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More than four out of five (83%) resellers see ransomware attacks as the main threat – but most are not ready to counter any such attack. In a survey carried out for WatchGuard, 45% of resellers said they believed less than half of their customers would have the right tools and measures in place to...

Today, Surface is celebrating the largest launch in its history with Surface Laptop and the new Surface Pro now available in 25 markets around the world, as well as expanded global availability for Surface Studio. Today, we are excited to launch the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop and bring our full family of Surface products to more markets...

New solutions provide visibility, simplify migration and protect critical data across clouds with no lock-in Mountain View, Calif., June 6, 2017 –  Veritas Technologies, a leader in multi-cloud data management, today announced new solutions that provide organisations unprecedented visibility into cloud-based data, bi-directional cloud migration for critical workloads and snapshot-based data protection optimised for multi-cloud environments. These...

What is ‘Petya’? A calculated ransomware campaign with a heavy footprint in Ukraine was detected on 27 June 2017 from an unknown source. To date, the attack has affected global organisations primarily in the banking, pharmaceutical and transportation industries. While most reports, and the ransom demand itself, refer to the activity as ‘Petya’, a well-known...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has extended its range of mid-range solutions for hybrid IT. The new HPE ProLiant Easy Connect ML110 Managed Hybrid Server supports up to 150 users per site and offers businesses more control over management of both cloud-based and on-premises applications. The data management capabilities of the HPE StoreEasy 1650 have been enhanced...

Shadow IT reports for HPE customers -Offering Shadow IT reports for public sector HPE customers -Delivering clear report with an up-front assessment looking at who is accessing what services, in what volumes and how often. Value – One customer we worked with found that they had 7,000 applications being used 62,000 a week at the...

Chrome devices have become much more appealing to business and public sector users now that Microsoft is allowing owners to use the Office suite for Android on their machines. For devices with displays of 10.1-inches or less, anyone that has a full subscription on any other platform will be able to have full and free...

An event similar to the recent NHS attack could bring a university campus to its knees, says Graeme Stewart, Director of Public Sector, UK&I, Fortinet The recent WannaCry attacks that have proliferated throughout the NHS and other organisations across the globe prove that the disruption that ransomware can cause is not insignificant. Universities and other institutions...

Worldwide AR and VR headset shipments are expected to see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 108.3%, reaching 76.0 million units by 2020. More affordable VR devices will continue to lead the market in terms of volume. However, IDC expects AR headsets to pick up momentum over the forecast as more affordable technologies and...

The HP LaserJet M402dn duplex printer has now gone end-of-life, replaced by the even more capable M402dne. The former has been very popular in both the public and corporate sectors as its predecessor and with enhanced networking and twice the memory (256MB of DRAM) the new model is even better. Also now available is the...

As has been discussed vigorously over the past few months, you may be aware of GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation – which is a EU based legal framework designed to protect your customer’s personal data.  It goes further than the Data Protection Act and is much more specific on what personal data is, how...

The recent events and associated news coverage of the cyber-attack outbreak highlighted the damage, not only to IT systems and services but also the damage to trust, that can be inflicted on organisations. The ransomware threat is neither new nor novel. It is a type of malicious software that infiltrates an endpoint with the purpose...