Top 10 EMEA stories of 2024
One thing that the European Union (EU) certainly seems united on is how it can increase its influence in the tech world. Tech giants from…
Category: ComputerWeekly
Big data and Google BigQuery improve cancer drug development by detecting bacteria
Developing new drugs is risky and expensive. Creating a new drug and bringing it to clinical trials can cost billions of pounds, with no guarantees…
Why Keir Starmer’s plan to rewire Whitehall needs an IT-rethink
In my personal experience, there are certain institutional barriers to productive and successful delivery of major projects in government. Indeed it may be that the…
Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light
A government review of a local council’s decision to block a US-based company from building a hyperscale datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, has concluded the project…
Interview: How Green Cargo’s IT switched tracks to logistics success
Ingo Paas is what you might call a different sort of CIO. Even by the standards of someone in the top IT role, he has…
A job seeker’s guide to using AI and what it means for employers
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool to help job seekers find roles and make their applications, with ever more people using it. Multiple published…
Interview: Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer, NatWest Retail Bank
Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer (CDIO) at NatWest Retail Bank, has had a distinguished career leading technology-led change in some of the world’s biggest…
LockBit ransomware gang teases February 2025 return
Despite being taken down and humiliated by the National Crime Agency (NCA) coordinated Operation Cronos in February 2024, an unknown individual(s) associated with, or claiming…
Challenging the cloud giants: Is a new era of competition on the horizon?
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) sent shockwaves through the tech industry in October 2023 when it announced its investigation into potential anti-competitive practices…
Latest attempt to override UK’s outdated hacking law stalls
Two amendments to the Data (Access and Use) Bill that would have established a statutory legal defence for security professionals and ethical hackers to protect…
Innovation, insight and influence: the CISO playbook for 2025 and beyond
As 2024 comes to a close and we reach the midpoint of a decade that might generously be described as having so far been ‘turbulent’,…
CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months
The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement…