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The spatial digital twin brings together government data sources to provide insights for urban planners and residents to support decision-making and see into the future

AWS Cloud WAN, which creates a centralized dashboard to manage globally distributed on-premises and cloud-based networks, is available in preview mode.

Although the analytics vendor's platform already has automation capabilities, the integration with the RPA vendor will extend those capabilities to new use cases.

An attack on the country’s critical infrastructure and severe space weather events could bring the UK to a halt, says Lords report

Research suggests firms across the UK and Europe that were quick to pivot to the cloud in response to the pandemic are prioritising investments that will help them make more of their off-premise infrastructure

Upgrades in screening to reduce waiting times and remote monitoring are among the initiatives to benefit from the budget allocation

Marc Allera demands action on fairness in internet carriage as Amazon-hosted Premier League football drives new peak in traffic, 12% above previous high

Firm has cut the ribbon on a London HQ and is keen to increase partner numbers and revenues coming through the channel

Mandiant’s researchers share new intel on two distinct clusters of Russian APT activity, linked to the Nobelium SolarWinds attackers

Managed print player recruits industry veteran and looks to tap into growing interest in print services

Many types of business have improved their online interactions with consumers as a result of the pandemic, with consumers claiming supermarkets are among the most engaging

Financial services firms are increasing investment in open banking capabilities, with improvements to payment initiation and onboarding capabilities expected

Latest round-up ranking world’s most ‘network ready’ markets revealing how countries around the world are using information technologies to emerge from the Covid pandemic and become network ready.

The LogDNA CEO discusses challenges and the need for organizations to collect and analyze log data to enable operations, DevOps and security applications.

Home learning was more easily embraced by parents than teachers, with parents saying they had the tech in place for remote schooling

It’s been another busy week with personnel moves across the industry as firms look to bolster their management teams

Women in tech both globally and in the UK lack training opportunities, says Skillsoft, with many claiming this has been a barrier for them in their careers

The hacking crew accused of breaking into SolarWinds a year ago is back at it and is trying to get to their targets through attacks on the networks of cloud computing providers.

BitMart, which describes itself as the 'most trusted crypto trading platform,' confirmed it was the victim of an attack where $150 million in assets were stolen.

The startup offers a real-time analytics platform designed to enable agile decision-making. It plans to use its funding for product development and to expand its go-to-market efforts.

Public cloud spending by financial institutions in the region is rising even as they grapple with legacy IT challenges and cost concerns

Estonia to launch a Siri-like digital assistant that will automate the completion of government service requests

A new platform and data standard will be introduced as part of a government move to bring simplicity and transparency to contracting

Private 5G wireless network to support industrial connectivity at the production development centre and pilot hall at car giant’s headquarters plant in Wolfsburg

Better.com boss used a Zoom call to tell 900 people they no longer had a job

Datacentre power systems specialist has drawn up a framework that it hopes will help the industry standardise its reporting of sustainability metrics

Paul Pester teams up with fintech heavyweights to target multibillion-pound money-sharing market

Gigabit speeds now available across UK cableco’s entire network, offering average download speeds of 1.130GMbps supporting hyperfast services

Firm reduces losses and outlines the benefits of choosing to concentrate on the cyber security market

Possible supply chain cyber attack left more than 300 Spar supermarkets unable to process credit card payments

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has outlined its commitment to helping UK green-tech businesses bring to market innovations that could help fight climate change

MuleSoft plans to release tools to catalog and manage APIs across multi-cloud environments to reduce redundancy, apply governance policies and build compliance.

The pandemic helped many organisations get on top of their diversity and inclusion initiatives, say business leaders in tech and other sectors

New Shadow Cabinet includes three Labour spokespeople covering issues around digital, data, technology, science and innovation issues

Storage player continues to reach out to managed service providers through its Metallic offering and programmes.

Peer-to-peer lending pioneer Zopa to focus on its banking operation after the closure of its original business

Yellowfin 9.7, the vendor's latest platform update, includes Guided Natural Language Query, a tool that enables users to explore and analyze data without writing code.

After a year, the returns on Rise with SAP are mixed. For some, it's just the right package to spur a move to S/4HANA, while for others, the simplified cloud model is not needed.

