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• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  PwC partners with UKBlackTech to increase tech sector diversity

  Professional services network PwC has partnered with social initiative UKBlackTech to encourage more young people from different backgrounds into the technology industry

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  IBM acquires Red Hat in $34bn hybrid cloud push

  IBM and Red Hat senior leadership teams confirm imminent merger, which they claim will help accelerate migration of enterprise workloads to the hybrid cloud

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  O2 extends rural 4G network to 339 communities

  O2 has extended its rural network roll-out, targeting over 300 small communities all over the UK

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Philips looks to artificial intelligence to train its workforce

  Healthcare company is looking to AI, chatbots and learning playlists to help staff learn new skills more quickly as it adapts changing business priorities

• October 28, 2018 28 Oct'18

  Australia earns mixed record in IT agility

  Despite being fervent adopters of cloud, Australian enterprises are slower than those in the US and UK in deploying business-critical applications

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  NGA secures £22m for Bristol-Newport fibre link

  Ultrafast wholesale network builder Nextgenaccess has been awarded funding from the National Digital Infrastructure Fund to improve connectivity in South Wales

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  British Airways data breach worse than thought

  British Airways has admitted that up to 185,000 more people than first thought may have had personal details compromised in August’s data breach

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  DNS attacks cost finance firms millions of pounds a year

  Average cost of recovering from a single DNS attack is $924,390 for a large financial services company, survey shows

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  Openreach slashes cost of full-fibre to new-build homes

  Property developers will receive a 75% discount on the cost of full-fibre installation

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• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  IoT ecosystem needs to be investigated, say experts

  A conference of IoT experts convened by Enisa and Europol has made key recommendations to ensure security vulnerabilities do not overshadow benefits

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  MEPs call for action in wake of Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal

  European members of parliament demand action to protect citizens’ privacy from abuses such as those uncovered in the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Consumer rights champion Which? begins digital journey

  Consumer rights organisation has always had a subscription business, but is now transforming into a digital one through cloud computing

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Vodafone claims UK 5G first

  Mobile network operator Vodafone claims the activation of a trial site in Manchester marks the first time mobile data traffic has been streamed to and from the internet exclusively over 5G technology

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  GandCrab decryption tool released by No More Ransom

  Another decryption tool has been made available free of charge in the battle against ransomware to help victims avoid paying to release their data

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Belgian startup makes a game of creating secure software code

  A global tech startup has placed its research and development centre in Belgium, taking advantage of regional financial support as well as cooperations with local educational organisations

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  BT picks fintech leader to succeed Gavin Patterson

  BT has named Philip Jansen, current co-chief executive of global payments services group Worldpay, as the successor to outgoing chief executive Gavin Patterson

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  ICO issues maximum £500,000 fine to Facebook

  The UK privacy watchdog has confirmed that Facebook has escaped a fine of more than $1bn under the GDPR, but will face the maximum under the DPA for failing to protect users’ personal information

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Firms will use AI to automate HR processes within two years

  Companies are gearing up to automate HR processes with artificial intelligence and machine learning, while at the same time battling with outdated IT systems

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Microsoft results show hybrid benefit to Azure growth

  The software company continues to push the benefits of on-premise Windows Server infrastructure alongside Azure PaaS

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Cathay Pacific under fire over breach affecting 9.4 million passengers

  Hong Kong-based airline reveals massive data breach of the most sensitive personal data of passengers five months after loss was confirmed

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Nordic banks target SME customers with fintech services

  Traditional Nordic banks are slimming down workforces as they turn increasingly to technology-based service delivery, and some are linking up with small fintech companies to deliver online products.

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Becrypt security platform helps ease cloud adoption

  Becrypt’s secure operating system is driving a new service aimed at helping organisations reduce cost and increase agility in using cloud-based services and online applications

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Oracle bullish on growth in ASEAN

  Enterprise technology juggernaut Oracle claims traction in cloud applications and growing interest in its cloud-based autonomous database service in Southeast Asia

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Choose security tools wisely to gain upper hand

  The cyber threat landscape is continually changing, but staying abreast of attacker and defender innovation can help business leaders gain the upper hand, says KuppingerCole

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Autonomous taxi trials underway in Dubai

  Dubai’s transport authority has started road testing the region’s first autonomous taxi, designed in partnership with Dubai Silicon Oasis and DG World

