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Epsilon will be the key partner to replace contract manufacturer, Belton Technology  Group’s legacy MPLS with a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN). This will aim to improve connectivity between manufacturing plants and offices across mainland China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Thailand. Traditional MPLS is dependent on Points of Presence (PoP) …

Cloudian has unveiled its new remote managed service offering, HyperCare, enabling the company to provide management of Cloudian object storage solutions in a customer’s own data centre. In addition, for organisations that prefer to manage their storage infrastructure themselves, Cloudian has enhanced its existing service offerings with new Support Plus …

Snowflake  has announced plans to quire Streamlit, a framework built to simplify and accelerate the creation of data applications. The combined forces of the two companies will provide Streamlit users with  easier access to trusted and secure data to power their data applications. Snowflake customers will be able to leverage Streamlit’s …

ROOM’s latest launch, ‘Room for Zoom’ in the UK in collaboration with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. and HP, Inc. is a video collaboration suite that improves connection for remote and office based workers. Key features include soundproofing and a modular architecture that’s fitted with built-in VC lighting, a monitor, webcam, skylights, connected power …

 CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.’s new Falcon Identity Threat Protection Complete, is a fully-managed identity threat protection solution. It brings together the Falcon Identity Threat Protection module and Falcon Complete managed service to deliver identity threat prevention and IT policy enforcement, with expert management, monitoring and remediation. CrowdStrike was named as a Leader in the IDC …

neutrality.one is partnering with Neterra and Arc Solutions to provide seamless connectivity services across the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. Customers can gain access to this interconnected partnership via points of presence (PoPs) in the UAE, Bahrain, and Oman via Arc’s solutions, 150+ global PoPs via Neterra, as well …

Globalization Partners has appointed Simone Nardi as Chief Financial Officer following the recent promotion of Bob Cahill to President. Nardi brings extensive experience in strategic planning, capital markets, investor relations, M&A, business development and change management with companies of various sizes, industries, and complexities across the U.S. and internationally. Reporting …

A report conducted by Pax8 focuses on the changing tech landscape, the role of digital transformation (DX). More than 400 senior leaders of SMB organisations were surveyed to find out where they were in their transformation journey. Almost two-thirds of those surveyed (63%) said that their main objective for implementing digital …

According to in-house aggregated Atlas VPN user data, Virtual Private Network (VPN) installs in Russia surged by 1,906% in the last few days. The interest in VPNs started to increase on February 16, 2022, after the first wave of cyberattacks against Ukraine occurred. VPN installs reached record heights one day after …

NFT technology is helping to make art profitable again, but plagiarism and fakes are “becoming a massive issue” for both artists and buyers, warns a world-famous British artist who has crossed over into the digital space. The warning from Adrian Chesterman, who has worked with the likes of Steven Spielberg, …

 OnBuy has announced it has made the Financial Times 1000, securing spot 331. The online retailer reported a 479% increase in revenue growth between 2017 and 2020. This is important news for Bournemouth-based OnBuy following its successful 2021, seeing product listings hit over 36 million. OnBuy anticipates further growth in …

In the April issue of PCR, which has a key focus on cyber security we will also be opening up the airways to the channel to provide comment for a roundtable Q&A If you would like to have your say then please see below questions for expert comment: What is …