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2018 Stories

• August 29, 2018 29Aug2018 News

  IT leaders at a crossroads as they grapple with digital technology

  CIOs have the opportunity to influence their company strategy as digital technology reshapes business. A survey of CIOs across 70 countries charts a path for IT leaders through emerging technologies Continue Reading

• August 29, 2018 29Aug2018 Blog Post

  You don’t know you’re porn

  What’s all this about deepfakes? We can’t move lately for the sinister imagery that accompanies this ubiquitous news item designed to make baby boomers put down their Oat So Simple. While the likes ... Continue Reading

• August 29, 2018 29Aug2018 News

  Toshiba drives add Marvell cards to give native NVMe-over-fabrics

  Piggy-backed cards allow drive shelves that can connect to remote servers as if directly attached and at NVMe speeds, with box maker Aupera getting in on the JBOF act Continue Reading

• August 29, 2018 29Aug2018 News

  Heineken and Oracle create chatbot helper for polo events

  Beer brand Heineken has enlisted the help of Oracle to create a chatbot to assist people attending the annual Heineken Urban Polo events ahead of expansion in 2019 Continue Reading

• August 29, 2018 29Aug2018 News

  HPE pins hopes on intelligent edge as hybrid strategy flattens

  HPE sees hybrid as the future of enterprise IT, but revenue has been affected by currency fluctuations and its intelligent edge business is growing quickly Continue Reading

• August 29, 2018 29Aug2018 News

  Home Office launches EU nationals registration system pilot

  EU citizens working at NHS trusts in the north-west of England – and students and staff at Liverpool’s universities – will be able to apply online for settled status in the UK post-Brexit, as part of private beta pilot Continue Reading

• August 29, 2018 29Aug2018 Blog Post

  An inside look at Alibaba’s deep learning processor

  From Huawei’s Kirin 970 system-on-chip (SoC) that packs in a neural processing unit to Google’s new Edge TPU that performs machine learning tasks on IoT devices, the use of dedicated chips to speed ... Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Cyber attackers switching to covert tactics

  Cyber criminals are moving away from mass, high-profile attacks to ones that are stealthy and more subtle – as well as attacks targeting systems typically used in critical infrastructure, researchers say Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 E-Handbook

  A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to going beyond desktop computing

  A digital workplace opens up a range of new possibilities for businesses, but it needs to be implemented in the right way. In this 13-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at how digital workplaces demand increasing functionality, how to make ... Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Debenhams rolls out Doddle click-and-collect service in all its stores

  Debenhams and parcel collection and return firm Doddle are working together to roll out Doddle’s click-and-collect services to all of the retailer’s stores Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 Opinion

  Information security risk – keeping it simple

  Organisations should start with risk management to understand information security risks and communicate them better internally Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Brussels loans Nokia €500m to fund European 5G research

  European Investment Bank is loaning Nokia half a billion euros to accelerate 5G mobile network R&D Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Challenge to anti-GDPR immigration exemption in DPA to go ahead

  Two human rights groups are challenging a controversial clause in new UK data protection legislation that they say is in conflict with the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights and undermines the General Data Protection Regulation Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Arsenal puts Acronis in defence for analytics cloud backup

  Football club is increasingly driven by video and data analysis and opts for cloud backup software-as-a-service and quick restore to any location to replace ad-hoc staff solutions Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Sharp rise in business email compromise

  Cyber attackers are expanding their attack methods to steal money and to gain access to corporate and employee data, a report reveals Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Hancock appoints chief technology adviser

  Hadley Beeman will service as Matt Hancock’s chief technology adviser at the Department for Health and Social Care Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Hyperscale datacentre capex investments hit new highs, Synergy Research shows

  Latest hyperscale capital expenditure tracker highlights dramatic year-on-year increase in investments from internet and cloud giants Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Amnesty International creates human rights digital archive

  Digital preservation platform from Preservica will protect digital records of significant historical importance to Amnesty and its supporters Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Amnesty International backs campaign to ban killer robots

