March 2018

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Druva maintains cloud course with AWS cloud-to-cloud backup plans

  Backup product supplier Druva plans cloud-to-cloud backup to Amazon Web Services and other public cloud services as demand arises, in a future firmly fixed on hybrid operations  Continue Reading

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  What’s so ‘unified’ about universal data analytics?

  Databricks styles itself as an analytics software company with a ‘unified’ approach – the unification is this sense is supposed to suggest that the software can be applied across a variety of ...  Continue Reading

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Norway’s Statkraft outsources IT infrastructure management

  Energy company awards India’s HCL five-year IT deal in order to free up resources to focus on core business  Continue Reading

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Amazon contemplating next move in banking sector

  Amazon is in talks with a bank about setting up a current account that will appeal to young people  Continue Reading

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  ASEAN enterprises readying networks for the cloud era

  Enterprise networks are being strained by greater use of cloud computing, leading more ASEAN organisations to turn to SD-WAN to reduce network costs and complexity  Continue Reading

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Microsoft courts US government cloud users with Azure Stack integration promise

  Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to get the US government using its cloud in anger, with the promise of a forthcoming Azure Stack integration and new datacentre regions to house “secret” classified data  Continue Reading

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Most Britons concerned about personal data sharing

  Most UK consumers are concerned about personal data they have shared online, but few know the extent of that data or their rights, a survey shows, indicating a need for education and transparency  Continue Reading

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Security remains an afterthought in DevOps

  Enterprises in Asia are lapping up DevOps but less than one-third have baked security processes into their developments  Continue Reading

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Getting up to speed with 5G

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at what needs to be done to make next-generation 5G mobile networks a reality. Fewer EU workers are moving to the UK due to Brexit fears – we examine what that means for the IT skills gap. And we analyse the ...  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  How to improve SAP ROI with smart licensing

  A recent study suggested most SAP projects have a 50% chance of failure. The risk of having incorrect SAP licensing could be far higher  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Bitcoin burglaries: Icelandic police count cost of cryptocurrency kit thefts from datacentres

  Police in Iceland are investigating a spate of datacentre thefts, after thieves lifted 600 cryptocurrency-mining servers worth around $2m  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Hershey’s outsources SAP roll-out to Accenture

  US chocolate maker has signed up Accenture to support its SAP Hana S/4 implementation  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  MWC 2018: iPhone X device of choice for visitors to Barcelona

  Statistics compiled by mobile data crowdsourcing outfit Tutela has revealed in-depth insight into what devices visitors to Mobile World Congress 2018 were using, and how they used them  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Government aims to complete genome sequencing project by end of 2018

  The government-funded 100,000 Genomes Project, originally due to be completed by the end of 2017, has reached the halfway point and aims to have mapped 100,000 genomes by the end of the year  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Security Think Tank: How to tackle fileless malware attacks

  What should organisations do at the very least to ensure business computers are protected from fileless malware?  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  CIO interview: Helena Theakstone, head of digital, Oasis Fashion

  Oasis Fashion’s head of digital talks about GDPR preparation, collaboration between digital and IT, and the importance of listening to customers  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Most healthcare organisations have been breached, report shows

   Less than a third of global healthcare organisations remain untouched, as data breaches rise across the industry, a report reveals  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Spring Break flaw shows cross-industry collaboration

  A flaw that was discovered in Pivotal’s Spring Framework in September 2017 has only come to light now that users have had a chance to update  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  AWS outage: Datacentre power cut knocks ‘hundreds’ of internet services offline

  A year on from Amazon’s S3 outage at its US-East-1 datacentre region, a power loss incident in the same place has caused a fresh round of service disruption for the cloud giant’s customers  Continue Reading

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Fibre broadband network builder challenges ASA on fake fibre

  CityFibre has filed for a judicial review of the Advertising Standards Authority’s November 2017 decision to allow fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband to be advertised as fibre  Continue Reading