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November 1, 2026

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What vulnerabilities are commonly discovered during web application penetration testing?

Web applications are frequent targets for cybercriminals because they often store sensitive customer and business information. Organizations use web application penetration testing to uncover weaknesses that attackers could exploit in real-world scenarios. Unlike simple automated scans, penetration testing involves manual validation techniques that demonstrate the actual impact of security flaws. Security experts follow recognized frameworks

Fujitsu braced for double-digit decline triggered by ‘foolish display of legal machismo’

Fujitsu expects its UK sales to see a double-digit drop as some controversial public sector wins fail to plug the hole in its business. Its deep roots in the UK public sector mean the supplier continues to retain lucrative contracts where customers are dependent on its services, but sales are falling. Sources have revealed

SLA promises, security realities: Navigating the shared responsibility gap

The shared responsibility model (SRM) plays a central role in defining how security and operational duties are split between cloud providers and their customers. However, when this model intersects with service level agreements (SLAs), it introduces layers of complexity. SLAs typically cover metrics like uptime, support response times and service performance, but often overlook

Growing demand for AI-skilled cyber specialists

Some 90% of businesses are either piloting AI or carrying out small- or large-scale implementations – a dramatic jump from 59% in 2023, according to the 2025 Nash Squared/Harvey Nash Digital Leadership Report. At the same time, the research reveals that cybersecurity is an area of growing concern. Having gone on a downward trend

Depression, anxiety, PTSD and suicidal thoughts: Post Office victims speak out

Over three-quarters of former subpostmasters caught up in the Post Office Horizon scandal experienced significant health problems as a result. In its latest publication, the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry’s listening project, In Your Own Words, revealed that scandal victims suffered from depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicidal thoughts. “They described these

Bridging the SLA gap: A guide to managing cloud provider risk

As organisations increasingly rely on cloud services to drive innovation and operational efficiency, chief information security officers (CISOs) face a persistent challenge: what happens when a cloud provider’s service level agreement (SLA) doesn’t align with your enterprise’s security and availability requirements? This scenario is more common than many leaders realise. Whether it’s a cutting-edge

Scottish Widows completes migration of millions of accounts to TCS platform

Scottish Widows has moved 3.8 million customer accounts and pension data from multiple legacy systems to a cloud-based platform from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). It worked with the Indian supplier’s subsidiary Diligentia on the migration to the TCS BaNCS software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. The pension provider, part of Lloyds Banking Group, also rolled out a wealth

Meet the IT leader In Lebanon who became an IT entrepreneur

Asked for his advice as to whether it’s a smart idea to switch from being an IT leader to running your own company, Nassib Chamoun has some advice for potential poachers turned gamekeepers. “If you’re looking for stability, my recommendation is to stay where you are as an employee,” he says. “If you can accept

Agentic AI: Storage and ‘the biggest tech refresh in IT history’

With agentic artificial intelligence (AI), we could be facing the biggest tech refresh event in history, where every organisation might deploy up to 2,000 agents per employee. And to meet that need, the entire IT infrastructure – and storage in particular – will be affected. Those are the views of Jeff Denworth, co-founder of

AI supports care of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon hospital

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being piloted at Lebanon’s Al Hamshari Hospital in a project that could help stretched medics provide better care for huge numbers of Palestinian refugees. The hospital, near Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, Ein el Hilweh, is using software from UK and Qatar-based healthtech startup Rhazes AI, which provides end-to-end agentic

AI and backup: How backup products leverage AI

Software applications often list artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in their feature sets, and data backup tools are no exception. Software supplier use of AI and machine learning (ML) in this space is not new. Automation has been a feature of backup software for years. Backup providers use machine learning and predictive analytics, in particular,

Home Office Fujitsu contract is ‘de facto’ conflict of interest in Post Office police probe

A nationwide police investigation into the Post Office scandal faces conflict of interest questions over Fujitsu’s role in operating the network used by separate police forces to share information. Peer James Arbuthnot described the contract as very concerning and questioned whether the government is “over a barrel to Fujitsu”. The government extended Fujitsu’s Law

Storage suppliers’ market share and strategy

The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the French say. That’s certainly the case in enterprise storage. Here we review the storage supplier profiles published this year on ComputerWeekly.com, and find all the key players building on key themes of the past decade. These include: flash storage (often QLC for

