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• How Schrems II will impact data sharing between the UK and the US

  At the end of this year, the UK will no longer be subject to the EU’s treaties, opening the way for it and the US to finalise a new trade relationship. Could the UK leave EU data protection standards behind?  Continue Reading

• 11 obscure questions, Facebook, Max Schrems and the European Court of Justice

  Eleven obscure questions will be the first step towards explaining why we in the UK and Europe have experienced 13 years of what has been described as ‘mass and indiscriminate surveillance’ by the US  Continue Reading

• The new future of work

  We may come to stop talking about ‘remote’ working altogether after the coronavirus pandemic. It could become just ‘working’ – part of the normal mix of how things are done  Continue Reading

• Learning from the Travelex cyber attack: Failing to prepare is preparing to fail

  The key lesson to take from the Travelex breach is that an effective response to a breach is a critical business function and no longer the sole province of the IT department  Continue Reading

• Digital advancement means we're measuring the economy wrong

  When accountants work out how much UK business is investing in the future, it's stuck in a world of depreciated assets – ignoring the huge changes brought about by cloud and software as a service  Continue Reading

• Making the move to cloud work for you

  Getting the best out of a move to the cloud means getting the size right, turning off what you don’t need, smart purchasing and continuously decluttering your new environment  Continue Reading

• Facebook’s high-stakes privacy gamble goes to Dublin court

  A high-wire gamble with billions in compensation at stake for European internet users – part of a complex case between Facebook and the Irish information commissioner – hides challenge to the unlawfulness of US state internet surveillance  Continue Reading

• Can Huawei untangle the AI mess?

  Huawei is building a digital platform with “device-cloud synergy” to support artificial intelligence applications, but enterprises should be wary of being locked into a single AI stack  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Encourage employees to use an approved messaging app

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• My brother Lauri Love should have the right to a trial in the UK

  Lauri Love should face trial over hacking allegations in a British Court, rather than be extradited to the US, where his extraordinary skills will be lost to society, says his younger sister  Continue Reading

• Embrace the new normal – re-platform your cloud services

  Huge improvements in cloud technology are opening up markets and solutions that previously didn’t exist. But complacent suppliers often don’t offer these innovations to long-established customers  Continue Reading

• Cloud pricing: Are per-second billing models really needed?

  Clive Longbottom looks at the growing complexity of cloud pricing models, and weighs up the value of per-second billing  Continue Reading

• Is the tide going out for transatlantic data flows?

  Businesses face new uncertainty over their ability to share data with the US, as Europe’s highest court reassesses the legality of the EU’s model data-sharing contracts  Continue Reading

• Legal hurdles cloud Max Schrems complaint over US spying

  The Irish High Court in Dublin has embarked on a long hearing into the legality of standard contractual clauses. It is a sideshow from the real issue – the legality of US surveillance in the UK and Ireland  Continue Reading

• The high price of not understanding how automation works with existing software licences

  Businesses must check their software licences before they introduce robotic process automation or they risk breaking the rules  Continue Reading

• Open source for hybrid cloud success: Is it an open and shut case?

  Quocirca’s Clive Longbottom ponders whether enterprises need to adopt an open source-first strategy for hybrid cloud success  Continue Reading

• Is regtech the new fintech?

  Machine learning, big data and cloud computing are helping governments and financial institutions transform regulatory practices  Continue Reading

• Multi-cloud management: Making it work for the enterprise

  As the hype surrounding multi-cloud infrastructure continues to grow, what do enterprises need to do to make the model work for them?  Continue Reading

• How AI is disrupting the role of call centres and call centre staff

  Artificial intelligence could eliminate many white-collar jobs in coming decades. Its effects are already being felt in the call centre industry, but there is still no substitute for the human touch  Continue Reading

• The digital opportunity for CIOs

  CIOs have a unique opportunity to lead the digital strategy in their organisations, but they have to move quickly to make sure they have the right skills and infrastructure in place  Continue Reading

• A Good American: a personal take on mass surveillance

  Director Friedrich Moser draws some conclusions on mass surveillance from his groundbreaking documentary on the work of NSA whistleblower, Bill Binney  Continue Reading

• Prism and the law: The state of play in August 2016

  Computer Weekly assesses the history, legal aspects and latest developments in the story of the mass surveillance programme launched by the US National Security Agency  Continue Reading

