News

News Archive

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Digital and innovation apprentices to start NatWest programme

  NatWest is kicking off a tech apprentice programme, with its digital innovation hub set to play a key role

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Future.now launch: Biggest barrier for digital skills is motivation

  Digital sector must overcome its “image problem” to attract more people to learn new skills, says Lord Mayor at launch of digital skills project

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  NHS Digital brings in biometric login functionality

  Two new libraries released to allow developers in the NHS to include functionality to digital services

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Why API-first software development leads to shiny API people

  There is a fundamental difference between using application programming interfaces for integration and having an API strategy for reuse. We look at how APIs can make digital initiatives shine

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  French and German banks end talks on challenger bank sale

  After months of negotiations, BPCE's proposed sale of Fidor Bank to OLB has fallen through

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  The Security Interviews: Applying AI to Lego, and security

  Ann Johnson, Microsoft corporate vice-president of cyber security, is on a mission to prove that artificial intelligence holds great promise for the security sector, and she has the analogies to back it up

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Deputy chief executive at NHS Digital departs

  NHS Digital’s deputy chief executive, Rob Shaw, will leave the organisation in December to work with foreign governments on national health and care infrastructure

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Best of VMworld 2019 Europe Awards nominations now open until 25 October

  Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination for this year’s awards

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  PDPC issues cross-border data transfer guidelines for cloud services

  Singapore’s data protection watchdog issues advisory guidelines to help businesses and cloud suppliers stay on the right side of the law under the country’s data protection regime

• Sponsored News

  • How AI Will Blanket Your World

    Sponsored by Intel - Whether we are aware of it or not, artificial intelligence is already all around us. We use AI when we speak to our digital assistants. AI is in email services that automatically complete our sentences or schedule appointments for us. We encounter it when bots field our queries on websites or smartphones unlock upon recognizing our faces. See More

  • Supply Chain Transparency Matters Now More Than Ever

    Sponsored by Intel - In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies discovered to their dismay how little visibility they had into their supply chains. Years of focusing on inventory reduction and just-in-time delivery had caused them to lose touch with the imperatives of understanding who was supplying them and what standards were being applied to the parts and components they received. See More

  • 7 Ways for IT to Deliver Outstanding PC Experiences in a Remote Work World

    Sponsored by Intel - Managing the personal computing experience was relatively easy when everyone was in the office: IT owned the hardware, maintained the software and ensured that appropriate defences were in place. But with people now dispersed to home offices around the world, in many cases, it’s up to them to take the responsibility for ensuring their PCs are safe and performing at their best. See More

  • Software Protection Isn’t Enough for the Malicious New Breed of Low-Level Endpoint Attacks

    Sponsored by Intel - This year’s pandemic has cast a harsh light on the difficulty of securing endpoints, particularly those that aren’t connected to the corporate network. Working without the insulation of the corporate firewall limits IT from auditing and controlling devices at the granular level needed, in many cases leaving it to users to secure their own desktops. See More

  View All Sponsored News
• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  Zuckerberg’s mentor condemns Facebook’s business practices

  Long-time Silicon Valley investor speaks out against surveillance capitalism and the lack of rules and regulations governing big tech’s behaviour

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  How code reuse drives business change at the DWP

  Department for Work and Pensions is using application programming interfaces to promote reuse of granular microservices across the organisation

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  SAP CEO Bill McDermott steps down

  McDermott will be replaced by SAP board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  Why would a bank that made billions of pounds’ profit cut thousands of staff?

  HSBC is the latest bank to make thousands of staff cuts as even profitable businesses need to reshape themselves for the challenges that digital transformation brings

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  OECD pushes international digital services tax agenda

  The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development wants to reach agreement on addressing issues around taxation for online giants by 2020

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  GoCardless gives 95% of its staff business intelligence at their fingertips

  Fintech payments company GoCardless is enabling staff to carry out business intelligence queries themselves

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  CIO interview: Shaun Le Geyt, CIO, Parkinson’s UK

  A major shift from Microsoft Office 365 to Google's G Suite, the implementation of Salesforce and better use of data are combining to help the charity enhance its support for people with Parkinson’s

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  New law will help roll-out of faster broadband

  Measures will make it easier to install faster internet connections in blocks of flats where landlords repeatedly ignore requests for access from broadband firms

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  How AWS is cracking the public sector cloud market

  The public sector cloud business takes time and resources to build, but the rewards can be meaningful, as the founder of Amazon Web Service’s public sector division has found

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  Kroger drives data-driven customer experience

  Scott Crawford, data science lead at 84.51°, the data business at US grocery retailer Kroger, discusses data projects and iterative programmes

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  UK and Middle East PR firm ditches NetApp for Nutanix and Talon Fast

  Four Communications needed better connectivity for collaboration between the UK and its gulf sites, so dumped server/storage for hyper-converged and a distributed file system

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  Mental health issues concern UK tech professionals

  Staff shortages, long hours and lack of flexibility are impacting the wellbeing of people in the sector, according to a Harvey Nash survey.

