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BT is Considering Deeper Overhaul to Shrink Workforce by 25%
about 5 years agoBT Group Plc, Britain’s dominant phone company, is considering a deeper restructuring under new Chief Executive Officer Philip Jansen that could see its 100,000-strong workforce shrink by a quarter over five years, according to people with knowledge of the matter. BT has internally discussed a target of reducing its headcount to 75,000, partly through accelerated automati...
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Europe's big weather supercomputer data center is about to leave UK
about 5 years agoA fundamental part of an important service is moving out of the UK. But, this time, Brexit is not to blame. From 2020, the data center of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) will no longer be sited in Reading, west of London, but will operate from its new home in Bologna, northern Italy. "It's a very big and important thing for us. The main...
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UK’s IT pros not learning fast enough to manage their environments
about 5 years agoIf the current IT workforce is to keep up with the pace of innovation, there will need to be some significant changes. That’s according to findings from a new research report from SolarWinds – IT Trends Report 2019: Skills for Tech Pros of Tomorrow – which is based on a survey fielded in December 2018, with responses from 174 technology practitioners, managers, and direct...
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AWS makes double swoop for Volkswagen and Standard Bank
about 5 years agoAmazon's cloud arm has struck separate agreements with Volkswagen (VW) and Standard Bank to boost the two companies' cloud platform and customer-facing applications respectively. VW's deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) will aim to pave the way for a transformation of the car maker's manufacturing and logistical processes across its 122 plants, including the effectiveness...
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Singtel Appoints Dominic Barton to Board of Directors
about 5 years agoSingtel this week announced the appointment of Mr Dominic Barton as an independent director of the Board with immediate effect. Mr Barton has been Chair of the Board of Canadian mining company Teck Resources since 1 October 2018. “Dominic brings rich expertise and insights from across a broad swathe of industries, having advised clients in banking, consumer goods, tech an...
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Microsoft launches Azure Stack HCI
about 5 years agoMicrosoft Azure Stack HCI is aimed at customers who aren’t ready to commit to full cloud infrastructure. Azure Stack HCI feature the same Hyper-V based software-defined compute, storage, and networking technologies as Azure Stack. Kind of, sort of, maybe a cloud service? Microsoft already sells Azure Stack, a halfway-house between a self-managed data center and ...
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Tech lawsuit of the year (so far)
about 5 years agoToday begins the tech trial of the year: HPE has hauled Mike Lynch into London's High Court, claiming $5bn from the one-time chief exec of ill-fated UK software firm Autonomy. The case is the culmination of years of bitter wrangling between HPE and Lynch over the former's $11bn buyout of Autonomy in 2011. After the buyout, HP (as was) wrote down the value of Autonomy by $...
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Amazon Data Centre Business In Ireland Saw Profits Jump A Third Last Year
about 5 years agoPre-tax profits at the Republic of Ireland arm of Amazon Web Services jumped 30.5% last year to €39.5m, with total sales spiralling 49% to €1.65bn. The Amazon Data Services Ireland Ltd (ADSIL) business operates several data centres in the Dublin area and is planning further expansion to its facilities. Last year, it secured planning permission for the first phase of a new...
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Aerial Direct Group announces the acquisition of IPCortex business operations
about 5 years agoTelecommunications provider, Aerial Direct, today announces the acquisition of communications software developer, IPCortex, to enhance its opportunities and offering in the unified communication market. Aerial Direct has acquired all IPCortex assets, personnel, and customer contracts, and the business will now operate under the Aerial Direct Group. Aerial Direct’s Glyn Thoma...
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Meet Poly – Plantronics and Polycom Rebrand
about 5 years agoThe start of Enterprise Connect 2019 has provided the perfect platform for Plantronics and Polycom to unveil their new identity to the world, meet Poly. Plantronics made the announcement, that it would be acquiring Polycom for around $2 billion, at the end of March 2018, and now a year on the relaunch takes centre stage. Rebranding after acquisition or merger can often...
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Avaya: For Sale?
about 5 years agoIs Avaya looking at a leveraged buyout? Leading communications and collaboration company Avaya may be considering a takeover bid issued by a private equity firm according to recent reports. Sources suggest that the leveraged buyout offer values Avaya at over $5 billion, including their remaining debt.The rumour mill began churning on Sunday the 24th of March, when a Reuters ...
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Video Conferencing Monitoring Software Keeps Your Calls Connected
about 5 years agoSometimes it’s good to have Big Brother watching over you. If that eye-in-the-sky has your best interests at heart, it can help provide solutions to problems you didn’t even know you had. At least, that’s the intention behind video conferencing monitoring software. It is like an air traffic control tower constantly watching over your business’ incoming and outgoing video ...
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AI in the contact centre: why ROI is not the only metric for success
about 5 years agoHow automation impacts both the customer experience and the employee experience are far more meaningful metrics. When it comes to introducing the very latest technologies – the likes of chatbots, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – some contact centres lag behind. Considering the plethora of information that is available on these new solutions, this is har...
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Can Cisco Respond To Zoom's Challenge In $20B Videoconferencing Market?
about 5 years agoAn entrepreneur starts a company, sells it to a big company, sticks around and watches the acquirer dismantle what worked so well. The entrepreneur gets so frustrated that he leaves to start a new company that will solve all the customer problems that the acquirer has caused -- and strives to win back those customers with a better value proposition. Can the acquirer le...
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Techy kids found to be cyber-security boon to clueless adults
about 5 years agoCommissioned by GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the research shows children are four times more likely to be sought out for guidance, ahead of search engines such as Google, when online accounts are being created and importantly when checking the security settings on connected devices. Teenagers over the age of 16 were the preferred choice for advice on how ...
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4 Leaders in the Forrester Wave: Cybersecurity Incident Response Services, Q1 2019
about 5 years agoCambridge, MA-based analyst house Forrester Research has recently released the latest iteration of its flagship Wave Report; the report is entitled “The Forrester Wave: Cybersecurity Incident Response Services, Q1 2019.” In an 11-criterion evaluation of incident response providers, researchers Josh Zelonis, Stephanie Balaouras, Madeline Cyr, Peggy Dostie identify wha...
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Back-ups deleted in Police Federation ransomware attack
about 5 years agoThe Police Federation of England and Wales has been hit by an apparent ransomware attack impacting several of its databases and servers.The association, which represents 119,000 officers, fell victim to a ransomware attack on 9 March, but was only revealed yesterday (March 21st). Several databases and email systems were encrypted, according to the organisation, leading to so...
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SecureLink Recognized as a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Privileged Access Management
about 5 years agoSecureLink, the leader in vendor privileged access management, this week announced it was named a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Privileged Access Management. Gartner defines Privileged Access Management as technologies that help organizations provide secure privileged access to critical assets and meet compliance requirements by managing and monitori...
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DDoS attacks could cost the UK £1bn
about 5 years agoThe size and scale of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the UK could cost the country almost £1 billion per year, according to research. The statistics come from Netscout's Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, which surveyed service providers and IT decision makers in the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Brazil, and Japan. “The tools to initiate DDoS...
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61% of CIOs believe employees leak data maliciously
about 5 years agoSignificant data breaches seem to happen on almost a weekly basis – and those are just the publicised ones. Given the bulk of these breaches can be put down to human error, Egress conducted a survey (Insider Data Breach) to examine the root causes of employee-driven data breaches, their frequency, and impact. The research was carried out by independent research organis...
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