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Microsoft raises posse to target dangerous Lumma malware

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A broad coalition of technology partners and law enforcement agencies, spearheaded by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), has disrupted the dangerous Lumma Stealer malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation, which played a key role in the arsenals of multiple cyber criminal gangs, including ransomware crews. Using a court order granted in the US District Court of the Northern…

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University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery

4 minutes of reading / Azure, Cloud, Computer, Dell, disaster recovery, DNS, hybrid cloud, Tech / By

The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery (DR) readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke to Computer Weekly at Nutanix’s .Next 2025 event in the US last week. The University of…

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Italian bank signs 10-year deal with Google Cloud

3 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Cloud, data analytics, digital transformation, Google, Google Cloud, machine learning, Tech / By

UniCredit has signed a 10-year agreement with Google Cloud to “accelerate” its digital transformation by tapping into the supplier’s cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics capabilities. UniCredit will migrate “large sections” of its “application landscape”, including legacy systems, to Google’s Cloud platform across its banking operations in 13 countries. The bank will also use…

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Roundtable: Why did customers sail away from VMware?

8 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Broadcom, Cisco, Cloud, Dell, disaster recovery, MSI, Tech / By

Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix is among a number of suppliers that smell blood in the water when it comes to VMware and its customers following the virtualisation giant’s acquisition by Broadcom. At Nutanix’s annual .Next bash in Washington DC last week, migration away from VMware and to – it hopes – its own Acropolis hypervisor (AHV)…

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It’s time to get to grips with DORA

5 minutes of reading / Cloud, compliance, Fujitsu, HP, open source, risk management, Tech, threat intelligence / By

It’s no surprise to me that financial services organisations missed the 17 January2025 deadline to be in compliance with the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). I personally have not met a CIO or CISO who thought this deadline was realistic.Even back in January, research from Orange Cyberdefense saw 43% of respondents in the…

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Agentic AI could yield creative futures if it augments human workers

9 minutes of reading / AI, automation, chatbot, Cloud, digital transformation, Salesforce, Tech / By

Anyone who has been held in a customer service phone loop trying to resolve issues relating to products, services, accounts and so on will know the feeling – customer service can be a frustrating, time-consuming experience. It feels like technology has not helped that much, so when Gartner trumpeted the prospects of agentic artificial intelligence…

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EU acts to mend ailing AI competitiveness

5 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, software engineering, Tech / By

Europe has started taking steps to fix the immense problems it believes have hampered its competitiveness and left it with an under-developed artificial intelligence (AI) industry that cannot compete on the world stage.  Leaders of European Union (EU) nations, having called for urgent measures, set terms for political negotiations to simplify onerous rules governing financiers and…

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ServiceNow K25: McDermott vaunts agentic AI platform as revolutionary

5 minutes of reading / agile, AI, chatbot, Cloud, compliance, Computer, digital transformation, Google, Google Cloud, IT service management, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Tech, Technology / By

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott hailed AI as an “absolute requirement” for the survival of humanity at the supplier’s Knowledge 2025 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. “AI is civilization’s opportunity of this century. It is a gateway to prosperity. It is the only $22tn global market opportunity between now and 2030. It’s the only…

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Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS

3 minutes of reading / Amazon, Broadcom, Cloud, containers, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, multicloud, Tech / By

In another move beyond the bounds of strictly hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), Nutanix has launched Cloud Native AOS. In other words, this is the operating system (OS) that underlies all its HCI products but available for deployment separately and without the need for a hypervisor. In this way, Nutanix hopes to enable its customers to extend…

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Financially motivated cyber crime remains biggest threat source

4 minutes of reading / AI, automation, Cloud, Google, Google Cloud, penetration testing, Tech, threat intelligence / By

Financially motivated threat actors – including ransomware crews – remain the single biggest source of cyber threat in the world, accounting for 55% of active threat groups tracked during 2024, up two percentage points on 2023 and 7% on 2022, demonstrating that cyber crime really does, to a certain extent, pay. At least, this is…

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