Subpostmaster federation accepted money from Fujitsu in run-up to High Court Post Office trial

Fujitsu sponsored an annual event held by the National Federation of Subpostmasters (NFSP) just months before a High Court trial examined claims that its system wrecked the lives of subpostmasters. A document about the annual NFSP conference, which was held in Nottingham in February 2018, stated that Fujitsu was sponsoring an evening event during

Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m

The national police investigation into the Post Office Horizon scandal is expected to cost taxpayers more than £50m. Scandal victims accept the cost, but demand accountability. Operation Olympos has consumed more than £6m since 2019, but over the next five years, costs are expected to increase significantly to about £10m per year until its

Jack of all managed security services, or master of none?

If you crank up the Wayback Machine and load the websites of today’s biggest managed security service providers (MSSPs), you’ll get a neat reminder of a time before the huge proliferation in services that we see today. Most providers offered only a handful of services then, compared to the dozens they do now. If

Metropolitan Police contract with Fujitsu is ‘potential conflict of interest’ amid Post Office probe

Nationwide police investigation into Fujitsu’s role in the Post Office scandal faces conflict of interest challenges, due to the IT supplier’s contract with the lead investigating police force. A freedom of information (FOI) request has revealed that through a subcontract in the Metropolitan Police’s deal with DHL Supply Chain, to provide Met police officers

Storage data management tools: What they do and what’s available

Pure Storage’s recent launch of its Enterprise Data Cloud reignited debate around storage and data management. Pure claims its EDC addresses the management of growing volumes of data in a complex regulatory environment, and the demands storage faces from artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The idea of a single management layer for storage is not

Lenovo partners its way up the storage maker rankings

Lenovo is notable among storage array makers for a recent rapid rise in market share, and the prominence of the partnering strategy it has employed to get there. While it lacks some things that most other storage makers possess – namely its own cloud, or cloud offer via the hyperscalers, or a container management

UK flights suspended after air traffic control outage

The National Air Traffic Services (NATS) organisation responsible for air traffic control services at multiple airports in the UK is recovering from a technical systems outage at its Swanwick facility that caused significant disruption to flights on Wednesday afternoon. In an initial statement issued at 4.05pm on 30 July, a NATS spokesperson described a

European digital market figurehead pleads to Westminster

European data venture Gaia-X lobbied UK government officials to help build Europe’s data market in a Parliamentary meeting sponsored by an MP who wants Britain to rejoin the European Union (EU). Ulrich Ahle, who as CEO of Gaia-X is overseeing the construction of software infrastructure to run Europe’s planned digital single market, presented the case

Fujitsu to cut at least 100 more UK staff

Fujitsu has put nearly 500 UK employees on notice of possible redundancy, as it plans to cut more than 100 roles. The supplier could face financial pressure in the coming months when it finally contributes to the huge costs of the Post Office scandal. A question posed to management during a recent company forum

Interview: Cambridge Consultants CEO Monty Barlow scans for tech surprises

As university towns, Cambridge and Oxford are oddly disconnected from the UK’s capital when compared with those in other European countries. France’s leading universities are mostly in Paris, by contrast. As David Willetts, former minister for universities and science, and a British Conservative Party politician, writes in his 2017 book, A university education: “England

UK loses second spot in global fintech to UAE

The UAE has leapfrogged the UK in the latest fintech market rankings, following a $2bn investment by Abu Dhabi’s MGX in cryptocurrency exchange Binance. This is the first time the UK has lost second spot, and comes at a time when global investment in fintech grew 6% to $24bn during the first six months

AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced vector storage for its S3 cloud object storage – S3 Vectors – in a move it claims will reduce the cost of uploading, storing and querying vectorised data in AI storage by up to 90%. The aim is to allow customers to cost-effectively store large volumes of vectors

Is history repeating itself with the government’s push to open public sector cloud deals to SMEs?

