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• How Amsterdam crowdsourced environmental monitoring with the IoT

  Amsterdam launched an IoT project to crowdsource local air quality measurement. While it faced a lot of hurdles in the project, it is implementing it on a wider scale based on the lessons learnt  Continue Reading

• Firms set eyes on digital, but will it fulfil their demands?

  We look at the effect of digitisation and how CIOs can help businesses move forward while keeping day-to-day systems running  Continue Reading

• IBM India staff reductions are sign of shift in outsourcing sector

  Talk of IBM reducing its India-based workforce by 50,000 is a reflection of the diminishing importance of low-cost operatives  Continue Reading

• Cellist and composer Philip Sheppard counterpoints music and IT

  Philip Sheppard is a composer and cellist who also speaks at IT conferences about the parallels between IT and music  Continue Reading

• Currency exchange business Travelex cuts HR costs by 25% with cloud IT systems

  Travelex's cloud human resources (HR) project survived a budget overrun to cut costs and job recruitment times  Continue Reading

• How the BBC became digital in three-and-a-half years

  The BBC has undergone a digital transformation that started 18 months prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games  Continue Reading

• Interview: Ed Vaizey MP on broadband, mobile networks and the internet of things

  Digital economy minister Ed Vaizey MP reflects on the next steps for the BDUK project and talks mobile roll-out, 5G and the internet of things (IoT)  Continue Reading

• Managing workloads in an era of changing datacentre architecture

  Different workloads require different basic resources and hybrid cloud needs more intelligent workload management  Continue Reading

• How to support digitisation through project management

  Agile and DevOps approaches mean large projects with a defined end point are disappearing. How is project management changing?  Continue Reading

• Polish enterprises speed apps with flash and hybrid flash storage

  Flash storage might cost more but enterprises in Poland are using flash and hybrid flash arrays for their low latency  Continue Reading

• Interview: Ed Vaizey MP talks digital economy and digital skills

  Minister for the digital economy Ed Vaizey discusses his new role and the future of digital policy  Continue Reading

• Social media for communication inside the enterprise

  Companies have long used social media technology such as Facebook and Twitter to reach more customers – but how are businesses using it internally?  Continue Reading

• Meet the men and women who keep AT&T's network running

  Somewhere in the UK, a crack team sits waiting to spring into action to support, protect and repair AT&T’s global network  Continue Reading

• Firms must incorporate agile into their strategic planning

  Firms must achieve greater levels of transparency to create a strong link between strategic planning and execution  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

• Genomics England exploits big data analytics to personalise cancer treatment

  Cancer Research UK and government-funded Genomics England use DNA-sequenced big data analytics to develop personalised cancer treatment  Continue Reading

• Cloud, frozen pizza model and the immutable infrastructure

  The architecture pattern for immutable infrastructure is based on the made-to-order pizza model  Continue Reading

• Dutch government organisations innovate in the field of BI

  The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority and the Radiocommunications Agency are using advanced BI to do new things  Continue Reading

• Backup and disaster recovery in the age of virtualisation

  One of the benefits of using virtual machines is the scope for improved backup. We look at the product offerings from traditional and new suppliers  Continue Reading

• Subscription-based businesses are cheerleaders for CIOs on the board

  CIOs at subscription-based businesses play a crucial role in transforming their enterprises by focusing on customers  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

• Challenges in virtual server backup and how to tackle them

  We look at the problems associated with virtual server backup and how they can be mitigated to ensure smooth and efficient data protection  Continue Reading

• Product survey 2014: Hybrid flash arrays from the big six

  A look at the options to build hybrid flash arrays from the big six SAN makers  Continue Reading

• All-flash array startups overview 2014

  All the big storage suppliers have all-flash array products – some designed from the ground up, others HDD arrays retrofitted with flash  Continue Reading

• How cloud companies are engaging in price wars

  Cloud prices are coming down, which is great news for organisations taking their first steps into using public cloud services  Continue Reading

• MicroStrategy’s Klein: Enterprise analytics base confers mobile edge

  Jonathan Klein, president and chief legal officer of business intelligence company MicroStrategy, talks to Computer Weekly  Continue Reading

• A guide to scale-out NAS: The specialists and startups

  Specialist suppliers and startups in scale-out NAS, a technology that’s gone mainstream for its superior ability to scale capacity and performance  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: Motivate the elephant

  CIO coach James Caplin explains how IT leaders can achieve results by thinking about problems in a different way  Continue Reading

• Microsoft vies with VMware in the virtual machine market

  VMware launched live migration in 2003. Since then, its capabilities have seen many enhancements, but Microsoft is starting to catch up  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

• Q&A: MarkLogic CEO Gary Bloom talks strategy

  Gary Bloom, CEO of NoSQL database supplier MarkLogic, talks to Computer Weekly about strategy  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: Why embrace digital innovation?

  Having the right digital strategy can make or break an organisation  Continue Reading

• Private cloud storage: What it does and how to build it

  Private cloud storage is an increasingly popular option for organisations that want to provide flexible, easy-to-manage storage with chargeback to departments and business units  Continue Reading

• Demystifying Kubernetes: the tool to manage Google-scale workloads in the cloud

  We are witnessing a new technology wave in the form of immutable infrastructure and micro-services  Continue Reading

• Choosing chips for next-generation datacentres

  Why your next datacentre refresh should encompass alternative chip architectures.  Continue Reading

• Intel is making waves in the growing microserver market

  Analysts predict the microserver market will account for more than 10% of the server market by 2016. But what progress is x86 heavyweight Intel making in the field  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

• Sweden’s Verisure and Höganäs set competence bar high for BI

  Swedish companies Verisure and Höganäs take care to design business intelligence competence into their organisations  Continue Reading

• Sweden’s Klarna and Spotify design big data architectures to aid business growth

  Many organisations still don't know how to capitalise on big data. Swedish firms Klarna and Spotify are making use of its possibilities  Continue Reading

• Cloud storage makes steady progress in Poland

  In Poland cloud storage and cloud services arouse concerns over control and security but businesses are discovering the benefits in cost and customer service  Continue Reading

• Managing privacy in the age of big data

  The concept of data privacy in the age of big data may seem somewhat antithetical to most commercial data-gathering operations, but organizations that don't respect their users' privacy may soon have big problems on their hands.  Continue Reading

• Government's digital strategy could cut red tape

  Governments can harness digital technology to make public services more efficient and generate significant cost savings  Continue Reading

• Tips for choosing a global cloud infrastructure provider

  A guide for enterprises considering IaaS services.  Continue Reading

• Industrial cyber attack: a dangerous game

  Defending a water purification plant from cyber attacks may sound straightforward, but not when faced with real-world business pressures  Continue Reading

• How the internet of things could transform Britain’s railways

  Network Rail Telecom and supplier partner Cisco reveal how they are working together to digitise the national railway infrastructure  Continue Reading

• The wrong skills: Why are computing students unemployed?

  Students are finally taking an interest in computing careers – so why are so many unemployed?  Continue Reading

• Choice and ease of use: key elements of a good app store

  Companies need to focus on individual user requirements and make sure their app store delivers the right tools for the right job  Continue Reading

• CIO Interview: Gary Steen, CTO, TalkTalk

  Gary Steen, CTO at ISP TalkTalk, says transforming internal IT will help him meet growing demands for superfast data connectivity  Continue Reading

• The internet of things is coming: Is your datacentre ready?

  Gartner estimates the IoT will see 26 billion units installed by 2020 – channelling huge volumes of data traffic into datacentres  Continue Reading

• Changing jobs mid-career: Digital is not just for the tech elite

  Computer Weekly attended a Free:Formers workshop to see how digital-skills barriers are being broken to open the sector to anyone  Continue Reading

• Poland’s financial services sector weighs cloud’s risks and rewards

  Banks and financial services enterprises in Poland are split between strict regulations and security concerns, and cloud’s benefits  Continue Reading

• Scale-out NAS product survey: The big six

  We survey the big six storage array makers’ scale-out NAS product ranges  Continue Reading

• What ingredients go into the successful app store?

  An enterprise app store should provide the controlled availability of apps for employees.We look at what is available for organisations to use  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

• The UK’s new computing curriculum is here: Are teachers ready?

  The computing curriculum is finally commencing, so have teachers found the support they needed to prepare in time?  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Build an app store into your corporate mobility strategy

  Corporate internal app stores can distribute the tools staff need, but they can also control who uses what and shore up data security  Continue Reading

• UCAS uses Splunk to get real-time data on A-level results day

  The day when A-level results come out is a dramatic occasion for UCAS’s IT team, which uses Splunk to troubleshoot the network  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

• IT governance in the era of shadow IT

  The latest CW500 Club invited IT leaders to discuss the challenges of governance with the rise of 'shadow IT' outside the IT team  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

• How to use defence in depth to secure endpoint machines

  Go beyond antimalware deployment to use security policies, BYOD strategies and user education to keep your devices and systems safe  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

• How to tame the new IT beast called DevOps

  Making your company cloud and 'software-defined' ready requires you to embrace DevOps - but make sure your DevOps strategy isn't undermined  Continue Reading

• BlackLine promises to end financial closing spreadsheet nightmare

  Financial closing is a monthly headache for many, the “last mile of finance”. BlackLine Systems’ SaaS promises agility beyond spreadsheets, and is a part of SAP’s ecosystem  Continue Reading

• Key storage performance metrics for virtual environments

  We run the rule over storage performance metrics – latency, throughput and IOPS – that are key to optimising virtual machines  Continue Reading

• Object storage specialist suppliers: Market round-up

  Object storage from specialist vendors aims at cloud, archiving, HPC and big data with products that vary by features and between hardware and software-only products  Continue Reading

• In-memory database technology puts Mitie and Wooga in the fast lane

  Mitie uses IBM Cognos running on a DB2 Blu in-memory database taking data from Oracle. And gaming firm Wooga is using Exasol to speed up design  Continue Reading