  Human rights organisation calls for legally binding international agreement to ban the development and use of autonomous weapons that operate without humans Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Finland government to review public procurement laws

  Finland's government is putting its procurement laws under the spotlight after a major IT fraud Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 In Depth

  Fighting fit: The ODI on courting startups to use open data to get the UK moving

  The Open Data Institute is aiming to change the fact that millions of people in the UK are inactive, and is using open data and startups to help engage citizens to exercise. Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 E-Handbook

  Artificial Intelligence: Spotlight on ASEAN

  The expectations around AI today may lead to disappointment, if one is expecting humanoids with the ability to think like humans do. It’s more realistic, for now, for enterprises to consider more applications of AI which are quickly maturing – from ... Continue Reading

• August 28, 2018 28Aug2018 News

  Taking stock of Dell EMC’s growth in Asia

  Tech supplier Dell EMC is riding on growing demand for servers and hyper-converged infrastructure, and investing in more technical resources to support enterprises in digital transformation efforts Continue Reading

• August 26, 2018 26Aug2018 News

  VMware debuts VMware Cloud on AWS in Australia, cuts entry price

  Virtualisation juggernaut VMware rolls out its hybrid cloud service in Australia and has halved the entry price to sweeten the deal for enterprises Continue Reading

• August 26, 2018 26Aug2018 News

  DCMS launches fund to increase diversity in tech

  More than £1m is being put aside to increase the amount of diversity in technology, and to teach disabled people digital skills Continue Reading

• August 25, 2018 25Aug2018 Blog Post

  Does freedom of movement discourage skills development and depress wages?

  I recently looked at the Hays Index for 2017 to put the UK skills situation into international context. I strongly recommend reading the  report on "Regional dynamics of the Global Labour market - ... Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 News

  Hyperscaler demand for European datacentre space takes colocation market to new record highs

  The demand for colocation capacity from the hyperscale cloud giants shows no signs of wavering, CBRE research shows Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 News

  UK universities targeted by Iranian hackers

  UK universities are among those targeted by a cyber threat group associated with the Iranian government Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 Blog Post

  DevOps is wasted unless the business goes Agile too

  When analysts and journalists write about Agile and DevOps, the focus is typically on the technology and infrastructure – what it means for software and systems development in an age when the ... Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 News

  EduServ confirms fallout from datacentre power outage is being resolved

  Public sector-focused IT provider EduServ suffers datacentre power outage that takes client websites and online services offline Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 Opinion

  The more an Apple product is worth, the more you want one

  Apple may be the world's first trillion-dollar company, but it's not the most valuable ever – however, it might well be the first to so successfully exploit the theories of a 19th century US economist Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 News

  Gov.uk Verify chief to leave Government Digital Service

  Nic Harrison is returning to the Department for Work and Pensions, with no replacement as leader of the identity assurance programme yet in place Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 News

  Corbyn suggests tech tax to fund BBC

  Labour leader says big technology companies and ISPs should contribute to a fund for public interest journalism Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 News

  Dubai Health Authority launches artificial intelligence strategy

  Healthcare organisation is rolling out next-generation technology in its health facilities to improve patient care Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 News

  North Koreans add Mac OS to cryptocurrency-stealing malware attacks

  A North Korean hacking group is targeting cryptocurrency exchanges using Trojanised cryptocurrency trading software designed for both Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Mac OS, say researchers Continue Reading

• August 24, 2018 24Aug2018 News

  Google Cloud Platform enables faster mobile notifications for World Cup fans

  Onefootball exclusively used the Boost platform, which has now been officially launched, to offer faster mobile notifications for World Cup viewers Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 News

  Australian government agency trials secure cloud service

  The Digital Transformation Agency has become the first government agency in Australia to test the use of Microsoft Office 365 in a secure cloud environment Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 Blog Post

  Being a data scientist isn’t all hard stuff

  GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Bryony Hill, Technical Data Scientist at Nominet, discusses the misconceptions around being a data scientist.  When I tell people I’m a data scientist, ... Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 News

  Cryptographic agility is key to post-quantum security

  Although post-quantum security is not an issue for all organisations today, an expert believes that those needing to ensure data is secure for decades to come should aim to achieve cryptographic agility above all else Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 News

  No Deal Brexit papers warn of stark future for UK tech

  The government has published the first of its No Deal Brexit contingency planning notices, containing sobering messages for the UK technology industry Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 News

  Google employees command highest UK cloud salaries, Experis research shows

  Cloud industry salary data from IT recruitment firm suggests permanent employees of Google make more than their AWS, IBM and Microsoft counterparts Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 News

  More girls take GCSE computing in 2018, but will they carry on with Stem?

