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 Kingston Technology Europe Co LLP’s latest FURY Beast DDR5 release arrives in sync with the launch of Intel’s Z690 Chipset and 12th Gen Intel Core processors (“Alder Lake-S”). DDR5’s  enhanced features include on-die ECC (ODECC) for improved stability at extreme speeds, dual 32-bit subchannels for increased efficiency, and on-module power management integrated circuit …

Agilitas IT Solutions has raised over £2,000 for its Charity Partner, ‘Children With Special Needs Foundation’ at its recent Agilitas Golf Day. The annual Partner Golf day held a Charity Raffle with golf-inspired prizes to raise funds for the Children With Special Needs Foundation (CWSNF). In line with its ongoing commitment …

Glide Group has appointment Bruce Girdlestone as Sales Director for Higher Education. Girdlestone previously worked in the fixed and wireless telecommunications industry leading sales, business development and product teams. With over 25 years of experience in telecommunications, Girdlestone has spent the past 2 years setting up a new sales team …

Due to the ongoing disruption of brick-and-mortar retail caused by the pandemic, e-commerce witnessed record growth with online sales going up nearly 44% and steadily increasing at the same pace for the past three quarters. As consumers become increasingly comfortable with digital shopping, the competition for direct response ads amongst brands …

New research from Acronis shows that consolidating and integrating cybersecurity, backup, and disaster recovery services produces $229,159 in savings on average and reduces the time required to recover from a breach or data loss incident by an average of five hours. Conducted by Vanson Bourne, the report “MSPs Speak: Cybersecurity and …

 Clavister has acquired Omen Technologies AB. Omen’s customers and projects are based in Northern Europe (primarily in Sweden) and currently largely in mission-critical applications. For example, Clavister and Omen are already partnering alongside BAE Systems to build AI-based cybersecurity for CAN & IP traffic in vehicles in the Defence sector. …

AVEVA has published its first Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap Report. In addition to reporting on its global gender pay gap for the second year, the company has collated data on race and ethnicity for the first time, starting with employees in the UK and US, two of its largest …

In its FY22 H1 earnings, Datatec Limited reported Westcon-Comstor (Westcon International) revenue increased by 12.3% to US$1.4 billion (H1 FY21: US$1.2 billion restated revenue), as a result of strong demand for networked cloud computing, remote access solutions for flexible working and virtual office environments, unified communications and enhanced cybersecurity. Westcon International’s …

British cyber security company Risk Ledger has raised £2.1 million in seed funding. Haydn Brooks, founder and CEO at Risk Ledger said: “The past 18 months have been a period of rapid growth in the company. We grew our client base and our user numbers have sky-rocketed despite the significant …

NETGEAR, Inc.’s Insight Business VPN, an add-on service to the Orbi Pro Series of WiFi 5 (SRK 60) and WiFi 6 (SXK 80) business router mesh systems connects branch offices and work-from-home (WFH) employees to the corporate WiFi network (SSID) through an encrypted, trusted and persistent VPN connection. The WiFi …

ServiceNow has acquired Denmark-based Gekkobrain to help customers modernise their systems of record. Gekkobrain’s team brings deep understanding of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system customisations. The team developed the ability to identify and understand custom code and business processes that should be modernised, enabling faster migrations, more delightful experiences and …

PPDS is usingLogitech’s range of video conferencing and audio solutions with the  Philips-branded corporate and education display ranges. PPDS and Logitech plan to bring seamless integration between a range of collaboration-inspired Philips professional displays for both corporate and education settings and a range of Logitech products. These include the Crestron …