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• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Oracle takes aim at hyperscalers, eyes VMware workloads

  Oracle claims it is addressing the limitations of competing services by offering better security controls, consolidated billing and global availability

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Executive interview: Sri Shivananda, chief technology officer, PayPal

  Computer Weekly talks to PayPal’s tech head about the payment provider’s SOA, security, open source and the lockdown

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix launches Clusters in AWS for hybrid cloud hyper-converged infrastructure

  HCI pioneers launches Nutanix Clusters, which will provide hyper-converged deployments across customer datacentres and the Amazon cloud, but only in Acropolis and on AWS for now

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  CIO interview: DFS’s Russell Harte on the Google ecosystem

  The furniture retailer has standardised on G Suite and has bought into the Google Cloud Platform and Chrome OS devices

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Edge server shipments set to double by 2024

  As business gets close to the edge, analyst predicts a ‘supercharged’ edge server market over the next five years driven by an associated boom in cloud services

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  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

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  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

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  University graduates to Nutanix Files hyper-converged NAS

  The University of Reading had already deployed Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure so it made sense to add Nutanix Files when its ageing NAS boxes bit the dust

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  HPE extends edge to home network

  With employees working from home, IT departments are struggling to provide adequate remote access to corporate systems

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Oracle ups ante in cloud wars with dedicated customer regions

  Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud at Customer will let enterprises run an entire cloud region in their own datacentres in a potentially game-changing move

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Political awareness needed to ethically handle migration data, panel claims

  Understanding the political, social and economic relationships between different groups in society is needed to ensure location data is not used in ways that further endanger already vulnerable people on the move

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Succeeding with hybrid cloud deployments

  Where IT complexity is a given, a policy-driven approach and effective monitoring are vital for success

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Zoom making progress on cyber security and privacy, says CEO

  Three months after being hit by a spate of security incidents, Zoom’s CEO, Eric Yuan, has been discussing progress towards a more secure product

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Qumulo hybrid cloud NAS provides special effects for Cinesite

  Hybrid cloud scale-out NAS from Qumulo used to offload Active Directory lookups and other workloads to the AWS cloud that had suffered in peak times when on Isilon

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  HPE aims to address non-cloud apps in hybrid IT

  Some applications are simply not a good fit for the public cloud. So while organisation may go cloud-native, they still need to support on-premise IT

• June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20

  Microsoft wants developers to be Quantum-inspired

  Some problems cannot be solved on binary computers. With a new set of tools, Microsoft hopes to entice developers to swap bits for QuBits

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  US buildings firm saves big on HDDs with Nasuni cloud NAS

  APi Group dumps first-generation file sharing for Nasuni, which allowed it to save ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ with standard hardware deployments and cutting local storage

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  NTT Data and LeapThought eye Singapore’s construction sector

  Japan’s NTT Data and New Zealand’s LeapThought have come together to support the digitalisation efforts of Singapore’s construction industry

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  IBM targets legacy modernisation with hybrid multicloud

  Every few years, the foundations of IT architecture are shaken up, but few businesses can easily rip out old systems to stay aligned to the latest trend

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Subpostmasters will not cooperate with government review into IT scandal

  A group of subpostmasters who suffered at the hands of the Post Office’s error-prone IT system refuse to participate in a government review into the scandal, describing it as a sham

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Tech firms respond to Nordic government calls

  Nordic firms are working with tech suppliers to help them get back up and running after Covid-19

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  CogX 2020: Matt Hancock on tech during Covid-19

  Health secretary Matt Hancock says technology companies have been vital in dealing with the pandemic, and praises UK for testing more people “than almost anywhere in the world.”

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  How Australia’s Shockbyte scales with cloud

  Australian game server provider Shockbyte uses bare metal servers on the cloud to meet the needs of demanding gaming applications and to grow its global footprint

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Digital transformation held back by lack of skilled people

  Veeam survey finds digital transformation a hot topic, but 44% of firms are held back by skills shortages. Meanwhile, the cost of downtime is found to be $67,651 per hour for the most important apps

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  How to succeed at site reliability engineering

  Adoption of site reliability engineering is growing in Asia-Pacific, but organisations need to have the right organisational structure and culture to succeed

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  Employees must be consulted on technologies monitoring the return to work

  Experts say the workforce must be ‘in the room’ and given a meaningful say about technologies introduced to monitor their return to work following the Covid-19 pandemic

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Wireless Broadband Alliance calls for single global Wi-Fi network

  Global wireless ecosystem consortium unveils WBA OpenRoaming to offer automatic and secure connection of billions of devices to millions of Wi-Fi networks

