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The proportion of enterprise IT budgets set aside for cloud and hosting services is set to rise from 28% to 34% in 2017, according to a report from 451 Research. The move away from Capex, better scalability and flexibility, along with the need to transform IT, are driving the shift. Of the spending on cloud,...

Integrated solution helps organizations gain visibility, take action and assume control over personally identifiable information under management Mountain View, CA – March 22, 2017 – Veritas Technologies, the leader in information management, today unveiled an integrated solution that will help organizations directly address the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This solution gives enterprises around...

Deal creates biggest ‘digital safety platform’ Aims to deliver comprehensive cyber defence for consumers Symantec is investing in anti-cybercrime technology by agreeing to purchase LifeLock, an identity-theft-protection company. The deal is worth about $2.3 billion and will create the world’s largest ‘digital safety platform’. Lifelock provides identity theft protection for consumers as well as credit...

Over the last 3 months, the CIO WaterCooler invited CIOs from a mixture of industries, size of companies and regions to share how they and their organisations were approaching the issue of data governance, their drivers and benefit they hope to achieve in building a data governance framework. The results of their findings can be...

A CBI survey has found that 70% of businesses plan to increase or maintain their innovation spending to ensure the UK’s industry continues to thrive after Brexit.  Top priorities include greater access to technical skills (68%) and increasing collaboration and partnership (65%). Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of the CBI, said: ‘Innovation is the nucleus of future...

IBM is to build four new data centres in the UK to meet demand from corporate and public sector clients, who it says are rapidly adopting cloud services. The investment will see IBM increase from two data centres to six. The firm’s decision follows the likes of Facebook and Google who have decided that the advantages...

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week’s top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye. CHECK IT OUT: Red Hat Blog – Red Hat receives overall “Positive” company rating in Gartner’s 2017...

Countering the Cyber Security Challenge The Fortinet Security Fabric provides a new, intelligent architectural approach to security that enables enterprises to see, control, integrate, and manage the security of their data across their entire organisation, even into the cloud. Read Now NSS Labs Breach Detection Systems Test: FortiSandbox with FortiClient Read Now Internal Segmentation Firewall...

Attacks targeting and originating from IoT devices began grabbing news headlines toward the last quarter of 2016. Insecure IoT devices became the low-hanging fruit for threat actors to easily exploit. Some were even notoriously used as botnets to launch DDoS attacks against selected targets. For example, the infamous Mirai botnet exploited weak login vulnerabilities in...

Revenues from 4K Ultra HD displays are on pace to exceed $12 billion in 2016, up 105% from 2015, according to a report from the US-based Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The organisation says that 62% of consumers plan to purchase some form of Ultra HD content viewing device in next 12 months with the wider...

Dell’s has unveiled its latest Vostro range of notebooks, desktops, and all-in-ones, billing them as PCs that provide ‘everything you need and nothing you don’t’. The company is targeting small and micro businesses and home users who want functional, dependable, secure system at a great price from a trusted brand. They feature space-saving, professional design,...

In today’s age of digital disruption, success requires you to turn ideas into value faster than your competition. But all too often, you’re held back by an IT infrastructure that is not designed to handle today’s demands. Complex manual processes and non-integrated tools fail to provide the speed and simplicity you need to support current...