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Nominate now: Most influential women in UK technology 2021
Computer Weekly is now looking for nominations for its 2021 list of the most influential women in UK technology
UK taskforce calls for cutting GDPR protections
The Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform has recommended completely scrapping safeguards against automated decision making from the UK GDPR
Carnival Cruises hit by fourth cyber incident in a year
Latest data breach at Covid-hit cruise line comes hot on the heels of two recent ransomware attacks and a spring 2020 breach
ICO issues guidance on facial recognition in public spaces
Information commissioner’s concern over the problematic use of facial recognition in public spaces has prompted her to publish official guidance on its deployment, while civil society calls for an outright ban
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Latest News
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Vast Data will offer containerised storage software, but not yet
Vast Data sticking to its plan to provide no-tier “universal storage” via QLC flash and a 3D Xpoint read/write buffer that uses a containerised control plane
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ICO issues guidance on facial recognition in public spaces
Information commissioner’s concern over the problematic use of facial recognition in public spaces has prompted her to publish official guidance on its deployment, while civil society calls for an outright ban
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Lorca Ignite programme targets breakout cyber talent
Six of the most successful companies to have come through Lorca’s existing accelerators are being inducted into an intensive programme
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Brent Council plots £3.8m datacentre revamp
Local authority is embarking on a multi-faceted datacentre revamp to protect it from cyber criminals and ensure it can bounce back more quickly from potential outages
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Carnival Cruises hit by fourth cyber incident in a year
Latest data breach at Covid-hit cruise line comes hot on the heels of two recent ransomware attacks and a spring 2020 breach
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Druva helps Thirteen Group get round Azure data retention limits
Social housing business has migrated to Microsoft Office 365 on Azure, but needed long-term data retention to comply with General Data Protection Regulation
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Storage performance metrics: Five key areas to look at
We look at the essentials in storage performance metrics: capacity, throughput and read/write capability, IOPS and latency, and hardware longevity measured by failure rates
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Video commerce and livestreaming make waves in retail
The growth in e-commerce during the pandemic is well documented, but the fragmented retail environment has also helped video commerce and livestreaming rise to prominence
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Europe’s proposed AI regulation falls short on protecting rights
The European Commission’s proposal for artificial intelligence regulation focuses on creating a risk-based, market-led approach replete with self-assessments, transparency procedures and technical standards, but critics warn it falls short of being ...
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E-Handbook | June 2021
Executive Interview: Juergen Mueller on SAP's tech strategy
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E-Zine | June 2021
Discovering great ideas – innovation at the Discovery Channel
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E-Handbook | June 2021
Executive Interview: Unleashing blockchain's potential
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E-Handbook | June 2021
CW Innovation Awards: Flybuys cranks up cloud for service efficiency
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E-Handbook | June 2021
CW Innovation Awards: Jio Platforms taps machine learning to manage telco network
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Blogs
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Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) continually expands- Open Source Insider
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is an open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The team has this summer said ... Continue Reading
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The ephemeral composable stack - Perforce: Shifting to 'assembly culture' with bigger widgets- CW Developer Network
As the Computer Weekly Developer Network embarks upon its editorial analysis series examining the ether (and on-premises synaptic connection points) that now form the ephemeral and inherently ... Continue Reading
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Mobile operating systems: It's not about VHS versus Betamax- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
In the 1970s two rival video tape formats battled out for the hearts and minds of consumers. Movies were distributed on either VHS or Betamax. Eventually, VHS won. But today who uses video tapes? ... Continue Reading
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Emerging trend expands data science capabilities to more people using AI- Data Matters
This is a guest blogpost by Andrew Beers, CTO, Tableau. Ideally, every business decision today would be based on a thorough understanding of all relevant data available. But there’s simply too much ... Continue Reading
Opinion
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Why a data-driven world should consider an oath of ethics
The Hippocratic Oath is perhaps the most widely known of Greek medical texts – and such an oath is needed in data science
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Shaping a Digital Strategy to support UK productivity and jobs
With an all-party parliamentary group calling for evidence on digital skills, there are three key areas that policymakers should address
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To secure printers think process, technology, people
Though rarely discussed in a cyber context, the prevalence of connected printers and MFPs poses security risks both technological and physical. What does a print security strategy need to take into account?
Videos
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UKtech50 2021: Panel 2- Making innovation count
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UKtech50 2021: Panel 1 - Digital leadership
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UKtech50 2021: Bev White, CEO Harvey Nash Group
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UKtech50 2021: Alison Davis, CIO, Natural History Museum
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UKtech50 2021: Ash Jokhoo, CDIO, Virgin Atlantic
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UKtech50 2021: Belinda Finch, CIO, Three
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