IHS Markit commits to three-year data and infrastructure migration to AWS cloud
News | ComputerWeekly.comGlobal market research firm will downsize its datacentres and shift more of its infrastructure and applications to the AWS public cloud
VMware certification in India: A guide
Tutorial | ComputerWeekly.comGrowing virtualization deployments are fueling the need for manpower with virtualization skill sets. Get insights on VMware certification in India.
10 identity and access management (IAM) implementation mistakes
Tip | ComputerWeekly.comAn overview of the common issues organizations overlook while deploying an identity and access management (IAM) solution.
Stephen Bonner
Contributor | TechTargetStephen Bonner is a partner within Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services practice with over 5 years of security consulting experience and over 20 years of ...
NHS seeks new national data guardian for health and care
News | ComputerWeekly.comNew national data guardian will take over the post from Fiona Caldicott, working to build trust in data use across health and social care
Whatever happens with Brexit GDPR will continue
News | MicroScopeGuidance to SMEs from the ICO has stressed that after we leave the EU the need to keep an eye on data regulations will continue
Fujitsu getting closer to 90% channel business target
News | MicroScopeThe vendor has made strides this year to put itself in a position to get 90% of its revenues coming via the channel in 2019
HMRC signs up Fujitsu for two years of user computing support
News | ComputerWeekly.comAs it disentangles the Aspire contract, HMRC has been working directly with key IT suppliers, with this latest agreement providing managed desktop IT
SentinelOne thanks channel for delivering growth
News | MicroScopeSecurity player SentinelOne has seen its efforts to expand distribution and increase support for partners pay off in the revenue numbers
Global spending on enterprise datacentres continues to dampen in face of Covid-19
News | ComputerWeekly.comSynergy Research Group hails continued, growing demand for datacentre hardware and software from hyperscalers for keeping market buoyant during ...
Amazon AI debacle won’t stop adoption for recruitment
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comThe sexist artificial intelligence recruitment debacle at Amazon should prove a blip as the technology gains ground in and for human resources ...
Marriott data breach losses could be over half a billion dollars
News | ComputerWeekly.comDirect losses related to a huge data breach at US hotel group could reach $600m
Introduction to wireless networks - from "The book of wireless"
News | ComputerWeekly.comLearn about the standards and specifications that control wireless networks and explains how data moves through the network from one computer to ...
Getting the best bargain on network vulnerability scanning
News | ComputerWeekly.comWhen it comes to enterprise network analysis, is it best to use a commercial vulnerability scanner or an open source product? Mike Chapple explains.
Wireless connections with ad hoc networks
Tip | ComputerWeekly.comAd hoc wireless networking in Windows Vista with the IPv6 protocol has its risks, but it also has several built-in security mechanisms. In this tip, ...
Microsoft patches two zero-days with active exploits
News | ComputerWeekly.comMicrosoft drops another major Patch Tuesday update, including fixes for two zero-day exploits that are already being exploited by cyber criminals
Risky development practice leaves company access keys exposed
News | ComputerWeekly.comDatabase stores, cloud storage and myriad other services are being put at risk by the accidental exposure of company access keys during development
Nortel switch release focuses on unified communications
News | ComputerWeekly.comNortel today released two new switch series aimed at unified communications deployments.
VoIP user experience tested
News | ComputerWeekly.comMost VoIP monitoring is focused on quality of service, but one new company is taking a different tack and looking at the quality of experience.
Wireless security boost for laptops outside the office
News | ComputerWeekly.com>Most companies do a pretty good job with wireless security within the office walls, but what happens when end users take their laptops home -- or to...
Drop in number of students taking GCSE computing in 2020
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe amount of students deciding to take GCSE computing in England drops despite an increase last year
Microsoft drops out of TikTok talks, paves way for Oracle partnership
News | ComputerWeekly.comMicrosoft confirms it is dropping out of the running to acquire the US operations of TikTok, leaving the way clear for an imminent partnership deal ...
NTT taps data analytics and cloud for Tour de France
News | ComputerWeekly.comNTT’s analytics and cloud capabilities stood up to the test amid crashes and poor weather conditions during the first stage of this year’s Tour de ...
Hangar 51 supports startups taking off in travel tech
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comInternational Airlines Group’s accelerator programme aims to give travel technology companies a flying start in the sector
Can Nvidia expand software business through £31bn Arm deal?
