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West Brom Building Society project to meet customers’ digital demands

3 minutes of reading / AI, API, cloud-native, Computer, fintech, Salesforce, Tech / By

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 showing a preference for more choice in how they engage with it. The five-year project will…

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Cyber security beyond compliance: Why resilience is the new boardroom imperative

4 minutes of reading / AI, cloud-native, compliance, fintech, firewalls, Tech, Technology, threat intelligence / By

Cyber security has long been the concern of CIOs, CISOs, and compliance officers. It was a regulatory obligation for many boardrooms – tick the box, demonstrate due diligence, and move on. That approach is no longer tenable. In today’s threat landscape, cyber is not simply a technical risk – it’s a strategic, enterprise-wide concern with…

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VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives

5 minutes of reading / Broadcom, Cloud, cloud-native, Computer, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, open source, Oracle, Tech / By

Changes to Java and VMware software licensing that have been rolled out over the past few years have a material impact on the total cost of running existing Java-based enterprise systems. IT decision-makers are having to weigh up the extra costs with the additional cost and potential disruption arising from reengineering enterprise Java applications to…

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How cyber security professionals are leveraging AWS tools

8 minutes of reading / Accenture, AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, cloud-native, compliance, Computer, data privacy, HTC, hybrid cloud, machine learning, network security, patch management, risk management, Tech, threat intelligence / By

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 AWS-based tech stacks. They cover areas such as data privacy, access management, configuration management, threat detection,…

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Controversial Post Office Horizon system could stay until 2033

3 minutes of reading / cloud-native, Computer, Fujitsu, Tech / By

The faulty system at the heart of the Post Office Horizon scandal could still be in use in Post Office branches up to 2033. According to a public sector procurement notice, the Post Office will finally replace the controversial Horizon system with an off-the-shelf alternative, but the current system could remain for another seven years.…

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Podcast: Quantum lacks profitability but it will come, says CEO

9 minutes of reading / AI, cloud-native, containers, Dell, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Kubernetes, Tech / By

In this podcast, we talk to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s plans as it orients from a historical legacy in tape storage to flash and disk for artificial intelligence (AI), extreme capacity and very long retention periods, all in the context of a commercially challenging few years. You’d only just need two hands…

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Hitachi Vantara: VSP One leads revamped storage portfolio

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Azure, Cisco, cloud-native, containers, Flex, Hitachi, hybrid cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, Tech / By

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 VSP One family that offers block, file and object storage – with performance profiles that range…

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VMware patches put spotlight on support

4 minutes of reading / automation, Broadcom, Cloud, cloud-native, Computer, Kubernetes, multicloud, Tech, Technology / By

Organisations using VMware now have no choice but to buy an annual subscription for a bundled product if they plan to continue using the hypervisor. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, Broadcom has simplified the VMware product family, which is now only available as a subscription, licensed on a per-core basis. Some organisations, like Telefónica…

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Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration

5 minutes of reading / Broadcom, cloud-native, DevOps, Kubernetes, Tech / By

More than 900 people attended the Nutanix Next Tour event in London in February. For Nutanix, many were not existing customers – the majority were customer prospects, and the ongoing concerns about VMware now being owned by Broadcom means that many people – including many attendees – are looking for alternatives. The completion of VMware’s…

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Backup technology explained: The fundamentals of enterprise backup

10 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Broadcom, business continuity, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, disaster recovery, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Snap, Tech / By

Backup is a fundamental protection required by any IT system. That’s all the more so in a world where ransomware attacks can take out company data in a stroke. Effective backup has also become more complex as IT departments deal with a variety of systems – including virtual servers and desktops, and containerised applications –…

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