Paul Kunert

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UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses

Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger

21 Jan 2022 12:43 | 4

Offbeat

Working overtime? Those extra hours might not be hurting your wellbeing after all – just don't tell Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma

If you love your job, going the extra mile might not be stressful or cause depression

20 Jan 2022 15:44 | 22

Security

NortonLifeLock and Avast tie-up falls under UK competition regulator's spotlight

CMA invites comments from 'interested parties' on what merger means to them

20 Jan 2022 11:03 | 7

Legal

UK data watchdog slaps Ministry of Justice with Enforcement Notice for breaking GDPR law

ICO threatens £17.5m fine over late processing of subject access requests

19 Jan 2022 15:32 | 14

Personal Tech

Apple grabs smartphone crown as iPhone 13 wakes up the fanbois, leaves Chinese rivals eating dust

But smartphone shipments globally edge up just 1% for total market as demand outweighs supply

18 Jan 2022 18:48 | 15

Security

International police shut down 15 server infrastructures as part of VPNLab.net's takedown

VPN service used by crims to support ransomware attacks and other illicit activity

18 Jan 2022 17:01 | 20

Security

Umbrella company Parasol Group confirms cyber attack as 'root cause' of prolonged network outage

'Malicious activity on our network' spotted, says CEO, as some contractors say they've still not been paid

17 Jan 2022 13:28 | 21

Security

Multi-day IT systems outage whacks umbrella biz Parasol Group amid fears of a cyber attack

Contractors say they haven't been paid, and are in the dark too

14 Jan 2022 16:30 | 19

Off-Prem

Insurance giant Lloyd's hires DXC to migrate org off legacy mainframes to AWS cloud

300-year-old institution to be dragged into the 21st century

13 Jan 2022 14:03 | 29

Personal Tech

Even desktops showed up on growth radar in global PC shipment stakes for 2021

341 million units sold last year, up 15%

12 Jan 2022 15:31 | 5

Offbeat

Meta Platforms demands staffers provide proof of COVID-19 booster vaccine before returning to office

Net closing in on anti-vaxxers as growing band of tech titans get tougher on jabs

11 Jan 2022 15:33 | 101

PaaS + IaaS

French tech giant Atos issues second profit warning in 7 months

Week 2 for new CEO, forced to report sliding sales, delayed projects to investors

10 Jan 2022 16:16 | 3

On-Prem

Barclays snubs public cloud giants and hardware rivals for HPE GreenLake private cloud

Bank migrating thousands of apps and 100k+ workloads to new platform

16 Dec 2021 17:03 | 29

Legal

British Mensa arm pays libel damages to former technology officer and director Eugene Hopkinson

Settles claims relating to cyber attack and data leak, court hears

16 Dec 2021 11:33 |

Networks

French telco tycoon Patrick Drahi ups Altice UK's stake in BT to 18%, says he is not planning a takeover... at least not yet

UK.gov talks tough: 'We will not hesitate to act if required to protect our critical national telecoms infrastructure'

14 Dec 2021 12:11 | 22

On-Prem

What a pain in the aaS: HPE signs up just 1.125% of its channel to sell hardware delivered as a service

Forget software-as-a-hostage! Customers have more choice when it comes to servers, networking, storage

10 Dec 2021 15:05 | 8

Personal Tech

Samsung splits itself in two... internally: Semiconductor biz and then everything else

Smartphones and consumer electronics now under one roof

07 Dec 2021 13:20 | 1

On-Prem

Co-Operative Bank today 'terminated' Capita's outsourcing contract years before it was due to expire

Services ops for mortgages to go back in-house, says High Street lender, can't say how many to TUPE across

02 Dec 2021 16:03 | 56

Security

Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog

EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls

01 Dec 2021 13:50 | 50

Software

Brit RPA upstart Blue Prism falls into arms of US tech holdings biz SS&C for £1.24bn

Software automation specialist escaping London Stock Exchange

01 Dec 2021 12:02 | 4

Legal

UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase

CMA finds that deal would be bad for consumers and tighten Zuck's grip on almost half of £7bn digital ad spend

