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Information technology (IT) in Russia

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• All-flash storage vs hybrid flash in Russia: Price and performance key

  Russian organisations are adopting all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems, with price and performance the key considerations when deciding between the two  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

• Russian organisations have confidence in virtual backup

  Russian organisations are content with the options available to them for backing up virtual servers  Continue Reading

• Russian personal data law set to come into force despite fears

  New law says all personal data submitted online by Russians must be held in the country's datacentres. But can the infrastructure cope and will the legislation deter foreign companies?  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

• Russian big data technologies evolve with one eye on US open source

  Russian data technicians have, until recently, shunned full-scale use of US-based open-source big data technology; but with one eye on it  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery in Russia: Critical sectors play it safe

  Disaster recovery methods in Russia span tape backup to cloud disaster recovery, but for businesses in the most critical sectors in-house provision is the favoured method  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

• 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

• What's causing Poland's datacentre market to flourish?

  The Polish datacentre market, although still in its early phases of development, is worth more than 1bn Polish zloty  Continue Reading

• Making pancakes: How Russia plans a technology sector to rival Silicon Valley

  The Russian government is putting £10bn into the Skolkovo Innovation Centre – an ambitious project to create Russia’s equivalent of Silicon Valley  Continue Reading

• Hacktivism: good or evil?

  IT lawyer Dai Davis looks at the rise of hacktivism and its impact on business and international politics  Continue Reading

• Cisco everywoman in Technology Awards: The winners’ stories

  The winners of the everywoman in Technology Awards 2012 have been announced. Find out why they won  Continue Reading

• IT service assurance in a hybrid cloud environment

  CIOs need to ensure they can continue to provide the same levels of service in a mixed environment of cloud and legacy IT  Continue Reading

• The security threats of technology ubiquity

  The ubiquity of mobile technology and internet-connected devices present new threats and increase the challenges for IT security managers.  Continue Reading

• Global data quality management: local headaches, international rewards

  Global data is varied. It originates from many countries, contains country-specific values and is provided and stored in differing languages or special characters. Learn how to handle it.  Continue Reading

• Why more businesses are nearshoring in Eastern Europe

  Low-cost, highly skilled IT labour and a relatively close proximity to the UK is making Eastern Europe an increasingly attractive destination to UK businesses  Continue Reading

• CW Security Think Tank: What should security professionals do about Stuxnet?

  Stuxnet is one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware seen to date, say researchers, but what should and could security professionals in businesses be doing in response?  Continue Reading

• Interview: David Thomlinson, UK managing director at Accenture

  David Thomlinson, Accenture's UK managing director is in a confident mood. With the recession over, he is seeing business spending money on IT again, and Accenture reporting encouraging financial results.  Continue Reading

• Video: Lords slam 'shocking lack of co-operation' on cyber defences

  There is a "shocking lack of co-operation" between the European Union and Nato in defending member states against cyber attacks, a House of Lords committee has found.  Continue Reading

• Top five data security travel issues: Protect sensitive information on business trips

  Overseas travel is part and parcel of modern business life, but with data security hazards including the loss or theft of equipment, spyware on PCs in hotels and airports, data theft through WiFi and border or customs officials, (particularly in ...  Continue Reading

• Top five outsourcing destinations to watch

  India maybe losing its pre-eminence as the IT outsourcing venue of choice. Here we look at five outsourcing venues to watch  Continue Reading

• Governments should fear 'blended threats'

  In view what has been called the "cyber-warfare" dimension to the Russia-Georgia conflict, and the reported Chinese cyber-espionage ongoing against the west...  Continue Reading

• Government has the tools to tackle cyber-crime

  Cyber-espionage and cyber-warfare are just expressions of a millenia old problem onto a new medium (cyber space). The general public in the UK should...  Continue Reading

• What are the national threats from hackers?

  With the publication of the National Risk Assessment it is timely to consider what we need to be worried about and realise that natural incidents of Hollywood proportions do not have to take place to make life a misery. Pervasive computing exposes ...  Continue Reading

• How concerned should the UK be about cyber terrorism?

  In view of the cyber-warfare dimension to the Russia-Georgia conflict, and the Chinese cyber-espionage ongoing against the west since c.2003 ("Titan Rain", and so on), how concerned should we in the UK be about state-sponsored hacking?  Continue Reading

• From teenage geeks to organised crime: how the business of malware has changed

  These days, malware writers are in it for the money. To maximise profit, discretion is imperative - so stealth technology has been adopted as a rule, rather than an exception. Researchers and attackers are engaged in a cat-and-mouse game, but who is...  Continue Reading

• Computer Weekly Security Think Tank

  Information security questions answered by experts from: (ISC)2, British Computer Society, Gartner, National Computing Centre, Information Security Forum, Information Systems Security Association, and The Corporate Information Forum  Continue Reading

• PayPal launches multi-pronged attack on e-crime

  "With e-crime, there's no silver bullet," says Garreth Griffith, head of UK risk management at online payment processor PayPal. "A specific initiative can have a huge impact, but it also has to be married with other initiatives along a spectrum. You...  Continue Reading

• Optimising small business networks

  Much has been said about network optimisation recently. The expected onslaught of new wave applications - so called at least - such as VoIP, IPTV and the rest, means that we do have to optimise and re-architect our networks if this stuff is actually...  Continue Reading

• Hacking poses threats to business

  The internet provides an open market for trade in malicious software. Dan Ilett finds out who the hackers are, what they do and what businesses can do to keep them at bay  Continue Reading

• Innovation is the nearshore lure

  To steal a march on the Indian outsourcing giants, Eastern Europe is looking to offer clients business advantage through higher levels of systems creativity  Continue Reading

• DPM's diary: 13 March 2007

  DPM's Diary by CP Bound  Continue Reading

• Outsourcing options in Eastern Europe

  Creative thinking and a relatively close cultural and geographical fit are among the selling points for outsourcing to Eastern Europe. So how does it all stack up in practice?  Continue Reading

• High-tech crime is put on trial

  Court cases against hackers, software pirates and online fraudsters require a different plan of attack. Bill Goodwin reveals how the Crown Prosecution Service is getting to grips with nailing high-tech criminals  Continue Reading