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• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  SAP outlines approach to data management

  Through its Hana Data Management Suite, SAP hopes to alleviate the challenges of managing data amid growing data security needs in an increasingly hybrid IT landscape

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  BEIS and DfE not addressing Brexit impact on Stem skills, says PAC

  A Public Accounts Committee report has raised concerns that government departments are not doing enough, quickly enough, to understand how Brexit will affect the supply of science, technology, engineering and maths skills in the UK

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  Vexata doubles capacity in NVMe flash storage VX family

  NVMe flash storage Vexata maker ups capacity to just under half a PB with 8TB drives, claims near-bare metal performance, and aims at analytics, trading and simulations workloads

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  Surge in number of women in IT contracting roles

  The number of women taking IT contractor roles has increased by nearly a quarter in the past year

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  UK cyber skills in demand, says Dorset firm C3IA Solutions

  UK cyber security skills are in demand and there is a bright future in exporting them, according to Dorset-based firm C3IA Solutions

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  UKCloud invests £25m in building secure cloud platform for top secret government data

  Public sector-focused cloud provider has launched a standalone division, dubbed UKCloudX, to oversee its efforts to aid in the fight against cybe rcrime through the roll-out of its cloud platform

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  How Australia is gearing up for 5G

  From trialling 5G networks at the recent Commonwealth Games to flying drones in surf sport lifesaving, Australia is becoming a test bed for 5G services with its dense cities and wide-open spaces

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  Brexit-induced immigration law shake-up ‘could spur tech startup growth’

  By rebuilding immigration laws after it leaves the EU, the UK could make it easier for foreign workers to get visas and join startups, House of Lords committee hears

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  Firms look to automation for cloud security

  In the face of increasingly sophisticated and nation-state-sponsored cyber attacks, organisations are looking to managed security services and automation for security in the cloud and on-premise

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  IBM early findings on disastrous TSB core banking system migration released

  Report released by Treasury Committee criticises lack of rigour in preparation for core banking system migration, but TSB says report’s content is out of date

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  SME provider takes on Cambridgeshire public sector network contract

  Managed network services provider MLL Telecom has been awarded the EastNet contract to run WAN services across Cambridgeshire, replacing a legacy Virgin Media Network

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  A dozen councils get tech innovation funding

  The councils will use the funding, awarded by NHS Digital and the Local Government Association, to pilot how technology can improve social care services

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns over past relationship with fellow employee

  Intel confirms interim successor for Krzanich, who played a pivotal role in the company’s multi-year efforts to offset the declining demand for PC chips by courting the datacentre community

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Infosec pros expect increase in nation state cyber attacks

  Most information security professionals expect a rise in nation state cyber attacks, with more than two-thirds preparing to defend against them

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  CDO interview: Andrei Belevtsev, Gazprom Neft

  Russian oil giant will harness the latest technologies right across its business, says chief digital officer

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Nokia outsources IT infrastructure and application services to HCL

  Five-year deal will bring together the services delivered by four different IT companies.

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Government sponsors diversity cyber academy

  The UK government has awarded a grant for the establishment of a cyber academy to promote neurodiversity in the industry

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Lloyds Bank cuts 450 jobs to make way for digitisation roles

  Lloyds Banking Group has axed 450 jobs to create 255 digital-focused roles as it adapts to changes in customer banking habits

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  HR projects are leading company moves to digital tech, say business leaders

  Business leaders say their human resource IT programmes are leading the way to the wider deployment of digital and cloud technology across their organisations

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  M1, Huawei to transmit VR content in 5G live trial

  Mobile operator M1 and Huawei will be streaming virtual reality content in Singapore’s first 5G live trial in June

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Younger employees 'main culprits' for security breaches

  UK senior decision makers believe younger workers are the biggest risk to cyber security, but are doing little to support them and reduce that risk, a report reveals

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  How NHS visa cap exemption could help boost tech sector

  The government has announced that NHS doctors and nurses will no longer be subject to Tier 2 visa caps, but what does this mean for the technology industry?

