Reimagining outsourcing after Covid-19
Opinion | ComputerWeekly.comCovid-19 has changed how businesses interact with their suppliers. Here are five steps companies can take to manage their outsourcing ecosystem in ...
How a Singapore startup is disrupting logistics management
News | ComputerWeekly.comPortcast’s cloud-based logistics management platform uses machine learning and big data to improve supply chain visibility for logistics companies, ...
Internet of things vital for post-Covid business success, says report
News | ComputerWeekly.comUK telco Vodafone launches report focused on the impact IoT is having on businesses at a time when their digital capabilities are being put to the ...
Data migration projects: Avoid data migration errors with automation, orphaned storage remediation
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comLearn the top three things users should do when planning a data migration project, what data migration tools you should have, describe some of the ...
How to write an executive CV for IT leadership jobs
Opinion | ComputerWeekly.comKnowing how to write an IT executive CV requires a deep knowledge and skillset that not everyone has. Find out how to set yourself apart from the ...
Justice for subpostmasters as wrongful criminal convictions are set to be quashed
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe Post Office has chosen not to contest 44 out of 47 appeals, meaning most are likely to have their names cleared, but others still face a Court of...
Employees demand greater ownership and choice in the ‘new normal’ of work
News | ComputerWeekly.comCisco survey shows flexible future for work, with three-quarters of UK office workers wanting to choose whether to work from home or office, and ...
Forrester: Why tagging should be used to manage hybrid assets
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comWith complex hybrid environments, there is a need to apply IT asset management best practices across cloud and on-premise systems
Government delays digital strategy
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe digital strategy, originally due in autumn 2020, is likely to be published at some point in 2021, and the government is ‘continuing to consider ...
Ryuk attack downs private health provider in major incident
News | ComputerWeekly.comPrivate healthcare provider UHS has been been hit by a major big game hunting cyber attack that infected its systems with the Ryuk ransomware
NatWest offers online banking customers free security services
News | ComputerWeekly.comBank responds to a surge in cyber crime targeting users of online banking services
AAT calls on government to re-think the Making Tax Digital exemption threshold
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe Association of Accounting Technicians calls for improvements to HM Revenue and Customs’ Making Tax Digital programme, and says the exemption ...
Banking trade body calls for increased contactless payment limit
News | ComputerWeekly.comUK Finance proposes an increase in the limit on spending using contactless cards
Port of Felixstowe lands funding for UK government 5G trial
News | ComputerWeekly.comUK’s largest and busiest container port to test the potential of 5G across two use cases: enabling remotely controlled cranes and optimising ...
Brexit and risks to data privacy and governance
Opinion | ComputerWeekly.comEY privacy specialists assess the risks to data privacy, protection and governance on the table for businesses, with less than two months until Brexit
Financial services data volumes heighten risk of insider breach
News | ComputerWeekly.comFinancial services organisations hold so much data that it is becoming virtually impossible to safeguard properly against data breaches caused by ...
Ericsson claims strong momentum across Africa
News | ComputerWeekly.comSwedish comms tech provider Ericsson bags series of contracts across African continent, highlighting growing footprint in region as communications ...
Scott Ford
Contributor | TechTargetScott Ford is the director of operations at Pronesis Technology Group, a full-service IT firm based in Tampa, Fla.
Google Cloud forecasts growth for UK partners
News | MicroScopePublic cloud player shares findings of an IDC study into the growth prospects for those that choose to partner with the vendor
Over two million Brits using open banking
News | ComputerWeekly.comData shows more than two million people in the UK are now taking control of their financial data through open banking
What businesses can learn from GovTech’s digital strategy
News | ComputerWeekly.comModernising its infrastructure and putting digital at its core has given Singapore’s Government Technology Agency the agility it needs to respond to ...
Virgin to enter UK 5G fray but regulator delays 5G spectrum auction
News | ComputerWeekly.comUK operator marks ‘milestone’ moment in its history with 5G offer to add to gigabit broadband, but Ofcom puts on hold the process to gain mid-band ...
How software developers can make more dough
News | ComputerWeekly.comThere are subtle differences across Europe in developer salaries, depending on experience and demand for front-end, full-stack or front-end roles
Channel is key to supporting CyberGRX UK ambitions
News | MicroScopeRisk assessment specialist says partners will play a crucial role in its development in the market
Cyber fraud a national security issue, says Rusi report
News | ComputerWeekly.comA report from the Rusi think tank calls for fresh approaches to how we think about fighting fraud
Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust launches digital service for HIV patients
News | ComputerWeekly.comKlick service triages patients according to their clinical needs and allows them to review results, manage appointments and complete health ...
