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03 Apr 2026
News brief: Iran cyberattacks escalate, U.S. targets named
By Staff reportCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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02 Apr 2026
Box consolidates AI tools, adds 'super agent' for complex tasks
By Don FluckingerBox Enterprise Plus and Enterprise Advanced users can take new AI functionality for a spin.
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31 Mar 2026
Redpanda launches streaming engine optimized for AI
By Eric AvidonBy integrating workload types, the vendor is simplifying data streams for AI while also differentiating itself from its closest competitors.
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02 Apr 2026
How ‘Wikipedia of cyber’ helps SAP make sense of threat data
By Alex ScroxtonSAP runs enormous cloud environments for some of the world’s most heavily-regulated organisations, and in the hyperscale era, data security and compliance were becoming big challenges. It turned to cutting-edge agentic tools from Uptycs to cut through the noise
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02 Apr 2026
Advania bolsters executive team
By Simon QuickeManaged services player adds fresh talent, while ERP specialist Syspro’s CRO is promoted to lead the business
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02 Apr 2026
What’s driving Oracle’s latest job cuts?
By Cliff SaranThousands of job losses have been reported, affecting many roles at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure including software engineering and product compliance
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02 Apr 2026
How ANZ firms are driving automation and AIOps
By Stephen WithersTech leaders from Westpac, NAB, Telstra and ACC New Zealand share their automation journeys, from overcoming cultural resistance to the cautious adoption of AI
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01 Apr 2026
Microsoft to invest $5.5b in Singapore’s AI and cloud infrastructure
By Aaron TanThe tech giant is spending over $5bn through 2029 to bolster its footprint in the city-state while rolling out programmes to equip students, educators and non-profit leaders with AI skills
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31 Mar 2026
Aussie AI health-tech Heidi aims to cure clinical burnout
By Aaron TanArmed with over $100m in funding, Melbourne-based Heidi is building its own AI models and launching wearable hardware to automate documentation and reduce the administrative burden on doctors
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31 Mar 2026
Agoda scales AI strategy, opens new APAC tech hub
By Aaron TanThe digital travel platform has set its sights on becoming an AI-powered travel companion as it changes how it builds software and moves its tech workforce into a new facility in Bangkok
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30 Mar 2026
Cambridge Mobile Telematics lands $350m strategic investment
By Joe O’HalloranMajor investment in automotive telematics company, accompanied by new long-term commercial agreements, seeks to expand global road safety platform and real-time AI risk models
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30 Mar 2026
Interview: Thierry Martin, head of enterprise data and analytics, Toyota Motor Europe
By Mark SamuelsA sketch artist by night, and a vehicle engineer by training, Toyota Europe’s data chief is bringing elements of both capabilities to bear in delivering better data insights and building a foundation for AI
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30 Mar 2026
Interview: Thierry Martin, head of enterprise data and analytics, Toyota Motor Europe
By Mark SamuelsA sketch artist by night, and a vehicle engineer by training, Toyota Europe’s data chief is bringing elements of both capabilities to bear in delivering better data insights and building a foundation for AI
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30 Mar 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickePersonnel moves of note at Exabeam, CirrusHQ, Version 1 and Cellnex
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30 Mar 2026
Stop Scams steps up to online fraud challenge
By Karl FlindersAfter years of putting the building blocks in place, Stop Scams is ready and able to react quickly to fight emerging fraud threats
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27 Mar 2026
Trust a key factor in customer buying decisions
By Simon QuickeBrother UK’s quizzing of both customers and resellers found that trusted partners and vendors could win business at a premium
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27 Mar 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments of note this week at Insight, TD Synnex, Arrow Electronics, Bulletproof, Netrio and Cambridge Management Consulting
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27 Mar 2026
Second Post Office Capture conviction referred to appeal court
By Karl FlindersConviction of 30 years has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
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26 Mar 2026
Oracle opens Sydney customer excellence centre to boost AI adoption
By Stephen WithersFacility will help organisations across Australia and Oceania navigate technology challenges and turn AI experimentation into business value
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26 Mar 2026
Post Office still can’t find evidence for 1,400 scandal redress claimants, while people die waiting
By Karl FlindersFinding evidence for events that took place decades ago is a challenge for many subpostmasters seeking compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme
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26 Mar 2026
Connectivity to the fore as Sunderland commits to 2035 digital strategy
By Joe O’HalloranNorth eastern English city expands its smart city commitments with 2035 strategy to ensure every resident can “thrive in an increasingly digital world”
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25 Mar 2026
Google targets 2029 for post-quantum cyber readiness
By Alex ScroxtonGoogle sets out a timeline for its migration to post-quantum cryptography, saying it will complete its migration before the end of the 2020s
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25 Mar 2026
Emergency Microsoft, Oracle patches point to wider cyber issues
By Alex ScroxtonEmergency out-of-band patches from Microsoft and Oracle signal underlying security issues around update cycles and patching, and identity security and zero-trust, says the community
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25 Mar 2026
Oracle applications chief sees enterprise AI agents as task-specific helpers
