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• How to make the most of a composable enterprise architecture

  Enterprise software is shifting away from highly integrated stacks to cloud-native architectures that use best-of-breed and in-house components  Continue Reading

• Green storage: Savings to be made but tricky to achieve

  Storage upgrades can bring energy savings. New hardware, the cloud and as-a-service procurement models all cut costs, but can need careful tweaking to get right  Continue Reading

• IT’s shift to the cloud: Veeam’s data protection report in detail

  With half of servers in the cloud, most backup and nearly all disaster recovery cloud-centric, the shift to the cloud is significant – but container backup is one area that is yet to settle down  Continue Reading

• Cloud egress costs: What they are and how to dodge them

  We look at how cloud providers charge to move data from their cloud, including to other providers and between storage in the same cloud, and what you can do to mitigate “bill shock”  Continue Reading

• Is composable business most essential technology trend to meet challenges of 2023 and beyond?

  By 2024, Gartner believes that 70% of large and medium-sized enterprises will have composability as a key criteria for new application planning  Continue Reading

• How to design enterprise applications that are composable by default

  Gartner presents a composable business index to help IT leaders assess and advance the agility of their applications  Continue Reading

• Securing low Earth orbit represents the new space race

  The barriers to launching satellites into low Earth orbit are falling fast, and that brings new cyber security challenges  Continue Reading

• Top trends in tech, and retail’s early adopters

  Computer Weekly identifies the retail industry’s early adopters of what McKinsey & Co deems the top tech trends  Continue Reading

• Building culture within collaboration to make hybrid work pay

  As hybrid working evolves, some firms are struggling to support non-office-based workers and management is unclear of its new responsibilities. What is being done to address this evolution?  Continue Reading

• Inclusion = everyone: Advice from experts for improving tech diversity

  At October’s Computer Weekly diversity in tech event, in partnership with Nash Squared, almost 100 experts from the tech and employment sectors shared their ideas for improving diversity in the technology industry  Continue Reading

• Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide feature list 2023

  Here is our 2023 schedule of up-and-coming in-depth articles that will cover carefully selected topics to help IT leaders select the right technology for their organisation  Continue Reading

• High tech meets agriculture in Denmark

  Thanks to a few strategic investments, Denmark may one day become a major exporter of farming technology  Continue Reading

• The importance of improving data quality at source

  Data replication crises have struck government and scientific data quality efforts. A lack of scrutiny over data being used at source has led to oversights from national statistics to financial auditing  Continue Reading

• How Finland develops its national plan for investment in innovation

  A small country with limited resources, Finland carefully chooses strategic technologies to lead it into the future  Continue Reading

• Cyber security professionals share their biggest lessons of 2022

  In the run-up to 2023, cyber security professionals are taking the time to reflect on the past few months and share their biggest lessons of 2022  Continue Reading

• Developed for Big Science in Europe, highly accurate time protocols ensure fair trading in finance

  Protocols developed for use at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research are now being used for many other applications, including financial services  Continue Reading

• Why the devil’s still in the detail in the race for energy efficiency

  Energy-efficiency credentials are surely a step in the right direction, but cloud and datacentre providers must look at the sustainability equation from all angles  Continue Reading

• Freeing the hybrid workforce from quiet constraint

  The rapid shift to hybrid working may be contributing to the trend of 'quiet constraint'. We look at how technology can be applied to really work for a distributed workforce  Continue Reading

• A sticky story: How, and why, hackers love stickers on laptops

  We’ve all seen laptops adorned with security stickers and in-jokes, but how did this cyber community trend get started, what does it signify, and what does it say about the humans behind the screens?  Continue Reading

• Storage hardware shortage causes and how to mitigate them

  We look at the IT supply chain shortages that have hit data storage equipment, their causes and what organisations can do to work more smartly to mitigate them  Continue Reading

• A retail tech tour of the Battersea Power Station development

  We check out the customer-facing digital features on display in the UK’s newest shopping site at Battersea Power Station  Continue Reading

• Top 10 storage and backup customer stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage and backup customer stories of 2022  Continue Reading

• Can real-time data visualisation deliver trust and opportunity?

  More than ever, decision-makers are relying on data to plot a path through the economic turmoil. We explore where real-time data fits  Continue Reading

• Too many secrets: What can today’s cyber teams learn from a 30-year-old film?

  Despite being 30 years old, Sneakers remains a classic hacker film. The technology may have dated, but the underlying themes remain relevant and remind us about the threats lurking online  Continue Reading

• Reverse cloud migrations: Why some enterprises are shifting their IT back on-premise

  With a steady trickle of customer organisations returning on-premise, a need to plan better may not be the whole story  Continue Reading

• From capex to opex: Storage procurement options bloom

  We look at the growing list of possibilities when it comes to paying for storage infrastructure, ranging from upfront purchases with upgrades to pure pay-as-you-go options  Continue Reading

• Extended reality can be empathic reality

  In the metaverse, eliciting empathy might become an important feature for many applications, including gaming and industrial uses, and there is even the potential that applications that focus on emphatic results will create their own market niche  Continue Reading

• How gamifying cyber training can improve your defences

  Security training is the cornerstone of any cyber defence strategy. With ever-escalating online threats, it is now more important than ever that this training is an engaging experience  Continue Reading

• Ransomware: Practical tips to improve resiliency

  With ransomware attacks on organisations increasing, the question is not if an attack will happen, but when. We look at ways to minimise the impact of such an attack  Continue Reading

• XR’s wide range of interface technologies: Achieving total immersiveness

  Visuals are important to create convincing representations of the real world in extended reality, but they are neither inclusive nor do they provide a sufficiently authentic sensation in virtual worlds. Genuine immersiveness will require interfaces ...  Continue Reading

• Indefinite storage: What it is and why you might need it

  Indefinite storage addresses the issue that archived data may need to be kept well beyond the lifespan of the technology it was written for  Continue Reading

• XR and the real world: Feedback loops and spillovers

  As the metaverse develops, the realism of advanced extended reality applications could allow users to take experiences, interests and strategies with them into the real world – creating spillovers from virtual to real worlds  Continue Reading

• How can IT leaders address ‘quiet quitting’?

  As the pandemic has changed the way people work, many are less willing to go above and beyond for their jobs – so what can managers to do adjust?  Continue Reading

• Cloud storage: Key storage specifications

  We look at the key specs in cloud storage, including availability – such as five nines – bandwidth, IOPS and latency, capacity and tiering functionality, egress charges and security  Continue Reading

• Datacentres in the dark: How the sector is preparing for the prospect of planned winter power cuts

  Against a backdrop of ongoing uncertainty in the energy market, the UK datacentre market is readying itself for ‘worst case’ planned power cuts this winter  Continue Reading

• Ransomware, storage and backup: Impacts, limits and capabilities

  We look at the impact of ransomware on storage and backup, how storage and data protection can best be used to combat ransomware, and how they fit in the fight against it  Continue Reading

• How to get structure from unstructured data

  We look at how to gain structure from unstructured data, via AI/ML analytics to create new records, selecting object data via SQL and storing unstructured files in NoSQL formats  Continue Reading

• Expensive datacentre outages: Untangling messy collaborations, contributing costs and complexity

  Even if outages in the datacentre are trending down, Uptime data this year traces rising costs per outage. So what can be done?  Continue Reading

• The next decade in enterprise backup

  Backup set to adapt to deliver more security, ransomware protection and flash-speed restores, and deal with the complexity of multi-, hybrid cloud and container-based operations  Continue Reading

• Siemens aims to pioneer industrial metaverse usage

  German engineering giant is exploring industrial metaverse use cases, and the Biosphere Foundation in Devon is proving out Siemens technology  Continue Reading

• How to prepare for ransomware

  What are the best practices you should use to protect against ransomware attacks and manage such attacks when they do happen?  Continue Reading

• An encouraging new conversation around sustainable IT, says Nordic CIO

  What started as a whisper a decade ago has become distinctly audible chatter among IT leaders sharing best practices on how to protect the environment  Continue Reading

• The world's oldest cryptocurrency exchange prefers doing business in Luxembourg

  One of the newest niches in fintech, cryptocurrency exchanges may fare very well in Luxembourg  Continue Reading

• NetSuite hits high note with School of Rock

  Over the past five years, School of Rock has grown rapidly, which has also meant much more complexity to deal with. We see how the school has deployed leading business automation technology to stay in tune  Continue Reading

• How Imec hopes to industrialise artificial intelligence

  Pure research explores the fundamental questions of artificial intelligence, but applied research takes those ideas to industry, making it all worthwhile  Continue Reading

• Candidate experience evolves to engender more emotional engagement

  Despite the cost-of-living crisis, employment is high and companies need to create a compelling candidate experience when competition is strong and ‘ghosting’ is common  Continue Reading

• Why automating finance is just an integration game

  We look at how the software that powers finance departments can help businesses navigate the worsening economic climate  Continue Reading

• Computer simulation at work for the future of nuclear fusion

  Nuclear fusion works, just not yet well enough. Learn how software simulations running on modern supercomputers and data science are lighting up possible paths forward  Continue Reading

• Retail’s robotics reboot

  Walmart and Amazon are among the retailers acquiring warehouse robotics firms, during a period of significant innovation in this space  Continue Reading

