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Veeam ending the year with growth across the channel

News | MicroScope

The backup software vendor has seen demand rising from customers of all sizes, with its partners able to tap into those market conditions

Met Police failed to clear backlog of subject access requests

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Metropolitan Police failed to comply fully with an enforcement notice issued by the Information Commissioner, and despite hundreds of overdue subject...

CCS to launch £750m pan-government cloud computing services framework

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) aims for the framework agreement to make it easier for public sector to buy scalable cloud hosting

GSMA launches digital access guidelines to help disabled people

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Industry organisation GSMA has launched a framework of guidelines aimed at making mobile technology more accessible for people with disabilities

KCOM and Giacom team up to deliver Microsoft services

News | MicroScope

Firms local to each other combine expertise to deliver connectivity and cloud services

Verizon Business, Cisco expand SD-WAN managed service offer

News | ComputerWeekly.com

US comms provider enhances software-defined wide area network portfolio with three new offers from network equipment and services firm to provide ...

Channel round-up: Who’s gone where?

News | MicroScope

It’s another busy week, with some well-known names popping up at different companies

Networking infrastructure issues peg back firms adapting to Covid-19 new normal

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Survey shows inadequate infrastructure is preventing businesses from meeting challenges around remote working and omni-channel customer demand and ...

Lancashire police integrate body-worn video into digital policing app

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Body-worn video integration will transform Lancashire police’s time-consuming and manual procedures into an efficient digital workflow, but claims ...

Interview: Chris Hayman, AWS UK public sector director, on cloud evolution during Covid-19

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

AWS executive discusses the evolution of cloud technology in government, the need for dynamic procurement, skills, and joining the oligarchy of ...

Arm to downsize global datacentre footprint through AWS cloud collaboration

News | ComputerWeekly.com

British semi-conductor maker Arm has committed to shrinking the size of its global datacentre estate by 45%, and plans to do so by moving some of its...

London received quarter of all European tech funding in 2020

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Technology startups in London raised near-record levels of venture capital investment last year despite uncertainty related to Brexit and Covid-19

Kaseya CEO: MSPs stopped an SME catastrophe

News | MicroScope

The managed service community has kept many small and medium-sized enterprises going throughout the course of the pandemic, says Kaseya CEO

Website secure login: Alternatives to out-of-wallet questions

Tip | ComputerWeekly.com

Learn about alternatives to static knowledge-based authentication and out-of-wallet questions for secure website logins in this tip.

Biased language deters half of female candidates, finds Openreach

News | ComputerWeekly.com

When looking into the language of its job adverts, telecoms firm Openreach found that half of female candidates were put off if the language of a job...

Australians lost A$176m to scams in 2020

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Investment scams topped the list of scams, which grew by 23.1% in 2020 as criminals exploited human psychology using social engineering

Airband to supply full-fibre broadband across rural Cheshire

News | ComputerWeekly.com

One of the UK’s largest UK rural connectivity providers wins £4.5m project to provide ultrafast full-fibre broadband to rural and hard-to-reach areas...

Prepare for bringing people back to the office with the Nordic tech startup blueprint

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Business can learn lessons from Nordic tech startups to prepare employees to return to the office after Covid restrictions

The cyber security channel – what’s in store for 2021?

Opinion | MicroScope

Ben Richardson, head of channel EMEA at Forcepoint, shares his thoughts about what cyber security could look like in the year ahead

Top 10 IT security stories of 2018

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 IT security stories of 2018

Top 10 public sector IT stories of 2018

News | ComputerWeekly.com

In the year the UK government couldn’t decide if Brexit really meant Brexit, departments continued to struggle with the workload of EU exit ...

Is your BI safe in the hands of ERP vendors?

News | ComputerWeekly.com

ERP vendors are pitching integration as supreme for BI. But can these ERP vendors hit the ball out of the park?

Thomson Reuters completes large-scale migration of mission-critical workloads to the AWS cloud

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Thomson Reuters confirms completion of large-scale AWS migration, and outlines the work it is doing to ramp up its use of machine learning within its...

FireEye’s ethical hacking tools stolen in state-backed attack

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Hacking tools used to conduct red team penetration testing were stolen in the state-backed attack on security firm FireEye

Gousto uses PagerDuty to cope with lockdown business boom

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The recipe box startup has seen a huge growth in demand for its products as people shop for online dinners, which put a strain on its helpdesk

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft presents just 58 CVEs for Christmas

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The final Patch Tuesday of 2020 contains 58 fixes, a minnow compared to some recent drops, but many are still of high importance

French regulators fine Google and Amazon over cookie policies

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Google and Amazon rapped over their use of advertising cookies by the French data protection authorities

Post Office Horizon and the subpostmasters’ justice fight – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

Podcast | ComputerWeekly.com

In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Karl Flinders joins Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald, and Brian McKenna to discuss ...