By Cliff SaranAt Oracle AI Summit in London, Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle applications development, discussed Oracle’s Fusion Agentic Applications, including how should AI agents be used, how is it priced and what safeguards are being put in place
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25 Mar 2026
Google Cloud, Openreach expand connectivity collaboration
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s largest broadband operator implements AI to accelerate high-speed internet access and cut carbon, in an expanded collaboration to accelerate Openreach’s sustainability and connectivity goals
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25 Mar 2026
Why AI agents are one prompt away from ransomware
By Stephen WithersAs AI adoption advances beyond chatbots, security leaders are up against rogue AI agents mirroring threat actors and a generational skills gap as security operations teams become overly dependent on AI
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25 Mar 2026
Why OpenClaw agents are the next big enterprise challenge
By Aaron TanAs users flock to deploy OpenClaw agents for everything from gig work to shopping, IT leaders warn that bringing these autonomous systems into the enterprise will require strict guardrails and a mix of AI models
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24 Mar 2026
Cyber pros must grasp the vibe coding nettle, says NCSC chief
By Alex ScroxtonAt RSA in San Francisco, NCSC chief exec Richard Horne says security professionals have an opportunity and a responsibility to get in front of the security issues raised by the popularity of ‘vibe coding’
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24 Mar 2026
Salesforce adds Agentforce agentic AI to SMB packages
By Don FluckingerSalesforce sets up its SMB customers with Agentforce.
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24 Mar 2026
Oracle endows Fusion applications with more AI autonomy
By Brian McKennaAt its London AI World Tour event, Oracle unveils Fusion Agentic Apps, said to enable more autonomous decision-making and execution across ERP, HCM, SCM and CX
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24 Mar 2026
Oracle calls Fusion Agentic Applications next-level AI for ERP
By David EssexAnalysts concur that the 22 new applications represent a significant leap from narrowly focused AI to teams of agents that coordinate tasks to achieve business objectives.
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24 Mar 2026
QuikBot and EFGH bring real-time insurance to physical AI
By Aaron TanThe two companies will embed insurance directly into the infrastructure governing autonomous robots, reducing claims processing and creating a trust layer for smart cities
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23 Mar 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeMoves this last week of note at CloudClevr, MLL Telecom, Pure Data Centres, Neat and inferX
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23 Mar 2026
DWP finally seeks reviewer of its subpostmaster prosecutions
By Karl FlindersMonths after announcing review, the government has advertised for a reviewer to look over more than 100 prosecutions of subpostmasters by the Department of Work and Pensions
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23 Mar 2026
Fire and rescue services implement shared comms command centre
By Joe O’HalloranControl room technology rolled out across three emergency services to make it possible to jointly manage emergency call handling, crew dispatch and incident coordination in mutual aid scenarios
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20 Mar 2026
Interview: Jem Walters, CTO, Vanquis
By Mark SamuelsHaving come into the company through the acquisition of his money-saving app, the IT chief is bringing an agile and startup culture to the 146-year-old financial services firm
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20 Mar 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Emerge Digital, GoTo, Exabeam and Nebula Global Services
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20 Mar 2026
Upwind founder talks benefits of going channel from the start
By Simon QuickeCloud security player Upwind has been working with partners since it emerged three years ago
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19 Mar 2026
Questions raised about Instagram memorialisation in Noah Donohoe inquest
By Bill GoodwinCourt hears that a mother was frozen out of her son’s social media a day after he tragically died, potentially depriving a coroner investigating the case of a ‘huge’ amount of information
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19 Mar 2026
AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report
By Brian McKennaRegulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell
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19 Mar 2026
HSS ProService ‘Uber-ifies’ with functional programming and agentic AI
By Antony AdsheadHSS’s pivot from 130-depot hire business to a digital-only marketplace to handle messy transactions and old-school processes in the construction sector
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19 Mar 2026
Government announces redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims
By Karl FlindersGovernment offers two routes to financial redress for the families of victims of the Post Office scandal
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19 Mar 2026
Interview: Huy Dao, director of data and machine learning platform, Booking.com
By Mark SamuelsEffective use of technology has already delivered significant cost savings at the online travel giant, and greater use of AI and machine learning promises to bring even greater opportunities to improve
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19 Mar 2026
Infrastructure is back as Orange Business drives trusted agentic platforms
By Joe O’HalloranAnnual customer gathering of enterprise arm of global telco sees launch of four key applications taking advantage of agentic AI capabilities and emphasising the need for robust and secure infrastructure
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19 Mar 2026
Apple issues first Background patch for WebKit browser flaw
By Alex ScroxtonApple’s first ever Background Security Update fixes a WebKit browser engine bug that could enable threat actors to see and steal important data from their victims
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18 Mar 2026
RingCentral AIR Pro automates CX with agentic agents
By Katherine FinnellRingCentral launched AIR Pro, an agentic AI platform to autonomously handle customer interactions with enterprise integrations, prebuilt agents and no-code tools.
