The majority of business leaders polled in a recent survey for Kyndryl (94%) list technology modernisation as a high priority for their companies, yet Kyndryl has found almost half (44%) of the critical IT infrastructure it manages for customers is approaching end-of-life. The poll, presented in the Kyndryl readiness report, combines survey data from 3,200…
Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 8 October 2024 Digital government on a budget Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine how Labour’s version of austerity will affect the government’s desire for digital transformation. We find out how the use of AI in the workplace is…
There can be few – if any – initiatives more important to the future of the Post Office than the replacement of the controversial Horizon IT system at the heart of the scandal that led to the UK’s most widespread miscarriage of justice. And yet recent revelations at the public inquiry into the scandal show…
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Numerous IT service providers and consulting businesses have ramped up their artificial intelligence (AI) practices in recent weeks in a bid to drive demand for enterprise AI. The latest announcement is Accenture’s expansion of its partnership with Nvidia, resulting in the formation of the Accenture Nvidia Business Group, through which it plans to help enterprises…
We live in an era of cyber ‘incidents,’ from WannaCry to MOVEit. However, it’s undeniably rare that a vendor finds themselves at the epicentre of such an incident in such a big way. Enter CrowdStrike. While it’s crucial to note that the CrowdStrike IT outage was not a cyber incident, it thrust CrowdStrike into the…
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Barclays has extended a private cloud contract with HPE to use GreenLake Cloud as a core pillar of its hybrid cloud strategy. Barclays signed a strategic contract with HPE in 2021 to deliver a global private cloud platform, hosting more than 100,000 workloads across the bank’s strategic hubs in the UK, the US and Asia.…
The new Labour government’s mission-driven policy approach can help focus digital transformation efforts throughout the public sector, but tech-enabled service improvement could still be undermined by the looming threat of austerity. At trade association TechUK’s Building the Smarter State event in London on 10 September, industry figures and public officials noted that while the government’s mission…
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The current wave of digital transformation, accelerated by the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), presents both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges. As AI continues to advance, it demands increasingly sophisticated datacentres and high-performance computing capabilities, raising critical concerns about its environmental impact. For CIOs and IT leaders, the imperative is clear: driving innovation must…
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Critically, in today’s world, cyber security is a fundamental part of statecraft and the responsibility of the government. That being to provide safety and security for its citizens, residents, immigrants, as well as businesses and charities, schools and hospitals. Cyber security is a clear and critical part of this responsibility that we must consider beyond…
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It has been widely reported that Broadcom has set its sights on VMware’s 1,500 most profitable customers. In organisations that spend less, negotiating new contracts may be difficult and costly, given that the new pricing bundles for VMware include products some IT departments may never use. This has been combined with a switch to a…
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