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• April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20

  BCS calls for IT recognition in coronavirus response

  Campaign launched by BCS aims to recognise the importance of IT staff in keeping UK workers connected during the coronavirus crisis

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  Singapore researchers get priority access to HPC resources

  Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre is fast-tracking access to its high-performance computing resources for researchers working on Covid-19-related projects

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Netherlands schools harness Apple technology

  Most Dutch schools use Windows computers, interactive whiteboards and Chromebooks, but there are a number of pioneers who choose Apple products

• March 27, 2020 27 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Derbyshire Police deploy drones to enforce social distancing rules

  Police forces across the UK are using technology to exercise new emergency powers granted by the government this week as part of its coronavirus response

• March 27, 2020 27 Mar'20

  Huawei to boost Kunpeng ecosystem in cloud play

  Chinese tech giant will shell out $200m this year to build an ecosystem around its Arm-based processor to bolster its position in the cloud computing market

• March 26, 2020 26 Mar'20

  HP Inc warns of M&A uncertainty due to coronavirus

  Company writes to shareholders in an attempt to thwart Xerox’s ongoing acquisition bid and its plan to oust the existing board

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  Smartbox move to Nutanix HCI a catalyst for IT team revamp

  Gift supplier reorganises IT team structures as Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure helps sweep away legacy architecture for hybrid cloud and containerised operations

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: iFixit builds resource to support medical technicians

  Mobile phone DIY repair site is building on the work of Frank’s Hospital Workshop to help medtechs repair ventilators

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Unpatched Zyxel storage devices co-opted into IoT botnet

  Owners of Zyxel network-attached storage devices are in danger of being hijacked by Mukashi, a descendant of the infamous Mirai botnet, if they don’t patch a critical vulnerability

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  Covid-19: NCSC issues secure remote working guidance

  With hundreds of thousands likely to be working remotely for some time, the UK’s NCSC has issued best practice guidance to enable security teams to support them

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Microsoft locks down new vulnerability with EternalBlue echoes

  Microsoft has moved to get ahead of a serious remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1, which was accidentally disclosed then missed in its March Patch Tuesday update

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India

  Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Industry group launched to develop standards for fibre deployment in sewer network

  Water utilities companies are working with SSE Enterprise Telecoms to deploy fibre in the sewers, as well as transform the sewage system into a “smart wastewater network”

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Kr00k vulnerability compromises billions of Wi-Fi devices

  Billions of Wi-Fi chips used in IoT devices, laptops, smartphones and tablets are vulnerable to a serious vulnerability

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Cloud storage key but SAN/NAS alive and well

  In the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey cloud dominates storage spending priorities for 2020, but on-premise technologies such as SAN and NAS are still key to IT

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  HP Inc unveils shareholder value plan to curb Xerox bid

  While Xerox gets ready to oust the HP Inc board, the company used its Q2 earnings call to announce a multi-year value creation plan

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds NAS backup and cloud tiering

  Availability Suite is mostly about consolidating the company’s data management platform idea, but it has added incremental forever NAS backup, cloud tiering and recovery to vSphere

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  China’s tech sector to shrink by 10% in Q1 amid virus outbreak

  Hardware makers will be hit more badly than software houses, but the decline in China’s ICT market will be limited to the first quarter

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Isilon’s multi-dot upgrade to OneFS 8.2.2 masks big changes

  The latest quarterly update to OneFS sees maximum file size grow to 16TB, brings in data deduplication in real time for HDDs, better load balancing and a new Kubernetes CSI

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Met Office gets a decade of funding to update supercomputers

  As the UK goes through another storm battering, the Met Office has received a £1.2bn investment to power the next decade of weather forecasts

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  IBM unifies storage arrays under FlashSystem brand

  IBM to bring together all non-mainframe storage arrays as FlashSystem product, with options from entry-level to petabyte-scale with NVMe flash and storage class memory

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Mac-based security threats outpacing Windows

  Security threats targeting Apple endpoints are growing more quickly than those targeting Windows machines, according to Malwarebytes

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  HP Inc for a few dollars more

  Xerox has increased its offer price for HP Inc from $22 to $24 per share, to acquire its rival for $36bn

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  US hotel group ditches datacentre for Nasuni cloud NAS

  Wyndham Hotels & Resorts got rid of its datacentre and put everything in the cloud, with Nasuni cloud NAS providing storage from which any user can restore files

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Veeam pushes subscription licensing in cloud-centric ‘Act II’

  Backup specialist wants to “win the cloud” as it pushes towards a cloud-focused vision that includes pay-for-what-you-use and multicloud after its acquisition last month

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Acronis CEO bullish as specialist goes beyond backup

  Acronis is set to launch Cyber Protect as it rides a wave of confidence based on increasing revenues and investor funding. Will the backup-plus-cyber protection calculation pay off?