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18 Mar 2026
Fast followers will fall behind in the AI race, warns ServiceNow
By Stephen WithersServiceNow experts and customers highlight why acting at pace, deploying cross-system AI agents and governance are key in AI adoption
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18 Mar 2026
Qualtrics expands synthetic research marketing, testing tech
By Don FluckingerQualtrics attempts to meld agentic AI and digital twins for A/B testing in marketing and product development, and to improve CX.
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18 Mar 2026
Channel shows resilience in face of challenges
By Simon QuickeThe channel is wrestling with component shortages, ripples from war in the Middle East and ongoing conflict in Europe, but there is still some optimism
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18 Mar 2026
Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade
By Aaron TanJensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem
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17 Mar 2026
MPs ask Lloyds Bank for more information about ‘alarming’ breach
By Karl FlindersTreasury Committee chair requests more information about the IT problem experienced by Lloyds Bank
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17 Mar 2026
Contactless payment limit removal will happen overnight, but change won’t
By Karl FlindersBanks will be able to set their own contactless card payment limits from 19 March, following rule change by Financial Conduct Authority
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17 Mar 2026
Alibaba joins AI agent race with Wukong launch
By Aaron TanFollowing the viral success of OpenClaw and product launches from Nvidia and Tencent, Alibaba has unveiled an agentic AI platform that integrates with DingTalk to orchestrate business workflows
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17 Mar 2026
TD Synnex arming Microsoft partners with greater data insights
By Simon QuickeDistributor rolls out tools to help CSPs keep track of licences and to identify additional sales opportunities
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17 Mar 2026
Workday's new (old) CEO reveals Sana agentic AI updates
By Don FluckingerDoing work in Workday could become simpler with agentic AI.
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17 Mar 2026
Health workers call for Palantir to be booted from NHS contracts
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonHealth justice charity Medact warns that Palantir’s involvement in NHS data systems is a threat to patients and healthcare organisations
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17 Mar 2026
Lendi Group standardises on MongoDB for AI-ready data layer
By Stephen WithersFollowing a merger that left the Australian fintech with a fragmented data architecture, Lendi Group has consolidated its databases onto MongoDB Atlas to reduce microservices sprawl and power AI-driven broker tools
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17 Mar 2026
Lab for autonomous agents to drive boost in manufacturing in India
By Joe O’HalloranFrontier AI company launching Emergence India Labs (EIL) to accelerate the nation’s shift from IT services to autonomous systems and advanced process is use cases such as manufacturing
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16 Mar 2026
Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration
By Aaron TanNvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform
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16 Mar 2026
Channel facing profitability threat
By Simon QuickeResearch from Omdia reveals the impact geopolitical uncertainty and shortages are having on partner businesses
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16 Mar 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickePersonnel moves of note this last week at Genesys, Synyega, MLL Telecoms, Ping Identity and WSO2
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16 Mar 2026
C-suite execs flag core nature of edge AI to business strategy
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from edge computing provider observes enterprise edge AI is now an intrinsic part of core business infrastructure, driven by rapid uptake of agentic operations
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16 Mar 2026
Cyber flywheel aims to kick-start UK cyber security startups
By Bill GoodwinCompany founder rallies CISOs, venture capital funders and government leaders to back startups in cyber security
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13 Mar 2026
Unreliable fleet connectivity driving employee exodus
By Joe O’HalloranStudy finds fleets experience an average downtime of 25%, equating to three to four days of downtime per month, while a third of fleet operators still rely on hotspots from mobile devices to provide connectivity on the move
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12 Mar 2026
Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI
By Stephen WithersMoving AI from experiment to production requires high-quality, real-time data streaming. Australia tech leaders from Confluent, Bendigo Bank, Telstra, and Coles share how they are turning systems of record into systems of action
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12 Mar 2026
MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions
By Karl FlindersReport from MPs warns of unknown number of unsafe subpostmasters convictions based on multiple pre-Horizon systems
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12 Mar 2026
UK government ‘flying blind’ with poor data in charting regional growth
By Brian McKennaThe government is being impeded in its bid to stoke economic growth across the regions, according to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
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12 Mar 2026
Zoom expands enterprise agentic AI platform
By Joe O’HalloranAI-first work platform provider introduces new workflow capabilities across Workplace, phone and customer experience products, expanding its enterprise agentic AI platform
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12 Mar 2026
Stitch Fix's AI brand agent -- with human help -- nails the look
By Don FluckingerYou can't legislate good taste, but you can have agentic AI steer customers into it.
