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18 Dec 2024
CISA issues mobile security guidance following China hacks
Following the Salt Typhoon attacks, CISA offers advice to 'highly targeted' individuals, such as using end-to-end encryption and moving away from purely SMS-based MFA.
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18 Dec 2024
Enterprises shift to on-premises AI to control costs
In 2025, many companies will shift to on-premises AI to cut cloud costs that can easily reach $1 million a month for large enterprises.
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18 Dec 2024
U.S. approach to misinformation, AI will shift under Trump
President-elect Donald Trump has been vocal in his criticisms of big tech's content censorship power and President Joe Biden's executive order on AI.
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01 Oct 2024
Telstra goes to new heights to improve Norfolk Island connectivity
Satellite internet service for Norfolk Island, Australia, offers huge throughput gains for internet capacity, greatly improving online learning opportunities and medical services
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01 Oct 2024
Businesses are getting some value from AI, but struggling to scale
Survey from KPMG reveals IT leaders struggling to keep up with the pace of technology innovation
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01 Oct 2024
Iomart strikes ‘game-changing’ acquisition
Channel player iomart continues to use M&A to bolster its position in the cloud services market
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01 Oct 2024
MicroStrategy update aims to improve generative AI accuracy
The longtime analytics vendor's latest release addresses the accuracy of artificial intelligence outputs and includes an integration that enables users to query bots within Teams.
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01 Oct 2024
BT readies customers for Global Fabric infrastructure
Telco announces live testing of AI-ready network-as-a-service platform with global points of presence now installed in over 45 of the world’s major cloud datacentres
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01 Oct 2024
Wellcome Sanger Institute revamps genome sequencing datacentre to cut energy usage
The home to one of Europe’s largest genomic research datacentres claims to have cut the energy consumption of its server farm by a third by revamping its power setup
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01 Oct 2024
Open source is not a trust issue, it’s an innovation issue
Businesses are seeing greater value from open source software, such as greater levels of productivity and reduced operational costs
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01 Oct 2024
EXA Infrastructure, Macarne partner for network growth into Europe
Dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider connecting Europe and North America announces partnership with advanced infrastructure solutions and IP Transit specialist for six transatlantic routes and 155,000km
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01 Oct 2024
Post Office ditches MoneyGram after cyber attack
The Post Office offered a short extension to enable it to asses the impact of the MoneyGram cyber incident, but the contract has now expired and MoneyGram services are no longer available in Post Office branches
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01 Oct 2024
Cyber teams say they can’t keep up with attack volumes
Over 60% of European security pros say their teams are understaffed, and over 50% don’t have enough budget, according to data from ISACA
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30 Sep 2024
Google invests $1bn in Thailand’s cloud future
The five-year investment will bolster Thailand’s digital economy, create more than 10,000 jobs each year and support the country’s cloud-first policy
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30 Sep 2024
California bill veto might push Congress to act on AI
California Governor Gavin Newsom took issue with SB 1047's broad regulation of AI systems without addressing specific concerns such as deployment in high-risk environments.
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30 Sep 2024
Channel round-up: Who’s gone where?
It’s been another busy week across the industry, with more arrivals hoping they can make a positive impact for their employers
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30 Sep 2024
Inflation Reduction Act cuts costs of 54 prescription drugs
Medicare Part B enrollees will see lower prescription drug costs due to a rebate program under the Inflation Reduction Act.
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30 Sep 2024
Investigation finds 'reasonable likelihood' Post Office Capture software caused accounting losses
An independent forensic analysis finds the predecessor to Horizon IT system was also likely to have caused shortfalls for which subpostmasters were blamed, years before the Post Office scandal
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30 Sep 2024
Channel supporting dual-speed AI adoption trend
One of the themes emerging from a recent IBM SI partner get-together was the varying responses of users to GenAI
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30 Sep 2024
Vodafone, Three UK push back on UK competition watchdog’s merger concerns
UK operators seeking merger respond to authority’s warning of potential anti-competitive behaviour, arguing that the deal is pro-competitive while also expressing confidence that outstanding issues can be resolved
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30 Sep 2024
Epic calls on Particle Health to release dispute resolution
Epic Systems urges Particle Health to release resolution details on a patient data dispute following Particle Health's antitrust lawsuit against the EHR vendor.
