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Google lags rivals Cisco, Microsoft and Zoom in addressing the needs of a hybrid workplace, analysts said. The latest catch-up features are in Google Meet.

Shopify's new Global ERP Program takes steps to attract larger enterprises, but the transition won't be easy, as large ERP systems are far more complex than those of Shopify's SMB base.

China wants a bigger seat at the global technology standards-setting table, and experts advise the U.S. to take a cautious yet optimistic approach to the Chinese government's growing interest.

Dell EMC announced the general availability of its six Container Storage Modules that are designed to make legacy storage container-ready. Dell also announced a unified CSI driver.

At its annual user event, MSP technology provider Datto showcased software developments in cybersecurity and business continuity; other IT channel news.

IT pros hope for improved software supply chain security standards from OpenSSF, a Linux Foundation group that gained momentum with new funding this week.

Research from Agilitas IT Solutions has shown that channel leaders are facing up to the need to be more sustainable

Security researchers have grown frustrated with Apple's lack of communication, ‘silent patching’ of vulnerabilities, denial of bug bounty rewards and other issues.

Survey shows how the healthcare industry is evolving with digital experiences in the post-pandemic world, with providers needing to offer telehealth options that ensure the experience is easy, intuitive and enjoyable

IT pros shared workflow patterns and tool updates they say have helped them overcome one of the most common problems with performing GitOps at scale.

Personalised comms services provider claims cash injection will enable it to continue its global expansion and cements its position as the cloud controller of the world’s largest software-defined network

Research by betting firm Wette.de has found Argos was the top retailer for online sales of sports-based and outdoor goods during the height of the pandemic

Manchester City is teaming up with online survey software firm Qualtrics, part-owned by long-term City Football Group supplier SAP, to engage more intelligently with the football club’s fanbase

Cloud services are being taken up by enterprises rapidly as they accelerate digital transformations

UK operator launches service designed for small office and home office businesses, providing cost-effective and reliable broadband coverage for single sites

It has been four months since the firm was acquired by Barracuda Networks, but the founder and CEO of Skout is dreaming of painting on a broader canvas

Colt announces further expansion in Asia with availability of new 400GE Wave and Private Wave services in Hong Kong and Singapore, making it the first telco to offer the technology in each city

Apple’s plan to automatically scan photos to detect child abuse would unduly risk the privacy and security of law-abiding citizens and could open up the way to surveillance, say the world’s top cryptographic experts

Covert phishing tactics and cleverly disguised notifications are among the calling cards of the increasingly sophisticated operation aimed at Iran's opponents.

During CISA's National Cybersecurity Summit, critical infrastructure companies said they need better information on cyberthreats from the federal government.

GitOps practitioners at companies such as State Farm and Intuit have begun to fill in the details of observability, security and other 'day 2' practices for the maturing paradigm.

An emerging CNCF project extends Kubernetes orchestration to non-container resources, displacing infrastructure-as-code tools in some early-adopter environments.

Fresh off a big funding round, Alation seeks to enable users to benefit from data catalogs with technology that will translate natural language queries into SQL.

Netherlands-based semiconductor manufacturer is expanding its use of Amazon Web Services to speed up the time it takes to develop and release new products

Acquisition comes on the back of strong organic growth and will arm the MSP with more options on the security front

With Google Cloud to process and transform data collected during games by its tracking technology, Major League Baseball is delivering real-time insights to both fans and teams.

Keep IT Confidential campaign aims to help NHS staff understand more about security threats and learn how to reduce risk

New programme aims to give access to gigabit broadband speeds to UK schools while connectivity to nearly 7,000 hospitals, libraries, police stations and other public buildings will be upgraded by the end of March 2022

Tech giant launches worldwide initiative to provide about 30 million people with technology and digital skills over the next nine years

Like Salesforce, Box and Adobe, OpenText invests in AI and machine learning to enable smartphone document capture so users can digitize documents that are searchable in the cloud.

