Archive

2019 Stories

• May 03, 2019 03May2019 News

  Zero trust: A 21st century security model

  Traditional corporate security models date back to a time when there were fewer, lower-level threats, but a zero trust model is better suited to the 21st century, according to the originator of the idea Continue Reading

• May 03, 2019 03May2019 News

  Redefining OpenStack in the ‘open infrastructure’ era

  The OpenStack Foundation’s inaugural Open Infrastructure Summit saw it share a series of updates on its efforts to expand its technological reach by forging closer ties with both users and adjacent open source communities Continue Reading

• May 03, 2019 03May2019 News

  From friction-filled to till-free: The path to a checkoutless Sainsbury’s store

  Daniel Hills, group digital product manager for Sainsbury’s, tells Retail Expo the journey his team had to take to eventually launch a till-free store trial featuring its new shopping app Continue Reading

• May 03, 2019 03May2019 News

  Labour calls for creation of ministry for cyber security

  Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jo Platt accuses government of failing to provide leadership to fend off cyber risks Continue Reading

• May 03, 2019 03May2019 News

  Co-operative Bank creates over 100 IT jobs in Manchester

  The Co-operative Bank is looking for talent to support its digital strategy and previous banking and IT experience is not a necessity Continue Reading

• May 03, 2019 03May2019 News

  Norsk Hydro urges caution as it counts cost of cyber attack

  Norwegian aluminium giant Norsk Hydro is urging partners to be cautious in the wake of a damaging ransomware attack in March as financial impact estimates come in above initial estimates Continue Reading

• May 03, 2019 03May2019 News

  Police down two dark web markets

  Europol-supported coordinated law enforcement approach across Europe and the US was key to operations’ success Continue Reading

• May 03, 2019 03May2019 News

  Brexit tech investment stall threatens UK talent pool, says TLA

  Research by Tech London Advocates has found investment in London’s tech sector has dropped since the Brexit announcement in 2016, threatening access to growth and talent Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Singapore rolls out blockchain platform for verifying educational certificates

  Employers in the city-state can now use the OpenCerts platform to verify the qualifications of employees and new hires Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Lloyd’s of London unveils digital ambitions

  Reforms will include a split into two automated exchanges, which is expected to boost performance and savings while reducing cost of services to customers Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Ultrafast broadband within reach of ‘most’ homes

  More than half of homes in the UK can now receive a broadband service capable of delivering speeds of more than 300Mbps, Ofcom claims Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 Blog Post

  Death of a fireplace salesman

  Theresa May has wielded the axe on her notoriously slapdash defence secretary after deeming him responsible for leaking National Security Council confab about the use of Huawei networking ... Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Department of Health enhances medical innovation programme

  The Accelerated Access Collaborative initiative is expected to fast-track pioneering treatments and produce multimillion-pound savings to the NHS Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Firms urged to embrace positive security trends to win cyber war

  Modern cyber security challenges overshadow the information security successes of the past, but several positive trends are emerging as defenders come to grips with new threats, says Deloitte Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 Blog Post

  Huawei furore leads inevitably to a global polarisation of the tech sector

  The sacking of defence minister Gavin Williamson is another indication of how technology is influencing politics, and vice versa. While his crime was to leak details from a national security ... Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Apple posts earnings decline, but sees strong take-up of iOS

  Company experiences shortfall in emerging markets and lower Mac sales, but sees the iPad Pro as a PC killer Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Microservices introduce hidden security complexity, analyst warns

  Microservice architecture – an approach to application development in which applications are built as a suite of modular services – simplifies development but complicates security, says KuppingerCole Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 Blog Post

  Banks changing APIs at short notice highlights a failing of open banking standard

  Why are the high street banks changing APIs so regularly and at such short notice? Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Businesses unprepared for cyber breaches

  Study shows many organisations lack IT security and operations basics, including visibility across their IT operations Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 Blog Post

