEC Oversight Board

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Encryption adoption driven by new tech and compliance

  The adoption of encryption is at its highest level yet, driven by the need to protect data generated by new digital initiatives, but still less than half of organisations are applying it consistently across the enterprise

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Post Office made to repay public money it allocated to fund Horizon litigation

  A senior civil servant asked the Post Office to repay public money it had wrongly allocated to paying legal costs