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• Flash storage in Benelux: Service providers kick-start flash adoption

  Demand for quick response times and non-stop availability has pushed use of flash – particularly hybrid flash – storage in Benelux, a region with a high presence of service providers  Continue Reading

• Europe rallies together to solve digital skills crisis

  There have been several major announcements to develop skills and ensure the IT workforce adds to Europe’s economic value  Continue Reading

• Benchmarking social business and collaboration tools

  A complete social business strategy requires more than publishing social media guidelines for employees. CIOs need to rethink the enterprise as a social ecosystem  Continue Reading

• Belgium gets the market to solve authentication for free

  The Belgian federal public service Fedict is responsible for defining and implementing the federal e-government strategy in Belgium  Continue Reading

• Bring your own collaboration

  Following the rise of BYOD, IT departments face a new challenge in controlling their organisation’s digital assets  Continue Reading

• Why companies need to start developing apps for Apple Watch

  With the Apple Watch now available, companies are falling over themselves to push out apps for the wearable device  Continue Reading

• PCIe SSD product survey 2015: New form factors emerge

  PCIe SSD performance has not increased significantly but new form factors and protocols -- such as NVMe -- have emerged for better connectivity  Continue Reading

• RAC drives customer care to the cloud with NewVoiceMedia and Salesforce

  Automotive services organisations turns to cloud-based telephony and CRM system to improve customer care levels  Continue Reading

• Top tips for remote and mobile workers to improve their cyber security

  Steps remote and mobile workers can take to improve cyber security on mobile devices, using public Wi-Fi and computers, and handling USB devices  Continue Reading

• Are bricks-and-mortar stores the next step for online retail?

  Retailers are rethinking their online strategy, realising that physical shops are again one of their biggest assets  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

• Datacentre PUE: Who's keeping score?

  With datacentre operators under increased competitive pressure to cut their PUE scores, are their ratings really all they seem?  Continue Reading

• Apache Spark speeds up big data decision-making

  Spark, the open-source cluster computing framework from Apache, promises to complement Hadoop batch processing  Continue Reading

• Tips and tools for building an effective online presence

  We look at how social media, analytics, cloud and mobile access are important considerations for businesses in all sectors  Continue Reading

• What’s slowing down your network and how to fix it

  When using the network feels like wading through molasses, finding the cause can be a difficult process  Continue Reading

• Benelux: Cloud storage grows as traditional storage alternative

  In Benelux countries cloud storage is increasingly seen as an alternative to traditional storage and backup  Continue Reading

• London-based virtual reality startup in quest for alternative worlds

  Visualise, a nine-strong UK startup, is developing cutting-edge virtual reality simulations  Continue Reading

• Virtual machine backup in Benelux: When to choose specialist software?

  Specialist software has changed the game in virtual machine (VM) backup. Benelux organisations talk about their dedicated VM backup tools  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

• Docker storage 101: How storage works in Docker

  Docker nails some of the shortcomings of virtualisation, but what about Docker container storage?  Continue Reading

• DevOps spreads into mainstream corporate IT

  DevOps will shift from being a niche approach to application development and deployment, and move into the mainstream  Continue Reading

• NHS data security: Lessons to be learned

  The NHS does not always provide a trusted repository for patient data, but some trusts are examples of good practice in action  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

• How to dance the innovation step with CRM suppliers

  When it comes to outsourcing your company’s technology activities, you need more than just a degree of trust  Continue Reading

• Open Data Platform: the answer to a question no one asked?

  What should enterprise customers make of the Open Data Platform, an initiative by IT suppliers to establish common technologies for Hadoop?  Continue Reading

• The reinvention of Dell: What it must do next to succeed

  Two years after going private, Dell still has some work to do to educate the enterprise about what it has to offer  Continue Reading

• No more excuses - VDI is ready

  Over the years, it’s been easy to make excuses about why virtual desktop infrastructure projects failed or why VDI wasn’t ready for your environment  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

• Broadband is a question of economics and risk, says BT’s Bill Murphy

  Bill Murphy, managing director of next-generation access at BT, speaks about BDUK and BT’s involvement in rural broadband  Continue Reading

• OpenStack storage options are not the only ones available

  OpenStack and its Swift and Cinder object and block storage lead the way, but are not the only options for building open-source cloud platforms  Continue Reading

• Mobile device management (MDM) vs backup

  MDM tackles the challenge of mobile devices flooding the enterprise, but it doesn’t mean you can stop worrying about mobile data protection  Continue Reading

• Is it time to jump off the Windows bandwagon?

