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March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19
StepChange uses Pegasystems to power digital efficiency drive

Charity StepChange, which helps people manage debt problems, has developed a modern IT system to help double the number of people it can support
March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19
Venture capitalists driving Nordic tech enterprise growth

The vibrant tech sector in the Nordic region is attracting increasing attention from venture capitalists
March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19
IT Priorities 2019: ANZ organisations focus on fundamentals

Organisations in Australia and New Zealand will spend more on modernising legacy applications and breaking down data silos this year
March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19
Met Police collaborated with US prosecutors in WikiLeaks investigation

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it exchanged information on WikiLeaks staff in the UK with the US Department of Justice, which is conducting criminal investigations into the organisation

March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19
NHS Shared Business Services seeks suppliers for £500m cloud procurement framework

NHS Shared Business Services is seeking suppliers for a four-year procurement framework designed to streamline how public sector organisations source cloud services
March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19
OpenText Enterprise World Europe: CEO Barrenechea stakes claim for EIM as competitive edge

OpenText’s CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea used his keynote at the company’s inaugural Enterprise World Europe customer and partner conference in Vienna to make a case for enterprise information management as a software category that can give corporate...
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
Cyber attackers favouring stealthier attacks, says Darktrace

Cyber attackers are moving away from ransomware to stealthier tactics, including banking Trojans and cryptojacking, an analysis of attack data reveals
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
IBM’s APAC CEO talks up next chapter of cloud adoption

In the next phase of cloud adoption, enterprises will need to manage multiple cloud environments, as well as data to scale up their use of artificial intelligence technology
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
RPA spend to increase after Brexit

Organisations will spend 20-30% more as a result of admin overheads expected after the UK leaves the EU, but companies are unprepared and skills are in short supply, analysts say
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
King's College London IT chief says resisting digital disruption a ‘waste of time’

Speaking at the Cloud Expo Europe 2019 conference in London, King's College London chief architect, Ian Johns, opened up about how his past experiences of digital disruption informed his view that it's best to embrace it than fight back

March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
Nationwide uses natural language processing to discover what annoys customers

SAS has run a proof of concept at building society Nationwide, using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to determine how to improve customer correspondence
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
Despite failings, exec appetite for secure collaboration growing

Top business decision makers are more reckless than ever with company data, but the appetite for secure collaboration tools is growing, survey reveals
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
Assisted living system moves from Microsoft Azure to IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud provides Watson artificial intelligence and internet of things technologies to support carers looking after elderly and disabled people
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
Post Office considered Horizon IT system ‘high risk’, court told

The Post Office considered Horizon a high operational risk in an internal review, a trial focused on alleged fallibilities in the system used in thousands of Post Office branches has heard
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
The web turns 30: from proposal to pervasion

The web is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but can it remain true to its founder’s vision?
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
Australia should embrace automation but be aware of downsides

Experts at a McKinsey event in Sydney called for Australian enterprises to automate while acknowledging the need to reskill workers whose jobs could be displaced
March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19
Singapore invests S$200m to upgrade supercomputing capabilities

The investment will shore up Singapore’s supercomputing prowess to facilitate research collaboration, as well as address national and business challenges
March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19
United Utilities’ RPA crack team makes early gains

Water company United Utilities is looking for opportunities to automate processes through a central team and collaboration with business users
March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19
How supercomputing is transforming experimental science

NERSC lead data scientist Debbie Bard talks about how large-scale data analytics using super computers is making new types of science possible
March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19
Tech under spotlight at High Court in second subpostmasters versus Post Office trial

The second trial in a court battle between the Post Office and the people who run branches analyses alleged bugs in the computer system they use
March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19
UK military robotics get multimillion-pound boost

A budget of £66m from the Ministry of Defence's Transformation Fund has been allocated to a project that will see mini-drones and autonomous vehicles deployed to the battlefield
March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19
IR35 reforms: HMRC urges private sector to start prepping now for April 2020 roll-out

HM Revenue & Customs is canvassing views about how best to press ahead with the introduction of the IR35 reforms to the private sector, and is urging those likely to be affected by the move to start getting ready
March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19
Danske Bank builds on machine learning to predict IT failures

Danish bank is using artificial intelligence to help it prevent IT outages that could damage its reputation with customers
March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19
IT Priorities 2019: APAC keeping pace with digital transformation

Digital transformation is well underway among APAC enterprises which are looking to spend more on refreshing their IT infrastructure and technologies that improve employee productivity
March 02, 2019 02 Mar'19
Facebook asked George Osborne to influence EU data protection law

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg invited one of the chancellor’s children to Facebook’s office as part of a intensive lobbying programme to influence European data protection legislation
March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19
Microsoft Azure gains ground on AWS in public cloud