Versa Networks rolls out more formal channel approach
News | MicroScopeGlobal partner programme replaces an ad-hoc approach and comes at a time when both SASE and SD-WAN are surfing a wave of demand
Coronavirus: Managing software development during lockdown
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comThe Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community
IBM and Telefónica double down on tech partnership in enterprise hybrid cloud push
News | ComputerWeekly.comIBM and Telefónica are continuing to pool their resources to help accelerate the pace of hybrid cloud adoption in the enterprise
Gartner: IT budgets shift to mature processes around remote business
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe pandemic forced businesses to work remotely. Now, almost a year on, CIOs must consider the IT to run long-term remote business strategies
ICO extends commissioner Denham’s term of office
News | ComputerWeekly.comExtension of Elizabeth Denham’s tenure as information commissioner will give the government more time to appoint her successor
Telia takes Ericsson 5G to transform industrial inspection as Project Reindeer runs
News | ComputerWeekly.comNew partnership will benefit Swedish industry by performing livestream industrial inspections via drones, while more details are released on Ericsson...
NEXTDC debuts carbon-neutral colocation service
News | ComputerWeekly.comAustralian datacentre operator will buy carbon offsets to help organisations reduce their carbon footprint through a new colocation service
Century-old insurer uses low code as digital demands increase
News | ComputerWeekly.comLloyds of London insurance and reinsurance broker Miller breaks from the past by adopting low-code software development platform
Security Think Tank: Safeguarding PII in the current threat landscape
Opinion | ComputerWeekly.comThe threat of identity theft via a data breach is heightened with the rise of attacks where ransomware threat actors both encrypt and ransom, and ...
UK government hits superfast target but many still experience poor broadband
News | ComputerWeekly.comNational Audit Office report says government’s target to roll out faster gigabit coverage nationwide by 2025 will be difficult to achieve for the ...
Small businesses’ remote working frustrations threaten exodus of best talent
News | ComputerWeekly.comWhile large firms mull massive investment to return to offices, over a quarter of European small business workers would switch jobs to somewhere ...
Thin provisioning best practices for virtual server environments
Tip | ComputerWeekly.comThis tip emphasizes on the key factors to consider while provisioning thin storage for virtual server environments.
NetApp pointing partners to hybrid multicloud future
News | MicroScopeVendor’s view of the world has been validated by the response to the pandemic and it wants partners to accelerate customer cloud adoption
Dryad Networks gains funding for large-scale wildfire detection IoT network
News | ComputerWeekly.comForest management startup gains seed fund to develop internet of things technology for what it says is the dawn of the digital forest
Nokia, Ericsson score 5G tech wins with Orange, Proximus
News | ComputerWeekly.comCentre of politics becomes centre of 5G activity as incumbent telcos tap Nordic comms giants to build out next-generation infrastructures
MosaicRegressor APT campaign using rare malware variant
News | ComputerWeekly.comKaspersky researchers have shared details of a APT campaign utilising a rarely seen and hard-to-stop variety of malware
Employees overwhelmingly hostile to workplace monitoring tech
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe use of workplace surveillance technologies to monitor and track staff working from home has increased hugely since the start of the pandemic, but...
Facebook critics launch ‘Real Facebook Oversight Board’
News | ComputerWeekly.comOrganisation formed as an ‘emergency response’ to address the ‘immediate risk’ posed by Facebook’s role in the US election
Business leaders call on G20 to drive affordable and responsible tech
News | ComputerWeekly.comA new report from the Business Twenty has urged G20 members to use digitisation to support economic recovery
Virgin Media Wholesale shows commitment to the channel
News | MicroScopeThe decision by Virgin to establish its wholesale business shows positive signs of its belief that it can grow with partners
NetApp boosts NVMe, QLC and container hybrid cloud offer
News | ComputerWeekly.comStorage giant NetApp unveils new AFF, FAS and E-series arrays with NVMe and QLC flash capability, plus object storage in Ontap and Spot cloud ...
Finnish therapy centre accused of covering up cyber attack
News | ComputerWeekly.comPrivate therapy practice Vastaamo faces questions over its security and business practices in the months leading up to one of the biggest data ...
Trump supporters targeted by cryptocurrency scammers
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe successful breach of Donald Trump’s official website shows up lax security on his campaign team and is yet another timely warning that nobody is ...
