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2018 Stories

• January 11, 2018 11Jan2018 News

  CES 2018: Hyundai and Cisco bring SDN to the automobile

  Hyundai will debut a new generation of hyperconnected software-defined car in 2019, incorporating a Cisco-designed network platform Continue Reading

• January 11, 2018 11Jan2018 News

  Health sector digitisation vital to combat mental health crisis

  Collaboration and digitisation within the health industry is critical to deal with the growing mental health crisis, but more support is needed from policymakers Continue Reading

• January 11, 2018 11Jan2018 News

  Cabinet Office unveils renewed shared IT services programme for government

  The Cabinet Office reveals details of its latest push to make the shared services model take off in government Continue Reading

• January 11, 2018 11Jan2018 Blog Post

  Choosing the right public cloud provider: A checklist

  In this guest post, Gordon Grosse, director of technical services at IT support and datacentre managed service provider MCSA, offers advice on how to choose the right public cloud provider for your ... Continue Reading

• January 11, 2018 11Jan2018 News

  Spyware targets North Korean dissidents via social links, says McAfee

  Researchers at security firm McAfee have confirmed that social networks are being used to target North Korean dissidents with spyware Continue Reading

• January 11, 2018 11Jan2018 Blog Post

  Augmenting audio visual with intelligence and automation

  This is the second in a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the audio visual (AV) industry, which has its annual European flagship event, ISE2018, in February. This ... Continue Reading

• January 11, 2018 11Jan2018 E-Zine

  CW Middle East: Technology transforms healthcare delivery in Gulf region

  The Gulf’s healthcare sector has witnessed exponential growth in the past two decades, driven by a rapidly growing population and a rise in lifestyle-related diseases. Read how technology is helping the region’s healthcare sector cope with demand. ... Continue Reading

• January 11, 2018 11Jan2018 News

  Nuclear weapons’ cyber attack risk relatively high, says report

  With the potential for catastrophic consequences from a nuclear weapons detonation attack, it is crucial to have the most robust nuclear policies in place, says an international affairs think-tank Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 Blog Post

  Hyundai to invest in Grab in Series G funding round

  Hyundai, along with a handful of key investors, is pumping more money into Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing service in an effort to bring its mobility services to the region. The South ... Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  Ministry of Defence announces new CIO

  Former Prudential and BP CIO Charles Forte takes over as IT chief for the UK's armed forces Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  EC underlines need for data transfer agreement post-Brexit

  The European Commission has emphasised the importance of having a data transfer agreement in place after the UK leaves the European Union Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  Cyber criminals exploit Oracle WebLogic flaw

  Researchers are urging companies to apply a security update to patch a flaw in Oracle’s WebLogic Server component that is being exploited to mine cryptocurrency Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  Citizens want more from public sector digital transformation

  Survey shows digital skills and lack of integration are among major barriers to good online government services Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 Blog Post

  As open banking hits UK is it time to dispel the Google Bank theory?

  As the UK embarks oon a journey to open retail banking up to more competition it is time to stop talking about Google Bank? Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  Daisy Group saves on datacentre cooling costs through five-year EkkoSense deal

  Daisy Group claims to have already seen sizeable cost savings on the back of its push to improve its datacentre cooling procedures across five UK facilities Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  Margot James takes over as digital minister after government reshuffle

  Former minister for business succeeds Matt Hancock after his promotion to secretary of state Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 Blog Post

  Sophia 2020

  Time now to check in with Downtime linchpin Sophia the robot, who’s been dazzling the world once again – this time at CES 2018. No, it’s not wig-cleaning day for Ray’s wife at Disney World’s “Hall ... Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  Voice assistance technology gets emotional

  Many people who use Alexa get frustrated by her lack of understanding. But by 2022, voice technology will have evolved to understand emotion Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  UAE tech growth prompts firms to review internal IT security

  As IT becomes more prominent in the UAE economy, more and more internal connections between people and systems are created, all of which need to be secured Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 In Depth

  Inside DBS Bank’s digital journey

  The Singapore-based bank laid the foundation for its digital strategy a decade ago, starting with an overhaul of its IT systems before going big on cloud computing in later years Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  ICO fines Carphone Warehouse £400,000

  Mobile retailer hit with one of the highest fines for putting personal data at risk as UK privacy watchdog warns that more stringent data protection laws will apply from 25 May 2018 Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 In Depth

  Storage in containers: The answer to persistent storage needs?