RightScale report suggests Microsoft Azure is closing the gap between it and public cloud market leader AWS in the enterprise, while Google is attracting increasing attention from the C-suite
March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19
Red Hat eyes Unix-to-Linux migrations in emerging ASEAN markets

Open source bigwig is starting its new fiscal year looking at Unix-to-Linux migrations in markets such as Thailand and Indonesia
February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19
Volkswagen’s cloud-focused connected car collaboration with Microsoft gathers pace

Car maker has confirmed its Microsoft-based Automotive Cloud setup will be extended beyond Europe into other key markets to support its push to digitise more of the driving experience for its customers
February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19
APAC financial firms face roadblocks with RPA

IDC monitored the automation projects of over 30 early adopters of RPA in financial services and found that most were unable to scale up their implementations of the technology
February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19
Integration challenges lead to digital deceleration

With precious little increase in their budgets and large numbers of applications to connect, IT decision-makers admit they are struggling
February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19
Spotify and Just Eat join forces with tech firms to help enterprises manage cloud costs better

A new non-profit, cloud-focused trade association has emerged that wants to help prevent financial management issues get in the way of enterprises embracing cloud
February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19
MWC 2019: Vodafone powers 5G with VMware

Vodafone is using VMware’s telco cloud platform to prepare its mobile networks for 5G in 15 geographies
February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19
SME backup products offer diverse routes to the cloud

We take the temperature on cloud-era SME-focused backup products that come as “traditional” software, replication-centric protection environments and hardware appliances
February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19
MWC 2019: Industry rallies around the intelligent edge

The ability to process sensor data on intelligent edge devices, then upload to the cloud, was among the themes at this year’s Mobile World Congress
February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19
TechUK: Digital ethics has to hit the boardroom this year

UK IT industry lobby organisation releases a position paper contending that digital ethics must become a boardroom matter in 2019
February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19
MWC 2019: Satya Nadella presents intelligent edge vision

Microsoft has unveiled a version of the Xbox Kinect device for business called the Azure Kinect, which sees and hears its environment
February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19
Australia, Singapore say hello to 5G

Singtel and its Australian subsidiary Optus have made one of the first 5G video calls in the Asia-Pacific region
February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19
SAP Malaysia MD Duncan Williamson talks up the ‘experience economy’

In a world where consumer experience can make or break a business, companies need to continuously reinvent themselves to stay relevant
February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19
Facebook planned to spy on Android phone users, internal emails reveal

Facebook planned to use its Android app to track the location of its customers and to allow advertisers to send political advertising and invites to dating sites to ‘single’ people, confidential documents show
February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19
Redis Labs swaps out open source to protect against public clouds

While Redis remain open source, higher value modules are now covered by a commercial agreement which limits commercialisation of Redis-based products
February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19
Government and IT industry-funded AI graduate education programme to be rolled out across UK

UK government announces the launch of a state and IT industry-funded graduate education programme in artificial intelligence, comprising masters degrees, PhDs and Alan Turing Institute fellowships
February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19
APAC enterprises are just getting started on AI

Despite clear benefits of adopting the technology, only 41% of enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region have embarked on their artificial intelligence journey
February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19
How the immersive VR film Tree was created

New Reality Company worked across games development and video effects to bring about a virtual reality immersive experience
February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19
Organisations adopt multicloud strategies as shift from private cloud settles

There is little change in the move from private to public clouds, according to Pierre Audoin Consultants – but more IT professionals are using multi-clouds
February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19
Huawei Cloud opens Singapore region amid growing cloud rivalry

The Chinese tech giant is eyeing local and Chinese firms looking to expand operations in the Asia-Pacific region
February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19
CIO interview: Martin Draper, CIO and change director, Liberty London

Department store’s IT leader is bringing a traditional retail business into the digital, omnichannel age
February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19
NHS AI code launched to set rules of engagement for tech firms

The government says its code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence and other data technologies in the NHS sets out the data privacy rules of the game for tech firms
February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19
Activist Lauri Love’s computer ‘contained hacked data’, says judge

Lauri Love, who has been accused of hacking into US government computer systems, has lost a legal action against the NCA for the return of his computers and storage device
February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19
Healthcare providers should press on with digital transformation

Healthcare providers should continue digitisation efforts with security in mind amid looming cyber threats, says a top T-Systems executive
February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19
IT Priorities 2019: UK investment intent for AI intensifies, SaaS applications mature beyond CRM

AI continues to strengthen as a focus for IT systems buyers in the UK, according to this year’s Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey, while cloud applications are maturing beyond CRM
February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19
IT Priorities 2019: IT professionals plan a big push to migrate off Windows 7

