Interoute achieves top level security accreditations for industry best practiceLondon, 14 February, 2014 – Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, has completed ISO 20000 certification across its Prague Operations Centre and Amsterdam, Berlin and Geneva Data Centre operations. The comprehensive scope of the ISO 20000 certification aligns to ITIL service management industry best practices applied to Interoute’s Unified Computing. The certification represents a significant milestone in Interoute’s continued efforts to provide quality and secure outsourced business technology solutions to the world’s leading organisations. Conor Ward, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Product & Solutions for Interoute, said: “Interoute has…
Author: RealWire
– Two-thirds of small business employees take their work home – Less than half believe they can spot obvious scams and threats onlineFebruary 14th, London, UK – The shifting boundaries between work and home life mean staff at many small businesses are unwittingly putting their employers at risk of cyber-attack. 82 per cent of small business employees use work time for personal matters, over a third of them for more than two hours a day, according to a survey carried out by TalkTalk Business.TalkTalk Business surveyed 1,000 small business employees, of whom over 70 per cent admit taking work home…
Zurich, 13 February 2014: SandSIV AG is a Swiss-based Customer Intelligence company that helps enterprises understand their customers through next-generation Big Data analytics. The company recently announced the creation of four new consulting packages that significantly enhance Customer Intelligence usability, rapid deployment and accelerate clients’ return on investment. SandSIV’s core product offering encompasses an end-to-end suite of Customer Intelligence technologies, both in Customer Experience Management (“CXM”) and Voice of the Customer (“VoC”). The combination of cutting-edge software applications and expert consulting provides clients with a jump-start in customer-centric initiatives.SandSIV has developed an experienced team of senior consultants, analysts and researchers…
40% of 25-34 year olds have read their card details out loud in a public placeSurrey, 13 February 2014 – – New research commissioned by Semafone has revealed that many of us are putting ourselves at risk of fraud by reading credit and debit numbers out loud in public places. The age group revealed to be taking the largest risk was 25-34 year-olds, of whom 30% admitted to reading their card details out loud in the street and 22% in an open plan office. Older shoppers were shown to be the most cautious group, with 91% of over 55s stating…
The latest apps that could turn you into a spammer London and Dallas, February 13th, 2014 – AdaptiveMobile, the world leader in mobile security, today called out a growing, aggressive form of viral marketing, used by many of the latest app developers, that is starting to pose an increasing concern for many subscribers, with complaint figures on the rise. This form of growth hacking, as it is known, is where a user-installed app will request to notify or invite the user’s contact list of the new game or service by SMS. Well-known examples of current apps using this technique include…
The new console chooses WorldPay for global payment servicesLondon, 13 February, 2014 – Video game console OUYA has selected WorldPay, a global leader in payment processing, risk management and alternative payments, as its provider of global payment services.OUYA, the highly anticipated new entrant into the games console market, launched in the USA in June 2013. The company offers more than 600 games available to play on the TV screen and free to play. OUYA also provides localisation of services in Canada and the UK. OUYA is based on an open-source Android format, making it possible for anyone to develop and…
Leading IT solutions provider behind innovation platform, CODE_n offers a sneak peek at the UK big data finalistsLondon, 13th February 2014 – GFT UK, one of the world’s leading providers of IT solutions for the financial sector, today announced an exclusive preview next week of CODE_n and the UK big data startup finalists three weeks ahead of the official program at CeBIT next month. Now in its third year, CODE_n is internationally esteemed as a global innovation platform, fostering innovation by combining the agility and fresh spirit of young entrepreneurs with the network and experience from leading companies. In its…
Leading Vendors, Solution and Service Providers to meet in London in September 2014[London, 13 February 2014] IT Europa and Angel Business Communications announced today that they will jointly be staging the fourth annual UK Managed Services & Hosting Summit on 25 September 2014. The event will bring together leading hardware and software vendors, hosting providers, telecommunications companies, mobile operators and web services providers involved in managed services and hosting with resellers, integrators and service providers migrating to, or developing their own managed services portfolio and sales of hosted solutions.All indicators are pointing to rapid growth of managed services, but many…
London and Edinburgh, UK – Flexiant, a global leader in cloud orchestration software, today announced the completion of the 4CaaSt consortium after three years of collaboration with some of Europe’s largest Telcos. The 4Caast project aimed and succeeded at creating an advanced PaaS cloud platform to support the optimized and elastic hosting of Internet-scale multi-tier applications. Speaking at the conclusion of the project 4CaaSt project technical coordinator Sergio García Gómez, of Telefónica, said, “4CaaSt embedded all the necessary features, easing programming of rich applications and enabling the creation of a true business ecosystem where applications coming from different providers can…
Kroll Ontrack’s “decryption-on-the-fly” technology speeds up data recovery time by taking a targeted approach to recovering encrypted hard drive data London – Feb 12, 2014 – Software engineers at data recovery leader Kroll Ontrack have developed a new technology that can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to recover encrypted hard drives with a logical or physical failure – a key development in light of the growing number of cyber threats that are driving the adoption of encrypted drives. The company’s new automated decryption technology allows engineers to target only areas of the hard drive that have been…