  With compute requirements often fragmented, short-lived and bursty, traditional storage architectures can struggle to cope – so is storage in containers the solution? Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  Spectre: How reverse-engineering a microprocessor revealed a fundamental flaw

  Researchers have published their work on Spectre, a flaw that affects every modern CPU. We find out what went wrong from one of the engineers Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  Germany’s Lemoncat disrupts business catering through cloud computing

  Startup is shaking up Germany’s business catering sector with a platform that harnesses Amazon and Salesforce clouds Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 Blog Post

  Chef: The DevOps tools arms race is over, time for application-centrism

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network asked, is 2018 the year of the DevOps backlash? Well, it was only meant to be an open question, a hypothesising supposition, a point of informed speculation ... Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  Marks and Spencer eyes £30m annual cost savings from digital-first retail push

  High-street retailer has fleshed out plans to put digital at the heart of its business to boost operational efficiency in response to changing consumer demands Continue Reading

• January 10, 2018 10Jan2018 News

  UK must use new technologies in the workplace to reverse productivity issues, say researchers

  Researchers have called for the UK to utilise new technologies in the workplace to drive better productivity Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 E-Handbook

  New generation Business Process Management meets Agile and AI

  In this e-guide we find out how in its IT-centric guise, Business Process Management has been developing since the mid-2000s, and, more recently still, influenced by agile software development techniques and the renaissance of artificial ... Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 E-Handbook

  Cloud storage hits hybrid mainstream

  In this e-guide, we take an in-depth look at what is pushing cloud, and more specifically hybrid cloud, into the mainstream and how the rise of cloud applications has driven innovations in backup, with data protection of cloud assets to the cloud ... Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  Max Schrems champions NGO to fight for GDPR rights

  Privacy activist whose legal challenge of Facebook led to the scrapping of the Safe Harbour Agreement says crowdfunding a new type of non-government organisation is essential to deliver privacy rights Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 E-Handbook

  CIO Trends #6

  Read some of our most popular articles on issues faced by IT decision makers, such as how to get DevOps right in order to deliver digital transformation. We explore digital twins and how they could be used to optimise real-world industrial assets ... Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 Blog Post

  Meltdown and Spectre: Making a case for greater public cloud use

  The Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities constitute the greatest test yet of the public cloud provider community’s data security claims, says Caroline Donnelly, while providing enterprise IT ... Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  Cloud firm scales Cloudian object storage to 2.5PB for GDPR

  Calligo expands Cloudian Hyperstore from three nodes to 30 at worldwide datacentres, with object storage deployed for file-level and metadata capabilities suited to GDPR Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  Meltdown and Spectre a big deal for enterprises

  Although consumers are relatively unaffected by the recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in most modern processors, enterprises need to take the threat seriously. Computer Weekly looks at how enterprise IT and security professionals should be... Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 Blog Post

  Hold The Front Page: Common Sense Prevails In IT Security Shock!

  IT is overloaded with slick marketing terms that have little or no substance behind them – the classic “solution searching for a problem” scenario but… just occasionally the complete opposite prevails Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  Dutch bank tests wearable technology payments

  ABN Amro is testing out wearable payment devices with 500 customers as part of a four-month pilot Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  Changes for digital government in Theresa May's reshuffle

  Matt Hancock takes over as DCMS secretary of state, while Caroline Nokes says goodbye to her role as the minister responsible for digital at Cabinet Office Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  Spanish authorities ready roads for autonomous vehicles

  Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic has selected Mobileye technology to develop vision and data analysis for driver assistance and autonomous vehicles Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  CES 2018: Pizza Hut to test autonomous delivery vehicle

