A ‘Perfect Storm’: NCSC Chief Issues Warning over Quantum Threats, Nation-State Hackers, and the Dangers of Global ‘Hacktivism’
NCSC chief Richard Horne warned at CyberUK that nation‑state actors—China, Iran, Russia—now drive most UK nationally significant cyber incidents, averaging four per week. He highlighted a "perfect storm" where ransomware, AI‑enabled exploits, hacktivism and an approaching quantum "Q‑Day" converge to threaten critical infrastructure. Horne urged organisations to adopt post‑quantum guidance, replace legacy systems, and strengthen public‑private collaboration, while calling for legislative action to safeguard resilience.
Claroty Names John Ryan as New Global Channel Chief
Claroty announced John Ryan as vice president of its global partner ecosystem, taking charge of the xCelerate Partner Program. Ryan brings more than a decade of channel leadership from firms like Radiant Logic, Orca Security and Illumio. His mandate is...
ITPro NAB Best of Show 2026 Awards Winners Unveiled
ITPro announced the 2026 Best of Show Awards at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, naming six winners across display, CDN analytics, AI‑driven engineering, data storage, video routing and enterprise NAS. The panel of industry experts evaluated entries on ease...
HPE ProLiant Compute ML350 Gen12 Review: HPE Delivers a Mighty Xeon 6 Tower of Power
HPE’s ProLiant Compute ML350 Gen12 is the company’s most powerful tower server, featuring dual 32‑core Xeon 6730P CPUs (up to 86 cores) and up to 8 TB of DDR5 memory. It offers up to ten PCIe Gen5 slots and can accommodate eight single‑width or four...
What Is ‘Friction-Maxxing’ and Should Leaders Embrace It?
Businesses are discovering that generative AI tools, touted as productivity boosters, are actually intensifying work and eroding critical‑thinking skills, according to studies from UC Berkeley and MIT Media Lab. In response, some employees are deliberately re‑introducing inconvenience—a practice dubbed “friction‑maxxing”—by...
Google Cloud Next 2026 Is a Chance to Demonstrate Google’s Unique Advantages
Google Cloud Next 2026 will showcase a flood of new AI, cloud, and security products as Google reports a 48% YoY jump in cloud revenue, driven by its Gemini AI platform. The event’s theme, “the agentic cloud,” highlights AI agents...
Can We Disrupt the Data Center Designs?
The surge in data creation—projected to reach 181 zettabytes by 2025—has pushed data centers to consume 4‑5% of U.S. electricity and massive water volumes for cooling. Companies are experimenting with renewable power, nuclear PPAs, ocean‑water cooling, and even floating or offshore...
Shadow AI and the New Visibility Gap in Software Development
Generative AI is now a core part of software development, but shadow AI—unapproved AI tools used by developers—is already mainstream, with 50% of workers globally and over 70% of UK employees relying on them. This creates a "lethal trifecta" of...
Dynatrace Eyes IT Observability Gains with Bindplane Acquisition
Dynatrace announced a definitive agreement to acquire telemetry pipeline specialist Bindplane. The deal adds an open‑standards pipeline for logs, metrics and traces, aiming to improve data quality, lower ingest costs and boost compliance. Dynatrace says the combined solution will give...
Enterprises Are ‘Paralyzed by a Lack of Understanding’ with AI Adoption – and There's One Key Factor that Decides Success
Enterprises are struggling to reap AI benefits, with Forrester finding that a lack of understanding and siloed adoption hampers progress. The survey shows firms that prioritize customer value over pure productivity achieve the most tangible results. CEOs who champion AI...
Everest Group Taps Ross Tisnovsky to Lead CIO Practice Expansion
Everest Group has appointed Ross Tisnovsky as a partner to head the expansion of its CIO Research and Advisory practice. Tisnovsky returns after a 12‑year tenure at McKinsey, where he co‑founded the technology‑focused Solution Ignite unit. The move aims to...
‘Fragmentation Is Poison’: How Microsoft Is Targeting Disparate Data to Boost AI Adoption
Microsoft unveiled Database Hub and Fabric IQ at FabCon and SQLCon 2026, extending its Fabric SaaS analytics platform to unify roughly 20 data services under a single management plane. The new Database Hub adds AI‑driven, natural‑language exploration across Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL and...
Channel Partners Are Sleepwalking Into an AI Code Generation Trap
Managed Service Providers are being asked to deliver full AI‑enhanced development stacks, but rapid adoption of AI code generators introduces hidden security risks. Studies show nearly half of AI‑generated code snippets contain vulnerabilities and 67% of organizations fail to assess...
Qnap TS-H1077AFU Review: A Great All-Flash Performance for Small Spaces
QNAP’s new TS‑h1077AFU is a 1U all‑Flash NAS targeting budget‑conscious enterprises. It pairs an 8‑core AMD Ryzen 7 7700 processor with 32 GB DDR5 (expandable to 192 GB) and ten hot‑swap SATA SFF SSD bays, while dropping U.2 NVMe support for a lower price...
‘You Need Those Experts to Even Define What These Transformations Are’: COBOL Developers Will Always Be Needed, Even as AI...
Amazon Web Services' Transform platform leverages generative AI to accelerate mainframe modernization, translating legacy COBOL, JCL and related code into Java while preserving functionality. AWS executive Asa Kalavade emphasizes that human COBOL experts remain essential for validating AI‑generated code and...
MariaDB Snaps up GridGain in AI Push
MariaDB announced a definitive agreement to acquire in‑memory computing specialist GridGain. The deal will merge GridGain’s Apache Ignite‑based data grid with MariaDB’s AI‑ready relational platform, aiming to deliver sub‑millisecond data processing for AI and real‑time workloads. By combining ACID‑compliant transactions...
AND Digital Fuels US Expansion with New Leadership Appointment
AND Digital announced Catherine Rousseau as Technical Solutions Director to accelerate its U.S. expansion and strengthen AI‑enabled digital transformation services. Rousseau joins from Valsoft, where she led an AI business unit, and will define technical strategy, solution design, and architectural...
Ericsson Maps Out the Road to Fully Commercial 6G Networks at MWC 2026
Ericsson announced that commercial 6G networks are slated for rollout toward the end of this decade, positioning the technology as "intelligence" rather than merely a carrier for AI. Marie Hogan highlighted the surge in AI agents, autonomous devices, and data‑intensive...
Arctic Wolf Snaps up Sevco Security to Bolster Exposure Management
Arctic Wolf announced the acquisition of Texas‑based Sevco Security, a cloud‑native exposure assessment specialist, for an undisclosed amount. Sevco’s platform, recognized as a Gartner Visionary in 2025, will be folded into Arctic Wolf’s Aurora platform to unify asset intelligence, vulnerability...
Why ‘Buy vs Build’ Is the Wrong Question for AI Strategy
Artificial intelligence is now a strategic priority, yet many enterprises chase hype instead of defining clear use cases, driven by a 63% fear‑of‑missing‑out. The traditional buy‑vs‑build debate is less relevant than asking what problem AI should solve. A blended approach—combining...
Ransomware Gangs Are Using Employee Monitoring Software as a Springboard for Cyber Attacks
Threat actors have weaponized Net Monitor for Employees, a legitimate workforce‑tracking product, as a remote access trojan and paired it with SimpleHelp RMM software to stage ransomware attacks. Huntress identified two separate incidents where the dual‑tool chain was used to...
Deepfake Business Risks Are Growing – Here's What Leaders Need to Know
Deepfake attacks have moved from a niche concern to a mainstream cybersecurity priority, with 62% of organizations reporting at least one incident in the past year. Hackers are leveraging publicly available AI models, such as Google Gemini, to create convincing...
Fake North Korean IT Workers Are Rampant on LinkedIn – Security Experts Warn Operatives Are Stealing Profiles to Apply for...
Security Alliance (SEAL) reports that North Korean actors are hijacking authentic LinkedIn profiles to pose as remote IT workers and infiltrate companies worldwide. By leveraging stolen personal data, verified workplace emails and AI‑generated imagery, they pass background checks and secure...
Kyndryl Wants to Help Enterprises Keep AI Agents in Line – and Avoid Costly Compliance Blunders
Kyndryl introduced a policy‑as‑code feature that converts corporate rules, regulations, and operational controls into machine‑readable policies for AI agents. The capability, embedded in its Agentic AI Framework, ensures agents act only within pre‑approved boundaries, providing deterministic execution, guardrails, and human‑supervised...
Google Says Hacker Groups Are Using Gemini to Augment Attacks – and Companies Are Even ‘Stealing’ Its Models
Google Threat Intelligence Group, together with DeepMind, released an AI Threat Tracker revealing that state‑backed APT groups are weaponizing Google’s Gemini models to research targets, craft multilingual phishing, and generate code for attacks. Notable actors include China‑based Temp.HEX, UNC6148 targeting...