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30 Sep 2024
PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe on track for 5G-based railway comms
Polish railway operator teams with coms tech provider for trials of 5G-based railway communications system to replacing legacy system and prepare for technological migration
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30 Sep 2024
National roll-out of UK 5G standalone across road and rail could unlock £3bn for economy
Modelling from leading UK operator suggests roll-out of nationwide 5G standalone will transform road and rail travel across the country, saving billions on fuel and boosting productivity through remote working on trains
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30 Sep 2024
Nokia Bell Labs and e& forge AI use case R&D collaboration
Renowned comms research facility teams with leading MENA telecoms operator to innovate for strategic industrial sectors, developing artificial intelligence-based use cases for strategic industrial sectors
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27 Sep 2024
HPE Aruba, Arista update network management consoles
Arista highlights its consolidation of network management tools within CloudVision, while HPE extends Aruba Central to include Cisco and other third-party network devices.
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27 Sep 2024
UK on high alert over Iranian spear phishing attacks, says NCSC
The NCSC and counterpart agencies in the US have issued a warning over enhanced Iranian spear phishing activity targeting politicians, journalists, activists and others with an interest in Middle Eastern affairs
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27 Sep 2024
Top health insurance trends based on quality measures
The 2024 NCQA Health Plan Ratings revealed quality measure performance trends that could guide payers’ decisions on major topics like health equity and diabetes care going forward.
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27 Sep 2024
CUPS vulnerabilities could put Linux systems at risk
Security researcher Simone Margaritelli discovered vulnerabilities in the Common UNIX Printing System that attackers could exploit during print jobs against Linux systems.
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27 Sep 2024
Digital customer experience critical for manufacturing, construction
Study finds desire to improve operational efficiency, digital transformation, changing customer expectations and competitive pressures driving a shift towards an enhanced digital customer experience in key industrial sectors
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27 Sep 2024
Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
Security pros need to get in front of a series of vulnerabilities affecting the Cups Linux printing service after an apparently botched disclosure process saw technical details published in advance of a patch
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27 Sep 2024
Veeam acquisition of Alcion supports push into as-a-service, AI
Veeam embarks on the acquisition path again with its purchase of Alcion. The deal brings several employees who specialize in AI and as-a-service knowledge.
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27 Sep 2024
Project Gigabit extends into Yorkshire
Latest stage of UK government’s £5bn gigabit broadband delivery programme sees advanced connectivity made availed to hitherto unserved rural communities in north of England
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27 Sep 2024
14M patients affected by healthcare data breaches in 2024
Healthcare organizations remain top targets for cyberthreat actors, according to a SonicWall threat brief that explored trends in healthcare data breaches.
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27 Sep 2024
TD Synnex Q3 results show signs of industry recovery
Distributor TD Synnex’s CEO talks of an improving market after sharing numbers for the third quarter that included revenue improvements across all geographies
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27 Sep 2024
AWS accused of overstating competitive threat posed by cloud repatriation
Amazon Web Services criticises regulator for failing to take into account competitive threat posed by enterprises moving workloads back on-premise - but critics say AWS is exaggerating the issue
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27 Sep 2024
How UEM Sunrise is driving transformation with Salesforce and AI
Malaysian property developer UEM Sunrise is leveraging Salesforce and AI to boost sales and enhance customer experience while prioritising data sovereignty and a diversified cloud strategy
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27 Sep 2024
More parallels between Post Office Capture and Horizon scandal revealed
Post Office dramatically increased the number of investigations into subpostmasters after Capture Software was introduced
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26 Sep 2024
Fresh crop of startups takes on infrastructure-as-code toil
Emerging vendors, including a new venture from the founder of Chef, set out to put a fresh face on IT infrastructure automation for the platform engineering era.
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26 Sep 2024
OpenAI restructure move unsurprising, but raises concerns
The for-profit organization will lead to more freedom for the organization and its investors. However, it could cause enterprises to question if the vendor is committed to safe AI.
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26 Sep 2024
Proposed bill calls for minimum healthcare cyber standards
The Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act would require HHS to establish minimum healthcare cyber standards and remove the cap on fines under HIPAA.
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26 Sep 2024
Racist Network Rail Wi-Fi hack was work of malicious insider
Police have revealed that this week’s racist cyber attack on public Wi-Fi networks at stations across the UK appears to have been the work of a malicious insider, after arresting an employee of one of the service providers
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26 Sep 2024
AI helps to spark skills vs. seniority debate at HR Tech
Skills emerged as a major topic for debate at the HR Tech Conference this week, where discussions focused on the effects of this AI-enabled change in hiring.
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26 Sep 2024
Commvault acquisition of Clumio for S3 speaks volumes
Commvault's acquisition of Clumio doesn't wade into billion-dollar territory, but it does illustrate some trends happening in the cloud data protection and backup markets.
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26 Sep 2024
ThoughtSpot taps Salesforce exec Karkhanis to be new CEO
As analytics enters a new era dominated by GenAI, the vendor has named former Salesforce Sales Cloud and Einstein Analytics leader Ketan Karkhanis its new chief executive officer.
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26 Sep 2024
Cockroach Labs adds vector search, updates pricing options
The database vendor's new update includes an integration with pgvector that provides users with the vector search capabilities needed to feed RAG pipelines and develop GenAI tools.
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26 Sep 2024
UK government secures £10bn AI datacentre investment from US firm
The prime minister has announced that £10bn in overseas investment has been secured to fund the construction of a hyperscale, AI datacentre in Northumberland
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26 Sep 2024
Subpostmasters living years with disputed but unresolved debts to the Post Office, inquiry told
Continued errors with the Horizon system mean subpostmasters have unresolved account shortfalls hanging over them for years
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26 Sep 2024
Islamophobic cyber attack downs Wi-Fi at UK transport hubs
An apparent hacktivist attack disrupted public-facing Wi-Fi networks at UK rail stations to display Islamophobic content
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26 Sep 2024
Remote patient monitoring use raises HHS-OIG concerns
In a new report, HHS-OIG detailed the rise of RPM use among Medicare enrollees and highlighted its concerns around appropriate use and fraud risk.
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26 Sep 2024
HPE unifies channel team to improve experiences
Vendor brings channel staff under one umbrella in response to partner feedback
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26 Sep 2024
Semiconductor market scaleups to benefit from multimillion-pound investment from Innovate UK
National innovation agency Innovate UK is offering 16 semiconductor scaleups access to millions of pounds of funding to support their continued growth
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26 Sep 2024
Onapsis debuts SAP security capabilities for BTP
New capabilities from Onapsis are aimed at enabling customers to assess security for and protect SAP Business Technology Platform from configuration and other vulnerabilities.
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26 Sep 2024
Ransomware Task Force finds 73% attack increase in 2023
The Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force says a shift to big game hunting tactics led to a significant rise in attacks last year.
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26 Sep 2024
SMEs fear AI and are looking for support
Findings from Indeed research underline the role the channel needs to play to help customers adopt AI technology
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26 Sep 2024
Auckland museum enhances digitisation efforts with storage upgrade
A major storage upgrade is enabling the Auckland War Memorial Museum to safeguard its vast collection, ensure digital sovereignty and enhance visitor experiences using AI
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26 Sep 2024
Government plans reverse pitch events to drive digital change
The government will hold three events for startups to showcase and collaborate with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Justice to solve key problems faced by the departments
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26 Sep 2024
Three-quarters of providers say claim denials increasing
The growing rate of claim denials poses a threat to healthcare revenue cycle management.
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26 Sep 2024
Vodafone Business IoT, Kigen announce full commercial availability of iSIM
Next phase of partnership between Vodafone’s internet of things division and electronic and integrated subscriber identity module security firm Kigen sees full commercial availability of iSIM to enterprises
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26 Sep 2024
Fujitsu accused of ‘paying lip service’ to Post Office scandal victims
Victims of the Horizon scandal believe Fujitsu’s offer of support to be a 'box-ticking' exercise with no commitments, nine months after seemingly heartfelt pledges
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26 Sep 2024
Comms giants unite to deliver more energy-efficient fibre networks
Broadband Forum-led project including BT Group, Orange, Calix, Futurewei, Huawei and Nokia seeks to lower energy consumption when accessing the internet through more energy-efficient networks
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25 Sep 2024
More Ivanti vulnerabilities exploited in the wild
Three vulnerabilities in Ivanti products have come under attack by unknown threat actors in recent weeks, including two flaws in the company's Cloud Services Appliance.
