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2018 Stories

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 News

  European IT services spending down as businesses focus on GDPR compliance

  European organisations are reducing their spending on IT services and are redirecting resources towards becoming compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation Continue Reading

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 Blog Post

  Cloudistics: you had me at programmatically extensible

  What the cloud computing industry needs is an increasing number of platforms, right? Okay perhaps not, platform plays are already many and multifarious in their nature and the formally defined ... Continue Reading

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 News

  IBM admits poor storage results but promises to do better

  IBM’s first-quarter 2018 results shows failings in its storage business, while cognitive computing via Watson remains its main growth engine Continue Reading

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 Blog Post

  Lloyds slashes more jobs and people as fintech is deployed battle of the cost bases

  Fintech is being deployed by traditional banks as they fight to reduce their cost bases as challengers win customers at a lower cost Continue Reading

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 News

  DDoS attacks cost up to £35,000

  Despite the direct financial impact of DDoS attacks, this is not considered to be the most damaging effect on companies targeted this way, a survey shows Continue Reading

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 News

  CIO interview: Richard Tallboy, CIO, Wagamama

  Richard Tallboy, CIO of pan-Asian restaurant chain Wagamama, explains why the firm adopted “pay by walking out” technology Continue Reading

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 News

  BT to supply European air navigation network

  BT has been selected to provide the upgraded air traffic management network across Europe Continue Reading

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 News

  Twilio offers IoT developers programmable mobile connectivity

  Developers of internet of things applications and devices will be able to use the Twilio Programmable Wireless mobile communications platform to build mobile connectivity into their services Continue Reading

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 News

  Security budgets up, but talent scarce, says Isaca

  Security budgets are increasing, but qualified cyber talent remains difficult to find with positions taking at least three months to fill, an industry association report on the state of cyber security reveals Continue Reading

• April 18, 2018 18Apr2018 News

  APAC is becoming a hotspot for DDoS attacks

  The region’s largest and most-connected economies are most vulnerable to distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to CenturyLink Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Nginx debuts in Australia amid growing demand for microservices

  The supplier of an open-source application platform is counting on the growing usage of microservices in the perennial search for agility and responsiveness among enterprises Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  UK identity fraud reaches record level

  The level of identity fraud has reached its highest level to date, a UK fraud report shows Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Top tech firms take cyber security pledge

  Top tech firms have committed to protecting customers worldwide from cyber attacks and prevent the misuse of their technology Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Russian energy giant makes digital tech adoption a priority

  Russian oil and gas giant Gazprom Neft is exploring the use of the latest digital technologies across its entire business Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Business at risk from unidentified network traffic, report warns

  A lack of network traffic visibility poses significant security challenges to businesses, a report on network firewalls warns Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Irish planning chiefs face legal challenge over granting Amazon permission for datacentre

  Amazon Web Services faces a fresh round of opposition to its plans to build a datacentre in Dublin after an objector lodged a legal challenge to the planning chiefs who approved the project Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  China’s ZTE a national security risk, UK telcos warned

  UK national cyber security authority has warned telecommunications companies against using equipment and services from Chinese network equipment supplier ZTE, citing national security risks Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Elastifile adds NAS file access storage to Google Cloud Launcher

  Israeli startup Elastifile launches NFS file access service in the Google cloud to provide hybrid cloud distributed file system functionality with the speed of flash Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 Opinion

  Moving away from analogue health in a digital world

  Healthcare records still rely on faxes, email, mail and paper, but the innovative use of technology will lead to major improvements in medical care Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Targeted cyber attacks doubled in past year, study shows

  The number of targeted attacks has doubled in the past year compared with the previous 12 months, despite improvements in detecting and blocking them, a cyber resilience study shows Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Artificial intelligence will help Metro Bank customers manage their money

  Service will use AI and predictive analytics to provide personalised prompts to help customers control their spending Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 Blog Post

