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Italy’s biggest datacentre campus to enjoy €500m growth spurt

Aruba SpA secures funding to help realise ambitions to further grow mega-datacentre campus in Italy
MI6 chief’s hacked emails attacked MI5 and betrayed spy ops

Former UK spy boss Richard Dearlove leaked names of MI6 secret agent recruiters in China to back an aggressive right-wing US campaign against tech company Huawei. His emails were hacked and then leaked – probably by Russian intelligence
LastPass probes new cyber incident related to August attack

The August 2022 cyber attack on LastPass seems to have begat another incident, according to company CEO Karim Toubba
Financial benefits of shared services strategy unclear, says NAO

Cabinet Office needs to do more to avoid previous failings, as several barriers remain to a successful implementation of the strategy to deliver shared back-office services for government, according to National Audit Office report
UK government accelerates gigabit broadband to remote regions

Mountain rescue base and 12th century abbey set to gain from government test of satellites to connect remote locations, while work also begins on biggest-ever contract in Project Gigabit to connect 60,000 rural homes and businesses in North West ...
Google Cloud lands five-year deal with DIY retailer Kingfisher

The owner of the B&Q and Screwfix brands has enlisted the help of Google Cloud to overhaul its digital proposition for customers

From capex to opex: Storage procurement options bloom

We look at the growing list of possibilities when it comes to paying for storage infrastructure, ranging from upfront purchases with upgrades to pure pay-as-you-go options
Extended reality can be empathic reality

In the metaverse, eliciting empathy might become an important feature for many applications, including gaming and industrial uses, and there is even the potential that applications that focus on emphatic results will create their own market niche
How gamifying cyber training can improve your defences

Security training is the cornerstone of any cyber defence strategy. With ever-escalating online threats, it is now more important than ever that this training is an engaging experience

Cohesity at AWS re:Invent 2022 - What happens in cloud, stays in cloud- CW Developer Network

Just to cover off (in technology circles) anyone who happens to live in a cave, under a rock or in case anyone has spent their last few days and weeks on the moon (where we presume Internet access ... Continue Reading
Nee-naw, nee-naw: Siren 13, unlucky for bad data actors- CW Developer Network

There’s analytics, then, there’s so-called ‘investigative intelligence analytics’, which is (presumably) analytics one louder. This perhaps extended notion of analytics is what Siren does, a ... Continue Reading
TomTom Maps widens scope to integrate open ‘super source’ data- Open Source Insider

Geolocation technology specialist TomTom (TOM2) has told software application developers focused on mapping applications and related services that it will now introduce ‘significantly improved’ ... Continue Reading
Managing the maritime ecosystem with graph technology- Data Matters

This is a guest blogpost by Ali I. Riaz, CEO of OrbitMI Maritime is one of the most important parts of our global supply chain. Ship owners, ship operators and the entire maritime ecosystem must ... Continue Reading

Why we need to carpe distributed ledger technologies

Lord Chris Holmes pens his views for Computer Weekly on how the Electronic Trade Documents Bill, which he calls ‘the most important law you’ve never heard of’, could be a game-changer for the potential of distributed ledger technologies such as ...
Ransomware: Is there hope beyond the overhyped?

Up-and-coming cyber concepts attack surface management and security mesh architectures seem to hold some promise in tackling ransomware, but they are a little way off maturity
Think technology, process, human risk to manage ransomware

Effective ransomware handling boils down to three core areas – technology, process and human risk