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2020 Stories

• July 24, 2020 24Jul2020 News

  Government launches space innovation programme

  The government’s innovation programme will initially pump £15m into projects using space technology to tackle global issues, as well as international space projects and partnerships Continue Reading

• July 24, 2020 24Jul2020 Blog Post

  Managing IT spending amid the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis

  Uncertainty is the new certainty. As lockdowns ease across Europe, IT leaders are surveying the wreckage of their carefully planned pre-pandemic strategies. Nothing is what it was – according to ... Continue Reading

• July 24, 2020 24Jul2020 Blog Post

  What does and doesn’t work on video?

  Hands up anyone who expected not just to spend 2020 at home, but to spend much of it on video too. Many of us will have shunned the Lidless Eye of the PC camera before but are now unable to resist ... Continue Reading

• July 24, 2020 24Jul2020 News

  A question of trust: University and supplier on the hook for data breach

  Data on students at the University of York was stolen in a ransomware attack on a supplier two months ago, and the response of both parties raises serious questions Continue Reading

• July 24, 2020 24Jul2020 News

  China doubles up on ‘new infrastructure’ investments

  China is shoring up investments in cloud computing, datacentres and the internet of things, among other areas, to ready itself for the post-Covid-19 world Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 Opinion

  How Schrems II will impact data sharing between the UK and the US

  At the end of this year, the UK will no longer be subject to the EU’s treaties, opening the way for it and the US to finalise a new trade relationship. Could the UK leave EU data protection standards behind? Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 Blog Post

  The secret managing director

  The managing director of a Premier League side almost cost their club £1m when their email address was hacked during a transfer negotiation – but who could it be? Our first guess was Richard Arnold ... Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  Twitter announces crackdown on QAnon accounts

  In a bid to stem the spread of disinformation and prevent real-world harm, Twitter is taking action against QAnon conspiracists Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  Covid-19 to prompt surge in public cloud spend on DaaS, says Gartner

  Shift to remote working has prompted CIOs to up their spending on cloud-based desktop offerings, with desktop as a service on course to become the fastest-growing part of the wider public cloud market this year Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 Opinion

  Making Tax Digital will boost business resilience in case of future Covid crises

  HMRC is expanding the digitisation of income and corporation tax in a move that will benefit businesses, the self-employed and the economy, writes the government's financial secretary to the Treasury Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  UK government ignored civil service warning of no benefit in acquisition of OneWeb

  Civil service revealed to have taken the rare step of alerting government that $500m investment in troubled satellite company would bring no discernible benefit Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  Brexit and slow pandemic response will impact UK IT spend, says Forrester

  Analyst says UK’s slower response to the coronavirus, combined with Brexit, will have a big impact on GDP and, as a consequence, IT spending will decline Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  Commvault refreshes HyperScale backup appliances with Hedvig

  Backup player set to replace Fujitsu/Red Hat-based backup appliances with new hardware and storage software from Hedvig, which it bought late last year Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  Business resilience key to startups ahead of post-Covid recession

  Startups should begin building up their resilience to resist unattractive acquisition bids ahead of post-Covid recession Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  UK government aims for tech-enabled border

  A consultation has been launched to gather views on how digital approaches can improve trader and traveller demands by 2025 Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  Post-Privacy Shield, what chance for a Brexit data adequacy deal?

  The striking down of Privacy Shield has been hailed as a victory for digital rights and privacy campaign groups, but it will have consequences that go beyond transatlantic data transfers Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  Microsoft results show impact of tech-driven business resilience

  While economies are set to shrink, businesses are leaning on tech to support operations, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 Blog Post

  AWS developer advocate: 3-cornerstones for building modern cloud apps

  This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Steve Bryen in his role as senior developer advocate for UK and Ireland at Amazon Web Services. Among the several key ... Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  Verizon completes long-haul 800Gbps single-wavelength fibre data session

  US comms giant sends 800Gbps across long-distance fibre in preparation for significant increase in amount of data from enterprise and consumer 5G applications Continue Reading

