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February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

Lauri Love takes legal action against NCA for return of seized computers

Lauri Love, a former engineering student who won a battle with the US Department of Justice against extradition to the US to face hacking charges, is suing the UK's intelligence agency, the NCA, for the return of his seized computers Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

Legal & General Capital ploughs investment into Kao Data’s Essex-based datacentre campus

Financial services giant’s investment arm embarks on sizeable investment to support the continued expansion of Kao Data's colocation campus in Harlow Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

Click & collect will grow 45% over next five years

Clothing and footwear lead growth as UK’s click & collect market is set to hit £10bn by 2023, research suggests Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

More than one-third of women deterred by lack of diversity in tech

In a survey, just over one-third of women in the technology sector said the lack of gender equality in the industry made them uncomfortable at the start of their career Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 Blog Post

Challenger bank Monzo applying agile development techniques to business banking product

Monzo is testing out a business banking proposition with 1000 customers as it plans to be an SME finance management hub Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

Vodafone announces winners of Techstarter accelerator

Vodafone has announced the winners of its startup accelerator programme, aimed at helping young companies developing technology for social good Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

AI and robotics to form part of curriculum for future medical students

For the NHS to capitalise on the digital future, new technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics will have to be designed into the learning process for medical students Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

British Airways settles legal claim with CBRE over May 2017 Bank Holiday datacentre outage

British Airways confirms its legal proceedings against CBRE have now concluded, on a non-admission of liability basis Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

London attracted more tech talent than rest of Europe in 2018

London was the top European destination for international tech talent in 2018, attracting more skilled workers than the rest of Europe, according to research Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 Blog Post

SmartBear defines API standardisation

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nathan Wright in his role as SwaggerHub product marketing manager and API evangelist at SmartBear. SmartBear Software is ... Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 Blog Post

Makers launches nominations for inaugural Women in Software Power List

Software developer bootcamp Makers has launched its first annual Women in Software Power List, nominations for which are now open. In partnership with Level39, the Women in Software Power List is ... Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

Culture clash cripples digital business

CIOs urged to work with HR to help staff take on new working practices that support digital transformation initiatives Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 Opinion

Security Think Tank: Know strengths and weaknesses of UTM systems

How can organisations best use unified threat management tools to help stem the tide of data breaches? Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 In Depth

Inside the AI developer’s toolbox

With so much artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning in development, we look at the kit programmers might find useful in their AI toolbox Continue Reading

February 11, 2019 11Feb2019 News

Build strategic artificial intelligence, but buy for lower research and development risk

There is no shortcut to creating an AI-empowered business, but it is expected that 10% of all IT spending will be on artificial intelligence by 2025 Continue Reading

February 10, 2019 10Feb2019 News

Australia’s defence department keeps old PCs out of landfills

Department has securely wiped data from used devices and kept 1,300 tonnes of e-waste out of landfills Continue Reading

February 08, 2019 08Feb2019 News

Mumsnet denies 'thousands' affected by software glitch-induced data breach

Parenting advice site Mumsnet moves to clear up reports that thousands of users have been affected by its recent data breach Continue Reading

February 08, 2019 08Feb2019 In Depth

A guide to choosing cloud-based security services

Cloud-based security services can help organisations with a growing cloud footprint to reduce cost and address the manpower crunch in cyber security Continue Reading

February 08, 2019 08Feb2019 Blog Post

Consequences of failure at banks means they can’t mimic Google too closely

Banks are under pressure to transform digitally but is it fair to set Google as the destination? Continue Reading

February 08, 2019 08Feb2019 News

Lloyds Bank rolls out open banking functionality to mobile app customers

Lloyds Bank customers can now see current accounts from multiple banks through their mobile banking app Continue Reading

February 08, 2019 08Feb2019 Blog Post

IT misaligned with business' appetite for data

A recent pop event at Lloyds Bank in London hosted by DominoData has highlighted one of the age-old ailments of IT. It is the illness of being misaligned with the business. The latest example of ... Continue Reading

