Category: Technology

The Post Office’s managing director at the time Horizon system problems became public told a senior colleague that he suspected…

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) promises a step change in the automation fundamental to IT, with applications ranging…

The source code for the decision engine underpinning HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) much-maligned Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST)…

The government minister in charge of the Post Office has said former Post Office executives and others responsible for the…

Fujitsu should stop bending rules, halt bidding for government contracts, pay for Post Office scandal damage and meet the children…

The frequency and severity of datacentre-related outages are going down, according to resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute. The organisation’s sixth annual…

UK-based cloud services provider Civo claims its offer to abolish all data egress fees for its customers goes above and…

A Fujitsu leak has revealed staff were given a flow diagram instructing them how to bid for government contracts during…

Multinational Finnish industrial groups Outokumpu, Metsä and HKScan, are scaling-up deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive international growth and…

In this podcast, we look at distributed cloud storage with Enrico Signoretti, vice-president of product and partnerships at Cubbit. We…

The Post Office sent people to prison based on evidence from computer data that lacked integrity – and senior executives…

The UK’s HM Treasury has expanded its headcount of data scientists as part of its plans to drive “data transformation”…

Leaked internal communications have revealed Fujitsu is targeting about £1.3bn worth of UK government contracts over the next 12 months,…

The amount of money the Post Office took from subpostmasters who were wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls may never be…

Fujitsu has told staff it will no longer seek new business in its Republic of Ireland operation and will instead…

IT services companies are primed to sweep up UK public sector business if Fujitsu’s huge share of the sector declines,…

German software giant SAP’s S/4HANA data migration and management is a huge challenge. Organisations in the midst of transitioning to…

What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)? Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web-based service that enables businesses to…

Known as Schedule 7, the data protection part of the G-Cloud 14 framework agreement is being described by prospective suppliers…

A global IT outage that forced fast food chain McDonald’s to temporarily suspend its operations in multiple countries has been…

More details of problems with a pre-Horizon accounting system used by subpostmasters emerges, despite the Post Office’s failure to respond…

NHS doctor Chris Day has won the right to challenge a tribunal decision which raises questions about information governance in…

Tech companies have urged the next government to adopt an “industrial strategy” to accelerate the take-up of artificial intelligence (AI)…

Cloud-based SaaS applications don’t have backup built-in, so third-party products have to fill that gap. Also, customers often never really…

American Express has written to customers warning that their account details may have been breached after a third-party supplier to…

Trust in Post Office management has fallen so low that MPs and subpostmasters are demanding it is removed from the…

The government’s starting point for negotiating Fujitsu’s contribution to the costs of the Post Office scandal should be a 50:50…

If the government produces a bill that does not remove the Post Office from the process of delivering financial redress…

The Post Office’s decision to prosecute subpostmasters using Horizon evidence during the software’s early roll-out phase was “frightening”, according to…

Most organisations spend more on cloud storage than they budget for, with large numbers migrating more data to the cloud…

The European Commission (EC) approved the Project of Common European Interest – Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) programme in late…

MPs demand more guarantees over Fujitsu’s contribution to the costs UK taxpayers face as a result of the fall out…

London-based post-production company Dirty Looks has committed to moving all of its computing and storage workloads to Deep Green’s flagship…

It’s just a year since backup product maker Hycu announced R-Cloud, and already it can protect 64 software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.…

The government may have to reopen previously agreed financial settlements with subpostmasters and should face legally binding deadlines on making…

The Post Office scandal has become markedly political, and while Computer Weekly continues to investigate, the journalistic resources of the…

Storage and backup investment plans for 2024 show a significant bias towards averting risk and building resilience. At the same…

West London-based colocation provider Virtus Data Centres is planning to build a server farm campus on a 50-acre freehold plot…

A tweak to how the IR35 tax avoidance legislation works means that from 6 April 2024, HM Revenue & Customs…

Stairlift and lift manufacturer Stannah Group said it has made a “significant investment” in a cloud-based enterprise software roll-out to…

The government expects a law to overturn Post Office Horizon scandal-related criminal convictions in July, but said it “will not…

Unisys has launched an investigation into its role in the distribution of the Post Office’s Capture accounting software, which is…

The Co-operative Group (Co-op) is adopting a cloud-first model as part of a plan to reduce its carbon footprint, with…

Microsoft’s hold on the global cloud infrastructure sector is on the rise, with data released in the wake of its…

HM Treasury has signed two three-year deals with datacentre specialist Keysource, including one involving the maintenance of the Amazon Web…

The Post Office’s second controversial accounting system, known as Capture, was developed in-house in the early 1990s. Following the explosion…

Switzerland-based copyright and royalties agency SUISA has cut datacentre rackspace and energy costs by 50% following a move from EMC…

A satellite due for launch will track how much methane is being emitted by oil and gas facilities, aiming to…

In this podcast, we look at the impact of the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) on storage and compliance with…

Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells refused to meet a government minister without a lawyer in 2015 when he insisted…

Ten years ago, as IT transformation director at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), I led the team that successfully renegotiated…

The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office scandal has gone relatively unnoticed over the past two years, but in…

More than 1,000 subposmasters could have used the Post Office’s Capture software, as more details emerge about how they were…

Joen Meier Olsen, senior manager of strategy advisers in EMEA for Apptio, says: “The hybrid cloud conversation in the Nordics focuses more…

