Interview
Changing Beds: How one IT leader left London for the country life
Ed Garcez, Director of Transformation of Central Bedfordshire Council discusses how both the capital and rural communities have responded to the pandemic
Worcester source: How a rural council keeps things connected in a crisis
Chris Middleton hears how Worcestershire County Council’s Geoff Hedges isn’t hedging his IT bets during lockdown in rural England
Harrow in the furnace: How one London IT leader delivered change in lockdown
Chris Middleton speaks to Ben Goward, ICT Director of Harrow Council, about the challenges of supporting a big organisation in lockdown – from a standing start
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...
Interview: Nimisha Patel, CIO of the Year
“I always wanted to be a CIO, but there were times I thought I would never make it,” says CIO of the Year Nimisha Patel
When hunting for a new IT solution, understand the problem first
Ian Hill of BAM Group warns against being distracted by bells and whistles
Insurance IT has moved on from 'building software': an interview with RSA's Group CIO David Germain
Computing talks to insurer RSA's Group CIO David Germain about running IT that can support nine million customers across 140 countries - while respecting increasingly challenging regulatory compliance, including data protection
Diversity in tech starts in schools: an interview with Cypher Coder's Elizabeth Tweedale
Computing talks to Cypher Coders CEO Elizabeth Tweedale about founding new tech businesses and diversity in the IT industry
GitLab's Jason Yavorska on trends in the DevOps tools market
GitLab's product management director on progressive delivery, feature flags and evidence gathering
Digital transformation at 150-year old insurer: CIO Interview with James Holmes
James Holmes, CIO of North P&I Club, discussing his organisation's digital transformation and use of machine learning to improve critical business processes
Trainline's machine learning could save travellers £340 million this year
The SplitSave feature uses machine learning, with Trainline's massive data repositories, to efficiently calculate the best way to save customers money
Are you gambling on cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity is a high stakes game and people aren't aware of the risks, says professional poker player and statistician Liv Boeree
Focus on 'customer experience' - or lose customers
Former NHBC and City University CIO Carl Stokes tells Computing why customer experience should be a priority - and how organisations ought to do it
Crown Prosecution Service declares 'war on disks' is almost over
The CPS has transformed the way it handles multimedia, to raise security and lower costs
Sonos sues Google claiming theft of smart speaker intellectual property
Sonos claims Google exploited the company's openness in 2013 collaboration to better integrate Google Play Music with Sonos's wireless speakers
Privacy International demands Amazon, Google and other cloud companies reveal use of 'cloud extraction' technology
Privacy pressure group calls for 17 cloud giants to 'protect customer data from legal backdoors'
Carnival Corp's edge computing could change the face of the travel industry
Can intelligence-led service introduce cruise travel to a younger generation?
Tackling the STEM 'bro-culture': why women need to build networks of their own
"Society discourages women from entering STEM fields," says entrepreneur Christine Telyan
Sporting Group CTO on selecting Sumo Logic over Splunk, and Google over AWS
Peter Wallis explains how the company moved from Splunk to Sumo Logic because of pricing, and how Kubernetes made Google the clear cloud choice
Machine learning meets diversity at Booking.com, an interview with chairwoman Gillian Tans
'We don't have a very diverse set of people working in AI and I think that's worrying and needs to be addressed'
How the Midcounties Co-op standardised its IT while maintaining diversity
The business used multiple suppliers and a spread of third-party support agreements, some of which had expired
Putting bugs in the system: the Natural History Museum is digitising 30 million insects
The Digital Collections Programme is a hive of activity
