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• May 01, 2018 01 May'18

  Digital is a long-term objective, CEOs warned

  Don't believe anyone who promises to transform a business digitally in three years, says Gartner Fellow Mark Raskino

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  Security industry welcomes NHS move to Windows 10

  Representatives of the security industry have welcomed the announcement that the NHS will be migrating to Windows 10 as part of a multi-million pound deal with Microsoft, but warn that the move will not be without its challenges

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  Starship’s autonomous delivery robots get commercial roll-out

  Having successfully trialled its autonomous delivery robots in the UK and US, Estonian startup Starship Technologies is embarking on a full commercial roll-out

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  Australia government earmarks A$70m to refresh supercomputers

  The investment will fund replacements for two supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in an effort to bolster Australia’s research capabilities

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  AWS vs Microsoft vs Google: Weighing up the financial results of the big cloud three

  Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all posted favourable financial results this week, as enterprise appetites for cloud services show no signs of slowing, but what does this mean for suppliers outside of the big three?

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  Microsoft releases Windows 10 security pack

  Microsoft has released a download pack that incorporates NCSC guidance to save UK companies weeks of work to secure Windows 10 and comply with government guidelines

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  Government given six months to rewrite snoopers’ charter

  The government has until 1 November 2018 to rewrite a key section of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, after the high court declared them unlawful in a judicial review brought by human rights group Liberty

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  GDPR: Put your data in Azure cloud, says Microsoft chief

  Tech giant reports strong growth in its cloud business in third-quarter 2018 fiscal results

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  Jeremy Hunt launches review into training NHS staff to use new tech

  Jeremy Hunt announces a review that will look at how to train NHS staff to use new technologies such as artificial intelligence, genomics, digital medicine and robotics

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  Data analytics is about culture, not technology

  Enterprises need to figure out the business problems they are trying to solve and foster a data-driven culture to benefit from data analytics

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  ServiceNow buys into SaaS licensing to drive digitisation

  The cloud-based service management company has extended its reach in IT asset management to help businesses optimise cloud subscriptions

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Expert interview: Dave Moschella, author of Seeing Digital

  Dave Moschella speaks to Computer Weekly about his new book, Seeing Digital, which looks at how the “d” in digital stands for disruption

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  British banks target Israeli security technology

  British banks are turning to Israel’s high-tech sector to protect against cyber attacks

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Almost all London law firms are using or plan to use artificial intelligence

  Law firms are harnessing artificial intelligence to reduce the manual creation and checking of legal documents

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  TSB banking service tech problems continue

  TSB customers are still experiencing problems using online and mobile banking services after almost a week of disruption

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Argos announces 150 new tech roles in the UK

  Argos is recruiting an extra 150 IT professionals as part of its strategy to offer a better digital services to customers

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  European Commission unveils €1.5bn AI funding

  Given the UK's new artificial intelligence sector deal, the European Commission is unveiling its own initiative to make Europe a world leader in AI

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  SuiteWorld 2018: Businesses more likely to learn from failures than successes, says NetSuite EVP

  Failure is the best way for firms to learn and succeed when it comes to business transformation, NetSuite’s executive vice-president Jim McGeever tells the audience at SuiteWorld 2018

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Malaysia’s Supahands finds agility with the cloud

  Regional workforce crowdsourcing startup relies on the cloud to keep its infrastructure agile enough to scale up and down, according to customer demand

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Government promises £300m extra funding as part of £1bn AI sector deal

  To become the number one destination for artificial intelligence, the UK needs more specialist skills, and a new injection of funding is aimed at boosting the country’s AI skills pool

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Police forces use Motorola mobile apps to digitise frontline ops

  The States of Jersey Police force plans to phase out inefficient paper-based activities with mobile applications, while other forces around the UK report improvements to their overall processes

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Gartner predicts AI will add $1.2tn to companies’ earnings in 2018

  Gartner has forecast that artificial intelligence will create $1.2 trillion in economic value in 2018, up 70% on 2017

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Google claims it is GDPR ready

  Alphabet, the parent company of Google, says that since its advertising business relies on keyword searches, the impact of GDPR is limited

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Interview: Amazon Web Services Sweden

  Eric Morales leads the AWS business development team for startups and gaming companies in the Nordics. Computer Weekly caught up with him at AWS’s Nordic headquarters in Stockholm

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  TSB IT meltdown has the makings of an epic

  TSB’s very public IT problems will send shivers down the spine of IT teams at large banks that are yet to migrate to new core banking systems

