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IT architecture
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May 21, 2019
21
May'19
MoneySupermarket.com orchestrates data pipeline with GKE
The price comparison site has used container orchestration to split its machine learning data pipeline into parallel processes
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May 14, 2019
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May'19
How Lexipol migrated 100 VMs over the wire from VMware to Nutanix
Using VMotion, risk management firm Lexipol was able to copy its VMware storage pool in California onto Nutanix storage in its new Texas datacentre
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May 13, 2019
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May'19
CIO interview: Sanjeev Katwa, head of technology, Tottenham Hotspur FC
The Premier League club’s state-of-the-art new stadium is claimed to be the most technologically advanced in the world – its IT leader takes us behind the scenes
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May 09, 2019
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May'19
Nutanix takes aim at making multi-cloud simple
Provider of hyper-converged technology, Nutanix, is breaking out of the datacentre and hybrid IT to enable workloads to move anywhere
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April 16, 2019
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Apr'19
Nutanix powers Manchester City Council’s IT
Manchester City Council has made considerable savings since migrating off a traditional architecture in favour of a hyper-converged infrastructure from Nutanix
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April 10, 2019
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Apr'19
Microsoft aims to coax AI developers
Microsoft has traditionally had strong ties with developers. It now wants to emulate its success, using a platform to simplify AI development
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March 26, 2019
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Mar'19
Web inventor wants a web built on solid data principles
Tim Berners-Lee has urged app developers to be courteous to users’ data privacy, saying users should own their own data and apps need to interoperate
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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
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March 13, 2019
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Mar'19
Bank of England’s large IT spend partly due to use of manual processes and legacy systems
The Bank of England admits there is room for improvement when it comes to IT efficiency
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March 05, 2019
05
Mar'19
Government must prioritise replacement of legacy IT, MPs told
Science and Technology Committee inquiry into digital government told that Treasury needs to offer funding in next spending review to eliminate ageing technology in Whitehall
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February 27, 2019
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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
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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
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February 20, 2019
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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
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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
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February 07, 2019
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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
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February 05, 2019
05
Feb'19
Payday lender cuts troubleshooting by 30% with Virtual Instruments
Curo Financial thought storage was slowing down its websites, but found virtual machine and network issues were to blame. To fix this, it’s going proactive on storage performance issues
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February 04, 2019
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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
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January 31, 2019
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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
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January 24, 2019
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Jan'19
IBM reports growing interest in multicloud
As it gets ready to onboard Red Hat, IBM claims its multicloud business has a lot of potential
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January 16, 2019
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Jan'19
UK financial services regulator to link top banker bonuses to IT performance
FCA head tells Commons Treasury committee: “We expect banks’ policies on variable remuneration to reflect operational resilience. They have to – if they don’t, we will act.”
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January 11, 2019
11
Jan'19
AWS pushes MongoDB compatible alternative as licences change
They probably didn't see that coming... MongoDB's switch to server-side licensing may have backfired, as AWS launches an API-compatible version
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January 09, 2019
09
Jan'19
Mercedes-Benz collaborates with Nvidia on in-car supercomputer
Partners plan to work on an in-car computer for autonomous driving, and to replace existing in-car systems
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January 07, 2019
07
Jan'19
Huawei debuts Arm-based chip, eyes broader server market
Huawei’s Kunpeng 920 processor is geared towards big data and infrastructure applications, marking its foray into Arm-based servers that are set to change the dynamics of the datacentre market
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December 31, 2018
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Dec'18
Executive interview: Why Bet365 is going for Golang
If you face the same challenges as the web giants, why not choose a language developed by Google? We speak to Bet365’s head of sports development
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December 27, 2018
27
Dec'18
Top 10 Middle East stories of 2018
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Middle East enterprise IT stories of 2018
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December 21, 2018
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Dec'18
Top 10 developer stories of 2018
Thanks to DevOps, the need for businesses to develop software more quickly and a thriving open source community, 2018 has been a good year for developers
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December 19, 2018
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Dec'18
Top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2018
From cyber security planning to smart city initiatives, here is a selection of articles about IT developments in the Benelux countries
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December 18, 2018