Cabinet Office-led project will see the introduction of a digital card to be used in future elections

Building society is looking to satisfy existing customers and attract new ones by meeting their digital service-level expectations

Tim Weller used his keynote at DattoCon to underline the sense that this is a moment for the industry to face up to the need to protect data through the entire supply chain

The Freelancer and Contractor Services Association (FCSA) has published a revised version of its membership Charter to reinforce its commitment to ensuring its members do not operate offshore tax avoidance schemes

Opening next-generation mobile laboratory facility in Antwerp, Orange Belgium invited companies to discover, test and develop new innovative use cases on standalone network technology

French bank’s move to a single banking platform will enable it to cater for changing customer demands

Vendor’s event provides an opportunity for senior leadership to express appreciation for their channel

Leading IT at one of the world’s best-known software companies brings its own challenges and opportunities around digital transformation

Aruba survey warns business leaders that they must strike a balance between flexibility and security to address risky behaviours and evolving expectations of today’s tech-savvy workforce

SAP SuccessFactors' new Opportunity Marketplace aims to create a holistic view of employees and connect them with short- and long-term career opportunities and training.

Google Cloud Next announcements expand Google Cloud's enterprise storage portfolio with future native Actifio data protection and new extreme persistent disk for block storage.

Google Distributed Cloud could cut data sovereignty compliance costs for partners' customers, while global integrators roll out offerings for Google Cloud.

Google Distributed Cloud Edge, available in preview, takes the company's cloud computing infrastructure to the private data center, colocation facility or a remote location.

Up to 4,000 working professionals will be trained in subjects such as cyber security and agricultural robotics to plug the national skills gap

Google wants to make it easier to do work within Workspace. Integrations with Jira, while AppSheet will reduce the need to click away from the productivity suite.

Refurbished IT specialist marks two decades in business with a turnover update and an insight into its business strategy

Google has announced a new Cybersecurity Action Team, with a mission to support security and digital transformation in governments, critical infrastructure, enterprises and small businesses

In addition to the publicly exploited bug, Microsoft corrected 76 flaws, including four that had been publicly disclosed, in this month's batch of security updates.

There are numerous ways to achieve the same result. Salesforce, Microsoft and Microsoft offer a different way to consider enterprise systems

Service to be introduced as part of plans to simplify access to government services

Microsoft has confirmed the general availability of a dashboard that will allow enterprises to track the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their cloud usage habits in latest sustainability push

Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how soaring demand for cloud services is affecting the dominant suppliers

Earlier this week, the Financial Conduct Authority issued fresh guidance to regulated organisations on keeping hybrid workers safe and secure

Veeam's Backup for Salesforce enters a market that has become busier in the last couple of years. Its features include comparison of data and metadata.

As customers move to a hybrid working model the distributor has increased the technical assistance it can provide resellers

Public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal will hold its first public hearing next month

Barracuda researchers examined exploitation activity and attack patterns for two remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting Atlassian's Confluence and Microsoft's Azure.

Microsoft has fixed a zero-day that is being actively exploited to deliver a new remote access trojan dubbed MysterySnail to targets

The tech giant used the first day of its Google Cloud Next virtual conference to reveal how it is building out its multicloud proposition for enterprises

Telco chooses global supplier of open optical networking systems as part of its drive to increase capacity on all segments of its global network across its new and legacy cables

Public cloud giant is making a series of tools available to users of its off-premise platforms that are designed to help them decarbonise their IT setups

Sixth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards honours former Royal Corps of Signals colonel and infosec pioneer John Doody

The Australian government has established a task force to address the ransomware menace and is proposing legislation to mandate reporting of ransomware incidents by businesses

BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, wants the government to retain protections that allow people to have decisions about them made by an AI reviewed by humans if needed

Levi's Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, moves data into the cloud and reduces data center redundancy with Qumulo by archiving security footage and media files.

Two analytics vendors unveiled an integration Tuesday that enables users to benefit from the semantic modeling strength of one and the data visualization capabilities of the other.

A year after it was first introduced, Google's BigQuery Omni multi-cloud data platform is now generally available as Google continues to push its data agenda in the cloud.

Cybereason and Google Cloud have teamed up to combat future security threats with accelerated XDR capabilities.