• July 23, 2020 23Jul2020 News

  APAC firms in early stages of digital transformation

  More than three-quarters of APAC firms struggle to revise their financial plans amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with many still lacking agile systems and processes, a new study finds Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 Blog Post

  Enabling learning, whether at school or at home during Covid-19

  The following post is sponsored by Amazon Web Services As the impact of Covid-19 percolates around the world, students and teachers facing disrupted school semesters are forced to learn and teach ... Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  NCSC reveals scale of cyber attacks on UK sports industry

  The UK’s sports industry is under near constant cyber attack, according to new statistics from the National Cyber Security Centre Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  UK government moves forward on Shared Rural Network scheme

  UK government issues written statement supporting the deployment of 5G and extending 4G mobile coverage to hitherto badly served rural area Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  DCMS loses government data policy to the Cabinet Office

  Prime minister Boris Johnson has taken away responsibility for the government use of data from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and given it to the Cabinet Office Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  Microsoft targets diesel backup power to reduce emissions

  As it pushes towards becoming carbon neutral, Microsoft has started to look at how it can replace backup power generators in its datacentres Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  Lloyds bank buys into cloud-native payments

  Lloyds Banking Group continues its digital journey by investing in and investigating a cloud-based payments service Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  Slack takes legal route against ‘weak, copycat’ Teams

  Microsoft could be set for another joust with the EU, as its rival, Slack, files an anti-competitive complaint Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  Aramex ships in Rackspace Technology to accelerate datacentre downsizing and move to AWS cloud

  Dubai-based international shipping and logistics firm Aramex is in the midst of a cloud-focused digital transformation designed to tighten up its last-mile delivery operations with the help of Rackspace Technology Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  New opportunities for Nordic startups post-Covid-19 as virtual offices become the norm

  As companies adjust to digital office life in the pandemic era, a host of Nordic startups are already helping them convert these short-term fixes into long-term strategy Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  Nokia launches first commercial enterprise 5G standalone private wireless networking

  New technology aims to provide ‘direct to 5G’ entry point for high-spec industrial use case validation and ecosystem development Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  No let-up in cyber attacks as lockdown eases

  Cyber attacks are up by one-third as the coalescence of cyber activity and nation state-linked threats around the pandemic bears fruit for bad actors Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  US charges Chinese nationals with Covid-19 research hacking

  The two hackers allegedly worked with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, targeting intellectual property and confidential business information Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 Opinion

  Opening up new AI applications

  Opening up and demystifying artificial intelligence and machine learning is the best way to overcome perceptions that AI is a threat to people’s jobs Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  BNP Paribas joins IBM financial services cloud project

  IBM’s financial services cloud is gathering steam as more banks join its public cloud ecosystem of finance firms and developers Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  Masergy expands SD-WAN portfolio with SASE, added analytics

  With the addition of SD-WAN Secure, software-defined network and cloud platform claims to be the sole source of a single, unified SD-WAN solution Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  Privacy Shield: Companies face new hurdles to legally transfer data to the US

  Businesses will have to conduct legal assessments to ensure they can transfer data from the EU to the US and other countries, following a European Court of Justice ruling Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  TfL contracts Capita for London Underground section of emergency services network

  Capita will implement the network infrastructure that will enable the emergency services mobile network to work on the London Underground Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 Blog Post

  Modern development - Netguru: Four pillars for new development processes 

  This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ... Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 Blog Post

  Modern development - Splice Machine: A new strategy for application-first storage

  This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ... Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 Blog Post

  MACH Alliance: decomposing monoliths -- building headless open cloud microservices

  This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Kelly Goetsch in his capacity as president of the MACH Alliance - a group that has come together to promote open tech ... Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  Inside Intel’s transition into an enterprise tech company

  Computing giant Intel is pushing deeper into the enterprise with investments in data-centric and emerging technologies along with partnerships with local firms to develop new solutions Continue Reading

