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Check Point’s latest Global Threat Impact Index revealed that 28% of organisations globally were affected by the Roughted malvertising campaign during June. A large-scale malvertising campaign, RoughTed is used to deliver links to malicious websites and payloads such as scams, adware, exploit kits and ransomware. It began to spike in late May before continuing to...

Only two percent of “GDPR-ready” organisations are compliant Mountain View, CA, July 25, 2017 – A study from Veritas Technologies, a leader in multi-cloud data management, has found that organizations across the globe mistakenly believe they are in compliance with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to findings from The Veritas 2017 GDPR Report, almost one-third (31 percent) of...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.  — July 20, 2017 — NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced that it has been named a Leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays, based on its ability to execute and its completeness of vision. “We believe that NetApp’s position as a leader in this year’s Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays validates the momentum and...

Voice activation with Amazon Echo / Alexa, Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana were a strong focus at CES 2017 and with that came a flurry of new devices for use around the home. There were scores of home control buttons and remote devices on show – the Sevenhugs smart remote, which you can point and...

Check Point’s Incident Response Team has been responding to multiple global infections caused by a new variant of the Petya malware, which first appeared in 2016 and is currently moving laterally within customer networks.  It appears to be using the ‘EternalBlue’ exploit which May’s WannaCry attack also exploited.  It was first signaled by attacks on financial institutions...

AT A GLANCE Accelerate infrastructure modernization with VMware vSAN™ to make IT a strategic, cost-effective advantage for your company. By powering the leading Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions, vSAN helps customers evolve their data center without risk, control IT costs and scale to tomorrow’s business needs. vSAN, native to the market-leading hypervisor, delivers flash-optimized, secure storage...

Activity trackers continue to lead the way and look set to dominate this sector for 2017.  FitBit and Misfit were grabbing a lot of attention with their streamlined designs and this is clearly the direction of travel for the mainstream market now. Withings also played a strong card with the new Steel HR, which is...

The biggest cyber attack began in May, spreading to more than 150 countries and infecting 200,000 machines. The outbreak is a ransomware threat, WanaCrypt0r 2.0 also known as WannaCry, with worm-like capabilities leveraging an exploit against vulnerable Microsoft Windows® operating systems. Ransomware mimics the age-old crime of kidnapping: someone takes something you value, and in order to get...

SCC has won the UKI 2017 “Enable Digital” Award for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) at this year’s HPE Global Partner Summit in Las Vegas. The HPE Partner of the Year Awards recognise the outstanding performance and accomplishments of HPE business partners, which raise the standard for business excellence and customer satisfaction. Winners are chosen for...

Spending on IT infrastructure for cloud environments will reach £36.6 billion ($44.2 billion) this year, with public cloud data centres attracting 61% of the total and 15% going on off-premises private clouds, according to IDC. It predicts overall spend on IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, and switches, will grow by 18.2% in 2017 and that...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently acquired SimpliVity, a leading provider of software-defined, hyper-converged infrastructure. The market for hyper-converged systems was worth an estimated $2.4 billion last year and is expected to grow at a of CAGR 25%, to nearly $6 billion, by 2020. HPE will continue to offer its HC 380 and the HC 250...

IDC said that strong sales of notebooks in the second half helped the EMEA market to stabilise. This was largely down to the commercial sector staging something of a comeback, growing 10.1% in Western Europe. Notebooks performed well across EMEA and were up 2.7% in the Western region. Consumer demand was down overall.  Annually, traditional...