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25 Sep 2024
Microsoft introduces new safety tools for generative AI
The cloud giant introduced tools that cite sources in Copilot, curb hallucination and protect privacy. They show ways the vendor has learned from previous challenges.
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25 Sep 2024
Harness DevOps tools add database, QA automation, AI agents
With a series of updates this week, Harness claims unique support for database DevOps, as well as pipeline generation and UI test automation using AI agents.
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25 Sep 2024
Intel rolls out AI chips amid financial turmoil
Intel ships AI chips Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 while analysts ponder how the company's severe cash shortage will transform its business over the next several years.
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25 Sep 2024
SIOS focuses on failovers in LifeKeeper for Linux update
SIOS updates LifeKeeper for Linux in a new version that adds to its high-availability features and simplifies management and security privileges through its console.
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25 Sep 2024
At HR Tech, experts consider future of human judgment
The role of AI versus human judgment is being debated at this week's HR Tech Conference. HR managers see a dividing line, even if they are unsure about where it is.
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25 Sep 2024
Broadcom: AT&T is trying to 'rewind the clock' on VMware
A newly filed memorandum from Broadcom points to an 'unambiguous 'End of Availability' provision' as rationale for why a court should deny AT&T's request for injunctive relief.
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25 Sep 2024
CMS rule targets suspect billing in Shared Savings Program
A new CMS rule is addressing "significant, anomalous, and highly suspect" billing activity within the Medicare Shared Savings Program to mitigate financial impacts for ACOs.
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25 Sep 2024
Elitecare Emergency Hospital suffers healthcare data breach
Elitecare Emergency Hospital in Texas suffered a healthcare data breach that affected more than 24,000 individuals.
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25 Sep 2024
Allen Institute for AI launches open multimodal models
Ai2's multimodal generative AI models can understand visual data. Molmo comes in different sizes: Molmo 72B, Molmo 7B-D, Molmo 7B-O and Molmo E-1B.
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25 Sep 2024
CrowdStrike apologises to US government for global mega-outage
CrowdStrike executive Adam Meyers appears before a US government committee to explain the series of errors that led directly to one of the biggest IT outages in history
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25 Sep 2024
AI could improve prostate cancer risk stratification
A deep learning tool could identify intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients more likely to experience rapid disease progression and help inform personalized treatment plans.
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25 Sep 2024
Google Cloud files complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices
Google Cloud has filed a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and its policy of charging customers more for running software they already own in its competitors’ clouds
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25 Sep 2024
VA EHR has seen 826 major performance incidents since launch
The new VA EHR system, deployed by Oracle Health, has faced over 800 major performance incidents since October 2020, affecting patient care and delaying implementation.
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25 Sep 2024
Improved health equity to add $2.8 trillion to U.S. GDP by 2040?
Health equity improvement could yield $763 billion in corporate profits and prevent 5 million people from leaving the workforce due to health issues.
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25 Sep 2024
Watt takes Infinigate Group board position
Channel veteran will get the chance to bring his years of experience to bear and advise distributor on growth strategy
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25 Sep 2024
Telehealth use associated with physician satisfaction
A recent study reveals that telehealth enhances physician satisfaction and perceived care quality, adding to our understanding of how physicians feel about telehealth.
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25 Sep 2024
Pure Storage arms UK channel with greater insights
Vendor extends scheme that has been running in the US to cover EMEA and share more intelligence
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25 Sep 2024
Vote: Who should be the 2024 Most Influential Woman in UK Tech?