• Channel 4 Grand National app lets punters track horses

  When Channel 4 won the rights to screen the Grand National it decided to use mobile to take the mystery out of the magnificent chaos of the event  Continue Reading

• Belt and braces: covering all the endpoint security angles

  Given users have skipped beyond the safe confines of wholly owned and heavily guarded corporate networks, how do you keep data safe?  Continue Reading

• Big data storage: Analytics takes small first steps in Turkey

  Etiya’s Somemto social media management project makes pioneering steps in big data with a Hadoop cluster on an Oracle Big Data Appliance.  Continue Reading

• Co-location services and datacentres feel the CCA heat

  A climate change agreement (CCA) for datacentres has come into force. How will its energy-efficiency rewards shape the industry?  Continue Reading

• Morrison Utility Services fills in holes faster with ETAdirect

  Morrison Utility Services is digging and filling in holes in the road more efficiently by using cloud-based mobile workforce management tool ETAdirect from TOA Technologies  Continue Reading

• Harnessing the power of cloud with VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC)

  Firms planning an SDDC strategy need a tool to manage, automate and orchestrate their IT - such as VMware vCloud Automation Centre  Continue Reading

• Software asset management is key to datacentre planning

  An ordered approach to managing software and hardware assets is essential to maximising your datacentre  Continue Reading

• Data mining evolves in the era of new data science

  As more and more firms look to analyse ever larger datasets, so data mining technology is becoming increasingly critical to data scientists  Continue Reading

• Big Apple revolution: How to manage Macs in the enterprise

  Apple’s products were once niche devices. Now, following a consumer-led initiative, they are widely used across the enterprise  Continue Reading

• A guide to smart home automation

  Unless it is a new build, the challenge in creating a smart home is that technology must work irrespective of the age of the property  Continue Reading

• Virtual machine data backup strategies in Turkey

  Turkish organisations explain how they combine virtual machine backup with traditional backup, replication and snapshots as part of their data protection strategy  Continue Reading

• The pros and cons of iPads in the enterprise

  The iPad is often the first platform for which developers produce apps – but it is substantially more expensive than its competitors  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

• Big players target object storage at cloud and archive

  All but one of the big six storage vendors have object storage products that target public and private cloud environments and/or archiving use cases  Continue Reading

• Enterprises, scientists and academics turn to public cloud for HPC

  Organisations are starting to use supercomputers on demand via public cloud to access HPC capabilities  Continue Reading

• HP Autonomy executive: big data transcends analytics

  Robert Youngjohns, executive vice-president at HP, speaks to Computer Weekly about why big data does not reduce to analytics  Continue Reading

• CW500 in the City: Mobility management and regulatory compliance

  A CW500 meeting heard how financial services firms, particularly the big banks, are responding to the need to offer customers and staff mobile services to compete for business and talent  Continue Reading

• How to support Apple in the enterprise

  The popularity of Apple products is driving adoption in the enterprise. But how should IT departments support iOS and MacOS X devices?  Continue Reading

• Soundwave tunes to MongoDB to track music consumption on mobile

  Irish startup Soundwave is using NoSQL database MongoDB to help it track what people are listening to on mobile devices  Continue Reading

• Rural communities take the initiative on superfast broadband

  Amidst the furore over the deployment of superfast broadband in remote rural areas, communities and businesses in Oxfordshire took action  Continue Reading

• Put digital strategy in command, says Eni CIO Gianluigi Castelli

  Gianluigi Castelli, CIO of Italian oil giant Eni, puts cloud computing in its place and looks to 'cognitive computing' as a wave of the future  Continue Reading

• Unilever puts SAP at the captain’s table

  Consumer goods company Unilever works hand in glove with SAP in “speeding up its growth”, according to senior executives at the two firms  Continue Reading

• Co-ordinating IT to align with business processes

  Traditionally, when a business wanted to automate a process, it would turn to the IT department, which would work on a formal specification  Continue Reading

• The customer is always right... really?

  How to build a good relationship with your IT supplier  Continue Reading

• A jet on an aircraft carrier - how SuccessFactors is fighting for supremacy in HR technology

  A Computer Weekly profile of human capital management software supplier SuccessFactors  Continue Reading

• Talent management software revives stale HR practices

  A new generation of cloud-based talent management software promises to bring the performance review back from the dead  Continue Reading

• Backup vs replication, snapshots, CDP in data protection strategy

  Best practice data protection strategy combines backup with snapshots, CDP and replication for different levels of recovery  Continue Reading

• Microsoft Lync opens up unified communications market

  Microsoft's Lync could shake up a unified communications market that has historically been dominated by an elite group of vendors  Continue Reading

• The new world of automation

  Business process automation addresses the pace of change in the market by removing human entities wherever possible.  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

• 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

• Micro-datacentre: What IT problems it solves and what workload systems suit it

  A micro-datacentre is a smaller containerised datacentre system designed to solve different problems or to handle different workloads  Continue Reading

• Aruba Airheads: Generation mobile forces Wi-Fi rethink

  Aruba Networks tells customers to rethink their Wi-Fi deployments to meet the expectations of a cohort of workers called GenMobile  Continue Reading