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13 Feb 2025
Users eye LaunchDarkly experiments boost with Houseware buy
LaunchDarkly customers envision fresh opportunities for app development and business alignment with a new data warehouse option on the back end.
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13 Feb 2025
Aggressive deregulation creates risky business environment
Through DOGE, President Donald Trump is cutting work and funding to federal agencies to overhaul business rules and regulations in the U.S.
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13 Feb 2025
Salt Typhoon compromises telecom providers' Cisco devices
Salt Typhoon's latest campaign exploited older vulnerabilities in Cisco edge devices to gain access to the networks of several telecom companies, including two based in the U.S.
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13 Feb 2025
IT orgs expand business observability beyond their own walls
Business observability could soon become a part of your IT environment, even if you're not the one who originally thought of it.
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13 Feb 2025
UK accused of political ‘foreign cyberattack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple
US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-USA “Five Eyes” intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users
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13 Feb 2025
Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data
Some of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for the Home secretary, Yvette Coooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data
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13 Feb 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed as HHS Secretary
The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary in a controversial vote, despite criticism over his anti-vaccine views and opposition from many physicians.
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13 Feb 2025
EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins
Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?
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13 Feb 2025
Confluent, Databricks partner to simplify AI development
With a new integration, joint customers can more easily access real-time streaming data to develop, deploy and maintain trusted AI models and applications.
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13 Feb 2025
Exploring healthcare's third-party risk management gaps
Health IT practitioners understand the scope of third-party risks, but barriers to employing effective third-party risk management strategies persist.
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13 Feb 2025
Cisco rides the AI boon
Cisco reported a 9% revenue increase, driven by AI demand. The company plans to launch new AI infrastructure products, focusing on enterprise data center trends.
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13 Feb 2025
Advania UK unveils unified leadership team
To integrate its recent acquisitions, Microsoft partner Advania UK has established a structure to oversee all operations
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13 Feb 2025
Baltic skills programme to help reduce European skills gap via Africa
Lithuanian project sets out to connect professionals in Africa with European businesses in need of skills
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13 Feb 2025
Insight lists AI, security and 5G among channel opportunities
Channel player Insight is the latest to share its view of which trends are worth getting involved with this year
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13 Feb 2025
Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage
The launch of the flagship Galaxy S25 smartphone from Samsung showcased AI innovation from a company spun out of Oxford University
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13 Feb 2025
UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers
The UK government has imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime syndicate responsible for aiding ransomware attacks, targeting the group and individual members
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12 Feb 2025
Thomson Reuters win not telling of other AI fair use lawsuits
A judge rules in favor of the media company. However, the decision will likely not significantly affect generative AI lawsuits still waiting for a court ruling.
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12 Feb 2025
Arctera CEO: Focus is on new capabilities for backup products
Data backup vendor Arctera, which consists of former Veritas businesses, will continue to sell these products separately as it looks to improve and expand its offerings.
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12 Feb 2025
Fortinet discloses second authentication bypass vulnerability
Fortinet disclosed CVE-2025-24472 in an updated advisory that confused some in the infosec community because it stated that 'reports show this is being exploited in the wild.'
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12 Feb 2025
Physician enthusiasm for healthcare AI rises, concerns linger
While 68% of physicians report advantages to healthcare AI, many physicians have lingering concerns regarding privacy risks, EHR integration and a lack of oversight.
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched
Sustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris
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12 Feb 2025
Emerging vision risks linked to semaglutide, tirzepatide
Recent data points to potential ophthalmic complications, including optic neuropathy and maculopathy, in patients treated with semaglutide and tirzepatide.
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12 Feb 2025
AvePoint increases MSP support as Acronis warns they are targets
Managed service providers set to benefit from improvement to vendor’s platform at a time when criminals have them firmly in their sights
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12 Feb 2025
Private equity behind large healthcare bankruptcies in 2024
Private equity played a major role in 2024 healthcare bankruptcies, accounting for 21% of cases, with critics blaming cost-cutting and short-term profit strategies.
