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18 Jul 2025
News brief: Cyberattack trends signal security arms race
By Staff reportCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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18 Jul 2025
Data-driven AI: how AWS partners and customers operate
By Esther ShittuFrom the Ocean Cleanup to Dine Brands, a key factor is driving how these enterprises apply AWS’ technology to their applications and needs.
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18 Jul 2025
Entities report several large healthcare data breaches to OCR
By Jill McKeonMillions of individuals were impacted by the most recent healthcare data breaches reported to HHS.
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06 Aug 2024
Zoom claims AI-first as it debuts Docs on Workplace
By Joe O’HalloranCollaboration and conference technology and services provider launches first product from Workplace portfolio with generative artificial intelligence built in from the ground up to enable the next generation of team collaboration
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06 Aug 2024
How Darussalam Assets is tapping AI in HR operations
By Aaron TanBrunei’s Darussalam Assets is leveraging the artificial intelligence capabilities in SAP SuccessFactors to generate job descriptions and optimise recruitment processes
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05 Aug 2024
Chinese cyber attack sparks alert over six-year-old MS vuln
By Alex ScroxtonAfter a proof-of-concept for a six-year-old Microsoft vulnerability emerged in a Chinese APT attack chain, defenders should be on the look-out for exploitation of CVE-2018-0824
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05 Aug 2024
IBM welcomes back Gill as UK channel lead
By Simon QuickeBig Blue brings back former long-time staffer Andrew Gill to run its channel operations in UK&I, with a brief including enabling more partner adoption of AI
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05 Aug 2024
ServiceNow expands footprint in APAC, doubles down on AI
By Aaron TanServiceNow has been building local teams, targeting customers in regulated industries and doubling down on AI to expand its presence in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region
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05 Aug 2024
What are the options when migrating from VMware?
By Cliff SaranBroadcom’s changes to VMware licensing means some people are facing big price increases – we look at how these can be avoided
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01 Aug 2024
CrowdStrike shareholders sue, alleging false security claims
By Alex ScroxtonA US pension fund is lining up a lawsuit against CrowdStrike, claiming the cyber company lied about the integrity of its systems, leading to failings that caused a worldwide IT outage
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01 Aug 2024
Businesses fail to deliver consistently positive customer experience
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from a leading global business school’s publishing arm finds that even though 94% of business leaders think good customer experience is important for business success, just 38% believe they can deliver it
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01 Aug 2024
Slow weeks of summer an ideal time for training
By Simon QuickeThe next few weeks could present opportunities for the development of personal skills across the channel
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01 Aug 2024
SupportLogic acquires xFind for customer service experience AI
By Don FluckingerStartup SupportLogic buys xFind to add generative AI to its service analytics platform, and in the process takes on much larger competition such as Qualtrics, Medallia and Verint.
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01 Aug 2024
Altair, LG extend connected vehicle infotainment tech lifespans
By Joe O’HalloranCollaboration between computational intelligence company and CE giant said to have seen complex fatigue analysis reduce development time for vehicle infotainment components by more than 20%
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01 Aug 2024
Meta’s Zuckerberg looks ahead to AI-generated adverts
By Cliff SaranFacebook’s parent company is driving artificial intelligence across its advertising platform, supported by open source development
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31 Jul 2024
API attacks surge by 65% in APAC, fuelled by rapid digitisation
By Aaron TanAkamai's report reveals a significant rise in cyber attacks on web applications and APIs in the region over the past year, with financial and commerce sectors hardest hit
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31 Jul 2024
Court overturns Appian’s $2bn trade secrets award against Pegasystems
By Bill GoodwinBusiness process management software suppliers Pegasystems and Appian head for retrial after a judge finds flaws in trade secrets trial
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31 Jul 2024
Mayor launches London Privacy Register for smart city information
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTo increase transparency around and trust in London’s smart city technology deployments, the London Privacy Register aims to provide the public with more information about the systems they encounter in their day-to-day lives
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31 Jul 2024
Salesforce, Box integrate document AI into Slack
By Don FluckingerAs Salesforce prepares to roll out its own generative AI tools for Slack this fall, Box adds AI for joint users, who can use GenAI on their Box content in Slack channels.
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30 Jul 2024
How India is driving road safety with technology
By Pratima HarigunaniTraffic departments, law enforcers and new-tech players are betting on technology tools such as AI-powered drones and mobile apps to improve road safety across India
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30 Jul 2024
Julia White, Scott Russell to leave SAP executive board
By Jim O'DonnellTwo executive board members will depart SAP in a move that the company says is both to streamline the structure of the board and to focus on its AI-first strategy.
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30 Jul 2024
Workday, Salesforce to integrate data with AI by year's end
By Patrick ThibodeauWorkday, the first SaaS provider in the Salesforce Zero Copy Partner Network, will integrate data with Salesforce, allowing AI-driven queries across HR, financial and CRM platforms.
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30 Jul 2024
Generative AI poised to upend legal sector
By Don FluckingerSome industries might be wary of generative AI, but not legal. We find out how -- and why -- attorneys are embracing it in this Q&A with eDiscovery AI's founder, Jim Sullivan.
