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Are Facilities and IT data centre managers implacable enemies, or is it a case of different work priorities, asks analyst Clive Longbottom. Continue Reading

March 18, 2013 18Mar2013 News

CW Buyer's Guide: Green Computing

Computer Weekly looks at technologies that can help your datacentre become cost and energy efficient in this 11 page Buyer's Guide. Continue Reading

March 18, 2013 18Mar2013 News

IT education in Scandinavia

Learn how Scandinavian educators are capitalising on IT advances to help children learn in this Computer Weekly report. Continue Reading

March 18, 2013 18Mar2013 News

Underexposed risks of public Wi-Fi hotspots

This article in our Royal Holloway Information Security series assess the hidden security risks of public Wi-Fi hotspots. Continue Reading

March 18, 2013 18Mar2013 News

Microsoft announces new office 365 offerings

Analyst group, Nucleus Research assesses Microsoft's plans to update to its Office 365 cloud services, including enhanced social capabilities with SharePoint and Yammer. Continue Reading

March 17, 2013 17Mar2013 News

Human error most likely cause of datacentre downtime, finds study

Human error such as inadvertently adjusting the temperature or pulling power cords from an asset are biggest causes of datacentre downtime Continue Reading

March 15, 2013 15Mar2013 News

AstraZeneca appoints new CIO David Smoley

Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca has appointment David Smoley as chief information officer Continue Reading

March 15, 2013 15Mar2013 News

Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations

In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports Continue Reading

March 15, 2013 15Mar2013 Opinion

The Great Deverticalisation - part 3: New skills and structures in the public sector

Why do we persist in running vertically integrated organisations when standardising many of these processes would free us up to do things so much better, and more cheaply? Continue Reading

March 15, 2013 15Mar2013 News

Government mandates 'preference' for open source

The government has, for the first time, mandated a preference for using open source for future developments Continue Reading

March 15, 2013 15Mar2013 News

Samsung launches Galaxy S4 with improved software and Knox security

Samsung's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4 – which was released in New York – aims to boost software and Android OS security Continue Reading

March 14, 2013 14Mar2013 News

CIO Interview: Matthew Oakeley, global IT head of Schroders

Matthew Oakeley talks to Karl Flinders about his role as global IT head at investment management company Schroders Continue Reading

March 13, 2013 13Mar2013 News

John Lewis drops virtual mirror project as part of ‘fail fast at innovation' strategy

John Lewis has canned its virtual mirror project as part of the company’s approach to ‘failing fast at innovation’ Continue Reading

March 13, 2013 13Mar2013 News

US authorities investigate hack of Michelle Obama and other high-profile people

US authorities are investigating hackers who allegedly stole financial information belonging to US first lady Michelle Obama Continue Reading

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 News

O2: ‘We have not lost a single customer to EE’

O2’s head of enterprise says no customers have been drawn to EE's 4G and expects a challenge to entice them even after all operators launch Continue Reading

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 Photo Story

Westminster School – Team: AirPi

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 Photo Story

Roedean School – Team: RoeRaspberries

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 Photo Story

East Sheen Primary – Team: Pen-Pi

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 Photo Story

The Richard Pate School – Team: The Richard Pate School

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 Photo Story

How are schools using the Raspberry Pi?

PA Consulting Group challenged schools, universities and inventors to use the Raspberry Pi to make the world a better place. See some of the entries. Continue Reading

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 Photo Story

Highgate School – Team: Syntax Error

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 Photo Story

Dalriada School – Team: Untitled1.rbt

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 News

Warwickshire Council adopts Gmail

Warwickshire County Council is to complete a full Gmail roll-out across its 4,500 users next month, in a move that will deliver £250,000 in savings Continue Reading

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 News

The Deloitte Consumer Review: A more secure customer

This report from Deloitte assesses the impact of cybercrime on consumers and offers advice to businesses on how to respond. Continue Reading

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 News

CW Buyer's Guide: Big Data Infrastructure

Computer Weekly looks at the mindset and technology infrastructure businesses need to analyse big data. Continue Reading

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 News

Journey 2016: Enterprise without boundaries

This report from Atos assess how major trends including the birth of the total data economy, a cashless society, social and shared innovation will start to reshape business and society by 2016. Continue Reading

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 News

Information security trends

This report from CompTIA, based on original research, assesses the current trends in information security. Continue Reading

March 12, 2013 12Mar2013 News

Best practices for integrating your contact centre with salesforce.com

Analyst group, Nucleus Research explores how companies can use technologies such as Genesys Connect to deliver more value from their service cloud investment Continue Reading

March 11, 2013 11Mar2013 News

Majestic Wine swaps Microsoft for Intershop in ecommerce refresh

Majestic Wine is revamping its website with an InterShop 7 ecommerce engine, which replaces a legacy Microsoft Commerce Server system. Continue Reading

March 11, 2013 11Mar2013 News

Phishing emails sent in pairs to lend authenticity, says training company

Phishing emails are now being deployed in pairs to create the illusion of authenticity, says security awareness training company PhishMe Continue Reading

