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Experian calls for less bureaucratic data regulations

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Open banking requires cross-industry collaboration, but sharing personal data requires explicit consent, which can become a bottleneck

Truespeed and CityFibre accelerate UK fibre roll-out

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More fuel to fibre roll-out across the UK, with leading west of England ISP Truespeed propelling Bath into the gigabit era, while third national ...

Vodafone UK adds Digitalk to MVNO portfolio

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UK telco taps global mobile virtual network enabler service provider, offering cloud-based real-time communications platforms, to assist in ...

Tech sector calls for renewed cooperation in global digital tax talks

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Industry groups want renewed multilateral negotiations between countries about taxation of the digital economy in the wake of Joe Biden’s election as...

TCS to recruit 1,500 UK tech professionals this year

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Indian IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services commits to recruiting UK IT professionals

Trend Micro makes Softcat its first UK platinum partner

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Security player has deemed that the time is right to unveil its first highest-tiered partner in the country

Sim-swapping crooks targeted celebrities, influencers

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Eight arrests have been made in England and Scotland in connection with a series of Sim-swapping attacks targeting high-profile victims

Most British people don't trust government with personal data

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The UK ranks high in a list of countries where citizens are least confident about how their private information is handled by public authorities, ...

Jeremy Darroch steps down as Sky Group chief executive

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Exec who transformed former satellite TV provider into Europe’s largest multi-platform communications provider with mobile, telephony and FTTH steps ...

Robust member administration system indispensable for Dutch Coeliac Society

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Organisation had to find a dedicated member administration system to support existing members, new members and countless volunteers

DWS demerges from Daisy with Inflexion investment

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Channel comms player starts a fresh chapter with private equity player taking a significant minority stake in the business

Windows 10, Server 2019 users must patch serious zero-day

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Another dangerous zero-day exploit is among 56 vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft in February’s Patch Tuesday update

£2bn Zero Carbon Delivery Framework goes live to help public sector datacentres go green

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A four-year, £2bn procurement framework geared towards helping public sector organisations decarbonise their operations has gone-live

How Yarra Valley Water is tapping APIs

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The largest water retailer in Melbourne has rolled out application programming interfaces to improve operations and customer service

SAP full-year 2020: Revenue down 1%, cloud growth up 17%

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SAP has announced full-year 2020 revenue down 1%, but with cloud growth of 17%, as it divests Qualtrics as a subsidiary. S/4 Hana customer base up ...

RAN returns strong growth but Nokia prepares for challenging year ahead

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Comms tech provider claims solid Q4, full year 2020 performance but anticipates “meaningful headwinds” in year of transition

Denmark and Sweden to issue digital vaccine certificates

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Sweden and Denmark announce plans to develop digital certificates that prove people have been vaccinated against Covid-19

Commerzbank announces big job cuts and branch closures

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German bank is closing hundreds of branches and cutting thousands of jobs as it reshapes for the digital age

It’s not just laptops, as tablets and Chromebooks see huge growth

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Canalys has tracked the fortunes of the form factors through a record-breaking 2020

Josh Bersin 2021 technology guide vaunts employee experience

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Josh Bersin’s annual HR technology market guide for 2021 pulls out employee experience as the hottest area, as the sector shifts to ...

Lush’s 25-year journey to digital excellence

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Retailers are increasingly focused on using technology to better serve customers, but for high street cosmetic brand Lush, tech has always been part ...

Spectra Logic increases digital marketing support

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Storage vendor Spectra Logic enhances channel programme with more support on offer for those who want to take the sales conversation online

Financial regulatory body bombarded with malicious emails

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New disclosures reveal the FCA’s systems bounced almost a quarter of a million malicious emails in a three-month period

Reasons to be positive about 2021

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Optimism across the industry about the year ahead remains good thanks to the ongoing digitisation trend

SK Telecom furthers Deutsche Telekom partnership to advance in-building 5G

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Latest cooperation between leading German and Korean operators aims to create what companies believe will be major innovations, starting with ...

