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• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Middle East Interview: Bahrain fintech drive gathers speed

  Bahrain wants to be a launchpad into the wider region for financial technology firms looking to scale

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Scality object storage scales to 400k mailboxes for NZ provider

  New Zealand-based email hosting provider SMX needed to scale up its infrastructure to be able to handle 400,000 mailboxes, and found object storage from Scality fitted the bill

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  BSA releases framework for secure software

  Software industry advocacy group releases framework to facilitate flexible and comprehensive software security assessments

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  UK gears up for new laws on IoT security

  The UK plans to introduce measures to require that basic cyber security features are built into internet-connected devices

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  HPE to launch Cloud Volumes in UK and Ireland

  HPE Cloud Volumes will offer enterprise-class block storage for use with AWS and Azure compute plus a replication store for backup and disaster recovery from the end of May

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Most businesses vulnerable to supply chain cyber attacks

  UK firms trail the leaders US and Germany in knowing the most about their partners’ cyber security practices, but most companies globally are in the dark about this growing source of vulnerabilities

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Nearly half of UK IT pros report serious data breaches

  Integration of security systems and employee training recognised as key ways to reduce the growing severity of data breaches

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  LightBits Super SSD brings NVMe on vanilla Ethernet

  Israeli startup LightBits offers super-fast NVMe flash storage over plain Ethernet networks in a move that some think will bring “iSCSI for the NVMe generation”

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Ofcom must rethink rural broadband USO, says Lords report

  There are still serious concerns about whether or not the 10Mbps broadband USO is fit for purpose, and Ofcom needs to take account of them, according to The House of Lords Select Committee for the Rural Economy

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Amazon cautions against reading too much into slowdown in AWS revenue growth rate

  Amazon's CFO claims slowdown in revenue growth and capital expenditure should not be interpreted as signs of distress for any of its business units, as firm shifts growth strategy to prioritise operational efficiency

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Huawei leak inquiry launched

  Cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill has instituted an inquiry aimed at discovering who leaked confidential discussions about UK mobile operators’ use of Huawei in their future 5G networks to the press

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  NVMe is ‘ready’, say Dell EMC, Virtual Instruments and Cisco

  Storage and networks big guns say super-fast NVMe flash is ready for enterprise users, with performance 10x over existing Fibre Channel and ecosystem in place

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Cloud uptake drives third-quarter sales for Microsoft

  Demand for Microsoft’s cloud offerings spiked again during the firm’s third quarter, reports Redmond

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  No final decision taken on Huawei 5G ban, government claims

  Culture secretary tells MPs that a final decision on use of Huawei in UK 5G networks has not been taken, and says government is taking the leak of confidential discussions at the National Security Council very seriously

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Cabinet Office addresses 5G security issue

  Cabinet Office uses NCSC conference to lay out government’s approach to the security of 5G networks, as controversy grows around using equipment from Chinese supplier Huawei