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Dec'18
Top 10 end user computing stories of 2018
Processor flaws, browser-based desktop IT and the idea of a fully managed PC service were among the hot topics this year
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December 13, 2018
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Dec'18
Sberbank partners US accelerator for startup programme
Russian state-run bank links up with San Francisco-based accelerator 500 Startups to provide expert advice to startups in a variety of tech fields
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December 12, 2018
12
Dec'18
Interview: Dheeraj Pandey, CEO, Nutanix
It may be known for hyper-converged infrastructure, but Nutanix now has its head in the clouds
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December 07, 2018
07
Dec'18
Hybrid cloud in Australian government removes supplier lock-in
Australian public sector could take the hybrid approach to cloud computing as government’s digital transformation strategy moves ahead
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December 05, 2018
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Dec'18
IT monitoring tops uses for machine data analytics
Advanced analytics is being deployed to make sense of the masses of machine data in IT operation, but complex environments is making this harder
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November 29, 2018
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Nov'18
Virtual Instruments aims to be “the brain of the datacentre”
Virtual Instruments hopes artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality that helps IT staff spot connections between application and storage performance could put an end to the “war room”
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November 29, 2018
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Nov'18
Nutanix grows subscription revenue
It made its name in hyper-converged hardware, but Nutanix is now growing its SaaS-based software infrastructure business
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November 27, 2018
27
Nov'18
Why IT infrastructure approach needs modernising
The freedom and flexibility to develop applications rapidly using diverse platforms will put IT infrastructure teams under increasing strain
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November 27, 2018
27
Nov'18
Data volumes set to hit 175ZB with a tectonic shift to the cloud
There will be more data in the public cloud than enterprise datacentres or consumer devices by 2025 as data shifts location, according to a study by IDC and Seagate
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November 21, 2018
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Nov'18
Post Office held back information about Horizon IT system errors
Post Office director admits to Horizon errors and not sharing details with subpostmaster network
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November 19, 2018
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Nov'18
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2019
Edge computing, data management and microservices will play a bigger role in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019 as enterprises reshape their technology architectures to become ‘digitally determined’ organisations
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November 14, 2018
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Nov'18
Challenger bank ready to get its banking licence back
CivilisedBank is reapplying for a banking licence after giving it up to focus on its technology
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November 09, 2018
09
Nov'18
Why commercial software providers are buying into cloud native
There is a reason why IBM has announced it will be spending $34bn to buy Red Hat, much like VMware’s acquisition of Heptio
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October 30, 2018
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Oct'18
Why businesses must take a strategic view of automation
For many CIOs, robotic process automation promises quick wins, but businesses should also take a longer-term view to drive digitisation
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October 29, 2018
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Oct'18
Inside PropertyGuru’s DevOps journey
The online property search firm is at ease with microservices, containers and serverless computing, even as it grapples with legacy applications that were developed earlier on in its history
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Businesses must get ready for a multi-cloud strategy
The debate about what is the right enterprise IT architecture has moved beyond private, public and hybrid clouds to the need to run multiple clouds
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October 02, 2018
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Oct'18
Porsche Informatik deploys OpenShift to accelerate software development
The automotive manufacturer's software arm is using a Red Hat private cloud to develop new trading platforms
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September 28, 2018
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Sep'18
Data analytics cuts queues and flight delays at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport
Aeroporti di Roma’s CIO, Emiliano Sorrenti, describes how the city’s main airport is using data analytics technology to reduce delays and queue times, securing it an industry award for customer service
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September 27, 2018
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Sep'18
CIO interview: Fraser Ingram, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank
Fraser Ingram joined the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banking group as CIO just at the right time – as it was embarking on its digital journey
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September 27, 2018
27
Sep'18
Agile IT held back by legacy tech and legacy budgeting
CIOs admit their organisations cannot keep pace with digital transformation initiatives, with capex budgeting and legacy IT part of the problem
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September 07, 2018
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Sep'18
RBS announces branch closures as part of cancelled project to create challenger bank
The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced more branch closures and job losses as digital transformation continues to transform the sector
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September 05, 2018
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Sep'18
Slow cloud take-up among IT execs limits joined-up customer experience
Cloud computing promises to declutter IT and link systems easily. Despite the benefits, adoption of the cloud for customer engagement remains low
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September 03, 2018
03
Sep'18
CIO interview: Ian Cohen, global CIO, Addison Lee
Addison Lee’s global CIO is building a business strategy and ensuring the transport company has a flexible platform for growth