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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has listed moving to the cloud among the steps that businesses should take to help fight climate change

Swarm learning makes it possible to perform machine learning on distributed data sources while conforming to data confidentiality requirements

In the face of increasingly prevalent and sophisticated ransomware attacks, retail organisations need to develop alternative ways of restoring lost or encrypted data, as paying the ransom does not guarantee its return in almost a third of cases

Microsoft continues to deliver on its pledge to provide cloud services to the US government that are compliant with all strengths of data classification

There is only one way things are heading and the slower you get there, the more chances there will be that the competition has already stolen a march

As consumers adopt 5G smartphones to take advantage of high speeds and reduced latency of next-gen networks, hardware suppliers will need to build out new device capabilities to encourage consumers to upgrade regularly and avoid churn

Enterprise, government and wholesale customers set to benefit from improved broadband speeds and experience from 200G terrestrial optical network connecting Brisbane and Darwin

With the tasty title of Apricot, social media giant unveils role in project to develop ultra-fast connectivity under the sea in key Asian region, while it announces expansion of existing partnership to boost African sea network

The ICO has launched a public consultation on employers’ use of personal data to help it provide practical guidance for both businesses and workers

Salesforce EVP and CIO Jo-ann de Pass Olsovsky embraces the pivot to remote work, low-code appdev and the role of alpha tester of upcoming Salesforce products.

A terrorist watchlist was found in an exposed database, and security researcher Bob Diachenko says there is no way of knowing just how long it was open to the public.

Australia’s NAB teams up with three other banks and AWS to run an open global finance challenge that will see participating teams prototype new digital banking services

Former altnet turned third- largest fibre broadband provider maintains heady pace of UK gigabit roll-out by beginning work in key northeast city

ISACA’s Gaurav Deep Singh Johar explores how to embed privacy practices into digital platform architecture

Securities and Exchange Commission says publisher misled its investors over the extent of a 2018 data breach

Will the traditional banks be permanently disadvantaged by the need to retain bank branches or could they turn it to their advantage?

Latest CompTIA report on the state of the industry reveals a channel that is changing but is also feeling positive about its situation

The government has failed to provide fair compensation to the subpostmasters who exposed the full extent of the Horizon scandal to the world

Salesforce unveils the first Slack integrations. But it could be Slack Connect -- which extends Slack's reach outside the Salesforce user's organization -- that is the killer app.

Vendor Monte Carlo brought in new funding as it builds out new capabilities to bring more data trust and visibility to both data warehouses and data lakes.

Study shows continued surge in broadband data consumption, especially in upstream, leading to just over one-fifth of broadband subscribers being able to benefit from speed tier upgrade

Confluent aims to make it easier for users to query data in motion coming from Apache Kafka, with the ksqlDB pull query capability in its cloud platform update.

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks published a new report detailing the risks that personal VPNs pose to enterprise networks, including evasion tactics to bypass firewalls.

The CEO and co-founder of a graph layer vendor provides insight into the growing need for the graph layer as a data technology to help connect the front end to the back end.

Monday.com has launched workdocs, targeting the document editing tool for brainstorming and goal setting. The tool is included in the company's project management platform.

Tens of thousands of Exchange servers are still vulnerable to ProxyLogon and ProxyShell, and security researchers estimate honeypots represent only a small slice of those systems.

Song remains the same with VPNs as repressive regimes’ continued regulatory demands and remote working see virtual private network usage rocket over the first six months of the year

Thames Valley Police exits tri-force programme to develop new enterprise resource planning software for the police

Latest deployment of gigabit connectivity in Scotland sees full-fibre network delivered to key council datacentres and public facilities in Perth and Kinross to help underpin the region’s digital future and navigate challenges such as the pandemic

Vendors’ plans to offer more data protection around cloud workloads will give both firms’ channel bases something to take out to market

The Defence and Security Accelerator has launched a programme to root out technology that will reduce the military’s exposure to cyber attacks

Global mobile chip leader says platform will accelerate and scale development for manufacturers to deliver ‘powerful’ purpose-built craft that will see use cases in enterprise and industrial 5G

Secure access specialist’s recently appointed EMEA channel boss sets out ambitions to increase the firm’s indirect operation

Business transformation specialist and nineties and noughties UK business golden boy to take the reins as BT chairman at the end of the year

Firm increases focus on those that are in high-growth mode and might want to get involved with M&A

Privacy campaigners say the government's updated 'surveillance camera code of practice' does not do enough to mitigate abuses of facial-recognition technology

New funding rounds and acquisitions in HR technology are on pace to top 2020's banner year. The HR market activity is being driven, in part, by pandemic-related needs.

