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2019 Stories

• September 12, 2019 12Sep2019 News

  IBM introduces z15 mainframe with security data passport

  In the new z15 enterprise server, IBM has focused on making data secure and auditable wherever it resides. Continue Reading

• September 12, 2019 12Sep2019 News

  Mirai descendants dominate IoT threat environment

  Attacks leveraging compromised IoT devices are growing in size, scale and frequency, report security experts at F-Secure and Trend Micro, with Mirai-related botnets a major source of trouble Continue Reading

• September 12, 2019 12Sep2019 News

  Bloomberg will move historic trading data to cloud in support of clients’ machine-learning ambitions

  Bloomberg’s CIO for enterprise, Tony McManus, says its clients’ changing attitude to using cloud is changing the way the firm makes its real-time trading data available to the financial services community Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 News

  Government departments urged to publish R&D spending roadmaps

  Issues including funding concentration in the “golden triangle” of London, Oxford and Cambridge must be addressed, according to a Science and Technology Committee report Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 Blog Post

  Women in code series: Ayelet Laub 

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding.  But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the ... Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 Blog Post

  Sumo Logic eyes open source disruption (in 4 of 6 stack levels)

  Software is eating the world… and open source software is creating a new set of recipes, chewing it up and sticking it all into a completely different kind of sandwich with a whole new set of ... Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 Blog Post

  RPA series: delaware - the road to 'smarter' RPA

  This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Simon Harbour, UK Technology Lead, delaware. The company... delaware consulting works to create ERP and ICT solutions ... Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 Blog Post

  That don’t impress Ma much

  Over to Hangzhou now, where the richest man in China has thrown himself the mother of all retirement bashes by performing in front of an audience of 60,000 employees. Alibaba founder Jack Ma donned ... Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 News

  Fintech Fluidly combines Google’s cloud and AI tech to ease SME cashflow management woes

  London-based fintech Fluidly explains how its recent all-in move to the Google Cloud is supporting its continued growth, and delivers new features to customers faster Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 Blog Post

  Could Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings' ‘secret’ data sharing plan work?

  Prime minister Boris Johnson and his controversial special advisor, Dominic Cummings, are “secretly” working on a plan to gather citizen data from across Whitehall to be used for targeting ... Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 Blog Post

  A Deep Learning experience was the spark for Evolution AI: Fintech interview 27

  Evolution AI is selling technology to banks that can enable a computer to read any text in any document and make decisions based on what it reads Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 Opinion

  Regulators globally are shaping up to rein in Facebook

  We need to move fast and fix Facebook, before it breaks us Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 News

  UK consumers want biometrics but fear driverless cars and AI

  Report also shows many adults across the country have never heard of the internet of things or big data Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 News

  Digital transformation requires a continuous approach to change

  There is no such thing as a one-shot business transformation. It's an on-going approach to deploying new ideas and technologies that grow the business Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 News

  Equifax and Heartbleed are most-Googled cyber security terms

  Analysis of 15 years’ worth of Google search data has revealed some insight into what cyber security trends are capturing the imagination Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 Blog Post

  Commvault’s Hedvig throw of the dice

  Commvault’s $225 million purchase of software-defined storage maker Hedvig looks like a rational move given the way the backup market is changing. But it also looks like a massive and potentially ... Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 News

  Nordic countries deepen collaboration with Estonia-based cyber security operation

  Nordic countries are now working closer with Nato’s Estonia-based centre of excellence in cyber security Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 News

  How SATS is using digital twin tech to improve operations

  Singapore-based SATS has been using a digital twin platform to model food production processes to improve in-flight catering operations Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 In Depth

  The emergence of the shopping centre-as-a-service model

  Shopping centres have been morphing into wider entertainment, leisure and hospitality venues for some time, but their role is set to evolve yet further Continue Reading

• September 11, 2019 11Sep2019 News

  GDPR non-compliance worse than feared

  Over half of UK businesses do not yet appear to be fully GDPR-compliant, and many have de-prioritised their compliance efforts Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 Blog Post

  RPA series: IPsoft - RPA isn’t successful in silos

  This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Joe Michael in his role as head of pre-sales for UK at IPsoft. IPsoft the company is an Artificial Intelligence specialist ... Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  UK calls for cyber capacity-building at UN security group

  The UK’s representative to a United Nations cyber security working group has called for increased investment in capacity around cyber security Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software

  Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  Tech startups can boost UK shipping market after Brexit

  Increased connectivity and propositions based on tools such as AI and blockchain can provide opportunities to the shipping sector after Brexit, says report Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  Brexit disrupts FCA exploration into data use in wholesale banking

  The extra work for banks due to Brexit preparations has caused a delay to FCA work on the use of data in the wholesale banking sector Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  Inside NatWest Ventures

