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• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Surface Pro 3: An enterprise IT review

  The latest version of Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is the company's most compelling alternative to Apple. But how does it fit into corporate IT?

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Birst steps up European cloud BI business with Amazon Web Services

  The Financial Times is among several new UK customers using cloud-based business intelligence from Birst

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  How to evolve desktop IT beyond Windows 7

  CIOs need to evolve their desktop strategy after Windows 7, but migrating totally to the next Windows version may not be the best option

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Can IT change the course of history? The story of Graham Tottle, the IT guy trapped in Iraq

  Rarely does an IT worker affect history, but in 1990 Graham Tottle was in Saddam Hussein’s HQ at the start of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Banks are not contemplating core system replacement

  European banks are maintaining rather than replacing core banking IT, in spite of recent, high profile failures in such systems

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  London private equity firm shifts IT to the cloud to cut office move downtime

  London-based private equity fund manager SOF Investments overcame the IT nightmares of an office move by migrating IT to the cloud

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Case study: Borough of Poole uses Huddle for child adoption meetings

  The Borough of Poole has been using Huddle to enable local government teams to collaborate securely on issues of child welfare

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Land Registry digital project at risk after senior IT leaders depart

  A major digital project at the Land Registry is at risk after two key executives on the programme left due to their tax arrangements

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  VMware rebrands its cloud service vCHS to VMware vCloud Air

  VMware has rebranded its infrastructure-as-a-service offering vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS), to VMware vCloud Air

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  SAS top data scientist competition trains guns on UK energy market

  A “top data scientist” competition, sponsored by analytics company SAS, is training its focus on a UK energy crisis

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  UK government backs consortium's search for IOT standard

  The UK government has awarded £1.6m to a consortium of 40 British firm, tasked with finding a standard specification for the internet of things

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Digital vouchers firm picks DevOps automation to speed apps deployment

  Digital vouchers provider Eagle Eye is deploying DevOps to manage the cloud infrastructure that supports its product network

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Stuck between a rock and a hard place: How to renegotiate software contracts

  As a ruling against support provider Rimini Street demonstrates, suppliers can and will exploit any doubt in a software contract

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Bayern Munich teams up with SAP to hit sporting and commercial goals

  FC Bayern Munich and SAP today cemented a sports analytics and enterprise software partnership at the club’s Allianz Arena

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Five pitfalls to avoid when doing DevOps

  As the DevOps movement gains traction in the enterprise space, here are five pitfalls CIOs need to avoid to make it work for the business

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Half of UK IT unfamiliar with software-defined datacentres, shows study

  Software-defined datacentres may be touted as the next big thing in enterprise IT, but 50% of IT pros are unclear of its benefits, study shows

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Office Depot uses Teradata Active EDW to perform real-time data analytics

  Office Depot is using data warehousing technology from Teradata to do real-time data analytics

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Dundee starts data engineering masters to span computer science

  The University of Dundee is adding a data engineering MSc degree to its business intelligence and data science masters programmes

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  How wearable tech, big data analytics and cloud help in Parkinson’s disease research

  Parkinson’s disease charity MJFF is seeking to improve research with wearable devices, big data analytics and public cloud

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Universal Credit uptake slows to lowest since infancy

  The rollout of the Department of Work and Pension’s (DWP) troubled Universal Credit system has slowed to its lowest uptake since its infancy

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  M&S deploys Microsoft Azure cloud to run festive ad campaigns

  Azure powered M&S's multi-million pound Christmas campaign Magic & Sparkle starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  HP Autonomy: Sushovan Hussain responds with HP cover-up

  Sushovan Hussain, the former CFO of Autonomy, has responded to HP "fraud" claims, alleging mismanagement of the 2011 bungled acquisition

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Lloyds uses NightWatchman to cut electricity bill by £2.3m in eight months

  Lloyds Banking Group has used PC power management software to make energy savings

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Home Office pours £3.8m into shared service for biometric cards

  The Home Office has awarded a £3.8m contract to Thales for a service to support the production of Biometric Residence Permit cards

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Energy Saving Trust deploys Esri for Cognos to support policymakers

  The Energy Saving Trust, has deployed Esri for Cognos to provide instant access to its mapping analytics portal

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly

  Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  European Medicines Agency signs €4.5m Serco contract for IT support

  The European Medicines Agency EMA has signed a €4.5m contract with Serco for an outsourced IT helpdesk

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Sacked BBC CTO wins unfair dismissal case

  Former BBC chief technology officer John Linwood has won his case for unfair dismissal against the broadcaster

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  New College Durham improves internal processes using Advanced workflow app

  New College Durham has improved its finance system and internal business processes using Advanced Business Solutions' workflow system

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  How Intel’s datacentre strategy is helping it retain market dominance

  Intel’s tactic of binding together software-defined infrastructure, cloud and HPC components in its datacentre strategy could keep it ahead

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  HP sues former Autonomy CFO

  HP is suing Autonomy's former chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, for his part in the 2011 acquisition of the UK software company

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Met Police awards £90m command and control integration contract

  The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has appointed Lockheed Martin as systems integrator of its new command and control system

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  AstraZeneca rolls out IT self service using ServiceNow

  Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has rolled out ServiceNow self service IT to 51,500 staff globally in four months

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Why digitisation transforms supplier relationships

  As the economy moves forward, CEOs are looking for the next wave of innovation to fuel growth. But are IT service providers ready?