• Choosing the right colocation provider

  Quocirca's Clive Longbottom runs through the list of items enterprise IT managers should look for in prospective colocation providers  Continue Reading

• Privacy Shield gets green light – for now

  Privacy Shield faces inevitable legal challenges, so organisations should prepare by considering legal and practical alternatives  Continue Reading

• What CIOs should know about Brexit

  CIOs should start talking with other executives and their teams and begin planning now for potential changes  Continue Reading

• Brexit and technology: How network effects will damage UK IT industry

  Although largely ignored in the Brexit debate, network effects will damage the UK's high-tech industry if Britain leaves Europe  Continue Reading

• The European Cloud Initiative: A silver lining for data sharing?

  The European Commission has published proposals for a new cloud initiative – part of a package of measures designed to enhance the EU’s position in the global, data-driven economy  Continue Reading

• How to transition to a cloud-based analytics environment

  Accenture Digital consultants say businesses can be more agile by way of cloud-based analytics  Continue Reading

• Life on the edge: The benefits of using micro datacentres

  Enterprises are demanding faster access to applications and ever more processing power. Could edge datacentres fill the gap?  Continue Reading

• When a slowdown in IT budgets is a good thing

  IT budgets will grow at their slowest rate for four years in 2016, yet companies are spending more on digital technology  Continue Reading

• Consumer Rights Act will boost trust in digital content

  New law presents a huge opportunity for the growth in sales of online movies, music downloads, e-books, apps and software  Continue Reading

• Life’s a breach: How to handle the press after a hacking attack

  Emily Dent, specialist in crisis PR, offers some advice to organisations that unexpectedly find themselves in the headlines  Continue Reading

• Driving digital productivity in the UK

  There is a need for British businesses to improve their adoption of digital technologies  Continue Reading

• Sale, spin-off or stay put? What should EMC do next?

  With reports suggesting some major changes may be afoot at EMC, Clive Longbottom looks at the reasons why  Continue Reading

• Can emulating social media make business applications more productive?

  Can social technologies be turned to account for business applications, and can they boost economic productivity?  Continue Reading

• When DevOps isn't enough, try NoOps

  Letting developers loose to create, test and deploy new code without operations might streamline processes, but it's not without its risks  Continue Reading

• Fix outdated working practices to solve productivity puzzle

  The Economist says the French could take Friday off and still produce more than Britons in a week. Can smarter use of technology fix this?  Continue Reading

• Microsoft SharePoint: Why are we still hearing so much about adoption issues?

  The SharePoint business system is too important to be left to IT; the whole business need to embrace it so it's more than just shelfware  Continue Reading

• HP: Where next for the troubled Silicon Valley giant?

  Numerous management changes and acquisitions have created confusion about HP's strategy, but is it too late to bounce back?  Continue Reading

• Making sense of the internet of things

  Welcome to Thingalytics, the use of real-time analytics and algorithms to guide you through the maze of fast big data  Continue Reading

• Does IBM have what it needs to succeed in the cloud era?

  With its history in hardware, has IBM done enough from a tech development and acquisition perspective to achieve long-term success in the cloud?  Continue Reading

• The customer-centric cloud model for HR IT

  IT and HR departments are working increasingly closely with cloud suppliers to develop and improve cloud-based HR systems  Continue Reading

• US technology companies facing growing UK pressure over internet spying

  Tension is growing between the UK and US over Prism spying  Continue Reading

• Time for DevOps to get out of the weeds

  Software and service providers face a battle to deliver new products, features and capabilities faster than ever  Continue Reading

• The business benefits of the third platform

  Ron Tolido explains the benefits of the Open Group Open Platform 3.0  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: ‘Fear of Google’ and the ethics of digital business

  Could the big digital players be using their dominance by exerting unfair competition?  Continue Reading

• Balancing user desires with business needs

  With users increasingly taking IT decisions into their own hands, businesses need to try harder to keep up  Continue Reading

• Where is the long-term political vision for digital public services?