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12 Mar 2026
Agentforce Contact Center brings native CCaaS to Salesforce
By Katherine FinnellSalesforce launches Agentforce Contact Center, a native CCaaS platform that unifies voice, AI, CRM and digital channels to deliver personalized, proactive customer service.
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12 Mar 2026
Lloyds banking app ‘glitch’ shows transactions of strangers
By Karl FlindersCustomers of Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank experienced a glitch this morning, where details of other customers’ transactions were displayed in their online banking apps
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11 Mar 2026
What it takes to succeed with AI
By Stephen WithersWith research showing the use of AI may temporarily reduce productivity, Cloudera’s Vini Cardoso urges businesses to adopt an organisation-wide platform approach driven by measurable value and trusted data
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11 Mar 2026
Ford accelerates fleet data capability with Pro AI
By Joe O’HalloranAuto manufacturing giant introduces fleet management software aiming to help organisations manage their fleet operations more effectively and get daily tasks done
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11 Mar 2026
Zendesk to acquire Forethought in major agentic AI play
By Aaron TanZendesk is acquiring Forethought to bolster its agentic AI chops with specialised and self-learning AI agents capable of managing complex customer service workflows
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10 Mar 2026
Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server
By Alex ScroxtonZero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update
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10 Mar 2026
Ericsson, Future Technologies scale wireless infrastructure for industrial AI
By Joe O’HalloranConnectivity transformation systems integrator and comms tech giant expand collaboration to accelerate deployment of private 5G and enterprise wireless networks across North America
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10 Mar 2026
Microsoft Cowork: One data store for all your M365 assets
By Cliff SaranMIcrosoft has revealed the next stage of its plans to place its software at the heart of enterprise data, which is now powered by agentic AI
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10 Mar 2026
Open banking presents £43bn opportunity for UK economy if warnings are heeded
By Karl FlindersOpen banking has already delivered billions of pounds to the UK economy and has huge future potential, but industry leaders warn against complacency
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09 Mar 2026
UK to launch cyber fraud squad in April
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK’s Online Crime Centre, launching next month, will bring together government, police, intelligence agencies, banks, mobile networks and tech firms to take coordinated action against cyber fraud
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09 Mar 2026
IBM takes a second shot at Post Office contract to replace Horizon
By Karl FlindersThe US tech giant is bidding for a £323m contract to replace the Post Office’s flawed Horizon IT system, a decade after its previous attempt was abandoned due to complexities
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09 Mar 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickePersonnel moves of note in the past week at QBS Software, Smart Communications, Pax8, e2e-assur, Trellix, Basware and New Relic
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09 Mar 2026
Connectus continues M&A strategy with i7 Technologies
By Simon QuickeMSP continues to add geographical coverage to the business with the addition of Welsh security specialist
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09 Mar 2026
DBS rewires operating models for AI reasoning era
By Aaron TanThe bank expects AI tools to evolve from being a copilot to an autopilot as it undergoes organisational transformation to prepare its workforce for agentic AI
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06 Mar 2026
Pegasystems adds vibe coding to Blueprint app builder
By Don FluckingerPega Blueprint combines conversational code with drag-and-drop feature editing.