Eugene Kaspersky

Contributor | TechTarget

Eugene Kaspersky is a world-renowned cyber security expert and successful entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Kaspersky, the world’s largest ...

Birmingham, Dudley councils accelerate 5G roll-out

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Local authorities say developing fifth-generation mobile network infrastructure is critical to driving economic recovery in the region post-Covid

Top IT predictions in APAC in 2021

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be a cradle for technology innovation in the new year, whether it is 5G services, artificial intelligence, ...

Singapore government remains ‘juicy target’ for cyber attackers

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The government is baking security into the design and implementation of its IT systems and looking to increase bug bounties to fend off cyber threats

UK-EU Brexit deal passes Commons with six-month data adequacy bridge

News | ComputerWeekly.com

IT industry trade body TechUK has welcomed a six-month data adequacy bridge, in the wake of the EU-UK trade deal that the House of Commons has voted ...

Optus taps Nokia for 5G tech to enhance stadium experiences

News | ComputerWeekly.com

With crowds slowly returning to outdoor venues in Australia after lockdown, comms tech provider and leading local operator deliver gigabit wireless ...

Calls for Facebook break up as US issues lawsuits for anti-competitive behaviour

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Antitrust lawsuits issued by the US Federal Trade Commission and 48 attorneys general call for the breakup of Facebook following 10 years of ...

Automation driving the strategy at Ultima

News | MicroScope

Channel player has been a firm advocate of automation technology and is now sharing its expertise across the channel

Government pumps £20m into AI research projects

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Alan Turing Institute’s artificial intelligence (AI) research fellows will receive funding for 15 projects including using AI to detect cancer and ...

Linius aims to add magic to video conferencing with Whizzard

News | ComputerWeekly.com

New product for the conferencing and enterprise collaboration markets offers the ability to transform hours of video footage into bite-sized pieces ...

Services and value underpin Exclusive Networks plans for 2021

News | MicroScope

Distributor Exclusive Networks is aiming to build on the progress it has made with supporting those that want more flexibility in the channel

Number of students taking computer science degrees up 7.6% in 2020

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The number of students choosing to study computer science at degree level rose year-on-year in 2020, according to BCS

Tech and data key to achieving low-carbon economy, says Royal Society

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Report says net-zero transition should be data-led, and calls for coordination between government, regulators, industry and third sector

Bank of England enlists development partner to unlock cloud

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Bank has agreed a two-year deal with a cloud development platform provider as it seeks to take its cloud journey to the next level

SIEM or SOAR or both? Consider your business complexity first

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

SIEM and SOAR have much in common, but there are key differences between the two that may influence the best fit for your organisation. What should ...

Steven Kirz

Contributor | TechTarget

Steven Kirz is a managing director at Pace Harmon, a business transformation and outsourcing advisory services firm.

Juniper to spend millions on the channel

News | MicroScope

Juniper Networks uses partner conference to talk about bold moves to increase investment in the channel and take market share

Huawei claims £3.3bn contribution to UK economy

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Extent of communications technology provider Huawei’s positive contribution to the UK economy in terms of cash and jobs has been identified in ...

Appointment of disgraced former Post Office executive at Welsh FA questioned by MP

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The appointment of a former Post Office executive, who tried to mislead a judge, in the Football Association of Wales has been questioned by an MP

A tech reboot of retail

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

With 2020 having been the toughest year on record for bricks and mortar retailers, we look at some tech innovations that may be heading for the high ...

Microphones, smartphones, laptops among items stolen from BBC

News | ComputerWeekly.com

A total of 105 devices have been stolen from the BBC in the past two years, some of which may have been spirited away by remote workers

BBVA teams up with Google Cloud for IT security strategy revamp

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Spanish bank banking giant BBVA is forging even closer ties with long-standing technology partner Google Cloud to bolster the security posture of its...

Tech worker-centric umbrella company launches to target IT contractors 'displaced' by IR35

News | ComputerWeekly.com

As the number of private sector firms enforcing blanket bans on contractors grows, Techcentre Umbrella is offering IT workers ‘displaced’ by the ...

CyberScotland offers centralised security resource hub

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Newly launched partnership brings together security resources for individuals and organisations across Scotland

CIO interview: Simon Bateman, Allica Bank

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Challenger bank has built its entire core banking system from scratch using the Azure public cloud and an API ecosystem

Plymouth to host world’s first 5G ocean-based marine testbed

News | ComputerWeekly.com

5G docks at Plymouth Sound with virtualised testing platform designed to put the city at the forefront of marine and maritime innovation

Lords propose making tech giants pay for using news

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Digital platforms such as Google and Facebook profit from running adverts alongside publishers’ content, but no financial compensation is given for ...

