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Delta wins prestigious Innovation of the Year award
Computing’s market intelligence service for IT leaders walks away with one of the most fiercely contested gongs at the Professional Publishers Association Awards
How to secure yourself against Malware during the COVID-19 pandemic
Security is always one of CIOs' top headaches, and the global pandemic hasn't improved matters. So what do organisations need to do in order to better protect themselves during the COVID-19 crisis?
Is this the end for the office?
With no end in sight for mass remote working, how long until expensive commercial real estate gets axed? Computing speaks to IT leaders to find out how technology is informing the decision, whilst simultaneously being heavily impacted
Why consolidating your connectivity needs will lead to a more flexible and secure business
Registration is open for this Computing webinar on business connectivity in today's dispersed world
AI gives remote working tips, warns against 'Analyst Paul Table'
Set against the backdrop of fears that AI will take our jobs and eventually our lives, one algorithm produces a set of home working advice which seems unlikely to displace human consultancy for the time being
Today's data platforms are not fit for the future, says Scality
Richard Feltham, sales director at Scality, says traditional data storage isn’t designed to handle today’s petabyte-scale, always-on, global cloud, edge-connected world
Don't miss out! Nominations for the Computing Rising Star Awards 2020 close today
There's still time to enter yourself or a colleague - don't miss out!
UK organisations face significant data sharing challenges, but intend to share more anyway
New research from Computing shows the extent of the data-sharing challenge, as organisations admit plans to share more data with their partners in future despite regulatory and other difficulties
UK IT Awards: Get the top tips from the experts on crafting your entries
A panel of judges and a previous winner explain how to give yourself the best chance of winning big in the 'Oscars of IT'
Easyjet admits security breach as nine million customers affected
Budget carrier confesses to hack in January 2020, and has informed the Information Commissioner's Office
UK IT Industry Awards: Hear top submission tips from the judges in our upcoming webinar
Computing and the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, give the hottest tips for your UK IT Industry Awards entries - register to maximise your potential to walk away with one of the most coveted gongs in the industry!
CIOs highlight lockdown positives, citing improved collaboration, productivity and innovation
'We've seen more innovation in six weeks than in the past 10 years,' says one CIO, as Computing speaks to some of the UK’s top IT leaders to find out what they’ll be bringing from the COVID-19 pandemic into the post-lockdown world
The Women in Tech Awards are back for 2020 - nominate yourself or a colleague now!
Computing's Women in Tech Awards are on track for a big year in 2020, with dozens of prestigious awards to be won by women at all levels, and at every stage of their career
Coventry University CIO discusses team morale during lockdown
Steve Humber explains his strategy for instilling a high performance culture, whilst keeping morale high during the COVID-19 outbreak, and puts his success down in part to his history as a competitive speed skater
Privacy experts express serious concern at NHSX COVID-19 contact tracing app
A letter signed by over a hundred privacy experts and academics following a meeting of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee as they debate the app, has been published with almost 200 signatories
Charity IT Leaders appoints its first CEO
The membership body for IT professionals in the charity sector is aiming to build and develop its proposition
Sale and leasebacks: sacrifice or a saviour?
James Polo-Richards, real estate lawyer and Partner in the Commercial Real Estate team at law firm Wright Hassall, explains the pros and cons of a sale and leaseback of commercial property
How to manage remote working during a global crisis
Computing examines the tools and strategies needed to keep the business functioning in extraordinary times, including a rundown of the most popular unified communications and video conferencing solutions
What will the post-Covid-19 world look like?
Computing examines the pandemic crisis and identifies key trends likely to continue long after the lockdown ends
Is your ransomware recovery plan good enough?
Find out how to improve your recovery from a potential ransomware attack
Covid-19: How G4S has coped with the lockdown
Nick Folkes, Group CIO of G4S, explains that his organisation has benefited from its long-term digital transformation programme, with most services already in the cloud. But there were significant challenges early on in the lockdown period, especially...
Covid-19 response at Worcestershire County Council: Not just keeping the lights on
Geoff Hedges, digital transformation manager at Worcestershire County Council explains how his organisation is keeping processes running smoothly whilst adding additional services to help both internal and external customers - all whilst ensuring morale...
