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On a recent visit to London Jeff Reser, Global Product and Solutions Marketing Manager, SUSE sat down with Enterprise Times. We talked about SUSE’s relationship with IBM and how that will influence products in the future. Reser talked about the upcoming release of SUSE OpenStack for z Systems. With IBM Interconnect next week in Las […]

The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom hosted a day on Neuro-Diversity. The focus of the day was around how to get some people with autism into cyber security. Certain types of autism are particularly suited to some types of cybersecurity roles. The day provided them with different challenges and opportunities to test themselves. It also […]

Fujitsu is beginning to emerge as a major player in the cybersecurity market. Having pooled all of its cybersecurity teams into a single business unit it is already a $1 billion business. It has serious ambitions to grow beyond that. Enterprise Times went North to visit the hub of Fujitsu’s European security empire and met […]

A few weeks ago serial entrepreneur and self-made billionaire Bhavin Turakhia visited London. In partnership with his brother he has launched 11 companies in the last 19 years. In August 2016 the brothers sold Media/Net for $900 million. Turakhia was in London to talk about the UK launch of his latest product, real-time messaging and collaboration […]

During the merger of Heat Software and LANDESK to form Ivanti, Enterprise Times sat down with Matthew Walker, VP Sales to talk about the challenges around endpoint device protection. In this podcast we talk about key issues such as knowing what is on your network, the use of whitelisting and creating policies that are enforceable […]

Software company Avast has launched the latest version of its security software calling it the “Best defence to date against Cybercrime.” This is the first update of the Avast desktop software since it acquired AVG in September 2016. Since then the two companies have been focused on integrating their detection engines. All new versions of the […]

Recently Mark Smith, Global Product and Solutions Manager, SUSE sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about the future of SUSE and OpenStack. A wide ranging discussion touched on the challenges of making OpenStack the fourth cloud platform behind Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Smith believes that it is on target to be a $5 billion marketplace by […]

Enterprise Times recently had the opportunity to visit BT’s brain’s trust at Adastral Park. It is one of the biggest research and development parks in the UK. As well as housing some of BT’s brightest minds, it acts as a clearing house for testing all of BT’s technology. There is so much equipment here that […]

Flock is a real-time messaging and collaboration app. It is launching in the UK today and has also announced the results of a survey today showing that customers are beginning to quantify the saving of real-time messaging over email. But there are still people who are unconvinced about the wave of apps that are appearing in […]

Darktrace are one of the new breed of security vendors. Rather than sit on endpoint devices using signatures to detect an attack, they create a profile of how devices, users and applications behave. This approach allows them to establish what is “normal” for that user, device or application and then react when unexpected things happen. Enterprise […]

Recently, Kirk Krappe, Co-Founder and CEO of Apttus visited London. Krappe has overseen the growth of Apttus from nothing to a company now valued at over $1 billion. Enterprise Times got a chance to sit down with Krappe and talk about some of the lessons that he learned on his journey. For example, should you bootstrap […]

Last year at the Cyber Security Challenge UK finals we spoke with Stephanie Daman, CEO, Cyber Security Challenge UK about the goals and aspirations of the competition. Unlike many in this industry Daman has a practical view of what is needed. She accepts that this is not just about building a long term educational programme. […]

Security analysts are struggling to utilise the data they have in an effective manner. They get bombarded with alerts about possible threats which are often false flags or inconsequential. They also struggle to build their own business intelligence solutions to extract the value from their data. Enterprise Times met up with Steve Ginty, co-founder of […]

Threat intelligence solutions are the latest “must-have” tool for IT security teams. The problem is that once installed, many struggle to deal with the vast amount of data they suddenly have at their fingertips. Part of the problem is that they lack the business intelligence and analytics skills of other parts of IT. This is […]

Protecting your computer at IT shows used to be difficult. From the mid-1990’s onwards it was commonplace to find people attempting to hack into other delegates computers. It was so common that there was often a slot at shows where the network team would present what they had detected on the network. Despite this, even today, the […]

At the Sage Business Leaders conference in Dublin last week Enterprise Times caught up with Jacqueline de Rojas, Executive Vice President, Sage. As well as her role at Sage, de Rojas is also President of techUK. In both roles, de Rojas is a staunch supporter of diversity in the workplace. We took the opportunity to talk […]

Cloud-based accounting company Xero recently launched its State of Accounts document. It sees a future where accountants can take advantage of their role as trusted advisor, especially for small to mid-sized enterprises. To do that they need to evolve their business model and look for new skills and new opportunities. Alongside the launch Gary Turner, […]

At the recent OpenPOWER Summit Europe event, Enterprise Times co-editor Ian Murphy caught up with Calista Redmond, Vice President, IBM z Systems Ecosystem and President, OpenPOWER Foundation. This is the first time the OpenPOWER Foundation has run such a major event in Europe. It is also almost the end of Calista’s reign as President of the […]