TechTarget News - Week of Mar 14, 2021
Sun Mar 14, 2021
Arrest warrants issued for Canadians behind Sky ECC cryptophone network used by organised crime
The US has issued arrest warrants for the CEO of Sky Global and a former distributor for racketeering, aiding and abetting the distribution of illegal drugs by supplying encrypted phones to criminals
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Cheltenham races as CityFibre extends gigabit fibre to more than 200 additional UK locations
Former UK altnet announces new build and extensions to existing projects that will see it supply full-fibre infrastructure to nearly a third of the UK market
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Mace Group uses RealWear to support Covid-safe site inspections
Construction consulting business is using augmented reality headsets to enable people on Microsoft Teams to inspect building sites remotely
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Government plans for fresh AI strategy
The government wants to “unleash the power of AI” and be “the most pro-tech government ever”, according to digital secretary Oliver Dowden
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Research: Continuous upgrades to datacentre virtualisation setups key to curbing carbon emissions
A VMware-commissioned report by Aurora Energy Research highlights environmental benefits that can be attained by operators taking steps to continually improve their datacentre virtualisation setups
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Sapphire expands prospects through acquisition
SAP specialist’s CEO shares the strategy behind the string of deals it has already signed this year
Mon Mar 15, 2021
IR35 private sector reforms: IPSE warns of UK contracting talent exodus unless start date delayed
Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed research into what contractors plan to do once the IR35 reforms come into play highlights growing risk of talent shortages
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Parliamentary PACA Committee slams Gove over Covid-19 data failures
Parliamentary Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee publishes report critical of government accountability regarding data behind the decisions taken during the coronavirus pandemic
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Judges refuse EncroChat defendants’ appeal to Supreme Court
Experts suggest Parliament and Investigatory Powers Tribunal need to consider the implications of a court decision on police use of data from the EncroChat phone network
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon attacks spike 10 times in four days
Exploitations of the Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon vulnerabilities have increased tenfold in just four days
Mon Mar 15, 2021
UK plans ‘full spectrum’ approach to national cyber security
PM Boris Johnson expands on proposed National Cyber Force and plans to set up a north of England Cyber Corridor
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha becomes Nokia FAN for green transport
In its effort to improve environmental safety and quality with the latest class of gas-fuelled vessel, leading Japanese shipping line implements 4G/LTE field area network
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Consortium makes big shift in autonomous vehicle research in the UK
New SHIFT Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Report identifies the potential impact of deploying autonomous vehicle services across the UK with advanced traffic modelling helping to predict potential impact of autonomy on congestion, emissions, public transport and ride-sharing services
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Boomi Flow adds support for multi-cloud, hybrid deployments
Dell's Boomi subsidiary expands the deployment options for its low-code Flow workflow automation tool to public clouds and customers' on-premises data centers.
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Nokia inks RAN collaboration with leading cloud providers
Google, Microsoft Azure and AWS link up with comms tech giant to utilise cloud and open radio access network technology to develop new customer-focused 5G use cases
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Power Fx informs Microsoft's low-code strategy
In a Q&A, Microsoft corporate vice president Charles Lamanna delves into the company's Power Fx, a new low-code tool that non-programmers can use to build applications.
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Channel roundup: Who's gone where?
It’s been another busy week in the personnel departments across the industry
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Google will develop RPA with Automation Anywhere
Google Cloud and a top robotic process automation vendor team up to focus on automating back-office tasks and later industries such as financial services, healthcare and retail.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Salesforce users get Einstein ABM tools for Pardot
Salesforce adds Einstein AI tools for Pardot B2B account-based marketing to enable user sales teams to target entire customer account buying teams.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
NEXTDC debuts carbon-neutral colocation service
Australian datacentre operator will buy carbon offsets to help organisations reduce their carbon footprint through a new colocation service
Tue Mar 16, 2021
ST Engineering teams up with Google Cloud
Singapore’s ST Engineering and Google Cloud will explore offering secure cloud services for organisations in regulated industries
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Microsoft cloud users hit by global outage linked to Azure Active Directory issue
Microsoft claims to have resolved a global outage that left users of various services within its cloud portfolio unable to access their business apps and platforms overnight
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Government calls for input into Covid-19 vaccine passports
Evidence gathering exercise will inform the development of the UK’s proposed Covid-19 vaccine passport scheme
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Unusual DearCry ransomware uses ‘rare’ approach to encryption
Hybrid approach to encryption used by DearCry bears similarities to WannaCry
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Microsoft releases one-click ProxyLogon mitigation tool
Microsoft’s mitigation tool is designed to help customers without dedicated security or IT teams navigate fixing their vulnerable Exchange servers
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Workplace from Facebook looking for more channel growth
Collaboration tools specialist has seen the channel increase its revenue and hopes an enhanced partner programme will entice more to get involved
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Canada’s Rogers and Shaw announce $26bn merger
