The growing importance of Ethernet switches in industry
Whether you refer to it as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or simply as industrial networking, there is no doubt that connected field systems are becoming increasingly valuable across industries. One of the main components underpinning this connectivity is the Ethernet switch. Once exclusively used in IT environments, these switches now find themselves commonly used in harsh rail, marine, …
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Nearly all home workers want to keep doing so
Even though remote working causes some people to feel isolated, blurs the lines between work and free time and can lead to burnout, almost all employees working from home during the pandemic want to continue doing so. This is according to a new report from Publicis Sapient, which claims that, out of the 47 percent of employees currently allowed to …
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How consumer tech trends can help boost organisational communication
2020 has thrown up numerous challenges for businesses with two UK lockdowns, a furlough scheme and an economic downturn. Yet, those who have survived thus far and are doing all they can to ensure workers remain COVID safe face yet another issue – that of the communications challenge. Ensuring all staff, wherever they are based, are receiving the information they …
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E-waste has become critical concern during the pandemic
As businesses buy new gear to support the remote workforce during the pandemic, they are creating mountains of e-waste. This is according to a new report from data erasure and mobile device diagnostics company Blancco Technology Group, which claims that 53 million tons of e-waste was created during 2019, even before the pandemic struck. The report states that, since Covid-19 …
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Hackers are leaning more heavily on cloud resources
Underground cloud services may seem like an oxymoron, but they are quite real, and criminals are using them to speed up attacks and leave very little room for compromised businesses to react. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which found terabytes of internal business data and logins – including for Google, Amazon and PayPal …
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Accelerating containers for enterprise workloads
As full enterprise workloads move to the cloud, containers have become the go-to technology for application developers. Containerization of applications is a packaging mechanism that abstracts the application from the underlying server hardware, and enables the fast deployment of new features. Containers isolate one application from other applications, while allowing each application to have full access to all necessary system …
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Ticketmaster UK fined by ICO following hack
Ticket sales and distribution company Ticketmaster has been fined by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a breach that took place over the course of a few month in 2018. According to a release from the ICO, the company will need to pay approximately $1.65 million for failing to properly safeguard its clients’ data. The communications watchdog says Ticketmaster …
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Pressure on IT teams is pushing many decision-makers to burnout
IT teams are feeling the heat of the Covid-19 pandemic and many are on the brink of burnout. This is according to a new report from UK regional datacenter and cloud infrastructure services provider Pulsant. With Covid-19 relentlessly forcing businesses into further digitizing their operations, management is pushing IT decision-makers to their limits, in a bid to stay operational and …
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How to future-proof against rising regulatory risk during a pandemic
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. For businesses up and down the country, this quote from Vladimir Lenin is an accurate description of digital transformation efforts during the pandemic. But, as businesses race to find digital solutions to support the shift to remote working and fully online customer interactions, they are facing a …
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PC sales grow for second successive quarter
As much of the world remains in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, global shipments of personal computing (PC) devices have continued on an upward trajectory. According to market analysts Canalys, the third quarter of 2020 was “stellar” for the global PC market in terms of growth, with 124.5 million units sold. That’s up 23 percent up year-on-year and includes …
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