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It has been announced that Dell has signed a contract to sell off Dell Software Group as well as their Security, Systems and Information Management and Statistica business units. The acquisition was made by private equity firm Francisco Partners and hedge fund management group Elliott Management in a deal worth around $2billion. The move suggests...

Gain peace of mind and protect your business from unauthorised access and attacks with this FREE service When an organisation suffers a cyberattack, 60% of their data is stolen within the first few hours. 54% of such breaches go undiscovered for months, leaving cyber criminals a huge opening. New trends such as mobility and cloud...

Veritas Only Vendor Named a Leader Since Inception of Report, Recognized Since 1999 Mountain View, CA – June 13, 2016 – Veritas Technologies, the global leader in information management, announced today it has been recognized by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software1. Veritas is...

Veritas Technologies, the leader in information management, has announced support for Google Cloud. Platform with its market leading NetBackup 7.7 and Backup Exec 15 solutions. Customers can use the Google public cloud as a backup destination, run back up and perform disaster recovery to or from the Google Cloud Platform. The solution is designed to...

Microsoft has bought social media site LinkedIn for £18.4bn in plans to expand upon Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics.   LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network and has more than 433 million users globally.   Jeff Weiner will remain as LinkedIn’s CEO, reporting to Satya Nadella, once the transaction closes, which it expects to...

Gaming and entertainment apps will drive sales of virtual reality and make it a $13.5 billion industry, with 89.3 million units shipping by 2020, according to a report by JPMorgan Securities. In 2016 the global VR market is expected to hit $2.54 billion with around 21.6 million devices shipping worldwide.

Whether you work in local or central government, public sector or private industry, there’s a huge shared temptation: to think you’ve “solved” mobile when, in reality, you’ve only taken the first steps.   Maybe you’ve settled on certain handsets, or invested in one piece of management technology, or decided to limit what your staff can...

Global spending on public cloud services is expected to grow 16% to $204.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner. The firm says that the figures reflect the increased willingness of big companies, having carried out their initial pilots, to move infrastructure, apps and storage into the cloud.

The US researcher, Markets and Markets, has estimated the IoT market will grow from $157 billion in 2016, to a massive $662 billion by 2021 – a compound annual growth rate of 33.3%. Cheaper and smarter sensors, faster networking and rising cloud adoption are all cited as drivers. A separate report by Ovum found that...

Global shipments of 3D printers rose by more than 19% in Q4 2015, compared to the same quarter a year before, according to UK-based channel analyst, CONTEXT. Of the total 73,012 units shipped in the final quarter of last year, 96% were desktop or personal printers – up 22%. Shipments in the industrial/professional segment however,...

Around 67% of IT decision-makers in the UK expect a higher adoption of software-defined data centres (SDDCs) this year, according to a study conducted by security, compliance and control software company HyTrust and Intel.  The survey also found expected adoption levels for storage virtualisation of 31% and of 23% for network virtualisation.  While only 14% of...

The brand new HP Voxel 3D Printer promises to reinvent the way businesses create prototypes, by producing quality, functional parts up to 10x faster than traditional methods and at half the cost. Users have access to advanced and custom print modes, to control mechanical, functional and aesthetic properties, accuracy and speed. HP is accepting orders...