Canadian telcos come together citing the belief that 5G is redefining the innovation landscape and that significant multibillion-dollar investments are needed to deliver the connectivity that communities, consumers and businesses require
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Banks still lack tech skills at the top
Banks have made progress in adding IT knowledge in their boardrooms, but they need more as digital transformation accelerates
Tue Mar 16, 2021
MoD partners playing fast and loose with confidential data
Clear spike in data breach incidents at defence partners may reflect better reporting standards, claims MoD
Tue Mar 16, 2021
ServiceMax releases Engage field service management app
ServiceMax Engage app gives users' customers a snapshot of their service contract benefits, and gives users vital updates for asset managements of property in the field.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Josh Bersin 2021 technology guide vaunts employee experience
Josh Bersin’s annual HR technology market guide for 2021 pulls out employee experience as the hottest area, as the sector shifts to productivity-boosting tech
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Uber and Ola ordered to hand over more data to drivers
A Dutch court has rejected Uber and Ola’s claims that drivers collectively taking action to access their data amounts to an abuse of their individual data access rights, laying the ground for drivers to form their own union-controlled data trust
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Datadobi adds Azure Blob as unstructured data storage target
Datadobi DobiProtect has gained support for Azure Blob, extending its cross-protocol replication capabilities between NAS and cloud object storage beyond S3-compatible targets.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Computacenter records fastest profit growth in 2020
Channel player releases full-year results showing that the business navigated the choppy waters of the pandemic successfully
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Cinia cuts Ribbon deal for transport network upgrade
Real-time communications software and network solutions firm sees OTN platforms deployed in upgrade of backbone transport network in Finland and Northern Europe
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Insurers unable to fill a quarter of tech roles
Insurance companies need to fill tech skills gaps if they are going to prosper in the age of insurtech
Tue Mar 16, 2021
One-fifth of all UK tech investment went to just 10 scaleup firms in 2020
Annual Tech Nation report shows UK technology firms saw record levels of investment in 2020, but a significant proportion of it was concentrated in a small number of scaleup enterprises
Tue Mar 16, 2021
5G economy to spur huge GDP, job growth across the US
BCG study estimates large contribution to employment and GDP over the next decade, through the roll-out of next-generation mobile infrastructure
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Legacy tech integration issues impede telcos’ digitisation ambitions
Research finds a worryingly large number of operators indicating that when it comes to digital transformation, integration with legacy technology is their largest gating factor, followed closely by data security concerns
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Nokia partners with largest cloud providers on 5G RAN
Nokia's RAN-related partnership with AWS, Microsoft and Google solidifies its strategy of delivering cloud-based 5G infrastructure to service providers and major enterprises.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Starburst and Varada partner for Trino data platform effort
Managing Trino, the open source project formerly known as PrestoSQL, could get easier and faster with a new partnership from two leading vendors in the market.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Timeline of Microsoft Exchange Server attacks raises questions
Multiple security vendors reported that exploitation of the Microsoft Exchange Server zero-days began well before their disclosure, but researchers are at a loss to explain why.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Oracle aims to enable access to analytics via ease of use
Oracle continues to add augmented intelligence features to its BI suite with the aim of enabling business users to work with data without needing the skills of a data scientist.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Oracle delivers Java 16 to developers
Oracle has released Java 16, the latest version of the Java Development Kit (JDK) for developers. The company also moved the OpenJDK source code repositories from Mercurial to Git.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
RiskIQ: 69,548 Microsoft Exchange servers still vulnerable
Security intelligence vendor RiskIQ found that 69,548 servers remained unpatched as of Sunday and are vulnerable to attacks, with nearly 17,000 servers located in the U.S.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Nokia to cut up to 10,000 jobs over two years
The job cuts stem from a major restructuring that formed four business groups, including two focused on emerging technologies like cloud-delivered network infrastructure.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
Cloud file vendors try to woo enterprise storage buyers
Some enterprises want cloud file storage to complement or replace legacy NAS. Several product enhancements last week target issues of cost, data security and remote shared storage.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
PatSnap lands $300M in Series E funding
PatSnap reports new funding for its IP and R&D management platforms, as the number of patents granted globally picked up, despite COVID-19, in 2020.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Children’s learning held back by digital schooling, NAO report finds
Children’s socio-economic status has affected their experiences with digital learning, and most teachers consider their pupils to be, on average, three months behind where they would be expected to be
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Micron ends 3D XPoint development to focus on CXL products
Micron ends development of 3D XPoint and shifts its focus to CXL-enabled memory products, raising questions on the future supply source of Intel's Optane memory.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
BSL and Sabio adding customer experience depth
Both BSL and Sabio make acquisitions to add more depth to the support they can give to users looking to improve customer experience
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Viavi expands fibre network test and measurement portfolio
Fibre optic testing and measurement portfolio designed to address businesses’ rapidly changing infrastructure needs
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Capita restructures to simplify its business
