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February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
Oracle fleshes out APAC cloud strategy

Enterprise IT giant Oracle is looking to better serve APAC customers with data sovereignty requirements
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
Gartner predicts BI market will jump 7.3% to $18.3bn in 2017

So-called “modern BI and analytics platforms” outpace traditional business intelligence, but rate will slow down
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
High Court rules for SAP, against Diageo in indirect licensing case

Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database
February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17
Sweden’s Kiviks Musteri turns to cloud to keep up with growth

Swedish fruit products manufacturer Kiviks Musteri plans to put further systems in the cloud as a cloud-based ERP migration nears completion

February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17
Oracle executives claim more comprehensive reach for cloud business

At a recent customer conference in London, US-based Oracle executives gave accounts of the supplier’s cloud business as becoming at once more enterprise and more mid-market
February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17
Deloitte readies enterprise public cloud practice with AWS and SAP

A 2,500-strong consulting practice will focus on delivering SAP Hana on Amazon Web Services for analytics to drive digital business
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
Public sector IT suppliers blast CCS over rising G-Cloud commission charges

CCS confirms commission charges on G-Cloud sales are to rise from 0.5 to 0.75% when the next iteration of the framework drops in May 2017, but suppliers fear it could harm their ability to innovate
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
Interview: Cloud Foundry on its 2017 awareness-raising plans for open source PaaS

Cloud Foundry’s executive director, Abby Kearns, sets out the organisation’s plans to ensure that market awareness of the platform keeps pace with its rapid enterprise adoption
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
Oracle expands cloud offerings in Australia

Tech giant Oracle will deliver platform and infrastructure services through its Sydney datacentre
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Dutch tech hub is facilitating the next Google

Amsterdam is already a leading tech hub, and is now offering support for companies in their second phase of development

February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures

Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Intel: Enterprise trust in public cloud is on the rise, but skill shortages hinder adoption

The 2017 Intel cloud security report suggests enterprise attitudes to public cloud are softening, but a shortage of skilled security workers is holding back adoption
February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17
Ordinary citizens with no terror links caught by US surveillance, court hears

US government has “extraordinary access” to private data of non-US citizens around the world, a Dublin court is told
February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17
Thailand to roll out IoT network in April 2017

The country's first IoT network will offer location tracking, smart metering and smart street lighting services in Phuket and Bangkok
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
SAP connects S/4 Hana in the cloud with ‘intelligent’ ERP

SAP has announced an intensification of S/4 Hana cloud delivery, together with an infusion of its enterprise resource planning with artificial intelligence
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Winter Olympics 2018 critical systems will all be in the cloud

Atos is on course to hit its target of having all core Olympic IT systems in the cloud by next year's Winter Olympics in South Korea
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Case study: Australia’s Salmat to go cloud-only after getting a taste for the technology

Australian marketing company Salmat plans to move everything it can into the cloud following a highly successful initial SaaS implementation
February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17
Government cloud security classification confusion dogs Digital Marketplace listings

Misinterpretation of the Government Security Classifications could result in the overprovisioning of public sector IT systems
February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17
Middle East and North Africa public cloud spend to hit $2bn by 2020

Middle East-based organisations are turning to public cloud services, with software as a service driving a major year-on-year spending increase
February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17
Facebook Schrems legal case will have ‘sweeping’ impact on EU-US privacy

The US government says the legal case by the Irish data protection commissioner could have sweeping ramifications for EU-US data sharing and could undermine international co-operation
February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17
APAC businesses turn to DevOps to improve app quality, security

Security validation and metrics are some of the key trends in DevOps this year, according to CA Technologies
February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17
Dutch businesses have heads in the cloud

In the Netherlands, cloud computing is used by the central bank, large multinationals like Unilever, startups such as WeTransfer, and even a Dutch potato processing plant in China
February 03, 2017 03 Feb'17
AWS results hint at slowdown in cloud giant’s annual growth rate

Amazon Web Services reports another strong quarter, but analysts point to slowing of annual revenue growth
February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17
Executive interview: Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals firm's big cloud bets for 2017

New Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals details of what the future holds for the managed cloud company now it's under new ownership
February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17
Cloud project success gives Aster appetite for more

The success of a cloud project at Aster Group gives the IT department the task of having to curb enthusiasm for the cloud
January 31, 2017 31 Jan'17
Open source cloud community condemns President Trump immigration ban

Tech leaders from several major open source cloud initiatives condemn President Donald Trump's travel ban, and claim it could harm diversity and hinder the tech industry's wider innovation potential
January 31, 2017 31 Jan'17
SAP aims to clarify S/4 Hana, cloud apps roadmaps for customers