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  CityFibre backers pump £2.5bn into full-fibre broadband

  Network expansion will add 27 towns and cities to CityFibre’s current roll-out to 10 locations in support of a consumer full-fibre service delivered by Vodafone

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  11 of 12 border IT systems at risk of not being ready by Brexit, says NAO report

  All but one of the critical IT systems needed at the UK border are at risk of not being ready by 29 March 2019, which will have implications if there is a no-deal Brexit

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  UK unicorn creation goes unrivalled in Europe

  The UK's regional cities are creating more billion-dollar tech startups than many European capitals, with the UK as a whole creating more unicorns since 2016 than France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  SMEs use fintech in fight against online giants, but fears remain

  Online SMEs are turning to financial technology to help them make payment processes easy for customers as they try to compete with online giants

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  CTO interview: Proving new technology at Bloomberg

  We speak to Shawn Edwards, global chief technology officer at Bloomberg, about identifying and nurturing great ideas

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Government can’t guarantee no-deal Brexit data-sharing agreement

  Digital minister Margot James says there is no clear timetable on when the UK will secure a data adequacy decision from the EU, and cannot guarantee an agreement will be in place in the event of a no-deal Brexit

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Sibos 2018: ‘Black swan’ cyber event is inevitable

  With security experts and bankers expecting a 9/11-style cyber event, deeper collaboration between companies and governments is necessary to identify emerging threats before they occur

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Oracle Open World 2018: CEO Mark Hurd says SAP ERP customers will defect

  Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd opined at Open World that SAP ECC6 customers will defect, in some measure, to Oracle in preference to S/4 Hana

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Yahoo to pay at least $85m for data breach settlement

  Yahoo has agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit on behalf of 200 million consumers affected by a data breach in 2013

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Datacentre glitches expose data loss risks

  A new study has highlighted the fragility of corporate datacentres and the very real risk of data loss

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  HP ties up with Singapore university on Industry 4.0

  The personal computing and printer giant has opened a research facility at Nanyang Technological University to advance digital manufacturing technologies

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Interview: Steve Grobman, McAfee CTO shares his views on some burning security questions

  Cyber security technology innovator and veteran Steve Grobman shares his views on adversarial artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography and security for next-gen tech

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  CIO interview: Julie Dodd, director of digital transformation and communication, Parkinson’s UK

  In her combined role as director of digital transformation and communication, Julie Dodd oversees both IT and marketing at Parkinson’s UK, making it easier to ensure collaboration

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Igneous enhances unstructured data management product

  Specialist Igneous allows customers to backup and archive, search, manage, move and handle large sets of unstructured files that mainstream NAS can find difficult to handle

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  CIOs and the cloud: The future of European enterprise software

  European organisations are moving to the cloud rapidly, but trepidation remains in concerning certain aspects, such as security

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Government to invest £8m in Brexit customs training and automation

  The Treasury and HMRC are putting measures in place to support the customs sector should the UK leave the EU with no deal, including funding to increase automation and training

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Software suites will dominate the business applications market

  Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd contends that having a common user interface and the ability to support data flows across a business are key capabilities that will spur the dominance of software suites over time

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Government pumps more funding into NHS ‘test beds’ programme

  Seven new “test beds” will receive £7m to trial a range of technologies to improve patient care in the second wave of the NHS Test Beds Programme

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  OpenWorld18: Ellison declares seek and destroy mission for database

  At OpenWorld 2018 in San Francisco, Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison led on the putative resilience of the supplier’s “autonomous” database to cyber security threats

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Morrisons loses appeal against data breach liability ruling

  Supermarket chain has lost its appeal against a High Court ruling that found it liable for a data leak by a former employee, underlining the importance of managing insider threats

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Government to invest an extra £215m in UK innovation centres

  The extra funding will be given to the Catapult network of innovation centres, focusing on digital, medicines discovery, future cities and transport systems

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Centralised identity risky and not web 3.0 friendly, says entrepreneur

  User controlled identity is less risky than centralised identity and essential for the next evolution of the web, according to an entrepreneur and evangelist of self-sovereign identity and blockchain technologies

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Cab firm to map 250,000 miles of London roads for CAVs

  Cab operator Addison Lee has teamed up with CAV software specialist Oxbotica to start preparing the streets of London for self-driving cars