  Sumo Logic cracks on with support for Docker Enterprise

  Cloud-native machine data analytics platform company Sumo Logic has used its time in the ring at DockerCon 2019 to announce support for Docker Enterprise. The company wants to provide joint ... Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Why IT departments miss basic IT security hygiene

  IT departments are failing to patch security holes in software because of a disconnect between security and operations teams, survey finds Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Boots appoints former NHS IT executive as director of innovation

  Retailer Boots has enlisted Richard Corbridge, former chief digital and information officer for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, to support its digital transformation initiatives Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  PA Consulting announces 2019 winners of Raspberry Pi Competition

  Consulting brand focused on innovation and business transformation has announced the winners of its 2019 coding competition run in partnership with Raspberry Pi Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  How APAC enterprises are using VMware Cloud on AWS

  VMware’s cloud business unit CTO reveals how APAC businesses are using its hybrid cloud service to move workloads to the cloud Continue Reading

• May 02, 2019 02May2019 News

  Defence secretary sacked over Huawei leak

  Defence secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked after leaking confidential discussions over the use of Huawei networking equipment Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 News

  Fiat Chrysler commits to Android for connected vehicles

  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has signed deals with Google and Samsung to power its connected vehicle ecosystem Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 Blog Post

  NatWest owned fintech reaches £50m mark for SME lending

  NatWest owned SME lending platform Esme Loans has lent more than £50m to UK SMEs over two years. Esme cuts the time it takes to apply for a loan to 10 minutes for SMEs, offering SMEs loans of up to ... Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 News

  Middle East Interview: Bahrain fintech drive gathers speed

  Bahrain wants to be a launchpad into the wider region for financial technology firms looking to scale Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 News

  Scality object storage scales to 400k mailboxes for NZ provider

  New Zealand-based email hosting provider SMX needed to scale up its infrastructure to be able to handle 400,000 mailboxes, and found object storage from Scality fitted the bill Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 News

  Department of Health pushes online regulation agenda

  Tech giants commit to initiative to remove harmful content from their websites but MPs call for further changes in algorithms Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 News

  BSA releases framework for secure software

  Software industry advocacy group releases framework to facilitate flexible and comprehensive software security assessments Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 News

  Danish financial services regulator launches sandbox initiative

  FT Lab offers fintech startups a platform to test out their products in a secure environment Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 News

  Get more proactive on cyber security, says ex Europol chief

  Business needs to get more proactive, collaborative, resilient and analytical to manage cyber risks posed by cyber criminals down to acceptable levels, says former Europol chief Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 In Depth

  Protecting your digital assets: Why it pays to invest in cyber insurance

  Cyber insurance offers financial protection against the worst happening to a company’s data and digital assets, and is something few businesses can afford to be without Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 Video

  CW500 Interview: Mattie Yeta, sustainability lead, Defra

  In this CW500 club video, Mattie Yeta, sustainability lead, Defra talks about Ethics and sustainability in IT and what this means to IT leaders Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 Blog Post

  Chancellor Hammond regrets uncertainty of the elephant in the room in speech to the fintechs

  Chancellor of the Exchequer addresses fintechs on day two of Innovate Finance Summit 2019 Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 Blog Post

  Automated Machine Learning: the promises and the pitfalls

  This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Paul Clough in his role as data scientist at UK-headquartered business analytics company Peak Indicators -- Clough is also ... Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 Video

  CW500 Interview: Nadine Thomson, digital technology consultant and advisor, News UK

  Nadine Thomson, digital technology consultant and advisor, News UK, talks about ethics and sustainability in IT and what this means to IT leaders Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 News

  How Amadeus used FPGAs to break Moore’s Law threshold

  The innovation team at Amadeus worked with technology university ETH in Zurich to test how FPGAs can be used in artificial intelligence Continue Reading

• May 01, 2019 01May2019 Blog Post

  Talend champions OpenAPI-ness

  Cloud data integration and data integrity company Talend has now supported OpenAPI specification (OAS) version 3.0 with its Talend Data Fabric product. As noted here by Swagger, the OpenAPI ... Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  UK gears up for new laws on IoT security