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  Google hails positive economic impact of US datacentre growth

  Google claims the expansion of its datacentre portfolio in recent years has generated thousands of jobs and seen it contribute billions of dollars to the US economy

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  Criminal Courts Review Commission findings in Post Office computer case raise further enquiries

  The Criminal Courts Review Commission forensic examination of the IT system at the centre of a legal case against the Post Office has raised further questions

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  SuperNova growth programme offers European tech scale-ups chance to pitch for investment

  Scale-Up.eu says initiative will enable scale-up companies to grow their business without relying on overseas investment

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  SAP Q1 2018: Cloud revenue breaks €1bn, 400 more S/4 customers

  SAP’s overall first-quarter revenue was flat, but cloud revenue and profitability were up, while its S/4 Hana customer base stands at 8,300

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  Telcos see multiple paths to internet of things revenue

  A report from Ericsson has revealed that telecoms operators are testing out multiple routes to monetising the IoT

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  How application container technology is helping YMCA open up access to education

  Youth charity YMCA is in the midst of a push to reduce its reliance on paper-based education aids, with the help of Droplet Computing’s application container technology

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  The dawn of open banking in Australia

  Financial services firms will need to embrace DevOps and modernise their IT infrastructure to compete with more nimble fintech companies in an open banking regime

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Executive interview: Werner Knoblich, Red Hat

  Red Hat is 25 years old. We speak to its European chief about how open source, containers and hybrid cloud computing represent the foundation for IT

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Next generation of SCADA industrial controls will protect against cyber attack

  Oil, energy and chemical companies are rethinking how to control big manufacturing plants, replacing expensive control technology with cheaper, more secure systems, taking their cue from biology

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  AI is renewing interest in high-performance computing

  Growing adoption of artificial intelligence is spurring interest in high-performance computing beyond research institutions

• April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18

  Alibaba to set up digital hub in Thailand

  Chinese e-commerce and technology giant Alibaba is expanding its Southeast Asian footprint with a new digital hub east of Bangkok that is expected to boost Thailand’s digital credentials

• April 19, 2018 19 Apr'18

  CNCF wants to make Kubernetes ‘boring’

  CNCF is about to kick off its its Copenhagen conference. The organisation wants to make containers less exciting and more straightforward

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  Australian supermarket chain hit by IT outage

  Thirty-minute glitch knocked out checkout systems at half of Woolworths’ stores in Australia

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  Business will make money from their data, says IDC

  Data scientists may soon find that their skills will be more directly linked to generating a revenue stream within their organisations

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  DataWorks 18: Hortonworks styles itself 3.0 with a ‘DataPlane’ service

  Hortonworks has used its DataWorks Summit in Berlin to announce a data governance “studio” plug in to its DataPlane service

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  Huawei debuts its first intent-based networking proposition

  At its Shenzhen Analyst Summit, Huawei unveiled its intent-based networking concept, promising to address enterprise customer pain points around network management

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  IBM admits poor storage results but promises to do better

  IBM’s first-quarter 2018 results shows failings in its storage business, while cognitive computing via Watson remains its main growth engine

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Nginx debuts in Australia amid growing demand for microservices

  The supplier of an open-source application platform is counting on the growing usage of microservices in the perennial search for agility and responsiveness among enterprises

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Russian energy giant makes digital tech adoption a priority

  Russian oil and gas giant Gazprom Neft is exploring the use of the latest digital technologies across its entire business

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Elastifile adds NAS file access storage to Google Cloud Launcher

  Israeli startup Elastifile launches NFS file access service in the Google cloud to provide hybrid cloud distributed file system functionality with the speed of flash

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Targeted cyber attacks doubled in past year, study shows

  The number of targeted attacks has doubled in the past year compared with the previous 12 months, despite improvements in detecting and blocking them, a cyber resilience study shows

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Artificial intelligence will help Metro Bank customers manage their money

  Service will use AI and predictive analytics to provide personalised prompts to help customers control their spending

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Why AI skills, broadband and machine liability must be addressed

  The House of Lords select committee on artificial intelligence has urged the government to adapt policies to bolster AI and protect the public

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Norway’s tax administration combats economic crime through IT

  Authority has updated its IT system to step up the fight against tax evasion

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Huawei wants to unlock ASEAN’s digital potential

  The Chinese technology supplier is working with communications service providers such as Converge in the Philippines to bolster their networks to support new digital services