Category: Technology

To tie in with US president Donald Trump’s state visit, the UK and US have agreed to the Tech…

Fujitsu’s Horizon system continues to produce erratic figures in branch accounts, which the Post Office can’t explain, with millions…

Cloud block storage allows organisations to run applications that depend on high throughput and low latency in the cloud.…

Fujitsu expects its UK sales to see a double-digit drop as some controversial public sector wins fail to plug…

The shared responsibility model (SRM) plays a central role in defining how security and operational duties are split between…

Some 90% of businesses are either piloting AI or carrying out small- or large-scale implementations – a dramatic jump…

Over three-quarters of former subpostmasters caught up in the Post Office Horizon scandal experienced significant health problems as a…

As organisations increasingly rely on cloud services to drive innovation and operational efficiency, chief information security officers (CISOs) face…

With agentic artificial intelligence (AI), we could be facing the biggest tech refresh event in history, where every organisation…

Asked for his advice as to whether it’s a smart idea to switch from being an IT leader to running…

Scottish Widows has moved 3.8 million customer accounts and pension data from multiple legacy systems to a cloud-based platform…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being piloted at Lebanon’s Al Hamshari Hospital in a project that could help stretched medics…

Software applications often list artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in their feature sets, and data backup tools are no exception.…

A nationwide police investigation into the Post Office scandal faces conflict of interest questions over Fujitsu’s role in operating…

The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the French say. That’s certainly the case in…

The national police investigation into the Post Office Horizon scandal is expected to cost taxpayers more than £50m. Scandal…

Fujitsu sponsored an annual event held by the National Federation of Subpostmasters (NFSP) just months before a High Court…

Nationwide police investigation into Fujitsu’s role in the Post Office scandal faces conflict of interest challenges, due to the…

If you crank up the Wayback Machine and load the websites of today’s biggest managed security service providers (MSSPs),…

Pure Storage’s recent launch of its Enterprise Data Cloud reignited debate around storage and data management. Pure claims its…

Lenovo is notable among storage array makers for a recent rapid rise in market share, and the prominence of…

The National Air Traffic Services (NATS) organisation responsible for air traffic control services at multiple airports in the UK…

European data venture Gaia-X lobbied UK government officials to help build Europe’s data market in a Parliamentary meeting sponsored by…

Fujitsu has put nearly 500 UK employees on notice of possible redundancy, as it plans to cut more than…

As university towns, Cambridge and Oxford are oddly disconnected from the UK’s capital when compared with those in other…

The UAE has leapfrogged the UK in the latest fintech market rankings, following a $2bn investment by Abu Dhabi’s…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced vector storage for its S3 cloud object storage – S3 Vectors – in…

In this storage supplier profile, we look at Pure Storage, which is distinguished by being all-flash, unlike its competitors…

Peer James Arbuthnot has warned suppliers to “think twice” before partnering with Fujitsu on government contracts, to avoid being…

The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector…

The BBC is reported to be looking at how it can meet tough cost-cutting targets by outsourcing roles in…

The big lie of artificial intelligence (AI) is one of omission – its egregious impact on both people and…

Up to 500 UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are in line to pick up a share of a…

In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage’s Venkat Ramakrishnan about customer challenges when dealing with containers and storage…

The government’s accounting watchdog has refused to endorse the audited accounts of the College of Policing after serious failures…

As part of the agreement, Google will train 100,000 civil servants working across the public sector in using AI and…

Private sector buyers of IT and services face higher costs from new tariffs levied by the US. Meanwhile, possible…

Zopa will tap into the tech ecosystem in Manchester through a regional office that could eventually house 500 staff.…

Back in 2010, when I was working in IT in local government, shared services were hailed as a lifeline.…

A cyber security incident at Australian airline Qantas originating through the compromise of a third-party contact centre is being…

Microsoft’s “harmful” cloud licensing practices need to be swiftly and directly remediated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to prevent…

In this storage supplier profile, we look at NetApp, which made its name synonymous with the network-attached storage (NAS)…

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed off two contracts worth a total of £280m with Fujitsu as the…

When Dutch hosting provider mijn.host launched what it claimed was “one of the Netherlands’ first digitally sovereign public clouds” late…

Former subpostmasters who suffered as a result of errors in a pre-Horizon computer system will be able to apply…

Cloud bursting is an application deployment technique in which an application running in a private cloud or data center bursts…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in tennis on and off the court, as players and spectators are served…

