On the cover this month , Dave Ankers , IT Strategy and Delivery Director at Nuffield Health , explains how the leading charity improved its peak-time performance and availability with the help of Node4 . The organisation migrated its systems to Microsoft Azure after finding that its previous web hosting infrastructure couldn ’ t cope with the rising demand being placed on it . Ankers offers some insight into the benefits of the migration and tells us how the solution has transformed operations . Read about this in more detail on page 58 . the damage of cyberthreats and how this can be avoided . Richard Walters , CTO of Censornet ; Ronan David , VP Business Development and Marketing , EfficientIP ; and Filip Verloy , Rubrik ’ s Field CTO EMEA , contribute .

For our feature on page 42 , we hear from a number of experts who focus on the subject of passwords and discuss how organisations should be securely operating until we can develop a more reliable method to replace passwords . Spokespeople from CyberArk , Exponential-e , Checkmarx , F5 , offer their thoughts .

Our ‘ Country Focus ’ this month considers how the Met Office and Microsoft have joined forces to build the world ’ s most powerful weather and climate forecasting supercomputer in the UK . Read more about this on page 50 .

Another of our customer stories hears why Telefónica UK decided to migrate legacy TDM services in its core network onto a modern , more efficient networking platform . The company ’ s Director of Core Networks , Jorge Ribeiro , explains why the provider required a solution that could run legacy TDM services and nextgeneration mobile services side-by-side , and how Ciena ’ s technology provided the answer .

This issue , we ‘ Get To Know ’ Suresh Krishnan , Chief Technology Officer , Kaloom , who tells us about how he landed in his role and how he likes to relax and unwind outside the office . Follow this on page 81 .

I hope you enjoy the read and if you ’ d like to contribute to any upcoming editions , please don ’ t hesitate to get in touch at alix @ lynchpinmedia . co . uk

This issue , for our ‘ Editor ’ s Question ’ on page 34 , we asked the experts what the consequence is of organisations continuing to underestimate

Alix Pressley Editor

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