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October 22, 2018 22Oct2018 Blog Post

All Things Migration

So, in recent blogs I've talked about all things migration-wise; Windows migration issues and the testing thereof, migrating to the cloud, even migrating the cloud back to OnPrem, from OnPrem to ... Continue Reading

October 22, 2018 22Oct2018 News

Cab firm to map 250,000 miles of London roads for CAVs

Cab operator Addison Lee has teamed up with CAV software specialist Oxbotica to start preparing the streets of London for self-driving cars Continue Reading

October 22, 2018 22Oct2018 News

McAfee CTO raises concerns about election cyber security

The security industry needs to look at the security of election processes around the world as well as the security of voting and counting machines, says McAfee CTO Continue Reading

October 22, 2018 22Oct2018 News

Identity and access management is becoming a vital business concern

Many companies are struggling to provide secure access to the high number of applications and systems in use by their employees Continue Reading

October 22, 2018 22Oct2018 Blog Post

How the IoT can form part of a targeted approach to infrastructure asset management

This is a guest blog by Manish Jethwa, CTO at IoT specialist Yotta Our national infrastructure assets are under more strain than ever. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK ... Continue Reading

October 22, 2018 22Oct2018 News

Retail focus is key to Alibaba’s new London datacentre

China’s e-commerce giant has been slowly expanding into Europe and is now heading for a clash of the titans against AWS and Azure Continue Reading

October 22, 2018 22Oct2018 In Depth

Transform business with microservices and containers

We look at how DevOps and microservice-based technology have advanced IT architectures Continue Reading

October 21, 2018 21Oct2018 Blog Post

Puppet pulls strings on new DevOps tools

Open source software configuration management company Puppet used its colourfully named Puppetize Live event in San Francisco this month to detail a new product designed to help measure their ... Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 Blog Post

Can Matt Hancock be the minister that finally gets NHS technology right?

A large and toxic cloud has hung over NHS IT since the failure of the £12bn National Programme that saw billions wasted on systems that barely worked. Since then, we’ve seen the collapse of ... Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 In Depth

The importance of adopting an evergreen IT strategy

Today's modern IT systems are potentially tomorrow's legacy technology problems, without an "evergreening strategy" in place Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 In Depth

A new era of collaboration for the NHS

Great Ormond Street Hospital's new research and innovation unit, Drive, marks a significant shift towards greater collaboration between NHS organisations and third-party industry partners Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 Blog Post

Citus Data donates 1% equity to non-profit PostgreSQL orgs

There’s open source and there’s open source. There’s genuine free and open source software (FOSS) and then there’s largely locked down proprietary non-dynamic library open source that is generally ... Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 In Depth

CIO interview: Tamara Lohan, founder and CTO of Mr & Mrs Smith

Head of technology and co-founder of luxury travel firm Mr & Mrs Smith explains how the firm is revamping its technology to provide customers with a seamless experience Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

Zeppelin uses Splunk for pre-emptive maintenance

German construction equipment rental firm Zeppelin has been using Splunk to predict when its machinery will need maintenance before it breaks down Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 Blog Post

Addicted to clicks? Would you try online retail rehab?

In early October 2018, fintech firm iZettle ran a rehab centre for online shopping addicts to show the impact e-commerce has on the highstreet. But will this change customer habits? Spoiler alert, ... Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 Blog Post

The fintech interview: Part 6 Rebuilding Society

Rebuilding Society is a Leeds based fintech trying to offer SMEs access to better loans as well as selling its technology to organisations setting up crowdfuning initiatives Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 Blog Post

Will SDN replace MPLS? Not so fast

This is a guest blog post by Tony Judd, MD UKI and Benelux at Verizon With the popularity of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and ... Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 Blog Post

A deep dive into diversity data, and advice from women in tech

Several women in tech spoke about the importance of diversity at Splunk.conf 2018 in Florida, some about shocking diversity statistics and others giving advice from one woman in tech to another. To ... Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

Russians using less cash after accelerated use of electronic payments

Russians are increasingly using electronic payments rather than cash, a recent study by Sberbank has found Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

Competition, not consumer demand, is driving full-fibre roll-out

Market competition among telecoms operators, not consumer demand, appears to be driving the trend towards ultrafast full-fibre broadband roll-out in Europe Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

