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• Ford reduces injuries with virtual assembly programme

  Ford is using computer-aided design to help reduce cases of productivity-sapping musculoskeletal disorders caused by the labour process  Continue Reading

• The best desktop strategy: Forget the desktop

  Before licensing and rolling out an updated operating system, it may be time to revise your IT estate  Continue Reading

• Netherlands uses female role models to encourage girls into IT industry

  The Netherlands needs to shake up its education system to attract more girls into IT, as only 10% of its IT workforce are women  Continue Reading

• Risky and untested: What went wrong with the ESN procurement?

  In his first major interview since walking away from the Emergency Services Network procurement, Airwave COO John Lewis reveals why his company could take no further part in the process, and discusses the future of emergency services communications  Continue Reading

• How technology is helping deliver aid to Syrian refugees in the Middle East

  The Syrian refugee crisis has engulfed the Middle East, but technology is proving to be an essential tool to help aid organisations support displaced people  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation and disaster recovery: DR features in VMware

  The key areas of functionality in VMware that can help with disaster recovery – including VMware backup, migration, high availability and replication  Continue Reading

• What is standing in the way of a paperless NHS?

  The number of healthcare practices using digital records is rising, yet thousands of patients are still unable to access their data  Continue Reading

• Evolving ITSM to support agile IT and BYOD

  We look at how IT service management is addressing emerging technology today – and the needs of innovation in the future  Continue Reading

• How can IT contribute to NHS efficiency?

  The government is demanding £22bn in efficiency savings from the NHS. What role can IT play in cutting the spiralling costs of healthcare?  Continue Reading

• How to fully test IT networks for vulnerabilities

  Making sure a company network is secure is a very important task, and one that should be scheduled regularly  Continue Reading

• Flash in NAS file access storage: Does it need it – and, if so, how much?

  While flash is rapidly going mainstream for primary storage with the all-flash datacentre, does NAS file access storage need flash – and, if so, how much?  Continue Reading

• Mobile strategies increase need for data loss prevention technology in Europe

  Data loss prevention technology that covers all popular mobile platforms and is easy to use and implement is called for as mobile strategies evolve  Continue Reading

• Inside Taiwan: The engine room of the internet of things

  Computer Weekly travelled to Taiwan to meet some of the tech companies that are quietly laying the foundations for the internet of things  Continue Reading

• Digitisation propels the service management desk beyond internal support

  The IT service desk is set to break out as businesses expand their digital ambitions with software-powered services  Continue Reading

• Big data poses storage challenges in Australia and New Zealand

  Big data is like digging for gold, except you must keep every single rock. Computer Weekly unearths some of the main challenges facing those mining data  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

• How Asean organisations are untangling big data storage challenge

  If organisations are to benefit from the promise of big data they must get on top of a legal and regulatory minefield when it comes to storing data. How are Asean IT departments navigating this?  Continue Reading

• Case study: Philips takes agile approach to building bridges between business and IT

  Dutch technology giant talks up the success of its attempts to embrace agile IT delivery methods, and how it's shaping future customer engagements  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

• An application ecosystem for the all-digital era

  Digital disruption is forcing IT to adopt new operating models and CIOs must face the challenges it brings  Continue Reading

• Shining a light on the male mentors of IT

  Who are the male mentors encouraging the women in IT to succeed?  Continue Reading

• The truth about virtualisation and disaster recovery

  The fundamentals of disaster recovery are well-established. But there is uncertainty, and even false claims from suppliers, about how the rise of virtualisation affects DR  Continue Reading

• Analytics helps Asean organisations read between the lines

  Asean organisations need to develop an enterprise-wide approach to analytics and draw on customer insight if they are to maximize the business value of data  Continue Reading

• Australian businesses running the numbers on analytics-driven customer service

  Australian businesses, such as the University of Adelaide, are gaining customer insights from large volumes of data through data analytics technology.  Continue Reading

• Why Pegasystems' CEO, Alan Trefler, has learned to think smaller

  Pegasystems has made its name supplying CRM, analytics and case management software to the world's largest companies. Now CEO Alan Trefler plans to use cloud computing to broaden Pega's appeal  Continue Reading

• Chief digital officer: The newcomer that’s here to stay

  If you’re waiting for the chief digital officer to disappear, you may have to wait a while  Continue Reading

• Appliances move well beyond the hype

  Simplicity and big data are driving appliance adoption while suppliers strive to integrate cloud services  Continue Reading

• Spark versus MapReduce: which way for enterprise IT?

