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SCC has been named HPE UK&I Solution Partner of the Year 2016. CEO of HPE Meg Whitman traveled to London in person to present CEO of SCC, James Rigby and company founder Sir Peter Rigby with the award. “Hewlett Packard Enterprise is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 HPE Partner of the Year...

Resellers should be able to capitalise on a growing desire amongst schools to invest in 3D printing this summer. Ever since a 2013 Department for Education (DfE) project concluded that 3D printers have significant potential and a positive impact on pupil engagement in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and design subjects, schools have been...

Complexity is the attackers’ friend Security infrastructures can be complex, with the different parts often struggling to talk to each other. This creates opportunities for attackers to spot gaps. But what if security could be made simple – at the network level? Simple. Integrated. Automated. At Cisco – because they build the network – they’re in a...

About 67% of companies already made an investment in Internet of Things technology or plan to implement it in the near future, but many are investing without knowing whether or not it is paying off, says a report by Strategy Analytics. Of the firms who have invested, half (51%) are unsure of whether it is working...

Gartner has predicted a huge cloud shift, with more than $1 trillion of total IT spending to be attributable to the cloud within five years. This year, the ‘cloud shift’ as the analyst calls it, will generate $111 billion revenues and will reach $216 billion by 2020. The rate of ‘shift’ for business process outsourcing...

Veritas research reveals that 82% of IT decision makers admit to being digital hoarders which pose serious financial, security and data management risks to organisations. Veritas Technologies, the leader in information management, has released the Data Hoarders research study showing that 82% of IT decision makers admit they are hoarders of data and digital files. Following its...

The annual Oracle OpenWorld Showcase was held last week in San Francisco. Armed with statistics and stories, Mark Hurd’s OpenWorld keynote pondered that the future of the cloud is not only certain; it may be here quicker than we expected. For all the awe-inspiring science on show in Oracle’s latest product innovations, Thomas Kurian’s OpenWorld...

Marc Andreessen, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor, once remarked that “software is eating the world” as more businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services, from films and agriculture to national defence. He was right, but he might also have said that data is eating the world. Thanks to...

One of the biggest use cases for the cloud – in fact, the biggest, in the case of hosted private cloud – is for backup and disaster recovery. It adds up to one thing: Organizations are counting on the cloud to make sure they retain access to their critical corporate data. Companies are putting their...

This week’s FortiGuard Threat Intelligence Brief reports on a spike in an Android advertising library, a fake series of banking sites used to phish credentials, as well as a campaign using the old faithful “we couldn’t deliver your package” courier scam. While hackers weren’t quite as active as they were over the past couple of weeks, our...

The summer Olympics are over, but some of the athletes are finding themselves as front-page news headlines again. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued an announcement this week reporting that hackers gained access to the medical data of many athletes who participated in the Rio Olympics this summer. Those athletes who had their confidential information stolen...

The PC commercial market seems to be regaining some health. Total PC shipments in the EMEA region were 16.1 million units in Q2 2016, 4.7% down year-on-year but better than expected, according to IDC. Numbers in Western Europe were down just 0.8%, bolstered by commercial notebook sales that rose 10.5%. Skylake-based designs and Windows 10...