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• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Innovation underpinned by trustworthy governance, says CDEI

  Public support for greater use of digital technologies such as AI depends on how much trust people have in its governance, says report

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  APAC leads in open source adoption

  APAC organisations are using open source software to modernise their infrastructure and develop containerised applications, though security concerns linger on

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  UK network users burn through unprecedented data in lockdown 3

  Coinciding with the launch of Call of Duty: Warzone update, Virgin Media records its busiest day on record, with the average user downloading more than 20GB of data

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Microsoft Exchange CVEs more widely exploited than thought

  US CISA issues emergency guidance as impact of four newly disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities becomes clearer

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Bank of Ireland to reduce branch network by almost half

  Bank of Ireland is latest bank to pin its future on digital channels as customers change their banking habits

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Veritas looks beyond NetBackup for growth in ASEAN

  Veritas has seen increased demand for its availability tools as it looks to address backup and recovery requirements from cloud, database and VMware workloads

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Emergency patch addresses MS Exchange Server zero-days

  Microsoft releases an emergency patch to address multiple zero-day exploits directed at on-premise installations of Exchange Server

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  HPE results show demand for remote data and consumption model

  As businesses prepare for the return to the office, HPE expects many of its customers will continue to need remote working and advanced analytics

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  IBM eyes hybrid cloud opportunity in ASEAN

  The hybrid cloud message is resonating among Southeast Asian enterprises that are looking to modernise their applications and systems, says IBM’s general manager for the region

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  PGA Tour teams up with AWS to improve fan engagement during tournaments

  PGA Tour selects Amazon Web Services as its official cloud service partner as it sets about revamping tournament viewing experience for golf fans

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Google prepares for hybrid return to office work

  As the economy reopens, people are set to return to office work. But some are likely to want the flexibility to work from home

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  How SAP is riding the rising tide of cloud

  SAP’s newly minted president for Asia-Pacific and Japan talks up the company’s cloud traction and what is being done to ease the transition to S/4 Hana

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  Only 12% of worldwide enterprises fully embrace SASE

  Global survey reveals that although many public and private sector organisations have elements of secure access service edge in their IT stack, few have a comprehensive architecture and a significant number do not embrace the philosophy at all

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  It’s now or never for UK fintech, government told

  The UK government faces a ‘now or never’ moment if it wants financial technology to play a central role in the economy for years to come

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Nordic startups strive to fuel international e-commerce transformation

  Nordic startups are developing technology for retailers that want to improve the customer experience when buying online

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Palantir once more in sights of civil libertarians over NHS Covid data store

  The award of a new government contract to data analytics supplier Palantir on the back of its participation in the NHS Covid-19 data store has provoked Open Democracy into legal action, backed up by an exposure of lobbying activity that pre-dates ...

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Huawei opens developer lab in Singapore

  Huawei’s Digix lab will provide software development resources to those who are building mobile apps for Huawei’s mobile platform

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  GCHQ sets out rules of the road for AI in cyber

  A paper produced by GCHQ shows how the intelligence agency can use artificial intelligence responsibly as a tool to protect the UK’s national security

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Deloitte: How organisations can prepare for new look office work

  In the 1980s, desktop computing changed the workplace. Today, the coronavirus pandemic has led to companies rewriting a 40-year-old rule book

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Facebook’s AI doctoral research programme makes inroads into UK

  Facebook collaborates with University College London to bring artificial intelligence doctoral research programme to the UK, with aim to open-sourcing the findings

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Vaccine passports prove an ethical minefield

  Privacy campaigners warn that vaccine passports may turn out to be discriminatory and invasive, while technologists agree careful consideration must be given to their design

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Microsoft builds industry-specific clouds for financial services and manufacturing firms

  Software giant follows up launch of industry-specific cloud offerings for retail and healthcare organisations with a commitment to do the same for non-profits, manufacturing and financial services firms

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Veeam v11 adds continuous data protection and cloud archive

  Backup specialist’s annual upgrade brings continuous data protection to offer better RPOs and RTOs than existing snapshot functionality and without impact on running processes

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Appointment of disgraced former Post Office director triggers vote of no confidence in Welsh FA boss

  Vote of no confidence in Football Association of Wales boss triggered by recruitment of former Post Office executive who tried to mislead a judge in IT trial

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  Subpostmaster group calls for prime minister to pause Horizon ‘whitewash’ inquiry

  Subpostmasters call for Boris Johnson to pause and reshape the government’s Horizon inquiry

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  XDR makes cyber a Stroll in the park for Aston Martin F1

  Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One team will run SentinelOne’s Singularity XDR platform under the bonnet

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  Poor data leads to IT squabbles and work stress

  Covid-19 has boosted IT in business, but IT workers feel they are overworked and are often in conflict with colleagues. Can better data help?