The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are not good value for money. Technology secretary Peter Kyle outlined the government’s ambitions on this

Peer warns IT suppliers against partnering with Fujitsu in government contracts

Peer James Arbuthnot warned suppliers to “think twice” before partnering with Fujitsu on government contracts, to avoid being “tarred by the Fujitsu brush”. Fujitsu’s central role in the Post Office scandal entered wider public consciousness in January 2024, following the broadcast of an ITV drama. Despite its self-imposed ban on bidding for government business

Pure Storage profits from all-flash, as-a-service and cloud focus

In this storage supplier profile, we look at Pure Storage, which is distinguished by being all-flash, unlike its competitors that all have hard disk drives (HDDs) somewhere in their array offer. Like the rest, however, Pure has moved from a sharp focus on actual storage towards data management. That’s been driven as analytics and

BBC plans to outsource and offshore thousands of tech roles

The BBC is reported to be looking at how it can meet tough cost-cutting targets by outsourcing roles in tech and finance. According to a Guardian report, thousands of UK jobs are at risk as the broadcaster seeks cost savings, which could see work carried out offshore. The report states that jobs in Salford,

The big lie of artificial intelligence

The big lie of artificial intelligence (AI) is one of omission – its egregious impact on both people and place. The convenient narrative the Broligarchy sells to us is that it’s all about those clever machines, the ones and zeros of code and those super-clever algorithms that are creating a new world order from

Government funding to help SMEs protect their IP

Up to 500 UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are in line to pick up a share of a government funding package designed to support them in protecting their intellectual property (IP) from hostile actors, whether they be larger competitors or state-backed threat actors. In exchange for a £500 buy-in, the Secure Innovation Security

UK government signs deal with Google Cloud to upskill 100,000 civil servants in AI by 2030

As part of the agreement, Google will train 100,000 civil servants working across the public sector in using AI and other digital services through its Google Cloud Training Programme by 2030, in support of the government’s goal to have one in 10 civil servants working in tech roles by the same date. Furthermore, Google Cloud

Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures

The government’s accounting watchdog has refused to endorse the audited accounts of the College of Policing after serious failures in a project to replace its HR and accounting systems left the policing organisation unable to properly manage its finances. The National Audit Office (NAO) found that the College of Policing, which promotes policing excellence

Podcast: Container storage challenges and how to overcome them

In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage’s Venkat Ramakrishnan about customer challenges when dealing with containers and storage and data protection. Ramakrishnan, vice-president of products and engineering for Portworx, talked about customers who take on container deployments without thinking through the future scale, technical requirements and cost they are likely to accrue. Here,

Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the private sector

Private sector buyers of IT and services face higher costs from new tariffs levied by the US. Meanwhile, possible retaliation by other countries and trading blocs, especially China and the European Union (EU), make the outlook even more uncertain. However, the private sector has opportunities to reduce or delay the impact of tariffs that

Zopa to embed into Manchester’s tech ecosystem

Zopa will tap into the tech ecosystem in Manchester through a regional office that could eventually house 500 staff. The announcement comes days after the launch of the challenger bank’s current account, known as Biscuit. Zopa currently has around 900 staff, mainly based in London, a third of whom are technologists, including engineers and

Law professor urges CMA to take swift and urgent action over Microsoft cloud licensing

Microsoft’s “harmful” cloud licensing practices need to be swiftly and directly remediated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to prevent irreparable harm being done to the UK cloud services market, a university law professor has warned. In a 36-page academic paper, Peter Whelan, a law professor at the University of Leeds, warns the UK competition

Scattered Spider link to Qantas hack is likely, say experts

A cyber security incident at Australian airline Qantas originating through the compromise of a third-party contact centre is being tentatively linked to an ongoing campaign of cyber attacks orchestrated by the hacking collective known as Scattered Spider, which previously targeted British high street retailers in April and May. On Friday 27 June, analysts at

Shared services in the public sector – is bigger really better?

Back in 2010, when I was working in IT in local government, shared services were hailed as a lifeline. Councils were facing unprecedented budget cuts, austerity was biting hard, and the subsidy for local government was evaporating. Shared services—where multiple public bodies pooled administrative functions like HR, payroll, finance, IT and procurement—seemed the perfect

NetApp: Not just NAS filers, and a comprehensive cloud strategy

In this storage supplier profile, we look at NetApp, which made its name synonymous with the network-attached storage (NAS) “filer” for the first decade or two of its existence. And while revenues have trended upwards ever since, it has slipped in terms of storage array market share, with Chinese entrants Huawei and Lenovo overtaking