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Palo Alto Networks opens cyber range in Australia

  The first of its kind in Asia-Pacific, the cyber range training facility will let Australian IT and security teams hone their skills through cyber security exercises

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Teradata sues SAP over Hana for stealing trade secrets

  Data warehousing supplier Teradata is suing SAP in a Californian court for stealing trade secrets, copyright infringement and antitrust violations

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Vodafone to start 5G trials this autumn

  MNO announces 5G trials in seven UK cities, with new mobile network infrastructure to be rolled out from October

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Mobile operators appeal for dark fibre access to back 5G

  O2, Three and Vodafone unite in calling for more to be done to open up dark fibre networks to supply desperately needed capacity for their future 5G networks

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  CIO interview: Mike Young, Centrica

  We speak to the CIO whose CEO recently met with the head of Microsoft to talk about strategy

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  San Francisco 49ers add pace to the team with NVMe flash from Datrium

  US NFL football team plans high-performance NVMe flash to power in-game statistics and video decision-making, plus access for scouts to player databases during draft

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Banks already looking for EU-based IT staff for post-Brexit operations

  UK banks already have plans to move some of their operations to the EU, with the search for EU-based IT professionals under way

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Nine out of 10 enterprises will use robotic process automation by 2020

  Robotic process automation take-up expected to reach 92% of European enterprises within two years, finds ISG survey

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Oracle full-year results show 6% growth, but cloud revenue opaque?

  Oracle’s full-year results for 2017-18 reveal total revenue of $39.8bn, up 6%, but reporting of cloud with on-premise revenue under “bring your own licence” policy has raised qualm over cloud weakness obfuscation

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  CIO interview: Taavi Kotka, former CIO, Estonian government

  Estonia’s former CIO talks to Computer Weekly about how to make services work for people, why the skills gap shouldn’t be an excuse not to digitise, and the importance of going to the gym

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  More APAC consumer goods firms expected to adopt blockchain

  The adoption of blockchain technology is likely to increase in the consumer goods industry as more businesses use the technology to address fraud and improve supply chain management

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Dutch organisations must unite to fight DDoS attacks

  Experts in the Netherlands call on Dutch corporations and institutions to work together to help prevent distributed denial of service attacks

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Most small businesses fail to act after a cyber attack  

  Nearly half of small businesses have suffered at least one cyber attack in the past year, yet most fail to take action afterwards, citing lack of budget at the biggest challenge

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Chief data officers go to summer school

  Authors of the “Chief data officer’s playbook”, Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, are running a summer school, supported by data governance software supplier Collibra

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Singapore remains hotbed for cyber threats

  Singapore was a victim of advanced persistent threats, phishing and website defacements in 2017, according to the latest threat landscape report by the Cyber Security Agency

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Debit card payments surpassed cash for first time in 2017

  For the first time, UK customers used debit cards to make more payments than cash in 2017, a change which has come a year earlier than expected.

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Tech firms partner to double female and BAME founders by 2020

  A number of technology organisations have joined forces to develop an initiative that aims to increase the number of women and black, Asian and minority ethnic startup founders in the UK

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Visa reveals 'rare' datacentre switch fault as root cause of June 2018 outage

  Visa has offered a retrospective analysis of what went wrong in its datacentre during its UK-wide outage on Friday 1 June, in response to a request from the Treasury Select Committee for more detail about the downtime

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Surface web used in private data sales

  The surface web plays an integral role in the selling of personal information, a report on identify fraud has revealed

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Young generation tempted by Amazon bank-like services

  Tech firms offering banking services will be inevitable in the future as more than half of young people are tempted by such a prospect

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Government’s broadband service obligation derided by industry

  As Ofcom starts the process of finding a provider willing to step up to manage the government’s 10Mbps broadband universal service obligation, the project has been derided by network builders and stakeholders alike

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  CIO interview: Michael Cole, European Tour and Ryder Cup

  Michael Cole, chief technology officer at the European Tour and Ryder Cup, discusses how he is helping the sport of golf broaden its appeal through his “connected course” digital transformation vision

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  NHS trust dumps creaking EMC SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged

  Derbyshire-based NHS trust had reached end-of-life with Dell servers and EMC SAN, so it took the plunge with Nutanix hyper-converged to reap space, power and reliability gains

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  MPs see risk to critical infrastructure as top threat

  A majority of MPs are concerned about the cyber threat to critical national infrastructure, a survey has revealed

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Public cloud giants' use of ODM datacentre kit continues to soar, Synergy Research shows

  Latest quarterly tracker by Synergy Research highlights just how the ODM community now dominates the public cloud giant's datacentre investments

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Singapore faced cyber attacks during Trump-Kim summit

  Russian attackers allegedly scanned IP phones in the city-state for vulnerabilities, although it was unclear what they were after or whether they were successful

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Theresa May gives NHS £20bn birthday gift and says tech is key

  The prime minister promises to increase NHS funding by an extra £20bn a year by 2023, and highlights importance of tech in improving care and enabling earlier diagnosis

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Girls taking key stage four computing subjects down 30,000 from 2014

  The number of girls taking computing subjects at GCSE or equivalent level is significantly less than when the curriculum was introduced in 2014