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Taking advantage of the crisis: let's talk about modernising IT
Now we’ve all seen the cloud advantage, it’s time to deal with that legacy tech says Dave Chapman of Cloudreach
Brave browser brings the decentralised web one step closer through IPFS integration
Brave users can access content on IPFS via ipfs:// URLs
New SolarWinds hack victims emerging every day, as Malwarebytes goes public on breach
No quick fix to massive hack say security experts as a fourth malware strain is discovered
NCSC launches CyberFirst Girls Competition - aims to boost female representation in cyber security
Women make up just eight per cent of the cyber workforce in the UK
Women in IT: don't get stuck in 'glue work' if you want to get on
Every organisation needs its helpers but their efforts often go unrecognised, says ENSEK’s Sarah Smith
BA faces possible £800m data breach claim
Claim would be the largest group action personal data claim in UK history
High Court rules against bulk hacking by police and intelligence agencies
Privacy International celebrates High Court win
The known unknowns of post-Brexit data transfers
With many aspects of the trade deal still to be ratified, organisations that transfer data to and from the EU need to start preparing now
EKS-Distro moves AWS into hybrid cloud. What will that mean for the market?
ISVs and service providers welcome the release of Amazon's open source Kubernetes distro, although some foresee more lock-in
DevSecOps: the art of bringing security into the fold
QA and testers need to be first-class members of the team
Slack goes down as millions return to work
Login and messaging problems on the collaboration site began at 3.14 pm
The year's biggest cyber security stories
Bears, scares and ransomware
'Cloud is at an inflection point': Kubernetes specialist Appvia on being selected by Bank of England to lead its cloud transformation
Appvia was selected to lead the transformation project from a long list of 46 suppliers
Women in tech: becoming a role model
Stemettes co-founder Anne-Marie Imafidon speaks to three young women making their way in tech and engineering and helping others to follow in their footsteps
What users think of web conferencing leaders Teams, Zoom, Hangouts and Webex
Latest Computing Delta research finds the leaders pulling away from the competition
The risks and rewards of evergreen IT
Evergreen IT will become the default model for new technologies, predicts RSA CIO David Germain, but securing evergreen systems requires an holistic approach
Get tough on Google now, 165 competitors urge the EU
Tech firms and industry bodies say planned antitrust legislation may arrive too late
Berners-Lee's Inrupt releases first commercial offering, the privacy-preserving Enterprise Solid Server
ESS offers a route to 'inclusive capitalism', says CEO John Bruce
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