A research initiative by cybersecurity vendor WatchGuard reveals a 171% (quarter-over-quarter) increase in total unique malware detections, the highest the company’s Threat Lab has recorded. Pair this with a significant increase in “zero day malware,” and this signals a sharp rise in evasive threats designed to bypass traditional security systems [...]
Worldwide IT spending is expected to total $5.43 trillion in 2025, an increase of 7.9% from 2024, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. “While there is a business pause on net-new spending due to a spike in global uncertainty, the effect is subsumed by ongoing AI and generative [...]
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow Nearly 8% in 2025 Worldwide IT spending is expected to total $5.43 trillion in 2025, an increase of 7.9% from 2024, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. “While there is a business pause on net-new spending due to a spike [...]
Rubrik, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Predibase to accelerate agentic AI adoption from pilot to production at scale. The combined company expects to enhance simplicity in models and data, resulting in improved accuracy, lower costs, better performance, and automated data governance. Founded by AI technologists from [...]
TD Synnex announced that it has acquired Apptium, a software development company and provider of a cloud commerce platform. Prior to the acquisition, Apptium acted as a key partner and enabler to the distributor’s StreamOne orchestration platform, and the combination of this technology, and industry and technical expertise is [...]
The unemployment rate for technology occupations dropped below 3% in June as companies added tech professionals to their payrolls, according to CompTIA, an industry association based in suburban Chicago. Tech occupation employment, which encompasses companies in all industry sectors, increased by an estimated net new 90,000 workers for the month, [...]
CompTIA: Tech Hiring Activity Outpaces Expectations The unemployment rate for technology occupations dropped below 3% in June as companies added tech professionals to their payrolls, according to CompTIA, an industry association based in suburban Chicago. Tech occupation employment, which encompasses companies in all industry sectors, increased by an estimated net [...]
Barracuda Networks, a Campbell, California-based cybersecurity company, has launched its new “Barracuda Managed Vulnerability Security” service, which is designed to help organizations proactively identify, assess and prioritize vulnerabilities. "By proactively identifying vulnerabilities, we can better predict the likelihood of an attack, giving both Barracuda and our customers a decisive edge [...]
LevelBlue, a Dallas based company specializing in managed security services (MSS), has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trustwave, which provides cybersecurity and managed detection and response (MDR) services. The selling party is the MC2 Security Fund, a private equity fund sponsored by The Chertoff Group. The acquisition is intended [...]
Shipments of desktops and notebooks to the United States grew 15% year over year in Q1 2025, hitting 16.9 million units, as a surge in sell-in activity by vendors driven by efforts to navigate tariff announcements has led to significant inventory buildup that will now need to be cleared. [...]
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