February 08, 2019 08Feb2019 News

NHS extends trials of digital identity system

The NHS in England is working with external organisations in new pilots to test its secure online login system for healthcare Continue Reading

February 08, 2019 08Feb2019 News

Brexit is killing full-fibre broadband and 5G roll-outs, says CBI

A CBI report has warned that Brexit is “sucking the oxygen” out of digital priorities such as full-fibre broadband roll-out and 5G mobile network deployment Continue Reading

February 08, 2019 08Feb2019 Opinion

Security Think Tank: Approach UTM with caution

How can organisations best use unified threat management tools to help stem the tide of data breaches? Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 News

Interview: Moving to DataOps

During a London data science popup meeting, Computer Weekly caught up with MoneySuperMarket.com’s analytics head, Harvinder Atwal Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 News

Businesses still figuring out digital transformation have already lost

Accenture is calling it a post-digital era, one where businesses are already looking beyond digitisation to capitalise on new tech-driven opportunities Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 Blog Post

Of course there's technology for the Irish border - that doesn't mean it will work

It’s understandable that people express cynicism when a politician – particularly one with a clear ideological bent – proclaims that “digital” or “technology” can solve the core Brexit issue of the ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 E-Handbook

IoT in APAC

At Schneider Electric’s smart factory in Batam, Indonesia, scores of sensors are being used to transmit data about the health of manufacturing equipment to plant operators. The results have been nothing short of impressive. Thanks to the use of the ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 Blog Post

Finastra business expands with fintech disruption: Fintech interview part 14

Finastra is an IT supplier build on very old foundations but fintech disruption has forced it to extend beyond them Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 Blog Post

MapR ecosystem pack amplifies Kubernetes connections

Data analytics firm MapR Technologies has sealed the cellophane on the MapR Ecosystem Pack (MEP) at its 6.1 version iteration. The toolpack is meant to give developers (and data scientists, unless ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 Blog Post

Baddiel and Jones unedited

For years now, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been hounded to add a feature that allows users to amend their typo-laden tweets, but do we really need more ways to take the platform so seriously? Take ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 Blog Post

New Relic digs for new AIOps tooling in the Holy Land

Oh yes, AIOps… hadn’t you heard? That’s Ops (as in Ops, operations… as recently ‘shown some love’ by DevOps) driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a world where many of the core operational ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 Blog Post

FDM everywoman in Technology Awards 2019 finalists announced

The finalists for the 2019 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March 2019 Judges have decided on the finalists for the 2019 FDM everywoman in ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 News

Nordic region primed to pioneer 5G

The Nordic region could pioneer the commercial use of 5G, with Finland and Sweden hotbeds for the technology Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 In Depth

How IT leaders can build great relationships with marketing leaders

Experts dish out their advice on how to work better together with their marketing peers to deliver a high-quality customer experience Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 News

Government legislates to bring back roaming charges in no-deal Brexit

All four UK operators have said they have no plans to reintroduce roaming charges, but EE, O2 and Vodafone have not committed themselves not to do so Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 News

Tech Nation launches its first cyber security scale-up accelerator programme

Tech Nation hopes the accelerator programme will boost the UK's digital security sector Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 E-Zine

CW Benelux: Google helps Dutch schools to teach computer skills

A programme in the Netherlands to help primary schools provide computational thinking and programming, developed with financial support from Google, is well on schedule. Also read about four Russians’ attempted hack into the networks of the ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 News

T-Systems cuts size of datacentre estate by 85% through technology refresh

The IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom has culled the number of datacentres it operates from 89 to 13, but claims to have seen its compute capacity increase by 25% Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 Opinion

Security Think Tank: UTM attractive to SMEs, but beware potential pitfalls

How can organisations best use unified threat management tools to help stem the tide of data breaches? Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 In Depth

Cloud the rising star of storage: Eight years of text analysis

Tracking word frequency in nearly a decade’s worth of storage content shows how cloud has come of age, flash has gone mainstream and how we don’t talk about virtualisation any more Continue Reading

February 07, 2019 07Feb2019 News

Data breaches in Australia show no sign of abating

Australia’s privacy watchdog recorded over 800 cases of data breaches, nearly one year into the country’s mandatory data breach notification regime Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 In Depth

What are the SD-WAN requirements for a multicloud environment?

