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IT professionals in Australia and New Zealand are earning more compared with last year, a TechTarget survey has found, but more needs to be done to address the gender gap

Swedish land registry’s CIO tells Computer Weekly about the organisation’s approach to digital transformation

Smoke & Mirrors replaces Quantum tape library with 7PB of Spectra Logic tape and decides the cloud lacks security and would be too costly for the 16TB it archives every day

The Royal College of Surgeons has started a cloud-centric transformation programme to ensure the organisation is fit for the working challenges of the 21st century

Participants in the three-week trial of mobile edge computing technology took part in a virtual treasure hunt around the city centre

HBO appears to be standing firm and refusing to negotiate with hackers as more stolen television content is released

Consumers are becoming increasingly digital in the way they shop, and a survey shows nearly 60% think they are more digitally innovative than some retailers

Cloud provider’s Active Platform will help football club secure player and fan data as GDPR deadline approaches

Support contract comes three months after NHS hit by global ransomware attack that targeted Windows computers

Data breach statistics show retailers need to address customer data security ahead of the GDPR compliance deadline, a law firm has warned

Nimbus Data claims ExaDrive can replace traditional disk in data centers. The 3.5-inch SSDs package flash and intelligent software, including data features in multiple ASICs.

Middle East finance firm is increasingly moving to the cloud as the business grows

Organisations should map IT assets to business strategy and adopt a proactive cyber security programme, says Centurylink’s chief security officer Dave Mahon

Briton, 23, pleads not guilty to charges of writing and distributing malware

US streaming firm Hulu is opting out of investing in its own datacentres by moving more of its workloads to the AWS public cloud

In 2010, social, cloud, analytics and mobile were tipped as megatrends – now Gartner sees artificial intelligence as the emerging tech trend with the biggest potential

Leaked exploits became the game changer of the cyber threat landscape in the second quarter of 2017, say security researchers

After a successful appeal against conditions laid down by Ofcom, Openreach has withdrawn plans to launch a wholesale dark fibre product

Researchers claim malicious actors could commit mobile data theft by using shared third-party libraries and abusing elevated privileges that the permissions granted.

Four key exploits at the heart of hacking tools leaked by the Shadow Brokers have given malware authors a lot of power, say security researchers

Organisations in the Middle East are not offering IT staff enough training and don’t employ enough women in IT

Hosted by Canberra Data Centres, Microsoft’s additional Azure datacentre regions will provide the necessary security controls for handling government data in Australia

Royal Bank of Scotland aims to reduce London-based IT workforce by 40%

The Scottish parliament has been hit by a cyber attack similar to the one that struck Westminster in June

Digital service that connects car mechanics and garages to customers sees GitHub as a core part of its coding lifecycle

Car makers Fiat and BMW are working in collaboration with Intel and Mobileye to develop a scalable platform for self-driving vehicles

Interoute deployed Cloudian Hyperstore because it believes customers want object storage to help gain compliance with the forthcoming European GDPR regulations

Awareness of the impact of cyber attacks on business and regulation are expected to be the top drivers of continued and increased spending on cyber security, according to research firm Gartner

Payday loan company’s CTO is continuing the evolution of its technology platform and helping IT to create business value

Most Nordic IT professionals are happy at their current employer, receiving competitive training and pay packages

Research by KPMG finds many female students have never considered applying for a graduate tech role, and male students are more confident in their tech skills

Many UK workers are interested in cyber security and would consider a career in the field, a survey has revealed, which could help close the skills gap

Danish shipping line Maersk estimates that the NotPetya cyber attack in June cost the company up to $300m

With 10 years passing since Northern Rock had to be bailed out by the government, we look at how banking IT has changed since the financial crisis

Docker Enterprise Edition fired back at Kubernetes with new support for mixed clusters and applications, as well as advanced security features that target large enterprises.

Many Barclays services will be unavailable this weekend as part of the bank's project to separate retail and investment operations

Microsoft hits cloud acquisition trail to make high-performance computing accessible to a wider pool of enterprises

The growing demand for developers with security skills is outpacing supply, but a survey reveals that a lack of formal security education and training by employers is contributing to the growing skills gap

Norway will soon have the biggest datacenter in the world which will harness the countries rich natural resources

Cisco is betting big on intelligent, automated networking, but its revenues are dropping as it makes the strategic shift

LG Electronics have been hit by ransomware that uses malicious code that could signal another WannaCry attack

Social media giant to build new datacentre in New Albany, Ohio, to future-proof its infrastructure in the face of growing user demand

Businesses need to rethink cyber defences with nation-state attack tools in the hands of ordinary cyber criminals, warns Check Point

YouGov survey commissioned by Cobham Wireless finds UK commuters are increasingly frustrated with connectivity standards on the rail network

As enterprises continue to digitise their operations over the next few years, their demand for data and bandwidth capacity will massively increase, says Equinix

This year’s A-level results show more male students gaining higher grades than female students, but girls continue to steam ahead in ICT

Some Microsoft customers must quickly re-evaluate their UC strategy after the vendor announced its intent to end third-party PBX support for Exchange Online Unified Messaging in 2018.

Openreach has added 26 more locations to its fibre-based G.fast broadband network, bringing the total number of properties served to half a million

Cyber security apprenticeships are a good alternative to ‘clearing’ and debts, according to security certification body, Crest

ManageEngine launches OpManager Plus, a new deep packet inspection tool; Nyansa broadens analytics for Voyance; and Aerohive premieres a new combined switch-access point.

Tintri Enterprise Cloud enhances VMstore snapshots to cloud and expands predictive analytics for compute and storage. Cloud Connector treats the cloud as a tertiary repository.

IOS 11 will allow users to avoid authorities attempting to force smartphone access by temporarily disabling biometric unlocking of mobile devices.

Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk said the NotPetya ransomware attacks severely damaged business processes and the impact has been estimated at as much as $300 million in lost revenue.

Women IT leaders who have proved their mettle in the city-state say they have been given the same opportunities as their male counterparts

The amount of contactless payments made through mobile devices increased by 336% compared with 2016, according to figures from Worldpay

Security researchers have discovered a supplier-neutral and stealthy smart car hack that can drastically affect the performance and function of the vehicle

Optical character recognition and automated generation of image metadata is now possible, thanks to Google Cloud AI

Organisations in the Benelux region could face IT staff leaving in large numbers if they don't remain attractive to employees

Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination

Bloggers examine WatchGuard firewall appliances, explore transparency as a vendor virtue and assess the role of 5G in future SD-WAN deployments.

Top-line Cisco revenues fell in the July quarter, as the company's legacy switching business continued to weaken. Cisco could soon reach two straight years of revenue declines.

News roundup: Hackers leveraged eight hijacked Chrome extensions to attack 4.8 million browser users. Plus, Cloudflare stopped protecting a neo-Nazi website from DDoS attacks, and more.

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency wants to isolate, study, customize and re-engineer malware from adversaries to be used as its own offensive cyberweapons.

The UK’s top firms and charities urgently need to do more to protect themselves from online threats, according to a government-backed audit