Growing pains

Five e-commerce companies tell E-Business Review how they overcame initial teething problems

ASP offers wireless access to Microsoft Exchange

Application service provider Netstore is offering users wireless connections to Microsoft Exchange 2000 as an alternative to...

Feeling the pinch

The Internet age is not over just because a few dotcoms have run into difficulty, says Martin Butler, who believes that the...

IT directors: build bridges or be swept away

Old-style IT directors are doomed, says Chris Rawson at Lloyd's of London. Rod Sweet reports

Riverbed still pitching visibility and performance

Networking player believes its message is a good one for channel partners to take out to customers drawing up future strategies

Choosing a RAID level depends on capacity needs and data criticality

In this Ask the Expert, Steve Pinder talks about which RAID level to choose, depending on the criticality of your data or the capacity required.

IT in Europe e-zine: Data Management & BI Edition

The benefits of effective data management and business intelligence are many; so are the challenges. Get practical information and advice on data ...

Leveraging ISO 27005 standard’s risk assessment capabilities

In this first of a series of articles on risk assessment standards, we look at the latest in the ISO stable; ISO 27005’s risk assessment capabilities.

Business intelligence center of excellence (BI CoE): A handy reference

To extract maximum benefit from a BI solution, setting up a BI center of excellence (BI CoE) is essential. Here’s how you should go about it.

Midwich weathers Covid-19 storm

Distributor issues end-of-year trading update indicating that its second half was strong and its pipeline is looking healthy going forward

Application migration to the cloud: Selecting the right apps

Migrating applications to the cloud depends on many parameters. This tip helps you prioritize and carry out application migration correctly and ...

RDBMS now a low focus area for BI pros

Traditional RDBMS technology is incapable of handling the demands of unstructured, big data. BI pros are now going beyond RDBMS and exploring new ...

A big blueprint for e-business

Companies have been making mistakes with their e-business strategies since the whole brouhaha over online commerce started. But...

Silicon Valley looks East

"Cross border sourcing" is gaining in popularity in the US where an expanding skills vacuum has led Silicon Valley businesses to...

Arapahoe gains support from heavyweights

A new PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) interface called Arapahoe gained momentum on 29 August as 22 industry-leading...

Leaked RAF memo scathing of safety software evaluation

Computer Weekly's Tony Collins uncovers evidence that the MoD has consistently undermined the authority of its software assessors...

RAF Chinook pilots could be vindicated

Details of an RAF Board of Inquiry report into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 were revealed for...

Opening Windows: the threat from Open Source

After a push at the start, Mencap’s automation journey is gathering pace

UK charity was helped out by a bank at the start of an automation investigation that is now a project sweeping across the organisation

Network Group chairman applauds MSP pandemic efforts

Throughout Covid-19, MSPs have supported customers but life has been tough for shopfront dealers that have been hit by successive lockdowns

Hyperscale datacentre market growth soared in 2020 on back of Amazon and Google buildouts

Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how demand for hyperscale datacentre capacity held firm during 2020

6 cloud SLA monitoring tips for better service delivery

Cloud SLA monitoring is essential for better service delivery. These tips on effective cloud SLA monitoring help ensure SLAs from cloud vendors are ...

Google Cloud, Nokia accelerate readiness for cloud-native enterprise 5G solutions

Cloud platform provider and comms tech supplier announce plans to jointly develop cloud-native 5G core solutions for communications service providers...

Grindr complaint results in €9.6m GDPR fine

Norway’s data protection authority plans to apply a fine totalling 10% of LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr’s revenues over its data sharing practices

Customer data privacy program poised to roll out at Airtel

Airtel’s customer data privacy program will roll out in phases. With the pilot almost completed, Airtel is confident of meeting data privacy ...

Veeam brings virtual server backup for NHS trust

Storage roundup: Hospital cuts restoration times to minutes using Veeam Backup & Recovery; Buffalo launches Windows NAS family; Coraid partners with ...

EMC’s caveman creed, HP says FAST is its idea, Pillar crumbles

The storage blogosphere has thrown up a fascinating EMC video explaining how cave painting is like social media. Seriously. Also HP says EMC’s FAST ...

Data quality improvement impeded by lack of automation

Data quality improvement has boosted revenue at 12% of a sample of UK companies. Progress impeded by poor automation, says research from QAS: 42% use...

Social Engineer Toolkit (SET) tutorial for penetration testers

A social engineering toolkit helps address the human element aspect of penetration testing. Learn how to use Social Engineer Toolkit with this ...

Why PKI?

Public Key Infrastructure could revolutionise the way companies do business online - if only anyone would use it, says Danny...

January-February

Tesco target of 300 online shops within one year

MoD did not tell the whole truth on Chinook software

Letters from software experts to Computer Weekly show the Ministry of Defence omitted to mention it sanctioned the very testing...

Hong Kong Airport Authority takes off with upgraded IP/MPLS network

Next-generation network to offer key regional hub migration of legacy applications to support increased passenger capacity, reliability and ease of ...

