Information Technology

LONDON - 12th July, 2018 - Virtustream, the enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies business, today announced the findings of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Virtustream titled, “Multicloud Arises from Changing Cloud Priorities”. Based on a global survey of 727 cloud technology decision makers at businesses with more than 1,000 employees, the July 2018 study outlines how shifting business priorities are driving enterprises to adopt multi-cloud strategies. According to the study, a vast majority (86 percent) of respondents describe their current cloud strategy as multi-cloud, with performance and innovation rising above cost savings as the top measures of success.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2018 - TrustArc, the leading data privacy management company, today announced results from a survey conducted by Dimensional Research that gauges the status of GDPR compliance among U.S., UK and EU (excluding UK) companies one month following the May 25 deadline. 

Leicester, UK - July 12, 2018 - 10ZiG Technology today announced that its 5910q Windows 10 IoT Thin Client is verified as Citrix Ready and becomes the first VDI endpoint provider to achieve the new Citrix H.265 encoding support. 

Not long after the Citrix release of H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Technology, 10ZiG was quick to respond and support the revolutionary codec via its exceptional triple-monitor, 4K UHD, power class 5910q Windows 10 IoT Thin Client. Once HEVC was announced for Citrix XenDesktop7.16 and NVIDIA GPUs, 10ZiG left slower-moving endpoint providers behind by quickly becoming the first to achieve Citrix Ready for the H.265 codec.

London, UK - July 10, 2018 - RiskIQ, the leader in digital threat management, today revealed that its researchers have discovered that the recent breach of Ticketmaster was not a one-off event as initially reported, but part of a massive digital credit card-skimming campaign by the threat group Magecart affecting over 800 e-commerce sites around the world.

In this world we can often say we have too much choice and not enough time. IT decision-makers are finding much the same is true for them, with the influx of new technologies available to their businesses proving too much to keep up with. Technology is changing rapidly. Keeping up with the latest innovations, challenges, opportunities and threats is a big task. How many IT decision-makers feel fully equipped?

A new study by Cogeco Peer 1, a global provider of enterprise IT products and services, found that 55% of organizations are struggling to keep up with the pace of new technology. Shockingly, 28% of IT leaders felt they personally can’t keep up with all the changes and choices available to them.

2 July 2018 – WatchGuard® Technologies’ latest Internet Security Report reveals that 98.8 percent of seemingly common Linux/Downloader malware variants in Q1 2018 were actually designed to deliver a popular Linux-based cryptocurrency miner. This is just one of several signs that malicious crypto-mining malware is becoming a top tactic among cyber criminals. The report details delivery mechanisms for these crypto-miner attacks and explores other prevalent security threats targeting small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) and distributed enterprises.

San Mateo, June 28, 2018 - Ahead of the rollout of Google’s mobile “Speed Update” in July 2018, a new study by Searchmetrics suggests that marketers should take note that faster-loading pages already are deciding winners over losers in mobile searches. The search results appearing in Google positions one to five load significantly faster than those lower down, with almost a third (32%) loading within one second. And pages using Google’s faster loading Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)[1] appear in the first search results page for around 61% of searches.

Maidenhead, UK – June 27, 2018 – Flexera, the company that’s reimagining how software is bought, sold, managed and secured, today released Vulnerability Review 2018: Top Desktop Apps, part of the annual report series from Secunia Research at Flexera. This new edition focuses on heavily used desktop applications, which can be easily breached through the Internet. The report reveals the biggest risks, so IT can create a plan to prevent attacks – protecting systems and employees. It also serves as a guide for security patching, helping pinpoint what’s most important and requires immediate action. 

Over the next two decades, millions of workers will be required to change their career focus on average nearly every five years, says research conducted by McKinsey[1]. Some jobs will disappear entirely due to automation and AI. Others will shift profoundly and require wholesale adaptation.