  NatWest Ventures is helping NatWest bank to remain relevant to its SME businesses customer community through digital innovation Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  BT gears up to take on rogue drones

  BT’s Enterprise unit is offering customers an anti-drone security solution to protect their physical sites from intrusion Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  Nokia, NTT Docomo and Omron to test 5G at factory floor

  Three firms – Nokia, NTT Docomo and Omron – have banded together to test the feasibility of running a layout-free production line operated by 5G-connected robots and human technicians Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  Ctera launches hybrid cloud HC2400M at media use cases

  Edge filer specialist hits up the media and entertainment market with its NAS-like hardware that caches data locally, syncs with other nodes and stages data to the cloud Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  Why it makes sense to use a third party to keep the IT lights on

  Keeping operational systems running is a full-time job, but as systems get older, they end up being out of support Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  Ministry of Defence unveils innovation priorities

  Artificial intelligence and 3D printing are among the key areas of focus for the Ministry of Defence's latest approach to emerging tech Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 Opinion

  Is there substance in Boris Johnson’s full-fibre broadband vision?

  The new prime minister made a bold promise to roll out full-fibre broadband across the country by 2025 – but it’s a challenging task that requires serious investment and planning Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: The case for blockchain-based identity

  What are the best and most effective ways information security professionals can use blockchain technology? Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 E-Zine

  A tech boost for social care

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, we explore how local authorities across the UK have been looking at assistive technologies, ranging from collaborative robots to voice assistants, to support delivery of adult social care services. We also look into ... Continue Reading

• September 10, 2019 10Sep2019 News

  How Zuellig Pharma is fighting fake drugs with blockchain

  The Asia-Pacific pharmaceutical giant is using a blockchain platform from SAP to help consumers identify the provenance of medicine Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 News

  Brain-computer interfaces: Promising tech needs regulating

  Connecting a computer directly to the brain could revolutionise healthcare, but the tech giants might monopolise data and application areas Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 News

  Mutlicloud use rife in financial services sector, suggests YellowDog research

  Poll of 200 IT decision makers in the financial services sector highlights how this highly regulated industry continues to warm towards using cloud Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 News

  Terror watchlist faces reform after court rules it violates rights of people entering US

  A secret US terrorist database containing information on more than 1.2 million people – who face repeated interrogations, detentions and electronic searches – violates constitutional rights, a US judge said last week Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 News

  Commvault buys Hedvig in push for global storage player status

  Backup player Commvault aims to bring together datacentre and multi-cloud operations with software-defined storage that can unify access to almost any storage medium, anywhere Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 News

  Social engineering a factor in virtually all cyber attacks, report claims

  Almost every single cyber attack will, at some stage, require a human to be tricked into doing something, according to research by Proofpoint Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 E-Handbook

  IAM: Managing identity remains key to cyber security

  IT and regulatory environments are changing rapidly driven by the EU’s GDPR and digital transformation that is seeing accelerated adoption of cloud and IoT-based technologies, and while identity remains key to cyber security, organisations need to ... Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 News

  UK artificial intelligence investment reaches record levels

  Funding for artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK has already surpassed 2018 figures, placing it behind only China and the US Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 News

  Green energy developer earmarks Scotland for 'world's first' ocean-powered datacentre

  Plans are underway for a hyperscale-focused datacentre to be built in the north of Scotland, which its developers claim would be the first in the world to be powered by tidal energy Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 News

  IT leaders need to speak up about the voice channel

  Voice assistants represent the next frontier, and a range of new skills will be needed to move beyond pilot projects to a true voice channel Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 News

  Loyal Dutch IT professionals not being rewarded enough, survey shows

  Companies warned they could lose loyal IT staff because salary rises do not match those on offer from rival employers Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 In Depth

  How APAC firms can slay the storage management beast

  The data deluge and compliance requirements are shaping how Asia-Pacific firms are approaching storage management issues in the age of cloud Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 In Depth

  Blockchain: hype vs reality

  Blockchain technology presents a number of complex challenges that must be overcome before it can truly deliver on its promises Continue Reading

• September 09, 2019 09Sep2019 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: Too soon to dismiss blockchain in cyber security

  What are the best and most effective ways information security professionals can use blockchain technology? Continue Reading

• September 06, 2019 06Sep2019 News

  Data-driven marketing, the real risk boards are missing

  Boards need to act to break the cycle of privacy compliance failures, and shift focus to aligning business purpose with privacy and dealing with the real risk of data driven marketing, warns PwC’s GDPR and data protection lead Continue Reading

• September 06, 2019 06Sep2019 News

  Towns invited to bid for connectivity boost

  Some 100 places in England are eligible to get resources from the £3.6bn fund aimed at creating local jobs and economic growth, with broadband as a key priority Continue Reading