Why CIOs need to find ways to manage the old and the new

In IT, nothing is ever reinvented and nothing ever really goes away. We investigate how IT departments can remain agile while managing legacy assets Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

Interview: Matt Hancock, secretary of state for health and social care, on his NHS ‘tech vision’

Matt Hancock brings rare digital experience to running the NHS and social care systems, but can he overcome the legacy of past health service technology failures? Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

Kaspersky advances plans to encourage women into cyber

Cyber security provider Kaspersky Lab has partnered with several other organisations to try to encourage more women into cyber Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

McAfee combining threat intel with AI

Simulations show that threat intelligence and artificial intelligence is a powerful combination, according to McAfee’s technology head Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

Postal delivery robots trialled in Norway

The Norwegian postal service is testing out the value and viability of robots delivering mail to homes and businesses Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

Chinese insurance giant extends cloud service to other sectors

Ping An is opening up its cloud service to more sectors, including real estate and automotive, in its efforts to become a technology company Continue Reading

October 19, 2018 19Oct2018 News

Learn lessons from attacks, says McAfee investigations chief

Organisations should use every cyber attack as an opportunity to learn, identify weaknesses and improve security posture, according to McAfee’s head of cyber investigations Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

Amazon to open Manchester R&D centre and create 1,000 skilled jobs

Online retail giant will open a new office in Manchester and expand others to house 1,000 new skilled research and development employees in the UK Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

SAP Q3 2018: Cloud revenue up 39%

SAP’s Q3 2018 results show cloud revenue now at 22% of total and indicate momentum. S/4 Hana customers number 9,500 Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

Drivers have dangerous misconceptions about self-driving cars

People seem to be confused about the difference between autonomous and assisted driving technology, with worrying implications for road safety, says Thatcham Research Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

Dubai Health Authority unveils virtual health app for GP consultations

Health authority adopts new technology as part of the Dubai Future Accelerators initiative Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

Industry and government must collaborate to drive the digital economy, says techUK CEO

Industry and government must work together to grow use of technology across the UK economy, according to techUK CEO Julian David Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

McAfee researchers uncover ‘significant’ espionage campaign

Researchers discover campaign targeting South Korea, the US and Canada with links to eight-year-old source code from a threat group that has been dormant for five years Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 Video

Delivering Diversity in Technology: What does inclusion mean to you?

In this panel a group of people from all backgrounds and walks to life discuss what inclusion means to them in an organisation Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

Internet of things challenges in storage and data

The internet of things (IoT) brings challenges, with a host of new edge devices and data. We look at edge and core processing, compliance and information lifecycle management in IoT Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

Middle East gears up for 5G

The race for 5G is well and truly under way, and the UAE and Saudi Arabia are well positioned to be among the first countries in the world to deliver the benefits of this new telecoms protocol Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 E-Zine

CW ANZ: Taming the data beast

Software-defined storage (SDS), which promises greater transparency and control over data, is an increasingly important tool in the enterprise technology armoury. In this issue of CW ANZ, we look at how Australian enterprises are turning to SDS to ... Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 In Depth

Google Cloud CTO Brian Stevens on using open source for competitive advantage in the public cloud

Google Cloud CTO Brian Stevens on how the enterprise cloud conversation is changing, and why not all supplier declarations about supporting open source technologies are quite what they seem Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

MoJ to go all-in on public cloud as infrastructure modernisation push gathers pace

The Ministry of Justice claims modernising, retiring and migrating its legacy IT systems to the public cloud will help it accrue long-term savings of around 60% on hosting costs Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

Home Office ‘seriously’ considered ESN shutdown

New disclosures from those responsible for the troubled Emergency Services Network project have revealed that, contrary to previous denials, the Home Office came close to pulling the plug earlier this year Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 E-Zine

CW ASEAN: Unlock flash opportunities

Traditional disks can no longer keep up with the needs of modern enterprises, which now rely more on business-critical software to digest heaps of corporate and customer data to make quick business decisions. In this issue of CW ASEAN, we take a ... Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

