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July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

Covid-19 lockdowns drive global Q2 surge in cloud infrastructure spending

Latest market tracker data from IT analyst house Canalys reveals the impact the coronavirus crisis is having on cloud spending habits worldwide Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

BT takes Covid-19 hit but claims strong first quarter

Comms provider warns of further impact from pandemic in future quarters as a result of insolvency, slower decision-making by larger customers and lower usage across businesses Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

IFS CEO Darren Roos: Customer investment in cloud and digital has held up during Covid

Business applications supplier’s chief executive tells Computer Weekly that business has been surprisingly good during the coronavirus crisis Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

Parents accuse Amazon of inaction in combatting child abuse material online

Parents protest over Amazon Web Services’ alleged inaction in dealing with child sexual abuse material hosted on its servers Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

VMware completes participation in UK contact-tracing app development

The day after UK government announced that its long-awaited and controversial contact-tracing application would be available ‘shortly’, VMware revealed it has completed its role in the development Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

Experts launch digital skills project for civil servants

International tech education experts from 10 institutions across the world have developed an online education programme for public servants Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

Hancock: Better tech means better healthcare

The coronavirus pandemic has “catalysed” data-driven decision making in the NHS, according to health secretary Matt Hancock, promising a future NHS that “doubles down” on technological advances Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

Labour Party is latest victim of Blackbaud ransomware attack

Widening Blackbaud data breach ensnares the Labour Party as the cloud software firm continues to duck questions about its behaviour Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

Amazon reports Q2 profit and revenue surge as Covid-19-induced uptick in online sales continues

Amazon sees profit and revenue surge in the wake of the coronavirus, but growth of its cloud business slows as IT buyers re-prioritise investments because of pandemic Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

US lawmakers grill big tech chiefs over market power

Sixth antitrust hearing sees CEOs of major technology companies face combative questioning from members of Congress over their market power and dominance Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

Twitter confirms it was hit by targeted spearphishing attack

Investigation into 15 July 2020 hack of a number of high-profile accounts by cryptocurrency scammers has found evidence of a targeted spearphishing incident Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

UK government announces further funding for tech innovators to seize 5G opportunities

Next stage in national programme to pioneer new ways to take advantage of the potential of next-generation networks helping companies harness the power of 5G and boost economic productivity Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 Blog Post

Nutanix smart storage 'scales-out' for data-dependent apps

Storage can often be a question of ‘snorage’ i.e. it’s not the sexiest slice of the technology layer. Some of the developers inside Nutanix might agree with this twist, but some would probably be ... Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

UK contact-tracing app to be launched ‘shortly’ as Northern Ireland deploys service

Launch imminent for long-awaited and controversial mobile application described as ‘cherry on the cake’ of UK’s Covid-19 test and trace strategy Continue Reading

July 31, 2020 31Jul2020 News

EU sanctions China and Russia over cyber attacks

The EU is applying restrictive measure to six individuals and three entities accused of conducting disruptive cyber attacks in Europe, including the Russian GRU Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

Costs incurred by 'major' datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research shows

The Uptime Institute's latest datacentre market survey reveals major outages are costing operators more to bounce back from Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

UK households suffer as online problems disrupt work during lockdown

Quadient urges broadband and mobile providers to focus on customer service as UK ranks connectivity as more essential than gas, banking or council services Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 In Depth

Coronavirus: Weighing up the responses of the public cloud giants to Covid-19

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic had a huge impact on the demand for cloud services from enterprises worldwide, but how have the cloud giants fared behind the scenes? Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

HMCTS video hearings service scrutinised in LSE report

Independent evaluation looks at user experience of video functionality for courts and tribunals Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

EC launches digital identity consultation

European Commission’s consultation will look at revisions to the eIDAS regulation, aiming to improve effectiveness and extend it to the private sector Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

Former UC Global staff confirm Embassy surveillance operation against Julian Assange

Spanish court investigates claims that security company illegally recorded meetings between Julian Assange, politicians, lawyers and celebrities at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

Barclays CEO says Canary Wharf office set to stay despite home working success

Barclays chief says the success of home working during the Covid-19 pandemic has taught the banks lessons, one of which is that major centres like Canary Wharf will remain Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

Diversity in cyber improving but inclusion needs work, says NCSC

Study into diversity and inclusion in the cyber security sector has found that diversity is off to a good start, but inclusion is lacking Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