• September 06, 2019 06Sep2019 News

  Telenor collaborates with Norwegian education providers on digitisation

  Educational institutions in Norway are working with telecoms supplier Telenor to help businesses better understand technology Continue Reading

• September 06, 2019 06Sep2019 News

  Australia government to chart 2020 cyber security strategy

  Australia’s home affairs ministry has released a discussion paper to seek views from all segments of society on the country’s next cyber security blueprint Continue Reading

• September 06, 2019 06Sep2019 News

  Royal Navy readies autonomous technology push

  A competition ran by new accelerator NavyX will seek to find mature ideas around the approach to improve operations and increase efficiency in maritime operations Continue Reading

• September 06, 2019 06Sep2019 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: Use blockchain for integrity and immutability checks

  What are the best and most effective ways information security professionals can use blockchain technology? Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 News

  Singapore’s SecureAge eyes US market

  The Singapore-based supplier of encryption and anti-malware tools has set up a new office in Greater Washington, DC as the next logical step in its global expansion plan Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 Blog Post

  What to expect from Spiceworks Spiceworld 2019

  This is the fifth year the Computer Weekly Developer Network team has previewed Spiceworks SpiceWorld, the Texan tech gathering designed to connect IT buyers, sellers and other assorted industry ... Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 Blog Post

  Indian Democratic Design: a new mantra for developers

  Everybody has one book in them, or so the saying goes. We also know that many tech industry CEOs will at some stage in their career lay down a tome of some note. Bill Gates famously wrote The Road ... Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 News

  Police use of controversial facial recognition technology deemed lawful

  In a landmark hearing, the High Court has ruled that police use of automatic facial recognition technology is lawful, but that it still infringes on privacy rights Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 News

  Security pros doubt officials can enact effective security laws

  Elected officials cannot be trusted to enact effective cyber security legislation and social media firms should be subject to strict privacy regulation, according to most information security professionals in a survey Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 Blog Post

  The wrong trainers

  Now, don’t get us wrong: we’re as jittery about living in a future of wearable technology as the next milquetoast loser. Some nights we can’t even sleep due to the nagging noughties fear that our ... Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 In Depth

  Cutting the cord: Negotiating cloud contracts with problematic customers

  How accountable should cloud firms be for the actions of the customers that use their platforms, and how much thought should they give to aligning themselves with problematic brands before hosting them? Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 News

  Tide Foundation aims to boost password security

  While passwordless security remains just out of reach, a non-profit organisation has developed a mechanism that it says makes passwords exponentially more difficult to crack Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 News

  Digital challenger banks in UK to triple customer base

  Digital challenger banks are increasing their amount of customers fast, but face major challenges if they are to make serious in-roads into the banking sector Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 Blog Post

  Don’t forget fintech the service amid the record investment headlines

  Fintech is not just about investors making money Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 News

  Latest Facebook security lapse exposes millions to account hijack

  18 million UK users are among the more than 400 million at risk of account hijacking after phone numbers linked to their Facebook accounts were found in an open online database Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 News

  National Rail Enquiries hit by rush hour real-time information outage on mobile app and website

  National Rail Enquiries confirms it is waiting on a third-party supplier for an update on when access to real-time train departure and arrival information will be restored on its website and mobile app Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: Blockchain is not for everyone, so look carefully before you leap

  What are the best and most effective ways information security professionals can use blockchain technology? Continue Reading

• September 05, 2019 05Sep2019 News

  EasyJet deploys Google’s natural language processing tech to bring voice search to airline app

  Airline claims to be the first in the world to offer customers access to voice search capabilities within its mobile app Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 Blog Post

  Freshworks Freshsuccess: a software tool for the ‘customer-for-life’ vision

  Customer engagement software company Freshworks Inc. has used its Refresh 19 conference and exhibition in Las Vegas this month to announce Freshsuccess. That was Freshworks Freshsuccess at Refresh, ... Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 Blog Post

  Rubrik tech lead: the dawn of GraphQL

  This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Rebecca Fitzhugh in her role as principal technologist at Rubrik. Fitzhugh writes from here... One exciting change that has ... Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 Blog Post

  Freshworks Refresh 19: keynote notes, quotes & anecdotes

  Customer engagement software company Freshworks Inc. hosted its Refresh 19 conference and exhibition in Las Vegas this month... and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was there to drink it ... Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  New funding announced to tackle online child abuse

  Government announces £30m of new cash to tackle online child harm as part of Spending Review 2019 Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  Executive interview: How Figleaves uncovers a data Eden

  Online lingerie business that started out at the height of the dot com boom is now focused on using advanced analytics to reveal new data insights Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 Blog Post

  What is confidential computing?