The SAP board has launched an initiative to publish and clarify roadmaps, especially in respect of S/4 Hana and its cloud applications, and one product of this is a new technology choice tool
January 29, 2017 29 Jan'17
Artificial intelligence will increase productivity by sharpening human mind

The combination of AI and humans will triple productivity if businesses get the balance right for different roles
January 27, 2017 27 Jan'17
Microsoft to teach more than 560,000 people digital skills

Technology giant Microsoft announces a programme designed to boost digital skills and tech job prospects across the UK
January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17
Virtual Instruments to add cloud storage monitoring by end of 2017

Storage performance and monitoring provider Virtual Instruments leverages Xangati functionality to add cloud storage monitoring to existing SAN and NAS capabilities in Virtual Wisdom
January 25, 2017 25 Jan'17
Outdated IT budget models slow enterprise cloud adoption, CIO research suggests

Research from IT services provider Trustmarque suggests the way that enterprises run their IT budgets is out of step with how they consume and pay for cloud
January 24, 2017 24 Jan'17
SAP 2016 results: cloud revenue almost €3bn, 5,400 S/4 customers

SAP declares full-year 2016 revenue of €22bn, of which nearly €3bn was cloud – almost 14%
January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17
Singapore and Indonesia stand out for IT spend in Apac banking sector

Singapore is the top spender on IT for banking of all developed economies in the Apac region, while Indonesia has the fastest growth rate in IT spending
January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17
Schroders staff to complete daily tasks on mobile devices

The asset management company wants to make it easier for its staff to complete everyday tasks by linking mobile devices to enterprise systems
January 20, 2017 20 Jan'17
International Olympic Committee embarks on 12-year cloud partnership with Alibaba

Chinese cloud services provider Alibaba agrees to supply the Olympic Games organisers with cloud infrastructure and services until 2028
January 20, 2017 20 Jan'17
SSP Worldwide blames engineers at London datacentre for new cloud outage

Insurance software provider says latest service outage was caused by power problems at third-party datacentre site
January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17
Southampton FC signs up to cloud-based e-commerce

The cloud-based system by Advanced supports fan engagement and is able to handle peaks in traffic on Southampton FC’s website
January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17
Oracle trumpets cloud applications progress at start of 2017

Oracle reports a new wave of customer take-up of its cloud offerings and announces new datacentres and increased IaaS availability of its Database Cloud Service
January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17
Private and public cloud fuelled Emea infrastructure sales in Q3, shows IDC data

Demand for traditional IT hardware slumps, as sales of private and public cloud-enabling technologies soar, shows IDC data
January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17
Aldo uses Salesforce to drive ‘customer delight’

Luxury retailer is using Salesforce to drive engagement, a seamless experience and customer loyalty
January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17
AWS commits to addressing long-term UK cloud skills shortage

Amazon Web Services debuts its Re:Start programme, as it strives to do its bit to close the UK cloud skills gap
January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17
Case study: The Alan Turing Institute takes cloud-first stance on data science research

Computer Weekly meets the Alan Turing Institute team and finds out how using cloud-first thinking can help achieve its goal of becoming a global force to be reckoned with in data science research
January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17
Building society uses SharePoint in the cloud for intranet

The Family Building Society moves intranet to SharePoint in its first major cloud project
January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17
CIO interview: Ian Turfrey, British Medical Association

"Think big, start small, act now" is the motto of the BMA’s CIO, as he leads the organsiation through a technology transformation strategy
January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17
Cloud provider moves to QoS flash performance on NetApp Solidfire

Carrenza guarantees specified I/O to customers on all-flash arrays from NetApp Solidfire in a move that allows it to offer storage performance as a product
January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17
Containers tipped for enterprise take-off between now and 2020, predicts 451 Research

451 Research predicts the hype surrounding containers will give way to fast and furious enterprise adoption over the next three years
January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17
UKCloud cuts cloud storage pricing for public sector customers and sticks boot into US rivals

Public sector-focused cloud provider claims latest round of price cuts means its services are cheaper to use than some of its US counterparts
January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17
Synergy Research Group hails 2016 as landmark year for cloud services growth

Market watcher's latest cloud market tracker suggests services market is growing three times faster than off-premise hardware and software market
January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17
IaaS challenger OVH to open first UK datacentre by May 2017

French hosting provider sets out plans to ramp up its UK presence with a series of datacentre builds over the coming year
January 05, 2017 05 Jan'17
HMV changes its IT tune to cut maintenance spend on legacy on-premise systems

The high street music retailer has embarked on a sizeable digital transformation project to cut costs and boost the agility of its business operations
January 04, 2017 04 Jan'17
Customer-first approach will make 2017 a challenge for Dutch CIOs

