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June 09, 2015 09Jun2015 In Depth

How to cull old, potentially risky data

Unused data is a potential security risk, with old spreadsheets, reports and email containing industry secrets and laced with company gossip. If it's no longer useful, it's time to delete it Continue Reading

June 09, 2015 09Jun2015 News

HMRC denies reports of Verify causing users problems

HMRC has denied that problems faced by the public attempting to claim marriage tax breaks are caused by the Gov.uk Verify scheme Continue Reading

June 08, 2015 08Jun2015 Opinion

The top 10 myths about agile development

Examining some of the most common misconceptions in the growing field of agile software development Continue Reading

June 08, 2015 08Jun2015 E-Zine

The file-sharing face-off: Box or Dropbox

In this week's Computer Weekly, we look at the two most popular tools for cloud-based enterprise file sharing and assess the relative merits of Box and Dropbox. We talk to some of the early pioneers in developing smartwatch apps. And we find out why... Continue Reading

June 08, 2015 08Jun2015 News

Europe’s startups should collaborate like Silicon Valley firms

Europe should take a leaf out of Silicon Valley’s book on openness and collaboration, according to speakers at Startup Village 2015 Continue Reading

June 08, 2015 08Jun2015 News

Digital services not saving government departments money, says NAO

Government departments are not making the savings digital services were aiming to deliver Continue Reading

June 08, 2015 08Jun2015 News

Apps for Good Awards 2015 finalists unveiled

18 student teams are to face an expert judging panel in the Apps for Good final ceremony held at the Barbican, London Continue Reading

June 08, 2015 08Jun2015 News

John Lewis incubator sees first round of second-year pitches

More than 20 startups have presented their pitches to John Lewis executives in the first round of this year’s Jlab accelerator Continue Reading

June 05, 2015 05Jun2015 In Depth

VMware vs OpenStack: How they handle storage

The opportunities and challenges presented by the two virtualisation environments when it comes to storage, backup and disaster recovery. Continue Reading

June 05, 2015 05Jun2015 In Depth

OpenStack Manila: File access storage for the open source cloud

OpenStack Manila is the file level access method in development by the open source cloud platform. What is it, how does it work and when will it be ready? Continue Reading

June 05, 2015 05Jun2015 News

Potential Apple Pay security weakness revealed

Fraudsters could gain access to personal details of Apple Pay users, research reveals Continue Reading

June 05, 2015 05Jun2015 News

Vodafone and Liberty Global discuss asset swap

Vodafone confirms it is in the early stages of talks with Liberty Global, but stresses a merger is not on the table Continue Reading

June 05, 2015 05Jun2015 Blog Post

The state of NHS IT? Ring a random NHS trust and see if they have IT problems - it worked for us

We'd like to let you in on a little secret. In the past week, Computer Weekly uncovered IT problems at two NHS trusts in the north-west of London. In one, medical staff were unable to access ... Continue Reading

June 04, 2015 04Jun2015 E-Zine

CW Europe – June 2015 Edition

Employment across Europe – Why industry has a responsibility to ensure the IT workforce adds to Europe's economic value. Continue Reading

June 04, 2015 04Jun2015 News

Peugeot Citroën prepares for in-car apps with Sierra Wireless

French car manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroën plans to deploy device-to-cloud technology to support its connected car strategy Continue Reading

June 03, 2015 03Jun2015 News

HMRC looks for transformation partner ahead of Aspire end

HMRC is seeking transformational help ahead of the demise of its Aspire contract in 2017. Continue Reading

June 03, 2015 03Jun2015 News

VMware puts network virtualisation to work in McAfee environments

VMware announces an integrated system to automate distribution and enforcement of McAfee’s network security platform using its NSX network virtualisation system Continue Reading

June 03, 2015 03Jun2015 News

Sourcing must adapt to digital business goals, says Gartner

Businesses need to change their sourcing strategies if they are to keep pace with the digital revolution, says analyst organisation Gartner Continue Reading

June 02, 2015 02Jun2015 News

The drivers and inhibitors of cyber security evolution

A study shows a shift in IT security spending to detection and response – but why are most organisations falling way behind the more enlightened front runners? Continue Reading

June 02, 2015 02Jun2015 Opinion

Government as a platform, or a platform for government? Which are we getting?

Government as a platform is the latest buzzword in Whitehall - but is that really what they are going to deliver? Continue Reading

June 02, 2015 02Jun2015 News

Most Influential Women in UK IT - introducing the Hall of Fame

Computer Weekly has launched its Most Influential Women in UK IT Hall of Fame to recognise lifetime achievement Continue Reading

June 02, 2015 02Jun2015 News

Vodafone adds Caribbean 4G roaming for summer holidays

Vodafone extends its 4G services to a number of destinations – including Caribbean holiday hotspots – for UK customers travelling abroad Continue Reading

June 01, 2015 01Jun2015 E-Zine

Google’s big data vision

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine Google’s 11-year big data journey from MapReduce to Cloud Bigtable, the internet giant’s latest NoSQL database service. We look at the role of mobile technology in helping to join up health and social care ... Continue Reading

