Lancaster University has launched a chatbot for students to help them navigate their way through the university world, including serving up information about their studies and social life. Built on AWS, the chatbot allows students to ask questions and receive contextual replies, as if they’re chatting to a human. They can ask questions about their […]

Salesforce has launched myTrailhead, a branded learning experience platform to help businesses offer their employees enhanced skills training. myTrailhead builds upon Salesforce’s Trailhead, but allows organisations to brand the platform with their own logo, tone of voice and resources in just a few clicks. Employees can learn the skills they want, when they wish, developing […]

A report into the global cloud market has revealed that the value of cloud services could grow by an annual rate of 18% between 2019 and 2023 as businesses look to automate more services and deliver better experiences to customers. Other primary growth drivers are that businesses want to save costs and obtain a higher […]

Huawei has extended its reach across Eurasia, renting 500 racks in data centres across Russia to localise their services for the market. The racks are residing in facilities owned by 3Data, IXcellerate and DataPro, according to Russian news site Kommersant. Russia has pretty extreme data sovereignty laws, stipulating that any information held by Russian companies […]

Microsoft has announced a new inbuilt security information and event management (SIEM) tool for its Azure cloud customers, which promises to use AI to slash the number of alerts that security teams need to respond to. The new tool, dubbed ‘Azure Sentinel’, will help infosec professionals monitor and defend their cloud environments by collating all […]

Facebook has revealed its paid Workplace enterprise communications platform is now being used by two million people worldwide, a little over two years after its launch. The social network said more than 150 large companies (with more than 10,000 employees) have signed up to its corporate collaboration tool, offering workers a centralised place to communicate […]

Security researchers have observed a spike in attacks from multiple threat actors targeting Elasticsearch clusters, in what is believed to be attempts to place malware on victims’ machines. Attackers appear targeting clusters using versions 1.4.2 and lower, and are leveraging old vulnerabilities to pass scripts to search queries and drop the attacker’s payloads, according to […]

VMware made many announcements at MWC 2019 and they all centred around one common theme: network virtualisation. “If a telco wants to progress in the future, they need to think software-defined,” said Gabriele di Piazza, VP products & solutions for telco at VMware. “More and more communication service providers (CSPs) are turning to VMware to […]

A new flaw has been discovered by security researchers that could enable hackers to install backdoors on the firmware of bare-metal cloud servers that stay active even when the customer using the hardware has been re-assigned elsewhere. Called “Cloudbourne”, the vulnerability was first discovered by researchers at the Eclypsium Research Team, who detailed their findings […]

Barcelona – Mobile World Congress – February 27, 2019 – Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Telenor Group CEO Sigve Brekke met today to further strengthen the companies’ strategic collaboration by signing a Joint Purpose Agreement 2.0.  Together, Cisco and Telenor Group will expand their joint innovation across cybersecurity, cloud and the digital workplace, and willexplore Open Virtualized RAN […]