News

Enterprise software

• January 22, 2021 22 Jan'21

  MinIO stakes leadership claims in cloud object container storage

  2016 startup MinIO reckons it has first mover advantage as a container-native platform that provides private/cloud object storage in and orchestrated by Kubernetes

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  Few workers see employers as ready for new normal

  Study finds vast majority of workers feel employers are not fully prepared to support the longer-term move to a hybrid workforce, prompting a need for organisations to plan their ‘future workplace’ better

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  More subpostmasters’ prosecutions sent to appeal for wrongful conviction

  Four more subpostmasters are to have their appeals against criminal convictions heard in the appeal courts

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  Architect slashes 20% off storage costs with Nasuni NAS gateway

  LA-based Jerde Partnership replaced on-premise storage and backup with Nasuni hybrid cloud NAS gateways to provide seamless access across timezones to project files

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  IT scandal exposes legal rule that made it easy for Post Office to prosecute the innocent

  Lawyers call for changes to digital evidence rule that made it easier for the Post Office to ‘bamboozle courts’ and make subpostmasters pay a heavy price for its IT failings

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  Malwarebytes also hit by SolarWinds attackers

  The nation state group that attacked SolarWinds in December got inside Malwarebytes by exploiting privileged access to its Microsoft Office 365 tenant, the firm reveals

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  Hybrid working a reality but business leaders not yet giving up on the office

  Research finds C-suite executives and business leaders will primarily split their workforces between on-site and remote work, with markedly small numbers looking to adopt exclusive on-site or remote working practices

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  How Globe Telecom is doubling down on cloud

  The largest mobile operator in the Philippines has moved its legacy systems to the cloud and there is more to come as it looks towards deploying cloud radio access networks and cloud-native applications

• January 18, 2021 18 Jan'21

  Nottinghamshire uses citizen engagement tools to inform residents

  Nottinghamshire Council is seeking to expand Granicus integrations after success in using its communications services to keep citizens informed during pandemic

• January 18, 2021 18 Jan'21

  AI specialists and software engineers among most popular UK roles, says LinkedIn

  Demand for specialist software engineers and people with skills in AI have risen, according to professional network LinkedIn

• January 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  Google Cloud, Nokia accelerate readiness for cloud-native enterprise 5G solutions

  Cloud platform provider and comms tech supplier announce plans to jointly develop cloud-native 5G core solutions for communications service providers and enterprise customers with cloud capabilities to the network edge to accelerate enterprise ...

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  London received quarter of all European tech funding in 2020

  Technology startups in London raised near-record levels of venture capital investment last year despite uncertainty related to Brexit and Covid-19

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  Numbers stack up for UK open banking three years on

  Three years have passed since open banking regulations came into force and momentum is gathering

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  Unforeseen consequences of new technologies put UK at risk

  Lords committee told that the risks associated with various emerging digital technologies must be assessed together, with input from UK citizens, if the government is to avoid ‘siloisation’ of fundamentally interconnected problems

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  VVOLs and Pure win VM storage beauty parade for French chain

  VMware Virtual Volumes and a move from NetApp to Pure Storage saw cosmetics retailer Beauty Success make performance gains and eliminate bottlenecks in ordering and logistics

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  Zoom reveals phone product spike, public offer price

  Strong service performance, reliability and enterprise-grade features drive uptake of Zoom Phone as still rapidly growing conferencing firm announces $1.75bn share offering

• January 13, 2021 13 Jan'21

  Covid-19 immunity passport tests to begin in UK

  A Covid-19 immunity and vaccination passport developed by two UK firms and backed by Innovate UK has entered the live testing phase

• January 13, 2021 13 Jan'21

  BT eyes up next-gen services with digital unit

  In what it says is an important statement of intent following a 2020 with a number of innovations, incumbent telco announces new division designed to deliver next-gen digital platforms and services

• January 13, 2021 13 Jan'21

  South Central Ambulance Service drives out of Covid data fog with Qlik

  Ambulance service’s business intelligence has come into its own during the coronavirus crisis, helping the managers behind the paramedics to deliver the service with fast data flows and joined-up datasets

• January 13, 2021 13 Jan'21

  Critical zero-day features in first Patch Tuesday of 2021

  Microsoft releases fixes for 84 bugs on the first Patch Tuesday of 2021, including a critical zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Defender

• January 12, 2021 12 Jan'21

  Retail giant Walmart to launch a fintech

  Fintech will be geared towards offering the services Walmart’s customers and employees want

• January 12, 2021 12 Jan'21

  Community Fibre ups ante with fibre-based entertainment service

  London-based fibre altnet uses growing gigabit network to offer first entertainment service based on full-fibre broadband

