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Trend Micro has released a new report highlighting the growing risk of downtime and sensitive data theft from ransomware attacks aimed at industrial facilities. Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are a crucial element of utility plants, factories and other facilities—where they’re used to monitor and control industrial processes across IT-OT networks. If ransomware finds its way onto these systems, it could …

Almost a third of logistics companies in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region are considering IoT (37 percent), warehouse automation (33 percent), and electric vehicles (32 percent) as key investment priorities in the next two years, as per the new research from Here Technologies in partnership with global consulting firm, Frost & Sullivan. Over half of the logistics companies are also …

India IT spending is expected to touch $92.7 billion in 2021 growing at 8 percent over 2020, as per the latest forecast by Gartner. The research firm revised its growth forecast from 7.3 percent that it announced in April 2021. The growth is however still notch less against 8.6 percent of the world average. The global spending on information technology …

Microsoft and NEC Corporation have announced an expansion of their decades-long collaboration. Through a new multi-year strategic partnership, the companies will leverage Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, NEC’s network and IT expertise, including 5G technologies, and each other’s AI and IoT solutions to help enterprise customers and the public sector across multiple markets and industries further accelerate their cloud adoption and …

Lenovo has emerged as the leader with 23.9 percent market share in the global traditional PC shipments in Q2 2021. The worldwide shipments of PCs including desktops, notebooks, and workstations, have reached 83.6 million units in Q2 2021, up 13.2 percent from the second quarter of 2020, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal …

Machine-Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services are estimated to grow within the Internet of Things (IoT) domain at a CAGR of nearly 40 percent, reaching $3.6 billion in 2026, according to global tech market advisory firm ABI Research. The research firm said that the next wave of Internet of Things (IoT) analytics development will fully converge with the Big …

France’s Competition Authority has fined Google $593 million for allegedly failing to comply with orders the regulator had given in a row with the country’s news publishers. According to the French regulator, Google violated its April 2020 orders to negotiate paid deals with news publishers and for publishers’ right to show snippets of their content in its search results. News …

IBM is set to acquire BoxBoat Technologies, a DevOps consultancy and enterprise Kubernetes certified service provider. BoxBoat will extend IBM’s container strategy and implementation services portfolio to further advance IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy and accelerate Red Hat OpenShift adoption globally. “Our clients require a cloud architecture that allows them to operate across a traditional IT environment, private cloud and public …

The global entertainment and media (E&M) industry has regained its momentum, with revenues outpacing the economy as a whole, according to latest Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2021-2025 from PwC. The $2+ trillion industry is on track to grow 6.5 percent in 2021 and 6.7 percent in 2022, fueled by strong demand for digital content and advertising.  The renewed growth …

Noida, Pune (India): July 9, 2021 – Birlasoft Ltd [BSE: 532400, NSE: BSOFT], part of the USD 2.4 billion diversified CK Birla Group, today announced it has been named a finalist of the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards in the Modernizing Applications category. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in …