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The Rise with SAP Migration and Modernization program includes cost incentives and services aimed at on-premises customers reluctant to move to S/4HANA Cloud.
The insurance company analyzed claims data and ransomware gangs’ data leak sites, which suggests as many as 7,600 organizations across the globe were attacked in 2023.
Channel consolidation continues with deals struck to add geographical coverage and market expertise
Latest UK mobile performance review reveals how competition among UK mobile network operators continued to heat up in the second half of 2023, leading to performance and availability seeing significant improvement
Technology providers reach out to service providers that can help them deliver business change, digital workflows and emerging technologies to enterprise customers.
At the SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit, Citizen Lab researcher Bill Marczak discusses spyware proliferation from commercial vendors such as NSO Group, Cytrox and Quadream.
Juniper’s Mist AI update will include using the Marvis virtual network assistant to obtain information on data center cabling, configurations and connectivity issues.
U.S. House Republicans criticize the Interior Department’s remote work policy, saying it lowers productivity. Selective omissions of data challenge these claims.
The Intuit subsidiary is in the process of moving to a homegrown event-driven progressive delivery platform and has already contributed some related code upstream.
Russian IT sector faces challenges on multiple fronts as Western sanctions widen
The government is introducing a law to raise the income threshold for potential angel investors, potentially making it harder for people from underrepresented groups to fund startups
Citrix shines a light on a growing trend as strategies are reconsidered in the face of security and cost concerns
Trading update shows UK’s largest independent fibre network reaps benefit from adding one million ready-for-service (RFS) homes in 2023, taking total RFS premises to over 3.2 million
Plenty of senior appointments being announced in the past working week, including SecurityBridge, Panzura, F5, UiPath, Delinea and Jetbuilt
Over 100 generative AI use cases have been tested through the AI Trailblazers programme, among other initiatives to spur AI adoption and build AI talent in the city-state
Lords committee ‘deeply concerned’ about the rapid expansion of live facial recognition by UK police, which it says is progressing without any real oversight or accountability
Kevan Jones MP highlighted evidence of injustices caused by a computer system used in Post Office branches prior to the introduction of the controversial Horizon system.
The data annotation and labeling vendor, which has faced criticism for its practices in Africa despite its social good mission, is out with a new platform to reduce model failure.
Microsoft has begun notifying other organizations that have been targeted in recent attacks by Midnight Blizzard, a Russian nation-state actor also known as Cozy Bear and APT29.
AI firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime would be too complex and costly
ERP giant wants to boost its AI capabilities, but there remains work to be done persuading customers to shift to its cloud offerings
XCaaS platform to now include capabilities such as AI-generated post-meeting smart summaries and action items, omnichannel experiences, global workforce support, and deeper technology partner integrations
Managed service player M247 has one eye firmly on next year’s PTSN switch-off and is encouraging fellow channel partners to help customers to take migration steps
Cloud player reacts to small and medium customer requirements for dedicated support with the launch of a targeted option
Commercial division of Ford gasses up connected car offer by expanding suite of telematics productivity solutions to give commercial customers more insight and control over their fleet vehicles
The Akira ransomware gang claims to have stolen over 100GB of data from cosmetics manufacturer and retailer Lush
Lawyers supporting former subpostmasters said they will continue appealing convictions as normal despite government plan to exonerate hundreds in one go
The government has said it wants to allow the use of digital identities and various age-verification technologies in alcohol sales
New Wi-Fi standard to addresses a wide range of IoT applications and offer support for use cases including smart home, smart city, building automation, smart retail, industrial IoT and agriculture technology
The Post Office’s attempts to protect the Horizon system are well known, in light of the public inquiry and a recent TV drama, but Computer Weekly can reveal how an IT expert was treated during his investigation of Horizon
The FTC has announced that it’s looking into the relationships between big tech companies and generative AI companies and their impact on the market.
Dan Waldschmidt replaces Jill Stelfox at the SaaS storage vendor. Stelfox led the company since 2020 and says she’s ‘actively choosing to be silent right now.’
The partnership reflects the cloud provider’s support of open source and aims to appeal to enterprises looking to move from ideation to implementation of generative AI workloads.
HPE suspects that Cozy Bear, a Russian state-sponsored threat actor also known as Midnight Blizzard and Nobelium, breached its network twice in 2020.
