2023 saw two critical cyber incidents a day
The frequency of high-severity incidents with direct human involvement exceeded two per day in 2023. According to the Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR) this trend was observed across all industries with financial, IT, government, and industrial sectors at...
Steadily improving growth for services revenue
The global IT and Business Services market witnessed some softening in 2023 with revenue growing (in constant currency) from $1,17-trillion in 2022 to $1,22-trillion, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker. This...
Targeted espionage malware uncovered
The highly-targeted attacks by new Iranian threat actor MalKamak include newly-discovered malware that has evaded discovery by security tools since 2018 and abuses Dropbox services for command and control. Cybereason has published a new threat intelligence report that...
Intel, VMware extend partnership
VMware has announced a partnership with Intel to deliver security, maintenance and intelligent analytics for commercial PCs. Integrating Intel vPro platform technology with VMware Workspace ONE cloud management. The new partnership will enable PC security across...
Dell, VMware add multi-cloud simplicity
Dell Technologies has announced new cloud and IT offerings, co-engineered with VMware, to speed how organisations consume, manage and act on critical data. "Organisations are increasingly relying on multiple clouds and other emerging technologies to remain competitive...
Teraco completes Cape Town hyperscale data centre expansion
Teraco Data Environments has completed Phase 1 of CT2, its new hyperscale data centre in Brackenfell, Cape Town, which becomes the largest data centre in the Western Cape. The new facility supports the growing demand by enterprises and cloud providers for data centre...
Google commits to $1bn African investment
Kathy Gibson reports from Google for Africa - Google has committed to invest $1-billion in Africa over the next five years. Making the announcement, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, says the funds will be used for initiatives ranging from improving...
VMware stakes its claim in multi-cloud
Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld - The multi-cloud world opens up a world of new possibilities for organisations - but it comes with extra complexity and cost. Raghu Raghuram, CEO of VMware, explains that the cloud journey has seen companies move from the...
Using the Moon to address Earth’s digital inequality
While most of the developed world takes access to reliable, fast wireless internet (WiFi) for granted, in underserved communities, reliable internet access can be as elusive as it is on the Moon. NASA is working to solve both challenges. Digital inequality or...
Cloud complexity, work from home drive increased attacks
A massive 84% of the organisations who took part in a recent survey suffered a significant security incident in the past two years. The State of Security 2021 report polled 535 security leaders in nine leading economies across multiple industries by research firm...
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Exposing security weaknesses
Experts from Kaspersky Lab and Outpost24 recently carried out a security audit at a number of European organisations and studied the prevalence of un-patched vulnerabilities globally to get a better understanding of the IT (in) security landscape. Their joint report...
Tax season: prime time for APTs
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Danimex named Motorola distributor
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RegioCom deploys Aspect Unified IP 7.1
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Ricoh earns CompTIA trustmark
CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT industry, has honoured Ricoh with its Managed Print Trustmark. The Managed Print Trustmark is a respected industry credential that signifies adherence to industry best practices for service delivery and customer...
Moving Microsoft Exchange to the cloud
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Oracle announces new server
Oracle has announced the SPARC M6-32 server and SuperCluster M6-32 engineered system, based on new 3.6 GHz, 12-core SPARC M6 processors. Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 running Oracle Solaris demonstrates five times better price/performance than the IBM Power 795 based...
Epson distributor Raluca exceeds targets
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HP unveils HP OneView
HP recently unveiled HP OneView, an industry-first, consumer-inspired infrastructure management platform for HP Converged Infrastructure that simplifies the most basic steps that underlay all data centre processes - allowing IT teams to dramatically improve operations...
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