Gartner forecasts that the IT spending in EMEA will total $1.075 trillion in 2021. Compared to 2020, that is a 2.8% increase. The same analyst firm says that IT spending in the region will fall 6.5% this year. Combining Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, most organizations have had to cut back on... Read more
3 years ago
Palo Alto Networks has inked an $800 million deal to acquire a security start-up Expanse. Expanse is a well-funded start-up that helps businesses to identify internal systems exposed to the internet. The agreement was announced today. The $800 deal breaks down to $670M in stock and cash and an a... Read more
3 years ago
IBM and AMD have entered into an agreement that will see the two companies work together on open-source software, security, artificial intelligence workloads, high-performance computing and confidential computing. The collaboration between AMD and IBM is likely to cement AMD's place in hybrid c... Read more
3 years ago
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is getting more sophisticated and intricate while becoming cheaper and easier to carry out. This trend is fuelled by the sheer amount of insecure internet-connected devices (specifically IoT products) that cybercriminals take advantage of. DDoS attacks aren't... Read more
3 years ago
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is customizing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and remote work packages for roles such as knowledge workers, engineers, and power users. Under HPE GreenLake for virtual desktop infrastructure, an enterprise will get various cloud services that comprise technologie... Read more
3 years ago
Amazon announced the general availability of a new service named AWS Gateway Load Balancer. A service that makes it easy and cost-effective to deploy, scale and manage the availability of third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and deep packet... Read more
3 years ago
Microsoft has released .NET 5.0, which is the next significant release in the .NET developer platform. Microsoft promised to unify the different .NET flavours across operating systems, various form factors, and the Web. .NET 5.0 would be key to achieving that promise. Microsoft announced the gen... Read more
3 years ago
Security experts have discovered a new malware that can spy and obtain data from 153 Android applications. According to the report released on Monday by security firm Kaspersky, Ghimob (an Android banking Trojan) is believed to have been developed by the same group that developed Guildma (Astaro... Read more
3 years ago
The Federal Trade Commission has said that Zoom Video Communications must apply a new information security program as part of its recommended settlement with United States regulators concerning user privacy issues. There were no financial obligations mentioned in the resolution, but FTC warned t... Read more
3 years ago
Today, Adobe announced that it has signed a deal that it will acquire the marketing software company Workfront, for 1.5 billion. Adobe sells cloud-based software for designers and creatives. The company aims to integrate Workfront's software with its Experience Cloud offering. Adobe's Experience... Read more
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