November 4, 2026
The government minister in charge of the Post Office has said former Post Office executives and others responsible for the Horizon scandal should be jailed. Business and trade minister Kevin Hollinrake’s commitment to hold the instigators of the scandal to account comes on the eve of the next phase of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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The frequency and severity of datacentre-related outages are going down, according to resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute. The organisation’s sixth annual outage analysis report says the number of datacentre-related crashes has been declining for several years, despite marked increases in the number of facilities in operation across the world. “More than half (55%) of operator respondents
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UK-based cloud services provider Civo claims its offer to abolish all data egress fees for its customers goes above and beyond similar commitments recently made by the big three hyperscale cloud providers. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google Cloud publicly committed to abolishing data egress fees for their customers
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Fujitsu should stop bending rules, halt bidding for government contracts, pay for Post Office scandal damage and meet the children of victims, the select committee chair has demanded. The IT firm is accused of hollow gestures as it continues to bid for lucrative government contracts, fails to agree a contribution to Post Office scandal costs
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Multinational Finnish industrial groups Outokumpu, Metsä and HKScan are scaling-up deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive international growth and strengthen performance-based efficiencies in their production and product-based core research operations. The AI-focused capital investments earmarked by the three Finnish companies reflect the wider adoption and exploitation of AI and robotics technologies by industrial groups
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A Fujitsu leak has revealed staff were given a flow diagram instructing them how to bid for government contracts during the IT supplier’s self-imposed ban on bidding, which a senior UK executive sees as no more than “an extra gateway” for it. Internal communications seen by Computer Weekly also reveal Fujitsu has spent £27m on
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Multinational Finnish industrial groups Outokumpu, Metsä and HKScan, are scaling-up deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive international growth and strengthen performance-based efficiencies in their production and product-based core research operations. The AI-focused capital investments earmarked by the three Finnish companies reflects the wider adoption and exploitation of AI and robotics technologies by industrial groups
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In this podcast, we look at distributed cloud storage with Enrico Signoretti, vice-president of product and partnerships at Cubbit. We talk about how storage has shifted to hybrid and multicloud modes and how distributed cloud storage separates the control plane from data to provide data retention in multiple locations, on-site and in multiple clouds. Signoretti
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The Post Office sent people to prison based on evidence from computer data that lacked integrity – and senior executives knew it. Covert recordings revealed by Channel 4 News will increase calls for a criminal investigation into former Post Office bosses. Since 2008, when former subpostmaster Michael Rudkin first witnessed Fujitsu staff altering Post Office
READ MORESolder Mask on RF PCB Performance The solder mask is the primary layer of protection for copper traces on a PCB. It prevents dust and moisture from contacting the copper and hampering its conductivity and integrity. The mask also protects against whiskers, which are thin filaments that grow out of the copper and cause short
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The UK’s HM Treasury has expanded its headcount of data scientists as part of its plans to drive “data transformation” across the department. According to figures from a recent Freedom of Information (FoI) request, in 2021, the total staff budget for data scientists at the Treasury was just £13,213, with only three employees on the
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Leaked internal communications have revealed Fujitsu is targeting about £1.3bn worth of UK government contracts over the next 12 months, despite its promise to stall bidding for new contracts amid the Post Office scandal fallout. The IT giant is aiming for about £800m of public sector and about £500m of UK national security contracts in
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The amount of money the Post Office took from subpostmasters who were wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls may never be known due to “system limitations”. Subpostmasters paid the Post Office “millions upon millions” of pounds to cover phantom accounting shortfalls that they were wrongly blamed for, said MP and former subpostmaster Duncan Baker during a
READ MOREFlexible Printed Circuits From Mechanical Stress A flexible printed circuit, or FPC, is a conductive circuit board that has a thin substrate and is designed to flex or bend. It may contain surface mount devices (SMDs) or terminals for connecting to other components. FPCs are used in a variety of electronic applications. The conductive pathways
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Fujitsu has told staff it will no longer seek new business in its Republic of Ireland operation and will instead focus on fulfilling existing contracts. In an internal email, UK and Ireland boss Anwen Owen said the decision followed a review of the business performance and outlook in Ireland. Staff in Ireland will be affected.