AECOM insider: IBM is doing a great job
AECOM-IBM outsourcing deal 'working well' and the 'IBM support team makes the work go smoothly'
AECOM/IBM outsourcing deal has soured further, claims insider
Inside source claims that AECOM's IT is struggling as a result of January 2017 IBM outsourcing deal
AECOM CEO Mike Burke was 'asked to leave', alleges insider, over leadership questions following IBM IT outsourcing
Burke has been trying to push through the sale of the engineering firm before company AGM this month, say sources
Fixing 'collapsing IT infrastructure' at Kew Gardens
Ian McKetty walked into a tricky situation when he became CIO at Kew Gardens, with an under-invested IT estate, unskilled teams and a huge disconnect with the business. Here's how he turned it around
Dawn of a new leader - the flying CIO
Why do some technology leaders spend their entire careers in permanent roles, while others hop between temporary or consultancy posts, or even launch their own business? Computing speaks to CIOs on both side of the fence to hear the pros and cons
Data Ops: What it is, and why you should care
Data Ops brings together principles of Agile, DevOps and Lean Manufacturing, but it isn't right for every situation, argues James Lupton, CTO of Cynozure
Conservatives win election: Tech industry reacts
Boris Johnson's party wins by a landslide, but what does the UK's IT industry make of the result?
Top three security tips for 2020 from the experts
'Secure inbound email' advise the experts. Computing speaks to luminaries from end user and vendor organisations, and learns that it's not about 'patch management'
Security has a communication problem, and DevOps is the answer, says Chef
Jeff Mery, VP global solutions architects at Chef tells delegates at Computing's Cyber Security Live conference that treating everything as code helps traditional translation challenges between developers, infrastructure teams and security
Your organisation will be hacked, how will you respond, asks IBM
Speaking at Computing's Cyber Security Live conference, Mike Spradbery, senior technical leader, IBM Security UK & Ireland, explains what organisations need to think of when building their incident response plans.
The UK IT Awards 2019 - all the best photos of the big night
The UK IT Awards 2019 was a raging success, as this gallery from the big night shows!
Why data isn't the new oil
Jason Foster, CEO and founder of data and analytics strategy consultancy Cynozure, explains that we need a new analogy for data, without some of the negative connotations of oil
Kew Gardens in the market for new business intelligence system
Kew Gardens CIO Ian McKetty tells Computing that all the 'front of house' systems are being replaced: EPOS, CRM and BI
Kew Gardens plans to digitise and release Darwin's data
Ian McKetty, Kew Gardens CIO, tells Computing of plans to create an integrated collections management system to make hundreds of years of scientific research and knowledge accessible to the world
What is an API?
In this video from Delta, Computing's market intelligence service for CIOs, we discuss APIs, including how the most innovative enterprises are using them
The Women in Tech Festival - all the best photos from the day
See all the fun activities, sessions, workshops and events from the Women in Tech Festival - with over 600 people having a blast!
You're already using multi-cloud, whether you know it or not
A panel of IT professionals discuss their multi-cloud strategies, and explain that every business is already across multiple clouds, whether it realises it or not
Secondary data is draining your budget and putting you at risk of fines, says iomart
John Burrowes MBCS, business strategy consultant, iomart, warned the audience at Computing's Cloud & Infrastructure Live conference that they must get on top of their data
Using cloud? Watch out for the regulators, warns Pinsent Masons
Simon Colvin, global head of technology, Media & Telecommunications, at law firm Pinsent Masons explains what cloud providers and customers need to watch out for as regulators step up their stringency
The Women in Tech Festival sets a theme for the future
Computing's inaugural festival was a roaring success. Computing' editorial director Stuart Sumner discusses why it's the future for technology events
DevOps tools rife with hidden costs
Research from market intelligence service Delta shows end users extremely concerned by levels of hidden costs across a wide variety of DevOps tools
Don't let your data scientists get bogged down in 'tedious work' - automate!
Craig Parfitt, VP of global insight services, Calligo, argues that data scientists should be deriving insights from data, not building models
NHS CIO discusses revamped security two years on from Wannacry
Will Smart discusses the refreshed NHS cyber strategy which will apply across the organisation, as ransomware refuses to disappear
NHS creating its own 'G-Cloud' for digital services
NHS CIO Will Smart tells Computing that the organisation is in the midst of creating NHS-wide procurement frameworks for IT services