March 2019

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Security challenge is to move as fast as the business

  Adapting security to the pace at which the business is moving is one of the biggest challenges facing infosec professionals in the cloud era, says Palo Alto Networks  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  EMIS Group CIO: Breaking down NHS patient data silos by going all-in on AWS

  EMIS Group CIO Pete Malcolm is in the throes of a sizeable revamp of the healthcare provider's flagship software system for GPs that will see it go all-in on AWS, while addressing the government's push to make NHS data systems more open and ...  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Lack of security skills exposing business to attack

  The cyber skills shortage is leaving businesses at increased risk of attack as organisations continue to struggle to fill security-related positions, a survey shows  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  MPs hear more revelations about Gov.uk Verify as troubled project gets a new leader

  Hello and good luck, to Lisa Barrett  - the newly appointed director of digital identity at the Government Digital Service (GDS). She's taken on what many people outside GDS see as something of a ...  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Mike Lynch heads to High Court to defend against HP allegations

  The UK’s biggest fraud case commences, with the former CEO of Autonomy, Mike Lynch, attempting to clear his name  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Full-fibre broadband startup toob gets £75m funding round

  Broadband startup toob has received a £75m funding injection to begin a full-fibre roll-out  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  UK’s largest broadband suppliers failing on customer service

  Consumers say they’re unimpressed with BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media, and fast-growing Vodafone has seen its customer satisfaction levels slump  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Datacentre equipment manufacturers must make their firmware available

  Amendment to EcoDesign Directive aims to stimulate third-party maintenance market and encourage resale of second hand equipment  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Small businesses hit hardest by cyber crime costs

  Small businesses felt the biggest impact of the UK’s cyber crime bill in 2018, research shows  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Storage 101: Object storage in the big three public clouds

  We look at the object storage services of the big three cloud providers – Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage – and how customers can achieve compatibility between them  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Suse renews focus on APAC as independent firm

  Open source software company Suse plans to keep up with its growing business momentum in Asia by adding more headcount in emerging markets and shoring up call centre operations  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2019 24 Mar'19

  Moogsoft CTO Cappelli: hats off to understanding AI understanding

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network team spoke this month to Will Cappelli in his role as CTO for EMEA and VP of product strategy at Moogsoft on the subject of just how far we need to understand ...  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2019 24 Mar'19

  SuSE touts ‘move to independence’

  Corporate (but ultimately technically-related) news from March saw the completion of SuSE’s acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus. EQT is a Scandinavia equity funds organisation that ...  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2019 24 Mar'19

  Microsoft open sources Accessibility Insights

  The term accessibility might read better if the English language had decided to spell it accessability -- or perhaps even access-ability -- given its use to describe products or services or ...  Continue Reading

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  Digital Darwinism unkind to those who wait, says Palo Alto

  As business-driven digital transformation, including the move to cloud, continues apace, companies need to rethink their approach to how they deploy and consume security, or risk being left behind  Continue Reading

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  All change: What can suppliers and IT buyers expect from G-Cloud 11?

  The government is set to start accepting applications for the next iteration of G-Cloud from 25 March, but will it be more of the same or radical change for suppliers and public sector IT buyers this time around?  Continue Reading

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  Half of women in tech say diversity is not a company priority

  Women in technology have claimed diversity is still not a focus for their company in a majority of cases, according to research  Continue Reading

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  Getting it right this time: Why the strategy is not about delivery for NHSX

  Government needs to move on from the mantras and beliefs that exist around digital and technology – the new NHSX organisation could set an example by transforming healthcare  Continue Reading

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  How Centrica used GDPR and Pegasystems to reward loyal customers

  Thanks to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the utility provider has been able to fine-tune a digitally enabled initiative that works across the business  Continue Reading

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  Welcome to the new legacy

  Budgets in IT general do not grow at a rate that can sustain stellar financial performance across the IT industry. However, Gartner’s latest spending forecast has reported that worldwide software ...  Continue Reading