  The recent Open Source Summit was held in the balmy climes of San Diego and, among the news emanating from the event itself, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team were made aware of ... Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  NHS Shared Business Services sets ‘simplified’ public sector cloud procurement framework live

  Twenty-four suppliers selected to populate cloud procurement framework, which is geared towards simplifying the purchasing of off-premise services for public sector organisations Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  Check Point warns of Android phishing attacks

  Researchers at Check Point have identified a security flaw in Android-based smartphones that exposes vulnerable users to phishing attacks Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: Blockchain utility depends on business type and cost

  What are the best and most effective ways information security professionals can use blockchain technology? Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 Blog Post

  Tandem Bank steps up its artificial intelligence training with appointment

  Tandem Bank names seasoned artificial intelligence expert to drive its journey to personalise banking Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 Opinion

  Businesses need to keep investing in tech and hope to avoid a no-deal Brexit

  A no-deal Brexit could have serious consequences for the UK tech sector and skills base, making it more difficult to recruit technology specialists and hire freelancers Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 Opinion

  Gartner: Eight ways blockchain can support governments

  Distributed ledgers are not just limited to finance and smart contracts. Gartner explores how blockchain can tackle government inefficiencies Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  TrickBot Trojan switches to stealthy Ostap downloader

  Operators of the TrickBot banking Trojan have switched to a new downloader to evade detection and analysis for a high-volume malicious spam campaign targeting business, researchers warn Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  PDG, Equinix tap booming APAC datacentre market

  Major datacentre providers are expanding their footprint in a region that is set to become the biggest datacentre market by 2020 Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  Lack of executive leadership lowers digital project success rate

  A new survey has found that IT may be working on projects that do not deliver tangible business benefits Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  Danish MobilePay app moves away from mainframe

  Danske Bank’s popular mobile payment app moves from mainframe to open source DataStax Enterprise built on Apache Cassandra Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  Nationwide Building Society harnesses low-code platform

  Software development platform makes it quicker to build apps Continue Reading

• September 04, 2019 04Sep2019 News

  Virtual Instruments brings automated VM right-sizing in v6.2

  Storage and app performance specialist can now change virtual machine compute and network resources according to workload, with increased shift to analytics and proactive monitoring Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 News

  How the University of Liverpool balances HPC and the cloud

  The University of Liverpool has been running a hybrid HPC environment since 2017, which uses PowerEdge nodes and AWS public cloud services Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 News

  Cyber criminals tap into web social engineering toolkit 

  Security researchers have discovered a web social engineering toolkit that enables cyber criminals to create fake update notification campaigns  Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 Opinion

  What tomorrow’s startups can learn from young people’s attitudes to tech

  Nominet CEO Russell Haworth runs through young people's attitude towards tech and how start-ups can learn from them Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 News

  CISOs think cloud safer, but security fears remain

  The majority of information security leaders think cloud is now safer than on-premise, but security fears remain, with recently breached and highly regulated organisations most concerned, poll reveals Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 News

  Allied Irish Banks selects cloud platform for digital transformation

  Bank is streamlining its operations through a cloud platform from nCino Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 In Depth

  Scale-out NAS hits the spot for large datasets, AI and machine learning

  Despite the rise of cloud and object storage, scale-out NAS is a key choice for the big datasets increasingly prevalent in artificial intelligence and machine learning scenarios Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 News

  At least 47,000 servers vulnerable to remote attack

  All organisations using Supermicro servers are being urged to update firmware to block remote attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 In Depth

  Samsung KX gives consumers and retailers a glimpse of the future

  Samsung puts its Galaxy range, the internet of things and community events at the heart of its new central London consumer space – but don’t call it a store... Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 News

  Post Office changes IT leadership reshuffle decision

  The Post Office has changed its IT leadership reshuffle weeks after announcing its original plan Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 News

  Aberdeen Standard Investment deploys Igel for VDI

  The investment management group is rolling out virtual desktop infrastructure globally and will use the secure Linux platform Igel to manage the VDI environment Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: Risk mitigation is key to blockchain becoming mainstream

  What are the best and most effective ways information security professionals can use blockchain technology? Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 E-Zine

  From IT disaster to digital innovation at RBS

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, we meet the man brought in to turn around the technology at RBS Group after its catastrophic IT outage. We examine the latest best practice in securing mobile devices in the enterprise. And we look at progress towards... Continue Reading

• September 03, 2019 03Sep2019 News

  Assessing China’s machine learning platforms

  In a new market research report, technology analyst firm IDC offers insights on key suppliers of machine learning platforms in China Continue Reading

• September 02, 2019 02Sep2019 News

  Nearly £1m of EU funding to boost tech skills in UK SMEs

  An initiative led by the Department for Work and Pensions will focus on enhancing skills in rural locations to unleash competitiveness in areas such as agritech and biorenewables Continue Reading