• Cellebrite sees silver lining in the NetSuite cloud

  It’s only natural that companies invest in business software solutions to bring about growth in their organisation. But in times of uncertainty, the narrative is around doing more with less, how to increase productivity and efficiency through ...  Continue Reading

• AI experts question tech industry’s ethical commitments

  The massive proliferation of ethical frameworks for artificial intelligence has done little to change how the technology is developed and deployed, with experts questioning the tech industry’s commitment to making it a positive social force  Continue Reading

• The tech helping organisations manage their finances

  With a worsening economic climate, software has an important role in helping finance departments control budgets and spending  Continue Reading

• Tearing down the barriers to full digital connectivity

  Millions of households rely on good connectivity for work, study or leisure. But how much has fast and consistent broadband connectivity spread across the UK?  Continue Reading

• Will the OCSF create an open and collaborative cyber industry?

  The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework promises to transform security data analysis and collection, but there are challenges around adoption  Continue Reading

• Finnish researchers lay the groundwork for flying drones

  A large, sparsely populated country, Finland is preparing for a future where it could rely on flying drone technology  Continue Reading

• Putting metaverse concerns into perspective

  All breakthroughs in technology have come with downsides, so what risks and concerns are there with the advent of the metaverse?  Continue Reading

• Improving finance and accounting software with AI

  Artificial intelligence algorithms and datasets have potential value across many areas in finance and accounting, but usage isn’t yet widespread  Continue Reading

• Cloud bursting: Six key steps in planning and decision-making

  We explore the key stages in a cloud bursting project: assessing the data and workflows, variants in the mechanism, application suitability, having the right resources, and planning and testing  Continue Reading

• Efficiency to empathy: Customer experience in cost-of living crisis

  Find out how businesses can shore up their CX strategy to support consumers struggling with the cost-of-living crisis  Continue Reading

• High data quality key to reducing supply chain disruption

  What could be the role of data quality enhancement in reducing the supply chain disruption that has beset the UK economy because of Brexit, Covid, and war in Europe?  Continue Reading

• What do the US’s new software security rules mean for UK organisations?

  The White House announced recently that all software supplied to the US government and its agencies needs to be secure, so what does this mean for the UK and EU security sectors?  Continue Reading

• XR applications are already changing businesses

  Many still regard the metaverse as a technology looking for an application. Yet company leaders would be surprised to learn how commercially usable augmented and virtual reality applications already are  Continue Reading

• The metaverse’s developing industry structure

  Challenges to create seamlessly working metaverse solutions exist not only on the technology side, but also on the business and partnership side. But the developing commercial landscape has not yet gelled. Small players, startups and even ...  Continue Reading

• API management: Assessing reliability and security

  Once an API is published, its developer then has responsibility to ensure it is kept up to date and is secure  Continue Reading

• Is object storage good for databases?

  We look at object storage vs block access SAN storage and ask if object storage can be used for database workloads, or is it just good for bulk storage of analytics datasets?  Continue Reading

• Cloud bursting: What is it, what workloads, what technologies?

  We look at cloud bursting, its benefits and how to deploy it, as well as the limitations in terms of suitable workloads, the technologies needed and the skills to make it happen  Continue Reading

• IT sustainability strategies: Why enterprises need to start with the datacentre when going green

  Enterprises are under pressure to curb their carbon emissions and become more environmentally friendly entities on multiple fronts, including in the datacentre  Continue Reading

• Online marketplace momentum ushers in new era for retailers

  Superdrug is the latest in a growing list of retailers to launch its own online marketplace, joining B&Q, Boots and others in driving a new era for UK retail  Continue Reading

• Morrisons joins the fast-growing retail media movement

  More retailers are becoming publishers as they realise the potential of their online assets, helping to fuel a new fast-growth segment of digital marketing – and Morrisons is no exception  Continue Reading

• Forrester: How to expand your API strategy

  Digital bonding is a mechanism for bridging enterprise boundaries by using application programming interfaces  Continue Reading

• Clickwork and labour exploitation in the digital economy

  Often ignored or assumed to be work conducted by machines rather than people, Computer Weekly explores the hidden human impact of the ‘clickwork’ that underpins the global digital economy  Continue Reading

• Air gaps for backup and how they help against ransomware

  The air gap is a basic of backups and storage. We look at what’s meant by an air gap, the rise of the logical air gap, and its place in the fight against ransomware  Continue Reading

• Hybrid working: Preventing damage to company culture

  The hybrid working model is still a work in progress, and most employers are at an early stage in learning and finding their way towards achieving its benefits  Continue Reading

• Providers unconcerned about Ofcom probe into hyperscaler influence on cloud market

  Should we be more worried about the growing dominance of the three big cloud providers – AWS, Azure and Google?  Continue Reading

