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• 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

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  CIO interview: Mark Bramwell, head of IT, Wellcome Trust

  The world’s largest medical charity is shifting its technology focus to improving ways of working

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Lush cleans up on data with QlikView

  Cosmetics retailer Lush has reduced wastage and made its shops more profitable through using QlikView business intelligence software

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Don’t let bean counters determine your cloud strategy, says Bank of England CIO

  John Finch, the CIO of the Bank of England, warns users to be wary of financial promises made by cloud providers

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Use of geographical information systems increases

  Remote management and analytics overlaid with geospatial data is being used to manage real-world networks

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud

  eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Interview: John Swainson, president of Dell Software

  Dell Software president John Swainson's aims to make Dell Software a $5bn business

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Coca-Cola bottler seeks to put mission-critical systems on the cloud

  Coca Cola bottling company is moving the company’s mission-critical workloads, including ERP systems on to the cloud

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  Kemp Little lawyers offer tips for public cloud journey

  Cloud CIOs need to have a “sense check” while planning their public cloud strategies, say technology lawyers

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  Travel group Expedia aims to predict your holiday plans

  Travel group Expedia is developing technology that will predict the needs of its customers before they call about their travel plans

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  Blackberry promises re-focus on enterprise

  Until the release of the Blackberry Z10 the company’s main focus had been providing enterprise security

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  HSBC makes executives responsible for application consolidation

  In the next few weeks, senior executives at HSBC globally will have KPIs to reduce the number of applications they run

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  $39bn worldwide shift to SAP cloud, HCL research reveals

  Nearly $40bn of SAP installed software will move to the cloud in the next two years, suggests research from IT services firm HCL Technologies

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  CIO Interview: Betfair's Michael Bischoff on making IT ready for Fifa World Cup

  Michael Bischoff, the CIO of bookmaker Betfair, talks about the challenges in readying the IT for Fifa World Cup betting

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  Can Salesforce.com re-engineer business IT?

  With 1.5 million developers and a new focus on industry solutions, is Salesforce.com a business platform?

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  80% of UK CIOs cite significant gap between business needs and IT delivery

  80% of IT decision-makers in the UK feel there is a significant gap between business needs and IT delivery – the highest in Europe

• June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14

  Adoption of cloud-based communications grows

  Improving economic conditions and exposure to technology is driving the uptake of cloud-based communications applications

• June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14

  Tesco Bank launches current account on off-the-shelf platform

  Tesco has launched a current account four years after implementing its core banking platform

• June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14

  Larry Ellison lifts the lid on Oracle's in-memory database

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has taken the wrappers off the company’s in-memory database, trumpeting its 'real-time' performance capability.

• June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14

  EE drives mobile phone deals with CRM software implementation

  Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere claims a 400% increase in phone deals after rolling out customer relationship management software

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  How the FBI is using technology to put customers first

  Businesses and public sector organisations are under pressure to use technology to put the needs of customers first

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres

  HP has launched networking, HPC, storage and converged infrastructure products

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  Engineering firm fined for using unlicensed Autodesk software

  Project Options has been fined £16,000 by the Business Software Alliance, following an online tip-off

• June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14

  Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead

  Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Microsoft could be the biggest SaaS player, says FBR analyst

  Microsoft could be the biggest SaaS player in the world in two years, says FBR analyst, backing CEO’s vision for Office 365

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  CIO interview: Sheridan Hindle co-operates to replicate IT benefits

  Few IT heads can say that, among their responsibilities, they manage a top-level domain. But Midcounties' Sheridan Hindle can

• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  UK airports lead move to cloud services

  UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.

• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  MPs accuse MPA of disguising Universal Credit in a “veil of secrecy”

  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused the Major Projects Authority (MPA) of disguising the troubled Universal Credit programme in a “veil of secrecy” by not providing a rating on its current status

• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  Decision-makers rely on intuition over analytics

  Business leaders are more likely to trust their intuition than rely on business intelligence dashboards

• June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14

  Sapphire 2014: Plattner restates radical, in-memory computing future

  SAP's Hasso Plattner restates his case that enterprise applications face a radical future, based on in-memory computing

• June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14

  VMware CTO hits back at AWS tool to manage virtual machines

  VMware CTO Chris Wolf warns users against being fooled by tools disguised as hybrid cloud management as AWS launches administration portal

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  Sapphire 2014: SAP CEO McDermott declares war on ‘complexity’ and sets Fiori free

  Bill McDermott, SAP CEO, devoted his opening keynote at Sapphire 2014 to declaring war on business process “complexity”

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

  The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software: Shortlist 2014

  See who made the shortlist for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software 2014

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  Interview: Infor’s president Duncan Angove talks strategy

  Duncan Angove is part of an ex-Oracle senior management team that has reset Infor's strategy in recent years

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  AWS and Microsoft ‘overwhelmingly top contenders’ of IaaS Magic Quadrant, says Gartner

  Gartner’s IaaS Magic Quadrant places AWS and Microsoft in the Leader quadrant, and Google and IBM in the Visionaries quadrant

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Software-defined everything will change datacentre design, function and price

  Datacentres of the future will not be populated with products that perform individual functions as software-defined everything makes hardware irrelevant

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Highways Agency selects Lockheed Martin for application refresh

  The Highways Agency has signed a two-year contract with Lockheed Martin to modernise its applications.

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Why European Commission wants cloud standards and policies in Europe

  Cloud is key to stimulate growth and create jobs in Europe, but needs a single cloud market, easy policies and cloud standards, says EU

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Microsoft and Salesforce bind SQL deal and Office 365 integration

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated the company’s new found openness with a strategic alliance with Salesforce.com.

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  IT supplier insolvencies fall for first time as economy recovers

  Technology companies have reached a turning point as insolvencies fall for the first time in 2014

• May 29, 2014 29 May'14

  BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

  British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  HR cloud transfusion at NHS Blood and Transplant

  The NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) organisation has brought together its scattered HR department with a single point of contact

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson

  Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  Cloud and datacentre warnings for CIOs

  As cloud computing enters mainstream, datacentre and cloud experts warn CIOs about IT trends that are too big to ignore

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  Case study: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust deploys e-observation technology

  Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying mobile observation technologies to monitor patient health

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing

  NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use