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  McAfee CTO raises concerns about election cyber security

  The security industry needs to look at the security of election processes around the world as well as the security of voting and counting machines, says McAfee CTO

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Identity and access management is becoming a vital business concern

  Many companies are struggling to provide secure access to the high number of applications and systems in use by their employees

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Retail focus is key to Alibaba’s new London datacentre

  China’s e-commerce giant has been slowly expanding into Europe and is now heading for a clash of the titans against AWS and Azure

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Zeppelin uses Splunk for pre-emptive maintenance

  German construction equipment rental firm Zeppelin has been using Splunk to predict when its machinery will need maintenance before it breaks down

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Russians using less cash after accelerated use of electronic payments

  Russians are increasingly using electronic payments rather than cash, a recent study by Sberbank has found

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Competition, not consumer demand, is driving full-fibre roll-out

  Market competition among telecoms operators, not consumer demand, appears to be driving the trend towards ultrafast full-fibre broadband roll-out in Europe

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Why CIOs need to find ways to manage the old and the new

  In IT, nothing is ever reinvented and nothing ever really goes away. We investigate how IT departments can remain agile while managing legacy assets

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Interview: Matt Hancock, secretary of state for health and social care, on his NHS ‘tech vision’

  Matt Hancock brings rare digital experience to running the NHS and social care systems, but can he overcome the legacy of past health service technology failures?

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  McAfee combining threat intel with AI

  Simulations show that threat intelligence and artificial intelligence is a powerful combination, according to McAfee’s technology head

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Kaspersky advances plans to encourage women into cyber

  Cyber security provider Kaspersky Lab has partnered with several other organisations to try to encourage more women into cyber

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Postal delivery robots trialled in Norway

  The Norwegian postal service is testing out the value and viability of robots delivering mail to homes and businesses

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Chinese insurance giant extends cloud service to other sectors

  Ping An is opening up its cloud service to more sectors, including real estate and automotive, in its efforts to become a technology company

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Learn lessons from attacks, says McAfee investigations chief

  Organisations should use every cyber attack as an opportunity to learn, identify weaknesses and improve security posture, according to McAfee’s head of cyber investigations

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Amazon to open Manchester R&D centre and create 1,000 skilled jobs

  Online retail giant will open a new office in Manchester and expand others to house 1,000 new skilled research and development employees in the UK

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  SAP Q3 2018: Cloud revenue up 39%

  SAP’s Q3 2018 results show cloud revenue now at 22% of total and indicate momentum. S/4 Hana customers number 9,500

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Drivers have dangerous misconceptions about self-driving cars

  People seem to be confused about the difference between autonomous and assisted driving technology, with worrying implications for road safety, says Thatcham Research

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Dubai Health Authority unveils virtual health app for GP consultations

  Health authority adopts new technology as part of the Dubai Future Accelerators initiative

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Industry and government must collaborate to drive the digital economy, says techUK CEO

  Industry and government must work together to grow use of technology across the UK economy, according to techUK CEO Julian David

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  McAfee researchers uncover ‘significant’ espionage campaign

  Researchers discover campaign targeting South Korea, the US and Canada with links to eight-year-old source code from a threat group that has been dormant for five years

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Internet of things challenges in storage and data

  The internet of things (IoT) brings challenges, with a host of new edge devices and data. We look at edge and core processing, compliance and information lifecycle management in IoT

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Middle East gears up for 5G

  The race for 5G is well and truly under way, and the UAE and Saudi Arabia are well positioned to be among the first countries in the world to deliver the benefits of this new telecoms protocol

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  MoJ to go all-in on public cloud as infrastructure modernisation push gathers pace

  The Ministry of Justice claims modernising, retiring and migrating its legacy IT systems to the public cloud will help it accrue long-term savings of around 60% on hosting costs

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Home Office ‘seriously’ considered ESN shutdown

  New disclosures from those responsible for the troubled Emergency Services Network project have revealed that, contrary to previous denials, the Home Office came close to pulling the plug earlier this year

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  No new funding for Hancock’s NHS tech vision

  Getting the technology plan right is more about standards than money, says health and social care secretary Matt Hancock, as he explains why NHS organisations won’t be given additional funding to deliver on his vision

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  NHS standards framework aims to set the bar for quality and efficiency