Westminster is today unveiling a cyber growth action plan to set a path forward for the UK’s burgeoning cyber…

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has finally shared updated usage data for its much-maligned online IR35 status checker tool…

In April 2025, at the ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop in Cadarache, something remarkable unfolded. In a room filled…

In this storage supplier profile, we look at IBM, which has perhaps the longest history of all the storage…

West Brom Building Society is embarking on a three-stage project to build the digital capabilities its customers want. The…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed up to £750m in funding to create the UK’s most powerful supercomputer at the…

Tariffs proposed by the US government threaten to upend trading relationships across the world, with IT procurement already feeling…

Fujitsu received £310m from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in 12 months, while victims of the Post Office scandal,…

More than 7,000 people have received over £1bn between them as part of the government’s promise to provide financial…

Citigroup is “streamlining” tech support operations in China as part of a global restructure, with 3,500 roles set to…

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) plans to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into its business after…

The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into any organisation spreads anxiety among the workforce, in much the same…

Research from Cisco has revealed that while the benefits of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are clear, a human connection…

With millions of businesses now using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud computing needs, it’s become a vital…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become the lifeblood of millions of modern businesses, both big and small. But while…

Fujitsu was paid £80m by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in March alone as its public sector business continues…

HMRC has begun the process of breaking away from its heavy reliance on Fujitsu for IT services, with a…

Marks and Spencer (M&S) leadership believes that it may take at least another month to fully recover following a…

As the government hands the Post Office £400m in public funds to replace its controversial Horizon system, details emerge…

The Post Office’s decision to use a commercial off-the-shelf electronic point of sale (Epos) system to replace its problematic…

Denmark-based SaaS backup provider Keepit is adding to functionality in June and July that includes support for Atlassian dev…

The Post Office scandal public inquiry will publish the first part of its final report this summer, with its…

Private platform as a service (private PaaS) is a cloud computing model that facilitates the development, deployment and management of…

The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery…

A plan by Essex-based Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAH) to move some capacity to Nutanix cloud-based services is…

UniCredit has signed a 10-year agreement with Google Cloud to “accelerate” its digital transformation by tapping into the supplier’s…

A divide will emerge over the next two years between organisations that can keep pace with cyber threats enabled…

Danish engineers are drawing up plans to connect an Apple datacentre to a district heating network in Denmark that…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set its sights on helping 100,000 people across the UK gain skills in artificial intelligence…

In its second international trade deal in the space of a week, the UK government has secured a major…

India’s IT services companies are set to get even more competitive as the UK’s trade deal with the country…

IT architects tasked with the design of storage systems for artificial intelligence (AI) need to balance capacity, performance and…

India’s Hexaware has expanded its UK presence through a new office in London’s Canary Wharf, as part of an expansion…

The government has received more than 200 responses from local authorities across the UK that want their areas to…

Fujitsu UK is rewarding staff for meeting a sales threshold, in further evidence that the company’s gesture to pause…

South East Water is putting Google Cloud technologies at the centre of its five-year modernisation project, enabling improved collaboration,…

Despite the UK’s position as one of the world’s most dynamic technology hubs, the industry still faces a persistent…

In this storage supplier profile, we look at Hitachi Vantara, which is a small part of a very big…

Cyber security remained the most pressing challenge facing those in supply chain management roles during the first three months…

The Kraft Group has announced a five-year strategic partnership with NWN to transform the technology framework underpinning its entire…

According to analyst Gartner, small language models (SLMs) offer a potentially cost-effective alternative for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) development…

Starling Bank has created a US subsidiary where it will target mid-sized banks with its banking software as a…

The Government Digital Service (GDS) was warned by the Cabinet Office and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) that…

Cloud security, or cloud computing security, is a set of policies, practices and controls deployed to protect cloud-based data, applications…

The government is crawling towards completing the financial redress of the subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in a group…

Lloyds Banking Group will build, deploy and scale artificial intelligence (AI) systems using a Google service, accelerating production while…

Outsourcing is a business practice in which a company hires a third party to perform tasks, handle operations or provide…

Looking to eliminate one of the travel industry’s biggest bugbears, air transport industry IT solutions provider SITA has signed…

Global law firm Freshfields has outlined its commitment to ensuring all 5,700 of its staff can confidently use artificial…

Thanks to cloud computing, organisations of all shapes and sizes have benefitted from the flexibility of IT capacity without…