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Welsh police to develop mobile app for witness statements

  Two Welsh police forces are to develop a mobile application that will allow officers to record and send witness statements while on the beat

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Sepa grace period comes to end

  Deadline for Eurozone to be able to make and take payments using Sepa formats has been reached

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Smart meters, digital channels and CRM are top priorities for British Gas

  Smart meters, digital channels and reducing customer complaints by implanting a new CRM system are top of the agenda for British Gas over the coming year.

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Migration pains cause businesses to buy custom support for Windows XP OS

  Although Windows XP support ended on 8 April 2014, some large businesses are still running the Microsoft operating system (OS)

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  East Kent Services deploys Citrix virtual desktop

  East Kent Services has issued Citrix mobile workspace technology to organisations to reduce operational cost and increase collaboration

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

  European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Service providers must rethink how they approach digital transformation

  Service providers are ill-equipped to support the growing demand from businesses for digital transformation projects.

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Royal Free Hospital digitises legacy patient medical records

  Royal Free teaching hospital in London has digitised 750,000 legacy case notes which contain patient medical records

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

  A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

  Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Gartner: Businesses set to standardise supply chain systems

  Businesses are expected to standardise on integrated supply chain systems to improve the visibility of their business processes

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY

  Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  London’s Orchard and Fig join Docker

  San Francisco firm Docker has acquired London-based Orchard Labs and its orchestration tool Fig

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  VMware Q2 revenue up 17% as investor pushes for spin-off from EMC

  VMware has reported a 17% year-on-year revenue growth to $1.46bn for the second quarter of 2014

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  Infosys takes the wheel in Daimler European datacentre deal

  Daimler has signed a multi-year agreement with Infosys to run its datacentre operations in Europe

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  Microsoft forges more open-source partnerships for added cloud interoperability

  Microsoft has forged additional partnerships with open-source communities OpenNebula and Packer.io

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

  The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databases

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  JLT monitors user service experience with NetEvidence Highlight

  Jardine Lloyd Thompson is using using NetEvidence’s Highlight SaaS monitoring tool to check datacentre service levels and ensure that users can access applications

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

  Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Lessons from Apollo 11: Is IT ready to go mission-critical?

  IT has changed radically since 1969 when Nasa's computers helped Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins fly Apollo 11 to the moon

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  IBM grows security and mobile businesses, but services decline

  Following its ground-breaking alliance with Apple, IBM has reported major growth in its security and mobile businesses

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  IFS reports 13% increase in first half software licence revenue

  IFS, the Sweden-based ERP company has reported half-year licence revenue growth of 13%

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Microsoft makes severe job cuts - 18,000 to go

  Microsoft is cutting 18,000 jobs next year with Nokia bearing the brunt of the company’s strategy

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  SAP Q2 2014: steady growth for cloud and Hana

  SAP’s second quarter 2014 results indicate steady growth for its cloud business and Hana

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Apple and IBM pair up to tackle enterprise mobility

  IT giants Apple and IBM have entered a partnership to develop business applications to focus on improving enterprise mobility

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Microsoft and Cisco work together on cloud and datacentre

  Cisco has entered a three-year sales collaboration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise cloud and datacentre services

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Imperial College and KPMG join forces with £20m business analytics centre

  KPMG and Imperial College London have combined to create a £20m ‘KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics’

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Why Rackspace is betting on managed cloud amid doubts over future

  Rackspace has relaunched its public cloud services as managed cloud to differentiate its costly services from cloud heavyweights. Will the move help?