  NHS Digital’s standards framework sets out renewed commitment to implement and use open standards across the NHS

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Best of VMworld Europe 2018 Awards nominations now open until 26 October

  Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  How Heathrow transformed using analytics for the people

  A Microsoft Azure platform and PowerBI have provided the people who work at Heathrow Airport with a way to use analytics directly to help them improve their performance

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Time to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee CEO Chris Young

  Convergence of threats and technologies and an increasingly complex regulatory environment are driving the need to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee chief

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  'Sealed cloud' promises better data security

  TÜV SÜD’s Singapore Sealed Cloud does not grant administrators access to data, reducing the possibility of hackers breaking into databases using compromised administrator credentials

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Hancock sets out NHS tech vision

  Government will mandate national open standards for the NHS and tech suppliers, build a health and caretech ecosystem and give local NHS organisations more flexibility in how and what tech they buy

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Violin to add X-IO flash, hybrid and disk as mid-range options

  Reborn Violin Systems is to buy X-IO’s spinning disk, all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems in a bid to provide more mid-range options to its customers

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Contactless payments surpass Chip and PIN in UK shops

  Contactless card payments now account for more spending in UK stores than Chip and PIN

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Microsoft signs pledge to assist people with dyslexia

  Tech giant Microsoft has signed the Made by Diversity pledge to help more people with dyslexia use technology as part of their education

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  UCaaS supports British Medical Journal’s cloud-first ambitions

  With a growing global business and a CIO intent on doing everything in the cloud, the British Medical Journal turned to unified communications-as-a-service provider RingCentral to make its comms infrastructure fit for the cloud era

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Nordic CTO interview: Anders Johanson, Husqvarna

  Husqvarna is on a journey to transform itself into a product and services company by using the latest digital technology and Anders Johnson is a driving force behind it

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  APAC security spending tipped to reach new highs

  Security services will be the largest and fastest-growing slice of the overall security pie in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham

  Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Monster partners with Stemettes to encourage girls into Stem

  Recruitment firm links up with social enterprise to give young people experience in applying and interviewing for technology roles

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Carrefour kicks off blockchain food traceability drive

  Using blockchain to capture data, shoppers will be able to use their smartphones to see exactly where a product on the supermarket shelf came from

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Commuter trains may need over 3Gbps of mobile data capacity by 2025

  Ofcom has set out its vision of what will need to be done to meet the government’s goals around data connectivity on the UK’s rail network

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  There is more to fintech than meets the eye

  Financial technology goes way beyond the flashy apps facing consumers and into the depths of the back office

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation

  Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Elastifile ClearTier allows cloud tiering for burst workloads

  Elastifile adds ClearTier to its CloudConnect to bring enterprise NAS access in the cloud with the ability to tier data between object storage and file system

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies, aged 65

  Computer programmer who helped propel Microsoft to become one of the world’s largest businesses will be remembered for his generosity

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Public Health England builds Ceph and Lustre cloud for analytics

  Healthcare analytics and modelling organisation Public Health England built an open source cloud from Red Hat Ceph object storage and Lustre scale-out file access storage to petabyte scale

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  More than half of women think their gender helps them pursue tech careers

  A majority of women think being female helps them enter the tech sector, but career progression can be a different story, study shows

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Zero-trust security model gaining traction

  The zero-trust model of security is finally gaining traction as security professionals tap into new tools and executive buy-in to support this approach in an effort to improve security posture and practices

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  UK faces 10 cyber attacks a week as hostile states step up hacking, says NCSC

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has thwarted more than 1,600 attacks over the past two years – many by hostile nation states

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hortonworks CTO weighs in on Cloudera merger

  Besides marrying technologies from Hortonworks and Cloudera, the two companies could also come up with new product components after their merger is sealed

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Home Office completes initial test of online system for registering EU citizens

  Online application process for registering EU citizens in the UK after Brexit has concluded initial trials, and will now be expanded to a wider group

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Microsoft staff allegedly pen open letter urging firm to drop bid for US government cloud deal

  Letter calls on software giant to bow out of the race for a controversial, 10-year cloud contract with the US Department of Defense

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Should you pay or should you go for free open source software?

  Open source software is free, but many businesses are happy to pay for support. This model tends not to scale well, however, making wider deployment expensive. We weigh up the options