December 2021

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Minorities in IT less likely to be in leadership positions

  IT specialists who are from under-represented groups in the UK’s technology sector are less likely to hold higher-up roles, or to be in permanent positions  Continue Reading

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 artificial intelligence stories of 2021

  This year, artificial intelligence has moved to operationalisation, explainability and regulatory frameworks. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 artificial intelligence stories for 2021  Continue Reading

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021  Continue Reading

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 ransomware and backup stories of 2021

  Key articles from 2021 that highlight the link between ransomware and snapshots and backup and their role in repelling attacks, plus effects of the pandemic on backup and recovery  Continue Reading

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Security Think Tank: Reframing CISO-boardroom relations

  Security learning is a career-long process, so as 2021 draws to a close, participants in the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank sum up the most important cyber lessons they’ve taken away from the past 12 months  Continue Reading

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  The emerging role of software in business development

  Business leaders generally recognise the importance of software as a business enabler – but some see technology driving business growth  Continue Reading

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Tokopedia ups ante on observability capabilities

  Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has consolidated its observability capabilities on a single cloud-based platform, enabling it to improve customer service and identify infrastructure issues  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2021 18 Dec'21

  Print Industry Predictions and Trends 2022

  Quocirca's Print Industry Trends for 2022 identifies opportunities for print and digital transformation in the hybrid work era.  Continue Reading

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  Diversity and inclusion in tech: the next 10 years

  In this video from Computer Weekly’s annual diversity and inclusion in tech event, in partnership with Spinks, panel members discuss the last 10 years of D&I in UK technology, how it has progressed, and how we ensure improvement in the 10 years to ...  Continue Reading

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  CDEI research pinpoints barriers to trustworthy AI exploitation

  Survey of UK business by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has disclosed the patchiness of artificial intelligence and data-driven technology adoption across different economic sectors  Continue Reading

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  Cloud wars: How the US tech giants opening UK datacentres shook up the public sector market

  Five years have passed since Microsoft and Amazon opened their UK datacentre regions, rapidly growing their share of the public sector market to the detriment of several smaller, home-grown cloud providers  Continue Reading

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  Security Think Tank: When will they ever learn?

  Security learning is a career-long process, so as 2021 draws to a close, participants in the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank sum up the most important cyber lessons they’ve taken away from the past 12 months  Continue Reading

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  HSBC fined £64m for automated transaction monitoring failures

  Bank hit by multimillion-pound fine for failures related to its transaction monitoring, which failed to spot potential money-laundering activity  Continue Reading

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Enabling secure remote working is once again a top priority

  The pandemic has bought many new security risks, particularly around remote working. As the UK government once again urges people to work from home under its Plan B restrictions, these risks must be tackled as a priority  Continue Reading

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Infrastructure-as-Code series: Morrell on Microsoft’s march & maturity

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...  Continue Reading

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  EE to upgrade 4G in more than 2,000 rural UK areas by 2024

  BT-owned UK mobile operator sets out to improve rural connectivity across the UK as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, with more than 1,500 upgrades to follow as it invests to reduce partial notspots  Continue Reading

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  5G, fibre flourish in UK in 2021

  Full-fibre broadband is now available to more than eight million homes as roll-out accelerates and ‘decent’ broadband is at highest-ever level  Continue Reading

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Barclays selects HPE GreenLake to host 100,000 workloads

  Bank sees a need to provide more personalised digital experiences, and GreenLake is providing the IT infrastructure to help it get there  Continue Reading

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Nationwide Building Society moves website to Azure cloud

  Building society’s tech teams work with consultancy Contino to implement new website using the chaos engineering method  Continue Reading

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  How enterprise 5G is playing out in Australia

  5G adoption is taking place in the industrial arena and other sectors, but telcos will need to transform themselves and overcome cost challenges to drive wider adoption  Continue Reading