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06 Mar 2026
Stephen Lawrence detective calls for better checks after child’s Instagram account ‘memorialised’
By Bill GoodwinFormer detective Clive Driscoll, who secured convictions in the Stephen Lawrence case, calls for better checks after Instagram ‘memorialised’ the account of a child without the family’s knowledge
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06 Mar 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeThe past week has brought several noteworthy developments in the channel. We look at what’s been happening at Wasabi Technologies, LevelBlue, Phoenix Software, Alkira and Boom Collaboration
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06 Mar 2026
International Women’s Day 2026: Support must not stop after the hire is made
By Simon QuickeWomen in the tech industry emphasise the importance of maintaining a sustained commitment to diversity that extends beyond the initial recruitment stage
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06 Mar 2026
Enterprises warming to AI PCs amid growing cloud costs
By Aaron TanWhile global memory shortages will pose a threat to the broader PC market, AI PCs are gaining momentum across Asia as companies look to cut cloud costs, boost productivity and secure sensitive information
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05 Mar 2026
UK government departments not sold on shared services strategy, NAO report finds
By Lis EvenstadEight years on from the launch of the government’s shared services strategy, there is no clear ownership, funding remains uncertain and some departments are yet to fully commit
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05 Mar 2026
Spyware suppliers exploit more zero-days than nation states
By Alex ScroxtonExploitation of zero-days by commercial surveillance and spyware developers outpaced exploitation by nation-state actors last year, according to a report
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05 Mar 2026
Salesforce rolls out Agentforce Health AI agents
By Don FluckingerAgentforce Health updated to automate more processes.
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05 Mar 2026
Government wants to build digital ID system in-house
By Lis EvenstadThe Home Affairs Committee hearing on digital ID reveals consultation is due next week; there will be no central database; and while government wants to build the system in-house, it will not replace private digital ID providers
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05 Mar 2026
Celerity adds to board as it mulls over further M&A activity
By Simon QuickeManaged services player Celerity continues to add expertise to the brain power advising its strategy
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05 Mar 2026
Scandal victim gets leave to appeal decision to split case against Post Office and Fujitsu
By Karl FlindersProminent scandal victim given leave to appeal High Court decision in his legal action against the Post Office and Fujitsu
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04 Mar 2026
GTDC: Distribution key to expanding vendor reach
By Simon QuickeThe ability to react to challenges and master them has put disties across the globe in a key position to support partner enablement and sales
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04 Mar 2026
Stability talk in Spring Statement cautiously welcomed
By Simon QuickeUK chancellor’s declarations around improving inflation rates and delivering economic growth got a mixed response across the industry
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04 Mar 2026
AI workloads force a fundamental redesign of Middle East datacentres
By Andrea BenitoFrom hyperscale GPU clusters to sovereign AI ambitions, Huawei outlines how infrastructure must evolve to meet regional demand
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04 Mar 2026
Transnational AI regulation needed to protect human rights in the UK
By Charlotte LangTech companies have told MPs and Lords they would welcome greater harmonisation in regulatory standards at a global level
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03 Mar 2026
Scattered data, cloud transfers creating challenges in enterprise AI
By Stephen WithersThe cost, speed, and governance of moving petabytes of data across hybrid and multicloud environments is becoming a challenge for enterprises looking to harness the benefits of AI
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03 Mar 2026
SAP renames Emarsys SAP Engagement Cloud
By Don FluckingerThe legacy of SAP's Qualtrics acquisition is complete.
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03 Mar 2026
Interview: Wolf & Badger CEO George Graham on getting ‘hands-on’ with AI
By Ben SillitoeFrom continually exploring the potential of artificial intelligence to actually building and introducing AI-enabled systems for his company, George Graham is leaning into the age of agentic commerce
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03 Mar 2026
Santander and Mastercard complete test of AI-initiated payment
By Karl FlindersBank and payments giant complete first payment initiated by artificial intelligence in a controlled environment
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03 Mar 2026
Logicalis: Customers struggling with rapid AI deployments
By Simon QuickeThe channel player’s latest CIO report exposes a user base struggling to adopt artificial intelligence technology while continuing to remain compliant and secure
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03 Mar 2026
Synaxon boss charts path to increased growth
By Simon QuickeAfter a period of transformation, the channel organisation is looking to meet ambitious targets and continue to carve out a solid position in the hardware and services realms