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This week, Nyansa premieres new Voyance network analytics tools, espionage takes off as a security threat and the midmarket struggles with cybersecurity.

HPE's $1.2 billion deal for Nimble Storage has stirred speculation on potential future acquisitions in the all-flash array market, such as Kaminario and Pure Storage.

Tasktop, focusing on improving software delivery processes, is working on a framework for defining how to architect end-to-end software delivery with the help of a DevOps pioneer.

IT outsourcing is popular among companies in the Nordic region, but the market is changing

Intel advises business customers to apply a security update for some versions of its administration firmware for vPro processors to fix a remote execution flaw

Cisco says its acquisition of supplier Viptela will enhance its own SDN functionality

Infosys has committed to create 10,000 new jobs in the US as president Trump ratchets up pressure on businesses to hire Americans

DNS should be at the core of information security strategies as DDoS attacks increasingly form part of wider cyber attacks and continue to ramp up to unprecedented levels, warns Neustar

Samata Ullah, an unemployed resident of Cardiff, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to five terrorism offences

According to the Uptime Institute’s seventh annual industry survey, enterprise-owned datacentres and colocation facilities remain primary compute venue for many organisations

Swiss bank UBS aims to get greater value out of investments in sensitive data protection systems by using its security capabilities as a differentiator

Veeam survey shows levels of penetration for as-a-service cloud options and reveals that most IT managers think cloud providers meet service levels better than in-house IT

The Digital Economy Bill has received Royal Assent during the pre-election wash-up period, but a Lords amendment demanding a legal minimum broadband speed of 30Mbps has been ditched due to take-up concerns

New storage strategy for X-IO centers on Axellio appliance with FabricXpress architecture. NVMe flash atop a PCIe edge storage switch allows analytics as data is ingested.

Mozilla reviews the counterproposal from Symantec and urges the CA giant to opt for Google's recommendation to outsource its certificate activities.

Enterprises will be able to take advantage of public cloud services in OpenShift through an expanded partnership between Red Hat and Amazon

The NATO Locked Shields cyberwar games had the U.S. team winning most improved, but experts say the U.S. still needs more practice.

School upgrades Wi-Fi network to cope with the increasing amount of academic activity that is conducted online

451 Research's latest Voice of the Enterprise report suggests enterprise IT buyers are feeling very optimistic about how much money they will get to spend on cloud and hosting technologies in 2017

Co-chair of Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group resigns and criticises officials for ignoring its advice and attempting to smuggle “inadequate proposals past ministers”

Announcement comes as Apple’s shares take a dip on worse-than-expected quarterly results that saw a fall in iPhone sales

NHS England’s national director for operations and information, Matthew Swindells, calls on the NHS to use technology to alleviate pressures on the health service and enable app developers to create an ecosystem of self-care apps

Major UK businesses are leaving themselves vulnerable to the most common form of cyber attack, a survey reveals

Capital’s first-ever chief digital officer will oversee the digital transformation of public services across London

New solid state technologies such as 3D XPoint will be a second tier of memory, bringing change to hardware architectures and software to be rewritten, says SNIA solid state group chair

Led by the National Research Foundation, the academic and research group will spearhead adoption of data analytics among Singaporean companies

Bank aims to support fintech firms in their early stages

Cognitive computing technology is an area of artificial intelligence that is expected to help provide businesses with the security tools they need to deal with new and emerging cyber threats

Google cloud chief, Diane Greene, claims multi-year datacentre migrations are no longer the norm, as some firms are making the move off-premise in weeks or months

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst touts the role of open source in easing the transition to container-based applications built on microservices

Red Hat integrated Gluster storage with the OpenShift Container Platform on Amazon Web Services to provide consistent storage for on-premises and cloud application deployments.

SAP has a raft of initiatives planned in the Middle East which includes a strategy to equip young people and entrepreneurs with the IT skills required as the region transforms.

Despite a strong first quarter, investors are nervous about the future profitability and growth of Facebook as it indicates it is starting to hit advertising revenue limits

The Metropolitan Police Service is set to massively overspend on IT as it attempts to improve digital policing

Global sales service provider Combound is using a platform with artificial intelligence to support its telephone-based sales teams

A phishing scam targeting users of Google Docs demonstrates that attacks on personal accounts to steal credentials and other personal data are likely to increase to get around corporate security controls

NHS Digital’s director of digital transformation, Beverley Bryant, says the organisation needs to demonstrate pace and agility and highlights plans for improving interoperability, standards and collaboration with suppliers

Hosting Dynamics 365 with Azure and Office 365 is part of Microsoft’s big cloud upsell

Agile promises continuous improvement through an iterative process, but without proper checks, project failure is commonplace

Regulators are inviting consumer input on a number of proposals on how broadband is advertised

Thames Water contractor is recreating working conditions in a sewer to train future employees

A Google Docs phishing attack abused OAuth to give malicious actors full access to a victim's Gmail account and contacts, but Google claims to have blocked the attacks.

NHS Digital’s child protection information sharing project is suffering from low and slow uptake both among NHS trusts and local authorities

Mobile network operator will use managed OpenStack based on Mirantis’ open cloud platform as part of its network virtualisation programme

Parent company of British Gas has acquired a machine learning company to bolster its data analytics business

Cloud-based software supplier will deliver its business applications through Oracle’s Sydney datacentre in regional push

Building an effective testing process across all elements associated with a product is key to securing the internet of things, according to a researcher in the field

The Broadband Stakeholder Group has published a report on the design considerations for the broadband USO laid out in the Digital Economy Bill

This year's Dell EMC World will feature plenty of product releases as the mega-vendor beefs up emerging technologies while continuing its pre-merger platforms.

Database software giant claims investment in German datacentres is being fuelled by growing demand for its cloud services in Europe

Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev says it intends to defend “vigorously” against software licensing claims by SAP

After the election, the UK government plans to introduce extreme mass surveillance capabilities, according to documents leaked to the Open Rights Group

Research suggests the use of smartphone devices has the potential to “revolutionise current methods for gathering and using data in mental healthcare”

Rapidly expanding FTTP broadband altnet has received a new round of funding to accelerate the build rate of its network around the UK and help fund its BDUK commitments

Former Cabinet Office privacy group co-chair says the Verify identity assurance programme needs 'honest and fundamental reset'

Railway construction company moves to cloud-based IT service management software from ServiceNow as it scales down IT users ahead of project completion

Data breach at retailer again highlights the importance of data protection and ensuring cyber security standards across an organisation’s entire supply chain, say security commentators

This week, bloggers look into the Cisco-Viptela acquisition, barriers to hybrid cloud adoption and improving cloud analytics for midmarket groups.

News roundup: Attackers exploit SS7 vulnerability and drain bank accounts. Plus, Trump signs government IT executive order, an Intel AMT flaw threatens millions and more.

The TLS client authentication protocol has been part of the security standard for years, but it's just now coming into its own in certifying secure IoT connections.

There is no shortage of new types of ransomware, many with unique features, and experts say it's an exercise in innovation and finding revenue opportunity.