  Qualys ups security automation with a bit of Swagger

  Cloud security firm Qualys, like every vendor today, is pushing the automation mantra. The company’s Web Application Scanning (WAS) 6.0 now supports Swagger version 2.0 to allow developers to ... Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Huawei invests in 5G mobile networks, but eases back on the hype

  Telecoms supplier Huawei has been updating the industry on its 5G vision at its annual Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China, but shied away from making bold predictions Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Judge in Max Schrems v Facebook action raises red flag on EU-US data transfers

  The Irish High Court (Commercial Division) has once again cast a long shadow, with a very short deadline, over the arrangements for the safe and legal transfer of data between the EU and the US Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 E-Zine

  Can China’s Alibaba successfully take on the US public cloud giants?

  In this week's Computer Weekly, as Chinese cloud provider Alibaba grows its presence in Europe, we ask if it can compete with the US public cloud giants. A government plan to move data policy has caused controversy among Whitehall digital experts – ... Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Why AI skills, broadband and machine liability must be addressed

  The House of Lords select committee on artificial intelligence has urged the government to adapt policies to bolster AI and protect the public Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Norway’s tax administration combats economic crime through IT

  Authority has updated its IT system to step up the fight against tax evasion Continue Reading

• April 17, 2018 17Apr2018 News

  Huawei wants to unlock ASEAN’s digital potential

  The Chinese technology supplier is working with communications service providers such as Converge in the Philippines to bolster their networks to support new digital services Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  Flashpoint researchers warn of new VBS Loader

  Researchers have issued warnings about a new VBScript downloader that behaves like a remote access Trojan, is designed to run undetected and can update and delete itself Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  Santander uses Ripple technology to offer international payments

  Santander has launched an international fund transfer service for retail customers in the UK about two years after it started testing the blockchain-based application Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  UK and US accuse Russia of targeting network infrastructure

  The UK and US have accused the Russian government of targeting network infrastructure, calling on network operators to take the necessary protective measures Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  HMRC to stop or delay transformation projects to ensure customs system is ready for Brexit

  HM Revenue & Customs chief executive confirms several major programmes will be affected due to prioritising development of new customs IT systems Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  Fintech sector increasingly attractive compared to traditional banking for IT professionals

  Fintech job vacancies are growing, while less are being advertised in traditional banking sector companies Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 E-Handbook

  A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to fintech

  Traditional banks are making the leap to digital services to keep up with customer demands. In this 14-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly weighs up the competition from tech-based challenger banks, the importance of customer experience and the ... Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  Investments in skills, infrastructure and SMEs needed to help UK data economy hit new heights

  The UK data economy may struggle to reach its full growth potential between now and 2025 unless action is taken, suggests research commissioned by datacentre operator Digital Realty Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  Many British workers victims of ‘substandard’ technology in secondary offices, shows research

  Workers have claimed they are forced to use poorer technology when outside of the main office Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 Blog Post

  Fintech professional’s tech predictions: 5 – better understanding of privacy settings

  Consumers are set to become much more aware of the privacy settings on the websites they use Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  UK businesses urged to ensure they do cyber security basics

  The cyber threat to business has never been greater, so the National Cyber Security Centre is urging UK companies to ensure they have implemented all the basic, best-practice cyber security controls and processes Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  Dutch railway operator to experiment with self-driving trains

  Dutch railways are on a journey towards fully automated trains, with early tests under way Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 In Depth

  Assessing Alibaba Cloud

  AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform rule the public cloud market – but Chinese IaaS challenger Alibaba is targeting world domination Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 News

  Singtel, VMware to set up hybrid cloud sandbox

  The hybrid cloud sandbox environment will let companies test their cloud workloads and software-defined networks Continue Reading

• April 16, 2018 16Apr2018 Blog Post

  Is a Hive crash a 'stale' middleware malfunction?