Google is teaming up with HSBC to make it easier for climate tech companies that run their infrastructure on the…

OpenAI writes on its website: “The amount of compute used in the largest AI [artificial intelligence] training runs has been…

What is cloud modernization? Cloud modernization is a multistep process where existing on-premises applications, infrastructure and data sources are migrated,…

The rise of ChatGPT and its many imitators has changed the world. While the generative artificial intelligence (AI) narrative…

The public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal has just completed its fourth phase, with the closing statements…

The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal was told that the public are now paying attention,…

What is AWS? AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon. It includes a…

It saved 42% in energy costs, 50% in datacentre rackspace and got 4.5PB where previously it had 3.5PB in…

The IT sector of Russia continues to be under serious pressure from Western countries, with a significant expansion of…

For a growing number of organisations, the default option for new IT projects is the cloud and cloud storage,…

The chair of the department of business and trade select committee has called on the government to consider enshrining…

What is a cloud SLA (cloud service-level agreement)? A cloud SLA (cloud service-level agreement) is an agreement between a cloud…

In this podcast we look at the year ahead in 2024 with Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust. We talk about…

Fujitsu will engage with Post Office scandal victims and their representatives to establish how Fujitsu can support them and…

Just under three months since its first release of Jais, the consortium that released what it calls the world’s…

Google is reinforcing its commitment to the UK by building a $1bn datacentre on a 33-acre site in Waltham…

Fujitsu’s UK boss admitted that the IT company missed an opportunity to take action and prevent subpostmasters from being…

Fujitsu has put bidding for UK public sector contracts on hold during the current public inquiry into the widest…

Two recent major contracts point to the return of big outsourcing contracts. Earlier in January, Canada Post announced it…

I met Toby Jones at the BBC in the week before Christmas. He was in for Radio 4 to…

Science, innovation and technology secretary Michelle Donelan has unveiled a new initiative to support UK innovation. The scale-up forum…

You may not assume that an online IT tuition course could have a big impact on the war on…

Heat reuse-focused datacentre compute provider Deep Green has secured £200m in investment from Octopus Energy’s generation arm, which will…

Google will no longer charge customers fees for transferring their data out of its cloud when switching to a…

With the general public now alert to and furious over the mistreatment of subpostmasters, the government must take the…

In the short few weeks since the Post Office public inquiry adjourned for Christmas, the national mood around the…

The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular,…

More than 300 Fujitsu Services UK employees working for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are set to strike from…

Using the CES 2024 event to reveal “the industry’s most advanced” technology and propulsion platform for superyachts and commercial…

After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline…

What is cloud application performance management (cloud APM)? Cloud application performance management (cloud APM) is the process of monitoring resources…

In this storage vendor profile, we look at Pure Storage, which among all the big six storage players comes…

The datacentre news cycle has been dominated by a set of familiar themes throughout 2023, as operators continue to…

Nearly all enterprise IT projects involve decisions about where to store data. The public cloud holds perhaps more than…

According to government figures, only 11 members of the over 500-strong Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA) campaign group have…

By the beginning of 2023, the biggest storage supplier (Dell EMC) had seen growth in market share, while a…

Increasing costs and a lengthening timeline have forced the government to hand the Post Office an extra £103m towards…

The government has been advised to overturn all the convictions of the hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly accused in the…

As we approach the dawn of 2024, the intersection of sustainability and innovation within the IT sector demands a…

A new report from the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) finds national climate action plans remain insufficient…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a 12% year-on-year uptick in its revenue growth during the third quarter of 2023,…

Lloyds Banking Group has described the opening of a tech delivery centre in Hyderabad, India, as a “pivotal moment”…

The UK’s leading venture capital (VC) and growth equity firms have signed up to Venture Capital Investment Compact, where…

What are business services? Business services refer to all services that support a company. They do not create or deliver…

VMware Explore in Barcelona this week saw the virtualisation pioneer continue its push to go all-in on generative AI…

As organisational use of communications tools to share relevant data with third-party suppliers and partners spike, a lack of…

Kent-based construction design consultancy Frankham Group has ditched tape-based backup and deployed Rubrik appliances in a move that has…

Music streaming service Spotify is digging deeper into the portfolio of its long-standing technology partner Google Cloud to explore…

For the time being, most of the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is in the US. But Gcore’s hopes to…

The Post Office rewarded staff with bonuses if they hit targets for recovering money from subpostmasters blamed for accounting…

Capgemini has announced a four-year deal with Heathrow Airport to provide development and operations (DevOps) support for its technology…

Italy-based startup Cubbit has announced the availability of the DS3 Composer, which will create S3-compatible private object storage clouds…

Atos has been awarded the contract to provide core IT services to support next year’s European international football championship…

The government’s decision to stop a proposed datacentre being built on an undeveloped piece of protected green land in…

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is harnessing technology to support its mission to conserve the natural world through…

NHS England has set its sights on growing the number of users who rely on its FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration…

The decision came to light after the government’s procurement arm, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) began notifying suppliers on Friday…

As we approach the end of 2023, it’s important to reflect on significant steps that have been taken by…

Hexaware Technologies is opening an operation in the UK which will host 250 employees when fully up and running…

According to Finastra’s Financial services: State of the nation survey 2023, technology investment is currently constrained for 78% of…