Fujitsu’s grip on HMRC loosening but bags of taxpayer cash still to be made

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed off two contracts worth a total of £280m with Fujitsu as the government department makes “bridging” arrangements while it decouples from Fujitsu datacentres and self-assessment system hosting. A £220m deal with Fujitsu will be in place until 2028, as HMRC moves to a hyperscale cloud provider to

Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty

When Dutch hosting provider mijn.host launched what it claimed was “one of the Netherlands’ first digitally sovereign public clouds” late last year, it struck a chord with a growing European anxiety. Built entirely on open source Apache CloudStack technology and hosted exclusively within Dutch borders, the platform promised businesses a genuine alternative to American cloud

Government announces details of Post Office Capture redress scheme

Former subpostmasters who suffered as a result of errors in a pre-Horizon computer system will be able to apply for compensation from autumn this year. Around 2,000 subpostmasters used the software, known as Capture, to do their accounts from 1992 to the introduction of the Horizon system in 1999. Many experienced unexplained shortfalls and

What is Cloud Bursting? | Definition from TechTarget

Cloud bursting is an application deployment technique in which an application running in a private cloud or data center bursts its extra workload to a public cloud when the demand for computing capacity spikes. This deployment model gives an organization access to more computing resources as needed. When compute demand exceeds the capacity of a

Cyber action plan kicks off to ‘supercharge’ UK security sector

Westminster is today unveiling a cyber growth action plan to set a path forward for the UK’s burgeoning cyber security industry – which already makes £13.2bn in revenues every year, supporting over 67,000 jobs – and “supercharge” its future. The coming months will see experts from the defence and technology sectors come together under

Artificial intelligence could fuel growth in global tennis

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in tennis on and off the court, as players and spectators are served the personalised insights they crave. Tennis is already a global sport, with millions of fans generating billions of pounds each year, but technology could unlock huge untapped commercial potential. The All England Lawn Tennis Club

IR35: Use of HMRC CEST tool drops by more than 70%, delayed FOI reveals

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has finally shared updated usage data for its much-maligned online IR35 status checker tool via a Freedom of Information (FOI) response, following a 16-month push for the government agency to release it. The figures, obtained via FOI by ContractorCalculator CEO Dave Chaplin, show that use of the tool has

Fusion and AI: How private sector tech is powering progress at ITER

In April 2025, at the ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop in Cadarache, something remarkable unfolded. In a room filled with scientists, engineers and software visionaries, the line between big science and commercial innovation began to blur. Three organisations – Microsoft Research, Arena and Brigantium Engineering – shared how artificial intelligence (AI), already transforming everything

HMRC paid Fujitsu £310m last year, but Post Office supplier’s UK business faces gradual decline

Fujitsu received £310m from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in 12 months, while victims of the Post Office scandal, which the IT giant had a hand in, are offered “derisory” compensation payments. According to official figures, HMRC is Fujitsu’s biggest UK government customer, described by some as the supplier’s “UK cash cow”, with about

West Brom Building Society project to meet customers’ digital demands

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

UK government recommits to Edinburgh supercomputer plan with £750m funding pledge

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed up to £750m in funding to create the UK’s most powerful supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh, ten months after the government pulled the plug on a similar project backed by the previous administration. Funding for the project is set to be confirmed by Reeves during the Spending Review

IBM reorients storage to cloud, containers and as-a-service

In this storage supplier profile, we look at IBM, which has perhaps the longest history of all the storage players, and in IT much more widely, in servers, services and the cloud. We find the company well set on its ongoing efforts to reorient after a period of declining revenues. That reorientation manifests itself

Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the public sector

Tariffs proposed by the US government threaten to upend trading relationships across the world, with IT procurement already feeling the effects. And the tariff situation has changed many times since Donald Trump took office. Since the president announced plans to levy charges on imports to the US, there have been retaliatory moves by trading

Compensation to Post Office scandal victims reaches £1bn milestone

More than 7,000 people have received over £1bn between them as part of the government’s promise to provide financial redress to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal. The government announced that the £1bn milestone shows “progress”, but the figure hides a continued struggle for many. Hundreds still await fair redress, a quarter of

Australia’s CommBank completes migration of data to AWS in AI drive

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) plans to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into its business after completing a year-long migration of its data platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Its data platform will be integrated with every banking service channel and, through AI, will provide personalised services to customers. For example,

