In Depth

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Information technology in France

• French Caisse uses NetApp to move backups to object storage

  State financial arm wanted to move backups held on NAS file-based storage to object storage, so stuck with NetApp StorageGRID and achieved near-seamless migration  Continue Reading

• How Bureau Veritas migrated 85% of its applications to the AWS cloud

  In six years, France-based services giant BV has migrated 115 applications to the AWS cloud, mostly using in-house expertise. We talk to the company’s IT director  Continue Reading

• Ski firm dumps ‘motley’ storage for DataCore software-defined

  Eurogroup cuts power usage by 70% and rackspace from 84U to 7U as it consolidates multiple physical servers and storage protocols onto SANsymphony software-defined storage  Continue Reading

• Paris post-product studio uses Atempo Miria for live restores

  France-based À La Plage Studio decided on tape as a medium to store its visual production work, with Atempo ADA/Miria as a means to access and restore data to work on  Continue Reading

• Brain researchers get NVMe-over-RoCE for super-fast HPC storage

  French neurological researchers deploy Western Digital OpenFlex NVMe array for super-fast HPC storage with Ethernet-based NVMe-over-Fabrics connectivity across several floors  Continue Reading

• Molotov.tv streams 24/7 with Dell EMC and Scality object storage

  France-based Molotov.tv has offered streaming TV services on digital platforms since 2016, based on Dell EMC servers with GPU acceleration and Scality Ring object storage  Continue Reading

• Facebook’s privacy game – how Zuckerberg backtracked on promises to protect personal data

  Facebook promised its users privacy then quietly abandoned its promises in pursuit of profits. Now it faces antitrust regulation  Continue Reading

• Mobile phones and health: is 5G being rolled out too fast?

  European countries are rolling out 5G mobile communications at breakneck speed as they seek to gain a competitive edge over the US and Asia. But some scientists have raised questions about the effects of 5G mobile phone radiation on public health ...  Continue Reading

• National Archives races to create electronic archive of EU law before Brexit

  The National Archives faces challenges converting the EU's enormous library of laws into a publicly accessible UK archive ahead of Brexit. The Archives’ digital director, John Sheridan, explains how  Continue Reading

• GDPR: An overview of the latest data protection legislation

  The forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have wide-ranging implications for every organisation that processes personal data. This comprehensive overview tells you what you need to know  Continue Reading

• The EURECA moment: Counting the cost of running the UK’s public sector datacentres

  The EU-backed EURECA project has spent the past 36 months assessing the state of public sector datacentres across Europe, and is revealing what it found  Continue Reading

• Content filtering a potential challenge in digital single market

  The proposed digital single market directive is intended to harmonise e-commerce and copyright throughout the European Union, but concerns have been raised over the technological impact this would have on UK industry  Continue Reading

• Organised crime exploiting new technology

  European law enforcement is to focus on collaborating with industry around cyber crime as organised crime groups increasingly exploit new technologies, according to a regional crime threat report  Continue Reading

• Locked in by choice: How European governments are handling their Microsoft addiction

  Europe-wide research finds that government departments are deeply dependent on Microsoft software and services, while attempts to migrate to open source are difficult, temporary and sometimes under the radar  Continue Reading

• Will European datacentre operators pounce on post-Brexit uncertainty?

  As the dust settles on the EU referendum and the new-look US-Europe Privacy Shield data transfer agreement, we look at what it could mean for European datacentre operators  Continue Reading

• [email protected]: A history of IT outsourcing

  Computer Weekly looks at where and when IT outsourcing was invented and considers the changes the sector has gone through since  Continue Reading

• European omni-channels: Hype or reality?

  Organisations in Europe are adapting to demands for omni-channel services from consumers across the continent  Continue Reading

• Europe fires starting gun for dash to GDPR compliance

  A last dash for compliance with the general data protection regulation (GDPR) has begun across Europe and, despite the two-year warning, some organisations will fall short and for UK firms Brexit is no excuse  Continue Reading

• What the EU’s new data protection laws mean for UK industry

  The General Data Protection Regulation, which will come into force on 25 May 2018, could have a big impact on any company in the world that deals with the personal data of EU citizens  Continue Reading

• What the EU’s cyber security bill means for UK industry

  Coming European legislation on network and information security could have cost and organisational implications for a range of UK companies  Continue Reading

• Take-up of cloud storage in Europe affected by privacy issues

  The cloud storage narrative has been heavily US-biased, with take-up of cloud in Europe modified by concerns over privacy and responses to Safe Harbour’s nullification  Continue Reading

• Interview: James Bamford on surveillance, Snowden and technology companies

  Investigative journalist and documentary maker James Bamford was among the first to uncover the secrets of the US National Security Agency and its global surveillance  Continue Reading

• Flash storage set to dominate Europe's datacentres by 2020

  A rapid shift among European enterprises towards all-flash storage could be a surprise positive outcome from the economic woes that have afflicted the continent  Continue Reading

• Roaming charges: How will changes in mobile legislation affect business in Europe?

