Data centre

Deciding where and how to build and operate a datacentre is one of the most important decisions your organisation will make. This section covers how to build a solid datacentre infrastructure, including selecting the right location to build your new facility, best practices for designing a new datacentre, and cooling and air flow techniques. Learn about green IT, data management systems, servers and operating systems.

March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22
Spring4Shell zero-day sprung on security teams

Some are describing a newly disclosed Spring Java framework vulnerability as the next Log4Shell, but what is Spring4Shell, and what can we do about it?
March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22
How a woman CIO rose up the ranks in a Japanese firm

Henrietta Yaw draws on her people-oriented approach to management which has served her well in her decades-long career at Fujifilm Business Innovation
March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22
British Airways passengers suffer flight delays due to another IT glitch affecting London Heathrow

Several weeks on from another systems outage that prompted it to cancel hundreds of short-haul flights, British Airways’ IT systems have been hit by another glitch
March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22
Executive interview: Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO, Nutanix

We speak to the CEO of Nutanix about growing up in India, the switch from engineering to business leader, and mentoring

Backup types explained: Full, incremental, differential, synthetic

We look at backup – on-prem and cloud – and the key variants available, from full backup to synthetic full, via incremental, differential, incremental forever and reverse incremental Continue Reading
The CIO's key role in environmental sustainability

With climate concerns growing by the day, technology leaders are critical to driving sustainability initiatives. Here's advice on getting those started and aligning with the business. Continue Reading
Weighing up the nuclear option for powering datacentres

Resourcing energy-hungry IT through the race to reduce carbon emissions means looking objectively at all the options, including nuclear power Continue Reading

Why hybrid IT means having a squeezed middle

From a pure sense of logic, cloud computing is the right choice for almost every situation requiring enterprise IT. Hardware can be deployed as and when required, used on-demand and the management ... Continue Reading
Is the commodity server bandwagon running out of steam?

The term “paradigm shift” gets flung about far too much in IT, but we may be at one of those few times that genuinely deserves it. For decades now, specialised hardware devices have been losing ... Continue Reading
Why does ransomware still work?

As someone who first encountered ransomware during the last millennium – thankfully at second-hand – and has been writing about it for almost as long, I sometimes find myself amazed by the high ... Continue Reading

ERP and the cloud

Work to your agenda – not someone else’s Continue Reading
Monitoring performance in a hybrid cloud world

The growing use of cloud demands a new breed of monitoring and observability tools to keep track of how cloud-native applications and services perform Continue Reading
Server virtualisation is far from dead

Server virtualisation must be looked upon with an expanded and fresh perspective amid the growing adoption of containers and Kubernetes. Here are seven server virtualisation trends to watch Continue Reading

How Zoom is keeping pace with demand for conferencing tools

Magnus Falk, CIO advisor at Zoom, offers insights on how the company is scaling up its resources to meet the growing usage of its service
DOES 2017, London: Sam Guckenheimer interview

In this video Computer Weekly speaks to Sam Guckenheimer at the DevOps Enterprise Summit
DOES 2017, London: Steve Mayner interview

In this video Computer Weekly speaks to Steve Mayner at the DevOps Enterprise Summit