  The younger, nimbler Spark technology looks set to replace MapReduce in big data architectures. What is the pace, scope and scale of replacement?  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

• How George Osborne's latest tax changes affect IT contractors

  The government seems to be clamping down on taxation rules that affect IT contractors. Experts give their advice on what to do  Continue Reading

• Finding the right big data appliance for your business

  A big data appliance should be chosen carefully to ensure its value to the business warrants the expenditure  Continue Reading

• Councils explore options for online mapping tools

  Councils are drawing on Ordnance Survey, Google Maps and OpenStreet Map for online mapping. What’s the optimal mix?  Continue Reading

• How Verne Global tackled the Icelandic datacentre connectivity gap

  The wide availability of renewable energy has made Iceland an attractive location for datacentre operators, increasing demand for global network connections to the country  Continue Reading

• Mobile security -- what works and what doesn't?

  Experts told the CW500 Security Club how mobility brings new challenges to security departments and an opportunity to go beyond building walls around the enterprise  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing in schools: privacy under threat

  While IaaS and SaaS services are spreading in schools, the potential risks to the protection of students’ personal data are also growing  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation and storage: Five ways to do it better

  Server and desktop virtualisation bring many savings, but you have to work smart to ensure storage performs efficiently. We survey the top five pitfalls and how to avoid them  Continue Reading

• Using SAP Hana as a data warehouse

  Enterprises are using SAP Hana for in-memory data marts and SAP Business Warehouse implementations that integrate with other data warehouses  Continue Reading

• Is the future of business predictive?

  Michael Feindt, CERN scientist and founder of a predictive analytics software house, sees a future of more automated business decision-making  Continue Reading

• Demand for all-flash storage to accelerate in Australia and New Zealand

  Demand for all-flash storage will increase in ANZ, as a result of lower prices and greater capacities.  Continue Reading

• Barriers to adoption: Why are local councils holding back on G-Cloud?

  Is outsourcing, the dominance of incumbent providers, or a lack of central government guidance to blame for the low number of councils using G-Cloud?  Continue Reading

• Automation and acceleration the Asian aspiration

  Storage infrastructures within Asean organisations are changing to support technologies designed to speed up, automate and centralize.  Continue Reading

• EAT builds appetite for predictive analytics

  Food retailer EAT uses predictive analytics from Blue Yonder to cut food waste by predicting future demand better  Continue Reading

• Welsh Water billing replacement programme offers customers new tariffs

  Welsh Water (Dŵr Cymru) scooped a Computer Weekly award for a billing replacement programme for which it was its own systems integrator  Continue Reading

• 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

• 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

• Wearable tech proves business value hands-free and in field

  Wearable technology could make its mark in the enterprise in the near future, with hands-free police and military pilot projects already under way  Continue Reading

• OpenStack Swift 101: the object store for OpenStack apps

  We run the rule over the OpenStack Swift object storage architecture, its key components, how it achieves resiliency and the data protection methods in use and development  Continue Reading

• Dutch businesses unaware of impact of new data protection law

  The European Commission is set to introduce data protection rules, but few Dutch companies are aware of the impact the changes will have, according to Sophos managing director Peter Lacroix  Continue Reading

• Don't wait for EU regulation to practice good data ethics

  The EU is working hard to achieve a unified law on data ethics and privacy, but companies should look beyond just complying with the law to gain consumer trust  Continue Reading

• How Ordnance Survey will use 250 years of data to support startups

  Ordnance Survey is embarking on a project to foster startups, applying its vast repository of data to solving emerging challenges around urban spaces and smart cities  Continue Reading

• SaaS criteria to track for business outcomes

  Organisations should evolve their SaaS selection criteria to focus on newer metrics that are better indicators of supplier performance  Continue Reading

• The cost of security for UK business

  The draft Investigatory Powers Bill to increase surveillance is already controversial, but there are growing concerns over the potential economic consequences  Continue Reading

• Combat IT complexity with operational intelligence

  A Quocirca report says that businesses cope better with IT complexity and intensive security when they integrate BI and analytics tools into operational processes  Continue Reading

• All-flash vs hybrid flash for virtual desktop storage

  With massive random I/O and a huge bias towards writes, virtual desktop storage – especially for the more feature-rich VDI 2.0 – requires the speed of all-flash and hybrid flash storage  Continue Reading

• UK datacentre growth trends: Why are users shunning inner-city facilities?

  Research suggests inner cities are falling out of favour with datacentre developers, with cost-sensitive users willing to look further afield for co-location services  Continue Reading

• Business cases emerge from growing pains of Hadoop 1.0

  The hype around the early generation of Hadoop is giving way to the reality of business programmes based on Hadoop 2 and Apache Spark  Continue Reading

• Where next for virtualisation?

  CIOs met to discuss the past, present and future of virtualisation at Computer Weekly's CW500 Club in June 2015  Continue Reading

• Should businesses upgrade to Windows 10?