Forecast data from International Energy Agency shines light on how booming demand for datacentres is affecting energy usage levels in different geographies
Telco’s customer coverage extended in Mexico City and Oaxaca by using existing SIMs to offload mobile data to dedicated extended network
With more advanced mobile infrastructures set to be introduced over the next five years, report suggests wireless industry needs access to more spectrum to support applications such as XR, connected cars and metaverse
As application architectures becomes more distributed, monitoring becomes increasingly complex – Cisco has a plan for simplification
Crowdsourced vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty platform Bugcrowd says it saw a 151% uptick in submissions related to government and public sector organisations in 2023
Research finds rapid deployment of non-geostationary orbit networks such as Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb, and soon Amazon’s Kuiper, quickly advancing innovation in the satellite ground segment
UK government launches AI Opportunity Forum with tech and business chiefs to help firms drive up UK productivity through AI
The NHS would have a majority stake in the data trust, with additional investment from private sector companies, harnessing anonymised data as a competitive asset, proposes the think thank
John Glen sets out plans for Civil Service reform, highlighting a focus on technology and innovation, as he plans to ‘crack the productivity puzzle’ in government
UK operator delivers enhanced mobile coverage to Scottish island businesses and communities as part of its commitment to £1bn programme building and upgrading six masts over the next few months
Managed services player Kerv targets more mid-market activity after changing private equity backers
Firm indicates to shareholders that despite it being a tough market, it has grown pre-tax profits
While other threats are likely to increase as well, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre warns that threat actors will use AI to continue the influx of ransomware attacks.
Equinix data centers will offer Nvidia DGX as a managed service. The platform is also available on public cloud providers, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Amidst strong earnings results, SAP announced a restructuring plan that focuses the company on AI-based growth, with 8,000 employees expected to be reskilled or leave.
The acquisition gives Box both the talent and the technology Crooze provided for large customers, according to Box’s vice president of product strategy.
The database vendor unveiled Pro Max, a rebranded version of its platform that includes new vector search and change data capture capabilities that enable AI and BI at scale.
The EU AI Act is approaching finalization, and while there could be enforcement challenges down the road, businesses need to prepare.
A zero-day in the open source WebKit browser engine that powers Safari has sparked Apple’s first major patch roll-out of the new year
Enterprise services arm of global telco looks to allow social business to undertake digital transformation, as well as automate and scale coral reef and marine biodiversity monitoring
A survey of 900 contractors by insurance provider Qdos found that two-thirds want the government to consider scrapping the IR35 rules in the next Budget, which is due to take place in March 2024
Southern Water, which supplies millions of customers in southeast England, has confirmed it has fallen victim to a cyber attack, although its services appear to be running normally
Expansion of university’s Hawk high-performance computing cluster promises to double the performance of some applications
The workflow automation vendor aims to simplify informational querying processes with an iterative conversational interface that can automatically search all data sources.
Raj Chopra, senior vice-president of Cisco’s security business, outlines the company’s security platform strategy and how it brought different products together into a single platform
Datacentre resiliency think tank Uptime Insitute predicts 2024 will mark the start of a testing time for operators when it comes to delivering on their net-zero commitments
Channel player becomes member of a select group of managed service players helping to shape the response to growing security threats
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT users must take steps to address a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability without delay
The benefits of artificial intelligence to cyber criminals being well-known, the NCSC now assesses it’s likely AI will soon be widely used to enhance ransomware attacks
Vendor outlines three support packages for different stages of channel development
Leading global internet exchange operator achieves new peak traffic record of more through surge due to live-streaming of sports events and the area’s population density and low latency links
Ethical hackers disclosed more than 4,000 vulnerabilities to Salesforce last year through its bug bounty programme, and received over $3m in rewards
Select committee chair wants guarantees on financial redress for subpostmasters that suffered in the Horizon scandal
Key UK gigabit target in the balance as report suggests operators can ensure future commercial success built on robust network infrastructure by adopting procurement strategies that supplement in-house operational teams
Generative AI, detection and response, endpoint protection and new incident response tools headline expansion of core secure access service edge platform beyond networking, threat prevention and data protection
The startup has quickly raised a total of $101 million, reflecting the fast growth of new technologies like deep neural networks. Along with growth comes challenges.
Exploitation activity for CVE-2023-22527 marks the third time in four months that a critical Atlassian Confluence flaw has gained threat actors’ attention.
IBM Consulting rolls out role-based bots to streamline consultants’ work as they enable digital transformation for customers.
Nexsan’s new unified array, the NV6000, adds immutable snapshots that create an ‘unbreakable’ backup when combined with the vendor’s Assureon backup appliance.
Docker ships a managed service that pushes container image builds to AWS and adds shared caches to customers’ existing dev tools.
Study highlights importance of good documentation and processes, as well as fewer work distractions
Wasabi Technologies adds metadata technology by Curio AI in a new acquisition from Gray Meta Inc., the first addition to Wasabi’s object storage since opening its doors.
Gartner forecasts IT services spending will reach $2.1 trillion in 2027, nearly double 2021 spending. Service providers will pursue a mix of talent strategies to meet demand.
The tech giant’s services are similar to what other big tech vendors have introduced. However, Oracle’s input of GenAI technology in its SaaS applications makes it notable.
New command sets allow for computational storage with NVMe flash and includes frameworks to allow local memory usage in processing workloads on storage hardware
UK government and NCSC launch proposed code of practice on cyber security governance to help directors and business leaders toughen their defences
Features added to Neos Networks customer provision tool aim to simplify the overall wholesale buying experience through increased personalisation and parity between portal and API purchasing
Vendor shares progress made over 2023, along with enhancements and plans to keep working on improving channel relationships
Test by leading European mobile operator, mobile platform provider and handset manufacturer said to result in mobile customers being able to receive faster 5G upload speeds
The discovery of a dataset comprising 26 billion stolen records may prove to be record-breaking in both its size and the danger it poses to ordinary people
Digital infrastructure platform launches new cable route and inks point of presence deal to bolster options in connecting Europe and North America, looking to enable businesses to traverse the digital landscape faster and more efficiently
The United Nations general secretary has blasted technology companies and governments for pursuing their own narrow interests in artificial intelligence without any consideration of the common good, as part of wider call to reform global governance
A cyber attack on the US financial regulator earlier in January 2024 occurred after hackers took over one of its mobile phone accounts in a so-called SIM-swapping attack
Distributor has track record of widening existing relationships to benefit UK resellers and will continue that strategy
Several email accounts belonging to Microsoft senior leadership were accessed as part of the breach, though Microsoft found ‘no evidence’ of customer environments being accessed.
Russian-backed threat actor behind infamous 2020 SolarWinds Sunburst intrusion hacked into Microsoft’s systems, apparently in an attempt to get hold of intel on themselves
Australian network services provider deploying coherent optical technology to meet growing demands for bandwidth and cut energy usage across the network’s long-haul and metro links from Brisbane to Perth
Many Dutch organisations are not ready to start working with AI, according to the Cisco AI Readiness Index
Benchmark in key, strategic territory for communications in trial of cloud-based radio access network technology using In-Line acceleration realised by leading regional operator’s network
As legal woes mount against popular LMMs powering generative AI, backup admins should work with IT to set safe and effective usage guardrails to avoid future headaches.
Techniques that were used to double the power of what was already the largest LLM for Arabic can now be applied to other languages whose native speakers do not yet have access to AI
The Public Accounts Committee is concerned that the ageing and fragmented IT systems used in the MoD’s inventory management puts front-line forces at significant risk
Moves this week at TelcoSwitch, Cellhire, Genesys, Cohesity, Commvault and Kinly
Added vigour to UK’s largest broadband provider’s digital network transformation play, with latest tranche of exchanges across furthest reaches of UK now able to offer digital comms based on full-fibre networks
Fujitsu will meet with victims of the Post Office scandal and their representatives to discuss what the IT giant can do for them beyond financial redress
Annual customer experience trends report reveals that 68% of UK customer experience leaders believe chatbots can help build a stronger emotional connection with clients, with AI now the norm
Distributor moves for cloud consultancy in bid to beef-up ability to support partner base
Tech companies have written to EU ministers to urge them to back the European Parliament, rather than the European Commission, over proposed regulations to police child abuse
Labour peer uses urgent question to uncover who, if anyone, in government was aware of the Post Office’s attempts to remove judge as it became clear it was losing
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