  At CES 2018, underway in Las Vegas, Pizza Hut and Toyota announce a partnership to develop an autonomous pizza delivery service Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  CES 2018: Jaguar Land Rover picks Qualcomm to power in-car connectivity

  British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover will incorporate Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820Am automotive platform to power in-vehicle connectivity Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 E-Zine

  Countdown to GDPR

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming in to force this year, we look at the challenges for businesses to comply by the 25 May deadline. We examine the future for HPE as CEO Meg Whitman steps ... Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  Cyber attacks in 2017 drive Nordic security efforts

  The volume of cyber attacks last year has increased boardroom focus on security in the Nordic region Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  Google puts its payment services under one roof

  Internet giant is bringing all its payment services under the Google Pay brand, making them “simpler, safer and more consistent” Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  Intel to set up new group to focus on hardware security

  Chip maker is reportedly planning to form a new group to focus on hardware security as it scrambles to limit the impact of recently discovered security flaws in chip designs Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 Blog Post

  Ricoh opens shutters for Android-based plug-ins

  Every company is now a software company, this much we know to be true. If we accept this new truism, then a camera company must be a software company… or at least it must be a digital camera ... Continue Reading

• January 09, 2018 09Jan2018 News

  China to open $2.1bn AI tech park in Beijing

  An area in the western part of Chinese capital Beijing has been designated as the launchpad for China to hone its capabilities in artificial intelligence Continue Reading

• January 08, 2018 08Jan2018 In Depth

  In the know: how a digital workspace can drive innovation

  In a digital world, engaged employees can support innovation using a new generation of tools that leverage behavioural science and more Continue Reading

• January 08, 2018 08Jan2018 News

  HMRC IT systems crash as customers attempt to file tax returns

  Several HMRC IT systems crashed on Saturday, leaving customers attempting to file their tax returns frustrated as the deadline approaches Continue Reading

• January 08, 2018 08Jan2018 News

  Sweden steps up cyber defence measures

  Sweden is tightening up its cyber security defences as part of a wider national security strategy Continue Reading

• January 08, 2018 08Jan2018 News

  Telco outsources digital transformation to Infosys

  Belgium's biggest telco will cut legacy systems as part of a digital transformation project Continue Reading

• January 08, 2018 08Jan2018 News

  Florida warns 30,000 medical records may have been exposed

  The health agency in the US state of Florida has warned that the records of up to 30,000 Medicaid patients may have been exposed when the agency’s IT systems were breached Continue Reading

• January 08, 2018 08Jan2018 Blog Post

  Qualys: How to be cool with DevOps

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network asked, is 2018 the year of the DevOps backlash? Well, it was only meant to be an open question, a hypothesising supposition, a point of informed speculation ... Continue Reading

• January 08, 2018 08Jan2018 In Depth

  Get tooled up to meet GDPR requirements

  We look at options for tools to help organisations comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation Continue Reading

• January 08, 2018 08Jan2018 News

  IT Priorities 2018: ANZ ups ante on cloud services and software

  Organisations in Australia and New Zealand are bullish on IT spending, particularly in cloud infrastructure services, cloud applications and all-flash storage arrays Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  Insurance broker Simply Business ditches legacy MPLS for SD-WAN

  Insurance business finds networking a breeze after ditching its unresponsive managed services provider and implementing VeloCloud’s latest software-defined wide area network technology Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 E-Handbook

  Essential Guide: Dealing with a data breach

  This guide examines examples of companies that have been hit by data breaches and how they have responded, as well as expert advice on how to respond to a data breach or cyber security incident. Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  Patch systems against Meltdown and Spectre, urges ICO

  UK’s data protection watchdog is calling for organisations to apply security updates to mitigate against exploits of microprocessor flaws as soon as possible to safeguard personal data Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  2018 could be year of critical infrastructure attacks, says report

  The coming year is likely to see an increase in the number of cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI), according to a report based on experts’ forecasts Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  Case study: Doing digital the Stockport way

  Stockport Council’s digital programme is working to transform services for both citizens and staff, saving chunks of money and driving efficiency at the same time Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 Opinion