  Hive Connected Home products are great and the support is outstanding, but they will crash... or at least ours did and here's what we hope is an interesting analysis in terms of trying to work out ... Continue Reading

• April 15, 2018 15Apr2018 News

  Ethics key to AI development, says Lords committee

  House of Lords Select Committee calls for government to draw up an ethical code of conduct, which organisations developing AI can sign up to Continue Reading

• April 15, 2018 15Apr2018 News

  Australian healthcare services most hit by data breaches

  Nearly a quarter of data breaches reported under Australia’s new mandatory data breach regime took place in the healthcare sector Continue Reading

• April 13, 2018 13Apr2018 News

  EU-US data sharing under threat as Irish court refers Facebook case to Europe

  The Irish High Court is seeking answers from the European Court of Justice in a case that could have huge implications for EU-US data sharing and raises questions about US government surveillance of EU citizens. The move could bring a five-year ... Continue Reading

• April 13, 2018 13Apr2018 Blog Post

  Why workflow automation matters (to developers)

  Developers need to know more about workflow automation, it appears. As analyst ‘thumb in the air’ pontificating predictions have ‘suggested’, the workflow automation market is expected to reach ... Continue Reading

• April 13, 2018 13Apr2018 News

  Cyber attackers can breach targets in hours, report reveals

  The majority of hackers claim they can breach an organisation within hours, while most security professionals admit they do not know what to look for Continue Reading

• April 13, 2018 13Apr2018 Blog Post

  Phishing for beer

  Pishing is when you get fed plenty of booze and then start mouthing-off, reveal a few secrets, passwords and PIN Continue Reading

• April 13, 2018 13Apr2018 News

  Companies must take a share of cloud security responsibility

  The cloud is seen as highly secure and more and more critical data is being held in public clouds, but organisations need to adapt their internal security processes Continue Reading

• April 13, 2018 13Apr2018 News

  AI fears abating among UK consumers, suggests OpenText survey

  UK citizens seem to be curbing their fears of artificial intelligence technology, according to survey research by OpenText Continue Reading

• April 13, 2018 13Apr2018 News

  UK playing central role in Facebook data misuse probe

  Data protection is a hot issue and all about increasing confidence in the way data is handled, says UK privacy watchdog Continue Reading

• April 13, 2018 13Apr2018 News

  Addressing consumer concerns will drive success for open banking

  Experts say consumers will feel more comfortable about sharing their data as part of open banking once more valuable use cases become available Continue Reading

• April 13, 2018 13Apr2018 News

  Crown Hosting and Fujitsu urge SIs to rethink approach to public sector IT in cloud era

  Crown Hosting and Fujitsu claim shift away from large, multi-year outsourcing deals is a change some systems integrators are intent on ignoring Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 In Depth

  Siemens success sets the scene for growth in process mining

  German industrial conglomerate Siemens has turned to process mining to reveal inefficiencies in the way it pays suppliers, organises logistics and runs order-to-cash processes Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  Cyber security a shared responsibility, says Amber Rudd

  The UK home secretary has emphasised that cyber security is a shared responsibility and committed to promote EU cyber cooperation post-Brexit at the National Cyber Security Centre’s conference in Manchester Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 Opinion

  Lauri Love escaped extradition to the US - what does that mean for future cases?

  The US lost its attempt to extradite Lauri Love to face hacking charges in a landmark case. What will it mean for other UK citizens facing extradition? Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  GCHQ growing cyber capability to match threat

  GCHQ continues to grow and develop its cyber capability to match the rapidly expanding and evolving threat landscape, says agency director Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  Machine learning is the new normal: AWS

  Cloud supplier AWS wants to put machine learning capabilities into the hands of more people in the nascent market for cloud-based AI services Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  SFO expands use of AI after successful trial in Rolls-Royce investigation

  Serious Fraud Office builds on trials of artificial intelligence in criminal investigations by rolling out a new data management platform Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  Security Center of Iceland dumps EMC big iron for StorMagic SvSAN