Citigroup cuts thousands of staff at China-based tech centres

Citigroup is “streamlining” tech support operations in China as part of a global restructure, with 3,500 roles set to go. The finance giant said some of the jobs will be moved, with one commentator suggesting it could join other US companies and shift IT and business support roles to India, where it has existing

AI in IT services and the diminishing correlation between people and growth

The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into any organisation spreads anxiety among the workforce, in much the same way outsourcing has done for many years. IT services companies have been disrupting corporate IT departments for decades, whether it be through lift-and-shift outsourcing contracts, managed services or cloud-based arrangements. Introducing an outsourced services partner

Agentic AI set to handle 68% of customer service interactions by 2028

Research from Cisco has revealed that while the benefits of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are clear, a human connection remains essential and robust governance is non-negotiable. The race to an agentic future: how agentic AI will transform customer experience study surveyed 7,950 business and technical decision-makers in organisations with a turnover of at least

How cyber security professionals are leveraging AWS tools

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

What are the best practices for securing AWS tech stacks?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become the lifeblood of millions of modern businesses, both big and small. But while this popular cloud platform enables them to manage and scale their operations with impressive speed, simplicity and affordability, it also represents a significant security and privacy risk if mismanaged by users. An insecure or improperly

HMRC begins escape from Fujitsu’s grip through £500m contract

HMRC has begun the process of breaking away from its heavy reliance on Fujitsu for IT services, with a tender worth £500m designed to exit the supplier’s services. In the clearest sign that HMRC is ready to break away from Fujitsu amid public pressure in relation to the Post Office scandal, it’s looking for a

Fujitsu raked in £80m from HMRC in March alone, despite Post Office scandal

Fujitsu was paid £80m by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in March alone as its public sector business continues unabated, despite its involvement in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history. In the first quarter of this year, the IT giant received about £123m of taxpayers’ cash from HMRC alone, but

M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July

Marks and Spencer (M&S) leadership believes that it may take at least another month to fully recover following a ransomware attack that it now looks likely will cost it at least £300m. It has also emerged that the incident may have begun through the systems of a third-party supplier of IT services, where tech

Botched Post Office IT projects continue to drain public purse

As the government hands the Post Office £400m in public funds to replace its controversial Horizon system, details emerge of millions more wasted as a result of botched IT. The latest costs come as the Post Office agrees to pay millions of pounds in compensation to scandal victims hit by a data breach last

Post Office performs costly 30-year U-turn on Horizon

The Post Office’s decision to use a commercial off-the-shelf electronic point of sale (Epos) system to replace its problematic Horizon software sees the organisation perform a U-turn after 30 years. Last week’s announcement that the Post Office is looking for an off-the-shelf Epos system, through a £169m contract, reveals a huge error of judgement

Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation

Denmark-based SaaS backup provider Keepit is adding to functionality in June and July that includes support for Atlassian dev workflow tools Jira and Confluence, as well as Okta’s access management tool that’s used in Google Workspace. These come quickly on the heels of anomaly detection capability in backups added in April and sit alongside

Post Office scandal inquiry to publish first findings this summer

The Post Office scandal public inquiry will publish the first part of its final report this summer, with its findings on compensation and the scandal’s human impact to be made public “as soon as possible”. The inquiry, which lasted about three years, examined a scandal that went on for two decades and saw subpostmasters

What is Private PaaS? How is it Different from Public PaaS?

Private platform as a service (private PaaS) is a cloud computing model that facilitates the development, deployment and management of software applications in a private cloud. Essentially, the private cloud component provides an IT infrastructure, and the PaaS component provides an application development and deployment platform that runs on top of it. Once deployed, a

NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty

A plan by Essex-based Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAH) to move some capacity to Nutanix cloud-based services is blocked by uncertainty over pricing amid US president Donald Trump’s recent flurry of on-off, up-down tariffs. PAH saved £500,000 when it migrated from VMware on end-of-life EMC VNX storage arrays to Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) several

University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery

The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke to Computer Weekly at Nutanix’s .Next 2025 event in the US last week. The University of

Italian bank signs 10-year deal with Google Cloud

UniCredit has signed a 10-year agreement with Google Cloud to “accelerate” its digital transformation by tapping into the supplier’s cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics capabilities. UniCredit will migrate “large sections” of its “application landscape”, including legacy systems, to Google’s Cloud platform across its banking operations in 13 countries. The bank will also