• NFS vs SMB vs CIFS: File storage protocols defined

  We take a close look at NFS and SMB – the key file storage access protocols – and weigh up their pros, cons and suitability to differing datacentre environments  Continue Reading

• How to design a data architecture for business success

  To gain business value from data, enterprises need to get their data architecture right – and the right business leadership and culture is critical to that  Continue Reading

• Edge storage: What it is and the technologies it uses

  Storage is moving from the datacentre to the edge. We define edge storage, look at the characteristics of edge computing that shape it and the technologies it requires  Continue Reading

• Key ingredients for a successful API recipe

  We look at how application programming interfaces can provide connectivity to drive internal and external business processes  Continue Reading

• Dutch PhD project aims to automate discovery and deciphering of steganography

  Meike Kombrink, a PhD student in the Netherlands, is focused on detecting hidden messages on the internet  Continue Reading

• What cloud users need to know: Ensuring greater end point engagement for improved cloud delivery

  Although early-adopter worries about cloud may have dissipated, the end-user experience can still leave much to be desired  Continue Reading

• Carbon copies: How to stop data retention from killing the planet

  Our society has a serious digital hoarding problem, which is coming at a cost to the environment. But what can be done to address it?  Continue Reading

• AIOps for storage: Potential huge benefits, but lots of lock-in

  Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to storage can help to predict bottlenecks, diagnose I/O issues and recommend upgrades, but suppliers’ products are largely limited to their own hardware  Continue Reading

• How the pandemic accelerated tech adoption in hospitality

  The pandemic led to technology adoption across several sectors, with hospitality being no exception  Continue Reading

• Putting artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads in the cloud

  We look at the pros and cons of putting artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in the cloud  Continue Reading

• AI Sweden connects the dots to keep the country competitive

  How and why a centre dedicated to accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence technology has been created in Sweden  Continue Reading

• RPA’s day has come – the intelligent evolution of a productivity bot

  By trying to emulate humans for tasks such as data entry, robotic process automation has found a niche home in many an enterprise back office  Continue Reading

• How Sweden goes about innovating

  A country of only 10 million people, Sweden is holding its own in the international community when it comes to innovation – and it’s no accident  Continue Reading

• How water conservation and management floats on cloud

  From the cloud comes our water supply – an essential building block and life support system increasingly underpinned by IT infrastructure  Continue Reading

• New connectivity options driven by low Earth orbit satellites

  Huge reductions in the cost of building and launching satellites has led to an explosion of interest in space-borne projects and services  Continue Reading

• Cloud bursting: What it is and what it’s good for

  We look at cloud bursting, which allows organisations to meet demand by bursting compute and storage to the cloud  Continue Reading

• Unstructured vs semi-structured data: Order from chaos

  We look at alternatives to relational databases that have emerged to help bring some structure to unstructured data and gain valuable insight by making it semi-structured  Continue Reading

• Peeking into the metaverse: Taking a look at VR headsets and AR smart glasses

  Extended – augmented and virtual – reality is capturing the imagination of media and investors alike. Use cases abound, and market opportunities proliferate as more and more companies discover applications that might help their operations or serve ...  Continue Reading

• Burning up: Mitigation should sustain datacentre operations during extreme heat

  July’s temperature spike put headline heat on regional operations at Google and Oracle. Datacentre operators must side-step similar mistakes to avoid climate change-related collapse in future  Continue Reading

• Cloud storage TCO: Key pitfalls and how to avoid them

  Cloud’s flexibility is part of the attraction, but it can also lead to costs that spiral. We look at key elements in cloud TCO and how to intelligently make use of the cloud  Continue Reading

• When network performance is the name of the Games

  Major sporting events are now major IT and networking events. For Aruba, being in charge of networking for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games meant 20 simultaneous major projects - how did it go?  Continue Reading

• Bfloat16: What it is and how it impacts storage

  Bfloat16 is an emerging way to handle very large numbers, developed by Google for its machine and neural learning and prediction. We look at what it means for IT and storage  Continue Reading

• Data classification: What it is and why you need it

  To be compliant, to ensure data is optimally protected, that it is available, that it can be analysed and that it is stored most cost-effectively – these are reasons why data classification is vital to organisations  Continue Reading

• Huawei sets out its stall for a data-rich world

  Businesses need to harness data effectively while keeping carbon emissions down. We see how Huawei is setting out to cope with the strains put on organisations, while mitigating the environmental impact  Continue Reading

• How can IT leaders tackle a toxic team environment?

  What can IT leaders do if they inherit a toxic team environment to ensure their team starts to function effectively again?  Continue Reading

• Global broadband reaches for the stars to connect the Earth

  Despite fears of recession, especially in major economies, there is one thing that people can’t seem to have enough of: high-speed connectivity  Continue Reading