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• How APAC organisations can drive IT sustainability

  From using liquid cooling and optimising data storage to tapping renewable energy and recycling tape drives, organisations across the region are upping their sustainability efforts  Continue Reading

• The challenges of integrating SaaS applications

  SaaS has grown from a handful of applications to a vast market covering almost every type of business task. We look at the integration challenges  Continue Reading

• Adopting and adapting to the industrial metaverse

  The industrial metaverse heralds commercial transformations, driving benefits across operations and industries. We look at the benefits an industrial version of the emerging computing environment can offer to corporations  Continue Reading

• The industrial metaverse drives benefits across operations and industries

  Technological, human, and legal aspects will play a role in determining the pace of adoption and diffusion of industrial applications of the metaverse. Payoffs can be substantial in terms of collaboration, productivity, efficiency and cost reduction  Continue Reading

• How to enable a positive software developer experience

  Businesses are growing in-house software development expertise to deliver technology-powered initiatives – developer experience is key to success  Continue Reading

• Industrial metaverse heralds commercial transformations

  Despite the best of intentions, sometimes rebrands just don’t work. Yet while the adoption issues of the metaverse in the consumer market are real, in the industrial world, the metaverse’s payoffs are tangible  Continue Reading

• Tips for improving software developer productivity

  Developers tend to enjoy solving problems and coding, but only with the right tooling can they produce their best work  Continue Reading

• Huawei a big storage hitter despite international troubles

  Huawei is a leading storage player with an enterprise product offer across file, block and object storage, and the cloud, despite controversy and trading difficulties  Continue Reading

• CTO interview: Gavin Rea, Gulf Bridge International

  GBI ensures service continuity of submarine cable networks, which bring high-speed internet to the Gulf states, supporting the region’s ambitious plans to be one of the world’s leading poles for technological innovation  Continue Reading

• How to boost developer productivity

  A good software developer experience is something team leaders and project managers should strive for if they are to get the best out of their teams  Continue Reading

• Zoom eyes up European opportunities

  Zoom boasts a range of communications and collaboration products, and this portfolio is evolving into a broader-based business platform of interest to the enterprise market, with Europe set to be centre stage in this evolution  Continue Reading

• Large language models harnessed for education

  Large language models are being used to teach, support and assess students, enhancing education rather than impairing it  Continue Reading

• Chief data officer interview: Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs

  After two decades at Goldman Sachs, Neema Raphael tells Computer Weekly about his tech journey at one of the world’s biggest banks  Continue Reading

• Gartner: Steps to improving test data management

  Product teams face issues around poor practices in test data management and failure to comply with data regulations – we look at ways to address those issues  Continue Reading

• How generative AI fuels customer experience programmes

  Generative AI could be a game-changer for CX if firms think use case and not tech. What do recent AI developments mean for customer experience programmes?  Continue Reading

• Generative AI: Automating storage and backup management

  We look at how generative artificial intelligence is being deployed to automate monitoring of repetitive tasks and report on enterprise storage and backup, but also the limits to its implementation  Continue Reading

• Handbook helps Dutch organisations migrate to quantum-safe communication

  Organisations must start implementing new cryptography standards – as migration is a lengthy process  Continue Reading

• HR software and strategies to combat staff attrition

  While there is no simple technological solution to the problem of staff attrition, a combination of management strategies and business applications can improve engagement and retention  Continue Reading

• What the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act means for UK industry

  For years, many network-connected devices have lacked adequate security, putting their users and others at risk of cyber attacks. The UK’s PSTI Act aims to prevent this by mandating minimum security requirements, but what impact will this have on ...  Continue Reading

• Backup in the age of cloud

  The 3-2-1 backup strategy remains relevant in the age of cloud, giving rise to hybrid approaches that combine on-premise and cloud backups to minimise data loss, reduce downtime and improve redundancy  Continue Reading

• Can Africa deliver on its ambitious digital transformation goal?

  The African Union is targeting a continent-wide digital single market by 2030 and there's much progress being made, but some fundamental challenges have yet to be overcome  Continue Reading

• How to assess and stem digital transformation failures

  Digital transformation projects have bred a litany of failure. How can this tendency be reversed?  Continue Reading

• Norwegian data privacy experts sound alarm over generative AI

  Hundreds of millions of people embrace generative artificial intelligence, blissfully ignorant of what it’s doing to data privacy.  Continue Reading

• Considerations for meaningful metaverses: cornerstones of success

  Immersive technologies of all varieties are enabling new computing environments that will affect the fabric of emerging commercial and societal landscapes. Crucial considerations will play a role  Continue Reading

• Immersive technologies advance training and design

  Building on a similar discussion on the emerging metaverse at the iconic cultural event a year ago, this year’s SXSW saw a select group of experts discuss how immersive technologies could be a driver for future societies  Continue Reading

