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April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16
Intel-backed Collaborative Cancer Cloud expands to include two more universities

Joe Gray from the Oregon Health and Science University explains how its cloud-based cancer research project with Intel is progressing
April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16
How operational analytics can help utility companies

Capgemini finds operation analytics has a low adoption rate among UK businesses despite many having data warehouses
March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16
Hackers to probe engine control units amid emissions scandal

ICCT hires computer whizz-kids to find out who else besides Volkswagen uses ‘defeat devices’ in cars
March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16
CIO interview: Martin Uudelepp, Fonus Group

The interim CIO of Swedish family law and funeral group Fonus tells Computer Weekly about his role as a “chaos pilot”

March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16
Metcalfe’s law of connections will drive digital business value

Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet, proposed that the value of network cards increases as the number of networked devices grows
March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16
IoT adoption held back by lack of business case, software and skills

The internet of things is at the top of Gartner’s Hype Cycle, but many organisations cannot build a business case to invest in IoT projects
February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16
CIO interview: Anders Candell, Stora Enso

CIO at Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer shares advice for shouldering a new CIO position and guiding the business towards innovative technology
February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16
GE lures allies for Predix industrial internet dominance

Global manufacturer GE has established a partner programme for its Predix platform to drive the value of analytics across the industrial internet
February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16
Case study: National Rail Enquiries tackles website uptime issues with AWS and SOASTA

The National Rail Enquiries website took a battering in the wake of the 2013 St. Jude’s storm, prompting the organisation to rethink its hosting and load-testing procedures
February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16
CIO interview: Robert Sjöström, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA)

CIO of Swedish hygiene and forest products company tells Computer Weekly how digital technology is changing the firm from inside out and how he manages this transformation

February 16, 2016 16 Feb'16
Case study: How ITIL has helped Essex keep IT aligned with council goals

Essex County Council has undergone an IT transformation to improve the credibility of its IT and achieve ISO 27001 accreditation
February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16
CDOs lack organisational design experience, says Gartner

Research firm identifies immaturity in the organisational design of the set-ups led by the new breed of chief data officer and offers a menu of four design options
February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16
Post Office faces group litigation over Horizon IT as subpostmasters fund class action

Subpostmasters who claim to have been wrongly convicted of fraud take the Post Office to court after getting the funds for a group action
February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16
CIO interview: Johan Kestens, ING Belgium

ING Belgium’s CIO talks to Computer Weekly in depth about the technology-driven changes in the banking sector
January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16
CIO interview: Jo De Vliegher, Hydro

The CIO at Norway's Hydro has established an IT department that allows for regional autonomy and central guidance at the same time
January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16
Alstom outsources IT transformation to HCL Technologies

Train engineering company Alstom has outsourced its IT to HCL Technologies as part of a five-year transformation project
January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16
Trinity Mirror Group taps into cloud, agile and microservices to boost web user experience

National and regional newspaper publishing group is using AWS and SOASTA's performance monitoring tools to improve the user experience for its online readers
January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16
CIO interview: Janne Aalto, Finnish telco DNA

When Finnish telco DNA wanted to transform its business, it made startup consultant Janne Aalto its CIO to lead the move to lean and agile
January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16
CIO interview: Michael Moesgaard, Dong Energy

Dong Energy’s IT head talks about the challenges of working for an energy company going through a business transformation
January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16
NHS Scotland lets clinicians discover patterns in data with Tableau

The NHS in Scotland is using data visualisation from Tableau to level up health outcomes across the country
January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16
DevOps success requires business and cultural shift

Cultural resistance and immature tools are limiting companies’ ability to ride the digitisation wave with streams of software-driven initiatives
January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16
CIO interview: Mats Hultin, Saab Group

Saab Group's CIO talks to Computer Weekly about the huge challenge of integrating 40 separate IT organisations into one
December 31, 2015 31 Dec'15
Top 10 PC and desktop stories of 2015

The PC is not dead – but the desktop is evolving as IT departments embrace BYOD, software as a service and cloud-based storage
December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15
Top 10 premium content articles for CIOs in 2015

Computer Weekly presents the top ten premium content articles for CIOs in 2015
December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15
CIO interview: Henry Cohen, CIO, Telegraph Media Group

