International collaboration helps Return Path to reduce email abuse and extend detection to 2.4 billion mailboxes worldwideLONDON, February 26, 2014 – IT Security vendor Kaspersky Lab and email intelligence company Return Path announced today a new, collaborative initiative to combat international fraud including phishing attacks and other abuse targeting consumers and service providers. The companies have agreed on a framework to share threat data and security analytics to detect and thwart email abuse, protect the end-users from malware and spam, and enable mailbox providers to quickly identify and address fraud within their networks.Under their global agreement, Kaspersky Lab will incorporate…
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Report celebrates the fifty people setting the data-driven marketing agenda in the UK todayLondon, 26 February 2014 – With the significant uptake in companies recognising the value in big data and the potential for it to generate up to $3 trillion in economic value globally[1], DataIQ has launched the IQData50, in association with IBM, an inaugural list to champion the most influential business professionals driving business success from the intelligent use of data in the UK.Vivian Reding, vice president of the European Commission, who tops the power list, has put her political equity behind a sweeping reform of current European…
Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), a leading provider of flash-optimised hybrid storage solutions, today announced that Brightsource, a marketing services and technology company, has deployed Nimble Storage flash-optimised hybrid storage arrays to enable its disaster recovery strategy. By leveraging the Nimble CS-series arrays and Nimble InfoSight Brightsource implemented efficient array-based replication across multiple sites, and simplified the management and reporting of its IT environment. Brightsource’s IT team is responsible for the infrastructure supporting the company’s data processing solutions and automation services that enable clients to create compelling marketing collateral and drive successful campaigns.Brightsource had been relying on a virtualised IT environment…
New, 2.5-inch 600GB Ultrastar® C15K600 HDDs, and the Newly FIPS 140-2 Certified 12Gb/s SAS Ultrastar SSD, Complement HGST’s Growing Line of Reliable, Enterprise-Class Storage Solutions for Improving Storage Density and Lowering Power in High-Performance Computing EnvironmentsLONDON, February 26th, 2014 – HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), today announced that it is shipping a new family of high-performance, high-capacity, 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF), 15K RPM enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDD) – the Ultrastar C15K600 family. Delivering best-in-class performance and capacity in one streamlined solution, the new Ultrastar C15K600 family enables higher density and higher performing servers, blades and network…
26 February 2014, LONDON: Speaking at Cloud Expo Europe in London, Nathan Bell, Director of Marketing, Products and Pricing at Telstra Global, told the packed conference that having cloud-enabled managed hosting will eliminate many of the overheads associated with traditional ICT, making it a crucial investment for any enterprise which hopes to succeed in the near future.According to Bell, an evolved cloud platform model is the answer for ensuring sustainable growth and providing enterprises with a competitive edge.”Traditionally many enterprises have used in-house infrastructure or collocated with an external data centre provider, yet an evolution is on the horizon with…
Targeted SMS messages helps travel operator cope with 200% surge in demandLondon, 26th February, 2014 – PageOne, a leading critical messaging solutions company across the public and private sectors, today announced that the British transport company FirstGroup has responded to a 200% surge in demand for emergency buses during the mass floodings by deploying its Connect business SMS text messaging solution.FirstGroup, which operates a quarter of Britain’s rail network, was able to use SMS to rapidly locate and deploy 1,500 rail replacement buses across the UK. The transport group used PageOne’s secure messaging service to dramatically reduce response times and…
New partnership helps businesses innovate and release new products fasterWokingham, UK, February 26, 2014 — Perforce Software today announced a partnership with UK-based SDC Systems Ltd to provide Perforce’s complete enterprise version management portfolio to businesses across the UK and Ireland.”We were receiving more and more requests from customers looking for code and collaboration tools to help software development and enable faster release times,” said Stuart Parker, managing director of Berkshire-based SDC Systems. “Following a thorough investigation of the tools on the market today, we concluded that Perforce is not only the ‘best in class’, but also a good fit…
WatchGuard Firebox T10 extends ability to protect the ‘new’ enterprise network perimeter26 February 2014 – WatchGuard® Technologies, today announced the WatchGuard Firebox® T10 Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution that allows enterprises to extend powerful network security to small office home office (SOHO) environments. With 70 percent of high-value employees working at home at least once a week[i], the new appliance allows network administrators to ensure robust protection of employees who are often managing the companies’ most critical intellectual property. The Firebox T10 features WatchGuard’s cloud-based RapidDeploy capability, which instantly self-configures and begins reporting back to the administrator’s central console as…
Newtec launches a scalable and flexible multiservice platform which allows operators to build and adapt their infrastructure easily as their business changesSINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 26 February 2014 Satellite communications specialist Newtec marks March 2014 as the launch of Newtec Dialog®, a scalable and flexible multiservice platform which allows operators to build and adapt their infrastructure easily as their business and the satellite market grows and changes. The Newtec Dialog platform can be used to address the consumer and enterprise VSAT, broadcast, cellular backhaul and trunking, as well as government and defense markets.Newtec Dialog gives operators the power to offer a variety…
Europe’s largest cloud services platform adds new IaaS location to meet customer demandLondon, 26 February, 2014 – Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, has opened a new Virtual Data Centre (VDC) zone in Milan. Built into the core of its pan-European network, Interoute VDC enables organizations to deploy virtual computing and storage infrastructure for enterprise applications in minutes. Users can select any of six Interoute VDC zones in Amsterdam, Berlin, Geneva, London, Paris and now Milan to host their data. Internet data transfer data between VDC zones is free thanks to the integration of Interoute’s advanced network.Estimated…