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  CIO interview: Mohamed Sater, head of IT at Mumtalakat

  Mumtalakat’s head of IT, Mohamed Sater, is modernising the IT infrastructure of the organisation through cloud computing

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  Survival of accountants 'at stake' as HMRC presses ahead with tax digitisation

  Advances in technology are bringing a series of dilemmas for professionals as the government continues plans to digitise all tax for UK businesses, according to a new report

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  How Goldman Sachs migrated to cloud native software development

  Investment bank Goldman Sachs has selected GitLab as the platform to manage its software development life cycle, supporting 9,000 engineers

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  BT goes local with UK jobs boost under ‘beyond limits’ banner

  Telco to boost UK call centre staff numbers, up high-street presence and add in-home tech support

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  US likely to concede on Huawei export ban

  The US government may make some concessions over the future of Huawei before the end of the year

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  HETT 2019: Digital literacy gap will never be fully closed, says panel

  The increasing use of digital technology in healthcare means it is important for people to be digitally literate to take part, but the digital literacy gap will always be there, says an expert panel

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  More Institute of Technology centres planned to tackle skills gap

  A second wave of centres offering higher technical education nationwide has been announced

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  Inside Singapore Airlines’ cloud and DevOps journey

  A team of engineers at Singapore’s flagship carrier shed light on how they are overcoming challenges in embracing cloud computing and DevOps

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  All change: How big data could shake up cloud strategies and fuel demand for edge environments

  As enterprise data volumes continue to grow and grow, for cost and performance reasons, enterprises might find an all-in approach to public cloud may not be the way forward, according to several NetEvents panellists

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Nadella sees Azure as the world’s computer

  The Microsoft CEO wants organisations to consider Azure as a distributed cloud for next-generation AI applications

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Sweden’s SEB explores core banking in the cloud

  Swedish Bank is the latest organisation to agree to start using a Google-inspired, cloud-native core banking platform

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Dutch AI Coalition wants to put the Netherlands on artificial intelligence map

  To ensure the Netherlands keeps pace in the artificial intelligence race, an AI coalition has been formed to help organisations in the sector to collaborate

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  CIO interview: Matt Harris, head of IT, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport

  The IT chief at the world-leading Formula 1 team is focused on using technology to support and deliver marginal gains in performance for the team’s drivers

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  How APAC enterprises can keep pace with container security

  For all the promises of containers, changes in architecture and practices associated with the technology bring new challenges and opportunities

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Hype vs reality: Is the tech industry on the cusp of another ‘AI winter’?

  Artificial intelligence is a hot topic for enterprise users, but will the technology fail to live up to the hype this time around, ponder panellists at the NetEvents Global IT Summit in San Jose

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Deutsche Bank to set up innovation division to drive digital transformation

  More details about Deutsche Bank’s new technology division in internal company email

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  IBM, McAfee among founders of open source security alliance

  A group of cyber security suppliers have come together to form the Open Cybersecurity Alliance

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  PLC flash: A solid state candidate for analytics and archives?

  We thought flash would end at QLC, but storage media makers are working on penta-level cell, which could push capacity to double figures, but at a further performance cost

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Scottish Parliament launches inquiry on police use of facial recognition

  The circumstances and implications of the technology’s application in the police service will be investigated in the coming months

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  UK chief data officer recruitment plans still on

  Minister says CDO will work closely with the chief digital and information officer, who is still to be recruited

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Public cloud computing is early on its journey to core of the bank

  Banks are no longer reluctant to use the cloud as the technology pierces the outer layer of the banking sector and begins its journey to the core

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Openreach tests new digging tech for rural broadband builds

  Openreach is testing new tools and techniques to roll out full-fibre broadband faster in rural areas

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Government departments sign up to web data-sharing plan

  All but four Whitehall departments have so far agreed to share web analytics data to allow the government to monitor user behaviour across the Gov.uk domain

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  UKtech50 2019 – help us find the most influential people in UK technology

  Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK technology reaches its 10th anniversary – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year’s list

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Interview: BHF on using cloud and big data to improve heart patient outcomes

  The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has set itself the lofty goal of eradicating the fear of developing heart and circulatory disease by 2030, with the help of cloud, big data and personalisation technologies

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Southeast Asia’s internet economy hits $100bn milestone

  The digital economy in Southeast Asia grew 39% this year but the growth momentum can only be sustained if talent gaps are filled

