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As the UK goes through another storm battering, the Met Office has received a £1.2bn investment to power the next decade of weather forecasts

A new programme will give armed forces veterans in Scotland a grounding in cyber security skills, including penetration testing and ethical hacking

Mastercard’s European Cyber Resilience Centre will bring together its partners and other industry bodies to support enterprise resilience

Swedish comms tech giant predicts substantial growth for 5G in 2020, with particular focus on the fundamental enabling standalone core technology

It’s been another few days of movement across the industry, with personnel departments kept busy

Senior Oracle executives express confidence in putative cloud-based competitive advantage against SAP and other rivals before and during London Open World conference

Care Quality Commission to review concerns over Paula Vennells’ appointment after they were raised by a former NHS consultant psychiatrist

Councils and SMEs will get a share of £1.5m government funding to work on trials aimed at improving driving conditions

Comms tech provider claims first-of-its-kind 5G certification programme to train and certify business and technology professionals at communications service providers and enterprises

The latest quarterly update to OneFS sees maximum file size grow to 16TB, brings in data deduplication in real time for HDDs, better load balancing and a new Kubernetes CSI

Ultima has set up an ISV operation to make life easier for those customers looking to embrace the fruits of greater automation

NetApp CEO says cloud storage presents 'exceptional opportunity,' but he expects revenue declines to continue for the foreseeable future as new sales reps learn the ropes.

Since 2017, more CXOs and CCOs have shown up in Gartner's customer experience management survey. They don't always report to the CMO, but marketing's ownership of CX is growing.

Intermountain Healthcare CIO Marc Probst, the 2019 CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year, provided a simple piece of advice to health IT leaders: Pay attention.

More Australians look out for signs of security features such as SSL encryption even as they remain sceptical of the data protection capabilities of small businesses

Hardware makers will be hit more badly than software houses, but the decline in China’s ICT market will be limited to the first quarter

Apple does not expect to meet the revenue guidance previously provided for the March quarter as virus crisis hits production volumes and Chinese demand

Local authority is testing virtual reality technology to provide care services to vulnerable groups such elderly and disabled citizens

Outspoken environmental activists working at Amazon dismiss CEO’s $10bn climate change pledge by pointing out firm’s ties to oil and gas market

Availability Suite is mostly about consolidating the company’s data management platform idea, but it has added incremental forever NAS backup, cloud tiering and recovery to vSphere

Analyst forecasts bonanza for operators as supporting internet of things services becomes essential to securing a return on their 5G investment

The shortage of skilled security pros is creating an active recruitment market, with over 80% of CISOs saying they would consider a new role if approached

The distributor has added incident response to the tools it is prepared to give away to resellers as part of its efforts to improve security levels

Veeam released the much-anticipated Version 10 of its Availability Suite software, a product that executives have promised for years. NAS support headlines the key additions.

Annual internet report suggests that by 2023, there will be 3.6 networked devices or connections per person and nearly 10 devices and connections per household

It's getting harder to recruit and replace IT personnel with backup expertise, but simpler products and more automation can help companies compensate for the skills gap.

Backup and data management specialist Veeam is working with its channel base to make sure resellers take advantage of the updates to its flagship product Availability Suite

Only a third of organisations are involving their cyber security function at the planning stage of business initiatives

Assessments are claimed to have resulted in “99%” of utility firm’s off-payroll workers having their roles reclassified as inside IR35

SearchSecurity asked several experts to weigh in on cybersecurity investment trends ahead of RSA Conference 2020 next week. The results featured a wide range of opinions.

100 Guides from South West England took part in an NCSC event to learn more about security fundamentals

Digital infrastructure platform provider tapped to provide backhaul backbone for roll-out of next-gen mobile infrastructure across the UK

Surveillance footage of Julian Assange’s meetings with lawyers and doctors in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London was an “abuse of process”

With RSA Conference just around the corner, Dell announced it has agreed to sell RSA to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group for approximately $2 billion.

The higher up within a business you go, the more likely you are to find people intentionally leaking confidential data, says Egress

Buried 300 words into Microsoft’s standard service level agreement is a clause that affects intellectual property and privacy

Boss of the Global Technology Distribution Council promotes the value that its membership can bring in a world of virtual distribution

Chip giant Qualcomm introduces third-generation 5G modem-RF system to enhance 5G performance and 5G/4G mobile filter technology

Businesses supplying aircraft parts and maintenance services are collaborating to investigate the potential of blockchain technology to improve logistics

A consultation has been launched to seek views on the creation of a single source of healthcare data in England, with a series of pilots announced

The new Cohesity appliance is designed to provide backup at a branch location without IT expertise. The software runs on Cisco or HPE servers, and the central office manages backups.

Microsoft's Dynamics 365 2020 Wave 1 release opens up the floodgates for outside data sources connecting to Customer Insights, its customer data platform.

New financial regulation to protect consumers from agreeing to unnecessary credit will force financial technology companies to make changes to their products

European Commission launches strategies for artificial intelligence and data economics, making the fight against climate change their raison d’être

After waiting for Microsoft Teams private channels to launch for years, customers are now grappling with the limitations of the new feature.

