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• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  CIO interview: Yiannis Levantis aims at total quality for Unipart IT

  Unipart has a heritage in quality manufacturing and services that CIO Yiannis Levantis is building on, in part by harnessing SAP’s cloud-based business transformation service Rise

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  UK government promises £1bn savings from latest digital strategy

  Three-year roadmap aims to transform online public services, targeting 50 top services for improvement – but contains much that has been previously promised in the past

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  More wrongful convictions quashed in Post Office IT scandal

  Two more Post Office Horizon scandal victims have had their wrongful convictions overturned

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  SolarWinds CEO offers to commit staffers to government cyber agencies

  A new proposal from SolarWinds’ outspoken CEO, Sudhakar Ramakrishna, could see software companies commit key staff to work with government cyber agencies to improve cooperation and incident response

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Trade body calls for public-private sector collab on digital ID

  TechUK has published a report outlining 10 key recommendations it believes are urgently needed to enable the rapid creation of an effectively regulated digital identity marketplace

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Cyber researchers step in to fill Patch Tuesday’s shoes

  Afraid you’ll miss Patch Tuesday when it’s gone? You’re not alone, but security analysts at Recorded Future are taking action to help the community come to terms with its loss

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Schneider Electric: IT industry must address 'sustainability action gap' to fight global warming

  Research commissioned and compiled by Schneider Electric reveals industry-wide disconnect between words and actions on sustainability

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  STC meeting highlights the importance of role models in encouraging STEM diversity

  Though there has been progress increasing the number of girls choosing to take STEM subjects later in education, there is still work to do, and role models could be part of the answer

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  IBM winding down its Russian business

  After three months in suspension, IBM’s operations in Russia are being wound down, CEO tells staff

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  NHS invites suppliers to apply to join latest tech marketplace

  Health service launches new IT framework for suppliers offering technologies that can transform GP operations

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  China using top consumer routers to hack Western comms networks

  An advisory from US cyber authorities shares details of multiple vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese state actors to hack into Western telecoms networks

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Pure FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex boost as-a-service push

  FlashBlade//S brings two new arrays in which customers can upgrade controllers and capacity, while //Flex allows capacity to be bought and moved across any QLC or TLC Pure array

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Length, cost and severity of datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research confirms

  Latest datacentre outages research from resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute confirms that downtime incidents are increasing in cost, length and severity

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Executive interview: Clive Benford, Jaguar Land Rover

  The head of the corporate analytics programme at JLR talks to Computer Weekly about data democratisation

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Danish recruiter provides advice on a crazy market for tech jobs

  Global trends make it difficult for Danish companies to hire people with IT skills, and a Danish recruiter is providing both companies and developers with some much-needed advice

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  ProxyLogon, ProxyShell may have driven increase in dwell times

  The median network intruder dwell time was up 36% to 15 days last year, thanks to massive exploitation of the ProxyLogon and ProxyShell vulnerabilities by IABs, according to new Sophos data

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  P27 advance could replace multiple national clearing systems in Nordics

  Nordic payments project promises to make payments to other countries as easy as sending a text message

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  APAC life sciences firms face HPC challenges

  More than half of pharmaceutical and biotech companies expect over 10% growth in genomic workloads but are facing scalability and other challenges with their HPC infrastructure

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Weak IT and SecOps collaboration in ANZ opens doors to cyber attacks

  The weak collaboration between IT and security teams in Australia and New Zealand is exposing their organisations to data loss, business disruption and other potential consequences of cyber attacks

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Prison and Probation Service’s tagging ambition ‘outstripped its ability to deliver’

  HM Prison and Probation Service’s programme to transform the tagging of offenders has failed to deliver after software platform was scrapped

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Russia looks towards import substitution in its IT sector

  The exodus of Western IT companies from Russia and sanctions imposed on the country amid its military invasion of Ukraine are leading to shortages of IT and professionals in the sector

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  CDO interview: Matthew Lawson, chief digital officer, Ribble Cycles

  The 125-year-old bicycle manufacturer is transforming its business with digital innovations such as live streaming and online personalisation

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  CIO interview: Lee Cowie, chief technology officer, Merlin Entertainments

  The theme park giant faced an enormous challenge during Covid with its venues closed, but digital technology came to the rescue and is now opening up new opportunities

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Software house Mega achieves holistic SaaS security with Synopsys

  Mega International, a supplier of IT management software, turned to Synopsys’s Coverity and Black Duck products to reassure both itself and its customers that its software-as-a-service offerings were built to the best possible security standards

• June 06, 2022 06 Jun'22

  Grain expands fibre network as CityFibre hits gigabit roll-out accelerator

  When it comes to UK fibre development, size certainly does not matter, as two full-fibre companies of very different sizes announce major expansion of their gigabit broadband footprints