• July 22, 2020 22Jul2020 News

  Barnardo’s hails G Suite to offer continuity of care to vulnerable children during Covid-19

  Children's charity claims earlier move to off-premise cloud collaboration and communication platform is paying dividends during its teams’ response to the coronavirus Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  Why now could be the right time to launch a digital bank

  Launching a bank during a global crisis is fraught with risk, but an established customer base, experience, agility and diversification could help Zopa do just that Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  Manchester City Council deploys 8x8 to maintain remote services

  One of the UK’s largest local government authorities implements cloud-based communications system to keep critical services running while keeping agents safe during UK lockdown Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 Opinion

  Challenging times and transformational opportunities for the outsourcing industry

  Every area of the technology sector has been affected by the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, but the outsourcing industry could be well-placed to take advantage of the opportunities it presents Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 Blog Post

  Making efficiency the new normal: end-to-end automation in financial services

  This is a guest blogpost by James Loft, COO, Rainbird. If 2020 has been anything so far, ‘unpredictable’ is as good a descriptor as any. The financial services sector has suffered disrupted supply ... Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  Coronavirus: Government drags its feet on online misinformation

  Online misinformation about Covid-19 continues to spread unchecked, according to a DCMS committee report which has accused the government of dragging its feet over online harms Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 Podcast

  Huawei’s expulsion from the UK’s 5G networks explained – The 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 the implications of the decision to shut Huawei out of UK telecoms, women in software development, new visa rules for ... Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  CDEI calls for ‘step change’ in public sector data sharing

  Public sector needs to change the way data is shared, clarify governance arrangements and work on building public trust and awareness, according to a Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation report Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  BMW Group signs six-year HPC contract with eco-friendly Swedish colocation firm

  Motor manufacturer agrees to double-down on its use of EcoDataCenter's environmentally friendly colocation facilities Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  Russia Report reveals long-running cyber warfare campaign against UK

  Russia has been hacking the UK for years and the British government has also known about it for years, according to the Intelligence and Security Committee’s report Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 Blog Post

  Why NordVPN NordLynx wired up WireGuard

  Among the arguably higher profile Virtual Private Network (VPN) brands out there this decade (so far) is NordVPN. What not every casual user might now is, this is a technology now built on open ... Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  IBM's Q2 tapered by pandemic business recovery

  Country-specific coronavirus responses directly correlate to IBM customer IT investments, with some contemplating dialling back cloud subscriptions Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  A1, Telstra tap Nokia to enhance 5G evolution and pilot network slicing

  Self-organising network software deployed to boost automation of leading Australian comms operator’s wide radio access networks as it continues its evolution towards 5G services Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  HMRC extends Making Tax Digital programme

  Programme to be extended gradually until April 2023 to cover business below the VAT threshold and income tax self-assessments above £10,000 a year Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 Blog Post

  The automation revolution is happening now

  This is a guest blogpost by Jason Kingdon, Chairman & CEO of Blue Prism And it's raining RPA [Robotic Process Automation]… IBM's announcement that they are acquiring a Brazilian Robotic Process ... Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 E-Handbook

  How to achieve container security best practice

  In a recent series of articles, Computer Weekly’s long-running Security Think Tank assessed some of the issues around this tricky problem and sought to answer the question, what do CISOs need to know to secure containers? In this e-guide, we will ... Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  Santander consumer arm to automate further after Nordic project

  Time and cost savings achieved by RPA pilot were high and customer experience improved, says bank Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 E-Zine

  Avon calling: what happens when lockdown eliminates your business model?