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12 Feb 2025
Forrester: AI and cyber security drive up IT spending
Despite artificial intelligence and cyber security increasing investment, technical debt remains a significant drain on IT budgets
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12 Feb 2025
Microsoft’s February 2025 Patch Tuesday corrects 57 bugs, three critical
Microsoft is correcting 57 vulnerabilities in its February Patch Tuesday, two of which are being actively exploited in the wild, and three of which are ‘critical’
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement
The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut
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12 Feb 2025
Conscia expands UK presence as ITGL buys ISN
Danish player’s Portsmouth-based operation bolsters its position in the Cisco channel with M&A move
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12 Feb 2025
Snowflake's new Cortex Agents enables agentic AI development
The vendor's new managed service, now in preview, provides developers with an API for combining structured and unstructured data with LLMs to create agentic applications.
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12 Feb 2025
Ataccama adds data lineage to foster trust in AI, analytics
Given that the absence of trusted data hinders AI development, the vendor's new capabilities further its effort to provide users with the tools to ensure data can be trusted.
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12 Feb 2025
MongoDB expands Sydney operations to support local growth
MongoDB is doubling down on its Australian presence with a new Sydney office, housing engineering, support and go-to-market teams focused on R&D and tackling the region’s legacy technology challenges
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12 Feb 2025
Crayon looking for public sector growth
Ahead of its tie-up with SoftwareOne, the firm’s CEO outlined its fourth quarter performance and touched on her hopes for 2025
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12 Feb 2025
CCRC reviewing 17 Post Office convictions with potential Capture software involvement
Statutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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12 Feb 2025
AI at Leap 2025: Huge potential but a threat to the fabric of society?
Thought leaders in artificial intelligence gathered at Saudi Arabia’s Leap 2025 tech show to set out the next steps for enterprise AI and agentic AI, but also AI’s potential danger to human society
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12 Feb 2025
Preventive care access among women low amid info desert
Preventive care access among women was low in the past 12 months amid issues with information access and affordability.
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12 Feb 2025
Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore
Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco: We will get better on AI power consumption
At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco execs shared their thoughts on the developing issues around how artificial intelligence is affecting datacentre power consumption
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace
At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence
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11 Feb 2025
Microsoft plugs two zero-days for February Patch Tuesday
The company corrects active exploits in vulnerable Windows systems, one of which could give the attacker complete control if successful.
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11 Feb 2025
Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs
A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries
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11 Feb 2025
CEO testifies on federal agencies as lawmakers clash on Musk
Axon Enterprise CEO Rick Smith testified that federal agencies like the FTC engage in regulatory overreach, and that their power should receive more oversight.
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11 Feb 2025
Cisco launches Smart Switches with AMD DPUs for security
Cisco introduces the Smart Switch series, as enterprises refresh networks in preparation for running AI models and applications.
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11 Feb 2025
OpenAI CEO says 'no, thank you' to Musk's $97B bid
The offer to buy OpenAI is the latest in a back-and-forth between two tech titans, and creates a distraction from bigger issues such as AI governance.
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11 Feb 2025
Apple zero day used in 'extremely sophisticated attack'
CVE-2025-24200 is a zero-day vulnerability that bypasses Apple's USB Restricted Mode in iPhones and iPads and was exploited in the wild against 'specific targeted individuals.'
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11 Feb 2025
Intel loses AI head Justin Hotard to Nokia
AI and data center chief Justin Hotard will leave Intel to become Nokia's CEO as the company struggles to regain its footing in the data center market.
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11 Feb 2025
MPs demand bank bosses come clean over IT outages following Barclays crash
Treasury committee wants banks to provide details of how IT failures have affected their businesses over the past two years
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11 Feb 2025
Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal
Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape
The focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up
A number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris
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11 Feb 2025
OUD patients on Medicaid face telehealth barriers
Medicaid patients with opioid use disorder were less likely to use telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic than those with private insurance, highlighting access barriers.
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11 Feb 2025
F1’s Red Bull charges 1Password to protect its 2025 season
For the upcoming 2025 Formula 1 season, Oracle Red Bull Racing adds cyber security partner 1Password to its roster of team suppliers and sponsors
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11 Feb 2025
New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage
One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components
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11 Feb 2025
NetApp adds cheaper options to all-flash block storage line
An early 2025 catalog refresh includes the expansion of the ASA A-Series, adding to its all-flash block storage with NetApp's OnTap storage OS.
