2014 | Archive | ComputerWeekly.com

The Russian government is ploughing billions of rubles into creating a rival to Silicon Valley - but will the Skolkovo Innovation Centre succeed? Continue Reading

June 06, 2014 06Jun2014 News

Microsoft retaliates to China’s Windows 8 spying claims

Microsoft has launched a social media campaign against China’s claims that Windows 8 is being used for US spying Continue Reading

June 05, 2014 05Jun2014 News

India needs to convert IT skills to entrepreneurship

India's start-up industry has been boosted by the growth of smart and cloud technologies and the rise in demand for big data and related services Continue Reading

June 05, 2014 05Jun2014 News

Unilever appoints Jane Moran as global CIO

Former CIO of Thomson Reuters, Jane Moran, has joined Unilever as its new global CIO Continue Reading

June 05, 2014 05Jun2014 News

UK airports lead move to cloud services

UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO. Continue Reading

June 05, 2014 05Jun2014 News

Three ditches data roaming charges in five more countries

Mobile operator Three adds Finland, France, Israel, Norway and Switzerland to its Feel At Home service Continue Reading

June 05, 2014 05Jun2014 E-Zine

CW Europe – June 2014 Edition

Europe is on a quest for innovation, looking like it might even give California’s Silicon Valley a run for its money in a few years’ time. London’s Silicon Roundabout in Old Street may be smaller than Silicon Valley in size and reputation; however ... Continue Reading

June 05, 2014 05Jun2014 News

CIOs should 'leave innovation to marketing'

CIOs should focus on managing the technical infrastructure and leave innovation to other parts of the business – conclusion of a major study. Continue Reading

June 04, 2014 04Jun2014 News

Sapphire 2014: Plattner restates radical, in-memory computing future

SAP's Hasso Plattner restates his case that enterprise applications face a radical future, based on in-memory computing Continue Reading

June 03, 2014 03Jun2014 News

Sapphire 2014: SAP CEO McDermott declares war on ‘complexity’ and sets Fiori free

Bill McDermott, SAP CEO, devoted his opening keynote at Sapphire 2014 to declaring war on business process “complexity” Continue Reading

June 03, 2014 03Jun2014 News

High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time? Continue Reading

June 03, 2014 03Jun2014 Blog Post

Bringing the technology world to Russia

The billions of rubles of government money being invested in the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on the outskirts of Moscow (read my previous post for more details) is not only going into developing the ... Continue Reading

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 Photo Story

Meet the residents

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 Photo Story

The Royal Hospital Chelsea

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 Photo Story

The Ruckus Wireless solution

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 Photo Story

Management capabilities

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 Photo Story

Making life easier

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 Photo Story

A complex environment

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 Photo Story

Chelsea Pensioners go online with Wi-Fi upgrade

The historic Royal Hospital Chelsea has turned to Ruckus Wireless to overcome an aging legacy broadband deployment and keep its residents – the famous Chelsea Pensioners – online Continue Reading

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 E-Zine

How big data brings big donations for charities

In this week’s Computer Weekly, hear how big data is helping charities to improve their fundraising by better targeting potential donors. We find out how the UK’s biggest newspaper publisher is moving its IT to the cloud. And we examine the options ... Continue Reading

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 Blog Post

How Moscow money and the post-Soviet generation hope to create Russia's Silicon Valley

The Skolkovo Innovation Centre is about a half-hour drive from Red Square, in a 400 hectare building site on the outskirts of Moscow. Today and tomorrow, it's the venue for the second annual ... Continue Reading

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 News

Queen Mary University to offer networking crash course for ICT students

Queen Mary University of London to pilot a four-day network training and certification course Continue Reading

June 02, 2014 02Jun2014 News

Cyber threats hiding in plain sight, says Palo Alto Networks

Cyber attackers exploit commonly used business applications to bypass security controls, research shows Continue Reading

May 30, 2014 30May2014 News

UK shoe retailer Office hit by data breach

Data breach at UK shoe retailer Office prompts calls for online firms to beef up security around customer details Continue Reading

May 30, 2014 30May2014 News

IT supplier insolvencies fall for first time as economy recovers

Technology companies have reached a turning point as insolvencies fall for the first time in 2014 Continue Reading

May 30, 2014 30May2014 News

Google launches right-to-be-forgotten application form

Google has introduced an online application form for Europeans who want personal data to be removed from online search results Continue Reading

May 29, 2014 29May2014 News

BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready Continue Reading

May 29, 2014 29May2014 In Depth

Future of in-house datacentres in the cloud era

It is predicted that companies will spend three times more on the cloud by 2017. But as cloud goes mainstream, are in-house datacentres really dying? Continue Reading

May 28, 2014 28May2014 In Depth

In-memory databases - what they do and the storage they need

In-memory databases offer high performance data processing, but how do you protect data in volatile DRAM and what kind of storage is needed for longer term retention? Continue Reading

May 28, 2014 28May2014 News

CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson

Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT Continue Reading

May 28, 2014 28May2014 In Depth

Principles of compliance in the financial services industry

Compliance in financial services can appear a staggeringly complex web of laws and regulations, but some key principles apply, says Mathieu Gorge of Vigitrust Continue Reading

May 28, 2014 28May2014 News

Huawei signs datacentre services MoU with BT

BT could become a major supplier of datacentre services to Chinese network giant Huawei after signing memorandum of understanding Continue Reading

May 28, 2014 28May2014 News

NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing

NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use Continue Reading

May 27, 2014 27May2014 News

Atos buys Bull for £503m

French services supplier Atos buys Bull for £502.6m in a deal that could create one of the largest cloud services firms in Europe Continue Reading

May 27, 2014 27May2014 E-Zine

Targeting the digital customer

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes of John Lewis’s £40m e-commerce transformation plan to find out how to target the digital customer. Starbucks’ European CIO talks about the coffee chain’s IT strategy. And we evaluate three big... Continue Reading

May 27, 2014 27May2014 News

Android Outlook app has privacy issues, warn researchers

Microsoft’s Outlook.com app for Android is exposing users' data, warn security researchers Continue Reading