IoT

Reading, UK. 19 May 2022 – Egnyte, the specialist in cloud content security and governance, released the findings of a benchmarking survey of UK Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) professionals to evaluate how the industry is responding to the threat of ransomware attacks. The survey reveals that despite 87% of respondents having strong concerns about ransomware attacks, 71% describe their firm’s recovery strategy as being ‘weak’, ‘could be better,’ or admit to having ‘no plan.’

From major advances in medicine to taking the automotive industry by storm, the widespread implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming global industry at every level. As technologies, such as Big Data, robotics, and the Internet of things (IoT) continue to advance at a phenomenal rate, AI is becoming a key driver in global innovation, says Dr. Ray O. Johnson, chief executive officer, Technology Innovation Institute (TII).

London, UK. 19 May 2022 – Global Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), SecurityHQ, have announced their partnership with cyber security solutions provider, SentinelOne.

London, UK. 18 May 2022 – KnowBe4, the provider of the security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, announced that its research arm, KnowBe4 Research, has launched the 2022 Security Culture Report, which looked at trends in security culture for the first time, finding that security culture worldwide has improved overall.

Mentor, Ohio & San Diego – Avery Dennison Corporation, the provider of RFID and digital ID solutions, and Wiliot, the Internet of Things provider, announced a strategic partnership dedicated to scaling the IoT to the next level, creating a new era of IoT that benefits people and the planet.

“Procurement has gone digital with a focus on cost-effectively sourcing the right technology platforms prevailing over the purchasing of physical IT assets to drive growth and productivity, and reliable mobile connectivity is integral to this process,” says Stuart Waine, director of research and development at Spry Fox Networks.

Today at Intel Vision, Intel announced that Habana Labs, its data centre team focused on AI deep learning processor technologies, launched its second-generation deep learning processors for training and inference: Habana Gaudi2 and Habana Greco. These new processors address an industry gap by providing customers with high-performance, high-efficiency deep learning compute choices for both training workloads and inference deployments in the data centre while lowering the AI barrier to entry for companies of all sizes.

It has been reported that the number of connected IoT devices will exceed 75 billion by 2025 (Source, Findstack), meaning for every human on earth, there will be approximately nine connected devices, says Jordan Appleson, CEO at Hark.

We live in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ever more integrated into our lives and the economy. It’s no surprise, therefore, that it’s also getting some serious funding.

London, UK. 11 May 2022 – The financial services industry is embracing digital transformation plans that were accelerated as a result of the pandemic, according to a major recent study from Vodafone Business. This has led to 29% of financial services firms globally being considered ‘Fit for the Future’ (FFTF) and better prepared to deal with future challenges such as increased competition, changing employee expectations, and rising customer demand.

Lagos, Nigeria. 11 May 2022 – elev8 education, a global digital skilling and transformative education partner, has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training Partner programme. Through this program, elev8 will deliver cloud computing skills training, developed and maintained by AWS, to organisations and learners in Nigeria and Rwanda.

Armonk, NY, USA. 10 May 2022 – IBM announced education initiatives with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Specialisterne Foundation, and six Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) to provide no-cost STEM job training to U.S. military veterans, neurodivergent learners worldwide, and university students from underrepresented communities in the U.S.

London, UK. 10 May 2022 – Cybereason, the XDR company, launched new Incident Response (IR) and Professional Services subscription bundles with services designed to help organisations measure and optimise their security program, packaged with unlimited incident response services that identify, contain and remediate malicious cyber incidents in minutes.

According to Arimo, manufacturers can deal with up to 800 hours of downtime per year. As unscheduled downtime is far more costly than planned downtime, it’s important that manufacturers have real-time information about their equipment and processes to avoid unexpected faults and failures. Here Johan Jonzon, CMO and co-founder of edge analytics platform developer, Crosser, explains how edge analytics provides instantaneous data to prevent unscheduled downtime.

Trusted cybersecurity firm, Trustonic, has been granted Common Criterial Evaluation Assurance Level [EAL] 5+ for its Kinibi operating system [OS].

Innodisk, a global specialist in industrial storage and embedded peripherals, is delighted to announce its latest business strategy. Together with its subsidiaries, Innodisk will make every effort to promote Edge AI computing technologies to the world.

Hampshire, UK. 9 May 2022 – A new study from Juniper Research has predicted that the global spend using QR code payments will reach over $3 trillion (€2.85 trillion) by 2025; rising from $2.4 trillion (€2.28 trillion) in 2022.

Ballymore Group founder and group CEO Sean Mulryan has acquired a significant minority stake in the Zoosh Group (Zoosh), the cloud venture builder. He will now join the board as a non-executive director along with the four founders Balazs Bakos, Bert Farrell, David Brophy and Mervyn Graham.

Waterloo, Ontario – New research by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Auvik, a provider of cloud-based network management software, revealed organisations’ confidence in their network operations groups has dwindled amid staffing shortages and network data quality issues.

If businesses want to win in the 21st century, then harnessing the power of the network across the entire organisation is essential because digital is the new front door for every enterprise. Customer and workforce demands on the network are evolving faster than the pace of traditional businesses and the Covid-19 pandemic has only accelerated this change. The digital winners of tomorrow don’t think in terms of building solutions that merely solve today’s challenges. Their eyes are set on being ready for challenges that are yet to materialise. They build for change, says Jeff Gray, vice-president, Americas, Xalient.

Belfast and London, UK. 26 April 2022 – Digital technology company, Kainos, has partnered with slow news organisation, Tortoise, to investigate how business leaders should respond to challenges around trust in AI now.

Hampshire, UK. 3 May 2022: A new study by Juniper Research has found that hearables’ shipments will exceed 200 million units by 2024, up from 165 million in 2022; representing total growth of 30% over the next two years.

Sydney, Australia. 28 April 2022 – Enterprises and government agencies in Australia are migrating to the cloud at a rapid pace that is expected to increase significantly over the next five years, according to a new research report published by Information Services Group, a global technology research and advisory firm.

San Jose, CA. 27 April 2022 – Cloud networking specialist Alkira has launched Cloud Insights, a free tool to improve the networking and security of enterprise cloud deployments. Nearly a third (32%) of cloud spending is wasted, according to Flexera’s State of the Cloud Report 2022, which identifies optimisation of existing cloud resources as the top priority for enterprises.

Over the past few years, we have increasingly heard the term “open source software.” It has become the cornerstone of technology we use today, making up 98% of all codebases according to the 2021 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report, says Tim Mackey, principal security strategist, Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Centre.

Harrow, UK. 28th April 2022 – Electro Rent, a provider of test and technology solutions and services, has introduced a new e-commerce feature to its website in France and the UK. This user-friendly feature provides current and new customers with the ability to purchase certified pre-owned (CPO) test equipment directly online. Supporting the company’s reputation as an easy trading partner, the customer purchasing experience just became even more efficient and effective.

London, UK, 27 April 2022 – Alibaba Cloud, the digital technologies and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced it has made further progress in porting basic Android functions onto the RISC-V instruction-set architecture (ISA). This proves the feasibility of using RISC-V based Android devices in scenarios ranging from multimedia to signal processing, device interconnection, and artificial intelligence (AI).