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11 Feb 2025
Users looking to replace backup solutions
Kaseya research reveals a portion of users are not only struggling with backup and recovery, but are considering switching technologies
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11 Feb 2025
Elon Musk capitalises on DeepSeek confusion to bid for OpenAI
The market disruption resulting from DeepSeek has reset artificial intelligence, and now Elon Musk and a consortium of investors want to grab OpenAI
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11 Feb 2025
Quocirca: AI is a managed print services opportunity
Market watcher shares insights into how print vendors and partners are gearing up to take advantage of growing demand for artificial intelligence
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11 Feb 2025
AI projects get £85m funding to improve NHS diagnostics and drugs
The funding pot is being distributed between three projects, aiming to establish new ways of researching how artificial intelligence can be used to target hard-to-treat diseases and develop medicines
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11 Feb 2025
Saudi puts $15bn into AI as experts debate next steps
The kingdom’s Leap 2025 tech show is the backdrop for huge investment, plus debate over the future of artificial intelligence as a productivity tool but which can also potentially undermine human society
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11 Feb 2025
New StorPool KVM disaster recovery service aids adoption
New Disaster Recovery Engine service by StorPool Storage enables automated snapshot and metadata recovery of KVMs in open source cloud platforms.
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10 Feb 2025
Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab
A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out of the UK
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10 Feb 2025
DataRobot acquires open source and AI startup Agnostiq
The acquisition shows the importance of agentic AI for every platform provider. However, Agnostiq is a relatively small company.
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10 Feb 2025
DevSecOps platform tucks in API security as AI apps heat up
Harness merges with its sister company, Traceable, for API security, which has broadening appeal as organizations develop generative and agentic AI applications.
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10 Feb 2025
Disparities remain as U.S. maternal mortality rate declines
Despite a drop in the overall maternal mortality rate, new CDC data showed continued Black maternal health disparities.
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10 Feb 2025
Trimble Cityworks zero-day flaw under attack, patch now
CVE-2025-0994 is a high-severity deserialization vulnerability that enables remote code execution in unpatched versions of Cityworks enterprise asset management software.
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10 Feb 2025
Natural England clears clouds with machine learning
Earth observation images from satellites can be blotted by cloud cover, but Natural England has cleared the sky using artificial intelligence
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10 Feb 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves this week at Westcon-Comstor, Infinity Group, Cato Networks, Nile, Calabrio, Scality and Gigamon
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10 Feb 2025
Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons
Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems
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10 Feb 2025
Unionised drivers to stage ride-hailing app strike
Drivers employed by Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are set to log off for six hours on 14 February 2025 in long-running disputes over poor pay, work conditions and algorithmic transparency
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10 Feb 2025
UK government under fire over public sector guidance on using overseas clouds
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s recently published guidance on supporting public sector bodies with adopting a multi-region cloud strategy is facing criticism
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10 Feb 2025
UK broadband majors, altnets accelerate gigabit in non-metro areas
Premises in Shropshire and Devon to gain access to gigabit services as part of £5bn government scheme and planned expansion by major comms provider
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09 Feb 2025
Allianz PNB Life modernises insurance operations with cloud
Philippine insurer implements a cloud-based health insurance policy management system from DXC Technology to reduce policy issuance times and speed up product launches
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09 Feb 2025
Government opens up bidding for AI growth zones
As part of its AI opportunities action plan, the government is encouraging local authorities to put in bids for AI growth zones
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09 Feb 2025
HMRC spends £785m a year on running digital tax systems
Beyond £785m spend, HMRC also spent £482m on upgrading legacy systems and introducing new digital systems, as it continues to fall behind its plans to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world
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07 Feb 2025
NetSuite adds more AI, introduces Anything-as-a-Service ERP
NetSuite's Anything-as-a-Service Edition ERP is aimed at SMBs with hybrid, next-generation business models, a move that could be useful for growing customers.
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07 Feb 2025
Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud
The UK has served a notice on Apple demanding back door access to encrypted data stored by users anywhere in the world on Apple’s cloud service
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07 Feb 2025
Ransomware hits healthcare, critical services in January
Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations in January reflect an increasing need for threat actors to adapt and get aggressive as defenders improve.
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07 Feb 2025
Cybersecurity workforce bill faces Trump's cuts, freezes
Trump's hiring freezes raise concerns as Republicans push to expand the cybersecurity workforce with candidates who've earned two-year degrees, aiming to fill critical job gaps.
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07 Feb 2025
DeepSeek, data privacy on lawmakers' radar
U.S. lawmakers are taking steps to ban DeepSeek from government devices, which should signal to enterprises the inherent risks of using the service.
