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According to the recent findings by the Atlas VPN team, retail and commerce businesses are under rising ransomware attack threats ahead of Black Friday sales. Furthermore, malware and social engineering attacks are at the top of methods used to threaten businesses. In Q1 2020, the ransomware attack percentage among malware attacks on retail …

With Black Friday nearly upon us, which presents a huge opportunity for retailers to boost sales and attract new customers, here is what the channel has to say: “Black Friday can be a chaotic time for retail. It’s one of the busiest times of the year, and the sheer number …

SYNAXON UK has signed a new supplier partnership with Neomounts by Newstar. Mike Barron, Managing Director of SYNAXON UK, said: “Neomounts is a really great addition to our line-up of vendors. Its products give resellers and retailers the opportunity to add more value to every sale. With more users now …

Sascha Giese, Head Geek at SolarWinds discusses how an effective DataOps strategy can offer a number of functional benefits. In a post-pandemic world, businesses across all industries are doing everything they can to gain a competitive advantage. Running a successful business has never been easy, but it’s a whole lot …

Kyndryl and VMware are collaborating on app modernisation and multicloud services by combining VMware solutions and Kyndryl’s design, build and managed services. “We’re excited to embark on this journey with VMware and intend to leverage a rich and productive history of joint solution architectures, common designs, and deep relationships to …

Tech Data has supported IBM partner Triton Consulting in developing a capability to migrate Db2 solutions to the IBM Cloud Pak for Data Systems containerised platform. It is thought to be one of the first partner businesses to develop such a capability in the UK or Europe. Corin Wright, Practice Builder lead …

 OnBuy.com is currently celebrating its victory after being recognised in the Deloitte Tech Fast 50 Awards 2021 as the fastest growing tech business in the South West. The South West region is reported to be one of the leading UK regions for technology businesses.    “The extraordinary growth of this year’s …

100 new Philips interactive digital displays and monitors are being installed at a school in western Germany. Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium (GSG) in Velbert, will uses the screens  to revolutionise the way it teaches and communicates with its students. After an intensive process exploring the global marketplace, GSG partnered with PPDS – the exclusive …

Back in May 2021, The Acer Group announced that it had joined the RE100 initiative and shared a pledge to achieve 100% renewable energy use by the year 2035. Acer declared its mission to help tackle environmental challenges with its “Earthion” platform. The Acer Aspire Vero (AV15-51) is a tangible …

Nedap’s  launch of its iD Cloud Loss Prevention, a cloud-based RFID solution enables retailers to detect, quantify and prevent losses. iD Cloud Loss Prevention enables retailers and brands to track every unique item at critical areas in their stores, like at the point-of-sale or the store entrance and exit with …

 Westcon-Comstor, has expanded its distribution agreement with cloud security specialist, Zscaler bringing Westcon’s offering of Zscaler’s Zero Trust offering to new markets throughout Europe, namely Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden with future expansion into APAC also planned. “We’re at a point …

 WatchGuard Technologies has added four new endpoint security modules to its WatchGuard Cloud security platform including  Patch Management, Full Encryption, Advanced Reporting Tool (ART) and  Data Control. “WatchGuard continues to deliver on its vision of a Unified Security Platform that enables MSPs to offer a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade security services to protect businesses of all sizes,” said Andrew Young, senior vice president of product …