Seagate Technology's Lyve Cloud adds to the lineup of enterprise cloud storage offerings that give IT pros a way to retain more of the data being generated each year.

Kyverno, a CNCF policy-as-code sandbox project, can help platform engineers navigate the transition toward the successor to Kubernetes pod security policies.

Mandiant warns the vulnerability, which could affect more than 80 million IoT devices, poses a huge risk to end users' security and privacy and should be mitigated appropriately.

The telecom giant confirmed reports that its network was breached by a threat actor who stole personal data on more than 40 million current, former and prospective customers.

Brisbane-based startup Octopus Deploy recently secured $172.5m in venture funding to advance its goal of simplifying software deployments for DevOps teams

As more critical workloads move to the cloud, SES medium Earth orbit satellite system will provide additional network diversity, service resiliency and gigabit connectivity for IT giant’s leading data platform

United Nations strategy sets out the need for data-driven and technology-enabled peacekeeping, but also highlights potential risks that come with a digital world

Three-quarters of IT decision-makers are concerned that the tactics, techniques and procedures used by nation-state attackers could be used against them

With many young people thinking about what to do with their recent exam results and where to build a future, there are numerous reasons to consider the channel

UK operator’s new internet of things offering enables water companies to integrate a range of devices and sensors into a single platform to reduce wastage and improve efficiency

Some pub and restaurant chain apps demand data such as gender and marital status, raising eyebrows among privacy campaigners

Estonia is a Baltic tech tiger that is fast-gaining an international reputation for competently delivered government e-services at a level that surpasses most of its European and international counterparts

Japanese tech giants team up to accelerate the global reach of base station equipment conforming to O-RAN specifications and aim to stimulate growth and innovation in the open 5G market

Digital risk protection player approached by partner in Pakistan giving the vendor a chance to jump-start its channel activities in the region

Several months on from the deployment of a microwave-sized supercomputer on the International Space Station, details of the research it's powering have started to emerge

Vendor products can offer unique ransomware protections, but comprehensive strategies across storage clouds and formats still form core of IT protection.

In its new ransomware prevention and response guide, CISA 'strongly discourages paying a ransom,' citing the potential to embolden threat actors and fund illicit activity.

As enterprise Kubernetes deployments expand in production, an incubating CNCF project injects nuance into the way the container platform responds to applications' resource needs.

Microsoft will release Teams Rooms features to increase the visibility of chat messages, improve presentations and help workers sort through attendees more easily.

Hitachi Vantara integrated its data management technologies into a new product suite intended to help organizations with data operations. Data governance is coming next.

Microsoft's new operating system will bring default security features for enterprises. Installation will be akin to a Windows 10 update for IT shops with the right hardware.

Alibaba’s AliceMind algorithm recorded a higher accuracy rate than humans in answering questions related to images in the global VQA challenge

Businesses of all shapes and sizes have had to take a different approach during the pandemic – Dupsy Abiola, head of global innovation at IAG, explains how IAG transformed its Hangar 51 accelerator during the coronavirus outbreak

Swedish IT and communications equipment suppliers fear economic backlash from China following Huawei ban

Social networking giant is following in Microsoft’s footprints by setting itself a goal of becoming a water-positive entity by 2030

Competition and Markets Authority has decided an in-depth investigation should be mounted into the proposed acquisition of Arm by US chipmaker Nvidia

Printer player rolls out mini A4 inkjet range that the channel can pitch to those working in small offices and at home

The tech giant is offering its users a new managed Redis-compatible in-memory database platform that will compete against services from Redis, Google and Microsoft.

Software giant gives six months’ notice of the first price rises since it launched the product suite a decade ago

Automation is an ongoing focus for Alteryx. The vendor's latest update adds an automated recommendation feature that suggests tools to connect as users build workflows.

IBM's hybrid cloud presents a strong alternative to the public cloud hyperscalers for S/4HANA deployments, but many don't see the legacy vendor as an innovation leader.

Boone County in Indiana found space and savings in public cloud, but experts say IT pros should follow smart policies and government regulations when managing vital data.

Black Kite has unveiled its Aviator partner program for VARs, MSSPs and systems integrators; other IT channel news.

API security is under scrutiny as businesses digitally transform, and startup vendors are emerging with fresh approaches for secure cloud computing.

Adobe plans to acquire Frame.io review and approval platform for $1.275 billion to streamline digital collaboration among video editors, producers, agencies and clients.