  The UK plans to introduce measures to require that basic cyber security features are built into internet-connected devices Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 E-Handbook

  Endpoint Security: from A to (N)Z

  The growing adoption of the internet of things and mobility among enterprises in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) has without a doubt increased the attack surface that cyber criminals can exploit to conduct reconnaissance activities before launching ... Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 E-Handbook

  ITIL & ITSM: How IT is becoming more service-oriented

  In this e-guide, we shine the light on the state of IT service management (ITSM) and the framework upon which it is effectively built, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). We explore how ITSM is being changed by machine learning, how it can be used... Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  HPE to launch Cloud Volumes in UK and Ireland

  HPE Cloud Volumes will offer enterprise-class block storage for use with AWS and Azure compute plus a replication store for backup and disaster recovery from the end of May Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 Blog Post

  JNBridgePro bridges Java-to-.NET Core

  JNBridgePro is a provider of interoperability tools to connect Java and .NET frameworks... the company’s mission has always been to enable developers to connect anything Java together with anything ... Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  Alphabet Q1 results: Revenue falls short of expectations as EU fine takes toll

  The conglomerate that owns Google missed market expectations, despite positive performance in other revenues such as cloud Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 In Depth

  Rehumanising healthcare through technology

  Tech companies internationally are offering innovative ways to access niche healthcare services that promise to ease patients’ fears about the use of technology over humans Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  Cyber criminals increase use of fileless attacks

  Fileless attacks are increasingly popular with cyber criminals, while Russia and China top the league of nation state data exfiltrators, threat data shows Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  CIO interview: Mark Holt, CTO, Trainline

  A data-led strategy underpins the growth of the public transport app, which sells over 200 tickets a minute and logs more than 80 million customer visits a month Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 Blog Post

  The UK needs to stop chasing clouds

  This is a guest blogpost by David Richards, co-founder and CEO, WANdisco At its recent Cloud Next conference Google rolled out a number of new cloud products, services and packages – all designed ... Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  Every NHS body to get full-fibre broadband, says health secretary

  Matt Hancock announces plans to give every NHS organisation and community care service access to full-fibre broadband services Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 E-Zine

  Inside Huawei

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, we visit the new campus of Chinese networking supplier Huawei to find out what the firm thinks of the controversy raging about the security of its products. Our latest buyer’s guide examines the technologies and best ... Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  Most businesses vulnerable to supply chain cyber attacks

  UK firms trail the leaders US and Germany in knowing the most about their partners’ cyber security practices, but most companies globally are in the dark about this growing source of vulnerabilities Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 Blog Post

  Plandek co-CEO: 5 areas for Agile team self-improvement

  In his role co-CEO of big data analytics company Plandek, Charlie Ponsonby guest writes for the Computer Weekly Developer Network to examine how teams can get more out of Agile development ... Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  OpenStack Foundation urges enterprises to embrace open, collaborative tech development

  OpenStack Foundation executive director warns enterprises off using closed, non-collaborative product development processes to get ahead of the competition Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  Brighton Dome theatre gets access to city’s 5G mobile testbed

  Brighton Dome & Festival is to deploy a 5G network to explore future applications for the technology in the arts Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 Podcast

  Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 13

  In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team are joined by security editor Warwick Ashford to talk about his time at the CyberUK conferences, as well as connected cars, education in the UK, and Brian McKenna’s trip... Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  Open data programme OpenActive ramps up efforts to get people off the sofa

  OpenActive, a programme run by the Open Data Institute and funded by Sport England, is intensifying efforts to get nearly 17 million Britons off their sofas and into sport and fitness Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  Department for International Trade slashes tech SME funding

  Smaller UK companies will see their ability to showcase their offerings at large international events compromised, trade bodies say Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  Nearly half of UK IT pros report serious data breaches

  Integration of security systems and employee training recognised as key ways to reduce the growing severity of data breaches Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 News

  How Microsoft is prepping manufacturers for Industry 4.0

  Building on its manufacturing and technology knowhow, Microsoft has teamed up with industrial firms to support the growing demand for smart manufacturing capabilities Continue Reading

• April 30, 2019 30Apr2019 Opinion

  Does the UK government want to support tech SMEs in 'Global Britain' or not?

