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• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Nordic CIO interview: Tommi Tuovila, Neste

  Former Olympian talks to Computer Weekly about the challenges facing CIOs in a rapidly changing world

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Think 2021: AI and automation dominate IBM’s growth strategy

  Think 2021 was an opportunity for IBM to showcase its progress in a vision for hybrid cloud operations and artificial intelligence

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Edging closer to composable business

  Covid-19 forced organisations to try radical new things. Building apps from pre-built functions is one that Mulesoft believes has longevity

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Portworx gets container-native array management for Pure hardware

  Container storage player Portworx builds in container-native functionality to allow discovery, provisioning and management from inside Kubernetes cluster, but only on Pure arrays so far

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  How OAG has adapted data services for return to airline travel

  Covid-19 led to radical changes across the travel sector. Despite lower passenger flows, global travel data provider OAG reworked its data offerings to prepare for a return to normal

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack has grave consequences

  The ramifications of a major ransomware attack against a US fuel pipeline operator could spread far and wide

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Dysfunctional cyber, network teams disrupt digital transformation

  Despite shared goals, combative and dysfunctional relationships within specialist tech teams are putting digital transformation projects at risk, according to a report

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  UK supermarkets to trial age estimation tech for alcohol purchases

  Biometric age estimation technology developed by Yoti to be tested in UK supermarkets for alcohol purchases as part of government-led digital identities initiative

• April 23, 2021 23 Apr'21

  Intel quarterly results reveal tactics to address ARM in the datacentre

  The chipmaker aims to make use of standard chip libraries and offer its customers different ways to package and optimise Intel silicon

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Met Office prepares for 1.5 million processor, 60 petaflop supercomputer

  Azure, Cray supercomputers and Epyc core are the key ingredients inside weather forecasting service’s latest development to improve data

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Google and Siemens combine forces to address AI at the industrial edge

  The partnership shows how the public cloud giants are branching out into specialist application areas to different industry sectors

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  AET gets Ctera to smooth hybrid cloud access to big files

  Remote locations with unreliable WAN connections needed to share large files, which was a real headache until US engineering firm got Ctera edge filers with Azure cloud as a tier

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Nvidia targets datacentre memory bottleneck

  The graphics processing unit (GPU) chipmaker has introduced its first datacentre chip, named after computer pioneer, Grace Hopper

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  IT leaders get the green light to spend on digitisation

  According to Gartner, the pandemic has pushed IT to the top of the business agenda, and long-term IT integration is key to success

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  UK courts face evidence ‘black hole’ over police EncroChat mass hacking

  French investigators have refused to disclose how they downloaded millions of messages from a supposedly secure cryptophone network used by organised criminals – leaving UK courts to grapple with a forensic ‘black hole’ of evidence

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  Interview: Paul Douglas, Scottish Water

  Building an enterprise architecture involves balancing near- and mid-term goals with longer-term business objective, cost and technical challenges, says Paul Douglas, lead enterprise architect at Scottish Water

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Laying the groundwork on quantum roadmap

  IBM has plans to develop a 1,000-plus qubit quantum computer system within two years. We look at how it is preparing software developers

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Unionised drivers call on Microsoft to suspend Uber’s Face API licences

  Unionised private hire drivers in the UK are calling for Microsoft to suspend Uber’s licences to use its Face API technology after claims the ride-hailing firm’s ID-checking system has led to drivers losing their jobs and having licences revoked

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  CIO interview: Juliette Atkinson, IT director, Bradford University

  Bradford University’s IT director took a different route than most to get into IT leadership

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  Survey: Backup failures hit a high as pandemic working hits home

  Veeam survey finds distributed working plus operations that span on-prem and the cloud the background to high numbers of failures in backup and restore, with 40% of SLAs not met

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Banks still lack tech skills at the top

  Banks have made progress in adding IT knowledge in their boardrooms, but they need more as digital transformation accelerates

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Goldman Sachs CEO comments highlight need for home working balance