With the clock ticking to Windows 7 end of support, more than half of the IT professionals who took part in a survey have a Windows 10 migration as their top IT project this year
February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19
Dell Boomi taps APAC cloud market

The supplier of cloud-based integration services has expanded into Southeast Asia following its debut in Australia about two years ago
February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19
CISOs under increasing pressure, study shows

Cyber security professionals are under growing pressure from workloads and budget deficits, a study has revealed
February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19
IT Priorities 2019: IT decision-makers plan for APIs

The latest Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey shows that IT professionals are deploying business process automation, but application programming interfaces are not far behind
February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19
Lucidworks CEO talks up ‘data experiences’

Will Hayes discusses Lucidworks’ Asian expansion plans, as well as efforts to help enterprises deliver rich data experiences for employees and customers through AI-augmented search engines
February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19
CIO interview: Neil Holden, IT director, Halfords Group

Motoring and bicycles retailer is growing its use of cloud, expanding on data analytics and exploring new technologies such as artificial intelligence
February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19
Born to be wired

IBM is helping legendary US motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson to get its motor running with a cloud-based service for a new electric bike
February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19
Apple Business Chat powers Npower’s smart meter switch

Energy supplier is using Apple Business Chat to help users through the process of switching onto new smart gas and electricity meters
February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19
Government rules out blockchain at borders until after Brexit due to 'significant work' required

A previous HMRC pilot of distributed ledger technology will not provide any short-term solution to issues around UK borders after Brexit
February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19
Action needed as venture capitalists reluctant to invest in fintechs founded by women

Action is needed if fintechs set up by women are to receive the same level of venture capitalist backing as those set up by men
February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19
Chinese AI startup claims breakthrough in pediatric diagnosis

Yitu Healthcare claims over 90% accuracy when diagnosing a range of pediatric diseases using a natural language processing system
February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19
Businesses fail to grasp the true cost of public cloud

Public cloud infrastructure as a service sounds good on paper, but a survey has found that many IT professionals are seriously overspending
February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19
NHS must use email by default, says health secretary Matt Hancock

Secretary of state for health and social care criticises NHS staff who insist on only sending letters to patients, and says modern, secure communications will save lives
February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19
Australian government warns of blockchain gaps

Digital Transformation Agency dispels some myths around blockchain, calling for government agencies to be cautious about using the technology
February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19
London and Helsinki digital partnership challenges big IT platforms

CDOs of London and Helsinki meet at London’s City Hall to sign a city-to-city digital declaration around AI, open data and digital innovation
February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19
Chesterfield NHS trust consolidates 30 data management systems into one with Civica

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust aims to become a paperless organisation by 2020
February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19
Explainable AI: How and why did the AI say ‘true’?

The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42, according to Deep Thought in ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ – but experts need to explain AI decisions
February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19
Lauri Love takes legal action against NCA for return of seized computers

Lauri Love, a former engineering student who won a battle with the US Department of Justice against extradition to the US to face hacking charges, is suing the UK's intelligence agency, the NCA, for the return of his seized computers
February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19
AI and robotics to form part of curriculum for future medical students

For the NHS to capitalise on the digital future, new technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics will have to be designed into the learning process for medical students
February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19
Build strategic artificial intelligence, but buy for lower research and development risk

There is no shortcut to creating an AI-empowered business, but it is expected that 10% of all IT spending will be on artificial intelligence by 2025
February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19
Interview: Moving to DataOps

During a London data science popup meeting, Computer Weekly caught up with MoneySuperMarket.com’s analytics head, Harvinder Atwal
February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19
Businesses still figuring out digital transformation have already lost

Accenture is calling it a post-digital era, one where businesses are already looking beyond digitisation to capitalise on new tech-driven opportunities
February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19
US Department of Defense backs multi-cloud model to support $10bn JEDI mega-cloud deployment

The US Department of Defense has fleshed out its cloud strategy, as the industry awaits news of who has secured the decade-long contract for its $10bn mega-cloud environment
February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19
Self-driving cars get updated guidelines for trial safety and transparency

The Department for Transport has issued guidance on trial safety and transparency for self-driving cars, and is sticking by its pledge to have self-driving cars on Britain’s roads in the next two years
February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19
Synergy Research Group hails 2018 as standout year for cloud infrastructure market growth

The financial performance of the big cloud giants during the last quarter of 2018 prompts market watcher Synergy Research Group to declare it a "banner year" for the market
February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19
Coders and developers: The new heroes of the network?

