In Depth

In Depth

• The API economy – or the API Tower of Babel?

  Application programming interfaces promise to open up back-office systems to the business and third parties. We assess the impact  Continue Reading

• British Gas Smart Metering consolidates data with Qlik on Hadoop

  British Gas Smart Metering has used QlikView dashboards on Hadoop data lake to gain single view of its business  Continue Reading

• Asean organizations braced for cyber attack

  As an emerging economic power bloc, Asean is bracing itself for an influx of cyber crimes as hackers look for lucrative targets  Continue Reading

• Testing a four-million-user disaster recovery plan

  Preparing broadcaster MTG's websites for the Winter Olympics won Load Impact the 2015 Computer Weekly European Private Sector Award  Continue Reading

• Australian businesses under cyber attack

  What are the cyber security risks facing businesses in Australia and New Zealand and how are organisations addressing them?  Continue Reading

• Case study: Open University uses Microsoft Azure to create course content clearance hub

  The Open University recently scooped the award for Best Cloud Project at the CW European User Awards, and here's why  Continue Reading

• CIOs say SaaS compliance is a two-way street

  We’ll ensure we don’t break contract terms, but providers must better meet our needs in terms of simplicity and flexibility, say IT bosses  Continue Reading

• CW500: Dealing with disaster - how do companies cope?

  At some point businesses will need to invoke a disaster recovery plan, but does it cover everything the modern digital company needs?  Continue Reading

• Fibre networks help Amsterdam to modernise historic canal infrastructure

  Waternet is using dark fibre networks to create an integrated smart canal and road system in the city of Amsterdam  Continue Reading

• Digital transformation needs business leaders to develop new skills

  A panel of experts discuss the capabilities business leaders and corporate IT need to develop for digital  Continue Reading

• Tackling compliance issues in software as a service

  There remain a number of compliance issues with Saas, none of which have a common, single fix  Continue Reading

• CIO interview: CABI’s Andrea Powell on feeding the world

  CABI CIO Andrea Powell says the not-for-profit agri-science data provider aims to solve the world’s agricultural problems with data, structured and unstructured  Continue Reading

• How database virtualisation helped the European Bioinformatics Institute save datacentre space

  The European Bioinformatics Institute recently scooped the award for Best Datacentre Project at the CW European User Awards, and here's why  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

• Oracle cloud makes headway in eastern Europe

  Oracle’s cloud services have been making headway in eastern Europe, including at Romania’s Banca Transilvania  Continue Reading