  Blockchain’s promise goes beyond fintech

  By reducing the cost of peer-to-peer data and resource transfer, blockchain can remove the need for third parties and middlemen across industries Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 Blog Post

  Inside the snake pit with ‘angr’ Python framework creator

  Professor Giovanni Vigna has been lauded as the world’s fourth most influential researcher in cyber security and is the founder of Lastline, a malware protection company. He is responsible for ... Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  2017 cemented cloud as the ‘new normal’ for enterprise IT, claims Synergy Research Group

  According to Synergy Research Group, 2017 marked another important milestone in enterprise adoption and acceptance of cloud Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  University of Northampton launches app-based prospectus

  University is using software to create an app-based prospectus and improve internal communications Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  IT departments have no idea how much they spend on AWS and Azure

  The complexity of procuring public cloud services means IaaS users often lack a sense of how much their cloud workloads actually cost Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  London attracted record tech investment in 2017

  London-based tech firms received record levels of venture capital funding last year Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  Oxford and Cambridge Club shelves ledgers for time and attendance

  London club has modernised its time and attendance paper-based procedures to manage its staff, using Planday software Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 News

  Apple confirms all devices affected by Meltdown and Spectre

  Apple has confirmed that all iPhones, iPads and Mac computers are affected by the recently discovered microprocessor exploits as the financial services industry assesses the risk Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 Blog Post

  Plugging Singapore’s cyber security skills gap

  Some 20 teams of cyber security industry professionals and tertiary students in Singapore pitted their skills against one another in a competition aimed at plugging the cyber security skills gap in ... Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 Video

  Christine Ashton, SAP: Learning IT leadership skills from the supplier side

  Christine Ashton is an experienced CIO, who has led IT teams and transformation programmes at Thomson Reuters, BG Group and Transport for London Continue Reading

• January 05, 2018 05Jan2018 Video

  UKtech50 2017: Recruiting the right talent for your organisation

  A panel of IT leaders discuss how they go about identifying the talent they need within their organisations Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 Blog Post

  20 years of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

  It's time for a little open source history. The 'open source' label itself was created at a strategy session held by members of the group that we now call the Open Source Initiative (OSI) on ... Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 Opinion

  Zero in on your zero-day vulnerabilities

  A zero-day attack comes, by definition, out of the blue. You cannot predict its nature or assess how much damage it might cause, but you can take some basic steps to protect yourself from a potentially crippling cyber strike Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 Blog Post

  Five things in tech to watch out for in 2018

  Complete this sentence to win a prize for your technology insight: “2018 will be the year of…” Rather like the missing word round in Have I Got News For You, the answers will range from the obvious ... Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 News

  Scottish Ambulance Service tests satellite to improve critical care process

  The Scottish Ambulance Service is testing satellite broadband to help paramedics gather vital information on their patients’ conditions whilst in transit Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 Blog Post

  OpenStack vs the rest of the public cloud: Where next from here?

  In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, technical director at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy Steamhaus weighs up the pros and cons of using OpenStack over other public cloud platforms. ... Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 Blog Post

  Chocolate coins, not bitcoins

  Did anyone else notice how many people ruined the festive season’s pub visits by mistaking Bitcoin for something resembling an entertaining topic of conversation? Suddenly all these bozos you grew ... Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 News

  Meltdown and Spectre: AWS, Google and Microsoft rush to patch cloud chip flaws

  Amazon, Google and Microsoft rush to fix chip flaws that could leave cloud customers at risk of having their data accessed or stolen by other users Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 News

  NHS Coventry connects GPs to CityFibre broadband

  NHS Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commissioning Group is upgrading to full-fibre broadband infrastructure for GP practices and community health centres Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 Blog Post

  Could the babel fish be around the corner via Google

  The babel fish is around the corner but look out for the arrival androids that are indistinguishable from humans Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 News

  Claire House Children’s Hospice opens up about its digital transformation triumphs

  Claire House Children’s Hospice took home the Best of Show prize at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards by sharing details of how technology is helping it achieve its aim of reaching every family who needs its help across the north-west of England Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 News

  Nordic banks face digitisation decisions over PSD2

  With the latest version of the EU payment services directive coming into force, traditional Nordic banks can’t afford to slow their digital transformations Continue Reading

• January 04, 2018 04Jan2018 News

  Intel, Nokia prepping APAC telcos for 5G wave

  The two tech firms are among others that have been working with telcos across the Asia-Pacific region to test 5G technologies and applications Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 Blog Post

  Blockchain for developers, where do we start?