Finnish government tables laws to protect data from cyber criminals
News | ComputerWeekly.comGovernment is strengthening its legal framework to protect data from hackers in the wake of a massive breach at a psychotherapy centre
Interview: Sudaman Thoppan Mohanchandralal, chief data and analytics officer, Allianz Benelux
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe financial services firm is demonstrating the value of the chief data officer role
Air purifier manufacturer creates IoT service in the cloud
News | ComputerWeekly.comSweden’s Blueair introduces new functionality for customers through a cloud-based internet of things platform
Virgin Media Business Wholesale shines light on network upgrade opportunities
News | MicroScopeThe shift to home working and operating online has underlined the need for customers to upgrade networking infrastructure, but the channel must ...
Covid-19 sparks boom in Middle East digital payments sector
News | ComputerWeekly.comStubborn cash use could fall in the Middle East after an acceleration in the take-up of digital payments amid the coronavirus pandemic
Fujitsu puts ecosystem platform at heart of channel approach
News | MicroScopeVendor is adding partners to its collaborative platform that launched last month to encourage more cross-channel partnerships
Red Hat rivals VMware and Nutanix with hyper-converged OCS 4.5
News | ComputerWeekly.comRed Hat’s OpenShift 4.5 extended container orchestration to virtual machines. The arrival of OCS 4.5 moves the solution into the realm of ...
Oracle OpenWorld 2020: Miranda – business model changes are driving turn to cloud
News | ComputerWeekly.comSteve Miranda, who leads Oracle applications development globally, spoke to Computer Weekly ahead of his keynote at the virtual version of OpenWorld....
Nokia nabs greater part of BT 5G infrastructure
News | ComputerWeekly.comAs UK incumbent telco continues removing Huawei technology from its network, Finnish comms tech giant scores big
Ethnic diversity, cloud apps for Gen Z, and accountants – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
Podcast | ComputerWeekly.comIn this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss workplace diversity in ...
Threat actors becoming vastly more sophisticated
News | ComputerWeekly.comMalicious actors have been busily honing their craft and cyber security incidents are up across the board as a result, according to a Microsoft report
IXsystems: TrueNAS gets hyper-convergence
News | ComputerWeekly.comTrueNAS has added hyper-converged functionality to NAS and aims at the edge use cases left behind in the rush to the cloud
Egregor ransomware arrests confirmed
News | ComputerWeekly.comAuthorities confirm that they have arrested an undisclosed number of cyber criminals associated with the Egregor ransomware
NTT DATA and Continual collaborate to deliver in-vehicle mobility experiences
News | ComputerWeekly.comConsulting and IT services and cloud-based analytics firms announce Tier 1 mobile operator is already implementing combined in-vehicle system
North Korean state attacks legitimate security researchers
News | ComputerWeekly.comThreat researchers specialising in vulnerability research and development appear to be being targeted by a North Korean state-backed group
Achab says ‘Buongiorno’ to UK MSPs
News | MicroScopeItalian distributor sets up shop in Reading with plans to work with managed service providers on this side of the Channel
TelcoSwitch and Charterhouse expanding through acquisition
News | MicroScopeBoth firms have already been in the headlines this month thanks to funding rounds and acquisitions
BT offers unlimited data for remote learning
News | ComputerWeekly.comUK incumbent telco joins campaign to make sure disadvantaged children can get connected as Covid-19 lockdown closes schools and other educational ...
Public sector IT leaders struggle with data infrastructure legacy
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe impact caused by the pandemic means government tech executives in Europe are looking for ways to quickly modernise their estates, research says
DDoS mitigation strategies needed to maintain availability during pandemic
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comThe growing prevalence of DDoS attacks combined with the increased reliance on internet connectivity during the pandemic means enterprises can no ...
In a crisis, users have kept taking the tablets
News | MicroScopeCanalys has tracked stellar growth in the demand for tablets as users react to changing conditions forced by Covid-19
Telcos could face huge fines under new security laws
News | ComputerWeekly.comGovernment boasts of unprecedented powers to boost the security standards of the UK’s critical national infrastructure
Cambridge Broadband Networks enhances fixed wireless access offer
News | ComputerWeekly.comAfter corporate identity shift, fixed wireless network system provider reveals next phase of evolution with new partner programme to address growing ...
Bytes signals flotation ambitions
News | MicroScopeChannel player Bytes looks to split from South African owners and go it alone as a public company
How Standard Chartered approaches cyber security
News | ComputerWeekly.comBank uses security-by-design principles and conducts red-teaming exercises among other measures to fend off cyber breaches
Evolving cloud storage market has users weighing their enterprise data storage options
News | ComputerWeekly.comThis series takes an in-depth look at the evolving concepts of cloud storage and all of its subtypes, such as internal, external, private and public ...
Isilon reveals turnaround plan
News | ComputerWeekly.comClustered storage vendor vows to continue to spend on product development, sales and marketing, despite losing nearly $27 million (£13.5m) in ...