NIST SP 800-30 standard for technical risk assessment: An evaluation

Risk assessment with NIST SP 800-30 focuses on securing IT infrastructure. Find out NIST SP 800-30 strengths, and learn how it differs from other ...

How to write a disaster recovery plan and define disaster recovery strategies

Learn how to develop disaster recovery strategies as well as how to write a disaster recovery plan with these step-by-step instructions

Cisco hardening guides for IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS devices

Patching routing and switching infrastructure in any organisation is often delayed, sometimes due to the potential impact on production systems and ...

Securitytube.net releases WLAN security megaprimer

The Hacker News (THN) has reported that the latest SecurityTube.net release includes a 4.2Gb DVD containing over 40+ HD quality videos of their WLAN ...

Planning a NAS migration project

NAS migration requires careful planning around the needs of your organization. In this Ask the Expert, find out which approach to use for an ...

Few workers see employers as ready for new normal

Study finds vast majority of workers feel employers are not fully prepared to support the longer-term move to a hybrid workforce, prompting a need ...

Demystifying IT Rules 2011: What it means for you

The first of a two-part series on the IT Rules 2011 notification under IT Act 2000, looking into its stipulations and their implications for ...

More subpostmasters’ prosecutions sent to appeal for wrongful conviction

Four more subpostmasters are to have their appeals against criminal convictions heard in the appeal courts

Viavi expands fibre network test and measurement portfolio

Fibre optic testing and measurement portfolio designed to address businesses’ rapidly changing infrastructure needs

BSL and Sabio adding customer experience depth

Both BSL and Sabio make acquisitions to add more depth to the support they can give to users looking to improve customer experience

BCS fights for patient data

How to improve storage resources utilisation

Storage hardware vendors’ upgrade offers are leading many mainframe users to buy storage they don’t need, which sends operational expenses through ...

Metasploit Pro 4.0 adds support for cloud, SIEM systems

Rapid7 releases Metasploit Pro version 4 with improved automation features and new SIEM and cloud-based pen-testing support.

Commvault’s channel chief outlines a busy year ahead

Recently appointed John Tavares has plans to reach out to MSPs, get more partners involved with SaaS and has a partner programme to launch in Q2

Starting from scratch - the SMB CIO

The role of CIO is usually associated with large companies with lots of technology and several IT staff. But that's not always the case.

Bad sectors – Storage news from Dell, Zerowait and Waikato District Health Board

Dell plans to bring its vStart pre-packaged infrastructure stacks to Australia later this year, while ZeroWait has scored an Australian customer for ...

Building the business case for a server refresh

As IT managers consider a server refresh, they need to create a solid business case for replacing hardware. Here’s how to garner support for the ...

IT gap analysis template: Download the simplified edition

Use our simple IT gap analysis template to document gaps between promise and delivery, for foolproof IT gap analysis and recommendations for bridging...

HSBC closing more branches as customers turn to digital channel

Bank announces branch closures as it reshapes its network for the digital age

SAS CEO offers analytics over BI, reveals use cases for text analytics

In an interview, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight advocates analytics over BI query and reporting, explains text analytics use cases and touches on predictive ...

Slow market spells trouble for Sun

Sun Microsystems warned that slow order rates for the company's hardware, particularly in Europe and Japan, will make it tough...

Words' worth

The online retail sector is growing apace and WHSmith.co.uk is finding its place in the lead. Nathalie Towner looks at the story...

The world is enough

As a global business, IT offers managers and directors many opportunities to work abroad and, as Julia Vowler finds out, these...

SMS to boost open system productivity

Tivoli is promising to bring the benefits of system managed storage (SMS) to the open systems world with its Storage Tank...

Not-very-mobile-commerce

Mobile commerce is a dream coming true, say the telcos. Well they would, wouldn't they? Simon Quicke reports

Nordic startups make advances in pet tech

Nordic tech startups are looking to take pet tech mainstream following the acceleration of the industry during the current pandemic

Bahrain hopes 5G roll-out will attract more tech firms to its shores

Bahrain has completed its 5G roll-out, which will support its IT infrastructure in creating the right environment for technology firms

Tech partnership to drive Finland’s quantum computing project

Organisations in Finland are developing quantum computing capabilities through a state and private sector partnership

European IT providers struggle to capitalise on continent-wide growth in cloud demand

Latest tech market tracking data shows demand for cloud services is rising across the continent, but local IT providers are continuing to lose share ...

Ben Richardson

Ben Richardson is the head of channel, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Forcepoint spearheaded a relaunch to its partner programme, following that ...

Coalition proposes secure standard model for Covid-19 passports

Vaccination Credential Initiative is working to ensure that people vaccinated against Covid-19 can access their records in a secure, verifiable and ...

McAfee releases Android end point security solution

McAfee have announced McAfee Mobile Security software, available for both smartphones and tablets, which according to a recent press release provides...