  The number of girls who chose to take GCSE computing rose in 2018, but concerns remain over whether they will continue to study Stem subjects later on Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 News

  Apache Struts users urged to update due to new security flaw

  Another security flaw has been discovered in the Apache Struts, which was at the heart of the massive Equifax data breach in 2017 Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 Opinion

  How design thinking will affect today’s analysts

  A user research manager at Tableau Software explains the import of an eye-tracking survey, focused on understanding how humans consume dashboards Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 News

  KT shows off 5G’s potential at Asian Games

  The South Korean telecoms bigwig is showcasing a host of 5G applications at the Asian Games in the run up to the commercial launch of its 5G network next year Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 News

  Danish government in ambitious datacentre push

  Denmark offers many natural benefits for organisations looking to build datacentres in Europe, and a soon-to-be-completed connection to the US will make it even more attractive Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 E-Zine

  CW Nordics: Sweden eyes geo-fencing to protect against terror attacks

  Sweden is developing an integrated IT/geo-fencing system to protect the country’s towns and cities against attacks by terrorists using vehicles as “killing machines”. Also read about Microsoft building two more datacentres in Norway to support its ... Continue Reading

• August 23, 2018 23Aug2018 News

  Councils at risk from unsupported Windows Server and SQL Server

  Some local authorities are using unsupported server software, while others are not paying for extended support Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 Blog Post

  Why conversational AI needs the gift of the Blarney

  As every good competent and loquacious speaker knows, no true gift of the gab is ever reasonably achieved without first visiting the Irish city of Cork to kiss the Blarney Stone. But there’s more; ... Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  Greater Manchester hails cloud as key to delivery of devolved health and social care in region

  Having taken back control from the government for running its own health and social care budgets, The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care (GMHSC) Partnership is now in the throes of establishing what role cloud will play in its work Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  European cloud adopters still lack basic security

  Despite outpacing the rest of the world, the majority of organisations adopting cloud in Europe, the Middle East and Africa lack basic security, a report reveals Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  Language barrier won’t hold back chatbots in the Netherlands

  The use of chatbots by Dutch organisations is on the up, with KLM's chatbot a pioneering example Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  CEOs held back by boards wanting quick digital turnarounds

  Digital transformations tend to have a long return on investment, but most CEOs are failing to convince their boards that these things take time Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  Barclays appointment will step up use of AI in investment bank

  Ex-Goldman Sachs expert will focus on improving Barclays’ trading services and making internal systems more efficient Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  Nearly a third of organisations still not GDPR ready

  As the UK and other states implement the EU’s GDPR, many organisations admit they are still not fully compliant, but most claim to be able to respond to data subject access requests Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  Cost savings still in short supply for cloud users, Druva research suggests

  Enterprises are increasingly moving their virtual workloads to the cloud for ease of management reasons, but cost savings remain elusive for many, suggests Druva’s latest report on cloud virtualisation Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 Opinion

  Better the data you know – how GDPR is affecting UK tech companies

  As the dust settles from the General Data Protection Regulation, the implications for technology firms in the UK are becoming clearer Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  JP Morgan fintech strategy widens retail trading

  Bank’s digital You Invest service opens up trading opportunities to millions of customers Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  Newisys bare metal NVMe box targets performance market

  Former OEM supplier come out of stealth with dual-server box that can mount 56 NVMe drives for hyperscale datacentres or build-your-own NVMe shared storage hardware Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  Superdrug denies data breach