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07 Feb 2025
US lawmakers move to ban DeepSeek AI tool
US politicians have introduced a bill seeking to ban the use of the DeepSeek AI tool on government-owned devices, citing national security concerns due to its alleged links to the Chinese state
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07 Feb 2025
Ransomware payment value fell over 30% in 2024
Several factors, including the impact of law enforcement operations disrupting cyber criminal gangs and better preparedness among users, may be behind a significant drop in the total value of ransomware payments
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07 Feb 2025
Vietnam Air Traffic Management modernises comms for improved safety
Southeast Asian country’s national aviation body to deploy multi-service network offering to upgrade its legacy network systems, and enhance the performance and flexibility of its air traffic network
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07 Feb 2025
Amazon to spend $100B on AWS AI infrastructure
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said investors will eventually be happy he spent the money on the 'biggest technology shift in business since the internet.'
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07 Feb 2025
AWS sees full-year profit and revenue growth as AI and public cloud demand soars
Amazon Web Services (AWS) reports full-year results and reveals capital expenditure toll the AI boom will take on its business in 2025
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07 Feb 2025
Westcon-Comstor driving data-sharing strategy
The distributor’s recently appointed digital sales leader shares his ambitions for the year ahead, and the importance of passing insights to partners
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07 Feb 2025
Tech job postings dropped in 2024, according to research
Job postings for several IT roles returned to pre-pandemic levels last year, dropping when compared with 2023
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06 Feb 2025
2025 Best in KLAS highlights ClosedLoop for healthcare AI
The 2025 'Best in KLAS: Software and Services' report ranked health IT vendor ClosedLoop first for overall performance in the Healthcare AI: Data Science Solutions category.
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06 Feb 2025
Chief experience officer role evolves with new technologies
Are you a futurist? The CXO role might be for you.
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06 Feb 2025
Unpatched.ai: Who runs the vulnerability discovery platform?
There is limited information on the AI-powered vulnerability discovery platform that emerged in December after it reported Microsoft vulnerabilities
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06 Feb 2025
KLAS names top revenue cycle management vendors in 2025
The 2025 Best in KLAS report ranks top revenue cycle management vendors based on customer reviews, with Waystar, Availity and FinThrive leading key markets, like claims management.
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06 Feb 2025
Super Bowl teams show analytics gaining ground in NFL
As data-driven decision-making gains ground in pro football, both the Eagles and Chiefs have gained advantages from using advanced statistical analysis.
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06 Feb 2025
Data maturity survey finds a quarter of organisations with no strategy
One quarter of organisations surveyed for the third Carruthers and Jackson Data Maturity Index found to have no data strategy as they increase artificial intelligence engagement
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06 Feb 2025
UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre begins incident classification work
The Cyber Monitoring Centre will work to categorise major incidents against a newly developed scale to help organisations better understand the nature of systemic cyber attacks and learn from their impact
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06 Feb 2025
Google targets enterprise adoption with low-cost AI model
The tech giant is becoming more assertive with its AI releases by introducing new experimental versions of Gemini and a low-end model.
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06 Feb 2025
Thales encouraging wider portfolio sales
Security player introduces fresh partner programme to make it easier for the channel to sell across products, including the fruits of the Imperva acquisition
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06 Feb 2025
Mitel highlights hybrid comms opportunities
Vendor shares research findings that underline the demand and interest from customers in updating their communications strategy
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06 Feb 2025
As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK
James Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but Oracle Java is no longer the preferred choice
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06 Feb 2025
Databricks' acquisition of BladeBridge boosts data migration
The data and AI vendor's latest purchase adds AI-powered ETL capabilities aimed at making it easier for new customers to transport data from competing data storage platforms.
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06 Feb 2025
Swedish commission delivers roadmap to drive artificial intelligence reforms
Sweden will invest in artificial intelligence in an effort to catch up with global leaders in the field
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06 Feb 2025
Kyndryl expands SASE services with Palo Alto Networks
IT infrastructure services provider enhances end-to-end secure access service edge services to help customers accelerate adoption of cloud-first, zero-trust offering for network security
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05 Feb 2025
Malaysian public sector embraces generative AI
Nearly half a million civil servants set to get access to Google Workspace with Gemini to improve delivery of public services
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05 Feb 2025
Dynatrace drops dev observability gauntlet for Datadog
Dynatrace and Datadog both plan to ship live debugging tools as they vie for developer attention in the observability market.
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05 Feb 2025
Supermicro launches Nvidia Blackwell systems
The Supermicro Blackwell systems are good news for Nvidia, but enterprises should calculate the ROI carefully, an analyst says.