No new funding for Hancock’s NHS tech vision

Getting the technology plan right is more about standards than money, says health and social care secretary Matt Hancock, as he explains why NHS organisations won’t be given additional funding to deliver on his vision Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

NHS standards framework aims to set the bar for quality and efficiency

NHS Digital’s standards framework sets out renewed commitment to implement and use open standards across the NHS Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 Blog Post

Singapore CIOs weigh in on digital transformation

Earlier this week, all members of Computer Weekly’s APAC CIO advisory panel gathered for the first time to share their thoughts on digital transformation and what the overused term means to them. ... Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

Best of VMworld Europe 2018 Awards nominations now open until 26 October

Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 E-Handbook

The Future of Financial Services: Part 1

In the first part of our 'Future of Financial Services' e-guide series, we interview 5 fledgling fintech companies that are working on a wide range of products and services to help reduce costs and make businesses more effective. Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

How Heathrow transformed using analytics for the people

A Microsoft Azure platform and PowerBI have provided the people who work at Heathrow Airport with a way to use analytics directly to help them improve their performance Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

Time to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee CEO Chris Young

Convergence of threats and technologies and an increasingly complex regulatory environment are driving the need to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee chief Continue Reading

October 18, 2018 18Oct2018 News

'Sealed cloud' promises better data security

TÜV SÜD’s Singapore Sealed Cloud does not grant administrators access to data, reducing the possibility of hackers breaking into databases using compromised administrator credentials Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 In Depth

Digital transformation makes team players of suppliers – caveat emptor

C-level executives organising digital transformation programmes prefer their suppliers to work as a single team. But it is not all plain sailing Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 News

Hancock sets out NHS tech vision

Government will mandate national open standards for the NHS and tech suppliers, build a health and caretech ecosystem and give local NHS organisations more flexibility in how and what tech they buy Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 Blog Post

Back to school with SUSE

We used to say: if you’re a developer, then you’re a full stack software application developer. Then we moved on to say: all developers are essentially mobile developers because all applications ... Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 News

Violin to add X-IO flash, hybrid and disk as mid-range options

Reborn Violin Systems is to buy X-IO’s spinning disk, all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems in a bid to provide more mid-range options to its customers Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 In Depth

Software requirements for international aid go beyond cloud and apps

Aid workers in extreme situations don’t always have stable access to the software they need over the cloud. Find out how they work around this Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 E-Handbook

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to retail technology

The retail industry is evolving alongside the emergence of new technologies. In this 15-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at how retailers are using AI, the importance of good digital customer experience and how mobiles have transformed the ... Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 Blog Post

Dialling into the Huawei Mate20

Whether you can pronounce the company’s name or not, it’s for sure that Huawei (say: wah-way) has become a significant presence in the smartphone market today. Now with corporate ambitions to ... Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 News

Contactless payments surpass Chip and PIN in UK shops

Contactless card payments now account for more spending in UK stores than Chip and PIN Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 Blog Post

In conversation with: Russ Shaw, everywoman male agent of change 2018

In 2018 Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates (TLA) and Global Tech Advocates (GTA), won the Male Agent of Change Award at the 2018 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards. Everywoman introduced ... Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 News

Microsoft signs pledge to assist people with dyslexia

Tech giant Microsoft has signed the Made by Diversity pledge to help more people with dyslexia use technology as part of their education Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 News

UCaaS supports British Medical Journal’s cloud-first ambitions

With a growing global business and a CIO intent on doing everything in the cloud, the British Medical Journal turned to unified communications-as-a-service provider RingCentral to make its comms infrastructure fit for the cloud era Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 News

Nordic CTO interview: Anders Johanson, Husqvarna

Husqvarna is on a journey to transform itself into a product and services company by using the latest digital technology and Anders Johnson is a driving force behind it Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 Blog Post

The fintech interview: Part 5 Honcho

How a serial entrepreneur and a former soldier plotted to take on the car insurance price comparison sites Continue Reading

October 17, 2018 17Oct2018 Blog Post

A smartphone for your smartphone?