  The reluctance of the government to commit to continued support for UK tech SMEs overseas is baffling Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  Bosses want to see explainable AI

  Almost one-third of UK bosses surveyed in the latest PwC global CEO survey plan to use artificial intelligence in their businesses – but explainable AI is critical Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  Privacy and data protection an opportunity, says entrepreneur

  Organisations should see data protection and privacy compliance as an opportunity to build trust with customers, according to startup One.Thing.Less Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 Blog Post

  Data driven business is about culture, not tools

  This is a guest blog post by Rich Pugh, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist, Mango Solutions Data is the new oil, or so we are told. In some respects, this is true – successful businesses today run ... Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  LightBits Super SSD brings NVMe on vanilla Ethernet

  Israeli startup LightBits offers super-fast NVMe flash storage over plain Ethernet networks in a move that some think will bring “iSCSI for the NVMe generation” Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  Fix the basics first, then worry about AI, advise experts

  The freedom of the internet is at risk, with the cyber arms race and the industrialisation of hacking are set to continue as attackers move up the value chain to target trust mechanisms, threat experts predict Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  Home Office to award £300m contract for management of biometric services

  Government department is behind schedule in the selection of suppliers to work on two platforms covering fingerprints, DNA and facial matching capabilities Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  Ofcom must rethink rural broadband USO, says Lords report

  There are still serious concerns about whether or not the 10Mbps broadband USO is fit for purpose, and Ofcom needs to take account of them, according to The House of Lords Select Committee for the Rural Economy Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  CIO interview: Dylan Roberts, CDIO, Leeds City Council

  After 15 years leading technology in Leeds, Dylan Roberts is building a digital ecosystem for the entire region, even looking at how digital services can help extend life expectancy for local people Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  Danske Bank and IBM bring AI to banking IT

  Artificial intelligence partnership is designed to reduce the risk of major IT outages and keep the bank’s customers happy Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 In Depth

  Don’t let datacentres be a waste of space

  Storage costs can be saved by improving the utilisation of existing storage infrastructures Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  Europe is playing catch-up with the US on cloud adoption, research suggests

  Report by O'Reilly media shines a light on how cloud adoption is progressing across the globe, and how this could be affecting follow-on use of other technologies too Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 Blog Post

  Bank of England governor speaks as maiden UK Fintech Week begins

  The UK's first Fintech Week kicks off with Innovate Finance Global Summit Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  Australians lost half a billion dollars to scams in 2018

  Most of the losses went to investment scams as tricksters found innovative ways to dupe victims into parting with their money Continue Reading

• April 29, 2019 29Apr2019 News

  Malaysia to get its first AI park

  Malaysia’s first artificial intelligence park to be developed by a trio of local and Chinese firms is expected to raise the country’s standing in the global race for AI supremacy Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  British 5G developers to test their mettle in South Korea

  DCMS launches £2.4m project to support the development of 5G applications for public transport alongside its South Korean counterpart Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  Facebook faces fresh privacy actions from regulators

  Facebook faces legal action from Canada after it dismissed regulators’ findings that it failed to protect customer privacy. The firm has set aside $5bn to settle a privacy action in the US and faces a new investigation in Ireland Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  Digital map of UK underground pipes and cables to be developed

  The Underground Asset Register is expected to reduce the costs and safety issues associated with maintaining underground cables and pipes Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 Blog Post

  Tink is building the foundation of every bank in the world: Fintech interview part 20

  Tink is a Swedish fintech which realised a complete change of its business model was in order if it were to meet its growth potential Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: Surviving the existential cyber punch part 2

