What is included in a host configuration review?
A host configuration review helps organizations evaluate whether servers, operating systems, and network devices are configured securely according to accepted industry standards. Instead of testing attacks from the outside, this assessment focuses on the internal configuration state of systems and…
How do I pair an Airpod Replacement with my existing case?
Losing or damaging a single AirPod doesn’t mean you have to replace the entire set. Many users choose an Airpod Replacement to restore full functionality at a fraction of the cost. Whether it’s the left ear, right ear, or even…
Does Spotify playlist promotion improve engagement metrics?
Does Spotify Playlist Promotion Improve Engagement Metrics? In the competitive world of music streaming, artists constantly search for effective strategies to grow their audience and boost performance. Among many promotional approaches, Spotify playlist promotion has become one of the most…
Fujitsu braced for double-digit decline triggered by ‘foolish display of legal machismo’
Fujitsu expects its UK sales to see a double-digit drop as some controversial public sector wins fail to plug the hole in its business. Its deep roots in the UK public sector mean the supplier continues to retain lucrative…
SLA promises, security realities: Navigating the shared responsibility gap
The shared responsibility model (SRM) plays a central role in defining how security and operational duties are split between cloud providers and their customers. However, when this model intersects with service level agreements (SLAs), it introduces layers of complexity….
Growing demand for AI-skilled cyber specialists
Some 90% of businesses are either piloting AI or carrying out small- or large-scale implementations – a dramatic jump from 59% in 2023, according to the 2025 Nash Squared/Harvey Nash Digital Leadership Report. At the same time, the research…
Depression, anxiety, PTSD and suicidal thoughts: Post Office victims speak out
Over three-quarters of former subpostmasters caught up in the Post Office Horizon scandal experienced significant health problems as a result. In its latest publication, the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry’s listening project, In Your Own Words, revealed that scandal…
Agentic AI: Storage and ‘the biggest tech refresh in IT history’
With agentic artificial intelligence (AI), we could be facing the biggest tech refresh event in history, where every organisation might deploy up to 2,000 agents per employee. And to meet that need, the entire IT infrastructure – and storage…
Bridging the SLA gap: A guide to managing cloud provider risk
As organisations increasingly rely on cloud services to drive innovation and operational efficiency, chief information security officers (CISOs) face a persistent challenge: what happens when a cloud provider’s service level agreement (SLA) doesn’t align with your enterprise’s security and…
Scottish Widows completes migration of millions of accounts to TCS platform
Scottish Widows has moved 3.8 million customer accounts and pension data from multiple legacy systems to a cloud-based platform from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). It worked with the Indian supplier’s subsidiary Diligentia on the migration to the TCS BaNCS…
Meet the IT leader In Lebanon who became an IT entrepreneur
Asked for his advice as to whether it’s a smart idea to switch from being an IT leader to running your own company, Nassib Chamoun has some advice for potential poachers turned gamekeepers. “If you’re looking for stability, my recommendation…
AI supports care of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon hospital
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being piloted at Lebanon’s Al Hamshari Hospital in a project that could help stretched medics provide better care for huge numbers of Palestinian refugees. The hospital, near Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, Ein el Hilweh,…
AI and backup: How backup products leverage AI
Software applications often list artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in their feature sets, and data backup tools are no exception. Software supplier use of AI and machine learning (ML) in this space is not new. Automation has been a feature…
Home Office Fujitsu contract is ‘de facto’ conflict of interest in Post Office police probe
A nationwide police investigation into the Post Office scandal faces conflict of interest questions over Fujitsu’s role in operating the network used by separate police forces to share information. Peer James Arbuthnot described the contract as very concerning and…
Storage suppliers’ market share and strategy
The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the French say. That’s certainly the case in enterprise storage. Here we review the storage supplier profiles published this year on ComputerWeekly.com, and find all the key players…
Subpostmaster federation accepted money from Fujitsu in run-up to High Court Post Office trial
Fujitsu sponsored an annual event held by the National Federation of Subpostmasters (NFSP) just months before a High Court trial examined claims that its system wrecked the lives of subpostmasters. A document about the annual NFSP conference, which was…
Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m
The national police investigation into the Post Office Horizon scandal is expected to cost taxpayers more than £50m. Scandal victims accept the cost, but demand accountability. Operation Olympos has consumed more than £6m since 2019, but over the next…
Metropolitan Police contract with Fujitsu is ‘potential conflict of interest’ amid Post Office probe
Nationwide police investigation into Fujitsu’s role in the Post Office scandal faces conflict of interest challenges, due to the IT supplier’s contract with the lead investigating police force. A freedom of information (FOI) request has revealed that through a…
Jack of all managed security services, or master of none?
If you crank up the Wayback Machine and load the websites of today’s biggest managed security service providers (MSSPs), you’ll get a neat reminder of a time before the huge proliferation in services that we see today. Most providers…
Storage data management tools: What they do and what’s available
Pure Storage’s recent launch of its Enterprise Data Cloud reignited debate around storage and data management. Pure claims its EDC addresses the management of growing volumes of data in a complex regulatory environment, and the demands storage faces from…
Lenovo partners its way up the storage maker rankings
Lenovo is notable among storage array makers for a recent rapid rise in market share, and the prominence of the partnering strategy it has employed to get there. While it lacks some things that most other storage makers possess…
UK flights suspended after air traffic control outage
The National Air Traffic Services (NATS) organisation responsible for air traffic control services at multiple airports in the UK is recovering from a technical systems outage at its Swanwick facility that caused significant disruption to flights on Wednesday afternoon….