SD-WAN is becoming an important option for businesses migrating branch and other edge communications to the cloud. But what makes a successful deployment? Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

US Department of Defense backs multi-cloud model to support $10bn JEDI mega-cloud deployment

The US Department of Defense has fleshed out its cloud strategy, as the industry awaits news of who has secured the decade-long contract for its $10bn mega-cloud environment Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

Self-driving cars get updated guidelines for trial safety and transparency

The Department for Transport has issued guidance on trial safety and transparency for self-driving cars, and is sticking by its pledge to have self-driving cars on Britain’s roads in the next two years Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 In Depth

West Midlands Police turns to predictive analytics

Force is developing a system to identify potential perpetrators of violent crime and aims to target resources – but how viable is the system and what are the challenges? Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 Blog Post

InstaReM, from ruined bachelor party to global business: Fintech Interview part 13

Money transfer company InstaRem is an example of something worth remembering after a Bachelor party Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

Huawei: We are not spying on the UK

Huawei’s Ryan Ding tells the British government that the company has never, and will never, use its technology to assist the Chinese intelligence services Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

Virgin Media tests 8Gbps home broadband service

Fifty residents of Papworth, Cambridgeshire, are trialling an 8Gbps FTTP broadband service using existing fibre infrastructure Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

CIO interview: David Walliker, Liverpool Women’s & Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen NHS Trusts

Being CIO for two different NHS trusts is not an easy task, but David Walliker splits his time between the two, aiming to deliver digital transformation across the board Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

NHS screening programmes plagued by ‘not fit for purpose’ IT

‘Complex and ageing IT’ is causing issues for several NHS screening programmes, according to the National Audit Office Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

Synergy Research Group hails 2018 as standout year for cloud infrastructure market growth

The financial performance of the big cloud giants during the last quarter of 2018 prompts market watcher Synergy Research Group to declare it a "banner year" for the market Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

Suffolk County Council awards 20-year WAN contract

MLL Telecom will work with CityFibre to extend Suffolk County Council’s existing WAN to 600 sites and offer them ultrafast connectivity services Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 Blog Post

Intel Nauta: for Deep Learning on Kubernetes

Enterprises are still exploring use cases to augment their business models with Artificial intelligence (AI)... this is a market that is very much still-nascent. Magical analyst house Gartner has ... Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

Coders and developers: The new heroes of the network?

Cisco is moving towards a software-based future. We chatted to Susie Wee, founder and leader of Cisco developer and innovation programme, DevNet, to find out how she is helping to enable this change Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 Blog Post

A Skills Policy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The pace of change in the skills in demand (as machine intelligence, now called AI, matures) is matched only by the pace of change in educational technology (using machine intelligence to transform ... Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

UK’s IT and BPO spend plummets because of Brexit uncertainty

UK businesses cut their investment in IT and business process outsourcing last year because of confusion over Brexit, but there was a 68% rise in public sector spending Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

What is CIO best practice when it comes to cloud security?

As businesses increasingly adopt cloud-first strategies, how can they ensure their security is up to scratch? Computer Weekly asks the experts Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 In Depth

The nightmare driving test: How to make sure self-driving cars are safe

Simulating realistic environments using deep learning to enable self-driving cars to learn the rules of the road will prove more useful than any amount of real-world practice. We find out why, and meet the people doing something about it Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 Opinion

Security Think Tank: Focus UTM capabilities on security and business needs

How can organisations best use unified threat management tools to help stem the tide of data breaches? Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

Tech sector tells government that digital identity policy is 'urgently required'

The UK tech sector has urged the government to publish policy to support the creation of a “fully functioning” digital identity market, to boost the digital economy Continue Reading

February 06, 2019 06Feb2019 News

Telegraph Media Group switches out AWS to go all-in on Google Cloud

Telegraph Media Group CIO Chris Taylor on why the newspaper publisher is switching out AWS to go all-in on the Google Cloud Platform Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 News

Civil liberties groups to challenge bulk surveillance and intelligence sharing in Strasbourg

Coalition of campaigning groups wins the right to challenge the UK’s use of bulk surveillance powers, which allows suspicionless surveillance of the population and sharing of intercepted data with overseas intelligence agencies, in European Court of... Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 News

Marks & Spencer launches charging banks as part of startup partnership

Retailer Marks & Spencer has announced it will be adding battery charging banks to its stores as part of startup partnership Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 Blog Post

What is a unikernel?