• Why a service mesh may not be for everyone

  Choose carefully when considering best practices and approaches to software-defined network optimisation, to avoid adding complexity  Continue Reading

• Software-defined storage: What’s available from key players

  What’s available in software-defined storage from the big storage players, software-defined storage specialists, and SDS options focused on cloud, virtualisation and containers  Continue Reading

• Hitachi Vantara: Small part of a big corp and analytics focus

  We look at Hitachi Vantara, its storage, its cloud offer, the workloads it targets, and its efforts in containerisation and consumption models of storage purchasing  Continue Reading

• APAC career guide on AI

  The multidisciplinary nature of artificial intelligence offers career opportunities not only in builder roles like engineering and data science, but also in AI ethics and applied AI  Continue Reading

• Could social media revolutionise war crimes trials?

  Computer Weekly speaks with open source investigators about how they use social media to gather evidence of war crimes, and the trouble with using such evidence in legal proceedings  Continue Reading

• Retail tech transformation: Winning boardroom hearts and minds

  Retail tech leaders from Sweaty Betty and Selfridges discuss levers to pull and tactics to adopt when influencing the boardroom on transformation projects  Continue Reading

• Networking a reconfigured workspace

  We find out how one company has optimised its network to support a post-pandemic work environment  Continue Reading

• Generative AI: Data privacy, backup and compliance

  We look at generative AI and the risks it poses to data privacy for the enterprise, implications for backup, and potentially dangerous impacts on compliance  Continue Reading

• Why low code/no code opens doors but no panacea for skills shortages

  Citizen development is not without risk but it has a bright future in the enterprise, especially as a way to handle skills gaps  Continue Reading

• Aalto University: The startup’s starting place

  Helsinki's Aalto University is at the heart of one of the world's most productive tech startup hotbeds  Continue Reading

• Interview: Michael Kagan, chief technology officer, Nvidia

  The chip maker's CTO explains how the compute demands of AI are pushing semiconductor technology beyond the principles of Moore's Law  Continue Reading

• Is the UK datacentre industry set for further consolidation?

  Turbulent times make it tricky to predict which way markets will jump, yet UK datacentres continue to grow and hold investor attention  Continue Reading

• ChatGPT is creating a legal and compliance headache for business

  ChatGPT’s increased use in the workplace has led many to question its legal and compliance implications for businesses. Experts warn that the software poses major security and copyright risks  Continue Reading

• Optimising net gains: Building efficient and effective network coverage

  We look at how companies can gain efficient and effective network coverage around the world without it costing the earth  Continue Reading

• Pure Storage: HDDs dead by 2028 and our flash will replace it

  Pure Storage says spinning disk is doomed, and only it can provide a replacement. We look at the rationale behind its bold message, and the possible impacts of such a scenario  Continue Reading

• Helping small deep tech companies become giants in Belgium

  Imec researchers are helping deep tech startups in Belgium become global giants  Continue Reading

• Why are ethnic minorities struggling to reach the top?

  The technology industry has a reputation for struggling with diversity and inclusion, especially at the C-suite – what is standing in the way of ethnic minorities making it to the top?  Continue Reading

• Building a secure coding philosophy

  A proportion of cyber security spend goes towards securing application development. Software teams are also budgeting for IT security  Continue Reading

• The impact of generative AI on the datacentre

  While artificial intelligence will not live up to its name any time soon, mass adoption of large language models, whether by customers or in-house, requires thinking about by enterprise IT leaders  Continue Reading

• Software-defined storage: What it is and variants available

  SDS is available in numerous variants. It is usually cheaper, flexible to deploy and brings storage efficiencies, but there are pitfalls in complexity, management and performance  Continue Reading

• Why we need advanced malware detection with AI-powered tools

  AI-powered cyber security tools have now developed to a point where they are becoming an effective approach to protecting the organisation. Learn how you can benefit from adopting them  Continue Reading

• Driving secure-by-design principles

  Errors can and will occur in code – the key is to minimise the impact and ensure you streamline remediation  Continue Reading

• How AI ethics is coming to the fore with generative AI

  The hype around ChatGPT and other large language models is driving more interest in AI and putting ethical considerations surrounding their use to the fore  Continue Reading

• Automation: The key to FinOps success

  Workload management and automation offers a way for FinOps teams to match supply to demand for cloud-based IT in an efficient way  Continue Reading

• PLC flash: The next generation or a mirage?

  PLC could be productised within two years, but chip makers might not think it worth the effort. Will managing multiple voltages be more hassle than adding layers to existing flash?  Continue Reading

• Icelandic researcher advocates for an overhaul of artificial intelligence

  While technologies such as ChatGPT provide a glimpse of what may lay ahead, they are still a long way from real intelligence  Continue Reading

• Data classification tools: What they do and who makes them

  Data classification is necessary for all organisations for reasons that range from simply putting data on the most cost-efficient media to ensuring legal and regulatory compliance  Continue Reading

• Quantum computing: What are the data storage challenges?

  Quantum computing will be able to process massive amounts of data at extraordinary speeds, but challenges exist in data storage. How will today’s storage systems keep pace?  Continue Reading

• The role of AI as an everyday life assistant

  We speak to the co-author of a book that explores the idea of artificial intelligence-powered automation that enables machines to become customers  Continue Reading

• From Nokia to Merge Mansion: Helsinki’s tech expertise is sparking a new era for global gaming

  Helsinki has a reputation as the go-to place for game development, and now the city’s tech community is taking gaming into new areas  Continue Reading

• How artificial intelligence and automation can streamline procurement

  We speak to chief procurement officers about the role of artificial intelligence in helping their organisations reduce costs and tackle the economic slowdown  Continue Reading

• Why IAM systems are crucial for securing multicloud architecture

  As business tools evolve into cloud-based services, organisations are finding themselves becoming ever more reliant on the cloud, but how can data be secured across so many different platforms?  Continue Reading

• Belgian experts take on data challenges

  Having been involved in storage and data management for more than two decades, Belgian experts are positioned to help tackle the challenges brought on by a growing volume of unstructured data  Continue Reading

• Securing your software supply chain

  Organisations need to have a thorough understanding of software components and build security controls into development lifecycles to shore up the security of their software supply chains  Continue Reading

• The CIO challenges brought by e-commerce in Kuwait

  E-commerce is growing fast in Kuwait, resulting in new challenges for CIOs in the retail sector  Continue Reading

• Inspired by the human brain, Belgian researchers develop a new generation of sensors

  Belgian researchers have found ways of mimicking the human brain to improve sensors and the way they pass data to central computers  Continue Reading

• How sustainability software bears broad benefits beyond cost savings

  The imperative for organisations to do a better sustainability job is clear. There is business software that can help, with data at its core, and smart companies are acting now  Continue Reading

• The new shape of design in the age of Industry 4.0

  The modern manufacturing process has evolved over the last decades to the point where there are many interconnected disciplines taking place, often at the same time. With the advent of advanced comms technologies, interconnections are taking on a ...  Continue Reading

• Driving up IT efficiency and sustainability

  IT leaders need to balance IT sustainability with business drivers to innovate with digital technologies and ensure corporate systems remain secure  Continue Reading

• How APCOA is using big data to reinvent car parks

  Car park operator APCOA is using big data to transform traditional car parks into mobility hubs that will offer electric vehicle charging, space for small businesses and depots for delivery companies  Continue Reading

• Dutch discovery brings energy-efficient computers a step closer

  An international group of researchers at the University of Twente have developed a molecular switch that can increase the energy-efficiency of electronics  Continue Reading

• HDD specs: Assess SATA vs SAS, sustained data rates and block size

  In part two of a two-part series, we look at sustained data rates in hard disk drive specs, SATA versus SAS, drive security, and how HDD makers pack density into products by shingling  Continue Reading

• HDD specs: Assess MTTF, AFR and UER to get the drives you need

  In part one of a two-part series, we look at key hard disk drive specs, including mean time to failure, annual failure rate and unrecoverable error rate, and how they relate to each other  Continue Reading

• The changing role of the CIO from a Finnish perspective

  A small country with a sophisticated workforce, Finland has its own perspective on how IT leadership is changing in both the public and private sector  Continue Reading

• Vast Data’s ‘Act 2’ builds data management layer on QLC flash

  Vast Data offers QLC flash bulk storage with a rapid cache I/O layer. Now, it has embarked on offering big data, analytics and application access to highly available data stores  Continue Reading

• QLC edges into mainstream, but what are its advantages?

  QLC flash offers high density but has lifecycle limitations. But what does it really cost compared with TLC and MLC, and how are suppliers implementing it and getting around durability issues?  Continue Reading

• As Covid fades away, what’s the future of remote work in Europe?

  Many IT leaders are still supporting some form of work from home, and a trend is beginning to take shape in Europe  Continue Reading

• Generative AI at watershed moment with spate of legal challenges

  Just over 20 years ago, Napster was closed on copyright grounds for allowing users to access digital copies of music for free. Now, a spate of legal cases have experts questioning whether OpenAI and other generative AI innovators will go the same way  Continue Reading

• Gartner: Use digital to achieve sustainability goals

  Sustainability guides decision-making by incorporating economic, social and environmental impacts. Gartner looks at digital technology’s role  Continue Reading

• Face tech – recognising the retail opportunity

  From age verification to catching criminals, how are retailers using facial recognition technology to push forward their businesses?  Continue Reading

• AI in the Netherlands: Talent, data and responsibility

  Applied researchers in the Netherlands are working to bring AI to a higher level  Continue Reading

• Culture eats technology in digital transformation

  Digital transformation without culture change is an empty phrase, but get the balance right and you can reap rewards  Continue Reading

• What can security teams learn from a year of cyber warfare?

  With the passing of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we reflect on the ongoing cyber war, and ask what security leaders can learn from the past 12 months  Continue Reading

• Software enables new business model for Sweden-headquartered car manufacturer

  One of the many things software now does with cars is to enable ‘mobility as a service’, a new business model that provides people with freedom of movement, without the cost and hassle of ownership  Continue Reading

• The race to net zero: Six ways to slash IT infrastructure emissions

  Strategies aimed at successfully cutting climate risk can appear to be stymieing business sustainability. How can the industry remain productive?  Continue Reading

• Backup testing: The why, what, when and how

  We look at backup testing – why you should do it, what you should do, when you should do it, and how, with a view to the ways in which it will be made easier by forthcoming developments in backup software  Continue Reading

• Unstructured data and the storage it needs

  We look at unstructured and semi-structured data and find increasing amounts of production workloads that have their own storage hardware – file and object – needs, including flash  Continue Reading

• Green tech and the private sector: How the UK government will hit its 2050 net-zero emissions goal

  The UK government is targeting net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but it will need the private sector’s help and its appetite for investing in green technologies to meet its goal  Continue Reading

• AI in healthcare in northern Europe suggests future pathways

  AI is used sporadically across northern Europe. If the healthcare sector is to provide affordable, high-quality care as the population ages and the economy falters, it will be needed more, experts say  Continue Reading

• Accreditation key to enterprise security

  We look at how industry-recognised certification enables security chiefs to improve the strength of their security team  Continue Reading

• Schneider Electric on why datacentre operators need to close the ‘sustainability gap’

  Datacentre operators sometimes have a hard time ensuring their actions match their words and pledges on sustainability matters, which could put the industry at risk of greenwashing accusations, Schneider Electric warns  Continue Reading

• Cyber security training: How to be as secure as is practicably possible

  If you cannot secure all the people all the time, how should a business approach cyber security training and awareness programmes?  Continue Reading

• Augmented reality in retail: The second coming

  H&M, Avon, Very and others’ usage of augmented reality in retail could mean we’re reaching tipping point for the technology in 2023  Continue Reading

• Container storage platforms: Big six approach starts to align

  Container storage is a complex but vital task. We survey the big six storage makers and see methods are starting to align around management platforms  Continue Reading

• The one problem with AI content moderation? It doesn’t work

  The use of artificial intelligence for content moderation is likely to become more pronounced with the passage of the Online Safety Bill, but practitioners and experts question the efficacy of this approach  Continue Reading

• Qualcomm on-board to ride mmWave

  The emergence of mmWave 5G networks around the globe is leading to a number of compelling future use cases based on ultra-low latency and high-capacity mobile networks  Continue Reading

• APAC buyer’s guide to SASE

  In this buyer’s guide on secure access service edge services, we look at the benefits of the technology, key considerations and the market landscape  Continue Reading

• Backup maintenance: Make sure backups can deliver

  Deploying backup but overlooking the need to make sure it works is a common error. We look at the why and how of backup maintenance to help ensure you can recover from your backups  Continue Reading

• How to make the most of a composable enterprise architecture

  Enterprise software is shifting away from highly integrated stacks to cloud-native architectures that use best-of-breed and in-house components  Continue Reading

• Green storage: Savings to be made but tricky to achieve

  Storage upgrades can bring energy savings. New hardware, the cloud and as-a-service procurement models all cut costs, but can need careful tweaking to get right  Continue Reading

• IT’s shift to the cloud: Veeam’s data protection report in detail

  With half of servers in the cloud, most backup and nearly all disaster recovery cloud-centric, the shift to the cloud is significant – but container backup is one area that is yet to settle down  Continue Reading

• Cloud egress costs: What they are and how to dodge them

  We look at how cloud providers charge to move data from their cloud, including to other providers and between storage in the same cloud, and what you can do to mitigate “bill shock”  Continue Reading

• Is composable business most essential technology trend to meet challenges of 2023 and beyond?

  By 2024, Gartner believes that 70% of large and medium-sized enterprises will have composability as a key criteria for new application planning  Continue Reading

• How to design enterprise applications that are composable by default

  Gartner presents a composable business index to help IT leaders assess and advance the agility of their applications  Continue Reading

• Securing low Earth orbit represents the new space race

  The barriers to launching satellites into low Earth orbit are falling fast, and that brings new cyber security challenges  Continue Reading