  How should businesses plan to survive a potential cyber attack extinction event? Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  Amazon cautions against reading too much into slowdown in AWS revenue growth rate

  Amazon's CFO claims slowdown in revenue growth and capital expenditure should not be interpreted as signs of distress for any of its business units, as firm shifts growth strategy to prioritise operational efficiency Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  Top lessons from cyber attacks

  Cyber security experts weigh in on lessons learned from cyber attack experiences, underlining that recovery capability is as important as defence Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  Huawei leak inquiry launched

  Cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill has instituted an inquiry aimed at discovering who leaked confidential discussions about UK mobile operators’ use of Huawei in their future 5G networks to the press Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  NVMe is ‘ready’, say Dell EMC, Virtual Instruments and Cisco

  Storage and networks big guns say super-fast NVMe flash is ready for enterprise users, with performance 10x over existing Fibre Channel and ecosystem in place Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  Central government fails to meet SME tech spending targets

  Smaller businesses find it “impossible” to win public sector tenders while the number of single-bid contracts rises, report says Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 Blog Post

  Women in coding series: Billie Simmons

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network 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 tough ... Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 Blog Post

  Can DevOps bring together speed, self-service & security?

  This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Moss in his role as regional director for western Europe at Avi Networks.  Moss writes… One dictionary definition of ... Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  GDPR cases drive bigger budgets for Nordic regulators

  High-profile General Data Protection Regulation cases in Finland and Sweden have increased the workload for regulators, which are to receive an increase in funding Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  Dutch road management organisation encourages startups to innovate

  Dutch highway management agency RWS is sharing data with the private sector to stimulate innovation Continue Reading

• April 26, 2019 26Apr2019 News

  Laing O’Rourke Australia chooses private cloud route

  The Australian arm of global engineering firm Laing O’Rourke signs up for Nutanix to run its core applications on a private cloud Continue Reading

• April 25, 2019 25Apr2019 News

  Digital shopping endangers retail employment

  A shift towards online shopping and digital retail technologies has led to a decrease in investment in retail employment Continue Reading

• April 25, 2019 25Apr2019 News

  Public becoming more aware of privacy abuses and unethical tech

  Widespread abuses of privacy, biometric information and artificial intelligence mean the internet is in poor health, but growing popular awareness of its problems gives some cause for hope, says the Mozilla Foundation Continue Reading

• April 25, 2019 25Apr2019 In Depth

  Scale-out NAS: File storage with cloud and flash from big five

  We run the rule over scale-out NAS from the big five storage array makers to find all-flash and hybrid-flash commonplace and use of the cloud as a tier almost ubiquitous Continue Reading

• April 25, 2019 25Apr2019 News

  Data firms join forces to help Path beat malaria

  Tableau, Mapbox, Exasol and Alteryx commit $4.3m to back anti-malaria scheme in sub-Saharan Africa run by health charity Continue Reading

• April 25, 2019 25Apr2019 News

  UK up for cyber challenge but work to be done, says minister

  Lidington says National Cyber Security Strategy has “revolutionised the UK’s fight against cyber threats” Continue Reading

• April 25, 2019 25Apr2019 News

  NCSC and ICO pledge to support data breach victims

  The UK’s cyber security agency and privacy watchdog have agreed to work together to improve support for data breach victims and enhance cyber guidance Continue Reading

• April 25, 2019 25Apr2019 News

  European Union to create central biometrics database

  New rules will see the introduction of a repository of personal data from hundreds of millions of citizens to support law enforcement across member states Continue Reading

• April 25, 2019 25Apr2019 News

  Cloud uptake drives third-quarter sales for Microsoft

  Demand for Microsoft’s cloud offerings spiked again during the firm’s third quarter, reports Redmond Continue Reading

• April 25, 2019 25Apr2019 News

  Cabinet Office seeks chief digital information officer

  The newly created role will sit within the Government Digital Service and lead a 630-strong reporting function for digital, data and technology strategy Continue Reading