Huawei: World faces risk of K-shaped post-Covid economic recovery

News | ComputerWeekly.com

MWC keynote sees Huawei deputy chairman warn that innovation is not just about solving current challenges, but about ‘lighting up tomorrow’ with ...

21. Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Bank

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IT Priorities 2020: After Covid-19, security goes back to basics

News | ComputerWeekly.com

This year’s transition to remote working highlighted big gaps in the fundamentals of security, as updated TechTarget/Computer Weekly data reveals

Canada ad firm subtracts 44U with HPE and Ctera hyper-converged

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Glenn Davis Group slashed its hardware estate from 48U of rack space to 4U when it ditched its SAN and tape legacy kit for flash-based Ctera X Series...

Productivity shrinks, but office and remote workers optimistic about new normal

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Despite the bleak times caused by Covid-19, study finds a silver lining in the form of accelerating digital transformation and technology investment ...

Government can’t be complacent with AI, says Lords report

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Report urges coordination on policy and use of artificial intelligence, and sets out recommendations for how official bodies should respond to ...

THKD taps SAP and Azure to improve patient experience

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Malaysian healthcare group THKD is deploying new SAP systems and plans to tap Azure’s cloud infrastructure to enhance patient experience

Optus teams up with VMware on SD-WAN

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Australia’s second biggest telco, Optus, will offer VMware’s SD-WAN solution to enterprises in a highly fragmented market

APAC firms’ ‘future readiness’ a mixed bag

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Led by firms in China, Singapore and Australia, just over a quarter of businesses in APAC fit the bill as a future-ready business, study finds

Mixed blessings for robots in retail

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Ocado has acquired two US firms to boost its robotics expertise, while Walmart has reverted to using staff for shelf inventory checks

CDW Q3 numbers show coronavirus impact

News | MicroScope

Channel player saw corporate and SME sales dip as the recovery from the worst of the pandemic continued

Cinia cuts Ribbon deal for transport network upgrade

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Real-time communications software and network solutions firm sees OTN platforms deployed in upgrade of backbone transport network in Finland and ...

Computacenter records fastest profit growth in 2020

News | MicroScope

Channel player releases full-year results showing that the business navigated the choppy waters of the pandemic successfully

Covid-19 pandemic has increased speed of tech deployments across the NHS

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The pandemic has increased use of technology across the NHS, but how has it been received by clinicians, and how has it impacted daily life for NHS ...

5G, IoT technology to transform health and social care

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Research from UK operator shows how advanced connected technologies offer a pathway to a flexible model of healthcare delivered at the point of ...

Giffgaff goes AWS to drive operational transformation

News | ComputerWeekly.com

UK mobile virtual network operator selects Amazon cloud as part of plan to accelerate innovation and enhance new services

How Aarogya Setu is addressing scale and security challenges

News | ComputerWeekly.com

India’s contact-tracing platform leverages microservices, encryption techniques and cloud-based visibility tools to address scale and security ...

Dutch IT award recognises importance of research in the wild

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Promoter of human-centric scientific research techniques claims the prestigious 2020 Netherlands Prize for ICT Research

Media giant MGM signs multi-year deal with AWS to revamp its supply chain processes

News | ComputerWeekly.com

AWS lands multi-year cloud deal with US media giant MGM that will see it assist the firm with revamping its supply chain and content distribution ...

Ericsson, TIM, Qualcomm, claim 5G FWA speed milestone

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Although fixed wireless access has not yet gained as much publicity as other use cases for the next-generation infrastructure, its potential in ...

S/4 Hana projects come off back burner, but skills shortage impedes progress

News | ComputerWeekly.com

UK and Ireland SAP User Group members set to ramp up S/4 ERP migration projects, but skills shortage and retirement of SAP managers in user ...

Cisco channel prospects looking solid going into 2021

News | MicroScope

Cisco is closing out the year with programme enhancements, an increasing focus on collaboration and strong evidence that its partner base has ...

Dreamforce 2020: Hyperforce shifts Salesforce to public cloud

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Salesforce COO Bret Taylor announced “Hyperforce” during Marc Benioff’s opening keynote at the virtual version of the supplier’s 2020 Dreamforce ...

Broadband access drives New Zealand remote working to be permanent fixture

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Covid-19 crisis pushes Kiwis to do more online and the changes are sticking, according to research from ANZ telco and media research and consulting ...

Cloud Distribution masterclass series puts emphasis on sales

News | MicroScope

Distributor extending the online support it can provide to partners keen to improve their sales skills

UK government sets out 5G tech diversification strategy

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Second reading of the Telecoms Security Bill outlines specific measures to restrict the use of Huawei’s goods, services and facilities in 5G networks...

Aviation startup goes ‘all-in’ on AWS to make its supersonic jet plans take flight

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Boom Supersonic sets sights on making commercial supersonic air travel a reality for passengers again, and is leaning on Amazon Web Services to ...

