At the end of October 2023, the UK’s national library, the British Library, took to social media to inform users that it was experiencing disruption to its services following an IT outage. Over the next few weeks, it emerged that the venerable institution had fallen victim to a ransomware cyber attack, and that its data…
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If there’s one positive from the news stories of cyber attacks targeted at the UK in recent years, it’s that as a nation we’re much more astute when it comes to recognising the dangers. Another is that our businesses, government departments, charities and institutions are finally waking up to the risks posed by cyber criminals. …
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The concept of working ‘on any device from anywhere’ is not new, but the Covid-19 pandemic brought the security challenges of remote working into sharp focus. For many enterprises the immediate issue was enabling a suddenly home-based workforce (many of whom had no previous experience of working away from the immediate office environment) to stay…
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Which are the top storage array makers and what are their strategies towards the cloud, containers and consumption models of procurement? In this article, we rank the top storage suppliers according to IDC market share statistics for 2022 in terms of enterprise external storage and give a brief summary of each player, where they’re at…
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Seagate’s IronWolf Pro lineup of hard drives for network-attached storage units has consistently offered good value for money, particularly at the highest capacity points. I purchased two 22TB IronWolf Pro drives for production deployment late last year. As part of the burn-in testing prior to actual deployment, they were put through our evaluation routine for…
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Microsoft is betting big on artificial intelligence and generative AI at all levels of the company, from servers and Azure down to individual Windows PCs. And that big bet is about to become a lot more visible on Windows machines in the future, as Microsoft has instructed Windows OEMs to change their keyboard layouts to…
Over the course of 2023, there has been a concerted effort by the UK government and law enforcement to push more digital offerings into policing, including hyperscale public cloud infrastructure, various facial-recognition technologies and integrated record management systems. However, Computer Weekly’s coverage reflects the contentious nature of many of these deployments, which are often plagued…
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In the realm of business applications, the underlying complexities of the western economic crisis and war in Ukraine and the Middle East were obscured in 2023 by the hype surrounding generative AI (GenAI). It would be eccentric, indeed churlish, to downplay the significance of GenAI, and so the first four articles selected here are, indeed, about…
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As with 2022, Computer Weekly technology and ethics coverage continued with a focus on working conditions in the tech sector, looking, for example, at the experience of UK Apple workers attempting to unionise and the efforts of digital gig workers who train and maintain today’s much-hyped artificial intelligence (AI) systems. AI itself also took centre…
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It’s been a rocky year for Microsoft Surface fans. After the Surface Hub, Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Laptop Go, and Surface Go received relatively minor updates, the community was shocked when Panos Panay, the father of the Surface lineup, announced that he was leaving Microsoft after a 20-year career and heading to Amazon.Panay will be replacing Amazon’s outgoing Dave…