  As digital starts to appear in manifesto discussions, this is our chance to demand a higher quality of vision from our political leaders  Continue Reading

• Social media and why businesses need to embrace it

  Why are businesses using email for everything? Jack Vile gives the younger generation's perspective  Continue Reading

• Navigating the digital torrent

  CIOs need to look at their own performance, ways of working, skills and experience to ensure they are equipped to deal with the digital torrent  Continue Reading

• Opinion: Why small steps in big data count

  Don’t get bogged down and fearful that big data means big steps – get started and learn as you go  Continue Reading

• Getting the best out of the old and the new in government IT

  There is a tension at the heart of public sector IT that, unless resolved, threatens to cause serious government IT failures in the next five years  Continue Reading

• Is cloud the answer to the legacy IT problem?

  How do you meet escalating demands and keep up with change in technology, when you don't have the funds for a large-scale replacement?  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: The CIO is dead. Long live the CIO

  There is a new breed of CIOs who are defining what it means to be a digital leader  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: Regaining the technology high ground – one blog post at a time

  IT leaders should use blogging and social media to raise their profile and build influence in their organisations  Continue Reading

• Is enterprise IT falling behind as business strategy turns outside-in?

  Successful firms need to harness the skills, capabilities and passions of the external marketplace by becoming more 'outside-in'  Continue Reading

• Two years after 'unacceptable' - the state of government IT today

  Two years ago, G-Cloud founder Chris Chant called government IT 'unacceptable'. Now outside Whitehall, what does he think has changed?  Continue Reading

• Cloud business intelligence market will be worth $4bn by 2017

  Cloud business intelligence (BI) is still a small part of the market but growing at an impressive rate, contends analyst Tom Pringle  Continue Reading

• Not in Kansas any more

  PA Consulting's Alastair McAulay looks at the commercial potential of smart watches, Google Glass and the latest smartphones  Continue Reading

• Cloud supplier lock-in – our experience

  Always ask before entering into any agreement, “How do I get my data out in the future if I need or want to?"  Continue Reading

• How to prepare the IT workforce for cloud and mobility    

  CompTIA is working to identify the key skills that staff responsible for cloud and mobility implementations need  Continue Reading

• User acceptance testing needs real training, not just a short course

  In spite of its importance, user acceptance testing (UAT) is often chaotic, problematic and ineffective  Continue Reading

• IT skills shortage still tops the technology agenda

  Many executives in the UK expect to increase investment in IT products and services, but there is an ongoing skills challenge  Continue Reading

• How wearable gadgets will impact the IT department

  The Chancellor George Osborne was spotted recently wearing a bio-monitoring wristband, suggesting wearable tech really has gone mainstream. Despite it being a useful and efficient product, it is limited when compared to the capabilities that such ...  Continue Reading

• The Death Of Cloud Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

  Revelations about the extent of US and UK government surveillance on the internet will not mean the death of cloud computing, but companies will change their approach.  Continue Reading

• Why the internet is forcing retailers to rethink their supply chains

  The growth of internet shopping is causing retailers to radically rethink the way they manage their supply chains  Continue Reading

• Managing costs on your journey to cloud

  Procuring cloud services can be relatively easy, but integrating them into existing IT environments can be complicated  Continue Reading

• The future of application development

  As cloud adoption continues to increase , most organisations are making important decisions in executing their cloud strategies  Continue Reading

• SMEs open to public cloud – provided it is easy with local sales and support

  It is no surprise that small and medium-sized businesses are the most inclined to adopt and use public cloud to deliver the majority of their IT, but there are significant barriers to overcome  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Web-based app security needs data-centric, risk-based approach

  What are the security pitfalls of web-based applications and how are they best avoided?  Continue Reading

• Developing the modern datacentre into a services hub

  More businesses are choosing private cloud over public cloud. Analyst Andrew Buss explains why  Continue Reading

• Forrester: The impact of cloud on outsourcing contracts

  Although still in its early stages, the transition of outsourcing engagements toward cloud-based models has begun  Continue Reading

• BYOD: Bring your own device – or demise?

  Nitin Bhas from Juniper research discusses the impact bring your own device (BYOD) polices are making on the enterprise  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Five important guidelines for business technology governance

  Forrester believes that "good" IT governance is business technology governance – a conscious process by senior executives to establish strategies, structures, processes, and measurements for the management of technology to boost business results  Continue Reading

• Where does the ICO's new cloud guidance take you?

  It is not possible to follow the ICO's advice on cloud computing and still have a “cloud” solution  Continue Reading

• Moving on from a culture of collaboration by email

  The time has come to think seriously about enterprise social networking (ESN) and consider its role within wider enterprise collaboration strategy.  Continue Reading