  The growth of user power has forced organisations to re-think IT strategies as employees demand mobility, collaboration and the latest technology  Continue Reading

• Business intelligence gains ground in Italy’s manufacturing industry

  How Italian manufacturers Bticino and Raccorderie Metalliche are using BI to be more efficient and agile  Continue Reading

• Waste and traffic management apps come from internet of things

  For years, the fridge has been the poster boy for the internet of things, but lack of commercial availability raises questions about the future  Continue Reading

• Businesses need to equip staff with the tools to do the job

  Workforces will become frustrated if they do not have the technology they need to deliver what their organisation wants  Continue Reading

• Top five things you need to know about VMware Virtual Volumes

  VMware’s Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) promise a revolution in storage for virtual machines, but what are the key things you need to know?  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

• Wi-Fi in the sky: The good, the bad and the ugly

  With in-flight internet options spreading around the world, which services should discerning business travellers try, and which should they avoid?  Continue Reading

• NHS 111 shows how medical diagnosis can be computerised

  Can the logistical and financial pressures on the NHS be eased by software algorithms?  Continue Reading

• How building information modelling is changing the construction industry

  The Cabinet Office says that by 2016, “collaborative 3D building information modelling will be required on all government projects”  Continue Reading

• Five tech trends that will change the mobile world in the next 10 years

  Computer scientist Kevin Curran discusses some of the trends that will shape the future of mobile at Mobile World Congress 2015  Continue Reading

• What will office desktop computing look like in 2020?

  Over the next five years, IT departments will increasingly support a highly heterogeneous computing environment  Continue Reading

• Planning key to cloud success

  Successful cloud implementations need careful planning, with flexibility and the timing of the switch important considerations  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

• Preparing for mainstream cloud IT

  2015 is set to become the breakthrough year for cloud computing – and now the challenge of making the IT department cloud-ready begins  Continue Reading

• How to secure the SDN infrastructure

  As more enterprises look to deploy software-defined networking, the need for security from the ground up should not be underestimated  Continue Reading

• Internet of things could make ERP flexible, intelligent and real-time

  To profit from all the data collected from the internet of things, future ERP has to be flexible, intelligent and give real-time information  Continue Reading

• All-flash and hybrid flash storage build momentum in Poland

  Hybrid flash and all-flash storage gain popularity in Poland, hybrid flash going mainstream and all-flash used for high performance  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

• A HIP way of securing a wide range of endpoints

  The host identity protocol is emerging as an alternative way to secure a range of physical endpoints beyond laptops and smartphones  Continue Reading

• Cyber crime: What every business needs to know

  Computer Weekly gets the low-down on cyber crime from law enforcement officers and investigators  Continue Reading

• Build in resilience to simplify workloads with hybrid cloud

  Hybrid cloud offers benefits of hosted applications and offloading manual tasks but beware latency and outages in mission-critical functions  Continue Reading

• Single inventory accuracy: the holy grail of retail

  The ability to accurately pinpoint where stock is at every point in the supply chain is one of the biggest challenges facing retailers today  Continue Reading

• Mobile apps bring benefits and problems for enterprises in Poland

  Mobile business applications are gaining importance in Poland as broadband coverage expands and smartphone and tablet use increases  Continue Reading

• Cloud and the need for microservices

  Cloud holds the promise to change the way IT supports the business by using hybrid private/public cloud services  Continue Reading

• $/GB vs $/IOPS and how to compare enterprise storage pricing

  While raw drive prices are pennies per GB, the actual cost of enterprise storage is much higher. Finding a baseline can save you money  Continue Reading

• TUPE or not TUPE? That is the question

  Designed to enable employees and business units to be transferred from one owner to another, TUPE legislation is now 33 years old  Continue Reading

• Customer experience is big differentiator for organisations

  It has become hard for firms to stand out from the crowd in pricing, products or services. Now customer experience is the big differentiator  Continue Reading

• How to achieve optimum performance in a hybrid cloud

  As hybrid cloud systems become increasingly popular, we look at how to implement them and the advantages they can offer  Continue Reading

• Travel Corporation finds data fast track with Informatica Cloud MDM

  The Travel Corporation has chosen Informatica Cloud to migrate on-premise systems and data into Salesforce.com  Continue Reading

• Virtual reality comes of age in manufacturing

  Will there be virtual reality headsets in the living room by the end of 2015? Perhaps not, but Ford and BAE Sytems are putting virtual reality to work  Continue Reading

• Economy, jobs and technology trends on CIOs' minds in 2015

  CIOs gathered at the first CW500 meeting of 2015 to discuss the economy, the technologies driving business and good IT leadership  Continue Reading

• Netherlands takes steps to become the startup-friendly 'West Coast of Europe'

  New immigration laws and Startup Delta’s Neelie Kroes propel Netherlands towards startup success  Continue Reading

• How to combat VM sprawl

  VMs are easy to create, but when unmanaged they proliferate around your infrastructure. Here, we explain VM sprawl and how to combat it  Continue Reading

• Polish companies face challenges with big data storage infrastructure

  As Polish enterprises embrace data analytics they face the challenge of big data storage that can handle rapidly growing and varied datasets  Continue Reading

• Cloud storage: The top five things that go wrong – and how to avoid them

  Cloud storage provides cost savings and ease of management, but there are pitfalls – and here are the top five things that can go wrong  Continue Reading

• What are the options for electronic patient records in the NHS after NPfIT?