  Superdrug has warned online customers it believes may have had personal details exposed, but claims its systems were not compromised, in what could be the first GDPR-related extortion attempt Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 Blog Post

  What to expect from Inforum 2018

  It’s not every be company that gets to call its annual conference and user symposium after itself. IBMference doesn’t work, Dellevent is silly and Oraclefest sounds too much like a German bierhaus ... Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  Candy Crush maker King in Hadoop cluster move to Google Cloud

  Online gaming firm is moving its massive big data analytics store off-premise and into the Google Cloud Platform Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  NHS Digital plans for £450m GP IT framework

  A framework for GP IT systems and services will replace the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) contract and aims to make procurement easier for suppliers and primary care providers Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  Microsoft dominates SaaS thanks to collaboration software

  Microsoft’s software-as-a-service business is growing at 45% a year, well ahead of the rest of the market, reports Synergy Research Group Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 News

  How Imperial Brands is taking control of its software licences

  Central control gives the tobacco company the data required to manage software licences and ensure it pays only for the assets it needs Continue Reading

• August 22, 2018 22Aug2018 E-Handbook

  Latest cyber security strategies in ASEAN

  This year looks set to be another watershed year for cyber security in Southeast Asia, going by the growing number of high profile data breaches across the region. In this e-guide, find out how organizations in Southeast Asia such as Grab are ... Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  New Zealand to run national cyber security exercise

  The island-nation will test the resilience of its critical infrastructure in November 2018, bringing together multiple agencies to protect assets of national significance Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 E-Handbook

  Containers: Making security and business sense

  In this e-guide we look at why established security suppliers are finally adding containers to their repertoire, and how security pros must decide between trusted platform integration and the latest features from startups. Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  The risk of upgrading to S/4 Hana

  S/4 Hana has been touted as the evolution of SAP's long-standing ERP suite, but with just six years to upgrade, how can businesses avoid an expensive SAP flop? Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  Windfarm benefit fund helps pay for full-fibre broadband

  A number of communities in the Highlands are using benefit funds established by a local windfarm provider to pay for full-fibre broadband services Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  Online crime costs more than $1m a minute

  More than $1m is lost to cyber crime every minute, a report reveals, underlining the increasing and significant threats businesses face online Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  Riverbed plots to take the network from IT blocker to IT enabler

  The move towards automation and next-gen networking will help the network deliver more value to the enterprise than ever before, argues Riverbed’s new CEO, Paul Mountford Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  Veritas aims to boost NetBackup with simplified UI and setup

  Two decades-old enterprise product upgraded with backups that can be set in three clicks, down from 30, plus instant VM workload recovery and capacity monitoring and planning Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  Government departments are exploring new tech, according to GDS report

  A GDS-commissioned report has found artificial intelligence and blockchain are the most popular among emerging technologies in government, but projects are often done in silos and departments risk “reinventing the wheel” Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  Retail and finance top cyber targets

  Retail and finance remain the top cyber attack targets, but the second quarter also saw a spike in attacks against the manufacturing industry and an increase in remote desktop attacks, a report reveals Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  UK cryptocurrency exchange enlists Rackspace for Microsoft Azure cloud move

  London Block Exchange taps up Rackspace to assist with two-month Microsoft Azure migration as it sets about shoring up its platform against demand spikes Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 Blog Post

  What is a ‘living’ application?

  Essentially open source Business Process Management (BPM) software company Bonitasoft has introduced its Bonita 7.7 iteration release. This is BPM software with Intelligent Continuous Improvement ... Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  Estonia targets UK tech talent

  Estonian businesses are trying to close the country’s IT skills gap by targeting UK IT professionals as part of a recruitment campaign Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  Microsoft announces free election cyber defence tools

  Microsoft has revealed it recently disrupted domains associated with a Russian cyber attack group believed to be targeting US political groups ahead of the midterm elections Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  CIO interview: Celia Pronto, chief customer and digital officer, Casual Dining Group

  Casual Dining Group’s chief customer and digital officer, Celia Pronto, is overhauling technology, consolidating IT and improving collaboration across its 300 restaurants Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 E-Zine