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IT services companies are primed to sweep up UK public sector business if Fujitsu’s huge share of the sector declines, amid fury over its role in the Post Office scandal. Suppliers such as India’s Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), already a giant in the UK and global corporate sector, now stand to benefit if Fujitsu’s UK
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German software giant SAP’s S/4HANA data migration and management is a huge challenge. Organisations in the midst of transitioning to the platform lack comprehensive data strategies, find responsibilities split between departments, lack skills, can’t access data and report slow progress to use of artificial intelligence (AI) because of problems with data management. Those are the
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What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)? Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web-based service that enables businesses to run application programs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. With Amazon EC2, companies can access scalable and secure computing capacity on demand to run many kinds of workloads in AWS. Amazon EC2 is
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Known as Schedule 7, the data protection part of the G-Cloud 14 framework agreement is being described by prospective suppliers as poorly drafted and nonsensical. And CCS is now facing urgent calls to revise its contents, amid concerns that – in its current state – Schedule 7 could lead to contracts called off under G-Cloud
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A global IT outage that forced fast food chain McDonald’s to temporarily suspend its operations in multiple countries has been blamed on a third-party provider error made during a configuration change, with no suspicion of any form of cyber attack. The issues were first observed in Australia and began to affect the UK at around
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More details of problems with a pre-Horizon accounting system used by subpostmasters emerges, despite the Post Office’s failure to respond to demands for answers. There have been question marks over the reliability of the software, known as Capture, and a letter from 1994 reveals the controversial software was “completely” rewritten two years after its launch,
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NHS doctor Chris Day has won the right to challenge a tribunal decision which raises questions about information governance in NHS hospital trusts and the use of digital evidence by employment tribunals. Day blew the whistle on acute understaffing at a South London intensive care unit linked to two patient deaths in 2013. His decade-long
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Tech companies have urged the next government to adopt an “industrial strategy” to accelerate the take-up of artificial intelligence (AI) across UK businesses. The recommendation is one of seven urgent policy interventions identified by the UK’s technology sector for the first parliament of the next government. With the Labour Party leading in the polls, and
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Cloud-based SaaS applications don’t have backup built-in, so third-party products have to fill that gap. Also, customers often never really gain the full benefit of information locked into software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that could provide insights of value to the customer. That’s the view of Own, which provides backup and restore – with very fine levels
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American Express has written to customers warning that their account details may have been breached after a third-party supplier to various merchants reported unauthorised access to its systems. Details emerged following a letter to regulators in the US state of Massachusetts. The credit card giant told customers that its own systems were not accessed and that
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Trust in Post Office management has fallen so low that MPs and subpostmasters are demanding it is removed from the process of compensating those whose lives it wrecked. The organisation, which used to refer to itself as the “UK’s most trusted brand”, lacks any trust following revelations in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. In
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The government’s starting point for negotiating Fujitsu’s contribution to the costs of the Post Office scandal should be a 50:50 split, according to the chair of a Parliamentary select committee. Fujitsu stood by and watched as the Post Office used data from its error-prone computer system as evidence to prosecute subpostmasters. Liam Byrne, chair of
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The Post Office’s decision to prosecute subpostmasters using Horizon evidence during the software’s early roll-out phase was “frightening”, according to an IT expert who exposed its deficiencies. With the Post Office accused of perverting the course of justice in its prosecutions of subpostmasters, forensic IT expert Jason Coyne described how the subpostmasters were treated as