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Diageo puts ServiceNow fizz in IT service desk

  Diageo has gone live with an implementation of ServiceNow to automate IT services as part of a global transformation

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  The billion-customer challenge of ITC CIO VVR Babu

  ITC CIO VVR Babu explains the challenges for a business that targets over one billion consumers with its goods

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Bank branches being used more despite online services surge

  Customers' use of bank branches is increasing in parallel with the surging take-up of online banking services, according to research

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  SAP helps Germany lift the World Cup

  Germany-based software company SAP played its part in the national football team's victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in Brazil

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Microsoft backs cloud rival Google’s open-source Kubernetes project

  Microsoft has joined rival Google to support the Kubernetes open-source project on its Azure platform

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Network Rail outsources automated rostering system roll-out to Capgemini

  Capgemini is to implement a new rostering system for Network Rail that will automate the management and rostering of signalling and maintenance staff to improve train punctuality and infrastructure reliability

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  AWS targets mobile with Amazon Cognito, analytics and SDK

  AWS has expanded its capabilities for mobile developers with Amazon Cognito, Amazon Mobile Analytics and a unified mobile software development kit (SDK)

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe

  Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Retailers need chief algorithm officers to make e-commerce pay

  Michael Ross, chief scientific officer at eCommera, an ecommerce software and services company, calls for chief algorithm officers

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach

  At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  London Stock Exchange harnesses Wipro global delivery for reconciliation platform

  The London Stock Exchange has teamed up with Indian IT services company Wipro to make its UnaVista reconciliation platform available globally in a pay-as-you-go model

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Software asset management can drive down licensing costs

  With suppliers pulling the audit card, IT needs to get licence key in order. But strong software asset management (SAM) offers more than just licence compliance

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  CIO interview: Bill Peters, head of IT, Caterham Formula 1 Group

  Bill Peters, head of IT at Caterham, talks about the challenges of delivering IT to scientists, engineers and F1 drivers

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP

  Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of location

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity

  The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  M&S suffers sales decline due to website glitch

  Marks & Spencer’s e-commerce revenues drop 8.1% because of a glitch in the company's newly launched web platform

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Dunnhumby heads to Oracle cloud for back-office standardisation

  Data science company Dunnhumby has launched a project to globalise its back-office business processes using Oracle Fusion cloud

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Pennine NHS Trust prepares for major digital patient initiative

  The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is planning to digitise 100 million paper-based patient records

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  NHS trusts in Microsoft’s sights for licence shortfall

  Microsoft auditors are expected to target NHS trusts for using unlicensed software

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  What IT challenges would an independent Scotland face?

  If Scotland votes ‘Yes’ for independence in September, what are the costs and challenges of building new government IT systems?

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Case Study: Marston's Telecoms taps Blue Coat Wi-Fi manager

  Marston’s Telecoms, the in-house ISP of pub and brewery chain Marston’s, rolls out Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to take control of its onsite Wi-Fi networks and cut bandwidth costs

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Just Eat opens Bristol centre to boost native app development

  Just Eat is setting up a development centre in Bristol to build native mobile apps and support its back-end e-commerce systems

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Gartner: Now is a good time to buy IT

  Pricing pressure has led to buyers getting a better deal from IT suppliers, according to Gartner analysts

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  HP set to settle with shareholders over lost Autonomy billions

  HP is close to settling the legal dispute filed by shareholders over the acquisition of British software company Autonomy

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Hybrid cloud powers business strategy for Notonthehighstreet.com

  Notonthehighstreet.com deploys a hybrid cloud and DevOps strategy to grow, innovate and respond to business needs quickly

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Net-a-Porter integrates testing and development

  Online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter has integrated software testing and development to support agile methodologies

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Roadchef exits IBM Global Services for direct supplier relationships

  Motorway services firm Roadchef ended an outsourcing deal with IBM Global Services when its IT was up for refresh and moved to SAP

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Interview: Remote monitoring will revolutionise long-term care

  Electronics equipment maker Philips has partnered with Salesforce to develop a platform to support internet-connected healthcare devices

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Cloud app logins reused in piracy scam

  Software piracy will remain prevalent even though more applications are delivered as a service, according to the BSA

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Oracle develops private cloud engineered system

  Oracle is going head to head with HP, IBM and Cisco with the introduction of a converged infrastructure appliance

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  CIOs unaware of application usage

  CIOs grossly underestimate the proportion of installed applications that are not being used in their organisations

• June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14

  Oracle set to boost retail business with $5bn Micros acquisition

  Oracle is expected to acquire internet-enabled point-of sale-specialist Micros

• June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14

  CW500: Digital customer engagement

  The CW500 Club event in June blew away the myths around digital customer engagement

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years

  Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  Energy companies prepare for data sharing

  The government and several utilities are working on developing systems that automate access to customer billing data

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  Oracle trumpets 25% cloud revenue growth in Q4

  Oracle’s fourth-quarter 2014 results show 25% growth in cloud revenues to $322m and total annual revenue of $38.3bn, up 3% year-on-year

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  BBC sets up expert group of cloud controllers

  The BBC has set up a central group of IT, security and user communities to manage its purchase and use of cloud computing

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  BlackBerry makes small profit in light of internal shakeups

  BlackBerry has achieved a net profit of $23m with revenue of $966m in three months from May until the end of March 2014