European digital market figurehead pleads to Westminster
European data venture Gaia-X lobbied UK government officials to help build Europe’s data market in a Parliamentary meeting sponsored by an MP who wants Britain to rejoin the European Union (EU). Ulrich Ahle, who as CEO of Gaia-X is overseeing…
Fujitsu to cut at least 100 more UK staff
Fujitsu has put nearly 500 UK employees on notice of possible redundancy, as it plans to cut more than 100 roles. The supplier could face financial pressure in the coming months when it finally contributes to the huge costs…
Interview: Cambridge Consultants CEO Monty Barlow scans for tech surprises
As university towns, Cambridge and Oxford are oddly disconnected from the UK’s capital when compared with those in other European countries. France’s leading universities are mostly in Paris, by contrast. As David Willetts, former minister for universities and science,…
UK loses second spot in global fintech to UAE
The UAE has leapfrogged the UK in the latest fintech market rankings, following a $2bn investment by Abu Dhabi’s MGX in cryptocurrency exchange Binance. This is the first time the UK has lost second spot, and comes at a…
AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced vector storage for its S3 cloud object storage – S3 Vectors – in a move it claims will reduce the cost of uploading, storing and querying vectorised data in AI storage by up…
Peer warns IT suppliers against partnering with Fujitsu in government contracts
Peer James Arbuthnot has warned suppliers to “think twice” before partnering with Fujitsu on government contracts, to avoid being “tarred by the Fujitsu brush”. Fujitsu’s central role in the Post Office scandal entered wider public consciousness in January 2024,…
Is history repeating itself with the government’s push to open public sector cloud deals to SMEs?
The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are…
Pure Storage profits from all-flash, as-a-service and cloud focus
In this storage supplier profile, we look at Pure Storage, which is distinguished by being all-flash, unlike its competitors that all have hard disk drives (HDDs) somewhere in their array offer. Like the rest, however, Pure has moved from…
BBC plans to outsource and offshore thousands of tech roles
The BBC is reported to be looking at how it can meet tough cost-cutting targets by outsourcing roles in tech and finance. According to a Guardian report, thousands of UK jobs are at risk as the broadcaster seeks cost…
The big lie of artificial intelligence
The big lie of artificial intelligence (AI) is one of omission – its egregious impact on both people and place. The convenient narrative the Broligarchy sells to us is that it’s all about those clever machines, the ones and…
Podcast: Container storage challenges and how to overcome them
In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage’s Venkat Ramakrishnan about customer challenges when dealing with containers and storage and data protection. Ramakrishnan, vice-president of products and engineering for Portworx, talked about customers who take on container deployments without…
Government funding to help SMEs protect their IP
Up to 500 UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are in line to pick up a share of a government funding package designed to support them in protecting their intellectual property (IP) from hostile actors, whether they be larger…
UK government signs deal with Google Cloud to upskill 100,000 civil servants in AI by 2030
As part of the agreement, Google will train 100,000 civil servants working across the public sector in using AI and other digital services through its Google Cloud Training Programme by 2030, in support of the government’s goal to have one…
Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures
The government’s accounting watchdog has refused to endorse the audited accounts of the College of Policing after serious failures in a project to replace its HR and accounting systems left the policing organisation unable to properly manage its finances….
Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the private sector
Private sector buyers of IT and services face higher costs from new tariffs levied by the US. Meanwhile, possible retaliation by other countries and trading blocs, especially China and the European Union (EU), make the outlook even more uncertain….
Zopa to embed into Manchester’s tech ecosystem
Zopa will tap into the tech ecosystem in Manchester through a regional office that could eventually house 500 staff. The announcement comes days after the launch of the challenger bank’s current account, known as Biscuit. Zopa currently has around…
Shared services in the public sector – is bigger really better?
Back in 2010, when I was working in IT in local government, shared services were hailed as a lifeline. Councils were facing unprecedented budget cuts, austerity was biting hard and the subsidy for local government was evaporating. Shared services…
Law professor urges CMA to take swift and urgent action over Microsoft cloud licensing
Microsoft’s “harmful” cloud licensing practices need to be swiftly and directly remediated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to prevent irreparable harm being done to the UK cloud services market, a university law professor has warned. In a 36-page academic…
Scattered Spider link to Qantas hack is likely, say experts
A cyber security incident at Australian airline Qantas originating through the compromise of a third-party contact centre is being tentatively linked to an ongoing campaign of cyber attacks orchestrated by the hacking collective known as Scattered Spider, which previously…
NetApp: Not just NAS filers, and a comprehensive cloud strategy
In this storage supplier profile, we look at NetApp, which made its name synonymous with the network-attached storage (NAS) “filer” for the first decade or two of its existence. And while revenues have trended upwards ever since, it has…
Fujitsu’s grip on HMRC loosening but bags of taxpayer cash still to be made
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed off two contracts worth a total of £280m with Fujitsu as the government department makes “bridging” arrangements while it decouples from Fujitsu datacentres and self-assessment system hosting. A £220m deal with Fujitsu…
Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty
When Dutch hosting provider mijn.host launched what it claimed was “one of the Netherlands’ first digitally sovereign public clouds” late last year, it struck a chord with a growing European anxiety. Built entirely on open source Apache CloudStack technology and…
Government announces details of Post Office Capture redress scheme
Former subpostmasters who suffered as a result of errors in a pre-Horizon computer system will be able to apply for compensation from autumn this year. Around 2,000 subpostmasters used the software, known as Capture, to do their accounts from…
What is Cloud Bursting? | Definition from TechTarget
Cloud bursting is an application deployment technique in which an application running in a private cloud or data center bursts its extra workload to a public cloud when the demand for computing capacity spikes. This deployment model gives an organization…
Cyber action plan kicks off to ‘supercharge’ UK security sector
Westminster is today unveiling a cyber growth action plan to set a path forward for the UK’s burgeoning cyber security industry – which already makes £13.2bn in revenues every year, supporting over 67,000 jobs – and “supercharge” its future….