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If the government produces a bill that does not remove the Post Office from the process of delivering financial redress for former subpostmasters and fails to set hard deadlines, MPs believe they have the necessary support to amend it. Speaking to Computer Weekly, MP Liam Byrne said the committee is determined to get fast and
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The European Commission (EC) approved the Project of Common European Interest – Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) programme in late 2023. In this programme, around 100 companies and knowledge institutes from 12 EU countries will cooperate on developing new and innovative data and cloud solutions for industrial companies and in areas such as hydrogen and
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Most organisations spend more on cloud storage than they budget for, with large numbers migrating more data to the cloud than planned. Those numbers are even higher for companies that have adopted cloud storage in the past two years, with unexpected costs coming from storage capacity growth, egress fees and application programming interface (API) call
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MPs demand more guarantees over Fujitsu’s contribution to the costs UK taxpayers face as a result of the fall out of the Post Office Horizon scandal. A business and trade select committee hearing focused on the financial redress for victims of the scandal MPs sought more information on promises made by Fujitsu to contribute. In
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London-based post-production company Dirty Looks has committed to moving all of its computing and storage workloads to Deep Green’s flagship datacentre, which is housed in a public swimming pool in Exmouth, Devon. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, Deep Green has installed a series of mini-datacentres at the leisure facility, and the heat generated by
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It’s just a year since backup product maker Hycu announced R-Cloud, and already it can protect 64 software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Now, it plans to integrate many more, with AI capable of generating its own connectors from a small amount of information about the SaaS application. “From the start of R-Cloud, we’ve had R-Graph visualisation that can
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The government may have to reopen previously agreed financial settlements with subpostmasters and should face legally binding deadlines on making payments to victims of the Post Office scandal, MPs have been told. During a mammoth five-hour business and trade select committee hearing, MPs heard that the complexity and unfairness of schemes for the financial redress
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The Post Office scandal has become markedly political, and while Computer Weekly continues to investigate, the journalistic resources of the mainstream media have also gone full throttle. It’s no longer just Computer Weekly, Private Eye and freelancer Nick Wallis making important discoveries, but the full might of the Fourth Estate. That means rather than a
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Storage and backup investment plans for 2024 show a significant bias towards averting risk and building resilience. At the same time, storage spending plans lean towards the cloud, but with very robust on-premise storage spending plans also present. Those are the findings of the Technology spending intentions survey from TechTarget and ESG, which questioned 1,432
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West London-based colocation provider Virtus Data Centres is planning to build a server farm campus on a 50-acre freehold plot in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire that will house up to 75MW of IT capacity. The company, which is part of the ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, said that the project is necessary to ensure Virtus is
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A tweak to how the IR35 tax avoidance legislation works means that from 6 April 2024, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) can no longer be accused of over-collecting tax from non-IR35 compliant public and private sector organisations. The change means that when HMRC calculates how much tax is owed by a public or private sector
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Stairlift and lift manufacturer Stannah Group said it has made a “significant investment” in a cloud-based enterprise software roll-out to modernise its IT systems and prepare for the company’s future growth. Stannah is one of the UK’s leading engineering companies, and remains an independent, family-owned and run business that has sold over 700,000 stairlifts worldwide.
