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Getting data to the sea floor is near impossible in the deep sea because there is no GPS and no quick way to communicate with the surface

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is calling on the tech community to provide feedback on its plans to help NHS commissioners make better-informed technology adoption decisions

Dutch financial services firm Aegon is outsourcing the management of its fintech supplier network

The relatively fresh player to the UK market is aiming to provide some of the value added services that it believes larger rivals are missing

Scott Dodds is a believer in the advantages that automation can bring customers after the firm adopted the technology itself

GitLab has added multi-cloud serverless computing capabilities to its CI/CD tool set through a partnership with TriggerMesh.

Before the final days of 2018 fade into history like so last-generation 4G, spend some time reviewing the news and trends that graced the networking industry this year.

Organisations across Southeast Asia have been doubling down on efforts to take the lead in digital transformation initiatives

Mobile spectrum in the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz bands will be put up for auction either late in 2019 or early in 2020

Oracle was late to the cloud, but CTO Larry Ellison is adamant that no one will swap out Oracle for Amazon

Ofcom’s annual Connected Nations report reveals that the number of people who cannot receive a 10Mbps broadband connection has halved

HSBC is upping its search for artificial intelligence expertise as it takes a data analytics service to its business customers

A report released through the government’s 5G Testbeds and Trials programme has recommended the UK rethink its mobile security strategy

Vodafone has conducted a test flight of the UK’s first drone delivery controlled over its 4G network

Printing reams of paper and travelling to meetings are among the areas targeted in the new, green ICT makeover

As data continued to grow in 2018, more and more businesses turned to a cloud disaster recovery strategy to take some of the burden off their data centers.

Hyperscale data centers are the early adopters of non-volatile memory express flash, as vendors lay out plans to further flash devices and NVMe fabrics in coming years.

The West of England Combined Authority is running a 5G Smart Tourism project at Bath’s world-famous Roman spa

IT ops pros should be on the lookout for enterprise-wide production container deployments, real-world AIOps usage and new approaches to CI/CD in 2019.

Artificial intelligence has become a dominant force in the cybersecurity industry, but McAfee CTO Steve Grobman said it's too easy to make AI models look more effective than they truly are.

Our top stories for 2018 are linked by one common and significant trend: The consumerization of healthcare continues to shake things up.

Expert advice on AI problems and rewards dominated our 10 most popular CIO tips on SearchCIO in 2018. Read our summary of the tips and follow the links to the detailed coverage.

While the number of countries with Huawei bans in place grows and more issue warnings, a German investigation found no evidence of spying to support the fear.

Datawatch plans to add analytics and data visualization tools to its Swarm data preparation platform, starting with integration capabilities in a Swarm 2.2 release.

Amid growing cyber threats, the Asia-Pacific cyber security landscape will not get any rosier in 2019 unless organisations start shoring up their cyber hygiene

From cyber security planning to smart city initiatives, here is a selection of articles about IT developments in the Benelux countries

The networking industry swung firmly behind full-fibre broadband in 2018, with encouraging signs that the gold-standard of broadband service delivery technology is at long last taking off in the UK

Industry concerned over growing skills shortage as Brexit looms

More offices plus extra hires have added depth to the security player's presence across EMEA

The National Crime Agency (NCA) confirms there is a live investigation into Lauri Love in the UK, as Love brings legal action against UK police for the return of seized computer equipment

For five years in a row, Capita has failed to meet the British Army's annual recruitment targets, with the online recruitment system taking four years longer than expected to go live

The firm has seen strong double digit growth in turnover for its latest fiscal year

The Competition and Markets Authority is to crack down on communications services providers who ‘penalise’ loyal customers over new ones

Data management player keen to bring the channel up to speed on both its technology and the benefits of joining its partner ecosystem

Microsoft's retirement of Azure Scheduler next year will mean more manual labor for users of the job scheduler. But the extra sweat will come with some benefits.

Cloud-based ERP or not? Based on the number of stories that appeared in our top 10 for 2018 list, CIOs seem to be asking the question.

Polycom and HP have partnered to release a Microsoft Teams room system. Meanwhile, Microsoft has announced it will bundle the licensing for conference room products into a single bill.

Cisco believes the future in switching and routing is in Luxtera silicon photonics. As a result, the networking giant plans to buy the company for $660 million in cash.

Australia continues to cement its position as a leader in mastering and deploying advanced information and communications technology across a large segment of its economy

By acquiring Tintri, DataDirect Networks seeks to expand beyond high-performance computing. Tintri Global Center 4.0 is the first joint release since the August merger.

Despite the price hike, Microsoft claims its Azure service remains competitively priced, with opportunities for additional savings

Direct losses related to a huge data breach at US hotel group could reach $600m

With the last days of December drawing near it's time to look back at the year that has passed before we do it all over again in 2019

Two Twitter bugs led to questions about the platform's user privacy and security, while the company said one of the bugs opened the door to possible state-sponsored attacks.

Did you hit the road in 2018 to learn about IT trends? We did. This photo roundup takes a look back at some of the notable moments from SearchCIO's tech event coverage.

Virtual care, AI and widespread adoption of the FHIR standard will be major trends in healthcare next year, according to Forrester.

Virtual Instruments product update adds support for NVMe over Fibre Channel workload modeling and improves testing capabilities in large-scale environments.

Tom Puorro left the Cisco collaboration group this week to become an executive vice president at Plantronics. He is the latest in a series of top executives to leave the unit in recent months.

An expanded strategic partnership will bring Carbonite data protection products to Iron Cloud customers. Both vendors are confident the move will prove mutually beneficial.

Limited details leave questions surrounding a possible NASA data breach that could have compromised Social Security numbers for current and former employees.

Quantum computing systems may not be powerful enough to break current encryption protocols, but McAfee CTO Steve Grobman says it will be tough to tell when that day arrives.

Government plans to go forward with a recommendation that the cap for tier 2 skilled working visas be removed

Google Cloud Platform's Access Approval feature lets customers use more of the data access controls they have in their on-premises infrastructure.

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cyber crime stories of 2018

A report from the World Economic Forum has found there is a significant gender gap in artificial intelligence, and global gender parity will take 108 years to achieve

Health chief says data must be used to radically improve the nation’s health by 2040, using equipment such as wearable technologies

Madrid-based startup Ontruck has developed a new machine learning-driven app that helps UK haulage firms to increase their efficiency by cutting both 'empty miles' and fuel costs

From public sector collaboration to innovating for social good, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech startup stories of 2018

If our list of the top 10 most popular HR software stories of 2018 says anything, it's that employee engagement and retention were top of mind for HR leaders this year.

There's a lot to back up these days. Data backup vendors in 2018 enhanced products to protect many different types of data and tackle some of the top security issues of the day.

Microsoft is delaying plans to eliminate the Mac version of the Skype Meetings App after customers complained the move would make it harder for external guests to join meetings.

What were CIOs focused on in 2018? Cutting-edge AI was top of mind. IT disruption and industry bombshells loomed large. Here are the top 10 CIO articles of the year.

The AT&T 5G network will be in seven more cities in the first half of 2019. The carrier is moving quickly with the rollout to take advantage of potential cost savings with 5G.

The government has announced plans for a Cyber Security Council to form a strategy for developing future cyber talent

The Kaseya-IT Glue acquisition, two years in the making, will not affect the IT documentation vendor's integrations with Kaseya's competitors, according to Kaseya CEO; other channel news from the week.

The reigning Premier League champion is using SAP Challenger Insights, a tablet application based on SAP Cloud Platform, to get insights into player performance and opponent tactics during games.

News roundup: Microsoft issues an emergency patch for an Internet Explorer bug exploited in the wild. Plus, authorities indict three individuals for 'stresser' services, and more.

The Department of Justice indicted two alleged members of the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group APT10, which hacked managed service providers to steal data from enterprises.

The 100 GbE switch market is shifting away from webscale data center operators, as Arista and Cisco benefit from large enterprises buying more of the faster ports to replace 40 GbE.