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CBRE: Record colocation take-up will fuel growth of secondary European datacentre hubs

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Latest quarterly colocation market tracker data shows take-up of colocation capacity across major European hubs continues to hit record levels, ...

Vodafone claims UK standalone 5G first

News | ComputerWeekly.com

UK operator says standalone wireless technology will support capabilities such as network slicing, bringing efficiency benefits in mission-critical ...

Matt Hancock encourages private sector involvement in post-pandemic NHS technology

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Health secretary Matt Hancock has outlined how the NHS will continue to leverage digital technologies with the help of the private sector after the ...

Kr00k vulnerability compromises billions of Wi-Fi devices

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Billions of Wi-Fi chips used in IoT devices, laptops, smartphones and tablets are vulnerable to a serious vulnerability

Interview: Jamil Farshchi, CISO, Equifax

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Equifax CISO Jamil Farshchi discusses public cloud and why it’s not something IT security professionals should be afraid of

Sales of peripheral devices surge as workers stay at home

News | MicroScope

Monitors, keyboards and mice are all in high demand as workers get set up for remote working to slow the spread of coronavirus

TalkTalk Business adds partner MDF to Homeworker package

News | MicroScope

Firm follows up on launch of business-grade connectivity offering, with details of how it plans to support its channel partners

GitLab makes foray into Southeast Asia

News | ComputerWeekly.com

GitLab expands in Southeast Asia with a Singapore presence to shore up its growing footprint across the Asia-Pacific region

Pubs and restaurants failing on cyber fraud protection

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Virtually all of the UK’s most popular restaurant and pub brands are failing to proactively block fraudulent emails from reaching their targets

Exertis consolidates services options

News | MicroScope

Distributor looks to make life easier for those resellers looking to provide services across the sales cycle

Google Cloud eyes public sector push after signing MoU with UK government procurement chiefs

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Google Cloud follows in the footsteps of Microsoft and Oracle by signing MoU with the UK government, which should pave the way for broader adoption ...

Nokia joins the Open RAN Policy Coalition

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Finish comms tech provider reinforces its commitment to the development of future secure mobile radio technologies for 5G by joining open and ...

Nine million EasyJet customer details lost in data breach

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Cyber attack on EasyJet’s systems originated from a highly sophisticated source, says the airline

Covid-19 contact-tracing apps under review – The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

Podcast | ComputerWeekly.com

In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by networking editor Joe O’...

Shirts and suits retailers using tech to stay smart

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

Enhanced personalisation, increased visualisation and much more customisation with a digital twist comprise the to-do lists of several UK formalwear ...

Ericsson enables commercial 5G network for Telia in Stockholm

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Swedish operator lays the foundations for the next phase of digital transformation with 5G network designed to open up new user experiences and ...

MoD cuts through competition barriers to sign direct private cloud deal with Microsoft

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Ministry of Defence has justified its decision to directly award Microsoft a 23-month private cloud deal by stating the firm is the only one able...

Networking gains ‘cool’ status

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

There is renewed interest in networking, driven by enterprises looking at how public cloud services can co-exist with on-premise IT

CIO interview: Malcolm Lowe, head of IT, Transport for Greater Manchester

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Data analytics, agile working and contactless technology are helping to improve transport services across the Manchester area

Assange extradition hearing to take place in September following coronavirus lockdown

News | ComputerWeekly.com

An extradition hearing against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been delayed by four months, after defence and prosecution lawyers said the Covid...

Highlight views channel as key to revenue expansion goals

News | MicroScope

Network monitoring player makes key hire with a brief to work with partners to significantly increase revenues

Subpostmasters suing Post Office over IT failures stunned by CEO’s honour

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Subpostmasters’ campaign group attacks Post Office CEO Paula Vennells’ New Year honour amid ongoing court case

When is it best to stick with paper?

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

Going digital has been seen as the thing to do, but there can be limits to digital and there's an enduring value to paper. Digital isn’t always best

War on talent set to escalate

News | MicroScope

The battle to get trained staff is going to get tougher as more emerging technologies go mainstream

Top 10 information management stories of 2018

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Ethics was the leading theme of data analytics in 2018, especially allied with AI. The Cambridge Analytica controversy represented that, and the idea...

