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• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Oracle buys Cerner for nearly $30bn in major push into healthcare

  Oracle has bought healthcare IT provider Cerner for $28.3bn, in a major push into healthcare. It is its largest acquisition since NetSuite for $9.3bn in 2016

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  UK tech startups raise almost £30bn in record year

  The UK tech sector has achieved record growth in the past 12 months after the Covid pandemic paused investment

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  UK IT shapes up for hybrid new normal in 2022

  The latest Computer Weekly IT Priorities survey shows that secure connectivity and cloud remain at the core of enterprises’ needs for the foreseeable future

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 cloud storage, DR and datacentre storage stories of 2021

  Key articles from 2021 that demonstrate the growing importance of cloud storage and disaster recovery, but also the snags that lead to cloud repatriation and difficulties restoring from the cloud

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 software development stories of 2021

  Business recovery is leading to more emphasis on software projects. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories for 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: Cloud-first mindset growing in India

  Nearly half of organisations in India are expected to spend more on cloud services, underscoring the growing cloud-first mindset that is taking root in the subcontinent

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Defra and MoJ hit with £120m IR35 tax bill despite using HMRC guidance

  Government departments landed with tax bills totalling just over £120m over contractor IR35 status errors, despite receiving HMRC guidance and training

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 artificial intelligence stories of 2021

  This year, artificial intelligence has moved to operationalisation, explainability and regulatory frameworks. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 artificial intelligence stories for 2021

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Tokopedia ups ante on observability capabilities

  Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has consolidated its observability capabilities on a single cloud-based platform, enabling it to improve customer service and identify infrastructure issues

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  CDEI research pinpoints barriers to trustworthy AI exploitation

  Survey of UK business by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has disclosed the patchiness of artificial intelligence and data-driven technology adoption across different economic sectors

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Nationwide Building Society moves website to Azure cloud

  Building society’s tech teams work with consultancy Contino to implement new website using the chaos engineering method

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Pressure on government to pay fair compensation to subpostmasters left out of current schemes

  MPs demand that the subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in court should be properly compensated for their losses and suffering

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Gig economy algorithmic management tools ‘unfair and opaque’

  Report published by Worker Info Exchange warns of algorithmically enabled rights abuses in the gig economy, noting the insufficient transparency of employers and the lacklustre nature of legal redress

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Asda follows EG Group sibling in selection of Rise with SAP

  Retailer is looking to improve the agility of its operations in the cloud with a move to Rise with SAP on Microsoft Azure, and to streamline its procurement with SAP Ariba

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  After Log4j, December Patch Tuesday piles on the pressure

  December’s Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft contains several critical CVEs, but this month all attention is focused on the fall-out from Log4Shell, and burn-out is becoming a real issue

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Digital Ethics Summit: Innovation needs regulation to be ethical

  Experts attending the 2021 Digital Ethics Summit spoke out against the idea that regulation will stifle technological innovation, arguing that setting clear rules will produce more ethical innovation

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  AIB signs up to z15-powered transformation

  Irish bank has continued its investment in IBM z-series hardware and the Red Hat software portfolio to help it achieve its digital transformation goals

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  CMA wants Apple and Google to open up mobile ecosystem

  Interim report from Competitions and Markets Authority finds Apple and Google exert too much control over the mobile device market

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Avaya enhances educational and logistics environments with UCaaS and cloud

  Supply chain leader supports business expansion and supercharges agent retention with cloud comms platform, and enables ‘exceptional’ education experiences for thousands of students with unified comms as a service

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Joint committee publishes report on improving Online Safety Bill

  MPs and peers release report on Online Safety Bill following five-month inquiry into the draft legislation and make a number of recommendations on how it can be improved to deal with harmful content and abuse on the internet

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Government must go further after agreeing to pay compensation for wrongly convicted subpostmasters

  The government has agreed to pay compensation to former subpostmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, but continues to refuse to pay a significant group of victims

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  How to scale up your AI initiatives

  Executive sponsorship, a strong data foundation and having ‘analytics artists’ are among ways to scale up AI initiatives beyond the pilot stage

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Industry group aims to tackle energy-efficient software development

  How many processor cycles does an algorithm use? Can it use less and, if so, how will this reduce overall energy usage and greenhouse emissions?

