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Projects involving cloud storage and back-up will feature strongly for CIOs based in Australia and New Zealand this year

Public sector-focused cloud provider claims latest round of price cuts means its services are cheaper to use than some of its US counterparts

Google spin off Waymo announces trials of new self-driving vehicles, with all technologies involved developed in-house to cut costs and improve performance

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s former informatics director goes to jail for accepting £80,000 worth of bribes from a supplier in return for an IT contract

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against D-Link, and experts said the move was likely to push more secure routers in the wake of the Mirai botnet attacks.

Residents, workers and visitors to the City of London will be able to log onto an ultrafast Wi-Fi network across the Square Mile later on in 2017

Truffle Hog utility roots out and detects text blobs with enough entropy to be secret keys -- even those buried deep in old Git repositories -- to prevent exploits.

451 Research predicts the hype surrounding containers will give way to fast and furious enterprise adoption over the next three years

There are continual cyber attacks on banks, and although most are repelled, there is significant room for improvement

Civil rights group Liberty is appealing for donations to raise £10,000 by 8 February 2017 to challenge the lawfulness of bulk surveillance powers in the new Investigatory Powers Act

Carrenza guarantees specified I/O to customers on all-flash arrays from NetApp Solidfire in a move that allows it to offer storage performance as a product

Prime minister Theresa May promises to invest in a digital mental health package, including online symptom checkers, digital therapy and apps

Virgin Mobile will offer its customers enhanced mobile networking services under the terms of an extended deal signed with EE

Yahoo has filed documents which indicate that if the Verizon deal goes ahead, the remainder of the company will become an investment company called Altaba

The latest flood forecasting system that covers England will use cloud computing, data analytics and data visualisation technologies

The Nordic region is a hotspot for IT startups and Sweden is a country punching above its weight in financial technology

A report commissioned by the government claims the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union should have minimal impact on the country’s ability to lead on the development of 5G networks

Synergy Research's latest datacentre-focused market tracker highlights how the global colocation sector is becoming a three-horse race

Microsoft offers up a meager January 2017 Patch Tuesday release before bigger changes planned for Windows security update announcements, which are set to take effect in February.

Deloitte’s 16th TMT Predictions report highlights advances in mobile networking and device technology

"Think big, start small, act now" is the motto of the BMA’s CIO, as he leads the organsiation through a technology transformation strategy

Tunisian Islamist hacktivists have defaced websites in Australia, Russia, Italy and Pakistan with messages calling for a halt to the killing of civilians in Syria

GDPR, cloud computing and a lack of IT skills are some of the challenges that CIOs in Belgium will address this year

Ahead of its annual meeting in Davos, the World Economic Forum warns that artificial intelligence needs strong governance

The Family Building Society moves intranet to SharePoint in its first major cloud project

Professional services firm KPMG is urging UK firms to ensure they are prepared for proposed EU privacy rules for electronic communications set to become law by May 2018

The McKinsey Global Institute has revisited its path-breaking 2011 big data report, finding a new salience for machine learning, and most companies under-capitalising their data

Storage is moving to the cloud in the Asean region and a number of storage companies are jostling for position

Broadcaster BBC aims to redesign its digital iPlayer service by 2020 to better reflect the needs of the content rental and streaming environment

Poor authentication in MongoDB configurations has led to a sharp increase in ransom attacks, and experts say tens of thousands of databases could be at risk.

Singapore is the second most globalised economy in the world and its IT infrastructure is critical to this achievement

Security needs are persuading organisations in Asia Pacific to adopt managed IT, and hybrid services are crucial for digital transformation, according to a CenturyLink study

Los Angeles college was forced to pay ransomware attackers after being locked out of key computer systems and data

Consumer acceptance of software robots providing banking support is increasing and banks are investing heavily in the technology

PW Hall faced backup windows of 13 hours but reduced this to about 90 minutes a day spread across a number of incrementals with jobs copied to cloud backup

GE has acquired ServiceMax, with plans to bolster Predix predictive maintenance with services for industrial companies

Greenpeace claims the cloud and internet service provider community is improving on sustainability, but AWS could afford to do more

Car rental company Hertz chooses Orange Business Services to help support its 24/7 rental service with its Datavenue IoT service

Vulnerabilities in digital security certificates highlight the need for organisations to be able to exercise more control over those certificates

IBM adds an F to existing DS8884, DS8886 and DS8888 all-flash and hybrid arrays with addition of PCIe 3.0 disk connectivity, but stops short of NVMe capabilities

Computer Weekly meets the Alan Turing Institute team and finds out how using cloud-first thinking can help achieve its goal of becoming a global force to be reckoned with in data science research

Tech sector association techUK wants to help overcome public distrust in the internet of things

Customers and vendors are looking for resellers that are in a position to offer real expertise around digital transformation and have undergone the process themselves

Lloyds Bank’s digital banking problems still unresolved after a second day

Some organisations are likely to adopt a wait-and-see approach to IT investments in 2017, but others will use political uncertainty as a driver for business change

This week, a report shows a big lead in Cisco market share in multiple segments; Ericsson extends its Cisco partnership; and Extreme targets retailers with new products.

This week, bloggers look into network device configuration, the tools the next generation of network engineers will require and security scalability.

Amazon Web Services debuts its Re:Start programme, as it strives to do its bit to close the UK cloud skills gap

Experts are impressed with the simplicity of Google's Cloud KMS even if it doesn't separate itself from the key management service competition.

Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by technology to jobs, political stability and cyber security at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Civil liberties organisations express concern at US move to disseminate raw NSA communications surveillance to 16 other government agencies

A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the way WhatsApp implements encryption, raising concerns that it will be exploited by governments to spy on users

The expansion of the IBM DS8880 hardware line introduces all-flash models designed around the vendor's High-Performance Flash Enclosure Gen2 to support PCIe 3.0, but not yet NVMe.

News roundup: St. Jude Medical patches vulnerable medical IoT devices after a five-month controversy. Plus, the Email Privacy Act is reintroduced; Juniper warns of a firewall flaw; and more.

New Microsoft privacy tools will give users control over the data collected on the web and within Windows. Experts hope the tools will offer data privacy transparency.

451 Research predicts developing countries will be the source of increased colocation market revenue in the years to come, and fuel a fresh wave of takeovers