The newspaper publisher is developing an agile mindset in response to the growth of digital over printed publications
December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15
Top 10 APAC IT stories of 2015

The top 10 Computer Weekly articles about enterprise IT in the Asean and ANZ regions
December 22, 2015 22 Dec'15
Top 10 Nordic CIO interviews of 2015

A review of the top Nordic CIO interviews from Computer Weekly
December 21, 2015 21 Dec'15
Top 10 HR technology stories in 2015

2015 saw businesses replacing their on-premise HR systems with cloud services at an accelerating rate. More companies are turning to virtual reality, analytics and other disruptive technologies to help recruit and retain talented staff
December 21, 2015 21 Dec'15
The CW500 Club in 2015

Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the latest trends and technologies, and to discuss the challenges they face. Here, we present the coverage of all the 2015 CW500 events, including ...
December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15
SThree to rein in IT budget by moving to cloud

Recruitment group plans to expand by 10% a year, but moving to the cloud will allow it to do more with the same IT budget
December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15
Rockwool invests €2m in global HR project

Manufacturer interviewed other companies about their HR systems before choosing a system to harmonise its processes across 38 countries
December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15
CIO interview: Farrer & Co IT director Neil Davison

The law firm that served Charles Dickens has a much more modern approach to its technology strategy
December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15
Airline global distribution system Amadeus offers cloud scalability

Amadeus, the airline flight ticketing system, has used Google Compute Platform to scale its service to support internet flight searches
December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15
HPE will use its experience to help customers with M&A, says CEO Meg Whitman

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s CEO claimed the firm would be able to better assist customers undergoing structural changes
November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15
Fujitsu announces MetaArc cloud platform, acquires UShareSoft

At Fujitsu Forum 2015 in Germany, Fujitsu announces a cloud platform called MetaArc and acquires French software business UShareSoft
November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15
Ad agency that rejected cloud boosts Cleversafe object storage

Ad content agency Hogarth rejected cloud storage as too expensive and unreliable, opting for in-house object storage from Cleversafe with nearly 5PB
November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15
London Stock Exchange appoints CIO

The London Stock Exchange appoints Chris Corrado as its technology chief as the previous incumbent, Antoine Shagoury, returns to the US
November 09, 2015 09 Nov'15
Gartner: Time to take algorithms seriously

Legacy systems and existing supplier relationships are barriers to digitisation. Instead, CIOs should focus on algorithms, says Gartner
November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15
Communication Workers Union warns subpostmasters of flaw in Post Office Horizon accounting system

The union that represents Post Office subpostmasters has warned of a problem with the Horizon accounting system at the centre of a long-running dispute
November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15
How IoT will impact the Asean cloud landscape

IoT deployments are in their early stages in the Asean region, but experts predict as take-up of IoT apps increases it will have a big impact on IT infrastructures in the region
November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15
The pros and cons of treating internal IT like a business

Aligning IT with the business has become a CIO mantra – but now digitisation has pushed IT to the top of the business agenda
November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15
Australia's outsourced datacentre market rising on back of cloud computing

Datacentre investment in Australia is growing fast as corporates use data-intensive applications delivered via the cloud
November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15
Hewlett Packard Enterprise: think of us as a startup

As Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc finally part ways, UK managing director Andy Isherwood shares some insight on what the future holds for the newly minted enterprise business
November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15
CIO interview: Torben Høeg Bonde, Vestas

The CIO at Danish wind turbine company Vestas is playing a key role in turning the company into a software supplier
October 30, 2015 30 Oct'15
Alcatel-Lucent transformation cuts HR costs by 30% with cloud platform

Alcatel-Lucent expects to have its cloud human resources (HR) platform used in 62 countries by the end of the year, replacing aging on-premise HR IT systems
October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15
CIO interview: Mette Jæpelt, Egmont Group

Egmont CIO Mette Jæpelt is a supplier and colleague to the company's business groups, which makes her current role different from any other in her 35-year career
October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15
Tech will turn HR into a ‘productivity department’

HR technologies are moving away from managing staff in favour of helping them become more productive
October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15
Using open data to solve social challenges

The Open Data Institute has spent the past two years funding startups to build applications that could solve socio-economic problems
October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15
Case study: Dutch firm Fugro moves to the cloud

Geodata company Fugro is moving its IT infrastructure to the cloud in a project led by CIO Gerko Baarslag
October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15
Is OpenStack ready for mass adoption?

