December 2018

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Top 10 broadband stories of 2018

  The networking industry swung firmly behind full-fibre broadband in 2018, with encouraging signs that the gold-standard of broadband service delivery technology is at long last taking off in the UK  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2018

  From cyber security planning to smart city initiatives, here is a selection of articles about IT developments in the Benelux countries  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Will 2019 be the year of the blockchain?

  The plummeting prices of bitcoin may have dampened the mood of cryptocurrency investors, but that has not stopped proponents of the underlying blockchain technology from deploying real-world ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  APAC cyber security landscape to be more tumultuous in 2019

  Amid growing cyber threats, the Asia-Pacific cyber security landscape will not get any rosier in 2019 unless organisations start shoring up their cyber hygiene  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Ancient Britain comes to life at Bath’s 5G testbed

  The West of England Combined Authority is running a 5G Smart Tourism project at Bath’s world-famous Roman spa  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Conversational commerce: small steps into the new retail frontier

  GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Jason Gregory, senior product manager at online retailer ASOS, discusses the growing popularity of conversational commerce - how consumers are increasingly ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Defra unveils green government tech vision

  Printing reams of paper and travelling to meetings are among the areas targeted in the new, green ICT makeover  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Have your Christmas Presents vanished from your doorstep?

  So far only one of the presents we have ordered on-line this year failed to arrive - more than one e-mails telling us of delivery slots arrived after the parcel. It was therefore only chance that ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  AI developer toolset series: Mathworks on deep learning

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network is in the engine room, covered in grease and looking for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for software application developers to use. This post is part of a ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Docker management at scale: What enterprises need to know

  Docker adoption within enterprises often starts at grass roots level, with developers leading the way, but as deployments scale and become larger in size, problems can occur  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Getting data analytics right

  Data analytics has become a must-have for organisations across industries, and is being integrated into both operational and business sides of companies. This includes analysing transaction data to make sense of customer buying patterns or to detect...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Vodafone spreads Christmas cheer with a 4G drone

  Vodafone has conducted a test flight of the UK’s first drone delivery controlled over its 4G network  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Serving up server hardware

  Although cloud infrastructure services have alleviated the need for organisations to procure and manage their own hardware, the reality is most organisations still see a need for on-premise systems for reasons such as security and performance. In ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Mobile security needs a rethink for the 5G era

  A report released through the government’s 5G Testbeds and Trials programme has recommended the UK rethink its mobile security strategy  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to storage for the internet of things

  The internet of things is being used to improve storage options. In this 13-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at how the IoT could increase volumes of data, the challenges it may bring, and the role edge processing, analytics and the cloud ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Why VMware is betting big on containers, edge computing and IoT

  With the server virtualisation game won, VMware is having to diversify into new areas, with cloud-native computing emerging as a top area of interest for the firm  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  HSBC taking data analysis service to business customers

  HSBC is upping its search for artificial intelligence expertise as it takes a data analytics service to its business customers  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Broadband coverage improved through 2018, says Ofcom

  Ofcom’s annual Connected Nations report reveals that the number of people who cannot receive a 10Mbps broadband connection has halved  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Ellison slates AWS Aurora as Oracle posts flat second quarter

  Oracle was late to the cloud, but CTO Larry Ellison is adamant that no one will swap out Oracle for Amazon  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Ofcom fires starting gun for new mobile spectrum auction

  Mobile spectrum in the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz bands will be put up for auction either late in 2019 or early in 2020  Continue Reading