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network wants to know what’s next for software engineers, that much you already know. In that regard then, we want to know how developer-programmers should be thinking ... Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  Critical Intel security patch will slow PCs, servers and Macs

  AMD shares rise on news that the performance of millions of Windows PCs, Linux servers and Apple Macs is to be impacted by critical updates for a recently discovered security flaw in Intel chips manufactured in the past 10 years Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  Nuffield Health hits peak performance after switching to SDN

  The non-profit healthcare and fitness organisation has improved both its network and wider IT performance after switching over to SDN technology Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 Opinion

  Why CryptoKitties shows the future of humanity in the robot age

  Spending millions on blockchain-based cat collectibles might seem trivial, but it explains why economists aren’t worried about robots taking all our jobs Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  What the EU’s new data protection regime means for ASEAN

  A large proportion of businesses in the regional economic grouping will be affected by Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, but awareness of the new rules remains low, even in countries with existing data protection laws Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  Government yet to ‘fully embrace’ digital, says IoD report

  Institute of Directors report says the government’s digital drive has lost momentum and calls on public sector to harness private sector technologies and innovation Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 Blog Post

  Big data best practice means a best-of-breed approach

  This is a guest blogpost by Sebastian Darrington, UK MD at Exasol The days of operating a single vendor IT software estate are behind us. Such is the pace of innovation and change, putting all your ... Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  ‘Cast the net broader’ for diverse tech talent, says digital minister

  The minister of state for digital, Matt Hancock, told a diversity and inclusion event that the technology industry should look to use under-represented groups to fill talent gaps Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 Blog Post

  Combining machine learning and scorecards to assess credit risk

  This is a guest blogpost by Shafi Rahman, principal scientist, FICO Last year, artificial intelligence (AI) generated countless news headlines and ideas that fascinate us. Its predictive ability ... Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  How to avoid those coding challenge blues

  A new approach to coding challenges promises to spice up the developer recruitment process. Computer Weekly investigates Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  Smartphone production to plateau in 2018, says report

  After a bumper year, driven chiefly by growth in the Chinese market, smartphone production will begin to slow in 2018, according to analysts at TrendForce Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 Blog Post

  Serverless development as a route to freedom from cloud lock-in

  Named after the South American waterfall, but with the ‘creative’ use of a lower case first letter, iguazio is a data platform company specialising in continuous analytics and event ... Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  IoT botnet DDoS attacks predicted after exploit code published

  Security researchers are urging businesses to ensure they are prepared for large-scale DDoS attacks following the online publication of code to exploit a vulnerability in Huawei HG532 routers Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2018

  Nordic CIOs tell Computer Weekly about their intentions for the year ahead Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 Opinion

  Building on the UK tech sector’s momentum in 2018

  The UK’s digital and tech industry made great progress in 2017, and the government aims to further its support in 2018, says digital minister Continue Reading

• January 03, 2018 03Jan2018 News

  Colt to expand datacentre footprint in APAC

  Datacentre service provider Colt is laying the groundwork to build datacentres in India and Singapore, and is working on new datacentre technologies to improve energy efficiency Continue Reading

• January 02, 2018 02Jan2018 News

  Top UK and US firms still overestimating GDPR readiness

  Less than five months before the compliance deadline for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), most top UK and US firms are still overestimating their state of readiness, a study suggests Continue Reading

• January 02, 2018 02Jan2018 News

  Trackside network to bring 5G to UK rail travellers by 2025

  The government has launched a consultation on improving mobile connectivity for rail passengers Continue Reading