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Scottish government announces support for right to disconnect

  The Scottish government is the first in the UK to publicly support a right to disconnect, which would give people the ability not engage in digitally enabled work-related activities outside of their contracted hours

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2022

  Operationalising zero trust, talent retention and containerisation are just some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2022

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  SMEs dominate list of 200 fastest growing tech companies

  List of 200 fastest growing companies in the public sector is made up primarily of small and medium-sized enterprises, which collectively earned £936m from government contracts in the past fiscal year

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Finland looks to democratise the ‘wild west’ of artificial intelligence

  Finland could play an important role in increasing the understanding of what artificial intelligence software can do for society

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  UAE joins the race to produce a usable quantum computer

  As part of its ongoing effort to keep up with the latest technology, the United Arab Emirates has begun work on the region’s first quantum computer

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  More than 50% of UK workers would quit without hybrid work

  Research provides insight into the views of UK workers regarding splitting time between the office and home

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  Pure adds flagship FlashArray//XL with doubled throughput

  High-end enterprise-targeted FlashArray//XL leverages latest Intel Ice Lake CPU, PCIe 4.0 and distributes SLC flash across drive modules to double throughput over existing arrays

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  AWS re:Invent 2021: Four key takeaways for ASEAN firms

  AWS’s third-generation Graviton processor and other offerings in edge computing, machine learning and digital twin technologies are of relevance to organisations in Southeast Asia

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: ERP gets back on the horse

  Automation and going cloud-first have gained significant interest for enterprise software and data management investment in the UK, according to the annual TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT Priorities 2022 survey

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Zopa to focus on banking after closing peer-to-peer lending

  Peer-to-peer lending pioneer Zopa to focus on its banking operation after the closure of its original business

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Former TSB CEO joins money-sharing fintech

  Paul Pester teams up with fintech heavyweights to target multibillion-pound money-sharing market

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  AI assistant Bürokratt to reduce bureaucracy in Estonian government

  Estonia to launch a Siri-like digital assistant that will automate the completion of government service requests

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  APAC banks gear up on cloud, but challenges remain

  Public cloud spending by financial institutions in the region is rising even as they grapple with legacy IT challenges and cost concerns

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  European finance firms increase open banking spend

  Financial services firms are increasing investment in open banking capabilities, with improvements to payment initiation and onboarding capabilities expected

• December 05, 2021 05 Dec'21

  Australia’s NSW to build A$40m digital twin

  The spatial digital twin brings together government data sources to provide insights for urban planners and residents to support decision-making and see into the future

• December 03, 2021 03 Dec'21

  NUHS to tap edge supercomputing to crunch AI workloads

  Singapore’s National University Health System will tap edge supercomputing resources to train AI models in a range of healthcare-related AI applications by mid-2022

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  Pandora Papers: How journalists mined terabytes of offshore data to expose the world’s elites

  Six hundred journalists spent over a year mining 2.94 terabytes of data that revealed offshore companies and the politicians, world leaders and celebrities who secretly owned them

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  India’s IT spending to cross $100bn mark in 2022

  Led by software investments, the growth in IT spending comes as organisations in the subcontinent look to modernise their IT infrastructure and support a hybrid workforce

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Unesco member states adopt AI ethics recommendation

  The non-binding recommendation seeks to define a common set of values and principles to guide the development of ethical AI globally

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Cloud-based Redwood becomes latest challenger bank to make a profit

  Cloud-based business bank becomes the latest of the new wave of challengers to achieve profit

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: IT a focus for business recovery

  The pandemic has accelerated IT initiatives – we look at what impact this will have on the CIO agenda for 2022

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  UK MSP set to use Nebulon cloud-defined storage IaaS

  UK service provider Inca to use “cloud-defined storage” to support managed service provider offer in move which shunned hyper-converged infrastructure because of cited costly overheads

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  MI6 will ‘open up’ to tech firms to innovate faster than adversaries, says chief Richard Moore

  MI6 will use investment fund to back tech companies to develop long-term technologies that will help it to keep pace with China and Russia

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  UK bank branch cull continues as TSB condemns 70 more

  TSB’s branch closure programme gathers pace as dozens more high street premises are shuttered

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  Financial Ombudsman Service takes step towards digital transformation with Workday

  Ombudsman uses human resource and financial management software in the cloud

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  Rapidly changing hybrid workforce sees IT departments struggle to keep up

  Research finds faulty technology is leaving businesses ill-equipped to support the future of working, warning that tech-savvy workers will expect more from their employers