The past year has been crucial for Ukrainian-British tech cooperation. As one of the leading IT service exporters, Ukraine’s…

The government has fallen short in its response to recommendations made to speed up financial redress for subpostmasters affected…

The Post Office has appointed a specialist investigator to review the integrity of current Horizon system data and the…

Banks are operating a “spaghetti” tech structure that is creating a game of “technology Jenga” for IT managers updating…

Sean Green, interim CIO at Birkbeck, University of London, tells Computer Weekly that the promise of the university of…

After making the strategic acquisition of autonomous industrial services provider StreetDrone to strengthen its position in industrial logistics, self-driving…

Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and entry-level NAS maker iXsystems is less well-known this side of the Atlantic, but aims…

In this storage supplier profile, we look at Texas-headquartered HPE, which is not just a storage supplier but a…

The UK has built an enviable reputation for producing innovative tech companies. Nearly two-thirds of Europe’s unicorns are headquartered…

Buckinghamshire Council is using satellite technology to deliver ultrafast broadband to rural locations as part of a deal with…

Fujitsu staff supporting IT services contracts at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will strike for 22 days in protest…

Pure Storage has announced FlashBlade//Exa, which aims at artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads that demand extremely…

During his presentation at TechUK’s Tech Policy conference in London, science and technology minister Peter Kyle unveiled investments, reforms…

The government and Fujitsu failed to mention an interim payment towards Post Office scandal costs in the latest update…

In this storage supplier profile, we look at Dell storage, which is part of the infrastructure solutions group of the…

The European fintech and banking industry must not follow Trump’s US in cancelling workforce equality programmes and must instead…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit out at the UK competition watchdog for presenting “no credible evidence” to support…

Customers of multiple banks have reported problems banking online, as they struggle to access services on payday for the…

Fujitsu should make a £300m interim payment to the public purse towards its eventual bill for the costs of…

Fujitsu could land over half a billion pounds in contracts from HMRC alone this year as the UK public…

IBM Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services from IBM that offers software as a service (SaaS), platform as…

Many companies from a range of industries worldwide are stuck at a trial stage of emerging technologies usage, according…

London-based managed service provider (MSP) Autodata Products has opted for Scality Artesca object storage through its Scality cloud service…

Fintech investment has been on a downward spiral since 2012, but the second half of this year could see…

Fujitsu is targeting a lucrative contract renewal with HMRC worth over £200m despite reports that the government department planned to…

The Swiss National Supercomputing Center, also known as CSCS, built and deployed a new supercomputer in collaboration with Nvidia and…

Switzerland can officially boast the world’s fastest growing venture capital (VC) ecosystem, with only Dubai and Singapore preventing Austria…

Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model that lets software developers build and run applications and servers without having…

The National Audit Office (NAO) has said there is not enough data in the department of business and trade’s…

CGI continues to build on its 12-year relationship with the European Space Agency (ESA), which is helping improve scientific…

Potentially heralding a fundamental shift in definitions of open source, HashiCorp moved to more restrictive licensing for infrastructure-as-code (IaaS)…

Put lots of qubits together and you have quantum computing, requiring datacentres that can support it. A quantum datacentre…

The second report from the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has warned that the UK risks becoming…

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the UK are using artificial intelligence (AI) to design a self-healing form of asphalt…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled a series of measures aimed at boosting the so-called Oxford-Cambridge Arc as Europe’s Silicon…

Nearshore outsourcing is the practice of getting work done or services performed by people in neighboring countries rather than an…

Secretary of state for science, innovation and technology Peter Kyle has confirmed the government’s commitment to supporting the Oxford-Cambridge…

Fujitsu has been forced to escalate problems with a key IT system used by Airtricity in the Republic of…

AWS EBS – Elastic Block Storage – customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity and pay way more than…

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is targeting the next technology revolution in the aerospace sector through a delivery centre that…

There are few events more likely to induce a sense of déjà vu among weathered UK technology observers than…

A plan to build a £3.75bn hyperscale datacentre on a plot of green belt land neighbouring the South Mimms…

Those Beyond started life as the tech lab of fintech unicorn Thought Machine, supplying cloud-based core banking systems to…

Recent research from Schneider Electric warns that datacentre electricity demand could more than double between now and 2026, reaching…

Problems experienced by users of the Post Office’s Horizon system are well known today, but the system’s predecessor, Capture,…

In its 55-page report, the public sector spending watchdog said the government stands to save significant amounts of time and…