UK critical systems at risk from ‘digital divide’ created by AI threats

A divide will emerge over the next two years between organisations that can keep pace with cyber threats enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and those that fall behind, cyber chiefs have warned. AI-enabled tools will make it possible for attackers to exploit security vulnerabilities increasingly rapidly, giving organisations precious little time to fix security

Apple to play modest role after datacentre heat breakthrough in Denmark

Danish engineers are drawing up plans to connect an Apple datacentre to a district heating network in Denmark that will use its waste energy to heat homes and provide hot water. This comes a decade after the US phone giant announced plans to build one capable of community integration, and five years after it

UK Digital Services Tax survives US trade negotiations

In its second international trade deal in the space of a week, the UK government has secured a major trade deal with the US that leaves Britain’s Digital Services Tax unchanged and potentially opens the doors to a future UK-US technology partnership via which the science and tech sectors in both countries will collaborate

AI adoption: AWS addresses the skills barrier holding back enterprises

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set its sights on helping 100,000 people across the UK gain skills in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, having published research that suggests at least one business is adopting AI every minute. The skills push will be made possible by a geographical expansion of the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech

Cloud storage for AI: Options, pros and cons

IT architects tasked with the design of storage systems for artificial intelligence (AI) need to balance capacity, performance and cost. AI systems, especially those based on large language models (LLMs), consume vast amounts of data. In fact, LLMs or generative AI (GenAI) models often work better the more data they have. The training phase

UK hands Indian IT suppliers competitive boost in trade deal

India’s IT services companies are set to get even more competitive as the UK’s trade deal with the country exempts Indian professionals from paying National Insurance. With IT services companies such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro already well embedded, smaller Indian players are also growing their UK operations. Following a deal,

India’s Hexaware targets public sector business as it expands UK operation

India’s Hexaware has expanded its UK presence through a new office in London’s Canary Wharf, as part of an expansion plan that will see it bid for UK public sector business. The IT services firm said IT suppliers that currently dominate the public sector are in its sights as UK government departments and public sector

Government bags 200 bids from local authorities wanting AI growth zones in their areas

The government has received more than 200 responses from local authorities across the UK that want their areas to become artificial intelligence (AI) growth zones, it has been revealed. Local councils were asked in February to express their interest in supporting the development of these zones, which will be used to house the datacentre

Fujitsu UK staff will get bonus despite Post Office scandal fallout

Fujitsu UK is rewarding staff for meeting a sales threshold, in further evidence that the company’s gesture to pause bidding for public sector contracts was a “hollow” one. According to sources, all UK staff will receive a bonus this year after a sales target was reached, while headquarters in Japan is injecting another £80m

South East Water modernises through Google Cloud

South East Water is putting Google Cloud technologies at the centre of its five-year modernisation project, enabling improved collaboration, data insights and access to artificial intelligence (AI). Google Workspace and Gemini AI are two of the technologies being implemented after the company decided it wanted much more than just a technology refresh. Richard Bannister,

The tech investment gap: bridging the divide for underrepresented entrepreneurs

Despite the UK’s position as one of the world’s most dynamic technology hubs, the industry still faces a persistent and well-documented challenge – equitable access to investment. Underrepresented entrepreneurs – particularly women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ founders, and individuals from non-traditional backgrounds – remain significantly disadvantaged when it comes to securing the capital needed to

Hitachi Vantara: VSP One leads revamped storage portfolio

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

Tariff turmoil is making supply chain security riskier

Cyber security remained the most pressing challenge facing those in supply chain management roles during the first three months of 2025, but since the inauguration of Donald Trump in January, uncertainty over the Upresident’s approach to tariffs has caused chaos for supply chains not just in the US, but around the world, and these

Kraft Group enlists NWN for New England Patriots network upgrades

The Kraft Group has announced a five-year strategic partnership with NWN to transform the technology framework underpinning its entire enterprise portfolio, which includes businesses in sports such as New England Patriots, New England Revolution and the Gillette Stadium. In operation for more than 30 years, NWN has helped over 5,000 chief information officers deliver

UK challenger bank targets US’s mid-tier banking sector with tech platform

Starling Bank has created a US subsidiary where it will target mid-sized banks with its banking software as a service (BaaS) offering. The tech operation of Starling Bank has already won customers in Europe and Australia for its platform, which was originally launched in the UK in 2018 and rebadged as Engine in 2022.