Security Think Tank: Strong 2FA should be a goal in 2019

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

At the close of 2018, we asked CW Security Think Tank contributors to name one thing predicted for 2018 that did not happen, one thing that was not ...

Top 10 retail tech stories of 2018

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Computer Weekly looks at what 2018 had in store for the retail industry – what technologies were retailers rushing to adopt and which brands fell ...

Top 10 CIO interviews of 2018

News | ComputerWeekly.com

IT leaders from across the UK and Europe shared their plans, strategies and best practice advice with Computer Weekly in 2018

Top 10 Middle East stories of 2018

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Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Middle East enterprise IT stories of 2018

Cyber gangsters hit UK medical firm poised for work on coronavirus with Maze ransomware attack

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Maze ransomware group has published personal and medical details of thousands of former patients of a London-based medical research company ...

Huawei unveils MWC product portfolio led by €2,500 5G smartphone

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Chinese tech giant unveils 5G smartphones, tablets, chipsets, AI, Wi-Fi 6, routers, chipsets and cameras that it was set to announce at the cancelled...

IFS ramps up single-platform cloud delivery as it bids ERP adieu

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Business applications supplier shifts fundamentally to cloud infrastructure while sloughing off enterprise resource planning as it rebrands

Q&A: Matt Richards, CMO at Datto, on MSPs navigating the virus

News | MicroScope

The managed services community is downgrading its growth expectations for this year, but is set to come through the Covid-19 pandemic

Rolls-Royce uses digital twins in Power Systems Customer 4.0 strategy

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Power Systems unit has begun using technology from Iotics to collect data points for engines in the field and build digital simulation models

UKtech50 2018 – the most influential people in UK IT

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Computer Weekly has announced the ninth annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK IT sector

UKtech50 2018: Women are making their mark

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Women are making strong progress in the UK technology industry, with seven of the top 10 on Computer Weekly’s UKtech50 list being female

UKtech50 interview: Jacky Wright, CDIO, HMRC

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The UKtech50’s most influential person in UK IT 2018, HM Revenue and Customs’ chief digital and information officer, Jacky Wright, on balancing ...

Feudal Lords and anarchic allies – the new models for software collaboration

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

Software developers often take an unconventional view of contracts for the work they undertake, which can come back and bite them

Cisco, Google Cloud plan application-centric multicloud networking fabric

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Tech giants unite to address current systems’ perceived lack of capability to signal service level requests dynamically and offer full WAN ...

Accompagner la conduite du changement en embarquant les utilisateurs clés grâce à l’IA

Opinion | LeMagIT

Un projet de transformation digitale revêt souvent une dimension stratégique qui va au-delà de la modernisation d’un SI. Il s’agit d’intégrer les ...

Coronavirus: NHSX enlists military innovation hub for Covid-19 app project

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Organisations will work together to gather and share coronavirus symptom data from third-party tracker apps

Estonia offers digital tools to countries struggling with coronavirus school closures

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Government and tech companies in Baltic state unite to offer advanced digital learning tools to other countries

Prudential turns to AI to secure computer networks against cyber attacks

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Prudential, the UK’s largest listed insurer, is turning to artificial intelligence to protect its computer networks in the US, Asia and Africa from ...

Security Think Tank: Amid panic, how to find a sound level of security

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

In our globalised world, high-profile events such as Covid-19 have huge business impacts, some of which may be felt by CISOs. What responsibilities ...

Easter holidays and supply issues reverse some March gains

News | MicroScope

Research from Context has found that the growth rates experienced by the channel in March took a hit at the start of April

Security Think Tank: Prevention and detection key to disrupting malware comms

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

As attackers begin to use multiple command and control systems to communicate with backdoors and other malware, how can organisations ensure that ...

Global spend on enterprise datacentre kit and private clouds down 1% in 2019

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Market tracker data from Synergy Research Group reveals continued decline in spending on private datacentres, while investments in kit destined for ...

Coronavirus: Smartphone production to plummet 20%, over $25bn lost in roaming revenue

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Two studies reveal the huge hit on the mobile device and service industry that is likely to be caused by the Covid-19 outbreak

Nokia claims 5G capacity benchmark, enters first phase of 5G project at Port of Zeebrugge

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Flurry of 5G-related activity continues with raft of 5G patents and 5G-ready private wireless connectivity for partner ecosystem to accelerate ...