• January 12, 2021 12 Jan'21

  Former ministers speak out on Mike Lynch extradition

  As Mike Lynch, founder and former CEO of Autonomy, awaits his US extradition hearing, several former Tory MPs have expressed their concerns

• January 11, 2021 11 Jan'21

  Ordnance Survey opens up direct, API access to location data for public sector

  Location data made available to public sector organisations via application programming interfaces, reducing data management overheads

• January 11, 2021 11 Jan'21

  Pennine NHS trust gets new imaging tech

  Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is the first of eight NHS trusts to go live with a Manchester-wide diagnostic imaging project

• January 08, 2021 08 Jan'21

  Major facial-recognition supplier builds system to identify masked faces

  Facial-recognition supplier claims new system can accurately identify masked faces, therefore promoting public health during the pandemic. But questions remain about whether its existing UK law enforcement clients will be deploying the technology

• January 08, 2021 08 Jan'21

  AI Council advises government to do artificial intelligence moonshots

  The AI Council has published a “roadmap” of advice to government in respect of developing a UK state strategy for artificial intelligence, encompassing skills, vendor support and public sector procurement

• January 08, 2021 08 Jan'21

  British Gas tackles omnichannel customer correspondence

  Utility firm hopes to map out customer communications to help deliver a better customer experience and improve the business

• January 07, 2021 07 Jan'21

  Poor data flows hampered government’s Covid-19 response, says the Science and Technology Committee

  House of Commons Science and Technology Committee finds poor data management to have hampered the government’s Covid-19 pandemic response

• January 07, 2021 07 Jan'21

  Competition and Markets Authority kicks off Nvidia/Arm investigation

  In September, Arm and Nvidia announced a £31bn merger. Will Arm chip design remain free from Nvidia’s influence?

• January 07, 2021 07 Jan'21

  Robust member administration system indispensable for Dutch Coeliac Society

  Organisation had to find a dedicated member administration system to support existing members, new members and countless volunteers

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  Distributed supercomputer DiRAC gets a £20m upgrade

  New funding will be used to boost performance and make the HPC system much more energy efficient

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  NHS trust says appointment processes robust despite criticism of role for Post Office scandal CEO

  NHS trust defends its director appointment process following an external review of its recruitment of former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells

• January 05, 2021 05 Jan'21

  AI advancement: Mimicking decision-making

  In The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger is transported back to 1984. If Arnie had to rely on cloud connectivity, he’d still be walking around naked

• January 05, 2021 05 Jan'21

  SKT and AWS debut 5G edge cloud service

  SK Telecom’s multi-access edge computing service will let enterprises build low latency applications that make use of AWS cloud services

• January 04, 2021 04 Jan'21

  Caerphilly council delivers free school meals through automation

  Welsh council expands its robotic process automation project, which has successfully helped the council deliver free school meals during the Covid-19 pandemic

• January 03, 2021 03 Jan'21

  Covid-19’s impact on the retail supply chain

  The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed gaps in the ability of retailers to mitigate supply chain imbalances

• December 31, 2020 31 Dec'20

  Pandemic heroes dominate New Year Honours List 2021

  The New Year Honours List 2021 is remarkable for its recognition of those who have excelled during the Covid-19 public health emergency, including digital and data professionals

• December 30, 2020 30 Dec'20

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2020

• December 30, 2020 30 Dec'20

  UK-EU Brexit deal passes Commons with six-month data adequacy bridge

  IT industry trade body TechUK has welcomed a six-month data adequacy bridge, in the wake of the EU-UK trade deal that the House of Commons has voted for

• December 30, 2020 30 Dec'20

  Top 10 information management stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2020

• December 29, 2020 29 Dec'20

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 business applications stories of 2020

• December 24, 2020 24 Dec'20

  UK-EU Brexit deal: TechUK and DigitalEurope hail new dawn but note unfinished data business

  Technology trade bodies TechUK and DigitalEurope welcome Christmas Eve UK-EU Brexit deal as a new dawn, but say there is work still be to done on data adequacy and financial equivalence

• December 24, 2020 24 Dec'20

  UK-EU Brexit deal: TechUK sees positive runes on digital and data adequacy

  TechUK is giving a cautious welcome to the imminent UK-EU trade deal, seeing positive signs for data adequacy and digital trade

• December 24, 2020 24 Dec'20

  Top 10 software development stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories of 2020

• December 24, 2020 24 Dec'20

  Top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020

• December 23, 2020 23 Dec'20

  Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020

• December 23, 2020 23 Dec'20

  Cisco reveals intention to acquire Dashbase

  Networking tech and services giant gets out the corporate chequebook for the third time in a matter of weeks to buy customer experience and analytics software provider

• December 23, 2020 23 Dec'20

  Top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud storage stories of 2020

• December 22, 2020 22 Dec'20

  Top 10 remote working stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 remote working stories of 2020