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Gain peace of mind and protect your business from unauthorised access and attacks with this FREE service When an organisation suffers a cyberattack, 60% of their data is stolen within the first few hours. 54% of such breaches go undiscovered for months, leaving cyber criminals a huge opening. New trends such as mobility and cloud...

Veritas Only Vendor Named a Leader Since Inception of Report, Recognized Since 1999 Mountain View, CA – June 13, 2016 – Veritas Technologies, the global leader in information management, announced today it has been recognized by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software1. Veritas is...

Veritas Technologies, the leader in information management, has announced support for Google Cloud. Platform with its market leading NetBackup 7.7 and Backup Exec 15 solutions. Customers can use the Google public cloud as a backup destination, run back up and perform disaster recovery to or from the Google Cloud Platform. The solution is designed to...

Microsoft has bought social media site LinkedIn for £18.4bn in plans to expand upon Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics.   LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network and has more than 433 million users globally.   Jeff Weiner will remain as LinkedIn’s CEO, reporting to Satya Nadella, once the transaction closes, which it expects to...

Gaming and entertainment apps will drive sales of virtual reality and make it a $13.5 billion industry, with 89.3 million units shipping by 2020, according to a report by JPMorgan Securities. In 2016 the global VR market is expected to hit $2.54 billion with around 21.6 million devices shipping worldwide.

Wearables unit shipments grew 171.6% in 2015 over 2014 and by 126.9% in Q4 last year compared to Q4 2014, according to figures from IDC. In the last three months of 2015, 27.4 million wearable devices were shipped in Q4 with 78 million sold over the year. Continued innovation will be needed to keep the...

PNY has launched a new, Nvidia GTX 950-based graphics card that will really get gamers excited. The GeForce GTX 950 2GB XLR8 OC GAMING card has a base clock speed of 1152 MHz and a boost clock speed of 1342 MHz and comes with 2GB of GDDR5 memory running a 7.2 GBps. This translates into...

WD is now shipping the much-anticipated 6TB Red Pro drive for NAXS boxes and has also announced the immediate availability of the Black 1TB Mobile 2.5-inch drive. Designed specifically with SMB customers in mind, the WD Red Pro is available for up to 16 bay medium to large-scale NAS environments. Ideal for intensive file sharing,...

Organisations can now take advantage of the easylease 0% finance scheme to acquire Cisco systems and networking solutions. According to an industry survey, 73% of customers look to solve the ‘how-to-fund’ question early in the process, before pricing or seeking quotations (Forrester, Financing in the Current Macroeconomic Environment Findings from France, Germany, UK, March 2014). Cisco has...

Whether you work in local or central government, public sector or private industry, there’s a huge shared temptation: to think you’ve “solved” mobile when, in reality, you’ve only taken the first steps.   Maybe you’ve settled on certain handsets, or invested in one piece of management technology, or decided to limit what your staff can...

Global spending on public cloud services is expected to grow 16% to $204.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner. The firm says that the figures reflect the increased willingness of big companies, having carried out their initial pilots, to move infrastructure, apps and storage into the cloud.

Despite a decline of around 10% in PC shipments across the EMEA region – to 19.5 million units – in the first quarter of 2016, analyst firm Gartner said that sales remained stable in the UK and in Germany. In France they declined due to the transition to high-definition TV. Garter provided some optimism for...