Blogs

The AI Summit is the world’s largest AI event for business and a meeting ground for global enterprises who have already found success from practical AI usage. There were opportunities for companies of all sizes and industry professionals looking to learn about AI, how it will continue to transform productivity, and what the future of the technology holds. The two-day even...

CityFibre has put in place a debt package of £1.12 billion from seven major financial institutions including ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Bank plc, Natixis, NatWest, Santander and Société Générale. Proceeds from this infrastructure debt package will be used to fund the first part of CityFibre’s £2.5 billion investment plan, which will see it roll-out full fibre to five mi...

Sixty-six percent of organizations have plans to deploy 5G by 2020, according to a new 5G use case and adoption survey by Gartner, Inc. Organizations expect 5G networks to be mainly used for Internet of Things (IoT) communications and video, with operational efficiency being the key driver. “In terms of 5G adoption, end-user organizations have clear demands and expectatio...

The new data centre is set to house the most recent servers and technologies to guarantee Atos’ clients – who wish to locate their data and applications on French territory and in compliance with European regulations – optimal performance, storage capacity, security, scalability and cost-efficiency. This new data centre is milestone in Atos’ strategy to develop the histor...

2018 proved a whirlwind of a year for the public sector, with technology solutions being core to our preparation for Brexit, new GDPR legislation changing people’s perceptions of data and ambitious leadership in the form of the new, digitally savvy, Health Secretary (Matt Hancock) and new Ministry of Defence CIO (Charles Forte). That’s a great foundation for why 2019 will be...

NTT Communications Corporation, the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, announced this week that Clive Hamilton has been appointed as the new Managing Director of its fully owned subsidiary NTT Europe. He will start in this new role on 1st February 2019.Clive has been with NTT Europe for 13 years in various roles including VP Network...

CenturyLink is trimming its workforce by approximately 175 jobs in locations across the 16 states that it serves, a spokesman confirmed this morning. The same spokesman said that CenturyLink decided to discontinue holiday bonuses for its employees. "As part of CenturyLink’s ongoing effort to remain cost-competitive and align resources with customer demand, we will offe...

At the end of every year, it has become tradition for IT leaders to reflect on the year past and predict what might be coming up in the year ahead. 2018 has been defined by data: by the rise in data-driven businesses, the theft of data and rise in data breaches, and the implementation of new data protection legislation like GDPR. 2018 has seen the technology indust...

For the fourth consecutive year, HughesNet earned top rankings in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Measuring Broadband America report. HughesNet is the flagship satellite Internet service for consumers and small businesses from Hughes Network Systems, the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services. The newest Measuring Broadband America reports e...

Slack, the workplace messaging app, has hired Goldman Sachs to underwrite an initial public offering planned for next year, according to two people familiar with the situation. The San Francisco company is one of several highly valued start-ups, along with Uber and Lyft, that are expected to list on public markets in 2019 after spending years raising money from deep-pocketed...

It’s been an incredible year in unified communications, with disruption, transformation, and innovation appearing from almost every angle. We’ve seen the need for collaboration tools skyrocket over the last 12 months, while AI-infused solutions like virtual assistants change the way we work and play. Various vendors have continued to consolidate their offerings in an atte...

RingCentral, Inc, a provider of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions, has announced it was presented the 2018 Innovation Award for Team Collaboration by Aragon Research, a technology research and advisory firm, the company said. The 2018 Aragon Innovation award recognizes providers leveraging visionary use of technology to adapt as markets ch...

Microsoft dominated Spiceworks’ recent report that looked at how businesses communicate within small and large businesses. While Skype for Business still remains the undisputed leader of the pack, Microsoft Teams emerged as an interesting alternative and managed to grab a sizable share of the market. We asked Peter Tsai, senior technology analyst at Spiceworks, some quest...

Three companies of the NTT Group (Arkadin, Dimension Data and NTT Communications) today announced that NTT Group has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Challengers quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide. NTT Group has been recognised for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. In the past 12 months, NTT Group has ...

Plantronics, an audio pioneer and unified communications (UC) technology leader, today announced Tom Puorro is joining the company as Executive Vice President, General Manager, Group Systems. In this role, Puorro will lead the team responsible for audio and video collaboration solutions for the modern workplace. “Tom’s deep knowledge and passion for the UC business make h...

As attackers begin to use multiple command and control systems to communicate with backdoors and other malware, how can organisations ensure that they detect such methods and that all C&C systems are removed, including “sleepers” designed to be activated at a future date? Attackers use command and control servers to maintain communications with systems that have...

Football and cyber security don’t often get mentioned in the same sentence, but with billions of pounds invested into the richest football leagues in the world, and football clubs possessing vast swathes of data, their valuation can be massively impacted following a data breach. Everything from sponsorship deals, personal player data, youth teams training plans, health and p...

Infoblox Inc has announced in the last week new research revealing how retailers across the globe invest more in cybersecurity during the holiday period than at any other time of the year due to a seasonal increase in social engineering attacks. The research also found that threats like unpatched security vulnerabilities, insecure IoT devices, and the online consumers themse...

Logitech has recently released a rushed update to its Options app. The company didn’t reveal explicitly what the bug fixes, however a researcher from Google’s Project Zero has disclosed the matter. Allegedly, he discovered and reported a Logitech Options app vulnerability to the officials that could trigger keystroke injections. However, since the vendors didn’t do anything,...

Plans for a new £9m Centre for Cyber Security in Hereford have taken a major step forward. Herefordshire Council's cabinet has approved the launch of a new joint venture company with the University of Wolverhampton to build the centre at Skylon Park, creating 190 jobs and helping lead the UK’s fight against cybercrime. The university and council will make a loan of...