Coronavirus: IT contractors ‘left stranded’ by exclusion from support for self-employed

News | ComputerWeekly.com

IT contractors who provide services through their own limited companies will not be able to access government scheme to support self-employed through...

Scottish Tech Army seeks out IT experts to combat Covid-19

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Tech workers who find themselves out of work are being asked to volunteer their time to help build digital technology to support coronavirus efforts

Mainframe skills surge as lockdown drives transaction growth

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Mainframe skills and Cobol programming are now in demand as enterprises scale up to tackle increased online activity due to the coronavirus

Crown Commercial Service advises on remote working tech

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Public sector organisations want to understand their options to support their workforce during the Covid-19 crisis

NHS rolls out video consultations at GPs to support lockdown

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Video consultation service aims to reduce face-to-face contact to protect patients and reduce infection, as well as caring for people who are mostly ...

Contact tracing: The privacy vs protection debate

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

The Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated extreme measures not seen in peacetime for over 100 years. Contact-tracing apps are being developed as a tool ...

The greatest contest ever – privacy versus security

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

Examining the technical, legal and ethical challenges around the privacy versus security debate

Security Think Tank: ID-driven security helps safeguard the workforce

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

In our globalised world, high-profile events such as Covid-19 have huge business impacts and some of these impacts may be felt by CISOs. What ...

Cloud security concerns remain an issue

News | MicroScope

The argument that cloud security has been dealt with appear premature, according to research

Coronavirus: NCSC issues urgent alert for healthcare sector

News | ComputerWeekly.com

UK National Cyber Security Centre and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say they are seeing large-scale campaigns targeting ...

IoT adds preservation support for Tutankhamun’s tomb in Valley of the Kings

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Geological research project deploys internet of things technology to ensure ancient Egyptian heritage site maintains structural stability

Elliot Rose

Contributor | TechTarget

Elliot Rose leads PA Consulting’s digital trust and cyber security service.

Channel needs to get creative to solve remote working problems

News | MicroScope

The channel is being urged to get into a position to help solve customer remote working challenges

Subpostmasters receive their ‘inadequate’ damages over Horizon IT scandal

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Subpostmasters who had their lives ruined by the Post Office’s faulty IT system have received their damages after a High Court victory

Brewer Molson Coors targeted in cyber attack

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Cyber criminals have disrupted beer production at Molson Coors, one of the world’s largest brewers

What are the security priorities for the post-coronavirus world?

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing massive change across the business world and things may never go back to normal. What does security look like in ...

Veritas increases number and depth of support for top partners

News | MicroScope

Data protection and management player is looking to help more partners get to the top tier of its programme

Partners need to protect customers from cyber attack during Covid-19

News | MicroScope

Managed service player ECS says remote workforces are vulnerable to attackers during lockdown, and partners need to step up to protect them

Cyber security skills courses go online during pandemic

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The government is turning to online learning to find the next generation of cyber security talent

Bounce Back scheme backs £2bn of loans to small firms

News | MicroScope

The latest attempt by the government to ease the economic pain caused by the coronavirus has kicked off

Security Think Tank: Security teams are key workers and need support

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

Cyber criminals are enjoying a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic, and security teams are working overtime as a result. How can security pros manage ...

Open source community joins Covid-19 fight

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Red Hat and others in the global open source community are doing their part to develop tools and other initiatives to help the world tide over the ...

Telcos lose out in early enterprise 5G business

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Research reveals that industries and enterprises are ready to reap the benefits of 5G, but warns that service providers need to learn how to satisfy ...

StorageCraft and eSentire increase channel focus

News | MicroScope

Vendors StorageCraft and eSentire have indicated that they will double-down on channel efforts as they look for more growth across the rest of 2020

Stritt appointment adds to momentum at SentinelOne

News | MicroScope

Endpoint security specialist continues to add depth to its EMEA operations with the introduction of a seasoned channel chief

Computacenter boss shares coronavirus concerns after solid 2019

News | MicroScope

Last year was a solid one for Computacenter, but the firm's CEO has indicated that Covid-19 is making forecasting for 2020 a challenge

Cheshire deploys digital child health system during lockdown

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Commissioning support unit joins up records of children across county into one integrated digital system, despite pandemic challenges

Datacentres operators must move away from diesel backup generators to give back to grid

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

While the diesel backup generators used by datacentre operators have a limited environmental impact, using them for extended periods of time to power...

