After chief executive Margherita Della Valle’s opinion that its 2023 financial year had “not been good enough” – prompting 11,000 job cuts in Europe and changes to regain competitiveness though simplifying the organisation and cutting out complexity – Vodafone Group has announced the first half of its 2024 fiscal year has made initial strategic progress … Leer más
Data processing units (DPUs) have emerged as an important deployment option for datacentres that run heavy data-centric workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics processing, and to speed storage input/output (I/O). DPUs are deployed in servers and are the latest in an evolution of offload hardware that take workload away from central processing units … Leer más
The UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) faces an “enduring and significant” threat from state-aligned threat actors aggressively ramping up activity, and must work more closely with allies and industry in countering “epoch-defining” cyber challenges, says the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). In its latest annual review, published today, covering the period from 1 September … Leer más
Shared network infrastructure provider Boldyn Networks has agreed to acquire the private networks business unit of wireless telecommunications infrastructure firm Cellnex, including its EDZCOM Nordic Edge Connectivity division. Established in Australia in 1923 under the BAI brand, Boldyn Networks has undertaken a course of organic and inorganic growth over the past two years, acquiring Mobilitie, Signal Point … Leer más
Increased investment by global cloud providers is driving wider availability of internet-based digital services across Africa with content providers and enterprises looking to expand into the continent and businesses committing to moving more of their functions to the cloud. As a result, firms are busy looking to find regional infrastructure providers and the latest example … Leer más
Kent-based construction design consultancy Frankham Group has ditched tape-based backup and deployed Rubrik appliances in a move that has seen it slash data restores from days to hours and gain the use of full disaster recovery (DR) provision when needed. The Sidcup-based company – which is considering a move to cloud-based IT (see box) – … Leer más
In a move that the companies say will revolutionise network workflows for the enterprise with integrated network observability and automation, Itential and Kentik have integrated their platforms to enable NetOps teams to build and run automations to act on any event, from security risks to network optimisation, resulting in more accurate, secure and efficient network … Leer más
Amid a well-documented crash in dwell times – the period in between a threat actor accessing a victim network and executing their cyber attack – analysts at Sophos have clocked a growing number of attacks in which ransomware gangs disable or wipe out telemetry logs in an attempt to hide their tracks and obstruct the vital … Leer más
Global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, particularly in the tech sector, may have slowed this year due to high interest rates and ongoing geopolitical tensions. But the proportion of deals taking place to acquire tech talent is on the rise, particularly in high-demand skills areas, such as cyber security and artificial intelligence (AI). Moreover, this … Leer más
British engineering and technology company McLaren Applied is partnering with mmWave technology provider Blu Wireless to deliver ultra high-speed telemetry services for motorsport applications, providing a data pipe that can handle all data and video streams from a race car in real-time. With more than three decades in F1 and other global motorsports, McLaren Applied … Leer más