What it takes for APAC firms to ride out the pandemic

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Whether businesses will recover from the Covid-19 pandemic will depend on how they leverage technology to innovate, create new business models and ...

Disinformation and the US DNC emails leak controversy – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

Podcast | ComputerWeekly.com

In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team are joined by Bill Goodwin to discuss the role of disinformation in the 2016...

Five-minute interview: Dean Porter, F-Secure

Feature | MicroScope

Dean Porter, UK and Ireland country sales manager for corporate sales at F-Secure, reveals his passion for Chelsea FC and his appreciation for hip hop

First phase of Shared Rural Network set to bring £187m boost to UK rural businesses

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Operator-commissioned study claims first phase of scheme to reduce partial not-spots in the UK could mean rural communities contribute an added ...

Iskratel top of the world with Potosí fibre-optic deployment

News | ComputerWeekly.com

GPON broadband network deployed to meet the needs of thousands of residents in the highest city in the world

Hackney Council data leaked by Pysa ransomware gang

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Council data stolen in October is leaked online in a double extortion attack

Trump bans Chinese payment apps

News | ComputerWeekly.com

US president signs executive order banning the use of Chinese payments app, citing national security risks

Dating app users warned to watch out for scammers

News | ComputerWeekly.com

A vast amount of money was lost to romance scammers last year, and with millions of people isolated in lockdown the problem is getting worse, ...

Companies call for new breed of enterprise network operator for greater IoT control

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Survey finds almost half of those controlling decisions on the deployment of internet of things technology and services would like to own a dedicated...

Subpostmaster group calls for prime minister to pause Horizon ‘whitewash’ inquiry

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Subpostmasters call for Boris Johnson to pause and reshape the government’s Horizon inquiry

NHS trust says appointment processes robust despite criticism of role for Post Office scandal CEO

News | ComputerWeekly.com

NHS trust defends its director appointment process following an external review of its recruitment of former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells

Why Jack Ma might be too good a tech entrepreneur for China's leaders

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

Tech pioneer Jack Ma is facing new regulatory pressure from the Chinese authorities – is this some ideological spat, or simply that he's too good at ...

Kate O'Flaherty

Contributor | TechTarget

Kate O'Flaherty is a freelance cyber security journalist with over a decade’s experience writing news, reviews and features.

Swedish central bank moves e-krona project to next stage

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Riksbank takes digital currency project to the next phase with Accenture building a platform to test the concept

Top 10 Middle East stories of 2020

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Middle East stories of 2020

Top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020

SITA and Orange Business Services check in for SD-WAN at global airports

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Global mobile network operator and IT provider for the air transport industry roll out agile and scalable software-defined network already introduced...

2021: Security market predictions

Feature | MicroScope

Home workers remain vulnerable, IoT devices need to be better protected, ransomware will remain a problem and customers want help to consolidate ...

Networking
  • firewall as a service (FWaaS)

    Firewall as a service (FWaaS), also known as a cloud firewall, is a service that provides cloud-based network traffic analysis ...

  • private 5G

    Private 5G is a wireless network technology that delivers 5G cellular connectivity for private network use cases.

  • NFVi (network functions virtualization infrastructure)

    NFVi (network functions virtualization infrastructure) encompasses all of the networking hardware and software needed to support ...

Security
  • virus (computer virus)

    A computer virus is a type of malware that attaches itself to a program or file. A virus can replicate and spread across an ...

  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

    Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) is an advanced certification that indicates that an individual possesses the ...

  • cryptography

    Cryptography is a method of protecting information and communications using codes, so that only those for whom the information is...

CIO
  • IT project management

    IT project management is the process of planning, organizing and delineating responsibility for the completion of an ...

  • chief financial officer (CFO)

    A chief financial officer (CFO) is the corporate title for the person responsible for managing a company's financial operations ...

  • chief strategy officer (CSO)

    A chief strategy officer (CSO) is a C-level executive charged with helping formulate, facilitate and communicate an ...

HRSoftware
  • HR automation

    Human resources automation (HR automation) is a method of using software to automate and streamline repetitive and laborious HR ...

  • compensation management

    Compensation management is the discipline and process for determining employees' appropriate pay and benefits.

  • HR technology (human resources tech)

    HR technology (human resources technology) is an umbrella term for hardware and software used to automate the human resource ...

Customer Experience
  • martech (marketing technology)

    Martech (marketing technology) refers to the integration of software tools, platforms, and applications designed to streamline ...

  • transactional marketing

    Transactional marketing is a business strategy that focuses on single, point-of-sale transactions.

  • customer profiling

    Customer profiling is the detailed and systematic process of constructing a clear portrait of a company's ideal customer by ...

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