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The government expects a law to overturn Post Office Horizon scandal-related criminal convictions in July, but said it “will not set a precedent”. Fears were raised about the planned legislation amid questions about the relationship between Parliament and the judiciary. In January, after the dramatisation of the Post Office scandal caused public anger, the government
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Unisys has launched an investigation into its role in the distribution of the Post Office’s Capture accounting software, which is now being linked to the potential wrongful prosecutions and suffering of subpostmasters. Since the airing of ITV’s drama about the long-running Post Office Horizon scandal, former subpostmasters have come forward who had suffered similar problems
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The Co-operative Group (Co-op) is adopting a cloud-first model as part of a plan to reduce its carbon footprint, with the migration of IT from datacentres to the cloud. Working with Indian outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the diversified group said the project would also provide a platform for future growth. The Co-op Group,
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Microsoft’s hold on the global cloud infrastructure sector is on the rise, with data released in the wake of its most recent set of financial results revealing that it’s gaining share at the expense of market-leader, Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to figures published by Synergy Research Group in early February 2024, Microsoft’s share of
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HM Treasury has signed two three-year deals with datacentre specialist Keysource, including one involving the maintenance of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment that hosts the second iteration of the department’s cross-government public spending database. The system, known as the Online System for Central Accounting and Reporting (Oscar II), is used by HM Treasury to
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The Post Office’s second controversial accounting system, known as Capture, was developed in-house in the early 1990s. Following the explosion of public interest in the Post Office Horizon scandal, concerns over a system that predated the software have emerged. As with Horizon, the Post Office prosecuted and punished subpostmasters who had unexplained shortfalls in its
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Switzerland-based copyright and royalties agency SUISA has cut datacentre rackspace and energy costs by 50% following a move from EMC all-flash hardware to Pure Storage arrays. The move also allowed it to overcome capacity limitations on the old XtremIO arrays while simplifying storage admin tasks such as provisioning new capacity and upgrading hardware, which now
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A satellite due for launch will track how much methane is being emitted by oil and gas facilities, aiming to encourage moves to reduce the amount of harmful gas emissions in the atmosphere, with some help from artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. The Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) satellite, MethaneSAT, aims to map, measure and track methane
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Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells refused to meet a government minister without a lawyer in 2015 when he insisted on a briefing to discuss the damaging findings of a landmark investigation into the Post Office Horizon system. This set the tone for the Post Office, which has relied heavily on lawyers to keep a
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In this podcast, we look at the impact of the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) on storage and compliance with Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust. We talk about the state of play of compliance frameworks for AI, and how to deal with the lack of maturity of governance in the field. Gorge also talks about how
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The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office scandal has gone relatively unnoticed over the past two years, but in that time, those au fait with the case have been shocked on an almost daily basis. The airing of ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office drama and accompanying documentary eventually put the scandal centre
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Ten years ago, as IT transformation director at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), I led the team that successfully renegotiated the £800m per year Aspire outsourcing contract with Capgemini and Fujitsu, saving taxpayers over £200m and dismantling a system riddled with inefficiencies and hidden costs. Yet here we are again, facing a scandal involving Fujitsu
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More than 1,000 subposmasters could have used the Post Office’s Capture software, as more details emerge about how they were blamed for unexplained shortfalls on the system. Following the recent ITV drama about the Post Office Horizon scandal, a growing number of former subpostmasters and former Post Office employees are coming forward with stories of
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Joen Meier Olsen, senior manager of strategy advisers in EMEA for Apptio, says: “The hybrid cloud conversation in the Nordics focuses more on a cloud-if-it-makes-sense principle, rather than a cloud-first principle. Companies are moving to the public cloud if it makes sense from a financial or operational perspective compared to the existing setup, whereas the rest of EMEA is probably more a
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Google is teaming up with HSBC to make it easier for climate tech companies that run their infrastructure on the internet search giant’s cloud platform to access financial support. The partnership will see members of the Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability (GCR-Sustainability) programme offered access to HSBC’s climate tech-focused finance team, as part of a
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OpenAI writes on its website: “The amount of compute used in the largest AI [artificial intelligence] training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.4-month doubling time (by comparison, Moore’s Law had a two-year doubling period).” According to OpenAI, this growth amounts to 300,000-times more computing power required today as opposed to 2012, which is