30 Nov 2021 13:15 | 27

Security

Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was ransomware

10 days after attack 'almost all systems' up and running, refuses to say if ransom was paid

29 Nov 2021 14:29 | 10

Personal Tech

Dell: We and our customers understand the supply constraints now. The 'wildcard is logistics'

Over at rival HP, the story is more about building too many Chromebooks and watching demand for them ebb away

24 Nov 2021 16:32 | 7

Security

Turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems admits to cyber incident, refuses to confirm if ransomware is at play

Company data compromised but not systems containing customer or supplier information

22 Nov 2021 14:10 | 11

Software

UK Department for Education to schools: Maybe delay signing that 3-year licensing deal for MIS with Education Software Solutions

ESS boss says 'longer agreement terms... increasingly standard' in the sector

19 Nov 2021 15:42 | 24

Networks

Riverbed Technologies files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following pandemic 'headwinds'

Closure of factories, labour shortages, and continued slowdown in network optimisation sales at fault

18 Nov 2021 19:17 | 20

Legal

Regulators on three continents probing Nvidia's $40bn purchase of Arm, CFO confirms

US Federal Trade Commission latest to 'express concerns'

18 Nov 2021 13:15 | 8

Software

Blue Prism: We have a rival bidder for our affections, as tech holding biz SS&C bids £1.2bn for RPA specialist

Board still recommending Vista Equity Partners

17 Nov 2021 13:14 |

Legal

A 'national security' issue: UK.gov blocks Nvidia's Arm deal for now, inserts deeper probe

Digi Secretary Nadine Dorries: CMA to 'report to me' on the next steps

16 Nov 2021 14:30 | 64

Updated

Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you

Some punters not happy with former Capita-owned biz, now under control of Montagu Private Equity

16 Nov 2021 11:47 | 29

On-Prem

The paperless office is back again! (But only because print hardware supplies are jammed)

Hardcopy sales plunge double digits in Western Europe, both inkjets and lasers impacted

15 Nov 2021 13:46 | 15

HPC

Now here's HPE with the weather in Northern Europe

Firm to build Cray supercomputer to better grapple with 'new, dynamic weather patterns caused by climate change'

11 Nov 2021 17:18 | 4

Security

Boat biz breaches itself: Brittany Ferries 'fesses up to leaks caused by routine website update

Customers' passport data potentially exposed, says company, promises to carry out password testing

10 Nov 2021 15:29 | 14

Servers

European server sales sink to 4-year low: Cloud, software-defined and chip shortage blamed

Double-digit declines in Germany, UK, France and 15 other countries

09 Nov 2021 10:15 | 4

Security

Angling (re)Direct: Criminals net website of Brit fishing tackle retailer, send users straight to smut site

We've signed everyone up for PornHub Premium, crow immature attackers

08 Nov 2021 14:09 | 18

On-Prem

Nothing to see here, says IBM, Redbooks are still a thing. Move along please

That thing about discontinuing technical content was all a 'misunderstanding'

05 Nov 2021 17:45 | 11

PaaS + IaaS

Kyndryl spins out of IBM, stock starts trading on NYSE – and shares tumble

We're sure everything will be OK, its revenues have only fallen 37 per cent in the past decade

04 Nov 2021 21:56 | 13

Networks

BT shelves efforts to find investor to share FTTP build, says Openreach can run project alone

Oh and that company-wide cost-cutting programme is 18 months ahead of schedule

04 Nov 2021 14:30 | 26

Personal Tech

Apple 'diverts' iPad components to iPhone 13 production, Euro sources not feeling pinch yet

Resellers: Cupertino is doing OK compared to PC makers

02 Nov 2021 14:00 | 9

Networks

Having made £1bn in gross savings well ahead of March 2023 deadline, more cuts could be on BT's agenda

Now exec talk turns to defence against corporate takeovers and where next for efficiency gains

01 Nov 2021 15:15 | 13

SaaS

AWS still growing like a weed but Amazon's retail empire hit by soaring labour, supply chain costs

CFO warns of $4bn in extra costs in the Christmas quarter

29 Oct 2021 12:29 | 2

Off-Prem

ServiceNow's king of understatement quietly goes about his business of changing the world, one workflow at a time

Bzz. Bzz. This digital bingo BS game won't stop buzzing, can someone mute Bill McDermott?