Multiple problems including email management, collaboration restrictions and lack of technical expertise may have risked the lives of thousands of Afghans, according to whistleblower Raphael Marshall

Automation and going cloud-first have gained significant interest for enterprise software and data management investment in the UK, according to the annual TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT Priorities 2022 survey

In a seven-page letter to newly appointed Treasury minister Lucy Frazer, MPs highlight the legal flaws in HMRC's controversial loan charge policy and demand a new independent review

Cambridge Quantum, newly merged with Honeywell's Quantum Solutions division, has debuted the first as-a-service cryptographic key generator for quantum computing.

Automation and AIOps left their marks on the evolution of code development in 2021. Experts say these trends will likely continue into the new year.

In a legal complaint made public Tuesday, Google said that it "has been and continues to be directly injured" by the actions of the Glupteba botnet.

Rewind expands its SaaS protection with Backups for Microsoft 365. The new service is the first from Rewind in support of a major SaaS platform.

Following last week's attack, BadgerDAO sent the threat actor a message, offering to 'compensate' the individual for finding a vulnerability in the company's systems.

SentinelOne says vulnerabilities in the Eltima SDK, which connects USB devices on virtual workstations, can put enterprises at risk of privilege escalation attacks.

Pure Storage releases FlashArray//XL, its highest performance array that completes the puzzle for on-prem customer storage.

An AWS outage slowed or took offline popular websites and services for several hours. The outage reportedly disrupted parent company Amazon's package delivery service.

The tech giant unveiled 10 guidelines for organizations to consider when building AI models, and a dashboard that data scientists can use to ensure their models are ethical.

AWS’s third-generation Graviton processor and other offerings in edge computing, machine learning and digital twin technologies are of relevance to organisations in Southeast Asia

One year on from a major datacentre outage that affected the same Amazon Web Services region, the public cloud giant and thousands of its users are hit by service troubles again

Statistics from Nominet show how effective law enforcement action against cyber crime in the UK is paying off

UK information commissioner will join a private law firm that represents technology companies she used to regulate, raising questions about conflicts of interest and drawing ‘revolving door’ criticisms

Latest part of UK government’s £50m package to boost innovation in mobile technology and increase diversity in supply, will see acceleration in Open RAN, with 2G and 3G to be phased out by 2033

High-end enterprise-targeted FlashArray//XL leverages latest Intel Ice Lake CPU, PCIe 4.0 and distributes SLC flash across drive modules to double throughput over existing arrays

CIO Nicola Wadham brings Computer Weekly up to speed on the Financial Ombudsman Service’s IT challenges and successes

Consumers expect banks to cover losses to cyber crime, as the number of attacks grows

Trustwave’s SpiderLabs says its analysis of chatter on underground dark web forums suggests cyber criminals are starting to panic that formerly ‘friendly’ governments are on their case

Vendor expects SD-WAN and SASE offering will open doors for partners as more customers consider adopting the technology

A number of bootcamps developed by the Institute of Coding are about to deliver talent with newly obtained technology skills into the UK’s potential workforce

Monthly subscribers to Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Windows 365 will have to pay a premium or switch to an annual pricing model starting July 2022.

More than 50 CVEs were logged every day in 2021, more than at any time since records began, while ethical hackers continue to prove their value

Data specialist will work with distributor as it looks to widen its market and increase its penetration into the SME customer base

Better.com's mass layoff by Zoom was seen as a big miss by HR professionals, who say the CEO's approach lacked empathy and planning.

When cloud providers like AWS go down, business apps go down with them. Data protection tools from Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam and now HYCU Protégé for AWS prevent downtime.

The franchise's move to Las Vegas forced it to modernize its analytics stack as it engaged a new fan base and cultivated the unique opportunities present in Sin City.

Collecting first-mile log data that is as close to the source as possible is the open source startup's goal as it builds out new commercial services.

AWS grows its managed file service portfolio with support for OpenZFS and improvements to FSx Lustre. Experts say AWS could be getting ready to compete with on-premises vendors.

Special Assistant to the President Tim Wu highlighted merger review as a key focus area for the DOJ and FTC as the agencies assess competition in labor markets.

IT staff can use the Aruba Central management console to onboard EdgeConnect Microbranch devices, which deliver wireless connectivity, security and traffic management.