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  Home Office picks supplier for £300m biometrics project

  The department has chosen US company Leidos to provide critical elements of the national system under a £300m contract with a 10-year timespan

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  UK and US call on Facebook to walk back encryption plans

  The US, Australian and UK governments have asked Facebook to ditch plans to deploy end-to-end encryption across Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  How data drives wins at Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport

  We find out how Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport uses data to drive its business and Formula One race strategy

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  HP Inc announces restructuring as it tries to get European supplies moving

  PC and print manufacturer faces an uphill battle in its printer supplies business, particularly in Europe

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  Red Hat: We’re a neutral broker

  Red Hat remains agnostic in supporting organisations that are looking to run the same container orchestration platform in a hybrid and multicloud world

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  Swedish authorities introduce robots to help social workers

  Software robots free up time for social workers to help benefits claimants find employment

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  Government planning for ‘undeliverable’ ESN

  The government has agreed to all of the Public Accounts Committee’s findings in its investigation into the Emergency Services Network, but there is still a chance the programme could collapse

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  Microsoft delivers Surface with benefits for enterprise IT

  It may not be headline-grabbing news, but the Surface Pro has screws – it can be taken apart and components such as disk drives can be swapped out

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  IT contractor charged over cyber attack on property valuation firm

  Australian police charge 49-year-old man with stealing and posting more than 170,000 data records belonging to ASX-listed Landmark White on the dark web

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  NatWest bank uses artificial intelligence to predict the future

  NatWest is using artificial intelligence to help it paint a more accurate picture of future trends

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Government issues Brexit guidance for technology firms

  Ten-point checklist released to help firms prepare for leaving the European Union without a deal

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Why data-driven applications need a governance framework

  Data is the new oil – but without tight control, how can business determine that the data is valid? Data catalogues are back in vogue

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  LogRhythm touts unlimited data plan for SIEM systems

  SIEM supplier introduces three-year, term-based pricing plan that lets enterprises ingest as much data as they want without breaking the bank

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Local authorities hit by 800 cyber attacks every hour

  Local authorities and councils in the UK have reported being hit by more than 263 million cyber attacks in the first six months of this year

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Post-Brexit passport checking tool to start pilot

  The government is looking for companies that can carry out large-scale tests of the Document Checking Service, which will allow organisations to digitally check the validity of passports

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  New threat group behind Airbus cyber attacks, claim researchers

  Context Information Security’s threat intel and response teams says it has evidence that the recent supply chain attacks on Airbus are the work of a newly identified group called Avivore

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Southern Water embarks on £15m datacentre modernisation programme

  Southern Water has enlisted the help of service provider MTI Technology to revamp its datacentres, with a greater emphasis on the use of software-defined processes and hyper-converged technologies

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  IR35 reforms: Lloyds Bank contractors to get deadline on future employment status

  Lloyds Banking Group is the latest large firm set to end engagement of IT contractors through personal service companies due to impending IR35 tax reforms

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  Cyber war as big a threat as nuclear war, says ex-RSA head Coviello

  Former RSA chairman Art Coviello has been speaking about the devastating potential of cyber weapons, and warned that humanity must learn from history in order to control them

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  How Qlik is driving the data revolution in Australia

  Australian firms are using data management software from Qlik to speed up data analysis while grappling with how to make data more accessible under a new consumer data-sharing regime

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  British Heart Foundation £10m data science centre set in train

  The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Health Data Research UK have set up a £10m data science centre

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  John Lewis Partnership sells its automation to business

  The John Lewis Partnership will expand its use of automation technology as its early projects bear fruit

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  Future Decoded: AI-powered data revolutionises software development

  Microsoft believes artificial intelligence will drive an entirely new way to develop software that can take advantage of massive data growth

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  HMRC extends contract with Capgemini but embeds flexibility

  Department’s technology sourcing programme seeks to access the services of more tech providers, including SMEs and startups

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Citrix looks to grow APAC footprint with the intelligent workspace

  Citrix is looking to expand its footprint in Asia-Pacific – particularly in Japan, where firms are starting to warm up to flexible work arrangements

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Dutch group works on digitising collaborator archives created in aftermath of World War 2

  Experiments have been carried out to ascertain the best technology to open up the analogue archives of the Central Archive of Special Justice in the Netherlands

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  IR35 reforms will prompt Barclays to re-engage contractors on PAYE terms, 'leaked email' suggests

  Barclays is understood to have notified line managers via email on 30 September 2019 of its plans to phase out use of limited company contractors, ahead of the IR35 private sector reforms coming into force in April 2020

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  UK government readies bus open data portal

  The government’s bus data service is part of plans to provide better information to get more people to use bus services