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to global beauty brand Avon, to find out how it coped with a huge lockdown dilemma – how to adapt its door-to-door sales model when its reps couldn’t leave home. Our latest buyer’s guide examines the use of ... Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 Blog Post

  Modern development - Bloomberg: Of monoliths and meshes 

  This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ... Continue Reading

• July 21, 2020 21Jul2020 News

  Australian industry panel calls for ‘clear consequences’ of cyber attacks

  A government-appointed panel recommends strong deterrence and other measures to be implemented in Australia’s next cyber security strategy Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  Cloudflare apologises for major net outage

  Incident from network engineering team’s routine router configuration update work sees major outage on backbone leading to drops in internet services in Europe, US and Latin America Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  Covid-19 outbreak ramps up data focus at LOTI

  The boroughs working in local government coalition LOTI are focusing on joining up and acting on data-driven insights to help communities through the crisis and beyond Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  ICO hails transformative year as average fine trebles

  Information Commissioner’s Office annual report reflects on a busy period, during which it levied two of the largest fines so far seen under the GDPR Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  Ericsson calls for Europe to ramp up 5G as it wins SoftBank cloud dual-mode core contract

  Cloud-native, dual-mode 5G core will provide container-based microservice architecture to help Japanese operator develop new business models Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  Businesses underestimate negative impact of bot traffic

  Research from Netacea finds that although awareness of malicious bot activity is high, many are underestimating its true impact Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  Government launches fintech review

  Sector review, first touted in the 2020 Budget, aims to find ways to boost competitiveness and growth Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  US remote workers take significant productivity hit through IT disruption

  Analysis of remote employee experience and digital workplace post-Covid finds enterprise remote workers have encountered long wait times to address IT and other technical issues Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  Test and Trace programme unlawful, admits government

  The Department of Health and Social Care failed in its legal obligation to complete a mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessment Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 In Depth

  Automating IT security

  IT security’s battle with the hacking community has always been a game of cat and mouse, but it’s becoming increasingly automated Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  Global business leaders comfortable if not fully prepared for large-scale shift to remote work

  Riverbed survey shows new technology investments are expected to enhance corporate performance and wellness as employees increasingly work from anywhere and employers adopt hybrid working models Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  DVLA makes technological progress

  Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has introduced a 24/7 chatbot, modernised its core IT network and is prototyping robotic process automation Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 Blog Post

  HarperDB: It’s all about the (open) DBaaS

  The cloud has many resources, obviously. Among the most widely discussed elements of cloud usage as of 2020 is the more widespread use, deployment, implementation, integration to and adoption of ... Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 Blog Post

  Modern development - MongoDB: Putting a steer on citizen developers

  This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ... Continue Reading

• July 20, 2020 20Jul2020 News

  India’s Jio Platforms eyes global 5G opportunity

  Indian mobile network operator Jio Platforms has built a 5G solution that will meet domestic and global demand for 5G services Continue Reading

• July 19, 2020 19Jul2020 Blog Post

  In its element -- Universal Secure Collaboration is made for 'these times'

  As more development teams than ever work remotely, they know better than most just how much the rise of consumer-grade collaboration tools [Zoom, Slack, WhatsApp etc.] is helping to build up ... Continue Reading

• July 19, 2020 19Jul2020 Blog Post

  Modern development - Appian: Don’t go chasing waterfalls

  This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ... Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  Enterprises need to rethink how end-of-life equipment is dealt with

  Electronic waste is a massive and growing problem, but many companies are not recycling or reusing IT equipment, instead opting for physical destruction of the assets Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  UK’s first 5G accelerator gains speed

  UK 5G testbed springs into life with 12 hours of content in a virtual event lasting over two days, offering business-orientated training programme to show the benefits the technology can bring to enterprises Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  Three areas of remote working to consider

  A number of tech firms have used the shift to working from home, to develop new product offerings. We look at the IT impact Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 Opinion

  Building trust in the future of London’s data

  Sharing data by default could turbocharge London’s potential for radical improvements across the ecosystem, according to London First’s director of connectivity and competitiveness, David Lutton Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  ‘Future-ready’ attributes key to business resiliency beyond Covid-19, says Vodafone

  Social responsibility, sustainability and purpose remain essential as consumers demand clearer commitments, with broadening employer diversity and increasing workplace flexibility key to address growing skill gaps Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  Unified communications experiencing fastest growth ever in the midst of Covid-19