The OpenStack community is working on a number of fronts to make it easier to deploy private clouds, including a a training programme due in 2016
October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15
CIOs collaborate on managing the business of IT

A reference architecture from The Open Group aims to target infighting among suppliers to deliver interoperable IT
October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15
CIO interview: Steve Watt, University of St Andrews

CIOs at universities have very demanding clients in the form of tech-savvy students, but this is only part of the story, explains University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watts
October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15
Opera chooses Workday over Oracle as it moves HR to cloud

Browser company Opera opts for slick internal IT as it competes with Apple and Google for skilled technologists
October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15
ServiceNow powers Royal Mail multi-sourcing

As part of its £500m IT transformation, Royal Mail has deployed ServiceNow to manage new suppliers
October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15
NHS Education for Scotland deploys ServiceNow to power digital transformation

Driving a digital strategy requires top-down executive support, says NES interim director of digital transformation Chris Wroath
October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15
Enterprise IT buyers swap traditional servers for converged infrastructure, research shows

A survey from 451 Research suggests enterprises will increase their use of converged infrastructure stacks to swap out traditional server estates
October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15
Three technologies to drive business

Emerging technologies such as 3D printers, the internet of things and APIs will deliver new business opportunities, and CIOs are in a position to drive forward these business strategies
October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15
Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals
October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15
Workday seeks growth, not profit, as it expands in Europe

Cloud services company Workday is setting its sights on growth as it expands from cloud HR, to finance, learning and analytics
October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15
UK bioinformatics team builds research-sharing cloud on OpenStack

Genomics researchers must replicate the hardware and software environment of bioinformatic data analysis to reproduce results – which is where cloud can help
September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15
CIOs need to expand service management beyond IT department

CIOs believe organisations are missing an opportunity by not applying IT service management outside the IT department
September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15
British Airways picks Juniper Networks to build out cloud, core network

British Airways enhances the digital customer experience through a private cloud datacentre and IP MPLS core backbone
September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15
Nationwide Building Society deploys artificial intelligence to reduce back-end complexity

Nationwide Building Society is using artificial intelligence to help it reduce the complexity of its back-end systems as it introduces more digital products
September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15
Apple's Irish datacentre build hit by possible planning permission appeal delay

A "valid appeal" has reportedly been raised in response to Galway County Council's decision to grant conditional planning permission for Apple's Irish datacentre build
September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15
CIO interview: Antti Koskelin at Finland’s Kone

Antti Koskelin joined Kone with the immediate task of finishing off a major IT infrastructure project that had already started, but has looked forward ever since
September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute supports bio startups on Nutanix

Converged infrastructure is helping Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's IT team to provide scalable servers and storage for its Campus Business project
September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15
Why insurer Axa is entering the retail e-commerce market

Digitisation in insurance is usually associated with digital policy documents – but Axa is using technology to take a lateral approach to the indemnity business
September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15
CIO interview: Rob Threadgold, global head of IT infrastructure and operations, ICBC Standard Bank

Standard Bank is taking a global approach to IT challenges following its acquisition by Chinese banking giant ICBC
September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15
Application testing costs set to rise to 40% of IT budget

Digital transformation has put software quality to the fore, resulting in CIOs spending more on quality assurance and testing
September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15
University of St Andrews gets European funding to push the limits of C++

Highly parallel computing represents the future of IT, but data processing applications cannot be made to work efficiently in such environments
September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15
CIO interview: Anna Berggren, ManpowerGroup Nordics

ManpowerGroup Nordic CIO Anna Berggren talks about the importance of IT to the recruitment firm and the different approaches she takes to managing it
September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15
Upgraded NHS Spine communications hub saves £20m in first year, says HSCIC

The NHS Spine communications infrastructure saves more than £20m in its first year, according to the Health and Soicial Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15
Software-defined networking underpins Nokia’s 5G architecture

Nokia demonstrates programmable software-defined 5G networking architecture to dynamically manage network resources
August 27, 2015 27 Aug'15
Application modernisation remains a top CIO priority