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Intel previews Optane persistent memory, QLC SSD and even PLC

  Intel sets out roadmap for second-generation Optane persistent memory – between SSD and DRAM – as well as QLC SSD, with talk of PLC (penta-level cell) after that

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Healthcare and technology have cultural similarities, says NHSX CEO

  Common factors in healthcare and technology could help bring about a shift in attitudes, says Matthew Gould

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Future Decoded: How AI plus automation adds up to transformative change

  Robotic process automation combined with artificial intelligence is a recipe for digital transformation, and new research suggests businesses that use AI are gaining a competitive advantage

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  A security breach is inevitable, IT leaders warned

  No matter how much IT security tech and training is in place, sophisticated, targeted attacks are going to breach company defences, Carbon Black warns

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Interview: James Smith, director of digital, Nationwide Building Society

  James Smith says heading up the digital unit at Nationwide Building Society is the best job in the business

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Polaris Transportation digitises with RPA and hyperledger tech

  Transportation group has embarked on a digital transformation journey using WorkFusion and blockchain hyperledger for straight-through processing

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Marketplace push aims to get the NHS automating

  Thoughtonomy is hosting a new marketplace to encourage NHS trusts to share their intelligent automation bots

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Singapore outlines initiatives to tackle OT and IoT security

  The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore has developed a blueprint to secure operational technology systems in critical sectors, among other measures to secure cyber-physical systems and the internet of things

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Australia gets ready for open banking

  Traditional banks and fintech firms alike will need to bite the bullet in the crucial startup period if Australia’s open banking regime is to succeed

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  German police seize darkweb servers from datacentre housed in ex-NATO bunker

  Following a lengthy investigation, law enforcers in Germany have raided a datacentre in an ex-NATO bunker that is alleged to have been hosting illicit websites on the dark web

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  CIO interview: Michael Ibbitson, executive VP for technology and infrastructure, Dubai Airports

  Former CIO at Gatwick Airport took flight to the Middle East three years ago, and is using data to transform the technology and infrastructure at Dubai Airports

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Chancellor Sajid Javid set to make £5bn investment commitment to improve UK broadband coverage

  The Chancellor Sajid Javid is expected to take to the stage at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester later today, to set out the group’s “infrastructure revolution” plans, which include ramping up broadband coverage across the UK

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  UK Parliament readies cyber security change programme

  A request for information has been launched to find a consultancy firm to support and shape the Parliament’s cyber security project, which will be delivered in two years’ time

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  HPE refurbishes legacy IT assets to make money for users

  HPE Financial Services is giving old IT assets a new lease of life at its tech renewal site in Erskine, near Glasgow, as part of a promotion of the circular economy

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Dubai’s Precision Group takes manufacturing into the cloud

  Head of IT at mould and packaging company talks about leading its digital transformation programme

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Data challenges jeopardise service provision in government

  Several challenges have to be tackled to make the government’s new data strategy work and departments have “barely scratched the surface” of what needs to be done, says PAC report

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  The bots turning businesses into digital transformers

  As companies increasingly turn to robotic process automation to accelerate digital transformation, Computer Weekly takes a look at how the market is evolving

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Pure Storage APAC CTO talks up storage trends

  Flash-based storage will be around for at least two decades more, while crystal- and DNA-based storage needs a lot more work before becoming mainstream, according to Pure Storage’s CTO for the Asia-Pacific region

• September 29, 2019 29 Sep'19

  Private sector warned of ‘brain drain’ risk by putting off prep for April 2020 start of IR35 reforms

  Legal firm warns private sector companies about the risks of putting off preparations for the IR35 reforms that take effect next year

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  Mayor launches guidance on building access to increase mobile coverage

  London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new standard agreement for commercial landlords and public property owners to make it easier to access rooftops to install 5G

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  HMRC chief digital and information officer departs

  Jacky Wright, HMRC chief digital and information officer, will return to Microsoft in October after a two-year loan arrangement

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  ABN Amro investigation lends weight to anti-money laundering collaboration by Dutch banks

  Dutch authorities are investigating ABN Amro for possible failures to monitor and report potential money laundering activity

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  Nodersok malware campaign is infecting thousands, Microsoft warns

  Thousands of Windows endpoints in the US and Europe have been infected by a new fileless malware campaign in the past few weeks

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  How Graphcore is putting AI on steroids

  UK chipmaker Graphcore’s intelligence processing unit may just hold the key to unlocking the full potential of artificial intelligence

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  Bristol, CNRS and Oracle join forces against tropical disease

  Scientists from the University of Bristol and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Grenoble have identified a candidate synthetic vaccine against tropical disease Chikungunya, using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure