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• 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

• Top trends in tech, and retail’s early adopters

  Computer Weekly identifies the retail industry’s early adopters of what McKinsey & Co deems the top tech trends  Continue Reading

• Building culture within collaboration to make hybrid work pay

  As hybrid working evolves, some firms are struggling to support non-office-based workers and management is unclear of its new responsibilities. What is being done to address this evolution?  Continue Reading

• Inclusion = everyone: Advice from experts for improving tech diversity

  At October’s Computer Weekly diversity in tech event, in partnership with Nash Squared, almost 100 experts from the tech and employment sectors shared their ideas for improving diversity in the technology industry  Continue Reading

• Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide feature list 2023

  Here is our 2023 schedule of up-and-coming in-depth articles that will cover carefully selected topics to help IT leaders select the right technology for their organisation  Continue Reading

• High tech meets agriculture in Denmark

  Thanks to a few strategic investments, Denmark may one day become a major exporter of farming technology  Continue Reading

• The importance of improving data quality at source

  Data replication crises have struck government and scientific data quality efforts. A lack of scrutiny over data being used at source has led to oversights from national statistics to financial auditing  Continue Reading

• How Finland develops its national plan for investment in innovation

  A small country with limited resources, Finland carefully chooses strategic technologies to lead it into the future  Continue Reading

• Cyber security professionals share their biggest lessons of 2022

  In the run-up to 2023, cyber security professionals are taking the time to reflect on the past few months and share their biggest lessons of 2022  Continue Reading

• Developed for Big Science in Europe, highly accurate time protocols ensure fair trading in finance

  Protocols developed for use at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research are now being used for many other applications, including financial services  Continue Reading

• Why the devil’s still in the detail in the race for energy efficiency

  Energy-efficiency credentials are surely a step in the right direction, but cloud and datacentre providers must look at the sustainability equation from all angles  Continue Reading

• Freeing the hybrid workforce from quiet constraint

  The rapid shift to hybrid working may be contributing to the trend of 'quiet constraint'. We look at how technology can be applied to really work for a distributed workforce  Continue Reading

• A sticky story: How, and why, hackers love stickers on laptops

  We’ve all seen laptops adorned with security stickers and in-jokes, but how did this cyber community trend get started, what does it signify, and what does it say about the humans behind the screens?  Continue Reading

• Storage hardware shortage causes and how to mitigate them

  We look at the IT supply chain shortages that have hit data storage equipment, their causes and what organisations can do to work more smartly to mitigate them  Continue Reading

• A retail tech tour of the Battersea Power Station development

  We check out the customer-facing digital features on display in the UK’s newest shopping site at Battersea Power Station  Continue Reading

• Top 10 storage and backup customer stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage and backup customer stories of 2022  Continue Reading

• Can real-time data visualisation deliver trust and opportunity?

  More than ever, decision-makers are relying on data to plot a path through the economic turmoil. We explore where real-time data fits  Continue Reading

• Too many secrets: What can today’s cyber teams learn from a 30-year-old film?

  Despite being 30 years old, Sneakers remains a classic hacker film. The technology may have dated, but the underlying themes remain relevant and remind us about the threats lurking online  Continue Reading

• Reverse cloud migrations: Why some enterprises are shifting their IT back on-premise

  With a steady trickle of customer organisations returning on-premise, a need to plan better may not be the whole story  Continue Reading

• From capex to opex: Storage procurement options bloom

  We look at the growing list of possibilities when it comes to paying for storage infrastructure, ranging from upfront purchases with upgrades to pure pay-as-you-go options  Continue Reading

• Extended reality can be empathic reality

  In the metaverse, eliciting empathy might become an important feature for many applications, including gaming and industrial uses, and there is even the potential that applications that focus on emphatic results will create their own market niche  Continue Reading

• How gamifying cyber training can improve your defences

  Security training is the cornerstone of any cyber defence strategy. With ever-escalating online threats, it is now more important than ever that this training is an engaging experience  Continue Reading

• Ransomware: Practical tips to improve resiliency

  With ransomware attacks on organisations increasing, the question is not if an attack will happen, but when. We look at ways to minimise the impact of such an attack  Continue Reading

• XR’s wide range of interface technologies: Achieving total immersiveness

  Visuals are important to create convincing representations of the real world in extended reality, but they are neither inclusive nor do they provide a sufficiently authentic sensation in virtual worlds. Genuine immersiveness will require interfaces ...  Continue Reading

• Indefinite storage: What it is and why you might need it

  Indefinite storage addresses the issue that archived data may need to be kept well beyond the lifespan of the technology it was written for  Continue Reading

• XR and the real world: Feedback loops and spillovers

  As the metaverse develops, the realism of advanced extended reality applications could allow users to take experiences, interests and strategies with them into the real world – creating spillovers from virtual to real worlds  Continue Reading

• How can IT leaders address ‘quiet quitting’?

  As the pandemic has changed the way people work, many are less willing to go above and beyond for their jobs – so what can managers to do adjust?  Continue Reading

• Cloud storage: Key storage specifications

  We look at the key specs in cloud storage, including availability – such as five nines – bandwidth, IOPS and latency, capacity and tiering functionality, egress charges and security  Continue Reading

• Datacentres in the dark: How the sector is preparing for the prospect of planned winter power cuts

  Against a backdrop of ongoing uncertainty in the energy market, the UK datacentre market is readying itself for ‘worst case’ planned power cuts this winter  Continue Reading

• Ransomware, storage and backup: Impacts, limits and capabilities

  We look at the impact of ransomware on storage and backup, how storage and data protection can best be used to combat ransomware, and how they fit in the fight against it  Continue Reading

• How to get structure from unstructured data

  We look at how to gain structure from unstructured data, via AI/ML analytics to create new records, selecting object data via SQL and storing unstructured files in NoSQL formats  Continue Reading

• Expensive datacentre outages: Untangling messy collaborations, contributing costs and complexity

  Even if outages in the datacentre are trending down, Uptime data this year traces rising costs per outage. So what can be done?  Continue Reading

• The next decade in enterprise backup

  Backup set to adapt to deliver more security, ransomware protection and flash-speed restores, and deal with the complexity of multi-, hybrid cloud and container-based operations  Continue Reading

• Siemens aims to pioneer industrial metaverse usage

  German engineering giant is exploring industrial metaverse use cases, and the Biosphere Foundation in Devon is proving out Siemens technology  Continue Reading

• How to prepare for ransomware

  What are the best practices you should use to protect against ransomware attacks and manage such attacks when they do happen?  Continue Reading

• An encouraging new conversation around sustainable IT, says Nordic CIO

  What started as a whisper a decade ago has become distinctly audible chatter among IT leaders sharing best practices on how to protect the environment  Continue Reading

• The world's oldest cryptocurrency exchange prefers doing business in Luxembourg

  One of the newest niches in fintech, cryptocurrency exchanges may fare very well in Luxembourg  Continue Reading

• NetSuite hits high note with School of Rock

  Over the past five years, School of Rock has grown rapidly, which has also meant much more complexity to deal with. We see how the school has deployed leading business automation technology to stay in tune  Continue Reading

• How Imec hopes to industrialise artificial intelligence

  Pure research explores the fundamental questions of artificial intelligence, but applied research takes those ideas to industry, making it all worthwhile  Continue Reading

• Candidate experience evolves to engender more emotional engagement

  Despite the cost-of-living crisis, employment is high and companies need to create a compelling candidate experience when competition is strong and ‘ghosting’ is common  Continue Reading

• Why automating finance is just an integration game

  We look at how the software that powers finance departments can help businesses navigate the worsening economic climate  Continue Reading

• Computer simulation at work for the future of nuclear fusion

  Nuclear fusion works, just not yet well enough. Learn how software simulations running on modern supercomputers and data science are lighting up possible paths forward  Continue Reading

• Retail’s robotics reboot

  Walmart and Amazon are among the retailers acquiring warehouse robotics firms, during a period of significant innovation in this space  Continue Reading

• Cellebrite sees silver lining in the NetSuite cloud

  It’s only natural that companies invest in business software solutions to bring about growth in their organisation. But in times of uncertainty, the narrative is around doing more with less, how to increase productivity and efficiency through ...  Continue Reading

• AI experts question tech industry’s ethical commitments

  The massive proliferation of ethical frameworks for artificial intelligence has done little to change how the technology is developed and deployed, with experts questioning the tech industry’s commitment to making it a positive social force  Continue Reading

• The tech helping organisations manage their finances

  With a worsening economic climate, software has an important role in helping finance departments control budgets and spending  Continue Reading

• Tearing down the barriers to full digital connectivity

  Millions of households rely on good connectivity for work, study or leisure. But how much has fast and consistent broadband connectivity spread across the UK?  Continue Reading

• Will the OCSF create an open and collaborative cyber industry?

  The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework promises to transform security data analysis and collection, but there are challenges around adoption  Continue Reading