Targeting legacy is a key focus for IT departments as they shift more applications onto the cloud
August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15
CIO interview: Elisabeth Stjernstoft, Apoteket

When the Swedish government introduced competition to the pharmaceuticals sector in 2009, the former monopoly faced a major IT transformation
August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15
Torbay Council uses Logi Info for budget management

Council's Jeff Scott explains the authority’s move away from its previous business intelligence software to focus on managing financial data
August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15
Natural Resources Wales uses Microsoft and mobile to unify departments

Natural Resources Wales won the Best Mobile Computing Project Award at this year's CW European User Awards. Find out why
August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15
TFL still wasting millions on telecoms despite IIPAG criticism

One year on and Transport for London is still pouring millions into dispersed telecoms systems, according to the Independent Investment Programme Advisory Group
August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15
The IT supporting Finland’s Angry Birds 2

The sequel to online game Angry Birds has been developed to withstand huge usage volumes, supported by scalable, cloud-based technology
July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15
3D XPoint memory chips '1,000 times faster than NAND'

Intel and Micron say new 3D chip technology is biggest breakthrough in memory technology in nearly 30 years
July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15
UK to invest £45m in digital research and skills

Millions of pounds will be invested in building research centres to fuel the UK’s digital economy research and skills
July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15
Dutch college live-streams lectures with SDN and load balancers

Deltion College in the Netherlands beefs up its network with HP SDN and Kemp load balancing technology to support growing traffic levels across its infrastructure
July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15
AWS adds Chef to cloud Marketplace to drive up DevOps adoption

Chef sets sights on winning over more AWS users with its DevOps-friendly automation tools
July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15
Camden Council uses IBM data analytics to beat austerity

Camden Council has used data integration to link council systems, enabling it to cut waste and improve efficiency – and saving £93m in the process
July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15
How Deutsche Telekom plans to challenge AWS and Google in the cloud

German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to evolve into the public cloud and plans to beat sector giants such as Amazon and Google at their own game
July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15
Unified commerce the next step for retailers

Retailers should be adopting a unified platform and rethinking the value of stores if they want a true omni-channel business, says Demandware
June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15
Do not leave digital government development to Whitehall, says Chi Onwurah MP

Whitehall should not be left with sole responsibility for the government drive to building a digital future, says shadow Cabinet Office minister Chi Onwurah
June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15
Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities

Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments
June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15
The rise of general-purpose AI and its threat to humanity

Socially aware general-purpose artificial intelligence in the form of a dog could be the ideal form factor to take over the world
June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15
Digital government 'a chance to build a new state', says Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock

Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock says the move to digital government is a “chance to build a new state” in a speech outlining his priorities
June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15
Businesses invest in software to fuel digitisation strategy

A survey from Oxford Economics for CA Technologies found that businesses are investing heavily in software to create new business opportunities
June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15
Government Digital Service insists Verify safe despite claims of vulnerabilities

An academic paper suggests the Gov.uk Verify system could be used as a spy network, but the Government Digital Service (GDS) insists this is not the case
June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15
Legacy systems holding back 90% of businesses

Most businesses are being held back from making digital advances by their reliance on legacy applications
June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15
Cambridge replaces enterprise storage with direct attach Dell-Lustre setup

Cambridge University uses Dell's MD direct attached storage with Intel’s Lustre to support its data-intensive research programmes
June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15
Nutanix offers hypervisor as it moves towards on-demand hardware

Nutanix aims to offer public cloud economics for private cloud deployments
June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15
Apple's Mac OS X El Capitan goes head to head with Windows 10

At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple unveiled El Capitan, its latest operating system (OS) – but how does it compare to Windows 10?
June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15
CIOs need to cut legacy IT to help the business digitise

While CEOs want to become more digital, CIOs will need to convince them that spending more on IT is the way to achieve this
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist
May 28, 2015 28 May'15
Internet of things and smart cities need UK-wide consensus

At a TechUK event, delegates call for cross-body collaboration on IoT to ensure local authority CIOs get the best from the emerging technology
May 27, 2015 27 May'15
CIO Interview: Mike Young, CIO, Dentsu Aegis Network

CIO Mike Young describes how Dentsu Aegis Network used technology to become a consolidated company with a unified collaboration strategy