  With mobile roaming charges on the way out across the European Union, what are the implications for businesses and business travellers?  Continue Reading

• EU Data Protection Regulation: What the EC legislation means for cloud providers

  With the European Commission's data protection rules set to drop before 2016, take a look at what the changes mean for the cloud and datacentre community  Continue Reading

• Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015: Best Networking Project winner

  Construction company Osborne needs reliable connectivity on its building sites, which are often remote. This year's Networking Project of the Year goes to Osborne for the way it overcame the challenges of achieving this  Continue Reading

• IT services procurement: Could G-Cloud be the answer Europe is looking for?

  With European public sector organisations looking to overhaul how they buy IT, some are wondering if the UK's G-Cloud model could be the answer they are looking for  Continue Reading

• Keeping European datacentres safe from cyber attacks

  European datacentre operators must take a proactive approach to preventing cyber attacks as hackers increasingly target their facilities  Continue Reading

• NetSuite SuiteAcademy opens cloud doors in Europe

  NetSuite's SuiteAcademy programme is teaching students cloud computing skills to prepare them better for the workforce  Continue Reading

• Marseille: Europe’s networking gateway to Africa

  The city of Marseille in southern France is fast becoming a hub for datacentre and network operators who want low latency connections to Africa.  Continue Reading

• Software-defined networking in Europe: The state of play

  What stage of the evolution of software-defined networking are we really at, and when will the hype turn to reality?  Continue Reading

• General election 2015: The state of broadband and the future of policy

  With the 2015 election less than a month away, broadband stakeholders set out their manifesto and hopes for broadband policy  Continue Reading

• European data protection efforts won’t make corporate life easier

  The European Union’s proposed General Data Protection Regulation will not make life easier for companies  Continue Reading

• Energy-efficient Europe: How the datacentre sector is keeping it clean

  With users becoming increasingly savvy about environmental issues, we take a look at how the datacentre sector is responding  Continue Reading

• Cloud boosts demand for datacentres in Poland and eastern Europe

  The datacentre market in both central and eastern Europe and Poland has recorded double–digit growth  Continue Reading

• VM backup drops off as DR motors on: what’s behind the survey figures?

  We look behind the storage and backup headlines in the ComputerWeekly.com IT spending priorities survey  Continue Reading

• Technology’s growing role in keeping Europe safe

  Technology is playing a growing role in keeping Europe safe, but faces the challenge of ensuring it has the right legal frameworks in place  Continue Reading

• Tick or click: Why electronic voting is unlikely in 2015

  With the 2015 UK general election ahead, electronic voting is once again under consideration, but security questions remain  Continue Reading

• Polish banking, energy and public services weigh up benefits of big data applications

  For many Polish institutions big data is still only in the planning stage, but banks and the energy and public sectors are beginning to use the technology  Continue Reading

• BlackLine promises to end financial closing spreadsheet nightmare

  Financial closing is a monthly headache for many, the “last mile of finance”. BlackLine Systems’ SaaS promises agility beyond spreadsheets, and is a part of SAP’s ecosystem  Continue Reading

• Will silicon photonics replace copper cabling in mainstream datacentres?

  Silicon photonics can increase bandwidth in servers, improve data transfer speeds and reduce complexity. But are datacentres ready for it?  Continue Reading

• CW500: Bring your own IT department?

  Bring, your and own (BYO) are the first three words of an acronym being discussed in IT as the next phase of the consumerisation trend  Continue Reading

• Compliance systems: At your service?

  The Freedom of Information Act is now in full force and public bodies must respond promptly to requests. However, a public sector...  Continue Reading

• UK comes bottom of the league in Europe on IT career development

  UK IT managers are receiving less training and career development than their European counterparts, new research has found.  Continue Reading

• Authorities fail to protect unwary businesses from data protection scandal

  IT directors have been left to fend for themselves against companies demanding excessive fees for registration under the Data...  Continue Reading

• 5 minute interviewRichard Doyle, CEO, Esteem Systems

  Tall, dark and handsome, just like Grace Jones  Continue Reading

• Bad news for e-tailers

  E-tailers targeting the European market could fall under the jurisdiction of foreign courts when consumer disputes arise, writes...  Continue Reading