Security concerns ‘biggest barrier’ to public cloud adoption
Among the businesses that are yet to adopt public cloud, the majority (58 percent) are holding off due to cybersecurity concerns. This is according to a new report from Centrify, based on a poll of 200 UK business decision makers, which also states that more than a third of public cloud adopters are less than 80 percent confident in its …
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IBM profits slashed almost in half in 2020, despite cloud growth
Despite relative success in the cloud market, IBM has reported a decline in revenue for both Q4 and its 2020 fiscal year, leading to a significant fall in profits. On an earnings call, the company reported $20.4 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of the year, less than the $20.67 billion analysts had anticipated and six percent less than …
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UK government urged to undertake digital overhaul
If the UK is to become a world leader in digital technologies, while at the same time becoming more sustainable, it’s in need of a significant digital overhaul. This is the conclusion of a new report recently released by Public Policy Projects (PPP), Anderson Strategy and Huawei. The “Connected Citizen” report argues, first and foremost, that it’s essential that education …
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Remote working-related phishing attacks are on the up
The number of phishing attacks against remote workers was on the rise in the fourth quarter of 2020, a new report from cybersecurity awareness and training firm KnowBe4 claims. Phishing via social media social media channels, mostly LinkedIn, also grew in popularity. Examining tens of thousands of subject lines from simulated phishing tests, KnowBe4 found that those related to potential …
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Google Cloud has the ‘best performing cloud’, but AWS the most cost-efficient
Among the big three cloud providers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform (GPC) – the latter is the best performer in terms of throughput. AWS, on the other hand, has lowest network latency. This is according to the third annual Cloud Report, published recently by commercial database management firm Cockroach Labs. As per a …
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Most security staff have little say in app security
Security staff in global businesses don’t have much of an influence when it comes to budgeting and developing secure applications, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Radware. As a result, businesses are having a hard time maintaining consistent application security across multiple platforms and API security is now the biggest threat to enterprises, the report claims. Polling 205 …
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The old world of sales is not coming back – here’s what to do next
The pre-pandemic ways of selling and closing deals are not coming back any time soon. We’ve seen the end of most in-person events for the foreseeable future. We may not see business travel become a common practice again until the second half of 2021, or even later. So, how do you keep hitting your numbers, from pipeline to revenue targets, …
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More businesses willing to place trust in cloud since start of pandemic
A new report from cloud storage provider pCloud shows just how important cloud solutions have been during the pandemic. Polling 1,500 businesses in the UK, France and Germany, pCloud found that two thirds have more trust in the ability of cloud to keep their business running than before the pandemic. Further, 69 percent expect home working to be the default …
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Microsoft says it now has over 200 million education users
As the second half of the academic year gets underway, Microsoft has taken the opportunity to share new information about its student user base, as well as its vision for the future of education technology. In a recent blog post, Barbara Holzapfel, Microsoft VP for Education, said that more than 200 million students, faculty, institutional leaders and teachers are actively …
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Huge rise in phishing domains since Covid vaccines began
The number of malicious Covid-19-related domains has spiked dramatically since the vaccines were announced and began rolling out. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity experts at Webroot, which states that more than 4,500 new suspicious domains were discovered in the month after vaccines were announced, containing keywords such as “Covid-19”, “corona”, “vaccine” and “cure Covid”. Almost a …
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