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• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Scottish police roll out controversial data extraction technology

  The introduction of new mobile phone data extraction terminals to Police Scotland will go ahead despite concerns that the use of the technology could be unlawful

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Australian wildfires take toll on telco networks

  Major telco networks in Australia were disrupted by power cuts resulting from devastating bushfires, raising questions about the resilience of the country’s communications infrastructure

• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  Thailand gets ready for data protection law

  Thailand’s personal data protection law comes into effect in May 2020, subjecting organisations to new rules that safeguard the personal data of individuals

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Threat landscape grew in complexity in 2019, no respite in sight

  Check Point’s annual state of security report shares some 2019 trends and looks ahead to 2020

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  How container applications are shaping storage management

  Persistent storage, backup and recovery were not on the minds of those behind container applications, but that is starting to change

• 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 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Queen’s University Belfast and Rakuten Mobile set up edge computing hub

  Aiming to boost its plans to make truly autonomous networks a reality, Japanese operator Rakuten opens a new lab in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast to develop edge computing hub

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Don’t become the next Travelex: Get ready for ransomware

  With Travelex’s IT still in disarray and banks and travellers left without access to funds more than a week after it was hit by a ransomware attack, we ask what others can learn from the foreign exchange services company’s response to the incident

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  New GDPR service aims to ease compliance challenges

  Security consultants claim their software platform will address a pressing need for an effective and efficient means of complying with data protection rules

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  Cloud adoption in ANZ gathering pace

  Australia and New Zealand have seen a four-fold increase in the amount of data moving from on-premise environments to the top public clouds, survey finds

• 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 02, 2020 02 Jan'20

  California’s CCPA an opportunity for security industry to do better

  California’s consumer protection and data privacy laws came into effect on 1 January 2020, and present a golden opportunity for the cyber security practitioners

• 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 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Public sector still losing user devices in high numbers

  The Ministry of Justice has lost 354 smartphones, PCs, laptops and tablets in the past 12 months, according to a Freedom of Information request, and other government departments are in the same boat

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  NetApp’s Keystone hybrid cloud storage ‘try-before-you-buy’ for on-prem

  Keystone on-premise and cloud subscription model will cost more than buying hardware so will be best suited to customers that want to try NetApp on-site before committing to purchase