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US hospitals under 'imminent threat' of ransomware attack, say CISA and the FBI
'Brazen, heartless and disruptive threat actors' deliberately targeting health facilities during the pandemic
Oracle announces new dual-region UK Government Cloud operating from data centres in London and Wales
Data centres in England and Wales are linked by a high speed backbone
Tibco's Information Builders acquisition 'most significant one and the largest in our recent history' says CEO Dan Streetman
The coming together of two long-established enterprise data management firms will bring broad new capabilities to bear on Tibco's core areas of focus.
OpenStack Foundation rebrands as open source software becomes ubiquitous
'Open source was seen as a way to deliver a cheap knock-off of a word processor and now it's recognised as the best way to innovate and deliver the best ideas to the market'
Where cloud dreams come unstuck - the common pitfalls experienced during cloud moves, and how to avoid them
HPE technologists on the cost and operational issues surrounding hybrid cloud and bimodal IT
British Airways hit with £20m fine for data breach
Fine reduced from initial figure of £183 million because of the pandemic, ICO says
Lessons learned rolling out cloud-based ERP at Southampton City Council
Members of the IT team share their experiences
CIO choices: 2. Can open source reduce lock-in?
Open source software and open APIs have increased the range of options available to IT leaders, but has the problem moved elsewhere?
Revving up the 5G rollout at Three UK
Three's 5G rollout means expanding capacity on many fronts at the same time, explains network strategy and architecture manager Firoz Vohra
IBM to split in two
Infrastructure services unit to be spun off as a separate company
Service outages reported at Three
Outages started at 9.12 Wednesday
CIO choices: the open source option. 1. Supporting the team
Community is the big differentiator between proprietary and open source software
Going cloud native at the FT. An interview with tech director Sarah Wells
'Don't try to do everything at once. Start with infrastructure as code and automation. Don't go for microservices and containers too early...'
Cloudflare takes the serverless cloud fight to AWS, Google and Azure with two new features
Strongly consistent storage of state and scheduled jobs added to the Workers platform
Tibco moves to future-proof its customers, and itself
'Customers complained to me that we were a little bit too blackbox', says COO Matt Quinn
CloudBees gets busy with security, visibility and control as DevOps evolves
CEO Sacha Labourey: 'DevOps is a pretty good proxy for what needs to happen in any organisation'
Bosch Power Tools' metamorphosis into a data company with Kafka
'The overarching goal is to connect all the devices so we can have an overview from birth to trash'
User acceptance: the biggest I&AM hurdle
The holy grail of I&AM is to actually improve the user experience while making the business more secure, but most organisations are a long way from that
Open source at the edge. An interview with SUSE CTO Thomas Di Giacomo
Di Giacomo talks about the IoT, Kubernetes, Linux and the importance of continuing to support legacy tech while venturing towards new horizons
Public cloud: strengths and weaknesses of the three biggest beasts
With the increase in remote working, business can't get enough of the cloud. We share users' opinions of AWS, Azure and GCP
Microsoft releases Windows updates to fix Meltdown/Spectre security flaws in Intel CPUs
Updates are KB4558130 for Windows 10 version 2004 and Windows Server version 2004, and KB4497165 for Windows 10 version 1903 and 1909
Newcastle University suffers suspected ransomware attack
Northumbria University is also 'experiencing an ongoing IT issue as a result of a cyber incident'
US mulls ban on SMIC, China's largest chipmaker
Placing SMIC on the Entity List would require US suppliers to obtain a licence before trading with the company
Scotland announces five new hubs to nurture tech startups
The hubs will support at least 300 startups with infrastructure, mentoring and training by 2025
UK drops down broadband speed league tables
From 34th to 47th in the world
'You can't copy culture' and other lessons learned introducing Agile at Booking.com Transport
There's no blueprint for success but approaches certainly can be replicated, says CTO Gavin Barton
Travel firm letsgo2: why we've decided to abandon our office for good
With homeworking forced upon it, letsgo2 realised it was paying for facilities it really didn't need
Fairphone offers new twist on its FP3 smartphone with improved camera and audio modules and upgraded OS
Fairphone 3 Plus designed to increase the longevity of the ethical modular smartphone
Zoom down in UK and US
Users unable to log into meetings due to outages, which coincide with many students' return to education
Monzo: we learned a lot from self-hosting Kubernetes, but we wouldn't do it again
Don't need to do it the hard way anymore
Gmail, Drive, Meet and other Google services hit by 'service disruption'
Users around the world report problems with Google's cloud services
US and EU like 'two trains colliding' on privacy says activist Schrems
Schrems 'pretty much done with waiting' for a resolution to the Facebook privacy case after seven years and five court cases
Behind the scenes at the BBC's groundbreaking Own It app
App designed to safeguard children online was the result of two years' toil at AI's cutting edge, says product manager Jon Howard
Microsoft tests hydrogen fuel cells for data centre power
Aims to replace diesel generators for long-term backup power
Biden campaign tells staff to delete TikTok
Chinese app seen as a potential security risk
UK firm reaches final stages of the NIST quest for quantum-proof encryption algorithms
Post Quantum's Classic McEliece algorithm is the only remaining contender in the code-based category of algorithms designed to protect communications from attacks using quantum computers
Garmin reportedly hit by ransomware
Fitness sites down, WastedLocker ransomware suspected
Microsoft announces new features for Teams
New features designed to streamline workflow and automate process in its Teams
Apache Cassandra 4.0 promises increased stability, speed and ease of use
Future changes will be focused on lowering the learning curve, say DataStax executives
18 months later: post-pandemic planning in the public and private sectors
From more working from home to office closures and new technologies, coronavirus has changed everything, but IT leaders are confident they'll get through
Removing Huawei would cost billions and customers could experience blackouts, BT and Vodafone tell MPs
Telecoms giants urge caution, while Samsung says it's ready to take Huawei's place in the UK's 5G networks
Interview: CNCF head Priyanka Sharma - 'The arc of innovation is long and it bends towards true open source'
Cloud Native Computing Foundation's new general manager on developer trends, collaboration and disappointment over Google's surprise decision not to donate its Istio project
SUSE to acquire Kubernetes firm Rancher Labs
Acquisition will support SUSE's ambitions in application management
Observability and applied intelligence are the key to better software, says New Relic
CTO Gregory Ouillon on speeding up incident detection and resolution
Privacy-focused search engine Startpage gives more details of the System1 investment
'System1 is interested in Startpage’s ad revenue, not its data', company says