  Many hospitals lack comprehensive electronic patient record (EPR) systems. What are the options now, in the wake of the NPfIT disaster?  Continue Reading

• Why 2015 won't be the year of software-defined everything

  With the technical and market parameters of SDE still taking shape, CIOs are in no rush to adopt, despite the hype going into overdrive  Continue Reading

• A closer look at Google Container Engine

  In just 12 months, Docker has transformed from a simple open-source container management project into a powerful platform  Continue Reading

• Making the most of AWS’s reserved instances

  What makes the CIO choose a cloud service? Is it the reliability of the service being offered, or the range of products?  Continue Reading

• Virtual server backup catches up with virtualisation in Poland

  Server virtualisation has swept Poland, but businesses are still catching up to the reality that backup requires a different approach  Continue Reading

• Software-defined datacentres a work in progress

  IT managers need to adopt interim SDDC offerings and build on them as the technology matures  Continue Reading

• Quantum key distribution is the future for secure comms

  Quantum teleportation is a technology that will ultimately replace encryption as the foundation of communication security  Continue Reading

• Thin provisioning – hypervisor vs array

  Thin provisioning can be done at the storage array or virtualisation hypervisor. We look at the pros and cons of each – or both  Continue Reading

• Software defined everything: Throwing more software into the mix

  In theory, the move to software-defined everything makes sense. What are the practicalities of the "SD" approach?  Continue Reading

• How to make applications resilient on AWS

  Cloud services are susceptible to network and other outages. There is no silver bullet to boost the resilience of an AWS-hosted application  Continue Reading

• Chief data and digital officers rise to threaten the CIO

  Just as the most senior IT executive finally proves their worth, a new evangelist tries to take credit for all-things-digital: the CDO  Continue Reading

• Top five issues in VM backup

  Virtual machine backup is a vital task for IT departments. But pitfalls abound. We look at the top five issues encountered in VM backup  Continue Reading

• Microservices: How to prepare next-generation cloud applications

  A microservice architecture promotes developing and deploying applications composed of autonomous, self-contained units  Continue Reading

• CIO agenda: What to prioritise in 2015

  Disruption is everywhere. Anybody with responsibility in IT needs to consider how their jobs will change this year  Continue Reading

• SAP bets future on cloud in central and eastern Europe

  SAP’s turn to cloud services for the delivery of its business applications seems especially energetic in central and eastern Europe  Continue Reading

• Businesses dig for treasure in open data

  Open data, a movement that promises access to vast swaths of information held by public bodies, has begun getting its hands dirty, or rather its feet  Continue Reading

• Data analysts deploy Monte Carlo modelling gambit to fight West African Ebola virus epidemic

  Mathematicians are using data analytics to predict how the Ebola epidemic will spread so aid can be deployed effectively  Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud storage: What it is and how to deploy it

  Hybrid cloud storage optimises the opportunities provided by the cloud while recognising and working with its limitations  Continue Reading

• Two resolutions every IT leader should make in 2015

  Rather than waiting for somebody to take over IT, why not aim to do something different that gets you noticed  Continue Reading

• Top 10 flash storage stories of 2014

  Most organisations have flash storage or plan to deploy it, but who are the key players and where’s best to install it?  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

• Review 2014: Top 10 business applications stories of 2014

  This year’s top 10 business applications stories show an increasing corporate IT appetite for better collaboration between organisations  Continue Reading

• Network strategies for 2015

  Looking at the bigger picture provides an opportunity to assess what emerging companies are doing to redefine networking thinking  Continue Reading

• Storage performance metrics: How suppliers spin performance specifications

  Array makers’ storage performance specs are not always what they seem. Storage analysts explain how suppliers spin spec sheet figures  Continue Reading

• The state of mobile back end as a service

  Common mobile application services are increasingly being hosted on central back-end servers – but what does that mean for the enterprise?  Continue Reading

• Dutch organisations gradually take up cloud HCM software

  While organisations in the Netherlands tend to use the traditional HR modules of the large software packages, some diversity is beginning to emerge  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

• England's computing curriculum: How was the first term?

  Teachers’ confidence grows as the first term of the English computing curriculum goes down well with teaching staff and students  Continue Reading

• Cisco is missing the transition to software-defined networks

  Little doubt remains that the future of networking will be defined by software, but market-watchers warn Cisco is missing this move  Continue Reading

• Inside the Digital Catapult, six startups at the forefront of data innovation

  The recently opened Digital Catapult in London’s Kings Cross is home to ambitious technology startups innovating around big data  Continue Reading

• Digital ad delivery firm Adstream uses Pentaho to add analytics edge

  Global digital asset management company Adstream turns to Pentaho’s data integration technology to mount its Adbank platform  Continue Reading

• Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust completes £200m Epic and HP IT project

  Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust completes its eHospital programme based on Epic software and HP hardware  Continue Reading

• The technology opportunity for UK shopping centres

  While retailers are setting the innovation barrier high, how are shopping centres using technology to improve their customer offerings?  Continue Reading

• Networking technologies emerging in the enterprise

  We look at the latest networking technologies on offer, and those being adopted in the enterprise  Continue Reading