  Tapping into the internet of things

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, we hear from IT leaders who are early adopters of internet of things technologies about how to deliver on the potential of IoT. We examine strategies for combining hyper-converged infrastructure and cloud storage to ... Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 Blog Post

  Tech startups can be the creation of anyone intimate with a business challenge

  The creation of tech startup Trint by a journalist brings home the importance of intimacy with a business problem Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 Blog Post

  Cloud security: Weighing up the risk to enterprises

  In this guest post, Chris Hodson, chief information security officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at internet security firm Zscaler, takes a closer look at why cloud security remains ... Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 Blog Post

  Why all the fuss about AI?

  Why is there so much publicity for 40 year old AI techniques, albeit with more processing power, bigger data files and more reliable communications lines? Continue Reading

• August 21, 2018 21Aug2018 News

  Malaysia’s financial sector warms up to cloud, but lacks security leadership

  Almost two-thirds of Malaysia’s financial services firms are developing a cloud strategy, but not all have a security plan in place Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 Blog Post

  It's summer, so spring 2019 is booking up fast

  What a season of technology events this is. Well, to be clear, what a season of technology events awaits us through the 'fall' period in 2018. All the tech symposia and conference proceedings about ... Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 Opinion

  AI: Black boxes and the boardroom

  Computers can and do make mistakes and AI is only as good its training so relying purely on machine intelligence to make critical decisions is risky Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  StorageCraft launches OneXafe scale-out backup appliances

  Product revamp sees firm launch OneXafe scale-out secondary and primary storage with ShadowXafe data protection software in backup appliance for physical and virtual environments Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  Swedish government and industry address IT skills shortage

  Sweden faces major challenges in resourcing its growing IT sector with the right talent Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 In Depth

  Virtual storage appliances in the cloud from the big five

  We survey the big five storage hardware makers’ cloud offerings. Virtual storage appliances available range from storage and backup/data protection to nothing at all Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  NHS trusts lose nearly 10,000 patient records a year

  Report calls for NHS trusts to work to abolish handwritten notes in hospitals to prevent loss of personal documents and to introduce a patient identity protocol Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  Job losses caused by artificial intelligence will dwarf those of Victorian revolution

  The disruption to the jobs market caused by artificial intelligence will be far greater than that caused by industrialisation in Victorian times Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  Planned Australian law raises tech firms’ security concerns

  A digital industry group representing some of the world’s largest tech firms is opposed to proposed Australian laws aimed at compelling them to help security agencies and police Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  Fibre cable break takes Gatwick flight information screens offline

  A broken fibre-optic cable has taken Gatwick Airport’s flight information screens offline, with airport staff forced to use whiteboards to provide information to passengers Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  Google Deepmind doubles down on AI-led efforts to improve datacentre energy efficiency

  Google Deepmind has revealed details of how it is expanding its research into how artificial intelligence can help fine-tune datacentre cooling, and – in turn – help operators save even more on energy costs Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  Superfast broadband brings £9bn extra turnover for UK SMEs

  Local businesses in areas covered by the government’s superfast broadband roll-out are making more money than ever before, according to a report Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 Blog Post

  Microsoft open sources Azure network replication project

  What’s being ‘pushed to’ open source this last weekend or so? Answer: quite a lot. There’s a whole smörgåsbord of openness out there… but one project emanating from Redmond stands out for sure. ... Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  Gartner recommends CIOs get skilled up on deep learning

  There may be some wacky predictions in Gartner's emerging trends hype cycle, but AI and even quantum computing need to be taken seriously right now Continue Reading

• August 20, 2018 20Aug2018 News

  Why networking is the last frontier of IT automation

  Most organisations still manage networks manually, despite the cost and time needed in doing so, primarily because the impact of breaking something is much higher Continue Reading

• August 17, 2018 17Aug2018 News

  Alan Turing Institute provides AI startups with opportunity to collaborate with researchers

  Alan Turing Institute and Digital Catapult will enable science and AI startups to work with researchers in the Data Study Groups Continue Reading