How Broxbourne is evolving digital transformation beyond Covid-19

The small town of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire is building on work before and during the pandemic to advance its modernisation agenda Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

Treasury plans speedy approach to project delivery

Treasury will become the “new radicals” of Whitehall, taking charge of getting rid of legacy IT, making data-driven decisions and investing in data infrastructure Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

Tech sector calls on government to 'urgently' resolve delays in digital identity policy

Trade body TechUK has written privately to DCMS secretary of state to express industry frustrations and request ‘urgent needs’ are resolved to enable digital identity market in UK Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

Finland government funds work on potential quantum leap

Finland's government is committing money to the development of quantum computing technologies to potentially provide a giant leap for the nation's industries Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

BASF partnership develops AI-powered smart mining

A collaboration with IntelliSense.io is being used to power AI-based optimisation of mining processes Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

Accenture selected for key role in Bank of England core settlement system replacement

Accenture will be technology delivery partner in project to replace the core system used to settle payments between banks Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

UK rural full-fibre broadband network expanded further

Over three million more homes and businesses in rural areas of the UK given the opportunity to get ultra-reliable, gigabit-ready, full-fibre broadband by mid-2020s Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

List of Blackbaud breach victims tops 120

More than 120 education and third-sector organisations may have had their data compromised through the breach of Blackbaud’s cloud platform Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

EE attains leadership in UK mobile network performance in first half of 2020

As the way in which people use networks has dramatically changed over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, 5G is changing the game in UK mobile, research has found Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 Blog Post

How blockchain will disrupt games software development

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Brad Robertson of Polyient Games. Roberton launched Polyient Games, a spinoff of Polyient Labs, his early-stage ... Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 Blog Post

APAC tech round-up – July 2020

July has been a busy month for us, a month that is traditionally dotted with enterprise tech events that have since been moved online amid the Covid-19 pandemic. On the sidelines of ... Continue Reading

July 30, 2020 30Jul2020 News

Agile adoption still in early stages

Less than a quarter of organisations made it past the step of defining their agile approach while more than half are just getting started, study finds Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Serious BootHole vulnerability puts millions of systems at risk

BootHole is a GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability and puts millions of PCs, servers and other devices at risk of compromise Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

How analogue film will be the future of digital history

The pandemic meant GitHub had to wait until July to store a 21TB snapshot of its code repositories, on special film that can last a thousand years Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 Blog Post

Goats on Zoom

Lancashire’s Cronkshaw Fold Farm is pimping out its portfolio of goats for video-conference appearances to fund its investment in renewable technology. That’s right, at just a fiver a pop, remote ... Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

£400m full-fibre broadband expansion as Warburg Pincus, DTCP take control of Community Fibre

Expansion of full-fibre network across London will deliver up to 10Gbps of broadband to a million households and businesses Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Amazon to create 1,000 skilled tech roles in Ireland

Retail giant Amazon will be adding several skilled tech roles to its locations in Ireland over the next two years Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Majority of organisations at risk of cloud data exposure

Report casts doubt on the effectiveness of the shared responsibility model of cloud security Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Bank of Ireland fined for six-year-old IT breach

Bank of Ireland fined by regulator for its failings to prevent fraud six years ago Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

IBM joins Google, Microsoft and Oracle in signing preferential cloud pricing deal with UK government

Public sector organisations set to reap the benefits of CCS's latest preferential pricing deal, in support of its push to accelerate the adoption of cloud across central government and the NHS Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Enterprises experience ‘productivity tax’ as remote work environments set for long term

Remote work productivity tracker shows employee productivity has dipped in certain regions and use cases since the advent of Covid-19, perhaps permanently Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Campaigners urge government to resist big tech lobbying pressure

Lobbyists for big tech, supported by senior US politicians, have rallied against stricter regulation of technology companies, and threatened the US-UK trade deal unless Britain scraps plans to levy a digital services tax Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Schrems steps up pressure on Irish data protection commissioner on Facebook’s data sharing with US

Austrian lawyer is considering ‘other’ options if the Irish data protection commissioner does not make a decision by October on his seven-year-old complaint against Facebook Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 In Depth

Five on-premise and cloud options for network-attached storage

We look at five options for file access storage, from ‘traditional’ NAS in a standalone appliance to distributed hybrid cloud file storage and NAS cloud gateways Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Cosmetics firm Avon faces new cyber security incident

Technical information relating to Avon’s web and mobile sites was inadvertently left exposed on an unsecured Microsoft Azure server Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Firms face remote working challenges as IT teams express concern about infrastructure