28 Oct 2021 15:29 | 5

Off-Prem

Googlebusters: Cloud biz jumps 45% in Q3 but misses Wall St consensus, operating losses almost halved

Advertising engine still revving amid pandemic

27 Oct 2021 14:25 |

Personal Tech

Product release cycles are killing the environment, techies tell British Computer Society

Running Linux on a vintage box is one answer, but someone has to hold big tech's feet to fire

27 Oct 2021 11:26 | 88

AI + ML

UK schools slap a hold on facial scanning of children amid fierce criticism

'Consent cannot be truly freely given' says privacy campaigner

26 Oct 2021 13:45 | 68

Networks

UK watchdog launches full probe of Motorola Solutions' cop-comms deals on Emergency Services Network

Firm working on both old programme and its replacement - CMA checks potential 'incentive' to delay

25 Oct 2021 15:31 | 12

Security

HIV Scotland fined £10,000 for BCC email blunder identifying names of virus-carriers' patient-advocates

'Serious deficiencies in tech and organisational measures'

25 Oct 2021 11:48 | 11

Devops

IPSE: More than a third of freelancers have quit contracting since IR35 reforms

Exodus, movement of the people... to the Middle East or elsewhere

22 Oct 2021 13:08 | 47

Security

NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event

It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day

20 Oct 2021 11:28 | 60

Updated

Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for 'embarrassing' breach

Website patched following phishing scam, no financial data exposed

20 Oct 2021 09:15 | 12

Personal Tech

Everyone who wants a smartphone for Chrimbo will get one, but in the real world things are somewhat different

Global handset market slips in Q3 on sliding chipset availability, says Canalys

15 Oct 2021 18:45 | 8

Canalys Forum 2021

Who are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor forecasts tech price hikes from January

Things not likely to improve until 2023

15 Oct 2021 11:26 | 3

Personal Tech

Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality

US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation

13 Oct 2021 16:45 | 41

Databases

Soaring cloud division turns things around for SAP after annus horribilis that was 2020

Remember those car-crash results in Q3 a year ago? No repeat collision this time round

13 Oct 2021 15:22 | 2

Virtualization

Want to deploy a new Windows VM on Microsoft Azure? Today might not be your lucky day

Users running non-Windows VMs or existing deployment not affected

13 Oct 2021 12:05 | 7

Off-Prem

Amazon CEO: Directors and team leaders will determine return to work policy for white collar workers

And warehouse staff, datacentre engineers, retail staffers? 'Thanks for your dedication' but no flexible work for you

12 Oct 2021 14:32 | 5

Personal Tech

IDC: Global PC market growing pains in Q3 due to 'softening' of sales in America

Ok, time to call death to PC again? No, definitely not. Did we mention prices due to go up again?

11 Oct 2021 13:45 | 3

Canalys Forums

Windows what? PC makers have bigger things on their minds

Remember those days when OSes were the be-all and end-all?

08 Oct 2021 08:32 | 40

Networks

Supply chain pain: Cisco's base price structure moving north from November

Demand for components at a 10-year high

06 Oct 2021 12:45 | 9

Applications

Google Cloud UK boss boomerangs back to Salesforce to run freshly acquired Slack's EMEA ops

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in

05 Oct 2021 14:58 | 1

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UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses

Working overtime? Those extra hours might not be hurting your wellbeing after all – just don't tell Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma

NortonLifeLock and Avast tie-up falls under UK competition regulator's spotlight

UK data watchdog slaps Ministry of Justice with Enforcement Notice for breaking GDPR law

Apple grabs smartphone crown as iPhone 13 wakes up the fanbois, leaves Chinese rivals eating dust

International police shut down 15 server infrastructures as part of VPNLab.net's takedown