News | ComputerWeekly.comNvidia is to buy rival chip designer Arm for £31bn in a deal it hopes will put it at the forefront of artificial intelligence for edge computing
Obituary: Lord Harry Renwick – a parliamentary pioneer for IT interests
News | ComputerWeekly.comLord Harry Renwick, once a key influencer for technology policy in Parliament, and a long-standing friend of Computer Weekly, passed away this month
Council to connect hundreds of its sites through wide area network
News | ComputerWeekly.comLocal authorities invest in networking and contact centre technology through IT outsourcing contracts
UK’s ‘historic’ trade deal with Japan promises advantages to tech industry, says TechUK
News | ComputerWeekly.comTechUK was among the organisations that have welcome the ‘historic’ trade deal between the UK and Japan that is expected to boost trade by £15bn a ...
Police use of facial recognition found ‘unlawful’ in court
News | ComputerWeekly.comIn a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled that South Wales Police’s facial recognition deployments breached human rights and data ...
SD-WAN revealed as key enabler for ‘new normal’ remote workforces
News | ComputerWeekly.comResearch from software-defined network and cloud platform provider shows the increased importance of software-defined infrastructure to the new work ...
Unwired Planet wins patent licensing case against Huawei
News | ComputerWeekly.comLandmark ruling goes in favour of Unwired Planet and Conversant Wireless and may define the future of telecoms patent licensing
How Dell is leveraging data to reopen its offices
News | ComputerWeekly.comDell Technologies has created a real-time dashboard to make sense of data about the Covid-19 coronavirus and safely guide its employees’ return to ...
SSE Enterprise Telecoms makes further investment in UK business connectivity, 5G
News | ComputerWeekly.comUK telco unbundles further 259 BT exchanges by the end of 2021 to significantly grow network, bringing total unbundled exchanges to 550
Backing IoT is a solid strategy for 2021
News | MicroScopeThere are more user cases for the internet of things emerging and it is seen by those in the industry as an area for the channel to concentrate on ...
IR35: Former Treasury secretary Mel Stride calls for ‘dreaded’ off-payroll rules to be ‘abolished’
News | ComputerWeekly.comWhile chairing a Treasury Committee session on how the UK tax landscape must change to cover the costs of the coronavirus pandemic, ex-Treasury ...
CIOs who stick around could end up as COOs
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe career path for chief information officers looks promising as large businesses digitise more of their organisation and IT becomes integral to ...
Major tech firms urged to end targeted ads to under-18s
News | ComputerWeekly.comAn open letter to Google, Facebook and others is calling on the tech firms to take responsibility for protecting users of their services by ending ...
Banks stall return-to-work plans as UK government changes advice
News | ComputerWeekly.comBanks pause plans to bring staff back to the office as the government backtracks on its policy
US Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Google
News | ComputerWeekly.comLawsuit alleges Google used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in a number of interconnected digital markets, violating US...
Machine identity protection development gets funding boost
News | ComputerWeekly.comCyber security firm Venafi has launched a development fund aimed at accelerating the delivery of protection for machine identities
How analogue film will be the future of digital history
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe pandemic meant GitHub had to wait until July to store a 21TB snapshot of its code repositories, on special film that can last a thousand years
Serious BootHole vulnerability puts millions of systems at risk
News | ComputerWeekly.comBootHole is a GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability and puts millions of PCs, servers and other devices at risk of compromise
Campaigners urge government to resist big tech lobbying pressure
News | ComputerWeekly.comLobbyists for big tech, supported by senior US politicians, have rallied against stricter regulation of technology companies, and threatened the ...
Schrems steps up pressure on Irish data protection commissioner on Facebook’s data sharing with US
News | ComputerWeekly.comAustrian lawyer is considering ‘other’ options if the Irish data protection commissioner does not make a decision by October on his seven-year-old ...
Aptum tracks shifting responses to cloud
News | MicroScopeFirm shares research with its channel that shows just how far most customers have come to adopting the cloud during the coronavirus pandemic
Firms face remote working challenges as IT teams express concern about infrastructure
News | ComputerWeekly.comPost-lockdown survey finds UK-based IT leaders lack confidence in their organisation’s plan to withstand an unanticipated crisis as Covid-19 ...
Channel eyes opportunities around hybrid working
News | MicroScopeThere is a fresh two-word contender to challenge digital transformation for dominance in every channel conversation
Half of UK organisations question the relevance of SD-WAN in Covid-driven remote workplace
News | ComputerWeekly.comResearch reveals confusion among UK organisations concerning SD-WAN, with optimised WAN covering many bases already and over half of firms leaning ...
AWS HPC tech selected to help Ineos Team UK secure first British victory in the America’s Cup
News | ComputerWeekly.comAmerica's Cup hopeful Ineos Team UK has selected Amazon’s cloud-based High Performance Computing (HPC) technology to help it achieve its goal of ...
Consistent trust gap in contact-tracing apps in US, Europe
News | ComputerWeekly.comSurvey of more than 16,000 users in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain about mobile applications for Covid-19 tracking reveals global ...