Apple said in a security advisory that it had received a report that the iOS flaw, which impacts kernel extension IOMobileFrameBuffer, 'may have been actively exploited.'

Experts giving evidence to the House of Lords have said that UK police use of facial-recognition technology is disproportionate and ineffective, and further questioned the utility of algorithmic crime ‘prediction’ tools

Canalys analysis of third-quarter performance in the global PC market shows the dial kept moving, but things could have been better

Hitachi Vantara launched new VSP 5000 models and added storage options to its E Series. The products may help enable storage consolidation for customers.

HubSpot CRM adds no-code Stripe online payments as well as data governance and enhancements to Operations Hub such as analytics and a Snowflake integration.

A new study by the Web Foundation investigates the economic cost associated with the barriers preventing women from accessing the internet

Energy technology company Siemens Energy is to downsize its datacentre footprint with an ambitious plan to move 2.6 petabytes of its business data to Google Cloud over 15 months

The tech giant released a series of new tools and applications, some with partners, for the automated machine learning platform it launched in May 2021.

Research reveals heightened level of confidence and trust as companies invest in artificial intelligence to make their IT operations – networks in particular – smarter, faster and more secure

Security player adds a couple more distribution partners to its line-up as it looks for more growth

US bank expands its diversity-focused fintech accelerator programme to Europe with an initial £1m investment

UK financial services firms are preparing to acquire or partner fintechs as they target business growth

Revenue is set to increase around 5G, but Juniper Research says providers need to improve core network functions to reduce strain from increased traffic and to meet the challenges of mobile data demands

2.4Tbps DDoS attack on an undisclosed Microsoft Azure customer may have been the largest ever attempted against a single target

As part of the government’s overall innovation strategy, an evidence paper lists factors that influence the pace and direction of developments in the field

CloudCheckr brings multi-cloud audit capabilities as well as visibility of security and governance in an acquisition that adds to its cloud price optimisation in the Spot portfolio

AI has financial benefits but there are concerns the technology could displace a significant number of human workers in the next decade, says report

Dubai exhibition space completes large-scale network overhaul and makes 10x increase in network capacity to power next-gen digital applications

Firm takes steps to make life easier for partners and arm them with the skills to offer data management as a service

Komprise's new update expands data management features with Deep Analytics Actions to catalog, search and make use of siloed data across on-prem and cloud storage.

Regional IoT tech supplier will use the funds to strengthen its foothold in key markets and develop new products and services

The Iran-backed DEV-0343 threat group has launched a password spraying offensive against Office 365 accounts in the defense, maritime and oil industries.

The Malaysian Highway Authority is now more resilient against cyber attacks through a local disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering powered by Veeam software

COVID-19 mandates may be clearing the way to a return to the office, but employees may still have concerns about office air quality and cleaning standards.

In this Q&A, Kyle Rice, CTO at SAP NS2, explains the delicacy of increasingly complex supply chains and why IT needs to be proactive in finding their weakest links.

Research reveals that improved UK connectivity could save 27.8 mega tonnes of transport-related CO2e emissions by 2035

Experience, market knowledge and the ability to help grow the business are some of the attributes that explained the choices for some personnel changes in the industry this week

In remarks delivered to a Chatham House conference, NCSC head Lindy Cameron reflects on the security challenges facing the UK, and sets out some plans for the future

Database giant to build out its datacentre presence across the world on the back of growing demand for its cloud infrastructure services

Umbrella company accreditation body has moved to clarify the rationale behind a recent tweak to its membership charter amid accusations it could harm the sector’s reputation and encourage offshore tax avoidance

A deadllne to agree the safe return of the sensitive banking details of former and current NatWest Group customers has passed without agreement

The region is expected to create 52,000 job positions in the next four years

The city-state updates its national cyber security strategy to shore up the security of critical infrastructure and enterprises while growing its cyber security industry, among other goals

The tech giant said the new software suite from its weather subsidiary will help organizations prepare for climate risk and weather disasters such as wildfires and flooding.

As cyber attacks and losses have increased, so has demand for cyber insurance. But now premiums are reflecting a harsh new reality.