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• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Brexit Britain be warned, there are countries better geared to take the world's tech talent

  The founder of an Estonian recruitment platform tells Computer Weekly about how Estonia addresses its IT skills shortage

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Rubrik CDM 4.2 extends data protection to Amazon cloud storage

  Backup software and appliance specialist adds protection to apps in Amazon cloud to existing on-premise and cloud-to-cloud functionality, along with service provider features

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Bank uses AI to select job candidates

  Singapore’s DBS Bank is using artificial intelligence to automate parts of its recruitment process

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  London Tech Week experts advise startups to research investors’ background before pitching

  Experts have used the TechXLR8 conference at London Tech Week to offer advice to startup workers about pitching to investors, joining accelerators and building teams

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead datacentre colocation market

  NTT had the biggest market share in Asia-Pacific, while Equinix ranked third in the region during the first quarter of 2018, according to market research data

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  DeepMind Health must be transparent to gain public trust, review finds

  Independent review of DeepMind Health says the company should provide more clarity on data and business plans, while legal audit finds its controversial data-sharing deal with Royal Free is lawful

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  Universal Credit value for money ‘unproven’, says NAO

  National Audit Office is uncertain DWP’s flagship benefits reform programme will ever achieve value for money, but says it’s too late to turn back

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  Datacentre industry must stop doing itself down on sustainability, says EUDCA board member

  In a panel debate at the Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco, the datacentre industry was urged to start celebrating and stop chastising itself over its sustainability practices

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  How Ocado built an online grocery delivery platform business

  Ocado has used open source tools and a cloud-native approach to develop its fully automated warehouse management platform

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  Nordic healthcare services provider outsources IT infrastructure

  Healthcare service provider Falck is planning to transform its business with a standardised and simplified IT infrastructure at the core

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  StorageCraft to unveil unified storage, backup and cloud appliances

  StorageCraft arose as a backup software maker but now plans converged storage, backup and analytics play in a move to unify offering built on core and acquired products

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Encryption is under attack, says Venafi CEO Jeff Hudson

  Encryption is one of the fundamental principles on which the internet is built, but this vital technology is under threat from criminals and ill-advised government policies, says Venafi CEO Jeff Hudson

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Government Geospatial Commission opens up OS MasterMap data

  The Geospatial Commission, announced by chancellor Philip Hammond in his 2017 Autumn Budget, has opened up some Ordnance Survey MasterMap data to boost small businesses

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  AI is key to keeping IBM compliant with GDPR

  Artificial intelligence is vital for keeping IBM compliant with the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation, which, in turn, provides opportunities for business, says the company’s data protection officer

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Case study: Mercedes F1 team makes gains with Pure Storage all-flash

  Two years ago, the Mercedes AMG Formula 1 team deployed Pure Storage all-flash arrays in its datacentre and in mobile racks out on the circuit. It’s a bet that has paid off for the racing team

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Nominations open: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2018

  Computer Weekly is calling for nominations for its 2018 awards for the Most Influential Women in UK Technology

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Ofcom satisfied with progress on BT Openreach split

  Ofcom has published its first annual report on the legal separation of BT and Openreach, and said it is broadly satisfied with progress to date, despite hiccups relating to the BT pension scheme

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Government launches £50m competition for digital pathology and imaging

  The government will provide funding for up to six specialist centres focusing on digital pathology or medical imaging, as part of the drive to make the UK a world leader in the field

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre

  Witn machine learning fuelling demand for graphics processing units in the datacentre, Schneider Electric CTO claims this will require a drastic rethink of how operators manage their sites, paving the way for liquid cooling to hit mainstream adoption

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Cyber attack warnings highlight need to be prepared

  Fresh warnings about the vulnerability of national infrastructure to cyber attacks show the need for securing and monitoring associated control systems connected to the internet

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  GP at Hand service will destabilise GP practices, says Unite

  Union calls on government to scrap on-demand GP app, saying it threatens the future of NHS GP practices and is eroding the personal relationship between patients and clinicians

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  NCSC urges action after Dixons Carphone breach

  The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging UK business to improve data protection capabilities after Dixons Carphone revealed that millions of payment card and personal data records may have been compromised in a cyber breach

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Take-up of Transport for London’s BYOD scheme leapt last year

  TfL staff are increasingly using their own mobile devices in the workplace, figures reveal

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Bank of England to set minimum service requirements after TSB and Visa outages

  The Bank of England is planning new rules for the minimum service levels that financial service providers must offer, even during IT outages

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Advanced network supports new learning model at Northampton Uni

  The University of Northampton is preparing to open a new campus at a cost of £330m, and has turned to Cisco to supply an intelligent, secure network to support its innovative learning model

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Datacentre DIY: Can the hyperscale cloud giants afford to ditch their colocation partners?

