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Siemens' digitalisation hub will be home to 60 specialists who will develop internet of things applications in areas including advanced manufacturing and healthcare

Norway’s railway regulator is following the government’s advice and moving IT into the cloud

A global cyber attack could have a similar economic impact as a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, according to the world’s oldest insurance market

Funding package aimed at speeding up use of and access to technology and innovation in the National Health Service

Infor has puts its Qatar plans on hold amid GCC political crisis

Dutch IT companies and startups are seeking out new markets and opportunities in Germany

The first customers have gone live on CityFibre’s South Yorkshire network, covering businesses in Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield

IBM says its new mainframe ushers in a new era of data protection in response to a call to action from chief information security officers and security experts worldwide

The Post Office will this week present its defence against allegations brought by subpostmasters in a group legal action

The TrueNAS X10 entry-level hybrid array from iXsystems provides a low-cost alternative to legacy arrays. The unified array scales to 360 TB in 6U for $55,000.

The free flow of data after Brexit is essential for UK trade and security, a Lords’ inquiry has found, urging the government to ensure transitional measures are in place

Businesses in Singapore are fine-tuning their digital transformation efforts, with a third of them moving public cloud workloads to on-premise systems

UK business leaders are overly optimistic and less aware of digital risks than their European counterparts, a study has revealed

More than a quarter of organisations around the world were hit by a malvertising campaign in June 2017, according to security firm Check Point

Most datacentre operators see the benefits of efficiency metrics, but somehow fail to include them in their key performance indicators

Spending on traditional IT services contracts by Emea organisations increases in the first six months of 2017

Ericsson has begun its partnership with Chelsea to offer home fans a “seamless” connected experience

Industrial control systems across several UK sectors have been targeted in recent activity by known state-sponsored attackers, according to a leaked report by the UK National Cyber Security Authority

At a GLA Oversight Committee hearing, TfL’s CTO revealed the organisation is building a pilot version of the Emergency Services Network on the London Underground

Hyper-converged pioneer Scale Computing targets 1/2PB 5150D at remote sites and big on-site deployments, while 1150F allows customers an all-flash tier to add to existing clusters

Datrium will expand its DVX system beyond VMware environments to offer storage options for Red Hat Virtualization, KVM on CentOS Linux and Docker containers on bare-metal servers.

EU members commit to a new declaration to establish a common baseline for 5G standards and help make Europe a global leader on future mobile networks

Google's cloud options look to lure more enterprises with a physical device that simplifies data transfer in-house to the Google Cloud Platform.

Dow Jones becomes the latest organization to be affected by an AWS cloud data leakage due to misconfiguration and user error.

The two tech giants will drive the use of the Azure cloud computing service to power autonomous vehicle projects outside China

Dubai’s health authority takes aim at government bodies with a mobile consultation booth initiative

Former Democrat and Republican campaign managers are joining forces with security experts to defend US elections from cyber attack

The London Stock Exchange is testing out IBM's blockchain technology in a platform to help SME operations become more transparent

Mayor Sadiq Khan says London will remain a top ‘outward-looking’ tech location regardless of the European Union referendum result

Small business owners in Bristol will now be able to take advantage of ultrafast broadband connectivity using the local council’s fibre backhaul network

New SAP UK & Ireland User Group chairman Paul Cooper’s tenure will run to the end of Brexit. This and continued digitisation will shape his term in office

Supplier adds SaaS elements to hybrid cloud service and aims to recruit 1,000 staff in Emea to accelerate cloud business

Attitudes to cyber security have changed in the boardroom and among staff in the wake of the recent WannaCry attack, two surveys have revealed

Tearfund saves £950,000 by deploying Hypergrid hyper-converged in place of HP servers and SAN, cutting costs on space, power, staff and hardware, and avoiding VMware

Watchdog says no Whitehall IT programmes received its highest 'red' rating this year - but others still need attention

Cognitive is one of the cornerstones of IBM’s ‘strategic imperatives’, yet building out a portfolio of products and services will take time, IBM’s CFO admits

Leak of child adoption information by Newcastle City Council resulted from accidental email attachment by employee

Scale Computing adds all-flash HC1150DF and high-end HC5150D hybrid arrays to HC3 family. The hyper-converged specialist adds deduplication in HyperCore upgrade.

Symantec has agreed to a plan that would transfer its certificate issuance and validation operations to as-yet-unnamed third-party partner starting Dec. 1.

Huawei, Keppel Data Centres and the Singapore government will assess the feasibility of building high-rise facilities amid growing demand for datacentre capacity in the region

Big Blue is making good on its pledge to triple the size of its UK cloud datacentre capacity by opening two sites in London

A Russian man believed to be one of the developers of the Citadel malware used to steal millions by infecting around 11 million computers around the world

Internal review highlighted areas where NHS Digital must improve to support plans for digital healthcare services

TSB customers will soon be able to access their mobile bank accounts through iris scanning, which is regarded as the most secure biometric authentication available

As the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation compliance deadline approaches, retail data breaches remain unacceptably high, a data threat report reveals

SAP’s second-quarter revenue of €5.78bn included €932m for cloud subscription and support – 16% of the total – while new S/4 Hana customers included Centrica and Google

The discovery of a security flaw in an open source third-party code library that could allow attackers to access and hijack devices underlines the need for a greater focus IoT security, say experts

The third annual Security Serious Week in October 2017 will feature an entirely virtual conference, accessible to anyone who is online

The House of Lords Select Committee on artificial intelligence has issued a call for evidence as it looks into the ethical, social and economic impact of the technology

Experts from across UK technology sector will help government implement digital economy policies

Extreme Networks plans to embed Avaya fabric technology in switches and management software to enable centralized control of large wired and wireless campus networks.

As the Symantec certificate authority scrambles to transition its certificate-issuance operations to a subordinate certificate authority, the CA industry sharpens its knives.

MEF has made the move to establish consistent SD-WAN standards for its service provider members through a set of open APIs and a lifecycle service orchestration framework.

Halifax is working with young vloggers to educate children on money management

The CTO at a company that is disrupting the car rental sector tells Computer Weekly about some of his major projects

IT decision makers in the public sector say they struggle with IT operations, reveals study by the Ponemon Institute

Microsoft's hybrid approach to cloud computing is starting to pay dividends, as the company's Q4 2017 financial results show

Security threats and attacks against the network are set to become far more destructive, according to Cisco’s mid-year security report

The Locheilnet community wireless broadband scheme has been awarded funding to upgrade its core infrastructure and target new customers

Spanish bank now provides its account managers with a mobile terminal, enabling them to access core account management systems from anywhere

UC budgets are expected to rise in 2018 as organizations look to update aging voice infrastructure, promote user adoption and extend UC into contact centers.

News roundup: The Defending Digital Democracy project brings together security experts to tackle election security. Plus, government shake-ups could hit cybersecurity, and more.

Cooperation between law enforcement from around the world led to the shutdown of the AlphaBay and Hansa dark web markets and potential leads of illegal vendors.

This week, bloggers explore SaaS SIEM, applications as drivers of hybrid cloud, and the benefits and drawbacks of integrated systems.