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• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Enterprise on-premise infrastructure spending experiences ‘post-pandemic’ bounce-back

  Latest data from Synergy Research Group reveals uptick in enterprise on-premise IT infrastructure spending

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  UK local authorities reveal connectivity priorities, challenges

  Study examining topics ranging from gigabit-capable broadband to 5G, smart places, telecoms and net-zero finds progress being made in UK local government, but challenges remain in the drive to improve digital connectivity

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Employees over 55 want new skills

  A large number of people in their 50s or older want to gain new digital skills, but aren’t getting the support they need to do so

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Uncertainty persists, but enterprises rush to adopt network as a service

  Research shows that enterprise network-as-a-service opportunities abound but comms service providers will need to overhaul investment and go-to-market strategies before adoption becomes widespread

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  EE maintains mobile network leadership in UK

  Analyst finds that BT-owned mobile service sweeps board in terms of nationwide network quality through performance, reliability, speed, data, calls and texting

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• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Lords question ‘extensive’ government online safety powers

  Digital minister Paul Scully defends government Online Safety plans to give secretary of state powers to direct Ofcom

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  SAP 2022: 11% revenue growth, 2.5% staff targeted by restructure

  SAP has announced full-year 2022 revenue of nearly €31bn, up 11% year on year. In 2023, it will explore a sell-off of Qualtrics stake and do a restructure, with an impact on 2.5% of staff

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Hive ransomware gang taken down after FBI hacks back

  The FBI hacked into Hive’s servers, stole its decryption keys and then took down its servers in a major action that has successfully disrupted a prolific and dangerous ransomware operation

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Deci claims breakthrough inference performance on Intel Sapphire Rapids

  Israeli startup Deci claims GPU-like performance in running computer vision and natural language processing models on Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon processors

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  CEF selects HPE Greenlake to build out digitisation strategy

  The electrical wholesaler plans to migrate to Equinix datacentres and use Greenlake to run IT services in the cloud

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  Royal Mail resumes some international parcel services from UK

  Royal Mail has successfully stood up its International Tracked and Signed, and International Signed, services as it continues to recover from a ransomware attack

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  Final months of 2022 saw highest ever number of bank account switches

  More people than ever before switched their current account provider using the government’s switching service

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  Stretched retail IT teams demand more from their networks

  Research shows retail technology requirements are becoming denser and more complex, from immersive and live-streaming services to new forms of delivery and smart inventory

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  Zero-trust implementations remain work in progress

  Just one in 10 large enterprises are expected to have mature and measurable zero-trust programmes in place by 2026, study finds

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  NCSC exposes Iranian, Russian spear-phishing campaign targeting UK

  Spear-phishing campaigns likely linked to Iranian and Russian espionage activity are targeting persons of interest in the UK, warns the NCSC

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Will mass big tech lay-offs affect employment prospects of IT contractors in 2023?

  With some of the biggest tech firms in the world announcing mass redundancies, will the flood of new entrants to the jobs market affect the prospects of IT contractors already looking for work amid the cost-of-living crisis?

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Leeds Building Society uses AIops in Dynatrace to improve observability

  Automation and AI is improving how the service delivery team assesses the business impact of an IT service degradation

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  UK Treasury recruiting digital currency leader

  The UK government’s investigation into the merits of a central bank digital currency gathers pace at it looks for a team leader

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Arnold Clark cyber attack claimed by Play ransomware gang

  A cyber attack that struck car dealer Arnold Clark prior to Christmas has been claimed as the work of the Play ransomware cartel

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  State of DevOps: Success happens through platform engineering

  The annual State of DevOps report has focused on a phenomenon known as platform engineering

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Neos Networks completes full-fibre access promise for key UK cities

  Just over a year after UK business connectivity provider opened its first metro access network to offer last-mile services direct to nearly 10,000 regional businesses, such services are now live in four key UK cities as part of an ongoing expansion ...

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Boards struggle to resolve cyber risk in digital supply chains

  Accelerated digitisation of supply chains is introducing more cyber risk for which many organisations seem unprepared, according to the BSI’s annual report on supply chain risk

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Juniper: 5G IoT milestone set to be reached while OTT messaging to drive CPaaS

  Analyst makes bullish predictions for next-gen mobile-based internet of things and communications platforms-as-a-service markets

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Japan researchers develop new data encryption method

  Researchers from Tokyo University of Science have combined the best of homomorphic encryption and secret sharing in a new method to handle encrypted data

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Microsoft 365 outage affecting Teams, Outlook and Azure users blamed on ‘networking fault’

  Microsoft 365 is in the midst of an outage that has left users across the UK and beyond unable to access Teams, Outlook and Exchange Online

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Virgin Media O2 taps Juniper to upgrade core IP backbone for 800G readiness

  Need for increased data capacity and flexible scalability highlighted by 32% traffic growth on its mobile network,16% growth in broadband data downloads and a peak traffic load of 22TB over the past year