  Customer interest in UCaaS spikes 86% during the Covid-19 pandemic as firms across all industries modernise communications systems for the new normal Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  How Australia is leading the charge in the Covid-19 fight

  Researchers at the University of Queensland worked with IBM to develop a dashboard with machine-learning capabilities to analyse data for a global study on Covid-19 patients in intensive care Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  BBVA explores quantum computing for banking

  Early results from BBVA's research into quantum computing shows that the technology's application in complex computational tasks in banking is not far away Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  Twitter hack fallout: Investigators on trail of cyber criminals

  Investigators are hunting the cyber criminals who broke into Twitter’s systems to hijack prominent accounts, amid concerns that more attacks may come Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  Verizon tailors BlueJeans conferencing functionality, inks IBM 5G IoT deal

  Newly acquired video-conferencing suite gets feature enhancements as Verizon inks IBM partnership to focus on enabling industrial productivity in 5G-enabled IoT technologies Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  Nordic CIO interview: Brede Nielsen, Avinor

  The Covid-19 pandemic put Avinor’s IT head at the centre of the airport operator's response Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  Unesco launches global consultation on AI ethics

  The United Nations (UN) body opens up public consultation to help experts draft new global framework on artificial intelligence ethics Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  Government gives £24m boost to agricultural tech

  Nine agricultural technology projects are receiving government funding to create more efficient food production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 News

  Lockdown sparks interest in digital skills for 58% of adults

  Adults in the UK are becoming increasingly interested in digital skills, with over 80% saying they will become even more important over the next year Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 Opinion

  Tackling digital skills gap post-pandemic is key to UK economic recovery

  We have all – as individuals and businesses – seen the importance of technology to get us through lockdown. Let’s build on that to address the digital skills shortage in the UK Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 E-Zine

  CW APAC: Trend Watch – security

  It wasn’t that long ago when DevSecOps was little more than a mispronunciation of DevOps. Fast forward to today, the notion of embedding security into the development process is not only accepted, but increasingly championed. In this handbook, ... Continue Reading

• July 17, 2020 17Jul2020 E-Zine

  CW ANZ: Expert advice on security

  Supply chain risks are invisible to many organisations, which means they are often not prioritised from an IT security perspective, partly because supply chain risk management is often seen as a procurement issue. In this handbook, Computer Weekly ... Continue Reading

• July 16, 2020 16Jul2020 News

  Loan charge: Government dashes hopes of revised down settlements for contractors

  HMRC and HM Treasury confirm there are no plans to alter the loan charge settlement terms, despite calls from cross-party MPs to consider doing so Continue Reading

• July 16, 2020 16Jul2020 News

  Public sector not considering the elderly in development of digital services

  A study by software firm Civica found public sector leaders have admitted to not targeting digital services at those over 70, despite many people this age claiming to use digital technology Continue Reading

• July 16, 2020 16Jul2020 News

  NHS to use forecasting tool to manage post-crisis Covid-19 spread

  A forecasting tool based on machine learning is to be used by the NHS to identify Covid-19 hot spots and manage post-crisis spread Continue Reading

• July 16, 2020 16Jul2020 News

  Russian state hackers attacking Covid-19 researchers

  Kremlin-linked APT29 group, also known as Cozy Bear, is conducting a campaign against Covid-19 researchers around the world Continue Reading

• July 16, 2020 16Jul2020 News

  IR35 private sector reforms: Government response to Finance Bill Sub-Committee inquiry slammed

  Contracting stakeholders claim HMRC and HM Treasury are ‘burying their heads in the sand’ over impact IR35 reforms are set to have on the private sector Continue Reading

• July 16, 2020 16Jul2020 News

  Schrems v Facebook: European court strikes down EU-US Privacy Shield agreement

  The European Court of Justice has struck down Privacy Shield, the EU-US data-sharing agreement, creating uncertainty for European countries that share data with the US and pressuring the US to reform surveillance laws Continue Reading