• June 06, 2022 06 Jun'22

  Micron to deploy mmWave in Singapore fab

  The US chipmaker is leveraging Singtel’s 5G mmWave connectivity to roll out a range of Industry 4.0 applications at its cleanroom in Singapore

• June 03, 2022 03 Jun'22

  How digital twins can improve datacentre operations

  Singapore’s Red Dot Analytics has built an AI-powered digital twin platform that lets datacentre operators simulate their operations to manage their carbon footprint and energy consumption, among other uses

• June 02, 2022 02 Jun'22

  Indian stock exchange taps data analytics

  The National Stock Exchange of India is tapping data analytics to speed up and improve regulatory decision making

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Environmental social governance law enhances Danish tech’s impact

  A new environmental and social law in Denmark could help the country’s tech startup ecosystem to differentiate

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Over a third of cyber security professionals plan career change

  Frustrations over a lack of support and recognition is fuelling a cyber security exodus, with just over one in three of those in the sector planning to change professions

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  EU must stand ground on cyber security, says Finland’s WithSecure

  Russian threat is serving to focus minds on cyber security across Europe, say executives at enterprise security company’s inaugural conference

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  SES and Vodafone team to deliver 4G and future 5G services via satellite to Papua New Guinea

  Latest development in satellite-based connectivity sees new mobile operator in southwestern Pacific island supported by terrestrial and satellite providers to boost further digital opportunities

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Executive interview: Jeetu Patel, general manager of collaboration and security, Cisco

  Anyone with an idea can help solve a problem if geography and distance don’t matter when bringing in talent, says Cisco’s collaboration and security chief

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Security leaders call for more observability for cloud native apps

  New research highlights the challenges CISOs face securing modern, cloud native applications

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  BT inks partnership with Ericsson to support commercial 5G networks

  First commercial 5G private network agreement of its kind in the UK will drive Industry 4.0 and the digital transformation of industrial sectors

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  How Pfizer is leveraging technology in healthcare

  Pfizer uses predictive modelling to recruit patients for clinical trials and supercomputers to identity candidate molecules that go into antiviral drugs, among other technology use cases

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Millions of UK workers lack digital workplace skills, says FutureDotNow

  As the UK’s digital skills crisis looms larger, business coalition FutureDotNow says businesses must provide the essential workplace skills that people need

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  UKtech50 2022: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology

  Our judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of over 250 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  CIO interview: Emma Frost, director of innovation, London Legacy Development Corporation

  The former Olympic Park in London has become a hotbed – and a testbed – for data and technology innovation that could have a wider benefit for the urban environments in which we live

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  How Police Scotland deployed mobile comms for integrated services

  Technology is core to Police Scotland’s 10-year plan to transform policing, and since 2019 it has worked with Motorola to roll out mobile comms

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Eutelsat, Telenor set sail on maritime connectivity deal

  Reflecting the buoyancy of the maritime connectivity market in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, French and Nordic providers showcase combination of in-orbit resources and managed connectivity services

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Researchers discover zero-day Microsoft vulnerability in Office

  Malicious Word documents have been used to invoke a previously undisclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Office without user interaction through Windows utility functions

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Heineken puts employees in charge of their own careers with new HR system

  According to Sanne Noordam, head of SAP SuccessFactors in the Netherlands, companies need to look and listen more closely to the needs of employees in order to attract and retain them

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Nokia beefs up Microsoft partnership to enhance mission-critical industrial edge performance

  Comms tech provider forges partnership with cloud provider to enhance the performance of critical use cases pairing 5G private wireless, offering enterprises more options to tap into Azure for their OT environments

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Industrial systems not safe for the future, say Dutch ethical hackers

  Ethical hackers in the Netherlands say operational technology and IT networks need to be integrated to prevent cyber attacks penetrating their operations

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  UK fibre roll-out continues apace with majors, altnets

  CityFibre, Connexin, MS3 Network and Air Broadband announce further digital infrastructure investment, taking full-fibre gigabit connectivity to Buckinghamshire and North and East Yorkshire

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Singapore doubles down on quantum technology

  The city-state is shoring up its quantum talent and quantum device manufacturing capabilities in a bid to advance its knowhow in the emerging technology

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  OVHCloud facing client compensation class action claim of €10m over March 2021 datacentre fire

  The law firm overseeing the class action against OVHCloud claims 140 clients are now seeking compensation for the data lost as a result of the March 2021 fire

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  ICO calls for police to end ‘excessive collection’ of personal data from rape and assault victims

  The UK’s information commissioner, John Edwards, has called for prosecutors and police to end the excessive collection of personal data from victims of rape and serious sexual assault

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  FTTP coverage grows across UK

  Latest bi-monthly update on superfast and ultrafast broadband deployments in the UK shows that as of April 2022, despite acceleration in overall full-fibre roll-out, take up of fibre-to-the-premises is still sluggish