CIOs in the Netherlands could see their strategies lead to thousands of jobs being cut as businesses automate
December 29, 2016 29 Dec'16
Top 10 HR technology stories of 2016

Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly's most popular stories on HR technology in 2016
December 22, 2016 22 Dec'16
Top 10 state surveillance, investigatory powers and activism stories of 2016

This year saw the UK introduce the Snoopers' Charter, legalising some of the most extensive government surveillance powers in the world. Computer Weekly exposed state monitoring of Parliamentary emails, and reported on activist Lauri Love's legal ...
December 22, 2016 22 Dec'16
Top 10 business applications stories of 2016

Artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with the internet of things, have been the emerging elements in business applications in 2016. Cloud, too, has shaped supplier agendas
December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16
2017 UK IT budgets show increased CRM and business automation focus

CRM has emerged as the number one UK IT spending priority for 2017, in terms of packaged business applications. Beyond packaged, the top three software initiatives were business process automation, data quality and governance
December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16
How Shazam handles its data reserves

Chris Kammermann, senior infrastructure engineer at Shazam, explains how adopting the Splunk platform has helped the firm deal with legacy systems and data analysis
December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16
Top 10 CW Middle East stories of 2016

Read the most popular articles about enterprise IT in the Middle East
December 20, 2016 20 Dec'16
IT Priorities 2017: Many ANZ CIOs don’t expect IT budget increase

There is still uncertainty over Australian CIO budgets in 2017 and many expect a reduction
December 20, 2016 20 Dec'16
Digital Realty sets sights on loosening Equinix’s grip on global colocation market

Digital Realty's managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa sets out how the business is drawing on its recent datacentre acquisitions to take Equinix on in 2017
December 20, 2016 20 Dec'16
Top 10 CW Nordics stories of 2016

Read the top 10 Nordic enterprise IT stories from Computer Weekly
December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16
Top 10 cloud stories of 2016

Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2016
December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16
Review of 2016: Top 10 CW Benelux articles

Here are the 10 most popular Benelux-focused Computer Weekly articles of 2016
December 16, 2016 16 Dec'16
Oracle Q2 2016-17 results: cloud growth but overall revenue flat

Oracle’s Q2 results for fiscal year 2017 indicate 70% growth in cloud revenue from $649m in same year ago quarter to $1.1bn, 12% of overall revenue, flat at $9bn
December 16, 2016 16 Dec'16
2017 IT Priorities: Benelux IT leaders least confident of budget increase

Benelux-based IT decision makers expect to divert more of their IT budgets to cloud technology and services
December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16
Swedish Cider company upgrades to cloud ERP to keep up with growth

Apple-based product manufacturer moves to an industry-specific ERP system in the cloud
December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16
AWS opens UK datacentre region to meet "pent-up" demand for locally-hosted cloud

The UK managing director of AWS claims region opening will help existing customers meet their latency and data sovereignty requirements, and benefit the wider economy
December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16
Metro Bank moves IT infrastructure to cloud

Metro Bank moves its IT infrastructure to a private Rackspace cloud platform, which will allow it to keep up with the latest technologies and reduce costs
December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16
Is there a Dutch digital delusion?

To stand still is to decline. The Netherlands seems to be losing ground in the digital world, according to new reports
December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16
Saudi Arabia enterprise IT trends for 2017

Computer Weekly looks at the technologies that will dominate enterprise IT in Saudi Arabia next year
December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16
Tech industry big guns unite to create crash-free IT services and systems

Some of the tech industry's biggest names have come together to create the Zero Outage Industry Standards Association to help improve the uptime of IT systems and services
December 11, 2016 11 Dec'16
IT Priorities 2017: More than half of Middle East organisations will reduce spending on IT staff

Organisations in the Middle East face the challenge of gaining new IT skills despite IT staff budget cuts
December 09, 2016 09 Dec'16
IT Priorities 2017: Nordic organisations to spend more on cloud services

The adoption of cloud computing in its many guises will be a top priority in the Nordic region in 2017
December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16
The United Arab Emirates enterprise IT trends for 2017

The UAE is already a leader in areas such as smart city developments, and 2017 looks set to see organisations in the country increase its adoption of other transformational IT
December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16
IT Priorities 2017: Quarter of Apac CIOs expect IT budget to rise by more than 10%

More than half of Apac-based IT decision-makers expect budgets to rise next year and cloud-related projects look the likely destination of the extra money
December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16
UKtech50 interview: ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars

The UKtech50 most influential person in UK IT 2016, ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars, shares his thoughts on the consequences of Brexit, access to skills and the importance of security in a world full of connected devices
December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16
IT Priorities 2017: What will IT decision makers be focusing on?