NanoVMs has announced the first unikernel tool for developers that loads any Linux application as a unikernel. But hang on… what is a unikernel? The company says that unikernels are unique single ... Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 News

Digital Isle of Man launches two initiatives to help blockchain businesses

The Isle of Man continues to promote itself as an international hub for technology startups, and is now taking a much keener interest in blockchain Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 News

Payday lender cuts troubleshooting by 30% with Virtual Instruments

Curo Financial thought storage was slowing down its websites, but found virtual machine and network issues were to blame. To fix this, it’s going proactive on storage performance issues Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 Podcast

Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload - Episode 2

In this week’s episode of Computer Weekly’s Downtime Upload podcast, the team discuss what went on at Cisco Live Europe, consider the benefits of office robots, and deep dive into the financial results of AWS, SAP and Microsoft Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 News

Cambridge launches urban data IoT project

The city of Cambridge will use Telensa IoT sensors and a Microsoft Azure platform to better manage its urban data assets Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 News

Alphabet 2018 results: 23% growth, profit squeeze from investment

Alphabet – the conglomerate that includes Google and the search giant’s cloud business – grew revenue 23% in 2018, and stoked up R&D investment Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 Blog Post

Could Atom bank’s deal with Thought Machine be a stepping stone for legacy replacement at BBVA?

Could BBVA follow Lloyds Banking Group onto the Google inspired banking platform from Thought Machine Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 News

CIO interview: David Germain, CITO, RSA Insurance Group

Insurance giant’s chief information and technology officer wants to refresh the company’s user computing environment, make smart technology investments and take advantage of the latest innovations Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 Opinion

New audiovisual connections enhance the learning experience

Being open and inclusive to individual sensory needs as well as diverse technology choices means adopting a flexible approach to AV infrastructure Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 E-Zine

Technologies to support deep learning

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the key technologies needed to support deep learning and artificial intelligence applications in your organisation. We hear about Southern Water’s data management overhaul and the benefits achieved from ... Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 News

BBC seeks to increase younger audience through data analytics

The BBC’s head of product, Rebecca Salsbury, talks about the broadcaster’s work to improve its use of data analytics to attract more young viewers Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 Blog Post

Service Mesh: what is it, where are we... and where are we going?

This is a contributed post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ranga Rajagopalan is his capacity as CTO and co-founder of Avi Networks. Avi Networks is known for its Intelligent ... Continue Reading

February 05, 2019 05Feb2019 Opinion

Security Think Tank: Many routes to UTM to boost security capabilities

How can organisations best use unified threat management tools to help stem the tide of data breaches? Continue Reading

February 04, 2019 04Feb2019 News

Interview: The power of open source

Stefanie Chiras, who heads up RHEL at Red Hat, discusses how open source enables enterprises to benefit from tech innovations Continue Reading

February 04, 2019 04Feb2019 News

Don’t bank on Google Bank, bank on banks becoming Google-like

The journey to Google bank is happening as the UK 's Lloyds Bank signals its intent to move to a platform inspired by the workings of the Google engine room Continue Reading

February 04, 2019 04Feb2019 News

Government restates SME spend commitment as large suppliers win more cloud hosting deals

An analysis of the G-Cloud and Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS) framework sales figures suggests proportion of cloud hosting deals going to big suppliers is continuing to rise Continue Reading

February 04, 2019 04Feb2019 E-Handbook

CIO Trends #8

In this e-guide, take a look at some of our most popular articles on issues faced by IT decision makers, such as how to create a strategy that works for the business in a digital age and tips on how to take advantage of opportunities to lead your ... Continue Reading

February 04, 2019 04Feb2019 News

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