March 11, 2013 11Mar2013 News

Microsoft releases four critical security updates

Microsoft is to release four “critical” patches in its monthly Patch Tuesday security update, according to the advance notice. Continue Reading

March 11, 2013 11Mar2013 News

Territorial Army on the hunt for information assurance professionals

TA to recruit IT security professionals into the Royal Signals to strengthen cyber operations Continue Reading

March 11, 2013 11Mar2013 News

Hilary Reynolds latest universal credit programme director to move

Universal credit programme director Hilary Reynolds has moved off after just four months, the latest senior figure to leave the programme Continue Reading

March 11, 2013 11Mar2013 News

AstraZeneca opts for co-operation after IBM falls out

AstraZeneca has changed its approach to outsourcing to encourage co-operation with suppliers after its deal with IBM failed to deliver Continue Reading

March 08, 2013 08Mar2013 Blog Post

The vultures circle over Universal Credit IT

The vultures are circling over the IT behind the government's Universal Credit (UC) programme. Computer Weekly has catalogued the gradual drip-feed of concerns and rumours around the highest ... Continue Reading

March 08, 2013 08Mar2013 News

Midlands health trust trials BlackBerry 10 OS on PlayBook with Z10 roll-out

The Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust tests the Blackberry 10 operating system (OS) for a mobile fleet deployment Continue Reading

March 07, 2013 07Mar2013 In Depth

Wired vs wireless in the enterprise

What are the pros and cons of wired and wireless connectivity, and what does the future hold for the corporate environment? Continue Reading

March 07, 2013 07Mar2013 News

Hardware fault causes more RBS service outages

RBS and NatWest customers experienced disruptions to online and telephone banking services after hardware fault. Continue Reading

March 07, 2013 07Mar2013 News

MP adamant Universal Credit IT suppliers told to down tools

Universal Credit IT contractors have been told to down tools, says Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham Continue Reading

March 06, 2013 06Mar2013 News

Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data

Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things. Continue Reading

March 06, 2013 06Mar2013 News

KFC brings free Wi-Fi to customers

KFC teams with The Cloud to give customers free internet connectivity. Continue Reading

March 06, 2013 06Mar2013 News

"Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

"Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs Continue Reading

March 06, 2013 06Mar2013 News

Case study: Birmingham NEC boosts Wi-Fi network

Birmingham NEC has deployed Xirrus technology to bring high-bandwidth wireless connectivity to visitors and staff Continue Reading

March 06, 2013 06Mar2013 News

What is RSA's build, buy, partner strategy?

Computer Weekly takes a closer look at RSA's build, buy, partner strategy Continue Reading

March 06, 2013 06Mar2013 News

Iceland prepares to lure Silicon Valley IT giants to build datacentres

Despite having the facilities to build a green datacentre, big firms such as Apple, Facebook and Google have not opted for a base in Iceland Continue Reading

March 06, 2013 06Mar2013 News

Technology industry at the cross-roads: Transforming quote-to-cash operations

This report from PwC, highlights the urgency for technology companies to reinvent their existing operating models to meet the fast-changing buying process. Continue Reading

March 05, 2013 05Mar2013 E-Zine

The security risk sweeping Europe

Never have we been so open about the information we share online, without so little concern for our privacy. Social media can be a threat to a company, not just to what information an employee chooses to disclose, but because social media sites ... Continue Reading

March 05, 2013 05Mar2013 News

Businesses must fundamentally change or 'die'

Firms need to embrace technological change or face being left behind, according to executives from Amazon and Salesforce Continue Reading

March 05, 2013 05Mar2013 News

Are CIOs losing relevance or will they just change their spots?

The CIO is an evolving role and changes in technology and budgets, mean it is shifting more towards governance Continue Reading

March 05, 2013 05Mar2013 News

Enterprise Security Architecture – an outsourcer's view

Alan Jenkins, chief security officer of outsourcing specialist, T Systems, explains the company's approach to enterprise security architecture. Continue Reading

March 05, 2013 05Mar2013 News

Smartself-service – a guide for buyers

Analysts Rob Bamforth and Clive Longbottom offer a checklist for assessing suppliers for smart-self service projects. Continue Reading

March 05, 2013 05Mar2013 News

Sleeping Android: the danger of dormant permissions

This article in our Royal Holloway Information Security Thesis series explains how weaknesses in the Android platform could leave users open to exploitation or abuse. Continue Reading

March 05, 2013 05Mar2013 News

Enterprise Security Architecture

Mark Brown, Director for Advisory Risk & Information Security at Ernst & Young offers advice to security leaders on developing a robust Enterprise Security Architecture. Continue Reading

March 05, 2013 05Mar2013 News

Security the future: Keeping up with the business

Gareth Lindahl-Wise, group information security manager at British American Tobacco, explains the company's approach to enterprise security architecture. Continue Reading

March 04, 2013 04Mar2013 News

Logicalis saves 2e2's UK managed services arm

Logicalis has taken over the European business of defunct IT services supplier 2e2, which went bust in January 2013, owing millions to creditors Continue Reading

March 04, 2013 04Mar2013 In Depth

How to tackle big data from a security point of view

Before leaping into big data, companies must be clear what they are trying to achieve, otherwise their investment will be wasted Continue Reading