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  Formulus Black Forsa turns memory into block storage

  Forsa allows customers to bring application data into memory, by provisioning DRAM or persistent memory as block access storage with latency several times better than NVMe flash

• January 24, 2020 24 Jan'20

  Cyber gangsters publish staff passwords following ‘Sodinokibi’ attack on car parts group Gedia

  Sodinokibi hacking group steps up pressure on German automotive manufacturer by publishing information, including the CEO’s computer password and sensitive details of its IT systems, on the internet

• January 24, 2020 24 Jan'20

  Disaster recovery failover choices: Synchronous mirrors, P2V and the cloud

  We survey the key options in disaster recovery: whether to failover to an on-site location or off-site facility. We also look at the cloud as an option in disaster recovery

• January 24, 2020 24 Jan'20

  HP Inc attacks Xerox boardroom shakeup bid

  Xerox wants to oust the HP Inc board, replacing it with directors who will push through its proposed acquisition

• January 24, 2020 24 Jan'20

  Xerox gets ready to cut and paste HP Inc board

  Xerox plans to pay HP Inc shareholders $17 per share in cash and nominate a new HP Inc board, specialising in business transformation

• January 22, 2020 22 Jan'20

  Windows 7: The pieces are coming together for a PC rethink

  As organisations migrate off the unsupported Microsoft Windows 7 operating system to Windows 10, CIOs must assess their hardware refresh strategy

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Researchers find cryptojacker hiding in Wav audio file

  Victim network was compromised by obfuscated malware hiding a Monero cryptominer, lurking inside a Wav audio file

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Gartner: Windows 7 will continue to drive 2020 business PC sales

  With end of support, businesses are rushing to upgrade their desktop PC estate to Windows 10, driving growth in the PC market

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities won’t be patched until end of January

  Some vulnerabilities identified in Citrix products will not be fully patched until the end of January 2020

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Windows 7: Dead or alive?

  Far from being dead and buried, Windows 7 is set to remain alive and kicking in many organisations as they struggle with complex migration challenges

• January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20

  Secure data erasure is needed to ensure more people recycle their tech

  A dedicated team of IT recycling experts offers free data erasure to give people confidence that their old tech can be safely disposed of

• January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20

  $5bn buy-out set to make backup giant Veeam a US company

  Veeam’s founders are out as investment fund gets its hands on a pioneer of virtual machine backup. Now it will be a US company and eligible to target US government customers

• January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20

  Computing at the edge

  Edge computing is currently one of the most important trends in IT that is likely to complement cloud by supporting new and emerging workloads

• January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20

  US, South Korea to drive 5G to reach 1.5 billion users by 2025

  Aggressive pricing strategies and extensive device support, especially in the US and Korea, set to drive an explosion in 5G uptake over the next five years

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  HP Inc: The price is wrong

  Although Xerox sees major synergies between the pair and the ability to cross-sell, HP Inc has turned down Xerox’s latest offer to buy the company

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  ITS to fast-track full-fibre roll-out gains with £45m investment

  Gigabit network operator ITS plans to use latest funding to move into several new areas across the UK to build full-fibre networks which will pass at least 200,000 premises

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  CES 2020: IBM grows Q network collaborators

  ExxonMobil hopes quantum computing will enable it to model processes at the atomic scale – something that cannot be achieved today

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  CES 2020: Chipmakers bet on new designs to boost PC market

  The roulette wheels are certainly spinning in Las Vegas, with chipmakers vying for attention to show off their latest hardware innovations

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Scale’s HE150 the first of a big push to small edge HCI hardware

  Scale Computing aims to scale to micro-sized hyper-converged with a lightweight operating system it claims its competitors can’t match for edge and remote location deployments

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Xerox secures $24bn funding to acquire HP Inc

  Xerox believes it now has what it takes to push the deal through, but one of its main investors has been accused of insider dealing

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  Top 10 end-user computing stories of 2019

  The Windows desktop and laptop are not going away, but desktop IT is changing. Computer Weekly looks at the top trends in end-user computing

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  Top 10 storage stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories for 2019, with the latest trends in enterprise storage arrays, hyper-converged, object storage, scale-out NAS, and more

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  Huawei launches London 5G innovation and experience centre

  Comms technology leader opens new establishment in UK capital to promote greater collaboration between businesses and innovators in the development of 5G ecosystems

• December 15, 2019 15 Dec'19

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2020

  The rise of super apps, Wi-Fi 6 enabled services and cross-functional platform engineering teams are likely to dominate the Asia-Pacific IT landscape in 2020