  The remote working revolution has been prominent in the banking sector and organisations have a balancing act to perform once the pandemic passes

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  FINN completes Covid-delayed migration to the cloud

  Norwegian online advertising marketplace completes cloud migration in a single night after months of delay due to the pandemic

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  Covid accelerates Bradford University remote working project

  Pandemic injected fuel into university’s existing project to introduce remote working

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Businesses forced to ask IT service providers for help during pandemic

  IT service providers have been approached by long-time enterprise customers asking for price cuts due to the impact of the pandemic

• 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 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  HPE on the ISS: In space, no one can hear your CPU fans

  In The Martian, Matt Damon is stranded on Mars, and his comms link is so slow that it takes almost an hour to have a conversation. Now HPE is going into orbit

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  CIO interview: Deryck Mitchelson, director of digital, NHS Scotland

  We speak to NHS Scotland’s head of digital about the IT to help ease the pressure on the health service, which has intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Liverpool City Council upgrades to cloud-based contact centre

  An 8x8 integrated cloud PaaS contact centre with voice, team chat and meetings support is helping to drive the council’s digital agenda

• January 22, 2021 22 Jan'21

  Where is Intel going to place its next strategic bet?

  Intel is getting a new CEO and the company is on a mission to move beyond the x86, a processor architecture that it has defined and dominated

• 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 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  150,000 records accidentally wiped from police systems

  Home Office claims data wiped from national police systems only relates to people who have never been convicted of a crime or had further police action taken against them following an arrest

• 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

• December 30, 2020 30 Dec'20

  Top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2020

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

• December 24, 2020 24 Dec'20

  Top 10 Middle East stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Middle East stories of 2020

• 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 21, 2020 21 Dec'20

  Top 10 enterprise IT in the Nordics stories of 2020

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

• December 21, 2020 21 Dec'20

  Top 10 container storage stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 container storage stories for 2020, when providing persistent Kubernetes storage, backup and disaster recovery became a key challenge for many organisations

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  UK police unlawfully processing over a million people’s data on Microsoft 365

  The roll-out of Microsoft 365 to dozens of UK police forces may be unlawful, because many have failed to conduct data protection checks before deployment and hold no information on their contracts

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Air purifier manufacturer creates IoT service in the cloud

  Sweden’s Blueair introduces new functionality for customers through a cloud-based internet of things platform

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  FireEye identifies flaw in networking monitoring software as US agencies attacked

  Cyber security company says investigations have revealed security breach occurred because of a flaw in a network monitoring software

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  AWS eyes mainframe workloads

  Amazon Web Services is doubling down on efforts to help its partners address the growing demand for capabilities to migrate mainframe workloads to the cloud

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  UK Space Agency awards £7m for space innovation projects

  A range of ‘high risk, high reward’ projects have been awarded a total of £7m from the Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme, aiming to make the UK a world leader in space technology

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  ICT disaster threatens Dutch environment law

  The Dutch government’s revamp of its construction planning law faces major IT challenges and scepticism

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  CIO interview: John Davison, First Central Group

  For the last nine years, John Davison has provided an IT strategy to drive business operations. Automation is the next phase of that strategy

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  What it takes for APAC firms to ride out the pandemic

  Whether businesses will recover from the Covid-19 pandemic will depend on how they leverage technology to innovate, create new business models and build digital trust

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  Merger of national policing systems over budget and behind schedule

  UK government effort to replace legacy IT systems suffers further delays, and will not be fully completed until 2025 at the earliest

• November 19, 2020 19 Nov'20

  Why databases are key to Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales

  With each order split into multiple database transactions, ensuring the scalability and elasticity of database systems was key to the success of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales

• November 13, 2020 13 Nov'20

  Dutch IT award recognises importance of research in the wild

  Promoter of human-centric scientific research techniques claims the prestigious 2020 Netherlands Prize for ICT Research

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  Financial Stability Board says it’s time to talk about IT outsourcing risks

  International organisation that monitors the finance sector asks for the industry to discuss the risks that IT outsourcing brings to the sector