June 01, 2015 01Jun2015 News

Pure Storage replaces FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m

Pure Storage upgrades FA series all-flash arrays with FlashArray//m series devices Continue Reading

June 01, 2015 01Jun2015 In Depth

Five critical actions CIOs should take to improve the customer experience

Actions include upgrading IT roles, amending measurements, structural changes and a cultural shift from internal to external Continue Reading

June 01, 2015 01Jun2015 News

Most of more than 733,000 police communications data requests approved

Big Brother Watch is calling for a curb on the scale of police access to communications data and greater transparency in the use of this data Continue Reading

May 30, 2015 30May2015 Guide

A guide to threat management

This is a CIOs guide to threat management. Continue Reading

May 29, 2015 29May2015 News

CIO interview: Billie Laidlaw, RSPCA

RSPCA CIO Billie Laidlaw explains how the charity's cloud-first approach to IT procurement benefits the animals in its care Continue Reading

May 29, 2015 29May2015 News

Data classification key to IP protection, says Titus

Data classification can help organisations get more value out of encryption and data loss prevention systems Continue Reading

May 29, 2015 29May2015 News

Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist Continue Reading

May 29, 2015 29May2015 In Depth

Marseille: Europe’s networking gateway to Africa

The city of Marseille in southern France is fast becoming a hub for datacentre and network operators who want low latency connections to Africa. Continue Reading

May 29, 2015 29May2015 News

A tale of two boxes: Choosing between Box and Dropbox

Box and Dropbox are in the content and collaboration business, but the two cloud services have taken very different approaches Continue Reading

May 29, 2015 29May2015 News

Google announces security features for Android

Google announces better app permission controls and other Android security changes at its Google I/O developer conference Continue Reading

May 29, 2015 29May2015 News

Top six enterprise IT priorities in the Nordics

The future of enterprise IT looks bright in the Nordic region, with growing focus on datacentre investments, national cloud and automatisation Continue Reading

May 28, 2015 28May2015 News

NetApp launches AltaVault hybrid cloud backup appliance family

NetApp repackages the SteelStore hybrid cloud backup appliances it bought from Riverbed as AltaVault physical, virtual and cloud products Continue Reading

May 28, 2015 28May2015 Guide

Using green computing for improving energy efficiency guide

Green computing is no longer just a white-wash expression, as government schemes like the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme, the Climate Change Agreement (CCA) or the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), are encouraging companies ... Continue Reading

May 27, 2015 27May2015 News

CIF cloud certification scheme wins European Commission's backing

Cloud Industry Forum's Code of Practice has been added to European list of trusted certification schemes Continue Reading

May 27, 2015 27May2015 News

Social engineering attacks more complex than ever, says expert

Expert warns attackers are starting to use increasingly sophisticated ways to get people in organisations to help them circumvent security controls Continue Reading

May 27, 2015 27May2015 News

CIO Interview: Mike Young, CIO, Dentsu Aegis Network

CIO Mike Young describes how Dentsu Aegis Network used technology to become a consolidated company with a unified collaboration strategy Continue Reading

May 27, 2015 27May2015 Guide

Guide to LUN configuration and virtualisation

LUN storage configuration has long been a cornerstone of storage management. The LUN – a chunk of storage created from RAID partitions on a SAN – presents a logical volume of capacity to an individual server. That’s still relevant today in the era... Continue Reading

May 26, 2015 26May2015 News

NATS failure down to bug from the 90s and redundant code

A bug present in Nats since 1990s has been identified as the root cause of the five-hour outage of UK air traffic control on 12 December 2014 Continue Reading

May 26, 2015 26May2015 E-Zine

CW Nordics – May 2015 Edition

Nordic countries top list of digital nations in the EU, outperforming others in the areas of broadband infrastructure, IT skills, web use, business digitisation and tech-based public services. Continue Reading

May 26, 2015 26May2015 News

EMC plots managed cloud push with $1.2bn deal to acquire Virtustream

Storage giant claims latest purchase will reinforce its hybrid cloud proposition for enterprises Continue Reading

May 26, 2015 26May2015 In Depth

How to reduce the risk of social engineering attacks

Implement simple checks to reduce the risk of the main types of social engineering attacks Continue Reading

May 26, 2015 26May2015 News

Civil Servants point to lack of skills as barrier to IT procurement

Adoption of IT for public services is held back due to a lack of skills, despite civil servants agreeing IT is a necessity, according to techUK Continue Reading

May 26, 2015 26May2015 News

O2 network outage attracts ire of business secretary

An unexplained network outage affected O2 customers over bank holiday weekend and caught attention of business secretary Sajid Javid Continue Reading

May 26, 2015 26May2015 E-Zine

Microservices and DevOps are changing software development

In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to Hailo about its software development approach, which sees the taxi app use microservices and DevOps techniques. We hear from users of OpenStack, the open source cloud software, about how they are building ... Continue Reading

May 25, 2015 25May2015 In Depth

Digital customer experience: Beyond the website

Organisations are faced with the challenge of delivering their customers with an online experience that goes far beyond just a website Continue Reading