• May 21, 2020 21 May'20

  Infinidat sees containers and S3 as key to join storage big guns

  But that’s not all. The array maker – that brings flash performance with massive amounts of HDD plus cache – plans for NVMe-over-fabric and use of 20TB hard drives too

• May 18, 2020 18 May'20

  Privacy advocates demand clarity over Covid-19 datastore

  Government and NHS face questions about the involvement of private technology companies with coronavirus datastore

• May 15, 2020 15 May'20

  Rolls-Royce uses digital twins in Power Systems Customer 4.0 strategy

  The Power Systems unit has begun using technology from Iotics to collect data points for engines in the field and build digital simulation models

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  CenturyLink digitally revamps sales framework

  The difficulty of navigating information silos during the sales process and high customer churn prompted CenturyLink to adopt new digital tools that get the right information to the right sellers

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  Deutsche Bank’s planned tech spend unaffected by global crisis

  Deutsche bank is driving on with its ambitious IT investment plans, with the Covid-19 pandemic, if anything, adding fuel to it

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Report reveals inadequate cyber security at Schiphol Airport

  A report has revealed problems with critical security systems in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  COO interview: Suresh Viswanathan, TSB

  TSB’s chief operating officer is overseeing the bank’s operations as it strives to build the right kind of IT reputation

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Coronavirus: Nationwide’s human expertise used to quickly build smart agent amid pandemic

  Nationwide Building Society is the latest financial services company to quickly automate customer services related to Covid-19

• May 11, 2020 11 May'20

  Coronavirus: SMEs in the UAE forced to digitally transform

  The UAE, like the rest of the world, continues to be heavily impacted by the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, and technology is helping to lead the fight

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  Finland’s postal service targets new revenue streams through digitisation

  Posti plans to use the new SisuID digital authentication method to accelerate business growth and opportunities

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  Re-purposing data and questionable effectiveness could undermine trust in NHS contact-tracing app

  Experts call for greater clarity over how contact-tracing data will be used, while discussing the limitations of the coronavirus app

• May 04, 2020 04 May'20

  StorageOS v2 puts ‘mini brains’ in Kubernetes storage volumes

  StorageOS persistent software-defined storage for Kubernetes distributes control plane decisions to volumes in a cluster and takes away the impact on centralised scheduler

• April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20

  Critical SaltStack vulnerability affects thousands of datacentres

  Critical vulnerabilities in the Salt remote task and configuration framework enable hackers to take control of cloud servers and must be patched right away

• April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20

  Red Hat-VMware rivalry intensifies with OpenShift virtualisation

  New virtualisation features in OpenShift point to an emerging Kubernetes platform war between Red Hat and VMware

• April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20

  Nordic CIO interview: Stefan Olowsson, Swedish Social Insurance Agency

  Stefan Olowsson, CIO at Sweden’s Försäkringskassan, helps to ensure social security payments run smoothly, which is a balancing act of innovation, data security and reliable delivery

• April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20

  Google chief suggests post-coronavirus cloud boost

  Google’s GCP platform has seen increased demand during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, and the company’s CEO believes economic recovery may lead to fewer on-premise datacentres

• April 28, 2020 28 Apr'20

  IBM celebrates quantum cloud fourth anniversary with coding challenge

  IBM has set four tasks for programmers to try out on its cloud-based quantum computer, in a bid to widen quantum coding skills

• April 20, 2020 20 Apr'20

  Green Flag waves farewell to Oracle legacy with cloud-native revamp

  The roadside breakdown rescue service has developed a technical architecture to support an ecosystem approach to business

• April 20, 2020 20 Apr'20

  CaixaBank uses hybrid of conventional and quantum computers to classify risk

  Spain's CaixaBank is using quantum computers as part of a project to assess risk using machine learning algorithms

• April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20

  UK altnets increase full-fibre coverage by 50%

  Independent network providers notch up notable year in 2019 as fibre access for all becomes political hot potato

• April 09, 2020 09 Apr'20

  Omdia: New norm for working set to have ‘dramatic’ implications for collaboration industry

  Analyst recalibrates expectations for collaboration and conferencing tools, forecasting transformational upsurge in use that could change the world of work, with home broadband being a business lifeblood

• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  Australian open source project to expand global reach

  Data61’s open source seL4 microkernel project will be supported by a new foundation created under the auspices of the Linux Foundation

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  Covid-19 apps pose threat to digital privacy on a global scale

  Digital security firm Surfshark has reviewed a number of apps aimed at tackling the spread of coronavirus, and found that many pose a threat to people’s digital privacy