Business services supplier creates two core units that focus on public sector and commercial enterprise customers and will sell off non-core assets
Wed Mar 17, 2021
SolarWinds MSP boss talks of focus behind N-Able change
The firm is planning a rebrand as it goes public under a brand it acquired almost a decade ago, saying the move is a positive for its MSP base
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Ofcom raises £1.356bn in principal stage of new 5G spectrum auction
After announcing their plans to extend and improve basic 4G connectivity around the country, the UK’s mobile operators are celebrating their principal gains in the 5G arena with low-band and mid-band spectrum
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Diamanti Spektra completes cloud trifecta with GCP support
Diamanti Spektra 3.2 added support for Google Cloud, extending the platform to all three major public clouds, as well as CRI-O support for customers that want to replace Docker.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Fuze opens platform to other video conferencing apps
Over the coming months, Fuze will roll out a one-click feature that lets customers connect to Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other video conferencing services.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Uber classifies drivers as workers after Supreme Court ruling
Ride-hailing firm will pay its UK drivers minimum wage following court ruling, but has diverged from the court’s interpretation that drivers should be paid from when they log in, not just when passengers are on board
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Digital Green Certificate proposed for travel in Europe
Digital Green Certificates will supposedly help re-establish freedom of movement within the European Union
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Average ransomware cost triples, says report
The average amount paid out by ransomware victims has grown almost threefold to more than $300,000 per incident, according to a report
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Nokia accelerates Telenet cloud services with 5G core tech
Comms and cloud tech giants to support public cloud deployment of Belgian operator’s mobile core, signalling the first step in its transformation towards cloud-based services
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Google Cloud shares carbon-free datacentre energy usage stats with users
Public cloud giant publishes details of its Carbon Free Energy Percentage metric that it hopes companies will use to inform their decisions about where best to run their workloads for sustainability reasons
Wed Mar 17, 2021
SAS hit with 100 layoffs amid digital transformation efforts
SAS said it is still hiring for hundreds of open positions worldwide, despite cutting approximately 100 jobs. The independent analytics vendor employs nearly 14,000 people.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
IBM tools speed mainframe application modernization projects
IBM has released new versions of its application modernization tools designed to bring its Z series of mainframe applications in closer alignment with its development pipeline.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Instaclustr acquires Credativ to boost managed databases
The managed open source database services vendor is looking to grow its platform offering by bringing in new expertise to enable PostgreSQL deployments.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure adds next-gen AMD EPYC instances
Oracle hopes new AMD EPYC instance types that deliver more performance at the same price as the previous generation can bring more attention to its IaaS.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
IDC: The future workplace is hybrid
Automation tools for tracking assets and people, as well as speeding up HR processes, such as onboarding, will be needed to manage the post-pandemic hybrid workplace.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
SolarWinds hackers stole Mimecast source code
The investigation into a stolen Mimecast-issued digital certificate is now complete, and the vendor said the initial intrusion was Sunburst malware in the SolarWinds Orion platform.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
PagerDuty expands European datacentre presence with help from AWS
Company is expanding its datacentre presence within Europe through its longstanding technology partnership with Amazon Web Services
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse updated with new data tools
Oracle is updating its cloud data warehouse platform with new tools that aim to enable users to more easily benefit from data analytics and machine learning predictions.
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Adobe courts small businesses with Acrobat Pro package
As the pandemic disrupts paper workflows, Adobe courts small business users with simple webforms, digital signatures and payments integration with their sites and PDF documents.
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Eastern Health reports ‘cyber incident’, takes systems offline
Australian healthcare provider Eastern Health takes IT systems offline as a precaution while it looks into a cyber incident
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Subpostmasters in Court of Appeal to end 20-year torment
Subpostmasters heading to Court of Appeal to clear their names in what is potentially the biggest miscarriage of justice in English legal history
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Liverpool health, social care and education 5G network expands
Europe’s largest 5G health and social care network infrastructure deploys range of IT and entertainment technologies in hybrid setup to increase reach of independent public sector network
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Survey: Backup failures hit a high as pandemic working hits home
Veeam survey finds distributed working plus operations that span on-prem and the cloud the background to high numbers of failures in backup and restore, with 40% of SLAs not met
Thu Mar 18, 2021
NHS will get shared care records by September 2021, says Matt Hancock
The health secretary sets September 2021 target for shared care records roll-out, and wants to explore potential of moving patient data being held in proprietary systems to the cloud
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Government to bail out Post Office which can’t afford to pay compensation to subpostmasters
The Post Office does not have enough money to pay compensation to the subpostmasters it wrongfully prosecuted
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Ford Motor Co. adopts hybrid workplace to boost productivity
Ford Motor Co. believes a hybrid workplace will improve productivity as well as employee retention and well-being. On Wednesday, it unveiled a plan to support a remote work model.