  Icelandic security company threw EMC VNXe “in the bin” and deployed StorMagic software-defined storage SvSAN to gain 4x boost in IOPS and slashed admin overhead Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  UK cyber attack reporting set to be more streamlined

  Government funding has been allocated to help streamline cyber attack reporting, according to the National Cyber Security Centre Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 Opinion

  The seven levers of digital transformation

  Organisations that embark on digital transformation projects often run into difficulties. Following the seven principles of digital transformation will help them reap the benefits of digital technology Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 Blog Post

  Farming goes high tech in Australia

  The farming industry is arguably one of the last frontiers in digital transformation efforts, but not so in Australia, which has one of the biggest agriculture sectors in the world. Since 2013, ... Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  22 European countries sign up to blockchain partnership

  The UK and 21 other countries have signed a declaration aiming to share blockchain experience and expertise across Europe, as well as preparing to launch EU-wide blockchain applications Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  O2 and Arqiva begin small cell roll-out in London

  Mobile operator will use small cells to boost 4G mobile network data capacity in busy areas, such as around stations Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 E-Zine

  CW Middle East: UAE makes artificial intelligence leap

  The United Arab Emirates wants to be at the heart of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution and is already testing its mettle as a global tech advocate and innovator. Also in this issue, read how Abu Dhabi is open to developing its fintech ... Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  PepsiCo hires robots to interview job candidates

  The food and drinks multinational is using artificial intelligence software, known as Robot Vera, to phone and interview candidates as it seeks to fill vacancies for factory, sales workers and drivers in Russia Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 News

  IaaS emerges as fastest-growing sector of the global public cloud market

  Gartner's public cloud spending forecast suggests enterprise demand for IaaS and SaaS deployments will continue to intensify between now and 2021 Continue Reading

• April 12, 2018 12Apr2018 Blog Post

  British Army goes forth into API zone

  The British Army marches on its stomach, fights for king, queen, god and country, upholds itself as a bastion of exemplary standards and is never afraid to say ‘stop it, that’s silly’ if things get ... Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  New cyber incident classification to boost UK response

  A new cyber attack categorisation system has been unveiled to improve UK response to incidents Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  Cloud, containers and hybrid IT flagged as top technology investments by UK IT professionals

  Research into the technology investment priorities of UK IT professionals reveals a strong appetite for all things cloud and containers Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  IT transformation seen as essential for digital business projects

  Businesses that have modernised their IT are in a far better position to make the most of digital transformation initiatives Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  CBI calls on government to get post-Brexit regulations right

  Ensuring the UK gets rules and regulations right is key to a thriving economy, and convergence with the digital single market is critical for tech companies, according to the CBI Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  Government to set up £13.5m cyber security centre

  Located at the 2012 Olympic Park, the London Cyber Innovation Centre could create up to 2,000 jobs in cyber security Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  Tesco online grocery sales up 5.1%

  After ninth consecutive quarter of growth, CEO says supermarket chain is “on track to deliver our medium-term ambitions” Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  Policy yet to catch up with innovation in digital health sector, says report

  Barriers such as poor procurement practices and lack of consensus about “what good looks like” can hinder NHS innovation, but there are still opportunities for digital health startups Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 Blog Post

  Is HTTP doomed? Could blockchain help replace the Internet as we know it?

  Tim Berners-Lee is rightly famous as the originator of HTTP, a fundamental of the World Wide Web as we know it. But according to some, HTTP is old hat. It has helped create a web full of dead ... Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  Diversity key to more effective cyber security, says NCSC

  Diversity in defence teams is key to improved cyber security, according to the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  GCHQ to set up shop in Manchester

  UK intelligence, security and cyber agency GCHQ is expanding its network of UK sites to north west England Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  NSA calls for cyber security community collaboration

  A US National Security Agency (NSA) representative has called for cyber security community collaboration at the National Cyber Security Centre’s conference in Manchester Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 Blog Post