NEXTDC’s SC1 facility is the first in a series of edge datacentre sites that will provide low-latency services to regional businesses and global linkages

Cloud-first software-defined wide area network firm claims hybrid network innovation breakthrough, enabling businesses of all sizes to navigate change while focusing on growth and digital transformation

Eclypsium researchers found vulnerable MikroTik devices have become a popular target for threat actors, who are exploiting known flaws that remain unpatched.

Joint UK-US innovation challenge contest centring on privacy-enhancing technology announced at Summit for Democracy in Washington DC

Modernisation initiative has seen a significant increase in costs and several changes in scope, and measures introduced to address issues seem ineffective, says Public Accounts Committee report

Publication from CDEI sets out the steps required to verify the effectiveness, trustworthiness and compliance of artificial intelligence systems

Young people across the globe have an interest in technology careers, but a lack of training and the industry’s poor reputation for diversity are acting as deterrents

Startup Pipeline Equity provides enterprises with an AI platform to help make decisions about hiring, pay, performance, potential and promotion -- free of bias.

Research of more than 200 CIOs and senior executives reveals the acceleration of private 5G networks as organisations look to improve security, reliability and speed

Bots and AI tools can help clean up customer service texts, emails and chats -- and make them more consistent. But finding empathy is still mainly the purview of humans.

These latest reports of Discord malware follow a trend of threat actors using open source software repositories to host malware, two JFrog researchers said.

AWS unveiled general availability of a major version release of its Cloud Development Kit, as well as Construct Hub. One user described the tools as a time saver for developers.

Criteo is in the process of migrating to Aerospike Database to reduce the number of servers it needs to power its global advertising marketplace from 5,000 to 600.

CIO Brad Peterson said Nasdaq's experience with AWS during the past dozen years has shown that the cloud is ready to run the millisecond transactions of the global markets.

To better protect against ransomware, Rubrik has expanded the capabilities of its core platform and added new features including cyber threat hunting and Rubrik Cloud Vault.

From unskilled senior government officials to over-reliance on outsourcers and contractors, the factors underpinning unsuccessful tech-driven transformation initiatives are investigated in a new report

Research provides insight into the views of UK workers regarding splitting time between the office and home

A group of tax barristers and accounting experts are calling on Rishi Sunak to force HMRC to revise its loan charge settlement terms

Exposure to regulatory sanctions such as fines are the biggest worry for C-suite executives in the wake of a ransomware attack

Described as the world’s most comprehensive digital agreement between two countries, the deal supports the UK’s bid to join Trans-Pacific Partnership to build trade connections with 11 Indo-Pacific markets

High Court overturns decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder after US government gives assurances over his treatment

The Vendia Share service gets new features that enable more database-type capabilities, alongside smart contracts to support complex business rules.

List of 200 fastest growing companies in the public sector is made up primarily of small and medium-sized enterprises, which collectively earned £936m from government contracts in the past fiscal year

Amazon's business practices are facing scrutiny not just in the U.S., but also around the globe. Amazon was hit with a record $1.28 billion antitrust fine this week.

By collecting and arranging data assets in a single environment, organizations are able to reduce the time to reach the insights that lead to data-driven decisions.

The Log4j 2 flaw has a base CVSS score of 10 and enables remote code execution against applications, cloud services and PC games with vulnerable configurations.

A network breach at Japanese electronics giant Panasonic was possibly set up as far back as January, according to researchers who were monitoring dark web forums.

An online banking SaaS company trained its developers to code securely, but API security also required "shifting right" to bolster production-level monitoring tools and training.

The infrastructure services provider aims to offer multi-cloud services and integration offerings as it cultivates industry ties beyond its IBM origins; more IT channel news.

U.S. Senators are calling for greater regulation of tech companies and social media platforms like Instagram.

Microsoft and Zoom compete in winning developers for their respective collaboration platforms. Each company features more than 1,000 apps in its store.

The market-leading hyperscaler plans more customer cost savings in the future alongside a push for cloud tech education, says AWS Cloud Storage VP Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec.

Aryaka's managed SD-WAN and SASE products for midsize enterprises deliver their services over the company's new L3 private core. Aryaka plans to ship the products next year.