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What is cloud modernization? Cloud modernization is a multistep process where existing on-premises applications, infrastructure and data sources are migrated, updated and transformed into a cloud-based architecture and environment. Why is cloud modernization important? Simply moving an on-premises application to the cloud — tempting initially from a time and financial viewpoint — fails to take
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The rise of ChatGPT and its many imitators has changed the world. While the generative artificial intelligence (AI) narrative has been widely negative to some, there are others, especially entrepreneurs, who believe it to be a positive force for the world. Jobs, of course, are going to be affected and the speed of generative
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The public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal has just completed its fourth phase, with the closing statements of barristers condensing months of hearings, often covering complex issues of law, into easily digestible statements that raise the question of serious criminality within the Post Office. Hundreds of criminal convictions are set to be
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The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal was told that the public are now paying attention, as barristers closed its fourth phase. After months of questioning and several delays, the inquiry phase investigating the Post Office’s wrongful prosecutions of its branch managers heard powerful closing submissions. Legal representatives of core participants
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What is AWS? AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon. It includes a mixture of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and packaged software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. AWS offers tools such as compute power, database storage and content delivery services. Amazon.com Web Services launched its first web services in 2002 from
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It saved 42% in energy costs, 50% in datacentre rackspace and got 4.5PB where previously it had 3.5PB in its NAS storage hardware refresh. That’s the result achieved by French TV giant TF1, which replaced 80 nodes of Dell Isilon scale-out NAS storage with 40 new PowerScale nodes from the same array maker. The
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The IT sector of Russia continues to be under serious pressure from Western countries, with a significant expansion of sanctions in recent months. At the end of 2023, several large Russian IT companies were included in the 12th package of sanctions from the European Union against Russia. According to local analysts, in contrast
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For a growing number of organisations, the default option for new IT projects is the cloud and cloud storage, with even the more cautious businesses have adopted “cloud-first” or “cloud-preferred” strategies. That’s because startups and fast-growing firms can build infrastructure in the cloud that would be hard to achieve quickly in any other way.
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What is a cloud SLA (cloud service-level agreement)? A cloud SLA (cloud service-level agreement) is an agreement between a cloud service provider and a customer that ensures a minimum level of service is maintained. It guarantees levels of reliability, availability and responsiveness to systems and applications; specifies who governs when there is a service interruption;
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The chair of the department of business and trade select committee has called on the government to consider enshrining deadlines on payments to subpostmasters into the Post Office Compensation Bill, which is currently processing through parliament. The bill is an attempt by government to speed payments to subpostmasters that fell victim to the Post
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In this podcast we look at the year ahead in 2024 with Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust. We talk about upcoming updates, and changes to law and regulation such as in PCI, NIST, EU data protection regulations, post-Brexit divergence between the UK’s ICO and Europe, increasing global traction for DORA, and 60 major elections across
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Fujitsu will engage with Post Office scandal victims and their representatives to establish how Fujitsu can support them and their families in the future, in addition to paying its share of the financial redress owed to the former subpostmasters. This could include support for entrepreneurial or educational “endeavours”. Fujitsu and its error-prone software played
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Just under three months since its first release of Jais, the consortium that released what it calls the world’s most powerful large language model (LLM) for Arabic has finished training a second version, which is more than twice as big. The first model was based on 13 billion parameters and is now referred to
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Fujitsu has put bidding for UK public sector contracts on hold during the current public inquiry into the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history, in which the Japanese supplier is implicated. Under-fire Fujitsu has also confirmed it will contribute to the financial redress for subpostmasters who suffered as a result of being blamed
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Fujitsu’s UK boss admitted that the IT company missed an opportunity to take action and prevent subpostmasters from being convicted for financial crimes after its software showed unexplained shortfalls in branch accounts. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal hearing, Fujitsu’s UK head, Paul Patterson, was shown a document produced by Fujitsu IT expert
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Google is reinforcing its commitment to the UK by building a $1bn datacentre on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, to provide enterprises with locally hosted access to its public cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services. The build will mark a sizeable expansion of the company’s UK datacentre footprint, and is being hailed