Met Police to equip officers with 30,000 mobile devices

The Metropolitan Police wants to roll out 30,000 mobile and tablet devices to officers this year to give better information on the beat

A handy Nessus tutorial

A powerful vulnerability scanner, Nessus is a utility that infosec pros swear by. If you plan to adopt this tool, our Nessus tutorial has all the ...

SLA template and guidelines for DR outsourcing

Use these guidelines along with our downloadable SLA template to structure, implement and successfully manage SLAs for DR infrastructure outsourcing.

Metasploit tutorial 3 – Database configuration & post exploit affairs

Part three of our Metasploit tutorial covers database configuration in Metasploit and what needs to be done subsequent to exploitation using ...

IT spending will rise faster than inflation

Although suppliers may be shedding IT jobs, corporate users still plan to spend an extra 11% on permanent staff this year - five...

Window of the world

Going online means going global. So why do so many companies give their website less consideration than other areas of the...

Glotel takes US hit

Web site for black music hits the right note

Glen Yearwood hit the right note when he launched darkerthanblue.com, a site devoted to black music

HP gambles on Itanium

A top Hewlett-Packard executive has signalled his company's commitment to Intel Itanium processor in perhaps the strongest terms...

Metasploit guide 4: Armitage cyber attack management GUI

In part four of our Metasploit guide we look at Armitage, the GUI-based cyber attack management tool. This completes the Metasploit guide series.

Towards an inclusive future

Leeds City Council is fighting social exclusion using customer service centres. Paul Donovan reports

Metasploit tutorial part 2: Using meterpreter

Part two of our Metasploit tutorial covers usage details of the meterpreter post-exploitation tool in Metasploit to create exploits that evade ...

Maritime museum backs up with HP LeftHand, Microsoft

The Australian National Maritime Museum has revamped its storage infrastructure, selecting HP LeftHand and Microsoft.

O2, Three, Vodafone team to enhance rural mobile coverage

Three of the UK’s leading mobile operators announce plan to build and share infrastructure to boost 4G rural coverage in the first part of a national...

UK broadband customers count cost of quietly expired contracts

Almost three million UK high-speed broadband customers – a third of those whose deal ended in the past year – say they were not informed when their ...

BT and Cisco lift lid on digital transformation acceleration

Research from BT and Cisco indicates just how much the pandemic has pushed along the digital agenda and how the channel is reacting

Emotet botnet goes offline as cops seize servers

The Emotet botnet has been disrupted and knocked offline after a major international effort by law enforcement

NHS Scotland uses ServiceNow to power vaccination and contact-tracing

ServiceNow is at the heart of NHS Scotland’s digital response to the coronavirus, supporting the mass vaccination programme

Peter Geytenbeek

Peter Geytenbeek is the senior manager of channels and distribution for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Thycotic.

Free IT risk assessment template download and best practices

Here’s a structured, step-by step IT risk assessment template for effective risk management and foolproof disaster-recovery readiness.

Cisco introduces AnyConnect to mobile devices

The benefits of enabling your workforce with mobile access to enterprise applications, regardless of whether those applications are in the cloud or ...

Etive to create digital identity trust scheme for residential property market

The tech company has received funding from Innovate UK to create a digital identity trust scheme, aiming to improve identity verification in the ...

APAC firms grapple with cyber security amid pandemic

Some aspects of cyber security have taken a backseat as companies across the Asia-Pacific region rush to shore up their infrastructure to cope with ...

Government Gateway due to launch today

Ministers were today (25 January) hoping to officially launch the Government Gateway, the middleware project that will allow...

The 3 flavours of 2001

Before the end of the year, three new technologies will emerge triumphant. Sanjay Manandhar reports.

Going going gone - one top end server

A top-end Unix server is not the kind of thing you would normally expect to buy at an auction. But technology marts, pioneered by Sun ...

When all is safely gathered in

Portals are a great way to gather all of your company's services into one easily accessible place. Danny Bradbury takes a look at...

Leaked MoD notice reveals new Chinook system hazard

The MoD has claimed that the problems with the Chinook's Fadec software were minor faults. Yet a leaked MoD notice warns of a...

MoD knew about safety hazard on Chinook MkII

Two leaked internal documents contradict claims by the Ministry of Defence that problems with the engine control system of the...

Case study: How the BBC uses cloud to process media for iPlayer

The BBC has taken its iPlayer video-on-demand service to the cloud and cut media processing time from 9-10 hours to 20-30 minutes

Small Articles

NAO report puts software at the heart of Chinook debate

Tony Collins

Government auditors will report tomorrow (Friday) that defence staff put into operational service a fleet of ...

Bell champions 'mass of new evidence' on Chinook crash

Tony Collins

Independent MP Martin Bell has told the House of Commons that a mass of new evidence has emerged over the ...

Air chief marshall attacks Chinook evidence

Tony Collins

Air Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten has criticised evidence suggesting that the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash ...

Parliament push to clear Chinook pilots

Tony Collins

Senior MPs and Lords, including a raft of former ministers, decided last week to form a cross-party action group...