  Many organisations skipped the PC-unfriendly Windows 8 release. But Windows 10 is far more enterprise-focused  Continue Reading

• Making the most of logs

  Most IT systems produce log files, which IT administrators can use to automate security systems  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

• Metropolis Studios runs music business expansion on FileMaker

  Metropolis Studios has turned to FileMaker 14 to run the functional and creative sides of its business, replacing SAP  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

• Hybrid flash vs all-flash storage: When is some flash not enough?

  When it comes to choosing between hybrid flash and all-flash storage, the question is increasingly not how much flash is enough, but whether you still need any disk at all  Continue Reading

• Better user acceptance testing through log management

  Application log management provides insight into application behaviour, which can be used to build better software and gain a better hold of user acceptance testing  Continue Reading

• Should the strong US dollar prompt European CIOs to shop around for cloud?

  The strengthening dollar is predicted to send IT costs soaring – so what steps can cloud-focused CIOs take to protect their budgets?  Continue Reading

• Still running Windows Server 2003? Don’t panic

  Many organisations are facing the prospect of running Windows 2003 server unsupported. Where do you go from here?  Continue Reading

• Case study: City & Guilds skills up on Microsoft cloud to unite global workforce

  Vocational training organisation City & Guilds uses Microsoft's collaboration, video conferencing and productivity tools to keep its global workforce connected  Continue Reading

• Turning machine data into operational intelligence

  We look at how companies analyse server and security logs to tackle cybercrime and internal fraud, and optimise the user experience  Continue Reading

• Why monitoring tools are key to your company's cloud success

  Mashing up cloud services to create a platform that's right for the company makes investing in monitoring tools a must, says Clive Longbottom  Continue Reading

• Hotels.com turns to cloud and big data to drive up online holiday bookings

  Online hotel booking site explains how the use of public cloud and NoSQL database tech has benefited its business  Continue Reading

• Overcoming the business and technology barriers to DevOps adoption

  What steps should the enterprise take in adopting this approach to software development and delivery  Continue Reading

• Genomics England gears up IT for next phase of development

  Genomics England, the government-owned organisation aiming to map 100,000 genomes by 2017, has recruited its first patients. It is also assembling the building blocks of its long-term IT strategy  Continue Reading

• ARM wrestles its way into the datacentre with the help of 64-bit chips

  Intel x86 technology has traditionally ruled the datacentre roost, but could the power consumption benefits of ARM 64-bit systems change all that?  Continue Reading

• Managing your customer’s multi-channel service experience

  Customers expect the same levels of service however they contact you – by phone, in store, on the web or from mobile. How do you deliver the best multi-channel experience?  Continue Reading

• Using data analytics to deliver more personalised customer service

  Personalisation has been the goal for many retailers, but can the emergence of big data analytics be the solution they are looking for?  Continue Reading

• Email overload is killing the UK's economic productivity

  Mounting evidence suggests email is a blight on the UK’s economic productivity – but services outsourcing firm Atos has found a way to stem the tide  Continue Reading

• OpenStack Cinder: Block storage on the open-source cloud platform

  OpenStack Cinder 101: The fundamentals of Cinder, how it is implemented, how to provision it, how it works with third-party storage arrays, its features and more  Continue Reading

• App development companies fight back against digital piracy

  How can digital companies protect their IP against a tidal wave of smartphone boosted piracy? Is digital rights management software effective enough, or is it better to adapt your business model?  Continue Reading

• Inside DevOps: How it really works

  DevOps done well can lead to a continuous loop where teams plan, code, build, test, release, deploy, operate and monitor  Continue Reading

• How to write supplier contracts for agile software development

  Typical supplier contracts are not suited to agile software projects where there is no requirements specification – so what should IT leaders do?  Continue Reading

• CW500: Tackling complexity in IT

  At a recent Computer Weekly CW500 Club event, CIOs discussed IT complexity and whether it hinders performance or is simply a consequence of complexity in business  Continue Reading

• Security compliance is still a corporate headache

  Ensuring compliance with security and data protection regulations is an eternal burden for IT departments - but it can be made easier  Continue Reading

• Financial applications are on a journey to the cloud

  CFOs in Europe embrace cloud-based financial applications as a result of security and delivery model improvements  Continue Reading

• Dutch Cyber Security Council boosts focus on privacy

  The Dutch Cyber Security Council says privacy will be one of its main focuses in 2015 and going forward  Continue Reading

• Death, taxes and data security audits

  According to Benjamin Franklin, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. In the business world, audits could easily be added to this list  Continue Reading

• NoSQL and NewSQL edge into Belgian railways and Austrian yellow pages

  NoSQL, NewSQL and graph databases are finding uses in mainstream European industry sectors from origins in US dotcoms  Continue Reading