Misinformation and disinformation pose the greatest risk to countries, businesses and individuals over the next two years. The rise…

The hyperscale cloud providers – Amazon Web Service (AWS), Azure and Google Cloud Platform (CGP) – all offer a…

Investment in the UK fintech sector fell by 37% last year compared to 2023, but retained its leadership in…

Finland’s fast-expanding defence sector is witnessing a surge in tech startups chasing new business opportunities on the back of…

Fujitsu has informed staff of cost-cutting measures it has put in place as it faces challenges amid its much-publicised…

Consumers around the world are no longer strangers to digital, interactive experiences in their daily lives. However, the extent…

The Forfeiture Committee has been told to strip the honours of individuals involved in the Post Office Horizon scandal. This…

The government has started the new year by ramping up its support for Horizon, the European-wide research initiative.  Horizon,…

Ingo Paas is what you might call a different sort of CIO. Even by the standards of someone in…

It has been a year of real highs and lows for the hyperscale cloud giants, with the big three…

Being the chief information security officer (CISO) for a major supplier brings challenges: you’re working with people who understand…

As we celebrate the festive season and look ahead to 2025, it’s clear that artificial intelligence (AI) and automation…

Years before the controversial Horizon system was introduced in 1999, subpostmasters who used a Post Office system known as…

This year saw a scandal in the making for over 20 years finally arrive in the public consciousness in…

The Post Office plans to use a combination of existing Horizon functionality, in-house software and off-the-shelf platforms for its…

Artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology are set to be the driving forces behind business growth and innovation in…

Customer tolerance to supplier lock-in is exhausted due to the “shock” that came from changes in VMware licensing. That’s…

The opening up of the Post Office IT scandal has revealed smaller but no less devastating suffering endured by…

A cloud server is a virtual server that operates in a cloud computing environment and makes its resources accessible to…

Two Dutch political parties, GroenLinks-PvdA and NSC, have presented a detailed proposal advocating for a Dutch cloud infrastructure to…

More than 50 million people passed through one of Manchester Airports Group’s (MAG) three sites in 2023, travelling to…

Many enterprises are moving towards use of data lakes to help in managing increasing amounts of information. Such large…

The Invictus Games has chosen Atos to provide IT services that will underpin the tournament in Canada next February.…

In today’s digital landscape, the traditional security perimeter has dissolved, making identity the new frontline of defence. As organisations…

Fujitsu has parted company with its UK head of charitable partnerships and restructured how it engages with charities, at…

Software as a service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which a cloud provider hosts applications and makes them…

The government has invited former subpostmasters to a meeting to discuss its response to evidence that a second Post…

A cloud-native application is a program that is designed for a cloud computing architecture. These applications are run and hosted…

There are “strong grounds” to raise a complaint against the government to the Parliamentary ombudsman, in regard to its…

With cyber security breaches and attacks remaining a common risk, and threatening to derail organisations’ digital transformation efforts, BT…

Cloud provider Continent 8 has shifted its virtualisation environment to Nutanix from VMware, in a move partly driven by…

The Criminal Convictions Review Commission (CCRC) is reviewing cases of potential wrongful convictions where Post Office’s Capture branch software…

Fujitsu has lost out on a contract with British Gas owner Centrica after the company’s board, fearful of reputational…

In-house teams at the Post Office are working with technology that could speed up the payment of compensation to…

The Post Office and its subpostmasters will no longer rely on audit data from Fujitsu once it completes a…

It is 25 years since Horizon was introduced and the same number of years since subpostmasters began experiencing problems…

Frustration with slow financial redress could trigger the nuclear option for former subpostmasters who have campaigned for justice since…

The Post Office’s IT boss said he doesn’t expect subpostmasters to simply start trusting him and his team because…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to widen the scope of a mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) programme it introduced earlier…

Microsoft has struck an artificial intelligence (AI) energy deal with United Arab Emirates (UAE) oil giant ADNOC after a…

While on-premise object storage is a minority interest, relatively speaking, object storage in the cloud is huge. It is…

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is allowing contractors to pause their Loan Charge settlements until the government’s independent review…

The Post Office requested a four-year extension of its controversial Fujitsu Horizon system contract as the IT supplier’s European…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in…

The 2024 UK government Cyber Security Breaches Survey makes sober reading with 70% and 74% respectively of medium and…

The ongoing procurement process for NHS England’s Outcomes and Registries Platform (ORP) continues to draw concerns over the state…