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30 Jul 2024
How to stop AI costs from soaring
By Cliff SaranGenerative AI promises to improve business efficiency, but Gartner has found many projects are failing to get beyond pilot roll-outs
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30 Jul 2024
Lemongrass taking advantage of SAP cloud moves
By Simon QuickeVendor’s encouragement to customers to adopt its Rise technology has opened up opportunities for its channel
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30 Jul 2024
Government commits at least £540m to financial redress for wrongfully convicted Post Office staff
By Karl FlindersHundreds of eligible former subpostmasters and branch staff are yet to come forward to have convictions overturned, but government hopes new scheme will encourage them to do so
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29 Jul 2024
AI ‘changing everything’ about customer experience
By Joe O’HalloranStudy from customer experience technology provider reveals the profound effect AI is having in its industry, taking it beyond traditional, manual services to more advanced, technological-driven experiences
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29 Jul 2024
Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume
By Alex ScroxtonHundreds of malicious domains exploiting CrowdStrike’s branding are appearing all over the web in the wake of the 19 July outage. Experts from Akamai share some noteworthy examples, along with guidance on how to avoid getting caught out
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29 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike says most Falcon sensors now up and running
By Alex ScroxtonThe vast majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a coding error have now been recovered, with a final resolution expected this week
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29 Jul 2024
WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime
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29 Jul 2024
ALSO strengthens European position with Westcoast
By Simon QuickeDistributor tie-up will provide Swiss channel player with more options in the UK, Ireland and France
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28 Jul 2024
Nearly a third of GenAI projects to be dropped after PoC
By Aaron TanAt least 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by 2025 as organisations struggle to realise the value of the technology, says Gartner
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26 Jul 2024
Vince Cable says the Post Office ‘lied’ to the government over Horizon issues
By Karl FlindersIn the latest Post Office scandal public inquiry hearings, Vince Cable and Greg Clark reflected on their time as the minister heading the department responsible for the Post Office
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25 Jul 2024
Why is CrowdStrike allowed to run in the Windows kernel?
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft has pointed the finger at EU regulators, blaming them for a ruling that means it needs to offer third parties access to the core Windows OS
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25 Jul 2024
India bolsters digital agriculture and space tech in Budget 2024
By Kavitha SrinivasaIndia will extend its digital public infrastructure to the agriculture sector and set up a venture capital fund for space startups, among other tech initiatives in its latest Budget
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update
By Alex ScroxtonCrowdStrike publishes the preliminary findings of what will be a lengthy investigation into the root causes of the failed 19 July update that caused Windows computers to crash all over the world
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24 Jul 2024
Post Office ‘acted the victim’ and civil servants ‘abandoned their principles’, says former minister
By Karl FlindersFormer government minister tells inquiry the Post Office always played the victim of subpostmasters that it considered either ‘incompetent’ or ‘criminal’
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24 Jul 2024
SAP’s Klein bets on cloud stickiness
By Cliff SaranThe SAP CEO said the quiet part out loud while answering a question on the cloud backlog during the company’s most recent earnings call
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24 Jul 2024
Qualtrics CEO: AI can make businesses more human
By Aaron TanQualtrics CEO Zig Serafin believes AI can democratise experience management and help businesses better understand what matters to both customers and employees
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos: Enterprises urged to take protective action in wake of botched software update
By Caroline DonnellyEnterprises that emerged unscathed from the roll-out of the botched CrowdStrike software update are being urged to view it as a wake-up call rather than a lucky escape
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23 Jul 2024
NCA seizes thousands of social media accounts used by people smugglers
By Alex ScroxtonA three-year campaign has seen thousands of social media posts and accounts used to advertise the services of illegal people smugglers taken down
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23 Jul 2024
Adtech, regulators react to Google's third-party cookie reversal
By Don FluckingerFollowing many delays and an alternative still in development, Google has relented to advertisers on the timing of depreciating third-party cookies.
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23 Jul 2024
Innovations to power secure-by-design development
By Alex ScroxtonSecure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident
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23 Jul 2024
Former minister felt she was fighting department over Post Office controversy
By Karl FlindersFormer government minister was fighting with Shareholder Executive officials as she probed for information following allegations brought to her by MPs
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23 Jul 2024
Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes
By Alex ScroxtonGoogle abruptly changes tack on third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, cancelling plans to deprecate them in favour of an unspecified ‘new experience’ for users
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23 Jul 2024
Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?
By Cliff SaranThe ‘blue screen of death’ signals a catastrophic Windows failure, which is exactly what many people faced on 19 July 2024 – but why did it happen?
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23 Jul 2024
Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023
By Aaron TanHuawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads
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22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’
By Alex ScroxtonThe concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous
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22 Jul 2024
How Co-op is preparing for the move off SAP ECC
By Cliff SaranWith end of support in 2027, Co-op has deployed its SAP ECC systems onto Rise, as a step to S/4Hana migration
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22 Jul 2024
Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates
By Karl FlindersEvidence in public inquiry revealed how ministers in charge of Post Office were left in the dark at a time when campaigners, MPs and journalists were looking for answers
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19 Jul 2024
U.S. continuous security clearance vetting hits IT disaster
By Patrick ThibodeauU.S. continuous security clearances system faces severe delays and budget overruns. The now $1.7B project is years behind schedule, affecting millions of federal workers.
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19 Jul 2024
Global Microsoft outage hits NHS GP IT system
By Lis EvenstadThe Emis Web IT system used by more than half of GP practices in the UK is down, following the worldwide Microsoft outage
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19 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike security update fails Windows PCs globally
By Cliff SaranAn update to the security firm’s Falcon service has led to many Windows users being unable to work this morning. Microsoft 365 is also affected
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18 Jul 2024
DBS rolls out GenAI assistant for customer service teams
By Aaron TanThe CSO Assistant was built entirely in-house and uses a large language model tailored to local languages