Post-lockdown survey finds UK-based IT leaders lack confidence in their organisation’s plan to withstand an unanticipated crisis as Covid-19 dramatically accelerates cloud adoption Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 Opinion

Taking back control of government data mustn’t leave the public in the dark

Boris Johnson has quietly transferred control over government data to Number 10, without explaining why. The public deserves more involvement in how their personal data is being used, says Labour Continue Reading

July 29, 2020 29Jul2020 News

Coronavirus: How Trainline can tell if trains are safe to travel on

With lockdown measures easing, Trainline recently introduced a Crowd Alerts feature to its app to help travellers feel safe using rail services Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Why supply chain visibility is key to APAC retailers

Having complete visibility over the supply chain will enable retailers to tide over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and transform their businesses Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

US Cellular taps Nokia, Ericsson to build out 5G infrastructure

Scandinavian comms tech suppliers on board to support US’s fourth largest telco’s journey to next-generation services Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

De Montfort, KCL, Newcastle universities join list of Blackbaud victims

Embattled cloud services provider now has big questions to answer over its handling of data belonging to UK universities and charities Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Garmin may have paid hackers ransom, reports suggest

Garmin’s services are coming back online, but the company remains tight-lipped about what exactly happened to it Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Backblaze takes aim at ‘costly and complex’ AWS cloud storage

Backblaze offers free transfer to its S3-based cloud storage – which it claims costs a fraction of AWS et al – as long as it’s more than 50TB and you commit to at least 12 months Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 In Depth

Storage skills in the age of the cloud and convergence

Storage skills was a discrete area in the IT jobs market, but that’s being eroded by the cloud, hyper-convergence infrastructure, and virtualisation. So, what are the key storage skillsets today? Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

O2 gains KPMG mandate to meet new demand for remote working

O2 will provide connectivity tools to help support professional services provider’s operational activity Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Orange and Google Cloud to create data platform to bolster edge computing offerings to enterprises

Telco giant Orange is building on its long-standing technology collaboration with Google Cloud to bolster the range of edge computing services it can offer clients Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Global telco 5G network infrastructure spending set to almost double in 2020

Research firm finds investments in next-generation networks will reach just over one-fifth of total wireless infrastructure spend Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Digital bank customer data breached through third party

FBI is investigating digital bank customer data breach that occurred via a former third-party supplier Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 Podcast

Digital addiction, digital skills – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss digital addiction and business software, digital skills and how Barnardo’s benefited from digital transformation Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

NCSC names national security expert Lindy Cameron as new CEO

New National Cyber Security Centre head joins from the Northern Ireland Office and has spent 20 years in government at home and abroad Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 Blog Post

Data-driven digital transformation: five technology initiatives for the age of Covid-19

This is a guest blogpost by Rich Pugh, co-founder and chief data scientist, Mango Solutions The things we do not know about Covid-19 seem almost endless. There are no clear answers yet to some of ... Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Scotland’s security resilience centre concept goes national

Based on the success of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre, a series of regional Cyber Resilience Centres are now launching across the rest of the UK Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Google Cloud announces Grace Hopper subsea cable

IT giant connects up first new undersea cable of its kind since 2003 to connect UK, US and Spain Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

UK government aims fintech industry at Africa

UK government is building fintech relationships with developing countries, beginning with a pilot programme in Africa Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

NCSC inducts six security startups to Cyber Accelerator

10-week programme will guide some of the UK’s most innovative security startups as they scale their businesses for future growth Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Ofcom to free up additional spectrum for wireless services

Regulator takes steps to boost home network users who are now in their home offices and will be there for a considerable period of time Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Latent demand for fertility tech identified by market study

Global investment in fertility tech startups tops $2.2bn over five-year period, with significant growth opportunities going forward due to combination of technological innovation and latent demand for fertility treatments Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

Councils get funding to build on Covid-19 digital progress

The latest council funding is intended to ensure continued modernisation in public services delivery Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 Blog Post

Striking the DevSecOps automation-manual balance

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Meera Rao in her capacity as senior director of product management for DevOps Solutions at Synopsys - the company is known ... Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 E-Zine

Meet the CIO connecting IT in the most inhospitable environments

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we discuss the challenges of running global IT in the world of copper mining. We look at how tech suppliers are adapting their products to meet the lockdown demands of working from home. And we exam-ine how zero-trust... Continue Reading

July 28, 2020 28Jul2020 News

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