Financial technology giant SS&C has made a £1.2 billion takeover proposal for robotics process automation firm Blue Prism, which is already the subject of a separate private equity takeover deal.
September that it had agreed a £1.1 billion takeover deal with private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, which plans to merge the company with data analytics firm TIBCO.
The pace of cloud use is increasing, according to Rackspace Technology’s global survey.
The survey, with the catchy title, Future of Compute, highlights the increasingly rapid pace of cloud adoption. According to the survey, the question is no longer whether organizations should migrate to the cloud, but how they can leverage the cloud for innovation, efficiency, and growth.
More than half of survey respondents said that all their applicable infrastructure now resides in the cloud, while the rest said they plan to move more of their workloads into the cloud as possible.
Research from Avast has found that employees in almost a third of Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in the UK are connecting to the corporate network using personal devices that do not have any security controls in place.
Since the pandemic began, SMB leaders have had to quickly adapt to changing working behaviours. Whether teams are fully remote or hybrid, trying to ensure employees have the right technology in place hasn’t been straightforward.
The UK’s retailing sector has experienced 44 cyberattacks in the last year – roughly one every eight days – according to research by Keeper Security.
As part of the 2021 Cybersecurity Census Report, three-quarters of retailers believe that the number of cyberattacks they are faced with will only increase in the next 12 months and, with that, disrupt the retail ecosystem.
The retail sector has been under immense pressure over the past 18 months. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit retailers’ front line with store closures on the high street and major supply chain disruptions as a result of Brexit.
With IBM in its rearview mirror, spin-off Kyndryl has made a deal with Microsoft to build products on its cloud.
According to the pair, they will jointly work on a co-innovation lab where they will build products on the Microsoft Cloud, with Kyndryl making them available on Microsoft’s AppSource and on the Azure Marketplace.
Meanwhile, Vole will make products developed by the two companies available for its global enterprise sales force and create a training programme for Kyndryl’s 90,000 employees, dubbed Kyndryl University for Microsoft, which has been designed to teach workers how to best use Microsoft’s cloud tools.
Atos has expanded its decarbonisation portfolio to offer clients what it is billing as the “world’s first” certified carbon neutral laptops.
The deal has been set up with its global partner, Circular Computing.
The French systems integrator said the newly formed partnership will enable Atos to expand its Net Zero Transformation portfolio with carbon-neutral remanufactured laptops to support its clients to reach their sustainability goals.
Circular Computing is a member of Atos’ Scaler accelerator programme and a remanufacturer of carbon-neutral laptop products as well as the world’s first BSI Kitemark certified laptop remanufacturer, according to Atos.
Global IT distributor TD Synnex is adding the Qualys security and compliance platform to resellers, MSPs and managed security service providers (MSSPs).
The services firm, which was created this year through the $7.2 billion mergers of Synnex and Tech Data, will now include the cloud-native Qualys Cloud Platform, which includes Qualys’ Cloud Agent for enabling organisations to bring together their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform.
Government plans to make the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) responsible for monitoring the use of biometric and DNA data by the police are “ill-conceived”—we think that means “nuts”, according to the UK’s biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner.
Fraser Sampson has the job of making sure that that the police collect, retain and use a range of biometric material, including digital facial images, as surveillance camera commissioner his job is to get the cops to comply with the surveillance camera code of practice.
Sampson was appointed to the dual position in March 2021, after the UK Ministry of the Interior announced in July 2020 that it would be amalgamating the roles to make the stand alone statutory functions of each office the responsibility of a single individual.
But the idea of further amalgamating the roles under the purview of the ICO is the brilliant plan of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) which has currently put the idea out to consultation.
But by “consultation” the government meant not telling anyone about it because it clean forgot to mention it to the bloke who was most affected.
Exclusive Networks has talked about its first financial numbers since going public.
The distie revealed that in its third quarter, gross sales were up by 21.9 percent to €804.9 million with revenues of €578.4 million compared to the same period in 2020, accelerating the trend recorded in the first half of the year.
In the EMEA region, gross sales climbed by 22.3 percent to €608.3 million, compared to the same period last year and the firm reported positive growth in the enterprise sector. Elsewhere, it saw sales improve by 21.2 percent in APAC and 20.1 percent in the American region.
Jesper Trolle, CEO of Exclusive Networks, claimed the first results since the September IPO showed the business was taking the right approach.
The global association for the mobile industry ecosystem GSMA has announced the formation of what it denotes as a global accelerator initiative to push 5G.
The industry hopes that by 2025, mobile technologies and services will contribute almost $5 trillion to the global economy and that there will be 1.8 billion 5G connections. All this will be based on the claim that stakeholders will benefit from the improvements in productivity and efficiency resulting from the increased take-up of very high-speed mobile services, mmWave is emerging as an important element of the 5G technology mix.
Ultima has appointed former Softcat head James Hunnybourne as its cloud solutions director.
Hunnybourne was Softcat head of technology services and solutions and said that Ultima had a lot of capability in cloud.
He said: “I’m delighted to be leading the cloud team and be part of a company with a strong drive and people with great technical capabilities. I’m looking forward to building the cloud practice and demonstrating to the market how our technology and services can help improve their business outcomes.”
Infuse Technology has just added the historic Tudor Ampleforth Abbey to its client base.
The active monastery that is home to an order of fifty-five Benedictine Monks, Ampleforth Abbey dates back to the pre-Reformation era, estimated to have been built in the early 1500s Tudor era. A college was founded in the vicinity of the Abbey grounds in 1802, when ownership changed hands.
With a Trust Board comprising both lay and monastic trustees responsible for overseeing safeguarding, strategy, finance, and estate management, it is essential for the Abbey to ensure that its IT and cyber security measures are up-to-date and capable of counteracting modern infiltration techniques.
Beancounters at Gartner have forecast IT spending in EMEA to total $1.3 trillion in 2022, up 4.7 percent from 2021.
The 2022 growth rate will be slower than in 2021, when EMEA IT spending is expected to grow 6.3 percent, the Big G said.
The analyst said the biggest change be IT financing.
Gartner research VP, John Lovelock said: “IT is transitioning from supporting the business to being the business — which means spending on technology shifts from a cost of operations (selling, general and administrative [SGA]) to a cost of revenue (COR), or possibly cost of goods sold (COGS). CIOs have a balancing act to perform, saving cash and expanding revenue.” COGS. Hmm.
In the UK, IT spending will reach $223.3 billion in 2022, a rise of six percent from this year.
Amazon seems to have worked out that everyone wants a carbon-reducing reason to buy its products. That”s the fashion these daze (sic).
The outfit has just released a report claiming that shifting to its cloud product slashes European business energy use by 80 percent instead of operating their own data centres.
Cloud and digital transformation services provider Kerv has snapped up SD-WAN specialist Gyrocom.
The move makes Kerv a £50 million revenue business. The company was created through a three-way merger between DoubleEdge Professional Services, Foehn and Metaphor IT. It acquired Microsoft Dynamics and Power Platform specialist cloudThing in May.
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