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Dell arms partners with refreshed server range
With signs that more data is being generated at the edge, the vendor is releasing a range of products to meet that demand
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Vaccine passports cannot put basic rights at risk, warns BCS
BCS warns of challenges to come as the government presses on with its plans for Covid-19 vaccine passports
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Ofcom revamps wholesale broadband rules to ramp up full-fibre roll-out
UK comms regulator announces new guidelines for the UK wholesale telecoms market, with the principal aim to drive investment in fibre gigabit services and support the closure of the UK’s copper network
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Exclusive Networks charts a digital course
Distributor's CEO provides update on progress made last year and ambitions for the rest of 2021
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Sonatype buys MuseDev to boost code analysis
Sonatype has expanded its addressable market for developers with the acquisition of code analysis tool vendor MuseDev. The move builds out Sonatype's software quality platform.
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Samsung unveils three midrange phones
Samsung's midrange Galaxy A52, A52 5G, and A72 come with additional security and more Android OS updates. The phones will be available internationally first.
Thu Mar 18, 2021
SAP tools analyze usage, help ease S/4HANA migration
ODTH First Class Logistics and TGS lean on SAP tools to analyze SAP remote access and user experience and speed up an S/4HANA migration project.
Thu Mar 18, 2021
FBI IC3 report's ransomware numbers are low, experts say
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported a massive increase in financial losses from 2020 ransomware attacks, but infosec experts say the problem is worse than statistics say.
Thu Mar 18, 2021
AWS adds serverless capability to S3 object storage
Amazon introduced a feature to process data as it is being retrieved from S3. This allows use cases such as on-the-fly format conversion or PII redaction.
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Kroger rushed to launch on-demand pay, and it's not alone
In the face of the pandemic, The Kroger Co. sped up the rollout of an on-demand pay platform to 400,000-plus employees. These platforms saw sizable growth in 2020.
Fri Mar 19, 2021
AWS rolls out clean energy initiative in Singapore
62MW solar project expected to generate 80,000MWh of clean energy a year, enough to power more than 10,000 homes
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Post Office IT scandal executive forced out of job at Football Association of Wales
Angela van den Bogerd has left her role at the Football Association of Wales, following criticism of her part in Post Office IT scandal
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Employers face delicate balancing act as hybrid workforce emerges from lockdown
Study from UK telco advises firms to prepare for the divided demands of the post-lockdown workforce
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Government bids final goodbye to Gov.uk Verify
Cabinet Office parliamentary secretary Julia Lopez confirms launch of “discrete” successor to Gov.uk Verify
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Coronavirus leads to legacy modernisation cloud boost
Organisations are making the move to migrate legacy IT to the cloud, and the right skills and sufficient time and budget are the key to success
Fri Mar 19, 2021
UK government aims to get national broadband project back on track with Project Gigabit
First areas revealed in £5bn government scheme to deliver gigabit broadband connections to help recovery from the pandemic, achieve growth and levelling up
Fri Mar 19, 2021
UK online traffic soars during year in lockdown
Research from leading UK ISP reveals online usage in the UK has increased by 78% year-on-year since the first lockdown
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Acer hit by apparent attack from REvil ransomware group
Acer told SearchSecurity in a statement that it has 'reported recent abnormal situations observed to the relevant law enforcement.' However, it did not confirm a ransomware attack.
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Performanta latest to attract private equity backing
Managed security services player Performanta attracts a significant investment from Beech Tree
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Avaya adds AI, advanced meeting capabilities to Spaces collaboration platform
IP comms firm announces new capabilities for workstream collaboration platform, offering evolved unified communications capabilities via a user’s preferred device
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Veeam urges partners to plug backup gaps
Research from vendor exposes significant number of customers that are failing to protect their data
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Microsoft makes PowerPoint Presenter Coach widely available
Microsoft has added features to PowerPoint Presenter Coach. The enhancements in the self-help tool provide better tips on how to improve presentations that use PowerPoint slides.
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Workplace from Facebook partner firms get new program
The revamped channel strategy for Workplace by Facebook emphasizes resellers and systems integrators; more IT channel news.
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Sentry adds performance monitoring for React Native, more
Sentry has added support for React Native, Android, Xamarin and Flutter-based apps to its application performance monitoring platform to help developers find and fix bugs.
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Nokia inks AT&T C-band deal and sets out plan to surf the 5G long wave
Leading comms tech provider outlines plans to speed up transformation to improve profitability, taking advantage of long wave of 5G contracts such as that from leading US operator
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Court says RingCentral can keep selling Zoom for now
A federal court has ruled that RingCentral can continue selling its Zoom-powered video conferencing product RingCentral Meetings. Zoom sued RingCentral for breach of contract.