Information Technology

Research finds business and IT divided on software strategy

Boulder, Colorado: Improving the customer experience is the number one goal for organizations when planning and orchestrating their software strategy. However, as far as testing practices are concerned, 47% of development teams on average across businesses are not testing the real user experience.

This is according to research released today from Eggplant, the customer experience optimization specialist. The study also highlights a gap between IT and business leaders thinking when it comes to testing strategy.

Carbon Black Threat Report Details Cyberattacks Targeting the Healthcare Industry

Reading, UK – 5th June 2019 - Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK), a leader in cloud endpoint protection, today released a seminal report on the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. The report, Healthcare Cyber Heists in 2019, features direct input from 20 industry-leading CISOs to determine how attackers have evolved over the past year.

New European MSP Market Report published

  • Detailed listing of the top 500 European MSPs

[London, 5 June 2019] Managed services as a sector is among the hottest parts of the IT business, but success in being a Managed Services Provider (MSP), in selling to them as a vendor, or in buying or selling an MSP business means knowing a lot more about them and their market. IT Europa’s new European MSP Market Report, published today, provides a detailed analysis of the European Managed Services sectors and a listing and overview profiles of the top 500.

12th Datacloud Global Awards winners announced

Innovation, Excellence and Diversity celebrated at the data centre and cloud industry’s premier awards night

London/Monaco, 5 June 2019 – BroadGroup, the information media technology and professional services company, today announced the winners of the prestigious 12th Datacloud Awards. The finalists in each of the 16 categories and the new Data Economy Finvest categories were selected by judges comprised of professionals from the industry. These awards recognise the teams, products, innovations, initiatives and projects that demonstrate data centre and Edge and cloud innovation and service excellence.

BridgeHead Software Honored with 2nd Consecutive “MedTech Breakthrough Award”

Annual Awards Program Recognizes Outstanding Digital Health & Medical Technology Products and Companies

ASHTEAD, UK – June 4, 2019 – BridgeHead Software, a leader in healthcare data management, today announced that MedTech Breakthrough, an independent organization that recognizes the top companies and solutions in the global health and medical technology market, has selected BridgeHead’s Independent Clinical Archive, HealthStore™, as the winner of its “Best Healthcare Data Repository Solution” award in the 2019 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program. 

Over 60% of world population to be covered by GDPR-style legislation, according to Redgate analysis

Cambridge UK, Tuesday 4 June 2019 – Demonstrating the increasing global emphasis on improving data privacy following the introduction of the GDPR one year ago, 16 countries and 13 US states have plans to introduce similar legislation, Redgate analysis has found. Along with the current 28 member states of the EU, this means that over 62% of the world’s population will be protected by tougher data privacy laws moving forward.

Becrypt announces new GTM channel strategy

New single-tier strategy for Becrypt’s Disk Protect and Paradox suite of products

London – 29th May 2019 – Becrypt, a trusted provider of endpoint cybersecurity software solutions, announced today its new single-tier channel strategy for its Disk Protect family of products. 

Becrypt currently has a single-tier approach in place to sell its security-focused operating system, Paradox, and this has proved highly successful, therefore it will now mirror this strategy for its more mature full-disk encryption software products. Not only will this bring consistency across its two product sets, but it will make it easier for resellers and partners to sell both product families.

CRN Recognises Low-Code Market Leader OutSystems as Top Mobile Application Development Platform

OutSystems named an app platform innovator for helping businesses deliver mission-critical mobile apps using low-code technology  

London - 28th May 2019 - OutSystems, provider of the number one low-code platform for rapid application development, announced that the company was named to the CRN Mobility 100 and recognised as one of the “15 Coolest Mobile App Development Platforms” of 2019. In addition, OutSystems senior director of channel marketing, Shiri Friedman, was named to “The Most Powerful Women Of The Channel 2019.” These recognitions are a result of increasing customer adoption of the OutSystems platform and massive growth of the channel program.

Finastra announces innovative FX vacation spending money app as winner of FusionONE hackathon

Winning team’s app built using open APIs on FusionFabric.cloud, powered by Microsoft Azure

London UK, May 22, 2019 - Finastra has unveiled the winner of the first public hackathon on its open development platform, FusionFabric.cloud. Team ‘HYBER’ scooped the prize for its FX vacation spending money app, after presenting the concept to more than 450 of the world’s Fintech leaders, banks, developers, analysts and a panel of prestigious judges at FusionONE yesterday afternoon. The team’s app was built using open APIs on FusionFabric.cloud, powered by Microsoft Azure.

GDPR one year on: UK businesses struggling with requests for personal information

Crawley, UK, May 22, 2019 – A year after the GDPR came into effect, a new study suggests many UK businesses are struggling to process requests from customers who are exercising their right to access the personal information stored about them. Of 37 businesses evaluated, primarily large financial services organizations, utilities and telcos, around a third (12) were found to be non-compliant, with five overshooting the time limit of one month that is specified by the regulation.