  Red Hat goes big on interoperability-ness

  Red Hat changes its tagline from time to time, but this year the firm appears to happy being labelled as 'the world's leading provider of open source solutions' -- perhaps, with Microsoft and so ... Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  Facebook settles $365m modular datacentre IP theft case with UK-based BladeRoom Group

  BladeRoom and Facebook are known to have reached a confidential settlement in their long-running legal dispute, which saw the social medial giant accused of stealing trade secrets Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 Blog Post

  This is the last Downtime written by humans: the robots have won

  It’s the week of the 2018 London Book Fair at Olympia, and the worrying news has reached Downtime that our jobs are indeed under threat from the rise of the robots, with the publication of the ... Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  UK to launch crackdown on dark web

  The UK is to enhance its specialist law enforcement response to crack down on criminals operating on the dark web Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  Finnish government backs national AI development strategy

  Government is harnessing Finland’s tech base to help make the country a leading location for the artificial intelligence industry Continue Reading

• April 11, 2018 11Apr2018 News

  Australia needs to plug innovation gap

  Being at the crossroads of technological change, Australia should decide if it wants to be a producer of cutting-edge applications or be contented with just being a user of technology Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 News

  European CIOs have budget balancing act ahead of them

  There is some consensus among European CIOs on budget rises across the continent, but less so on what to invest in Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 News

  Apple claims global operations now run on 100% renewable power

  Four years after hitting its 100% renewable power goal in its datacentre estate, consumer electronics giant Apple claims to have replicated the feat across its entire business Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 News

  NWIS and Life Sciences Hub Wales to create digital health ecosystem

  The NHS Wales Informatics Service and Life Sciences Hub Wales have joined forces to launch a digital health and care network to help tech companies access the sector and share innovations Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 News

  HS. focuses on global scaling for healthcare startups in new accelerator programme

  HS. is trying to enable healthcare startups to scale internationally as part of its accelerator programme Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 News

  Mobile phishing a growing threat, warns report

  Phishing on mobile devices is a growing threat to business as attacks move beyond email to text messages and apps Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 Opinion

  Driving digitisation: open standards in process automation

  Organisations often can’t take advantage of advances in digital technology due to the lack of interoperability in their IT systems in different facilities, but open standards promise a way forward Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 Blog Post

  ThreatQuotient ups the ante for dealing with security incidents

  As cybercrime becomes ever more widespread and the actors involved diversify, targeted organisations must become more sophisticated and timely in their ability to detect and respond. Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 E-Handbook

  NVMe promises blisteringly fast flash performance

  In this guide we look at the architectural issues blocking agreement on NVMe, the fundamentals that underlie NVMe and its blistering performance, the key NVMe product deployments available, and ask what will become of the storage features associated... Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 Podcast

  Podcast: Storage compliance for GDPR data subject requests

  The General Data Protection Regulation is upon us. Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, talks you through the key areas needed for compliance in storage of data subjects’ data and how to find it quickly on request Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 News

  Cyber criminals earn up to $2m a year, study shows

  Academic study reveals just how lucrative cyber crime can be, with top-level cyber criminals out-earning government leaders and university graduates Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 News

  NHS trust dumps SANs for Tintri VM-aware storage

  Move to Tintri hybrid flash VM-aware storage allows Imperial College trust to redeploy HPE 3PAR SAN storage and cut storage admin and trouble-shooting to almost zero Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 News

  HMV pivots from legacy MPLS to SD-WAN

  Record retailer HMV goes all-in on a Cisco Meraki software-defined network to cut costs and improve its network resiliency Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 News

  SAP bids to modernise indirect licensing with new pricing model

  SAP has announced a new pricing model for indirect licensing scenarios that has been welcomed by user groups, who are still pressing for reassurance that they won’t pay more Continue Reading

• April 10, 2018 10Apr2018 E-Handbook

  Datacentre power and cooling: What you need to know

  In this e-guide, we take a look at some of the latest thinking on datacentre power and cooling, and share real-world examples of organisations that have used hardware upgrades and energy usage audits to change the way they power their server farms. Continue Reading