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• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Vulnerable firmware in enterprise server supply chain

  Researchers are warning of vulnerabilities in firmware from a third-party supplier that put some servers from Lenovo, Gigabyte and six other manufacturers at risk

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  UK launches 5G security inquiry

  The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy is to probe the UK government’s approach to telecoms technology as a national security issue

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Smartodds bets on Rubrik backup appliance with cloud archive

  Betting intelligence analytics firm Smartodds replaced its old tape backup infrastructure with Rubrik appliances to cut management time and database restores from hours to minutes

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Alan Turing to be face of new £50 note

  Computing pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing is to be featured on the new polymer £50 note

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  No technical grounds to ban Huawei, DCMS told

  Science and Technology Committee tells Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport that there are no technical grounds for it to exclude Huawei

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  How Apollo 11 influenced modern computer software and hardware

  On 16 July 1969, Apollo 11 began its historic journey to send man to the Moon. We look at the pioneering computer technology developed by Nasa

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  European PC business boosted by Windows 10 refresh

  With Windows 7 support due to end on 14 January 2020, European organisations are refreshing their PCs as part of their Windows 10 upgrade

• July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19

  University of Bristol upgrades to Nimble as it takes IT off-site

  Higher education institution gets trouble-free hybrid flash performance from Nimble and stores 600TB of data at two colocation sites to which it is transitioning from on-campus

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  Gartner forecasts big shift in spending away from devices and datacentres

  The IT market is basically flat, but there is demand for software and cloud-based services as CIOs shift away from datacentre infrastructure

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Drone tech and the roar of Malaysia’s flying dragons

  Malaysia is ramping up initiatives to speed up the global growth of local technology champions in the drone tech sector

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  StorOne brings leasing for high-performance multiprotocol flash storage

  To make a name for itself in the SME storage market, startup StorOne intends to innovate in technology and its economic approach, with a subscription model for storage

• July 04, 2019 04 Jul'19

  Implementing IoT – overcoming barriers to commercial adoption

  Tim Wright from the Institute of Telecoms Professionals reports from a recent seminar exploring questions around the barriers to commercial, at-scale adoption of the internet of things, and how to overcome them

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  Vodafone switches on 5G mobile network

  The UK’s longest-standing mobile operator, Vodafone, has officially turned on its 5G mobile network at an event in London, and reintroduced unlimited data packages for users as it looks to shake up the market

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  IT pros see a role for high-performance computing in business

  New application areas are pushing the limits of current computing architecture, leading to HPC moving out of research facilities

• June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19

  MPs to probe UK’s growing e-waste problem

  The parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has launched an inquiry into electronic waste and the circular economy