Bank of Ireland fined for six-year-old IT breach
News | ComputerWeekly.comBank of Ireland fined by regulator for its failings to prevent fraud six years ago
IBM joins Google, Microsoft and Oracle in signing preferential cloud pricing deal with UK government
News | ComputerWeekly.comPublic sector organisations set to reap the benefits of CCS's latest preferential pricing deal, in support of its push to accelerate the adoption of ...
Cosmetics firm Avon faces new cyber security incident
News | ComputerWeekly.comTechnical information relating to Avon’s web and mobile sites was inadvertently left exposed on an unsecured Microsoft Azure server
CIO interview: Amitabh Apte, global director of digital integration, Mars
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe consumer goods giant’s global director of integration talks about developing an API strategy, consistency and increasing customer focus
UK mobile operators warn removing Huawei tech would cost ‘low billions’ and take five years
News | ComputerWeekly.comVodafone and BT warn parliamentary committee of serious potential effects on cost, network service availability and 5G roll-out of removing Huawei ...
Australia issues new cloud computing guidelines
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe new guidance, which comes after the expiry of the government’s cloud services certification programme, will help to bolster Australia’s cyber ...
Computing students achieve high A-level grades despite coronavirus outbreak
News | ComputerWeekly.comStudents taking computing at A-level have achieved higher grades than last year despite the uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic
Canon said to be latest Maze ransomware victim
News | ComputerWeekly.comCanon may have had up to 10TB of its data exfiltrated by the Maze ransomware gang
PCCW Global furthers global IoT reach with Nayar Systems
News | ComputerWeekly.comIndustrial internet of things firm collaborates with global comms services provider to reduce the time and cost of deploying the services most ...
A CIO’s journey through the Covid-19 crisis
Opinion | ComputerWeekly.comFDM’s IT chief takes us through the challenges of responding to the coronavirus pandemic, and the future opportunities that the changes introduced ...
Bandwidth Inc wraps up Ribbon deal to boost home network capacity for AWS
News | ComputerWeekly.comSession border controller software edition deployed on AWS to enable enterprise communications company’s customers to improve home working with no ...
Mitel acquires Inter-Tel, signaling more consolidation to come
News | ComputerWeekly.comMitel acquired Inter-Tel last week, signaling a trend toward vendor consolidation in the VoIP market and creating stronger options for SMBs.
BT's SDK for do-it-yourself VoIP apps
Tip | ComputerWeekly.comBT's SDK takes the complexity out of VoIP application development.
Kudelski IoT Labs authorised as Alexa Voice Services test facility
News | ComputerWeekly.comInternet of things division of cyber security firm brings device testing and certification expertise to implementers of Amazon Voice Services in ...
Government launches anti-crime tech competition
News | ComputerWeekly.comGovernment seeks technologies that allow police officers to use less lethal means to stop violent or armed offenders
First computers that led to a career in IT
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe UK’s GCSE results show a strong pass rate in STEM subjects, which is good news for the IT industry. We find out how Computer Weekly readers got ...
Coronavirus fails to dim digital transformation ambitions of enterprise IT leaders, research shows
News | ComputerWeekly.comResearch from managed service provider 2nd Watch highlights cloud challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, and how enterprises are responding to...
Singapore firms struggle with RPA roll-outs
News | ComputerWeekly.comAlmost three-quarters of Singapore business leaders say their organisations are facing difficulties in scaling up their implementations of robotic ...
Social media data leak highlights murky world of data scraping
News | ComputerWeekly.comA data brokerage left its database of 235 million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles exposed to anybody who cared to access it
Pandemic behaviour shift will continue for many consumers, research finds
News | ComputerWeekly.comA large number of customers say the way they have been forced to shop during the pandemic will have a lasting impact on their shopping behaviours
Broadband upstream usage, speeds spike higher in Q2 2020
News | ComputerWeekly.comAs the need for remote working, learning, information and entertainment makes broadband access more important than ever, a consumption report finds ...
North Korea’s Lazarus targets cryptocurrency vertical
News | ComputerWeekly.comAPT group behind the infamous WannaCry incident is targeting cryptocurrency operators, according to new research
Shift to home working exposes virtual app opportunity
News | MicroScopeCameyo is signalling the chance for partners to add some value for those customers that are not prepared to go fully into a virtual desktop deployment
Poor connectivity sees home workers lose over half an hour of work a day
News | ComputerWeekly.comBusiness leaders reveal pressure of new normal with research revealing four-fifths of home workers experiencing unreliable internet connection while ...
Covid-19, demographic shifts to drive automation
News | ComputerWeekly.comBusinesses will need to shore up their productivity through technology and automation to cope with the pandemic and a shrinking workforce, says an ...