Umbrella company Parasol Group confirms cyber attack as 'root cause' of prolonged network outage

Multi-day IT systems outage whacks umbrella biz Parasol Group amid fears of a cyber attack

Insurance giant Lloyd's hires DXC to migrate org off legacy mainframes to AWS cloud

Even desktops showed up on growth radar in global PC shipment stakes for 2021

Meta Platforms demands staffers provide proof of COVID-19 booster vaccine before returning to office

French tech giant Atos issues second profit warning in 7 months

Barclays snubs public cloud giants and hardware rivals for HPE GreenLake private cloud

British Mensa arm pays libel damages to former technology officer and director Eugene Hopkinson

French telco tycoon Patrick Drahi ups Altice UK's stake in BT to 18%, says he is not planning a takeover... at least not yet

What a pain in the aaS: HPE signs up just 1.125% of its channel to sell hardware delivered as a service

Samsung splits itself in two... internally: Semiconductor biz and then everything else

Co-Operative Bank today 'terminated' Capita's outsourcing contract years before it was due to expire

Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog

Brit RPA upstart Blue Prism falls into arms of US tech holdings biz SS&C for £1.24bn

UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase

Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was ransomware

Dell: We and our customers understand the supply constraints now. The 'wildcard is logistics'

Turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems admits to cyber incident, refuses to confirm if ransomware is at play

UK Department for Education to schools: Maybe delay signing that 3-year licensing deal for MIS with Education Software Solutions

Riverbed Technologies files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following pandemic 'headwinds'

Regulators on three continents probing Nvidia's $40bn purchase of Arm, CFO confirms

Blue Prism: We have a rival bidder for our affections, as tech holding biz SS&C bids £1.2bn for RPA specialist

A 'national security' issue: UK.gov blocks Nvidia's Arm deal for now, inserts deeper probe

Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you

The paperless office is back again! (But only because print hardware supplies are jammed)

Now here's HPE with the weather in Northern Europe

Boat biz breaches itself: Brittany Ferries 'fesses up to leaks caused by routine website update

European server sales sink to 4-year low: Cloud, software-defined and chip shortage blamed

Angling (re)Direct: Criminals net website of Brit fishing tackle retailer, send users straight to smut site

Nothing to see here, says IBM, Redbooks are still a thing. Move along please

Kyndryl spins out of IBM, stock starts trading on NYSE – and shares tumble

BT shelves efforts to find investor to share FTTP build, says Openreach can run project alone

Apple 'diverts' iPad components to iPhone 13 production, Euro sources not feeling pinch yet

Having made £1bn in gross savings well ahead of March 2023 deadline, more cuts could be on BT's agenda

AWS still growing like a weed but Amazon's retail empire hit by soaring labour, supply chain costs

ServiceNow's king of understatement quietly goes about his business of changing the world, one workflow at a time

Googlebusters: Cloud biz jumps 45% in Q3 but misses Wall St consensus, operating losses almost halved

Product release cycles are killing the environment, techies tell British Computer Society

UK schools slap a hold on facial scanning of children amid fierce criticism

UK watchdog launches full probe of Motorola Solutions' cop-comms deals on Emergency Services Network

HIV Scotland fined £10,000 for BCC email blunder identifying names of virus-carriers' patient-advocates

IPSE: More than a third of freelancers have quit contracting since IR35 reforms

NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event

Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for 'embarrassing' breach

Everyone who wants a smartphone for Chrimbo will get one, but in the real world things are somewhat different

Who are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor forecasts tech price hikes from January

Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality

Soaring cloud division turns things around for SAP after annus horribilis that was 2020

Want to deploy a new Windows VM on Microsoft Azure? Today might not be your lucky day

Amazon CEO: Directors and team leaders will determine return to work policy for white collar workers

IDC: Global PC market growing pains in Q3 due to 'softening' of sales in America

Windows what? PC makers have bigger things on their minds

Supply chain pain: Cisco's base price structure moving north from November

Google Cloud UK boss boomerangs back to Salesforce to run freshly acquired Slack's EMEA ops

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