Equinix to open third datacentre in Perth

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Datacentre service provider Equinix will open its third facility in Perth to meet the growing demand for digital infrastructure between Australia and...

Stockport Council launches digital training initiative

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Local authority Stockport Council has launched a programme aimed at training young people in digital skills to give them a better chance at entering ...

Channel round-up: Who’s gone where?

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There is still time in 2020 for some senior appointments to be made across the industry

Grindr and others patch critical Android bug

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Fixes for CVE-2020-8913 deployed as app developers shore up their defences against a disclosed Google Play vulnerability

HMRC referred 11 data security incidents to ICO in 2019-20

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HM Revenue & Customs shares details of a number of data security incidents that occurred during the 2019-20 financial year in its annual report

European Commission proposes UK data adequacy agreement

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The publication of two draft data adequacy decisions brings the UK closer to a final positive decision, which will enable the continued free flow of ...

UK Space Agency awards £7m for space innovation projects

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A range of ‘high risk, high reward’ projects have been awarded a total of £7m from the Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme, aiming to ...

Immigration exemption in data protection law faces further legal challenge

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Human rights groups set to take legal challenge against immigration exemption to Court of Appeal on the basis that everyone, regardless of their ...

Hackney Council tenders for cyber security upgrade

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Suppliers are being invited to tender for enhanced cyber security capabilities at ransomware victim Hackney Council

Digital knowledge must be integral part of Dutch police training

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Research reveals gaps in digital knowledge among Netherlands police, with calls for a training ‘roadmap’ to get officers up to speed to tackle cyber ...

Covid-19 vaccine supply chain attacked by unknown nation state

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An unknown nation state actor is attempting to disrupt the supply of coronavirus vaccines

Sectigo makes double partner acquisition

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Firm continues with its strategy of buying partners with skills and established customer bases for SSL technology

IT teams’ challenges ramp up in maintaining high-quality network video experience

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Companies providing streaming services have seen huge growth in demand, which has meant providing an optimal user experience while managing surging ...

Tony Blair Institute and Oracle combine to launch cloud-based vaccine management in Africa

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The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) and Oracle have combined to launch a vaccine management programme in several African countries

Paul Evans

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Paul Evans is the CEO and co-founder of Redstor. Following a brief spell as a lawyer, he has been working in the business of data management since ...

5G economy to spur huge GDP, job growth across the US

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BCG study estimates large contribution to employment and GDP over the next decade, through the roll-out of next-generation mobile infrastructure

APAC buyer’s guide to data management

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In this buyer’s guide, we look at the challenges surrounding why enterprises are struggling to deal with data, the use of cloud data management ...

Ericsson taps into industry momentum for network orchestration and automation

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Swedish comms tech provider rides the wave of orchestration and automation systems supporting cloud-native functions and orchestrating services ...

The UK’s struggle with digital schooling

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The UK government’s sudden decision to close schools left many either unprepared or unable to provide children with online schooling, so what does ...

NHSX launches second round of NHS AI competition

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NHS is looking for artificial intelligence products to help with triage, screening, imaging and intelligent operational automation

Government sets out plans for security vetting IT platform

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A three-year programme to transform the security vetting process for civil servants includes a technology platform due to be rolled out in summer 2021

Robot lawyer gets Sberbank role

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Russia's largest state-owned bank creates a robot lawyer to reduce the time taken to process documents and make decisions based on them

Inside Huawei’s APAC cloud strategy

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The Chinese technology giant is counting on its strengths in hardware infrastructure and focus on research and development to make a mark in Asia ...

Amazon Swedish language site will expand reach of local retailers

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Amazon launches Swedish language website and promises to make more products available in the Nordic region

Hunting and anti-hunting groups locked in tit-for-tat row over data gathering

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The leaking of internal documents has prompted a row between pro- and anti-hunting groups about the legality of the other’s data collection practices

AWS to open Melbourne cloud region in 2022

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Amazon Web Services’ second Australian cloud region is part of its growing infrastructure investments in the maturing cloud market

Border technologies largely fail to respect human rights

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AI-powered border technologies used to ‘manage’ migration frequently make the process more arbitrary, discriminatory and unjust, says human rights ...

Risk of ‘widespread disruption’ at UK border after Brexit transition period, NAO warns

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National Audit Office report highlights concerns over UK’s readiness when Brexit transition period ends, including several IT systems at risk of not ...

Covid-19: How retailers are using technology to respond to changing shopping habits

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As the coronavirus outbreak accelerates the shift in consumer behaviour, how are retailers using technology to keep customers engaged?

IT Priorities 2020: European IT budget share reflects home-working challenges brought by Covid

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European organisations are being forced to redivert more limited budgets during the pandemic

Canon cuts ribbon on latest Business Centre with IT@Spectrum

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Canon continues on its mission to establish centres with partners to increase its penetration in key geographic areas

MI5 accused of withholding surveillance compliance failures from cabinet minister

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MI5 withheld high-risk concerns about its ability to comply with legislation from the home secretary when it submitted applications for surveillance ...

Faster-than-predicted growth for 5G with 3.5 billion subs forecast by 2026

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Despite uncertainties caused by Covid-19, new research from Ericsson reveals that the pace of introducing new 5G functionality has increased in 2020

Verizon, AWS drive mobile edge computing platform to Dallas and Miami

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Leading comms provider and IT and cloud giant add two more 5G mobile edge computing cities in US to enable development of latency-sensitive ...

Standards alliance adds to membership as NEC opens new Open RAN lab

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Japanese tech giant establishes Open RAN laboratory in India to complement centre of excellence in the UK, where Southampton University spin-off ...

CIO interview: Why IATA is banking on cloud to help the airline industry weather the Covid-19 crisis

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The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has forced the International Air Transport Association to re-evaluate its IT investment priorities as the aviation...

Cambridge Consultants takes off with airborne 5G

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5G connectivity takes to the skies as Capgemini division announces what it says is a breakthrough for service which will beam signals through the ...

Ticketmaster fined £1.25m by ICO for failing to protect customer data

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Ticket website’s customer data was exposed through an attack on a third-party chatbot

The case of Julian Assange as he faces US extradition bid – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

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In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Bill Goodwin, investigations editor, joins Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and ...

IT managers raise concerns over retaining and attracting SAP skills

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Survey has shone a light on the concerns of organisations managing and deploying SAP enterprise software

Nokia Software embarks on ‘carbon negative’ datacentre revamp push with HPE Greenlake

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Global telecoms giant Nokia Software opens up about the work it is doing to improve the environmental friendliness of the R&D datacentres ...

Openreach claims UK first as it moves from copper to full-fibre in Salisbury

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Salisbury takes a step closer to becoming the UK’s first ‘fully digital’ city with full-fibre deployment

MDM tools vendor selection criteria

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MDM tools are fast turning into necessities. Start your MDM tools vendor selection process with these helpful tips.

Greenwich launches four-year digital strategy

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Strategy is based on six principles, including focusing on the needs of residents and being data-led and agile, and aims to create a truly digital ...

A safe bet: How Covid-19 is fuelling investor interest in the datacentre industry

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With demand for cloud and colocation capacity soaring on the back of the Covid-19 pandemic, datacentres are looking like an increasingly attractive ...

Government covers its ears as complaint by victims of Post Office abuse heads to ombudsman

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Government denies responsibility for the abuse inflicted on subpostmasters by the Post Office over faulty IT system

SKT and AWS debut 5G edge cloud service

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SK Telecom’s multi-access edge computing service will let enterprises build low latency applications that make use of AWS cloud services

Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2020

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As the year draws to a close, Computer Weekly looks over some of the notable stories relating to women in tech, diversity and inclusion throughout ...

Top 10 remote working stories of 2020

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Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 remote working stories of 2020

Extended reality software gets pandemic lift

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Extended reality software is not new, but the Covid-19 public health crisis has seen it take on a new lease of life as organisations face up to ...