  With the hyperscale cloud giants showing a growing willingness to build and own their own datacentres, where does this leave the colocation community? Panellists at Datacloud Europe 2018 give their verdict

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  DCMS sets out plans for National Data Strategy

  A new centre for data ethics and innovations will drive UK government policy making regarding data sharing and use of public data

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Dixons Carphone admits 'falling short' on data protection

  Dixons Carphone has warned that millions of credit card and personal data records may have been compromised in a cyber breach

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  CogX AI show opens with debate on Europe’s lack of dominance

  European researchers have made significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, but the dominant players all seem to be based in Silicon Valley

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Prime minister announces new visa for startups

  The government promises new “startup” visa for entrepreneurs, a £2.5bn British Patient Capital fund to support UK companies going global, and plans for two international tech hubs

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Tips on reducing IT expenditure

  There is constant pressure for IT to reduce cost and do more with less. Computer Weekly explores how this is being achieved in practice

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Australian university reaches for the stars after HPC boost

  The University of Sydney has upgraded its supercomputing infrastructure to answer big questions on cosmology and keep pace with growing research needs

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  CIO interview: Richard Gifford, CIO, Wincanton

  The CIO of logistics firm Wincanton, Richard Gifford, is in the process of improving its digital propositions and developing a digital supply chain, while dealing with legacy systems

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Mayor Khan bids to make London the world’s smartest city

  At London Tech Week, mayor Sadiq Khan launched a city-wide initiative to harness the capital’s technology talent to address London’s most pressing problems

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  CityFibre wins key decision in fake fibre case

  CityFibre has been granted permission to proceed with a judicial review of the ASA’s November 2017 decision about the use of the term fibre in broadband ads

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  IT teams should rework supplier contracts to free up budgets

  There is no money for IT to help the business to innovate digitally, so CIOs should look at how their IT teams can maximise value from existing contracts, survey shows

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Insurer Beazley meets global challenge to secure mobile workforce

  Beazley has stolen a march on other London-market insurers by implementing a versatile global digital workspace with improved security

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Wales to launch £100m transformation fund for health and social care

  Welsh government promises to increase investment in digital technologies and infrastructure, improve digital leadership and establish a national data resource to share information

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Dutch region Zeeland to get datacentre without diesel backup

  One of the world’s most sustainable datacentres is to be built in the southwest region of the Netherlands, and is said to be the first datacentre to use battery backup rather than a diesel generator

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Privacy Shield under threat by US non-compliance

  The Privacy Shield framework that replaced the Safe Harbour agreement for personal data transfers between the EU and the US is under threat due to non-compliance by US firms

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Investigators close Nokia extortion probe without finding a motive or making an arrest

  New details of €2m blackmail of Nokia in 2007 emerge as Finland’s NBI calls a halt to its investigation

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Alibaba Cloud touts AI smarts to keep pigs healthy

  The Chinese cloud supplier has developed an AI program that has improved the yield and productivity of pig farms

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  BT announces “unhackable” quantum-secured network

  In the face of the threat that quantum computers could crack many of the encryption methods used to protect highly sensitive data, BT has developed a “quantum-secured” network

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Email-based cyber attacks gathering momentum

  Email-based cyber attacks are gathering momentum and the cost of these attacks are rising, with several hidden costs, a survey of IT professionals in Europe, Middle East and Africa reveals

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Singapore career website hit by PageUp malware scare

  A Singapore government career website was among others affected by a malware attack on an Australian recruitment technology supplier

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  London wants to show it’s open for business in Tech Week 2018

  London Tech Week 2018 kicks off with attracting young people into tech a key theme

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Industry must do more to open up cyber security profession

  Talented and successful cyber security researcher and passionate advocate for the profession, James Lyne reveals that he fell into security more by accident than design, and says training and recruitment must change to find and develop talented ...

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Artificial intelligence names London as UK’s top innovation hub

  An AI tool from Data City and the Open Data Institute has ranked the best clusters of cities for innovation across various technologies

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Supply shortages continue to blight EMEA-wide server market, Gartner data shows

  Server shipments across EMEA have returned to growth, but supply shortages of key components are continuing to inflate revenue

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Security Think Tank: Data flow visibility is essential to security

  Why is it important to know where data flows, with whom it is shared and where it lives at rest, and what is the best way of achieving this?