Cisco is moving towards a software-based future. We chatted to Susie Wee, founder and leader of Cisco developer and innovation programme, DevNet, to find out how she is helping to enable this change
February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19
Telegraph Media Group switches out AWS to go all-in on Google Cloud

Telegraph Media Group CIO Chris Taylor on why the newspaper publisher is switching out AWS to go all-in on the Google Cloud Platform
February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19
Civil liberties groups to challenge bulk surveillance and intelligence sharing in Strasbourg

Coalition of campaigning groups wins the right to challenge the UK’s use of bulk surveillance powers, which allows suspicionless surveillance of the population and sharing of intercepted data with overseas intelligence agencies, in European Court of...
February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19
Digital Isle of Man launches two initiatives to help blockchain businesses

The Isle of Man continues to promote itself as an international hub for technology startups, and is now taking a much keener interest in blockchain
February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19
Cambridge launches urban data IoT project

The city of Cambridge will use Telensa IoT sensors and a Microsoft Azure platform to better manage its urban data assets
February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19
Alphabet 2018 results: 23% growth, profit squeeze from investment

Alphabet – the conglomerate that includes Google and the search giant’s cloud business – grew revenue 23% in 2018, and stoked up R&D investment
February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19
Interview: The power of open source

Stefanie Chiras, who heads up RHEL at Red Hat, discusses how open source enables enterprises to benefit from tech innovations
February 03, 2019 03 Feb'19
Alibaba Cloud teams up with SMU on training programme

Alibaba Cloud will equip small and medium-sized enterprises with cloud computing and other technology skills through a partnership with Singapore Management University
February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19
Innocent people arrested following surveillance blunders, IPCO reveals

Interception of communications commissioner Adrian Fulford warns of “grave” repercussions for people wrongly identified as suspects due to errors made when government bodies access email, phone and telephone data
February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19
TSB blames IT disaster for huge losses

TSB made a huge loss in its latest financial year because of costs it incurred as a result of an IT disaster
February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19
How TensorFlow makes Candy Crush virtual players

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to beat humans in popular games such as Chess and Go, but King, developer of Candy Crush, has found a novel use for it
February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19
AWS reports fourth quarter revenue growth of 45% as public cloud demand continues apace

Amazon's cloud arm appears to be pulling away, in performance terms, from its parent's company's e-tail business, having generated more operating income during 2018 than its North American retail operations
February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19
Clydesdale, Yorkshire and Virgin Money opt for OpenShift digital push

Banking group CYBG uses OpenShift to roll out a common set of services and improve developer productivity
January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19
No-deal Brexit could lead to data issues, MPs told

Trade body TechUK is concerned smaller companies are far from ready for a no-deal scenario, while warning that leaving without a deal could lead to serious data issues for businesses
January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19
How Airbus handles IoT network traffic in manufacturing

The internet of things is set to power the fourth industrial revolution, providing data to optimise manufacturing. Airbus is starting to put sensors in aircraft assembly
January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19
Microsoft cloud powers earnings boost

CEO Satya Nadella claims Azure compute services are the starting point for digitisation, as businesses add higher value services like AI
January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19
Government launches data trust programme

Digital secretary Jeremy Wright sets out plans for scheme using data sharing to tackle global challenges such as illegal wildlife trade and food waste
January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19
AXA recruits AI assistants in back office

Insurance giant is deploying software robots to take over repetitive tasks and free up humans to do more analytical work
January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19
Department for Transport revamps police road traffic accident reporting system

Working with Civica Digital, the Department for Transport has ramped up the mobile capabilities of its road traffic accident reporting service for police forces across England and Wales
January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19
Australian government turns to Rimini Street for software support

A slew of Australian government agencies have switched out SAP and Oracle maintenance contracts for third-party support services
January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19
IT leaders grapple with workforce skills gap as they deploy AI and digital technology

Organisations will have to find new ways of reskilling their workforce as they get to grips with artificial intelligence and other digital technologies. CIOs also need to keep their skills updated if they are to succeed
January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19
SAP FY 2018: Cloud revenue nears €5bn, 10,500 customers for S/4 Hana

SAP’s full-year 2018 results show cloud revenue at 20% of the total, which was €24.7bn, while the fourth quarter saw 1,000 customers added to its flagship S/4 Hana
January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19
Cisco breaks out of physical datacentres to support app-based future

At Cisco Live Europe, extending datacentre capabilities beyond the confines of the physical site to enable app innovation formed the core of a swathe of announcements made by the networking kingpin
January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19
Brexit won’t curb IT spending

Analyst Gartner expects organisations to carry on buying more IT to support digitisation initiatives
January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19
UK IT spending worth £27bn held back due to Brexit uncertainty

UK businesses are putting billions of pounds of IT investments on hold until they know the terms that the UK will leave the EU