In Depth

In Depth

Information technology (IT) in Germany

• 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

• Spotlight on the Digital Career Institute, Berlin

  Digital Career Institute is teaching refugees and unemployed people to do web development in Germany  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

• CW@50: 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

• 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

• Bill Binney, the ‘original’ NSA whistleblower, on Snowden, 9/11 and illegal surveillance

  Always a patriot: Computer Weekly talks to Bill Binney, the senior NSA official who blew the whistle before Edward Snowden  Continue Reading

• Are privacy laws and regulations strangling Europe’s productivity?

  As Europe moves to new regulations on privacy and data protection, business is concerned that red tape will harm productivity and innovation  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

• Top 10 information management stories of 2014

  How SAP’s technology helped Germany win the football World Cup was 2014’s top information management story  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

• BYOD security is no longer optional

  Attacks on data through mobile devices mean organisations can no longer consider mobile and BYOD security optional.  Continue Reading

• Cloud applications spread across IT in Italy

  The cloud computing market is growing in Italy. Research from the Politecnico of Milan shows cloud investment in 2013 is at €1.18bn  Continue Reading

• Data analytics adds science to the valuation of footballers

  How do you decide the value of a footballer? The problem has been given added torque by the vogue for applying data science to sports  Continue Reading

• SAP User Group offers industry experience to Birmingham City University students

  Students at Birmingham City University are gaining industry experience through a link with the UK and Ireland SAP user group  Continue Reading

• Wearable technology will up the game for sports data analytics

  Wearable technology is a big industry thanks to the ‘quantified self’ movement. It’s now giving a boost to professional sports data analytics professionals  Continue Reading

• Analytics scours World Cups for greatest footballer of all time

  Sports data company Opta’s analytics of every World Cup finals match ever played since 1966 adds to the debate on who is football’s greatest of all time  Continue Reading

• Dame Stephanie Shirley: Entrepreneurs learn to survive

  Dame “Steve” Shirley shares her experiences of being an entrepreneurial woman in IT during the 1950s and 1960s  Continue Reading

• Nordics lead initiative to share European patient records data

  The Nordic countries have played a leading role in epSOS, an EU project to establish infrastructure for patient records data exchanges  Continue Reading

• Can telcos tap into the datacentre business?

  Telcos have always run datacentres, but now many are hoping to give commercial providers a run for their money  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

• Simon Smith: Why the key to distribution is segmentation

  In six-and-a-half years as managing director, Simon Smith has built Actebis UK from scratch into a distributor with a turnover of £77m, according to results for the year ending December 1999.  Continue Reading

• Going, going gone! Online auctions take off

  How Andrew Heath, CEO of online marketplace GoIndustry.com, tapped into the biggest Net deals  Continue Reading