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  AWS opens Melbourne region, to invest $4.5bn by 2037

  Amazon Web Services’ new Melbourne cloud region will better serve Australian customers such as ANZ Bank and is expected to benefit over 2,500 full-time jobs in the country

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Chinese IoT suppliers expose UK businesses to espionage and data theft

  Chinese companies supplying network components, known as IoT modules, post a greater long-term threat to UK security than the now banned 5G supplier Huawei, according to a study by a Chinese expert and former diplomat

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  UK insurers need to up their game on cyber gaps, says PRA

  Gaps and limitations in how insurers respond to cyber risk need to be addressed, according to the Bank of England regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Nationwide Building Society CIO to join Co-operative Bank

  Gary Delooze to join Co-operative Bank as CIO after six years heading up Nationwide Building Society’s IT department

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  SSRF attacks hit 100,000 businesses globally since November

  There has been a dramatic increase in attacks exploiting the ProxyNotShell/OWASSRF exploit chains to target Microsoft Exchange servers

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Fake online contest makes Yahoo! most phished brand of Q4 2022

  Yahoo! was the most frequently phished brand during the last three months of 2022, according to a report

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  SMEs keen on embedded finance, but more choice needed to increase take-up

  Suppliers to small and medium-sized enterprises need to offer more choice when embedding financial products in their services if take-up is to increase

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Executive interview: Andrew Roughan, CEO, Plexal

  Plexal CEO Andrew Roughan talks about how tech startups collaborate with the government to transform public services, the barriers to entry, and how the process can be improved

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Samsung completes KDDI 5G SA network slicing field trial, inks Nokia patent licence

  Korean tech giant makes further strides in 5G in first demonstration of network slicing using RIC on a live 5G SA network with leading Japanese operator, and signs patent agreement with Finnish comms tech provider to combine 5G technology expertise

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Vodacom lands 2Africa subsea cable in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

  What is described as ‘transformative’ subsea cable lands at the Vodacom facility in Gqeberha at South Africa’s Eastern Cape to provide a gateway to direct international connectivity for faster, more reliable internet services in the country and ...

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  CIO interview: Ed Higgs, group director of IT shared services, Rentokil Initial

  The pest control provider has consolidated 77 datacentres globally to just three – but with a corporate culture of acquisitions, there’s still a lot more to do

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  Trellix automates patching for 62,000 vulnerable open source projects

  Since revealing startling statistics about the prevalence of a 15-year-old Python vulnerability, Trellix says it has helped fix almost 62,000 vulnerable projects in the past four months

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  NGX: Turkish arrays to challenge US mainstream storage vendors

  Ankara-based NGX offers block, file and unified storage with use of cache and RAM to speed access. Software-defined storage, cloud and NVMe-over-fabrics are also coming

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  Royal Society calls on public sector to pilot privacy tech

  The Royal Society says public sector bodies should lead the way in piloting privacy-enhancing technologies to unlock the value of data without compromising privacy and data rights, but lack of standards and incentives mean adoption is slow

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  UK government reveals further ESN contract details

  Latest chapter in UK Emergency Services Network saga sees termination of Motorola contract for comms equipment and supplies, software packages and software development services

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  NCSC warning over cyber risk to charity sector

  Cash-strapped charities without the resource to tackle their resilience deficit are increasingly at risk from malicious actors, says the NCSC

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  More than 1,000 tech roles chopped at Capital One

  US bank makes tech job cuts as its digital transformation moves into a new phase

• January 22, 2023 22 Jan'23

  Royal Mail making limited progress on ransomware recovery

  Royal Mail asks customers to hold back from sending post overseas as some services get back on track, while a report warns that disruptive attacks on critical infrastructure are set to become more common

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Barclays Eagle Labs awarded Digital Growth Grant over Tech Nation

  Barclays Eagle Labs incubator to take over Tech Nation’s role in administering UK government digital growth grant amid backlash from startup ecosystem

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  DataCore software-defined storage helps car firm avoid breakdowns

  Bontaz used to face regular IT outages that took too long to recover from. Then it got DataCore software-defined storage and the ability to rapidly recover from downtime

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  How the cost of living crisis is impacting IT

  The worsening economic climate is leading to job cuts across the IT sector, with Microsoft only the latest to announce thousands of layoffs - but CIOs will still struggle to find the talent they urgently need

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation

  Annual report shows secular trend to the cloud and increased use of containers, but prevalence of ransomware attacks means digital transformation is hindered

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Atempo plots course to containerised backup with S3 storage

  Containerised modularised backup services will allow integration with third-party systems and backup storage unified onto S3 object storage for cost and analytics purposes

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Year-on-year growth down to more customers, says Ocado

  As the customer landscape shifts, Ocado reports year-on-year revenue growth in the last quarter of 2022, bolstered by a successful Christmas