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  AI powers reputational damage insurance policy

  Reputational damage has an immediate impact on a company’s share price, and brand loyalty built over many years can be lost in an instant

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics

  Company’s GeoSpock DB is aimed at optimising queries of large volumes of geospatial data with scale and speed

• February 22, 2021 22 Feb'21

  UK government set to offer fintech visa

  The importance of immigrant workers to the UK's fintech sector highlighted by government planned fintech visa

• February 21, 2021 21 Feb'21

  Dell to invest $50m in Singapore innovation hub

  Dell Technologies’ global innovation hub will house a research and development lab and other facilities to drive development and adoption of emerging technologies

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Tech shortfalls erode company culture in mid-size businesses

  Nearly half of European office workers feel their company culture has suffered due to coronavirus restrictions, with companies faced with the difficult task of creating a supportive, digital-driven company culture that works for everyone

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Fujitsu bosses knew about Post Office Horizon IT flaws, says insider

  A former senior developer who worked for Fujitsu on the Post Office IT system that led to subpostmasters being falsely accused of fraud, has claimed bosses knew of fundamental flaws before going live

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Oracle unveils final cog in cloud strategy

  Oracle’s Roving Edge Infrastructure is getting interest from mining companies in Australia and manufacturers in ASEAN that are looking to run cloud-based workloads in edge locations

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  Why technology leaders must drive post-Covid agenda

  IT has shown its worth during the pandemic and in 2021, Accenture believes business leaders will need to apply IT more strategically

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  More than two-thirds of firms would invest in dedicated remote working connectivity

  Firms are faced with supporting more remote working for their businesses going forward, and a survey has shed light on what form this support will take and what firms believe they will need in the ‘new normal’

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  Google Cloud partners Tata Communications in India

  Tata Communications will offer managed services for Google Cloud that will include cloud architecture planning and workload migration

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  How software developers can make more dough

  There are subtle differences across Europe in developer salaries, depending on experience and demand for front-end, full-stack or front-end roles

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  TransferGo to harness Google-inspired tech capability

  Payments fintech TransferGo chooses cloud-native core banking platform to build a digital wallet and expand its services

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  Covid-19: Risk model identifies 800,000 vulnerable individuals

  Research funded by the National Institute for Health Research has resulted in the development of a new coronavirus risk assessment model

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  Covid-19 drives growth in low-code development tools

  The pandemic and lockdowns have led to remote work and increased online activity, and businesses have needed to develop new applications rapidly

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  Qatar regulator launches platform to monitor human understanding of financial crime

  Qatari financial services regulator works with global body to provide digital platform to assess whether financial services workers understand how to prevent financial crime

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  NHS trust expedites data management with Qlik in pandemic

  Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust turned its use of BI apps from Qlik to rapid effect during the Covid-19 public health emergency

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  ENIAC anniversary: What 75 years of computer technology have delivered

  The ENIAC was a computer built for the US Army to calculate missile trajectories during the Second World War, but it was finally delivered in February 1946

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  How computer vision can protect coral reefs

  The Australian Institute of Marine Science teams up with Accenture to protect coral reefs in a computer vision project inspired by a Netflix documentary

• February 14, 2021 14 Feb'21

  Cancer Council NSW fixes data silos in integration move

  The Cancer Council in New South Wales has integrated its core systems to eliminate data silos and improve productivity

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  Masergy, Cisco construct UCaaS collaboration solution

  SD-WAN provider teams with networking and collaboration technology giant to address distributed enterprises’ communications needs

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Benioff projects future of work onto Salesforce’s ‘Cloud 3.0’

  Salesforce is unveiling a vision of the future of work based on what it calls ‘Cloud 3.0’, with ‘Hyperforce’ – a rearchitecting of the Salesforce CRM platform to run on public clouds

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Massive uptick in collaboration software usage in 2020

  US and Europe show differing directions of travel in remote working take-up but leading collaboration systems exhibit four-figure growth since February 2020, with usage levels set to remain high as the new normal of work establishes itself

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Goldman Sachs reopens UK digital savings account

  US banking giant resumes online account for UK savers after temporarily withdrawing it in response to high demand