Government faces claims of serious security and data protection problems in One Login digital ID

The Government Digital Service (GDS) was warned by the Cabinet Office and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) that its One Login digital identity system had “serious data protection failings” and “significant shortcomings” in information security that could increase the risk of data breaches and identity theft. Problems were subsequently confirmed by an internal

What is Cloud Security? | Definition from TechTarget

Cloud security, or cloud computing security, is a set of policies, practices and controls deployed to protect cloud-based data, applications and infrastructure from cyberattacks and cyberthreats. It encompasses securing cloud-based resources, including data centers, servers, networks and virtual machines (VMs). Cloud security addresses unique challenges such as shared responsibility models, multi-tenancy, data privacy and compliance

The role of small language models in enterprise AI

According to analyst Gartner, small language models (SLMs) offer a potentially cost-effective alternative for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) development and deployment because they are easier to fine-tune, more efficient to serve and more straightforward to control. In its Explore small language models for specific AI scenarios report, published in August 2024, Gartner explores how

More than 100 Horizon victims are challenging Post Office offers on complex claims

The government is crawling towards completing the financial redress of the subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in a group litigation order (GLO) in 2019, with 70% of remaining claims challenging the offers made to them. A total of 432 out of 492 claimants in the GLO redress scheme have received offers, with 282 reaching

Lloyds Bank moves AI work onto Google Cloud platform

Lloyds Banking Group will build, deploy and scale artificial intelligence (AI) systems using a Google service, accelerating production while slashing CO2 emissions. The bank is using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI to build a machine learning (ML) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) development platform, which more than 300 of its data scientists will use. During

What is Outsourcing and How Does it Work?

Outsourcing is a business practice in which a company hires a third party to perform tasks, handle operations or provide services for the company. The outside company, which is known as the service provider or third-party provider, arranges for its own workers or computer systems to perform the tasks or services either onsite at the

Airportr checks in with SITA to enhance traveller baggage delivery services

Looking to eliminate one of the travel industry’s biggest bugbears, air transport industry IT solutions provider SITA has signed a service agreement with baggage tech and delivery services firm Airportr to allow passengers to check in their baggage at the start of their journey and have it delivered directly to their destination. Approved by

Global law firm Freshfields embarks on AI-led digital transformation with Google Cloud

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The government has invited former subpostmasters to a meeting next month to discuss its response to evidence that a second Post Office IT system wrecked lives. Former users of the Post Office’s Capture accounting software will learn the government’s planned response to the findings of a forensic investigation by Kroll, which found a “reasonable

What is a Cloud-Native Application and How Do You Build One?

A cloud-native application is a program that is designed for a cloud computing architecture. These applications are run and hosted in the cloud and are designed to capitalize on the inherent characteristics of a cloud computing software delivery model. A native app is software that is developed for use on a specific platform or device,

Post Office scandal redress echoes Windrush compensation problems

There are “strong grounds” to raise a complaint against the government to the Parliamentary ombudsman, in regard to its handling of the scheme designed to compensate subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in the High Court, a campaigning former subpostmaster has said. Sir Alan Bates, who founded the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA) in

BT unveils managed SASE service

With cyber security breaches and attacks remaining a common risk, and threatening to derail organisations’ digital transformation efforts, BT has expanded its managed software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution for business and public sector customers in the UK with new security service edge (SSE) capabilities. According to research released by BT in September, it

Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware

Cloud provider Continent 8 has shifted its virtualisation environment to Nutanix from VMware, in a move partly driven by changes to VMware licensing, but also in an infrastructure shift to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and because of influence gained in its ongoing partnership with Nutanix. The move has seen Continent 8 shift the bulk of

Convictions of Post Office Capture system users to be reviewed by statutory body

The Criminal Convictions Review Commission (CCRC) is reviewing cases of potential wrongful convictions where Post Office’s Capture branch software could be a factor and could add further cases highlighted in a recent government commissioned report. According to a Sky News report, the CCRC has five cases under review where the “Capture IT system could

Fujitsu snubbed on private sector deal with Centrica due to Post Office scandal backlash

Fujitsu has lost out on a contract with British Gas owner Centrica after the company’s board, fearful of reputational damage, blocked it, despite the troubled supplier being the preferred bidder. Sources also say the recent termination of a contract with the Northern Ireland Education Board was down to implementation problems, not the Post Office