Boris Johnson’s commitment to inquiry into Post Office scandal in doubt

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Boris Johnson’s apparent commitment to a public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal is not so certain

China ahead of Australia and Japan in data maturity

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Chinese firms are ahead of their peers in the Asia-Pacific region in tapping the potential of data, study finds

Post-pandemic, automation will kill jobs – here’s why you should be happy about it

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

A likely reaction to the coronavirus pandemic is greater automation, which will replace human labour. But this will be a good thing – after all, the ...

UK comms market set for shake-up as O2 and Virgin Media confirm merger

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Coming-together of leading fixed-mobile provider and cable network provider will create genuine competition to BT/EE

How Asia’s tech firms are helping to stem the Covid-19 outbreak

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Data analytics and robots are being deployed in China and other Asian countries that have been hardest hit by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak

Redcar & Cleveland Council confirms ransomware attack

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Local authority’s systems are still offline nearly three weeks after being attacked

Seek ditches pagers for cloud service in IT operations

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Australian employment marketplace Seek is doing away with pagers in favour of PagerDuty’s cloud-based digital operations platform to scale up its IT ...

The Covid-19 crisis: Reinventing digital transformation

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

Digital transformation projects are returning as organisations realise that improvements in productivity and customer engagement are now even more ...

Oracle full-year results: 1% revenue decline as Covid-19 bites

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Oracle sees 1% decline in full year-on-year 2019-20 revenue, and a 6% drop in its fourth quarter, but takes comfort from OCI Zoom win in pandemic ...

Collaboration and security dominate Cisco Live agenda

News | MicroScope

Cisco rolls out enhancements that should appeal to partners working with customers on maintaining secure collaboration during the Covid-19 pandemic

The AWS bucket list: Keep your cloud secure

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

Misconfigured cloud installations risk billions of records being exposed, damaging organisations’ finances and reputations. Paying attention to ...

Coronavirus: Sellafield workers ordered to stay home as ‘controlled shutdown’ of site accelerates

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Staff email warns that “decisions” made now in response to coronavirus pandemic could have far-reaching consequences for ongoing efforts to ...

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves – the UK tech startup scene still needs support post-Covid

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

Government and investors have shown their support for tech startups during the coronavirus pandemic, but there are still challenges ahead and it's ...

Australian prime minister confirms country is suffering repeated nation-state cyber attacks

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Concern over critical national infrastructure as cyber attackers repeatedly try to gain access to network of organisations operating in multiple ...

Laura Middag Alvarez

Contributor | TechTarget

Technology firms come under scrutiny for ties to law enforcement

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Three major technology companies have committed to not selling facial-recognition tech to law enforcement, but remain silent on how other ...

Nokia claims end-to-end 4G and 5G New Radio slicing first

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Finnish comms tech provider beefs up comms network essential equipment offer with 4G, 5G end-to-end slicing

Coronavirus: Post Office postpones subpostmaster compensation scheme amid Covid-19 crisis

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Scheme to compensate subpostmasters who suffered because of computer errors in the Post Office’s Horizon system is delayed

Government launches fintech review

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Sector review, first touted in the 2020 Budget, aims to find ways to boost competitiveness and growth

Finland launches free AI skills course for EU citizens as presidency parting gift

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Finland is making a course in basic artificial intelligence available to citizens of all European Union countries

Hospital uses thermal surveillance cameras to protect patients against second wave of Covid-19

News | ComputerWeekly.com

A North Midlands NHS trust claims to be the first NHS trust to deploy thermal surveillance cameras to protect patients and staff against the ...

Green tech needed for post-Covid economic recovery

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Green technology investments could help society recover from the coronavirus – and prepare it for the long-term negative social and economic outcomes...

Cisco senses opportunity with 5G mobile cloud software and hardware

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Networking technology and services giant Cisco announces mobility systems aimed at helping service providers drive revenue and profitability from 5G ...

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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