Retailer Monsoon allegedly exposing data via Pulse Connect server
News | ComputerWeekly.comA researcher has found a critically insecure Pulse Connect Secure VPN version belonging to UK retailer Monsoon Accessorize, but claims the firm is ...
Stay-at-home call puts focus back on security
News | MicroScopeRising cyber attacks on home workers underline the important role that security experts in the channel play in keeping customers safe
Covid-19 has changed how we think about cyber security forever
Opinion | ComputerWeekly.comSix months into the global pandemic, the true impact on the future of cyber security is beginning to look clearer, says Microsoft’s Ann Johnson
Future UK-EU data sharing put at risk by Brexit legislation
News | ComputerWeekly.comWhen the Brexit transition period ends, UK ministers will have the power to forge new data-sharing arrangements that risk undermining the viability ...
NHS trust takes another look at its appointment of IT scandal CEO
News | ComputerWeekly.comImperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has asked for external review of its process when appointing controversial executive
Datacentre sustainability a work in progress in ASEAN
News | ComputerWeekly.comSustainability efforts have not kept pace with the growing demand for datacentre and co-location services in Southeast Asia
Benelux ports use blockchain in major efficiency drive
News | ComputerWeekly.comBelgian startup T-Mining develops application based on blockchain technology to make container handling safer and more efficient
NE US regional contact-tracing app network adds New York, New Jersey states
News | ComputerWeekly.comNeighbouring regions become the third and fourth NE US states to tap leading Irish software developer for contact tracing app development work
‘Not unjust’ to extradite WilkiLeaks founder Julian Assange, court hears
News | ComputerWeekly.comNigel Blackwood, NHS consultant psychiatrist, told the Old Bailey court that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had ‘moderate depression’ and autistic ...
CCS to launch £800m NHS IT framework
News | ComputerWeekly.comCollaborative framework agreement will cover a range of IT management services for use by NHS Digital and other public sector health and social care ...
Barnardo’s hails G Suite to offer continuity of care to vulnerable children during Covid-19
News | ComputerWeekly.comChildren's charity claims earlier move to off-premise cloud collaboration and communication platform is paying dividends during its teams’ response ...
Amazon to create 1,000 skilled tech roles in Ireland
News | ComputerWeekly.comRetail giant Amazon will be adding several skilled tech roles to its locations in Ireland over the next two years
Mullen calls time on her spell as Dell channel chief
News | MicroScopeAfter more than two decades at the vendor, Joyce Mullen has decided the time is right for a fresh challenge
NCSC launches pen testing service for remote workers
News | ComputerWeekly.comAn expansion to the successful Exercise in a Box toolkit will enable SMEs to probe the cyber security defences of remote workers
Five-minute interview: Jan Ursi, Rubrik
Feature | MicroScopeMicroScope asks another channel executive a series of questions designed to help you get to know them that little bit better
Mike Lloyd
Contributor | TechTargetMike Lloyd is chief technology officer of RedSeal, and has 25 years of experience in the modelling and control of fast-moving and complex systems
Fintechs ramping up efforts to get loans into SME hands
News | MicroScopeWith the deadline for the government-backed coronavirus loan scheme looming, efforts are being made to try to get those small firms looking for ...
Karen Panetta
Contributor | TechTargetKaren Panetta is an IEEE fellow and dean for graduate education at Tufts University.
Microsoft raises cloud prices for Australian enterprise customers
News | ComputerWeekly.comDespite the price hike, Microsoft claims its Azure service remains competitively priced, with opportunities for additional savings
Is the dial shifting for underrepresented groups in the UK’s tech sector?
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comGeorge Floyd’s death and the resulting Black Lives Matter movement has raised awareness about the disparity in many areas of society, including the ...
TfL Go launched to support travel in London during pandemic
News | ComputerWeekly.comNew tool aims to enable users to plan routes and comply with social distancing measures while using public transport
Qualcomm chip vulnerability puts millions of phones at risk
News | ComputerWeekly.comQualcomm has patched multiple vulnerabilities in its chip hardware that left hundreds of millions of smartphones open to compromise by malicious ...
TikTok to open first European datacentre in Ireland during early 2022
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe CISO of TikTok has confirmed the social video company's plans to open its first European datacentre in early 2022, as its data security processes...
UK government redesigns contact-tracing app and begins new trial phase
News | ComputerWeekly.comNo official launch, but app is upgraded to offer alerts based on postcode, QR check-in at venues, symptom checker and test booking in conjunction ...
Jackson marks anniversary at 8x8 with solid channel progress
News | MicroScope8x8’s EMEA channel boss, Keith Jackson, has spent his first 12 months building a channel base to use as a platform for future growth