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As the fashion industry has grown over the years, with more people shopping for garments and more clothing options than ever before, companies have had to show how quickly they can adapt. In the constantly evolving industry, brands everywhere have to stay up to date with the latest technological innovations …

Research from boxxe.com shows the pandemic has created a new era of technological advancement for UK businesses, with 4 out of 5 (82%) undertaking significant digital transformation in the last 12 months. Whilst the restrictions around on-site working and customer interaction brought in during the pandemic have necessitated an acceleration …

Remote work will catalyse a shift from the corporate perimeter concept to micro-office security certification. Outsourcing of IT and cybersecurity functions will be crucial to solve expertise shortages and save budgets. To coordinate managed service providers along with using multiple cloud services, cloud security and management skills will become a …

Vodafone has announced an investment of €20 million by the Vodafone Foundation to expand Foundation digital skills and education programmes by funding local initiatives in Albania, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, and the UK. This investment is expected to reach 16 million …

Road House, a new commercial agency, in the esports industry, has been launched by former global ESL executive, Charlie Allen. Founded back in late 2020, Road House consults with brands, agencies, rights holders, publishers, and tournament organisers from all over the sports, media & entertainment world. As the Founder and …

PPDS has appointed AV professional, Christian Krela, in the newly created position of Channel Manager. Based near Dortmund, Christian brings more than 20-years’ AV specialist sales experience to the PPDS sales team, having held high profile B2B sales management roles at a number of leading national and international AV specialist organisations …

A new study by cybersecurity technology company, CrowdStrike, reveals which UK universities are leading the way in boosting gender diversity in the Computer Sciences. The underrepresentation of female academic staff in the Computer Sciences is fuelling a vicious cycle in which young women are dissuaded from pursuing a career in the growing field and miss out on highly paid and in-demand positions. Research shows …

Pete Watson, CEO at Atlas Cloud discuses how how businesses can act to guard against a second wave of Covid-19 cyber-security attacks. This year has brought the biggest-ever shift in working patterns, with hundreds of millions of people switching to homeworking due to Covid-19. In 2019, only 5% of British …

Supermicro’s newly announced GPU test-drive program: STEP (Supermicro Test drive Engagement with Partners), enables customers to remote test drive either Supermicro’s 2U HGX A100 4-GPU or 4U HGX A100 8-GPU system with NVIDIA 3rd Generation NVLink technology. “Supermicro’s collaboration with NVIDIA in the GPU test drive program delivers through channel partners the opportunity …

 In its Q4 2020 top-clicked phishing report, KnowBe4,  revealed that work-related email subjects such as corporate policy changes are becoming more popular with the Coronavirus pandemic continuing to keep more people working from home. Covering the entire fourth quarter, real phishing emails that were reported to IT departments related to …

Fifty-eight per cent of UK business decision makers have admitted that security remains the biggest barrier to public cloud adoption in their organisations, according to new research from Centrify. The research, conducted by independent polling agency Censuswide via a survey of 200 business decision makers in large- and medium-sized enterprises in …

Wireless Logic has acquired Com4, a Norwegian MVNO with a focus on IoT and M2M communication. Headquartered in Oslo, Com4 was founded in 2011 and today employs a team of 18 professionals with a wealth of experience across applications from smart metering to industrial IoT. Co-founders Henning Solberg (COO) and …