As if smartphone devices aren't already taking over our lives enough, a US company has launched a miniature phone to act as a companion to your main device. In a world where smartphones are ... Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

APAC security spending tipped to reach new highs

Security services will be the largest and fastest-growing slice of the overall security pie in the Asia-Pacific region Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 Blog Post

Serious about diversity and inclusion? Set measurable targets or fail

In this guest post Byron Calmonson, director of the resourcing hub, claims the only way to ensure diversity and inclusion in an organisation is to set measurable targets. Are you getting fed up ... Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham

Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

Monster partners with Stemettes to encourage girls into Stem

Recruitment firm links up with social enterprise to give young people experience in applying and interviewing for technology roles Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 In Depth

GlaxoSmithKline R&D CDO on combining Hadoop and Docker to boost drug discovery efforts

Mark Ramsey, chief digital officer of research and development at GSK, describes how banking on big data, containers and on-premise technologies is speeding up the company’s efforts to uncover new drugs and improve the hit rate of its clinical trials Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

Carrefour kicks off blockchain food traceability drive

Using blockchain to capture data, shoppers will be able to use their smartphones to see exactly where a product on the supermarket shelf came from Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

Commuter trains may need over 3Gbps of mobile data capacity by 2025

Ofcom has set out its vision of what will need to be done to meet the government’s goals around data connectivity on the UK’s rail network Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

There is more to fintech than meets the eye

Financial technology goes way beyond the flashy apps facing consumers and into the depths of the back office Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation

Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

Elastifile ClearTier allows cloud tiering for burst workloads

Elastifile adds ClearTier to its CloudConnect to bring enterprise NAS access in the cloud with the ability to tier data between object storage and file system Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies, aged 65

Computer programmer who helped propel Microsoft to become one of the world’s largest businesses will be remembered for his generosity Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

Public Health England builds Ceph and Lustre cloud for analytics

Healthcare analytics and modelling organisation Public Health England built an open source cloud from Red Hat Ceph object storage and Lustre scale-out file access storage to petabyte scale Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 E-Zine

Drilling into AI at Shell

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how oil giant Shell is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to boost workforce safety and productivity. We analyse the attempted Russian cyber attack revealed by the Dutch government. And we ... Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

More than half of women think their gender helps them pursue tech careers

A majority of women think being female helps them enter the tech sector, but career progression can be a different story, study shows Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

Zero-trust security model gaining traction

The zero-trust model of security is finally gaining traction as security professionals tap into new tools and executive buy-in to support this approach in an effort to improve security posture and practices Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

UK faces 10 cyber attacks a week as hostile states step up hacking, says NCSC

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has thwarted more than 1,600 attacks over the past two years – many by hostile nation states Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 Blog Post

Will CYBG integrate Virgin to its digital platform and is it curtains for Virgin’s digital bank?

Virgin Money will be the next banking brand to be integrated into the CYBG digital platform Continue Reading

October 16, 2018 16Oct2018 News

Hortonworks CTO weighs in on Cloudera merger

Besides marrying technologies from Hortonworks and Cloudera, the two companies could also come up with new product components after their merger is sealed Continue Reading

October 15, 2018 15Oct2018 News

Home Office completes initial test of online system for registering EU citizens

Online application process for registering EU citizens in the UK after Brexit has concluded initial trials, and will now be expanded to a wider group Continue Reading

October 15, 2018 15Oct2018 Blog Post

Moby Mart – The “store of the future” or just a fun idea?

During a discussion at Tech by Retail Week in summer of 2018, the co-founders of the unmanned moving store Moby Mart talked about how they believe the “store of the future” will be solar powered, ... Continue Reading

October 15, 2018 15Oct2018 News

Microsoft staff allegedly pen open letter urging firm to drop bid for US government cloud deal

Letter calls on software giant to bow out of the race for a controversial, 10-year cloud contract with the US Department of Defense Continue Reading

October 15, 2018 15Oct2018 News

Should you pay or should you go for free open source software?

Open source software is free, but many businesses are happy to pay for support. This model tends not to scale well, however, making wider deployment expensive. We weigh up the options Continue Reading

October 15, 2018 15Oct2018 News

Tech companies should not be under legal duty to remove terrorist material, says watchdog

The internet should not be a safe place for terrorists, but making it compulsory for technology companies to trawl for radical content risks interfering with the rights of innocent people, says Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism ... Continue Reading

October 15, 2018 15Oct2018 News

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