Do all drives in a RAID 10 array need to be the same specification?
Answer | ComputerWeekly.comWe tell you the one requirement when matching drive specs in a RAID 10 array. But will mixing drives of various performance levels compromise your ...
From compliance to open banking to embedded finance – all thanks to APIs
Opinion | ComputerWeekly.comThe road to embedded finance, banking and insurance with APIs is full of promise – and banks should take it for a journey to a better world of finance
Qualcomm teams with Verizon and Ericsson to set 5G speed benchmark, boosts 5G offering
News | ComputerWeekly.comComms carrier and tech companies continue to drive advancements in 5G technology using aggregation technology on mmWave spectrum while new portfolio ...
Fujitsu staff under investigation for potential perjury in Post Office IT trial named
News | ComputerWeekly.comCourt documents reveal the names of the Fujitsu employees under investigation for potentially providing misleading information in criminal trials
How crowd simulation modelling enables organisations to develop social distancing strategies
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comCrowd simulation modelling has a role to play in maximising the Covid security of offices and other buildings by facilitating social distancing to ...
Dell boosts as a service approach with Apex
News | MicroScopeVendor reveals details of Project Apex and its plans to provide a more consistent as a service approach for partners
Subpostmasters still in the dark about live Horizon errors
News | ComputerWeekly.comSubpostmasters still not being told about all the known errors in the controversial Post Office branch accounting and retail system that they use
Journalists’ FOI bids stayed as court reconsiders freedom of information rights of people outside UK
News | ComputerWeekly.comTribunal questions whether people without a British passport or Britons living overseas are eligible to use the UK’s Freedom of Information Act
The tech sector cannot build back better from the kitchen table
Opinion | ComputerWeekly.comWhile technology has supported the lockdown economy by allowing millions to work from home, the in-person collaboration and shared experience on ...
Nokia inks RAN collaboration with leading cloud providers
News | ComputerWeekly.comGoogle, Microsoft Azure and AWS link up with comms tech giant to utilise cloud and open radio access network technology to develop new ...
5G set to add $8tn to global GDP by 2030
News | ComputerWeekly.comResearch from leading global telecommunications technology provider finds that despite the economic challenges of Covid-19, a global boom in 5G ...
Juniper adds WAN, Virtual Network Assistant technology to networks portfolio
News | ComputerWeekly.comArtificial intelligence-driven networks provider builds on wired/wireless access leadership and record year for campus/branch switching with new ...
Law firm and cyber criminals clash over source of stolen data
News | ComputerWeekly.comCyber attack victim Jones Day says its data was stolen in a supply chain attack, but the gang holding it to ransom disagrees
Nutanix looks for GSI growth
News | MicroScopePressure is increasing to demonstrate to customers that cost savings can be realised quickly, according to the GSI leader at Nutanix UK
Scammers impersonating the ACSC on the prowl
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe Australian Cyber Security Centre warns of scammers who are using its name to gain control of personal computers and trick users into revealing ...
Singapore to build 5G talent pipeline
News | ComputerWeekly.comSingapore’s telcos will start hiring and training about 1,000 telecoms professionals by year-end to support the deployment of 5G networks
Financial Stability Board says it’s time to talk about IT outsourcing risks
News | ComputerWeekly.comInternational organisation that monitors the finance sector asks for the industry to discuss the risks that IT outsourcing brings to the sector
Online kids’ game Animal Jam confirms large breach
News | ComputerWeekly.comCyber criminals have stolen data on 46 million Animal Jam player accounts via a third-party attack
Changes for digital government in Theresa May's reshuffle
News | ComputerWeekly.comMatt Hancock takes over as DCMS secretary of state, while Caroline Nokes says goodbye to her role as the minister responsible for digital at Cabinet ...
Focus on cost cutting a danger in digital transformation pitches
News | MicroScopeCustomers might be looking for cost savings but the channel needs to steer the focus onto growth and longer term business benefits
Sky launches new fibre-to-the-home across UK
News | ComputerWeekly.comProvider aims to install fibre to more than seven million UK households by the end of the first quarter of 2021
Orange Business Services strikes global partnership with AWS to accelerate enterprise cloud take-up
News | ComputerWeekly.comOrange Business Services has followed up its earlier partnerships with Microsoft and Google by signing a similar deal with Amazon Web Services, ...
Cut jobs or cut software spending?
News | ComputerWeekly.comWith little or no growth in IT budgets, IT chiefs will be tasked with cutting costs in 2021. Improving IT asset management can help to avoid job cuts
Current conditions could foster further consolidation
News | MicroScopeBoss of SCC reveals that the company is considering some deals at a time when M&A activity is continuing across the channel