Each year, we ask our audience who should be named the most influential woman in UK technology. Tell us what you think – the deadline for voting is 18 October
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25 Sep 2024
Sipartech ups infrastructure resilience, quality through submarine net
Mediterranean submarine cable by Medloop France and GeoMesh Extreme service strengthen pan-European terrestrial and undersea infrastructure for enterprises
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25 Sep 2024
NetApp E-series: Not part of the big message, but here to stay, says CEO
We asked NetApp about its high-performance computing-focused E-series block storage arrays and found inconsistent messaging but ultimately a commitment from CEO George Kurian to retain it
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25 Sep 2024
Splunk and Cisco integration moving apace
Splunk is rapidly integrating with Cisco’s technology to enable seamless transitions between their platforms while delivering advanced threat detection capabilities
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25 Sep 2024
Zoom enriches enterprise solutions offer
Communications and collaboration leader Zoom unveils new suite of business offerings to boost efficiency, reliability, security and compliance for enterprise organisations
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25 Sep 2024
Post Office IT procurement mess saw £35m spent on air conditioner, says board member
Post Office IT procurement mistakes have wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers money, non-executive board member tells public inquiry
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24 Sep 2024
NetApp sees data management as its future
A shared metadata namespace searchable through BlueXP and a disaggregated storage architecture for faster generative AI data ingestion will kickstart NetApp's shift into new markets.
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24 Sep 2024
CrowdStrike exec apologizes to Congress, shares updates
CrowdStrike changed the way it rolls out content updates as a result of the global IT outage caused by a faulty update in July.
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24 Sep 2024
Proposed ban on connected vehicle tech from China too broad
The U.S. Commerce Department's proposal to ban software and hardware for connected vehicles imported from China or Russia might face enforcement issues down the road.
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24 Sep 2024
Arkansas City water treatment facility hit by cyberattack
While disruptions are limited, the attack on the water treatment facility highlights how the critical infrastructure sector remains a popular target for threat actors.
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24 Sep 2024
Money transfer firm MoneyGram rushes to contain cyber attack
Money transfer specialist MoneyGram services remain down several days after a network outage developed into a full-blown cyber security incident
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24 Sep 2024
New Grafana Labs features aim to simplify observability
The vendor's latest set of capabilities includes prebuilt applications and automated features aimed at making it easier to use observability tools to monitor data and IT processes.
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24 Sep 2024
Westcon-Comstor extends Tech Xpert
Distributor shares membership update as it looks to take the community to a fresh part of the globe
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24 Sep 2024
Unique malware sample volumes seen surging
BlackBerry’s latest ‘Global threat intelligence’ report details a surge in unique malware samples as threat actors ramp up the pace of targeted attacks
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24 Sep 2024
Pure punts raft of unifying features in FlashBlade file and object
Features are aimed at Pure’s file and object architecture with functionality based on software that aids management at system level
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24 Sep 2024
Post Office IT department’s focus on chasing a discount meant botched procurement
Post Office IT team and executives slammed for rushing into tech hardware purchase while eyeing a discount
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24 Sep 2024
FDA approves self-administered nasal influenza vaccine
By the 2025-2026 respiratory virus season, FluMist, the nasal influenza vaccine, will be available for home vaccination via self- or caregiver-administration to eligible patients.
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24 Sep 2024
HPE enriches AI capabilities of Aruba Networking Central
Leading networking provider sees growth of customer base and data lake accelerate AI insights and improved network management, security, performance and visibility
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24 Sep 2024
Pure Storage's new file service looks to clean up legacy mess
Pure Storage's Real-Time Enterprise file service gives a simplified look into file data across the enterprise. It's also offering a VM assessment tool and universal credits program.
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24 Sep 2024
NetApp maintains push to data management for AI
From data storage to intelligent data infrastructure – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays
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24 Sep 2024
NetApp integrates security, adds hardware for GenAI future
NetApp executives see a disaggregated future for its storage hardware and software into data management, but industry analysts question how storage admins will handle these duties.
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24 Sep 2024
Vodafone, Intelsat expand satellite connectivity offer
Vodafone and Intelsat team up to provide additional connectivity and resilience to customers in hardest-to-reach places, whether on the move or following an environmental or humanitarian disaster
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24 Sep 2024
How VMware is supporting AI workloads
VMware claims its Private AI Foundation with Nvidia platform that speeds up AI deployment in private cloud environments is gaining significant traction in the Asia-Pacific region
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24 Sep 2024
Printer refresh sparked by move to AI PCs
Quocirca’s annual investigation into the managed print landscape is a call to action for the channel