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Two recent major contracts point to the return of big outsourcing deals. Earlier in January, Canada Post announced it has entered into an agreement to transition Innovapost, its IT shared-service provider, to Deloitte Canada, in a bid to improve the delivery of digitally enabled products and services. Vodafone also announced a $1.5bn, 10-year deal
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Science, innovation and technology secretary Michelle Donelan has unveiled a new initiative to support UK innovation. The scale-up forum capitalises on government’s power to bring together leading figures from across the UK’s growing science and technology sector. Discussing the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), she said: “For the first time, the innovative
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I met Toby Jones at the BBC in the week before Christmas. He was in for Radio 4 to discuss Mr Bates v. The Post Office. Having supported the postmasters’ campaign since 2015, I was interested to hear how they had adapted such a long-running, complex and exhausting story for prime-time television. Very well,
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Google will no longer charge customers fees for transferring their data out of its cloud when switching to a new provider, as part of a concerted push to distance itself from its public cloud competition. Amit Zavery, general manager, vice-president and head of platform at Google Cloud, announced the move in a blog post,
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Heat reuse-focused datacentre compute provider Deep Green has secured £200m in investment from Octopus Energy’s generation arm, which will be used to help the UK-based startup scale. Deep Green specialises in the development and deployment of small-scale, edge-style datacentres and the heat they generate is then reused by businesses in a variety of different
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You may not assume that an online IT tuition course could have a big impact on the war on Ukraine – but technology is playing a vital role in Ukraine’s defence against Putin’s illegal invasion. The government recognises the significant place tech holds in Ukraine’s defence and recovery, which is why we have created
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Using the CES 2024 event to reveal “the industry’s most advanced” technology and propulsion platform for superyachts and commercial marine vessels, Volvo Penta unveiled its IPS Professional Platform, the next part in the evolution of its integrated helm-to-propeller experience. Commercially available in 2025, the Volvo Penta IPS Professional Platform builds on the company’s proven inboard
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More than 300 Fujitsu Services UK employees working for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are set to strike from 17 January 2024 in a protest over pay, potentially causing mass disruption to the IT systems underpinning the government agency’s self-assessment tax return process. All of the participating employees are members of the Public and
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In the short few weeks since the Post Office public inquiry adjourned for Christmas, the national mood around the scandal has changed dramatically. When Sir Wyn Williams convenes phase four of the statutory inquiry on 11 January, the focus on the hearings will be greater than ever, thanks to the incredible impact of the
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The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular, this was because of the availability of denser – and therefore cheaper per-gigabyte (GB) – quad-level cell (QLC) flash storage into array markets and use cases that were once considered nearline. Alongside this, we saw
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With the general public now alert to and furious over the mistreatment of subpostmasters, the government must take the opportunity to change the law that made it easy for the Post Office to wrongly convict people based on computer evidence. Following a hard-hitting drama and documentary on ITV, the Post Office Horizon scandal is
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After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline news. Computer Weekly has played an important part in exposing what has been described as the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history. In 1999, the Post Office’s single shareholder, the UK government, began automating
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What is cloud application performance management (cloud APM)? Cloud application performance management (cloud APM) is the process of monitoring resources that support software application performance in public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud environments. It takes actions to resolve issues and maintain optimal performance. The major goal of cloud APM is the same as traditional
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By the beginning of 2023, the biggest storage supplier (Dell EMC) had seen growth in market share, while a giant of the past (IBM) had seen things slide. At the same time, Huawei consolidated its position near the top of the league and Pure Storage benefitted from increasing market share. At the same time,
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Capgemini has announced a four-year deal with Heathrow Airport to provide development and operations (DevOps) support for its technology estate. The deal aims to deliver a new experience for airport passengers, and offers up a supplier marketplace with curated products and displays for customers. The contract will extend Capgemini and Heathrow’s 14-year relationship to
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Increasing costs and a lengthening timeline have forced the government to hand the Post Office an extra £103m towards its project to replace the controversial Horizon software used by thousands of subpostmasters. The Horizon system, from Fujitsu, is at the centre of what is regarded the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history when
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Nearly all enterprise IT projects involve decisions about where to store data. The public cloud holds perhaps more than half of all business data. That volume of data held on cloud-based systems, especially by the hyperscalers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure – has grown steadily over the past
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According to government figures, only 11 members of the over 500-strong Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA) campaign group have received full compensation, four years after their huge High Court victory that proved the Post Office computer system was responsible for unexplained accounting shortfalls they were blamed and punished for. Thousands of lives were impacted
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In this storage vendor profile, we look at Pure Storage, which among all the big six storage players comes closest to having been a startup in recent times. This means that Pure Storage joined the market unencumbered by legacy technology and benefits from late entrant advantage. That said, it has barely turned a profit
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The datacentre news cycle has been dominated by a set of familiar themes throughout 2023, as operators continue to find themselves under pressure to embrace sustainability, while juggling the exponential demand for compute capacity and ensuring uptime. It is a delicate balancing act that operators have to strike, at a time when many of
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Italy-based startup Cubbit has announced the availability of the DS3 Composer, which will create S3-compatible private object storage clouds from on-premise, bare metal colocation and cloud storage capacity. DS3 claims its storage is resilient and secure, and can be configured as-a-service for users and customers. It also allows customers to create pools of object
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The government’s decision to stop a proposed datacentre being built on an undeveloped piece of protected green land in west London highlights the pressure operators are under when balancing the demands of their investors with meeting the UK’s ever-growing need for compute capacity in a sustainable way. The case, which is one of several
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The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is harnessing technology to support its mission to conserve the natural world through a deal with IT services supplier Atos. Planned projects set out to use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate environmental monitoring, predict the risk of epidemics, and modernise a monitoring and reporting tool used by thousands
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The government has been advised to overturn all the convictions of the hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly accused in the Post Office scandal. In a letter to Alex Chalk, the secretary of state for justice, the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board said that revelations from the statutory inquiry into the scandal have shown all the convictions
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As we approach the dawn of 2024, the intersection of sustainability and innovation within the IT sector demands a proactive approach from decision makers. The milestones of 2023, marked by progress and challenges, set the stage for a pivotal year ahead. Here, are some key priorities and resolutions that IT decision makers should consider
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A new report from the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) finds national climate action plans remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The latest science from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that greenhouse gas emissions need to
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NHS England has set its sights on growing the number of users who rely on its FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration platform from just over 310,000 today to 600,000 by 2025. The growth projection follows NHS England’s renewal of its hosting and support contract for the platform with SME public sector IT services provider Kahootz. The
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The decision came to light after the government’s procurement arm, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) began notifying suppliers on Friday 17 November 2023 about whether or not they had succeeded in securing a spot on the four Lot framework, which is valued at £1.35bn. Documents passed to Computer Weekly confirm that Microsoft is one of
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As we approach the end of 2023, it’s important to reflect on significant steps that have been taken by businesses to reach net zero. While some of the sustainability hype has fallen off the agenda, at Digital Catapult, I often engage with business leaders across multiple sectors including manufacturing, engineering, transport, and the creative
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Hexaware Technologies is opening an operation in the UK which will host 250 employees when fully up and running by 2025. The Indian IT and business services supplier, which has near 30,000 staff globally, is already in the process of recruiting the first 60 employees at the new site in Birmingham. After strong demand
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According to Finastra’s Financial services: State of the nation survey 2023, technology investment is currently constrained for 78% of financial institutions, but 69% expect investments to resume in full in the first six months of 2024. In fact, 87% of almost 1,000 global banks questioned by Finastra said they were excited about the pace
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Atos has been awarded the contract to provide core IT services to support next year’s European international football championship in Germany. The UEFA Euro 2024 contract will see the French IT services firm take responsibility for IT planning and the delivery of core operational systems. The tournament, which will see 24 teams compete in
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The Post Office rewarded staff with bonuses if they hit targets for recovering money from subpostmasters blamed for accounting shortfalls, but scrimped and saved when it came to paying for vital evidence that would have cleared those suspected of wrongdoing. During the latest hearing in the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, it was revealed
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