Cloud security outfit DivvyCloud says more than 33 billion records have been exposed in cloud misconfiguration incidents in the past 24 months

New Dell Streaming Media Platform includes two small form factor PowerEdge servers and a Modular Data Center. Dell aims the products for use in harsh IT environments.

Ransomware spread to a number of city, state and local governments across the U.S. in 2019. Threat researchers weigh in on the increased attacks and what to expect in 2020.

Macquarie Telecom’s cloud division will deliver Azure managed services to new and existing customers, complementing its existing cloud, hosting, datacentre and telco businesses

Dell combines several open source streaming data technologies, including Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Pravega, to create a new streaming data platform.

The new extension offers file-level backups on one integrated system that removes the use of NDMP silos to make the process less time-consuming for users.

Google Cloud's push into large enterprise accounts continues with the acquisition of Cornerstone, but IBM has taken steps to protect its System Z installed base.

Panorama Consulting Group's 2020 ERP report finds that satisfaction with ERP remains high and the cloud is now the main deployment choice.

As coronavirus spreads, Salesforce changed its March 4 live World Tour Sydney conference to a livestream event, citing safety concerns for employees, customers and Trailblazers.

Skymind Global Ventures’ $800m fund to tap artificial intelligence potential and talent includes focus on ASEAN’s AI ecosystem

Global telco releases end-of-year results showing record revenue and profit growth in all of its operating segments

Etsy claims move from on-premise to public cloud has boosted its business agility, and is helping it achieve its sustainability goals too

The European Commission outlines actions needed to enable the continent's digital success

Scheme will help key areas seize the potential of modern technology, in particular 5G networks, and fulfil government’s commitment to ‘level-up’ infrastructure across the UK

Next year will see changes in Insight’s EMEA leadership, with the current UK boss the chosen candidate to take up that role

BlackBerry Cylance report highlights the increasing targeting of managed service providers by those hoping to hijack them to reach users

Channel player’s quest to become the largest independent managed print player remains on track

An apparent ransomware attack has compromised some IT and email systems at Danish facilities firm ISS World

Body-worn vision camera and surveillance system are the first products to be unveiled in Vodafone’s new internet-of-things range enabled by growing 5G network that now has pay-as-you-go capability

Telefónica’s UK business arm clocks up continued growth in revenues and profits driven by expanding customer numbers and predicts 5G could boost the entertainment sector by as much as £2.3bn over the next 10 years

Google christens Anthos Ready Storage program to give DevOps customers qualified on-premises storage system options from Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, Portworx, Pure and Robin.io.

Move puts British user data beyond the reach of the EU’s GDPR, makes it more accessible to UK and US law enforcement agencies, and has prompted anger

Undeterred by the cancellation of what would have been a totemic global showcase for its 5G products, Huawei reveals its 5G strategy for 2020 at London forum

Foreign secretary describes 2019 campaign of cyber attacks as reckless, brazen and unacceptable

Kronos Inc. and Ultimate Software are being merged by their private equity owner into a new, yet unnamed, entity. How this will affect employees and customers remains to be seen.

AT&T announced it's skipping RSA Conference 2020 due to coronavirus concerns, bringing the total number of exhibitors that have dropped out of this year's conference to 13.

MIT researchers contested claims that Voatz's voting app used blockchain technology to provide secure voting. Voatz responded, but questions about the company's technology remain.

The EU released AI regulation guidelines that demand AI systems in high-risk areas are transparent and have human oversight. Some vendors are worried.

Cloud migration and 5G services will boost the uptake of SD-WAN in a region where some markets are still in the early adopter phase

The Nordic region is home to an increasing number of global leisure tech startups

Researchers working on F-Secure’s Project Blackfin have developed a model for clustering tweets to help pinpoint abuse and harassment

Scottish government seeks supplier to work on beta phase of development

Managed service player is looking to raise millions with a share placing to provide more resources for its acquisition strategy

Check Point researchers have found multiple malware-infected apps in the Google Play store, including a clicker called Haken, which has been downloaded more than 50,000 times

McKinsey Global Institute report on 5G and the connected world predicts huge contribution from advanced communications to global GDP

Shadow digital minister Chi Onwurah challenges the government to stop Google’s plans to move UK user data out of the EU

Microsoft pulled a Windows 10 security fix this month, causing experts to call for more testing and oversight -- again.

Version 9.2 isn't as features-heavy as Nakivo's previous releases, but Office 365 backup is a significant step. The vendor plans to delve deeper into SaaS application data backup.

Non-profit environmental group Greenpeace is collaborating with Red Hat to finish the delivery of its global web redesign

GKE Application Manager, rolled out in beta this week, bakes in an open source Kubernetes configuration management tool to simplify application deployments to GKE.

Publicis Sapient's buyout of Sapient i7 is the latest acquisition in the increasingly globalized Salesforce consulting services market; more channel news from the week.

A request from users for an Outlook tab in Microsoft Teams has been 'under review' since early 2018.

Enterprises are increasingly using the open source PostgreSQL database. Read in this Q&A where the growth is coming from and how some of it is from users in the cloud.

The CNCF, defense contractors and IT vendors have joined forces with the Department of Defense to establish NIST security standards and best practices for DevSecOps.

New report lays out the largest IT salary growth of 2019 and predictions for what 2020 has in store for technical careers.