Each year, Computer Weekly asks CIOs and senior IT decision makers what they will be investing in during the 12 months ahead
December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16
The need for speed: Inside the cloud innovation engine at AWS

With analysts citing Amazon’s speedy product release cycles as a major source of competitive difference for the cloud firm, AWS CEO Andy Jassy opens up about how it keeps its innovation engine ticking over
December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16
Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016
December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16
Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016
December 02, 2016 02 Dec'16
AWS on bringing machine learning and artificial intelligence to the cloud masses

Amazon Web Services used Re:Invent 2016 to stake its claim as an early adopter of machine learning, while revealing details of its plans to boost the technology's take-up among everyday developers
December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16
AWS CEO hails "changing of the guard" in enterprise IT on the back of cloud growth

AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at “old guard” enterprise IT suppliers, while talking up his company’s ability to out-sell and out-innovate them
November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16
BP to go all-in on public cloud to cut datacentre upkeep costs

Oil giant BP uses first day of AWS Re:Invent to outline how it is cushioning itself against falling oil prices by using cloud to cut costs
November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16
Growing multi-cloud demand means providers must diversify to survive, warns 451 Research

Two reports from analyst house 451 Research suggest cloud providers must consider adding support for competing services to their portfolios in order to survive in the hybrid, multi-cloud era
November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16
Finnair digitises core business processes via Apple and IBM

Finnair is working with IBM to bring user-friendly apps to its internal workforce
November 28, 2016 28 Nov'16
Do you have what it takes to be a great CIO?

CIOs have the potential to become business leaders – it’s a matter of nurturing the right skills, talent and relationships, according to Deloitte
November 25, 2016 25 Nov'16
Boots SAP centre of expertise helps take back control

Walgreens Boots Alliance has built an SAP centre of expertise to take back control of the strategic direction of its IT organisation from its previously outsourced structure
November 25, 2016 25 Nov'16
CBRE: Cloud drives Q3 demand for colocation space in Frankfurt and London

CBRE’s third-quarter datacentre market tracker highlights soaring demand for colocation capacity in Frankfurt and London, as cloud providers court European enterprises
November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16
Colocation laggards warned about dangers of ignoring needs of hyperscale cloud giants

Steve Wallage, managing director of datacentre-focused analyst house Broadgroup Consulting, says operators that take the time to forge closer ties with customers stand to benefit from the rise in demand for colocation from hyperscale cloud giants
November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16
AWS challenger Alibaba Cloud opens German datacentre to woo European enterprises

Chinese cloud services firm Alibaba outlines plans to shake-up the European cloud market with German datacentre launch
November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16
Are Asean organisations ready for blockchain technology?

Blockchain promises to increase the efficiency and security of transactions in industries way beyond its financial services roots. But what does it mean in the Asean region?
November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16
IBM, HPE and T-Systems compete for Europe-wide €5.3m hybrid cloud contract

European research groups confirm details of who made it through to next stage of their hybrid cloud procurement process
November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16
Axa offers on-demand insurance via mobile app

Insurance company launches app that offers quick and easy insurance cover for individual items owned by customers
November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16
Alibaba brings public cloud to the Middle East

Alibaba has opened a datacentre in Dubai to attract businesses in the Middle East to its public cloud services
November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16
HumanOps: Etsy on how unclear workplace expectations contribute to staff burnout

IT managers risk "normalising" bad workplace behaviour and contributing to employee stress by responding to emails out of hours and staying late unnecessarily, warns Etsy web operations manager
November 21, 2016 21 Nov'16
IBM to triple size of UK datacentre footprint by opening four new sites in 2017

Big blue claims datacentre expansion plans represent its largest country-specific cloud datacentre investment to date
November 21, 2016 21 Nov'16
Foot Locker to roll out ‘best fit’ recruitment software after productivity hike

Sports retailer to adopt online software to identify best job candidates after its use led to double-digit rise in team performance in US stores
November 18, 2016 18 Nov'16
Elekta turns to workforce analytics to inform board decisions

Board executives at healthcare company Elekta are analysing workforce data to make better strategic decisions
November 18, 2016 18 Nov'16
T-Systems talks up post-Brexit benefits of new UK datacentre

IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom opens UK datacentre to help enterprises grappling with private cloud and SAP migrations
November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16
Dutch bank ING to spend millions ‘disrupting’ its own business

Dutch bank ING used digital technology to reinvent itself following the financial crash, and is about to reinvent itself again, says its global CTO, Brendan Donovan
November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16
Barnsley Council maximises adoption of mobile apps though staff consultation

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is rolling out SAP Fiori apps in HR initially, and learning how to adapt to user needs from surgeries and workshops