Personal Tech: What Geeks are talking about from Computer Weekly

QA launches cyber attack defence training facility in London
Training firm QA launches a cyber attack simulation facility in London to enable organisations to test and learn cyber defence skills

Nationwide watches customer behaviour in authentication experiment
Nationwide Building Society is testing whether behavioural biometrics can unlock higher levels of security clearance in banking

IDC research shows steady drop in on-premise hardware spend as cloud adoption soars
IDC infrastructure research highlights how enterprise demand for cloud is affecting on-premise IT spending trends

Falconstor adds cross-platform storage analytics
Falconstor leverages IP from Cumulus Logic buy to provide Freestor Analytics, which gives customers visibility across heterogeneous hardware of key storage metrics

Openreach passes 25 million premises with fibre backhaul
BT Openreach marks another milestone in its national fibre broadband network roll-out

UK’s Daily Mail publisher eyes Yahoo’s assets
The Daily Mail parent company is putting together a bid for Yahoo’s news properties that would increase its US presence significantly

Hyperoptic launches FTTP services in Brighton
Hyperoptic rolls out its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband service to housing developments in Brighton

Competition and Markets Authority urges EC to kill Three’s O2 merger
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) urges the European Commission (EC) to rule against CK Hutchison’s proposed acquisition of mobile network O2

Smith & Williamson starts legacy renewal with WhereScape Red
Financial services company Smith & Williamson migrates Cobol data into SQL Server data warehouse in a bid to recreate and cleanse legacy data

CIOs lack faith in IT’s ability to meet digital demands of business
VCE research suggests IT departments lack confidence in their ability to meet the digital demands of their organisation

Security Think Tank: Tackle vital patching challenge with risk-based approach
What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?

British innovation targets file manipulation malware
Innovative British security software firm Glasswall Solutions is tackling the growing threat of malware that tampers with files and exploits structural weaknesses in popular business document formats

National Childbirth Trust breach shows all data needs to be safeguarded
Breach of more than 15,000 login credentials and email addresses at the National Childbirth Trust underlines that every sector must take cyber security seriously, say security pundits

CW@50: Storage – From punched cards to flash and the cloud
Since the launch of Computer Weekly in 1966, we have moved from a world of punched cards and paper tape to one where flash and the cloud have revolutionised data storage

CIO Interview: Phil Pavitt, global CIO, Specsavers – Online not the only way
Specsavers CIO explains why the personal touch is as important as digital services for customers of health-related products

UK has hit 90% ‘superfast’ target, say broadband analysts
Statistics from broadband comparison site Thinkbroadband seem to suggest the government has hit its target of making superfast broadband available to 90% of UK premises

IT job seekers want to make bigger career moves
LinkedIn, which now has more than 20 million members in the UK, recently looked at how IT professionals’ jobs have changed over the past year

Brexit debate: Why IT pros should vote to leave
IT consultant Peter Chadha gives five reasons why the UK would be better off leaving the European Union

Gateshead NHS Trust uses data visualisation to boost performance
Trust is using the Medway BI system provided by System C to enhance clinical, operational and financial performance

Executive interview: Harriet Green, IBM’s internet of things chief
Former Thomas Cook CEO is leading IBM’s charge into the IoT, and is pushing its Watson AI technology as a unique differentiator

Security Think Tank: Six alternative strategies to centralised security patching
What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?

Three makes new attempt to ‘sell’ O2 acquisition
Three parent CK Hutchison is understood to have made a number of further concessions to curry favour with European regulators

Rackspace debuts private cloud packages to drive up enterprise adoption of OpenStack
Rackspace claims pre-configured hardware, software and services stack will smooth enterprise path to OpenStack-based clouds

Pfizer collaborates with IBM to use IoT to support Parkinson’s treatment
Pfizer and IBM plan to work together on using IoT to monitor patients remotely to help in drug development and clinical therapies for Parkinson’s disease

Time to cut IT costs again, predicts Gartner
IT spending has increased slightly, but not enough to fuel major digital transformations, says Gartner

How an IT department in a portacabin supports UK’s biggest critical infrastructure project
The man in charge of the IT supporting the UK’s largest critical infrastructure project – the redevelopment of London Bridge station – tells Computer Weekly about life in a portacabin

Nokia slashes jobs after Alcatel-Lucent acquisition
Nokia embarks on a round of job cuts as part of its post-merger restructuring

Maynooth University modernises network to meet growth challenges
Maynooth University in Ireland has installed a Juniper-based campus network to support its future growth plans

CIO interview: Jean-Christophe Lalanne, CIO, Air France-KLM, on why WANs win business
Operating at locations around the world, the WAN is key to business success for airline Air France-KLM, says its global CIO, Jean-Christophe Lalanne