Artificial intelligence could fuel growth in global tennis
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in tennis on and off the court, as players and spectators are served the personalised insights they crave. Tennis is already a global sport, with millions of fans generating billions of pounds each…
IR35: Use of HMRC CEST tool drops by more than 70%, delayed FOI reveals
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has finally shared updated usage data for its much-maligned online IR35 status checker tool via a Freedom of Information (FOI) response, following a 16-month push for the government agency to release it. The figures,…
Fusion and AI: How private sector tech is powering progress at ITER
In April 2025, at the ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop in Cadarache, something remarkable unfolded. In a room filled with scientists, engineers and software visionaries, the line between big science and commercial innovation began to blur. Three organisations –…
HMRC paid Fujitsu £310m last year, but Post Office supplier’s UK business faces gradual decline
Fujitsu received £310m from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in 12 months, while victims of the Post Office scandal, which the IT giant had a hand in, are offered “derisory” compensation payments. According to official figures, HMRC is Fujitsu’s…
West Brom Building Society project to meet customers’ digital demands
West Brom Building Society is embarking on a three-stage project to build the digital capabilities its customers want. The organisation, which offers mortgages and savings products to about 500,000 people, will retain its 34 branches, but said customers are…
UK government recommits to Edinburgh supercomputer plan with £750m funding pledge
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed up to £750m in funding to create the UK’s most powerful supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh, ten months after the government pulled the plug on a similar project backed by the previous administration….
IBM reorients storage to cloud, containers and as-a-service
In this storage supplier profile, we look at IBM, which has perhaps the longest history of all the storage players, and in IT much more widely, in servers, services and the cloud. We find the company well set on…
Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the public sector
Tariffs proposed by the US government threaten to upend trading relationships across the world, with IT procurement already feeling the effects. And the tariff situation has changed many times since Donald Trump took office. Since the president announced plans…
Compensation to Post Office scandal victims reaches £1bn milestone
More than 7,000 people have received over £1bn between them as part of the government’s promise to provide financial redress to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal. The government announced that the £1bn milestone shows “progress”, but the…
Citigroup cuts thousands of staff at China-based tech centres
Citigroup is “streamlining” tech support operations in China as part of a global restructure, with 3,500 roles set to go. The finance giant said some of the jobs will be moved, with one commentator suggesting it could join other…
Australia’s CommBank completes migration of data to AWS in AI drive
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) plans to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into its business after completing a year-long migration of its data platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Its data platform will be integrated with…
AI in IT services and the diminishing correlation between people and growth
The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into any organisation spreads anxiety among the workforce, in much the same way outsourcing has done for many years. IT services companies have been disrupting corporate IT departments for decades, whether it…
Agentic AI set to handle 68% of customer service interactions by 2028
Research from Cisco has revealed that while the benefits of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are clear, a human connection remains essential and robust governance is non-negotiable. The race to an agentic future: how agentic AI will transform customer experience…
How cyber security professionals are leveraging AWS tools
With millions of businesses now using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud computing needs, it’s become a vital consideration for IT security teams and professionals. As such, AWS offers a broad range of cyber security tools to secure…
What are the best practices for securing AWS tech stacks?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become the lifeblood of millions of modern businesses, both big and small. But while this popular cloud platform enables them to manage and scale their operations with impressive speed, simplicity and affordability, it also…
Fujitsu raked in £80m from HMRC in March alone, despite Post Office scandal
Fujitsu was paid £80m by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in March alone as its public sector business continues unabated, despite its involvement in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history. In the first quarter of…
HMRC begins escape from Fujitsu’s grip through £500m contract
HMRC has begun the process of breaking away from its heavy reliance on Fujitsu for IT services, with a tender worth £500m designed to exit the supplier’s services. In the clearest sign that HMRC is ready to break away from…
M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July
Marks and Spencer (M&S) leadership believes that it may take at least another month to fully recover following a ransomware attack that it now looks likely will cost it at least £300m. It has also emerged that the incident…
Botched Post Office IT projects continue to drain public purse
As the government hands the Post Office £400m in public funds to replace its controversial Horizon system, details emerge of millions more wasted as a result of botched IT. The latest costs come as the Post Office agrees to…
Post Office performs costly 30-year U-turn on Horizon
The Post Office’s decision to use a commercial off-the-shelf electronic point of sale (Epos) system to replace its problematic Horizon software sees the organisation perform a U-turn after 30 years. Last week’s announcement that the Post Office is looking…
Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation
Denmark-based SaaS backup provider Keepit is adding to functionality in June and July that includes support for Atlassian dev workflow tools Jira and Confluence, as well as Okta’s access management tool that’s used in Google Workspace. These come quickly…
Post Office scandal inquiry to publish first findings this summer
The Post Office scandal public inquiry will publish the first part of its final report this summer, with its findings on compensation and the scandal’s human impact to be made public “as soon as possible”. The inquiry, which lasted…
What is Private PaaS? How is it Different from Public PaaS?
Private platform as a service (private PaaS) is a cloud computing model that facilitates the development, deployment and management of software applications in a private cloud. Essentially, the private cloud component provides an IT infrastructure, and the PaaS component provides…
NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty
A plan by Essex-based Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAH) to move some capacity to Nutanix cloud-based services is blocked by uncertainty over pricing amid US president Donald Trump’s recent flurry of on-off, up-down tariffs. PAH saved £500,000 when…
Italian bank signs 10-year deal with Google Cloud
UniCredit has signed a 10-year agreement with Google Cloud to “accelerate” its digital transformation by tapping into the supplier’s cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics capabilities. UniCredit will migrate “large sections” of its “application landscape”, including legacy systems,…
University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery
The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke…
UK critical systems at risk from ‘digital divide’ created by AI threats
A divide will emerge over the next two years between organisations that can keep pace with cyber threats enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and those that fall behind, cyber chiefs have warned. AI-enabled tools will make it possible for…
Apple to play modest role after datacentre heat breakthrough in Denmark
Danish engineers are drawing up plans to connect an Apple datacentre to a district heating network in Denmark that will use its waste energy to heat homes and provide hot water. This comes a decade after the US phone…
AI adoption: AWS addresses the skills barrier holding back enterprises
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set its sights on helping 100,000 people across the UK gain skills in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, having published research that suggests at least one business is adopting AI every minute. The skills push…
UK Digital Services Tax survives US trade negotiations
In its second international trade deal in the space of a week, the UK government has secured a major trade deal with the US that leaves Britain’s Digital Services Tax unchanged and potentially opens the doors to a future…
UK hands Indian IT suppliers competitive boost in trade deal
India’s IT services companies are set to get even more competitive as the UK’s trade deal with the country exempts Indian professionals from paying National Insurance. With IT services companies such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro…
Cloud storage for AI: Options, pros and cons
IT architects tasked with the design of storage systems for artificial intelligence (AI) need to balance capacity, performance and cost. AI systems, especially those based on large language models (LLMs), consume vast amounts of data. In fact, LLMs or…
India’s Hexaware targets public sector business as it expands UK operation
India’s Hexaware has expanded its UK presence through a new office in London’s Canary Wharf, as part of an expansion plan that will see it bid for UK public sector business. The IT services firm said IT suppliers that currently…
Government bags 200 bids from local authorities wanting AI growth zones in their areas
The government has received more than 200 responses from local authorities across the UK that want their areas to become artificial intelligence (AI) growth zones, it has been revealed. Local councils were asked in February to express their interest…
Fujitsu UK staff will get bonus despite Post Office scandal fallout
Fujitsu UK is rewarding staff for meeting a sales threshold, in further evidence that the company’s gesture to pause bidding for public sector contracts was a “hollow” one. According to sources, all UK staff will receive a bonus this…
South East Water modernises through Google Cloud
South East Water is putting Google Cloud technologies at the centre of its five-year modernisation project, enabling improved collaboration, data insights and access to artificial intelligence (AI). Google Workspace and Gemini AI are two of the technologies being implemented…
Hitachi Vantara: VSP One leads revamped storage portfolio
In this storage supplier profile, we look at Hitachi Vantara, which is a small part of a very big organisation. Since we last looked at Hitachi Vantara, its storage portfolio has undergone something of a revamp, based around its…
The tech investment gap: bridging the divide for underrepresented entrepreneurs
Despite the UK’s position as one of the world’s most dynamic technology hubs, the industry still faces a persistent and well-documented challenge – equitable access to investment. Underrepresented entrepreneurs – particularly women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ founders, and individuals from…
Tariff turmoil is making supply chain security riskier
Cyber security remained the most pressing challenge facing those in supply chain management roles during the first three months of 2025, but since the inauguration of Donald Trump in January, uncertainty over the Upresident’s approach to tariffs has caused…
Kraft Group enlists NWN for New England Patriots network upgrades
The Kraft Group has announced a five-year strategic partnership with NWN to transform the technology framework underpinning its entire enterprise portfolio, which includes businesses in sports such as New England Patriots, New England Revolution and the Gillette Stadium. In…
The role of small language models in enterprise AI
According to analyst Gartner, small language models (SLMs) offer a potentially cost-effective alternative for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) development and deployment because they are easier to fine-tune, more efficient to serve and more straightforward to control. In its Explore…
UK challenger bank targets US’s mid-tier banking sector with tech platform
Starling Bank has created a US subsidiary where it will target mid-sized banks with its banking software as a service (BaaS) offering. The tech operation of Starling Bank has already won customers in Europe and Australia for its platform,…
Government faces claims of serious security and data protection problems in One Login digital ID
The Government Digital Service (GDS) was warned by the Cabinet Office and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) that its One Login digital identity system had “serious data protection failings” and “significant shortcomings” in information security that could increase…
What is Cloud Security? | Definition from TechTarget
Cloud security, or cloud computing security, is a set of policies, practices and controls deployed to protect cloud-based data, applications and infrastructure from cyberattacks and cyberthreats. It encompasses securing cloud-based resources, including data centers, servers, networks and virtual machines (VMs)….
More than 100 Horizon victims are challenging Post Office offers on complex claims
The government is crawling towards completing the financial redress of the subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in a group litigation order (GLO) in 2019, with 70% of remaining claims challenging the offers made to them. A total of 432…
Lloyds Bank moves AI work onto Google Cloud platform
Lloyds Banking Group will build, deploy and scale artificial intelligence (AI) systems using a Google service, accelerating production while slashing CO2 emissions. The bank is using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI to build a machine learning (ML) and generative artificial…
What is Outsourcing and How Does it Work?
Outsourcing is a business practice in which a company hires a third party to perform tasks, handle operations or provide services for the company. The outside company, which is known as the service provider or third-party provider, arranges for its…
Airportr checks in with SITA to enhance traveller baggage delivery services
Looking to eliminate one of the travel industry’s biggest bugbears, air transport industry IT solutions provider SITA has signed a service agreement with baggage tech and delivery services firm Airportr to allow passengers to check in their baggage at…
Global law firm Freshfields embarks on AI-led digital transformation with Google Cloud
Global law firm Freshfields has outlined its commitment to ensuring all 5,700 of its staff can confidently use artificial intelligence (AI) tools every day to do their jobs, as it embarks on a large-scale roll-out of Google’s generative AI…
Taking a ‘good enough’ approach with cloud security isn’t enough
Thanks to cloud computing, organisations of all shapes and sizes have benefitted from the flexibility of IT capacity without the cost and challenges of maintaining their own infrastructure. Hyperscale public cloud providers and SaaS tools to help with a…
Bridging Borders: The rise of Ukrainian-British tech collaboration
The past year has been crucial for Ukrainian-British tech cooperation. As one of the leading IT service exporters, Ukraine’s presence in the UK has never been stronger, with business ties growing deeper. Recently, the IT Ukraine Аssociation (ITU) published…
MPs demand government reconsider response to Post Office compensation report
The government has fallen short in its response to recommendations made to speed up financial redress for subpostmasters affected by the Horizon scandal, say MPs. Sir Alan Bates said the subpostmasters are “up against the government spin machine”. MPs…
Kroll reviewing Post Office Horizon’s current integrity and discrepancy identification
The Post Office has appointed a specialist investigator to review the integrity of current Horizon system data and the processes used to identify discrepancies. This follows a report by the Post Office scandal public inquiry, published in September 2024,…
CIO interview: Sean Green, Birkbeck, University of London
Sean Green, interim CIO at Birkbeck, University of London, tells Computer Weekly that the promise of the university of the future requires a challenging journey to get there. With the delivery of education being transformed through technology such as…
‘Bankenstein’ and a cold calculation means banking crashes will continue
Banks are operating a “spaghetti” tech structure that is creating a game of “technology Jenga” for IT managers updating their systems. Making changes to IT systems has huge knock-on effects, with upgrades risking downtime. But banks are willing to…
Oxa taps Nvidia to accelerate industrial mobility automation
After making the strategic acquisition of autonomous industrial services provider StreetDrone to strengthen its position in industrial logistics, self-driving vehicle software provider Oxa has made further inroads into industry, with plans to use Nvidia Cosmos generative world foundation models…
NAS storage: TrueNAS aims to make it big in Europe
Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and entry-level NAS maker iXsystems is less well-known this side of the Atlantic, but aims at getting more customers here than in the US. “Europe is clearly the region where our systems are being deployed…
HPE storage battles hard and smart in challenging market
In this storage supplier profile, we look at Texas-headquartered HPE, which is not just a storage supplier but a full stack provider across the IT stack, from storage through servers to the software that can orchestrate complex information systems…
UK tech growth is vibrant – now scale it to the world
The UK has built an enviable reputation for producing innovative tech companies. Nearly two-thirds of Europe’s unicorns are headquartered in the UK, testament to the nation’s innovative and entrepreneurial culture. As UK Tech Week gets underway, there is much…
Satellite technology to provide broadband to remote areas of Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire Council is using satellite technology to deliver ultrafast broadband to rural locations as part of a deal with IT supplier CGI. The low Earth orbit (LEO) technology, which is a lower-cost alternative to rolling out fibre in hard-to-reach…
Major strike by Fujitsu staff at ‘cash cow’ HMRC
Fujitsu staff supporting IT services contracts at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will strike for 22 days in protest after in-house colleagues in similar roles received significantly higher pay rises. Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union…
Pure aims at AI beyond the enterprise with FlashBlade//Exa
Pure Storage has announced FlashBlade//Exa, which aims at artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads that demand extremely high throughput to graphics processing units (GPUs). That will serve customers between large enterprise users of AI and the hyperscalers….
Peter Kyle sets stage for making tech work
During his presentation at TechUK’s Tech Policy conference in London, science and technology minister Peter Kyle unveiled investments, reforms and appointments to drive innovation and boost the economy. Technology is set to play a pivotal role in the government’s…
Government announcement on Fujitsu talks add ‘vague words’ and no interim payment
The government and Fujitsu failed to mention an interim payment towards Post Office scandal costs in the latest update on the Japanese supplier’s contribution. Days after campaigning politicians demanded Fujitsu pay at least £300m up front, more “vague words”…
Dell still tops the pile as it deepens enterprise storage offer
In this storage supplier profile, we look at Dell storage, which is part of the infrastructure solutions group of the Texas-based giant Dell Technologies. Since the last profile we did on Dell, its acquisition of EMC, which formed such an…
CMA urged to expedite proposed ‘targeted interventions’ against AWS and Microsoft
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit out at the UK competition watchdog for presenting “no credible evidence” to support its claims the public cloud giant’s anti-competitive behaviour is harming how the domestic cloud infrastructure market operates. The Competition and…
European fintech must take different path to Trump’s US on diversity
The European fintech and banking industry must not follow Trump’s US in cancelling workforce equality programmes and must instead continue to enforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to Wincie Wong, co-founder of Tech She Can. During a session…
What is Stress Testing in Chatbot Testing?
Stress Testing in Chatbot Testing Stress testing in chatbot testing is a crucial process that ensures the chatbot can handle high levels of traffic, unexpected user inputs, and system overloads without failing. It is a type of performance testing where…
Major UK banks hit by payday digital banking problems again
Customers of multiple banks have reported problems banking online, as they struggle to access services on payday for the second month running. The problems came two days after MPs were due to receive details of how IT failures have…
Jaka jest częstotliwość odświeżania ekranów Dell XPS?
odświeżania ekranów Dell XPS Laptopy Dell XPS od lat cieszą się dużą popularnością wśród użytkowników ceniących wysoką jakość wykonania, nowoczesny design oraz doskonałe parametry techniczne. Jednym z kluczowych aspektów, na który zwracają uwagę kupujący, jest ekran – jego jakość, rozdzielczość…
Peer demands Fujitsu cough up £300m interim payment towards Post Office scandal bill
Fujitsu should make a £300m interim payment to the public purse towards its eventual bill for the costs of the Post Office scandal, says a Labour peer. Speaking in a debate on the slow progress of financial redress for…
Fujitsu’s £600m-plus prize with His Majesty’s ‘cash cow’ in 2025
Fujitsu could land over half a billion pounds in contracts from HMRC alone this year as the UK public sector continues to reward the supplier, despite its role in the Post Office scandal. HMRC is the biggest source of…
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MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage
London-based managed service provider (MSP) Autodata Products has opted for Scality Artesca object storage through its Scality cloud service provider (SCSP) pay-as-you-go purchasing option, which it uses to supply on-premise backup against ransomware for customers. Benefits of the SCSP…
EY: Industrial companies worldwide stunted in emerging technology use
Many companies from a range of industries worldwide are stuck at a trial stage of emerging technologies usage, according to the sixth annual EY Reimagining industry futures study. The firm surveyed 1,635 enterprises in November 2024, including 9% in…
‘Times are hard’ for fintech but latest report reveals glimmer of recovery
Fintech investment has been on a downward spiral since 2012, but the second half of this year could see the first shoots of recovery. Investment in UK fintechs fell by over a quarter last year, but there are signs…
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Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal
Fujitsu is targeting a lucrative contract renewal with HMRC worth over £200m despite reports that the government department planned to replace the scandal-tainted IT supplier, leaked details of an internal meeting have revealed. During the meeting, staff at the Japanese supplier’s…
The story behind Alps, Europe’s second largest computer
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center, also known as CSCS, built and deployed a new supercomputer in collaboration with Nvidia and HPE. The machine, called Alps, came on line at the end of 2024, and is already listed as the world’s…
DACH’s venture capital prominence: an outlier, or the start of a golden age?
Switzerland can officially boast the world’s fastest growing venture capital (VC) ecosystem, with only Dubai and Singapore preventing Austria from making it a DACH double at the top. An exciting tech sector has undoubtedly contributed to these impressive regional…
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Government failed to provide accurate cost of Post Office scandal compensation
The National Audit Office (NAO) has said there is not enough data in the department of business and trade’s (DBT’s) financial statement to put a figure on Post Office Horizon scandal compensation costs. The department’s spending also breached its…
IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space
CGI continues to build on its 12-year relationship with the European Space Agency (ESA), which is helping improve scientific access to data about Earth sent from space. As part of a Serco-led consortium, delivering ESA’s Advanced Data Access and…
All change: Weighing up the options for enterprises as open source licences evolve
Potentially heralding a fundamental shift in definitions of open source, HashiCorp moved to more restrictive licensing for infrastructure-as-code (IaaS) tool Terraform in 2023. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has since cited more risk and pressure to evaluate options,…
Quantum datacentre deployments: How they are supporting evolving compute projects
Put lots of qubits together and you have quantum computing, requiring datacentres that can support it. A quantum datacentre though is not just about having a building with a quantum computer in it. And there remain questions about what…
Disjointed industrial strategy a barrier to UK scaleup success
The second report from the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has warned that the UK risks becoming an “incubator economy” unless there is greater support for tech startups. The AI and creative technology scaleup report presents witness…
Google AI paves the way for ‘self-healing’ potholes
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the UK are using artificial intelligence (AI) to design a self-healing form of asphalt that has the potential to save local councils millions of pounds each year on pothole repairs. The material, made from…
Chancellor backs plans to boost Oxford-Cambridge growth
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled a series of measures aimed at boosting the so-called Oxford-Cambridge Arc as Europe’s Silicon Valley. She said Oxford and Cambridge offer huge economic potential for the nation’s growth prospects. According to research from Public…
What is nearshore outsourcing and how does it work?
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Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs
AWS EBS – Elastic Block Storage – customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity and pay way more than they should. Capacity utilisation on EBS is between 10% and 30%, according to Datafy, a startup that claims it can…
Concerns over Fujitsu billing application used at SSE Airtricity in Republic of Ireland
Fujitsu has been forced to escalate problems with a key IT system used by Airtricity in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) to avoid potentially impacting the energy company’s customers, Computer Weekly has learned. Fears over the billing application developed…
Oxford-Cambridge Arc gets government support
Secretary of state for science, innovation and technology Peter Kyle has confirmed the government’s commitment to supporting the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, a region that is home to numerous high-tech firms and university-driven tech initiatives. Speaking at a meeting of industry…
TCS to inject AI and quantum computing into aerospace through French delivery centre
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is targeting the next technology revolution in the aerospace sector through a delivery centre that will focus on technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. Based in Toulouse, it is TCS’s fourth IT…
Labour’s first digital government strategy: Is it déjà vu or something new?
There are few events more likely to induce a sense of déjà vu among weathered UK technology observers than the launch of a new government digital strategy. During 14 years of Conservative-led governments, there were four: in 2010, overseen…
DC01UK’s plan to build ‘Europe’s biggest AI datacentre’ wins local council approval
A plan to build a £3.75bn hyperscale datacentre on a plot of green belt land neighbouring the South Mimms Service Station in Hertfordshire has secured local authority approval, despite more than 900 objections to the build being filed. The…
The death of the piggy bank marks coming of age of a fintech
Those Beyond started life as the tech lab of fintech unicorn Thought Machine, supplying cloud-based core banking systems to the world’s biggest banks. Now, after setting off in a different direction to its former parent, it is on an…
Power grid constraints threaten Dutch digital innovation ambitions
Recent research from Schneider Electric warns that datacentre electricity demand could more than double between now and 2026, reaching over 1,000 terawatt-hours. This surge in power demand comes at a particularly challenging time, as the last Dutch provinces with…
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Post Office’s military culture and the “infallible computers illusion” destroyed lives
Problems experienced by users of the Post Office’s Horizon system are well known today, but the system’s predecessor, Capture, also caused huge problems for users which caused life changing suffering. The Post Office knew in February 1992, before the…
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NAO calls for ‘cross-government’ revamp of IT procurement to improve ‘big tech’ project outcomes
In its 55-page report, the public sector spending watchdog said the government stands to save significant amounts of time and money by improving how it engages with big technology suppliers, which are – in some cases – “bigger than governments…
Davos 2025: Misinformation and disinformation are most pressing risks, says World Economic Forum
Misinformation and disinformation pose the greatest risk to countries, businesses and individuals over the next two years. The rise of fake news, the decline of fact checking on social media and the growth of deep fakes generated by artificial…
Third-party storage: Key storage supplier offers in big three clouds
The hyperscale cloud providers – Amazon Web Service (AWS), Azure and Google Cloud Platform (CGP) – all offer a comprehensive suite of data storage options. These range from object storage to cloud NAS and direct-attached storage for cloud servers,…
UK fintech investment drops by almost double global average
Investment in the UK fintech sector fell by 37% last year compared to 2023, but retained its leadership in Europe and was second place in global terms. The huge fall in investment was put down to tough market conditions…
Nato membership boosts Finnish civil and military tech startups
Finland’s fast-expanding defence sector is witnessing a surge in tech startups chasing new business opportunities on the back of the country’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) in April 2023. The so-called Nato dividend is causing…
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Post Office scandal-stained Fujitsu orders staff to cut costs amid widening UK losses
Fujitsu has informed staff of cost-cutting measures it has put in place as it faces challenges amid its much-publicised involvement in the Post Office Horizon scandal. Prior to the festive period, UK staff were sent a memo instructing staff…
Rigid Flex Circuits for Wireless Communication Devices
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Nordic innovators drive the evolution of engagement
Consumers around the world are no longer strangers to digital, interactive experiences in their daily lives. However, the extent and depth of interaction is being taken to new levels thanks to a Nordic contingent that is leaning on the…
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Post Office staff list 14 scandal-stained individuals who should have honours stripped
The Forfeiture Committee has been told to strip the honours of individuals involved in the Post Office Horizon scandal. This includes former ministers, civil servants, and Post Office and Royal Mail bosses. A group of Post Office and Royal Mail…
Government boosts Horizon R&D campaign
The government has started the new year by ramping up its support for Horizon, the European-wide research initiative. Horizon, which involves collaboration with European, Canadian and South Korean researchers, is aligned with Labour’s Plan for Change. The programme enables…
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Interview: How Green Cargo’s IT switched tracks to logistics success
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The Security Interviews: Stephen McDermid, Okta
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Decking the halls with AI: the evolution of managed services
As we celebrate the festive season and look ahead to 2025, it’s clear that artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are transforming the way businesses operate. These technologies are not only driving efficiency and saving time but also enabling a…
Post Office scandal in 2024 – part 2: Capture, the prequel
Years before the controversial Horizon system was introduced in 1999, subpostmasters who used a Post Office system known as Capture suffered unexplained branch account shortfalls and the consequences that brought. These subpostmasters, now elderly people, for years didn’t even…
Post Office scandal in 2024 – part 1: A year in the mainstream
This year saw a scandal in the making for over 20 years finally arrive in the public consciousness in January, where it has remained ever since. The Post Office has been under huge pressure since a High Court judgment…
Controversial Horizon system to remain in Post Office branches as part of tech ‘fusion’, says source
The Post Office plans to use a combination of existing Horizon functionality, in-house software and off-the-shelf platforms for its next in-branch IT system, according to a source close to the project. Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon system, at the centre of…
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VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp
Customer tolerance to supplier lock-in is exhausted due to the “shock” that came from changes in VMware licensing. That’s the verdict from NetApp, which announced a set of predictions for IT in 2025 – and storage in particular –…
BT unveils managed SASE service
With cyber security breaches and attacks remaining a common risk, and threatening to derail organisations’ digital transformation efforts, BT has expanded its managed software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution for business and public sector customers in the UK with…
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Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance
Two Dutch political parties, GroenLinks-PvdA and NSC, have presented a detailed proposal advocating for a Dutch cloud infrastructure to prevent what they see as an impending over-reliance on foreign technology providers. The Clouds on the horizon proposal urges the…
Case study: Manchester Airports Group using AWS to revamp its data strategy
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Atos readies ‘adaptive and intimate’ Invictus Games IT service
The Invictus Games has chosen Atos to provide IT services that will underpin the tournament in Canada next February. Organisers of the tournament will harness the Atos’s wide experience of international sporting events such as the Olympic Games and…
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Fujitsu’s charity boss made redundant while Post Office scandal victims await support
Fujitsu has parted company with its UK head of charitable partnerships and restructured how it engages with charities, at a time when victims of the Post Office scandal are waiting for the support they were promised nearly a year…
Post Office Capture users invited to pivotal meeting with government
The government has invited former subpostmasters to a meeting next month to discuss its response to evidence that a second Post Office IT system wrecked lives. Former users of the Post Office’s Capture accounting software will learn the government’s…
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Post Office scandal redress echoes Windrush compensation problems
There are “strong grounds” to raise a complaint against the government to the Parliamentary ombudsman, in regard to its handling of the scheme designed to compensate subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in the High Court, a campaigning former…
Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware
Cloud provider Continent 8 has shifted its virtualisation environment to Nutanix from VMware, in a move partly driven by changes to VMware licensing, but also in an infrastructure shift to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and because of influence gained in…
Post Office scandal: How much deeper and wider can it get?
The opening up of the Post Office IT scandal has revealed smaller but no less devastating suffering endured by subpostmasters at the hands of the organisation, beyond users of its flawed Horizon system. It took two decades of campaigning,…
Convictions of Post Office Capture system users to be reviewed by statutory body
The Criminal Convictions Review Commission (CCRC) is reviewing cases of potential wrongful convictions where Post Office’s Capture branch software could be a factor and could add further cases highlighted in a recent government commissioned report. According to a Sky…
Fujitsu snubbed on private sector deal with Centrica due to Post Office scandal backlash
Fujitsu has lost out on a contract with British Gas owner Centrica after the company’s board, fearful of reputational damage, blocked it, despite the troubled supplier being the preferred bidder. Sources also say the recent termination of a contract…
Post Office to harness technology to automate scandal financial redress payments
In-house teams at the Post Office are working with technology that could speed up the payment of compensation to victims of the Horizon scandal. Subpostmasters, who suffered hugely at the hands of the Post Office and its unreliable Horizon…
Post Office project taking control of Horizon data from Fujitsu as part of messy split
The Post Office and its subpostmasters will no longer rely on audit data from Fujitsu once it completes a project to replace its current audit system. Legacy Horizon data will begin to be migrated from Fujitsu to a Post…
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Subpostmasters hit by Post Office scandal plan to meet over nuclear option
Frustration with slow financial redress could trigger the nuclear option for former subpostmasters who have campaigned for justice since 2009. During a meeting in Kineton, Warwickshire on Sunday 17 November, 150 members of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA)…
Post Office scandal: Inquiry’s final phase exposes dysfunction past and present
It is 25 years since Horizon was introduced and the same number of years since subpostmasters began experiencing problems with it. About 16 years has passed since Computer Weekly’s first investigation into problems with the IT system, and it…
AWS widening scope of MFA programme after early success
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to widen the scope of a mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) programme it introduced earlier this year, after seeing strong uptake among customers and a slump in password-related phishing attacks. The cloud giant made MFA…
Post Office IT boss calls for subpostmasters to judge him on his actions
The Post Office’s IT boss said he doesn’t expect subpostmasters to simply start trusting him and his team because they are new, but to judge them on their actions. In an interview with Computer Weekly, Andy Nice, the Post…
Microsoft UAE power deal at centre of US plan for AI supremacy
Microsoft has struck an artificial intelligence (AI) energy deal with United Arab Emirates (UAE) oil giant ADNOC after a year of extraordinary diplomacy in which it was the vehicle for a US strategy to prevent a Chinese military tech…
Storage technology explained: What is S3 and what is it good for?
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