IT Reseller – the industry-leading channel journal for Value-Added Resellers (VARs), System Integrators and Distributors.

The shockingly high cost of protecting against cyberattacks has been revealed, with the manufacturing industry forking out around £2.12bn annually to combat the growing threat of data breaches and system outages.

By Amy Hawthorne, VP, Global Marketing, iland.

Natural disasters and data breaches have been hitting the headlines this year. While it might not happen to you on such a large scale, any sort of outage can cause IT administrators and CIOs to lie awake at night wondering if they are well protected. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is now a mainstream use of the cloud.

Datalogic, the automatic data capture and process automation solutions provider, has introduced the Memor 10 rugged mobile computer, one of the few rugged devices validated by the ‘Android Enterprise Recommended’ program from Google.

Exertis, the distributor of technology products for the B2B, mobile and retail markets, has made two business manager appointments within its Exertis Pro AV division. David Scott has been recruited to head up and drive the accessories business and Carl Swatheridge will be responsible for the projection business.

BSI’s global centre of excellence for Cybersecurity and Information Resilience has announced cybercrime investigative journalist, Brian Krebs as a speaker at the BSI International Cyber Resilience Exchange. The Exchange takes place at The Convention Centre Dublin on 26 March 2019.

Schneider Electric announces the launch of its APC Technology Partners Initiative, expanding its portfolio of solutions by partnering with innovative technology providers to deliver to resellers comprehensive approaches to achieving high availability and increased resiliency at the edge. Available are solutions for Unified Threat Management,

GridGain Systems has announced that GridGain Cloud, an in-memory-computing-platform-as-a-service (imcPaaS) solution, now includes automatic disk-based persistence of the in-memory operational dataset which ensures immediate data access if a cluster restart is ever required.

More than a third of consumers feel let down by the lack of flexible finance products offered by UK businesses, according to a research study.

2018 was one of substantial change in data protection as organisations grappled with new privacy regulations, exceedingly sophisticated ransomware attacks, and cloud-first disaster recovery strategies that ushered in unexpected costs and heightened risks of data loss. Data protection provider Arcserve, LLC names three predictions for 2019 and their impact over the next 12 months:

HERE Technologies, the mapping and location platform services provider, has introduced the HERE OLP Marketplace, a new hub for global location data exchange and enrichment across industries.

Mindtree, a global technology services and digital transformation company, has been positioned as a Rising Star for its public cloud transformation services in the ISG Provider Lens Quadrant Report 2018 on “Cloud Transformation/Operation Services & XaaS.” Mindtree was also recognised as a Product Challenger in managed public cloud services.