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Five tales of IT leadership in the time of Covid
IT leadership has been crucial to steering a course through the pandemic, and so has the presence of strong networks and trusted communities
'What makes me laugh? "You're on mute!"' - 15 Questions with Met Office CIO Charles Ewen
Charles Ewen on his first ever job, why he decided on a career in technology and what advice he'd give his teenage self
Met Office CIO Charles Ewen: "If I've learned one thing, it's to be very cautious about predicting the future"
Ewen leads IT at the Met Office, and ironically acknowledges that there will always be a number of elements we can neither control or predict
Deskflix Season 5: Public Sector
Join us on Tuesday 14th July to discuss cybersecurity, staff retention, managing IT budgets and more in the public sector
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
UK invests £1.2bn in supercomputer to predict climate change impacts and severe weather
Government claims supercomputer will reap multi-billion pound economic benefits by offering better climate and weather forecasting
CIO Interview: Charles Ewen, CIO, Met Office
Ewen discusses supercomputers, and how the Met Office is trying to become "better, faster and cheaper"
DVLA pilots Alexa to enable customers to check MOT and vehicle tax status
Find out when your car's tax and MOT is due without even getting up from the sofa
How the Met Office uses artificial intelligence to predict the weather
The Met Office is one of the UK's biggest users of supercomputing - all geared towards forecasting weather in the UK and around the world
Stop wasting money on digital transformation, start building the team to make it happen
If you want to digitally transform your organisation, build a team that can do it, says Dr Alberto Arribas, Science Fellow at the Met Office's Informatics Lab
All change: Acting CISO Tim Moorey reveals how the Met Office is remodelling its security
How new, big-data-led business models at the Met Office are driving a top-to-bottom change in IT security
Met Office establishes dedicated Security Operations Centre as it changes approach to IT security
Digitalisation of business processes requires an increased focus on IT security, says Met Office acting CISO Tim Moorey
Virgin Media wins Met Office networking contract
Met Office's £97m supercomputer needs a very high-speed network connection
Met Office goes for CA API Management to deliver new web and mobile data services
Big data and big business increasingly go hand-in-hand for the Met Office
Met Office CIO Charles Ewen: better forecasts with extremely big data and seriously super computers
Few organisations have a bigger data challenge than the Met Office, but as Charles Ewen explains, the organisation has never been better equipped to tackle it than it is now
Met Office deploys NoSQL intelligent-learning security system to monitor network traffic
Self-learning systems and a dedicated team of engineers help keep the Met Office secure
The Met Office: Data science in an organisation full of scientists
Data scientists better for finding answers to business questions, rather than scientific ones, suggests Met Office CIO Charles Ewen
Cleaning up! How Northumbrian Water deployed big data to identify potential flood risks
Northumbrian Water's Adrian Holmes-Morris lifts the lid on Project SNIPeR, a big data project designed to identify potential floods before they happen
'You can't assume you're not already compromised,' warns Met Office CISO
'You can never be one hundred per cent certain that you're protected,' Jonathan Kidd tells Computing
Mainframe '60 per cent cheaper' than cloud, claims IBM
Migrating mixed environment from x86 servers or public cloud between one-third and two-third cheaper on zSeries, according to IBM
Met Office forecasts £2bn benefits from new £97m Cray supercomputer
Machine will be capable of more than 16,000 trillion calculations per second
Met Office selects 2ndQuadrant to help with data migration to open source
UK weather service wants to shift away from proprietary database solutions that require a licence fee
Met Office mines big data to predict solar storms
The Met Office is crunching data to predict the risks astronomical weather poses to the UK. Portfolio Technical Lead James Tomkins tells Danny Palmer how MongoDB is key to forecasting
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