Top 10 retail technology stories of 2020

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Computer Weekly looks at what 2020 had in store for the retail industry – just how did technology help retailers adapt to changing customer behaviour...

Top 10 end-user computing stories of 2020

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Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 end-user computing stories of 2020

Viasat announces $222m RigNet acquisition

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Global communications company unveils plans to expand and diversify commercial connectivity portfolio, with purchase of intelligent networking ...

Qatar regulator launches platform to monitor human understanding of financial crime

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Qatari financial services regulator works with global body to provide digital platform to assess whether financial services workers understand how to...

Central government should promote data policy compliance, say civil servants

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Most civil servants want the government to gain additional powers to promote data policy compliance to ensure better use of data, according to ...

Driving innovation in government

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An insider's perspective on the organisation, culture and methods used to drive innovation in the Department for Work and Pensions

Post Office IT scandal executive forced out of job at Football Association of Wales

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Angela van den Bogerd has left her role at the Football Association of Wales, following criticism of her part in Post Office IT scandal

4. Ciaran Martin, Head of the National Cyber Security Centre

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Mimecast breach was work of SolarWinds attackers

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Mimecast’s investigation into a January 2021 breach of its systems turns up evidence that the culprit was the same group that targeted SolarWinds in ...

Hotmail makes sign-in changes, can't please everyone

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The Hotmail sign-in page is in the news this week, with subtle changes to browser auto-complete behaviour to provide wider browser compatibility.

How Nottinghamshire County Council saved loads of money on SAP

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The council was paying £100,000 a year just to keep ECC patches up to date and needed to find savings to support frontline services

APAC career guide: How to become a DevOps engineer

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A DevOps career can be highly rewarding, as long as you are open to learning new things and collaborating with team mates to solve problems in ...

Latest Microsoft results show strength in Teams and Azure

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Microsoft reports 50% growth in Azure and integration between Teams and ServiceNow, Workday and Salesforce

150,000 records accidentally wiped from police systems

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Home Office claims data wiped from national police systems only relates to people who have never been convicted of a crime or had further police ...

Where is the UK’s digital strategy?

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While the devolved nations press on with their digital plans, the UK government has delayed its digital strategy – yet this is too important for the ...

5 cloud BI considerations for a successful rollout

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Migrating an end-to-end business intelligence (BI) solution to the cloud can be complicated. Consider these five points for successful cloud BI ...

Predictive analytics, data visualisation, player tracking at play at Wimbledon

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IBM provided predictive analytics, player tracking and data visualisation at Wimbledon.

Microsoft offers bounty in hunt for Rustock spambot operators

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A $250,000 reward is being offered to anyone who provides new information that results in the identification, arrest and criminal conviction of the ...

Apple fixes 39 bugs in Snow Leopard, preps for Lion release

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Releases final non-security update - v10.6.8- for Snow Leopard OS, which fixes 39 flaws. More details inside.

ATA over Ethernet offers SAN storage on a budget

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ATA over Ethernet offers SAN storage on a budget, at 20% of the cost of Fibre Channel and half that of iSCSI SANs. But, does being a one-vendor ...

Big data analytics made easy with SQL and MapReduce

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With growth in unstructured big data, RDBMS is inadequate for big data analytics. Know how to use SQL and MapReduce for big data analytics, instead.

Fibre Channel over IP: What it is and what it’s used for

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Fibre Channel over IP bundles Fibre Channel frames into IP packets and can be a cost-sensitive solution to link remote fabrics where no dark fibre ...

BNP Paribas, Orange Business Services deploy SD-WAN to French retail sites

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Co-construction approach between leading bank and telco ensures business continuity during deployment of software-defined infrastructure across ...

Private cloud setup in six easy steps

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Private cloud setup entails a systematic progression from assessment to optimization. This tip helps smooth your private cloud setup adoption journey.

Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge

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Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 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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