Post Office to harness technology to automate scandal financial redress payments

In-house teams at the Post Office are working with technology that could speed up the payment of compensation to victims of the Horizon scandal. Subpostmasters, who suffered hugely at the hands of the Post Office and its unreliable Horizon IT system, have waited years for their claims to be settled and pressure is mounting

Post Office project taking control of Horizon data from Fujitsu as part of messy split

The Post Office and its subpostmasters will no longer rely on audit data from Fujitsu once it completes a project to replace its current audit system. Legacy Horizon data will begin to be migrated from Fujitsu to a Post Office cloud system early next year. It will also house data from the Post Office’s

Post Office scandal: Inquiry’s final phase exposes dysfunction past and present

It is 25 years since Horizon was introduced and the same number of years since subpostmasters began experiencing problems with it. About 16 years has passed since Computer Weekly’s first investigation into problems with the IT system, and it was just a few months after that when subpostmasters formed a campaign group to seek

Subpostmasters hit by Post Office scandal plan to meet over nuclear option

Frustration with slow financial redress could trigger the nuclear option for former subpostmasters who have campaigned for justice since 2009. During a meeting in Kineton, Warwickshire on Sunday 17 November, 150 members of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA) aired their frustration at the slow progress in receiving financial redress. JFSA chair Sir Alan

AWS widening scope of MFA programme after early success

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to widen the scope of a mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) programme it introduced earlier this year, after seeing strong uptake among customers and a slump in password-related phishing attacks. The cloud giant made MFA compulsory for management account root users in the AWS Management Console beginning in May 2024,

Post Office IT boss calls for subpostmasters to judge him on his actions

The Post Office’s IT boss said he doesn’t expect subpostmasters to simply start trusting him and his team because they are new, but to judge them on their actions. In an interview with Computer Weekly, Andy Nice, the Post Office’s recently installed chief transformation officer, also said he and his team entered their roles

Storage technology explained: What is S3 and what is it good for?

While on-premise object storage is a minority interest, relatively speaking, object storage in the cloud is huge. It is its natural home, and AWS’s S3 is the big beast that roams there. While it’s hard to get a definitive figure, the most recent AWS (Amazon Web Services) estimates of the number of S3 objects

Microsoft UAE power deal at centre of US plan for AI supremacy

Microsoft has struck an artificial intelligence (AI) energy deal with United Arab Emirates (UAE) oil giant ADNOC after a year of extraordinary diplomacy in which it was the vehicle for a US strategy to prevent a Chinese military tech grab in the Gulf region. The latest in a line of AI deals that Microsoft

HMRC puts Loan Charge settlements ‘on pause by request’ until independent review concludes

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is allowing contractors to pause their Loan Charge settlements until the government’s independent review of the controversial tax policy has concluded, Computer Weekly has learned. The retroactive tax policy forms the central tenet of HMRC’s clampdown on disguised remuneration schemes, with the government tax collection agency claiming the Loan

Post Office requested four-year Horizon extension, as Fujitsu boss arrived at public inquiry

The Post Office requested a four-year extension of its controversial Fujitsu Horizon system contract as the IT supplier’s European boss arrived to give evidence at the public inquiry examining the system’s role in the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history. Paul Patterson, Fujitsu’s head of Europe, told the Post Office scandal public inquiry

AWS storage: Key storage options in the Amazon cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in 2006. The hyperscaler’s Simple Storage Service (S3) set out to make storing data in the cloud as simple as possible, at least for end users. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels commented on S3’s 15th anniversary

Strengthening cyber: Best IAM practices to combat threats

The 2024 UK government Cyber Security Breaches Survey makes sober reading with 70% and 74% respectively of medium and large businesses reporting some form of cyber incident within the previous 12 months. With phishing accounting for 84% of these attacks and AI enabling the launch of increasingly sophisticated cyber campaigns, organisations need to defend

Fresh concerns over NHS England registries procurement

The ongoing procurement process for NHS England’s Outcomes and Registries Platform (ORP) continues to draw concerns over the state of the project’s data security practices, amid claims that the whole enterprise may be riding roughshod over compliance with public sector procurement regulations. The ORP project is designed to bring together various, world-renowned clinical devices