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• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  New Accenture-Microsoft group to sharpen industry focus

  Accenture-Microsoft business group will deliver industry-specific offerings and consulting services to enterprises that lean towards Microsoft technologies

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  UKCloud secures £25m investment to support multi-cloud public sector push

  G-Cloud-listed IT services firm UKCloud has received a sizeable financial boost to support its efforts to cater to the differentiated demands of public sector technology buyers

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Oracle Q3 2018-19 results: profits nudge up, revenue dips

  Oracle’s third quarter 2018-19 results show improved profitability on weaker revenue, and cloud-based autonomous database service with 1,000 customers

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Met Police collaborated with US prosecutors in WikiLeaks investigation

  The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it exchanged information on WikiLeaks staff in the UK with the US Department of Justice, which is conducting criminal investigations into the organisation

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  NHS Shared Business Services seeks suppliers for £500m cloud procurement framework

  NHS Shared Business Services is seeking suppliers for a four-year procurement framework designed to streamline how public sector organisations source cloud services

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  OpenText Enterprise World Europe: CEO Barrenechea stakes claim for EIM as competitive edge

  OpenText’s CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea used his keynote at the company’s inaugural Enterprise World Europe customer and partner conference in Vienna to make a case for enterprise information management as a software category that can give corporate...

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  IBM’s APAC CEO talks up next chapter of cloud adoption

  In the next phase of cloud adoption, enterprises will need to manage multiple cloud environments, as well as data to scale up their use of artificial intelligence technology

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  King's College London IT chief says resisting digital disruption a ‘waste of time’

  Speaking at the Cloud Expo Europe 2019 conference in London, King's College London chief architect, Ian Johns, opened up about how his past experiences of digital disruption informed his view that it's best to embrace it than fight back

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  IT Priorities 2019: APAC keeping pace with digital transformation

  Digital transformation is well underway among APAC enterprises which are looking to spend more on refreshing their IT infrastructure and technologies that improve employee productivity

• March 02, 2019 02 Mar'19

  Facebook asked George Osborne to influence EU data protection law

  Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg invited one of the chancellor’s children to Facebook’s office as part of a intensive lobbying programme to influence European data protection legislation

• March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19

  Microsoft Azure gains ground on AWS in public cloud

  RightScale report suggests Microsoft Azure is closing the gap between it and public cloud market leader AWS in the enterprise, while Google is attracting increasing attention from the C-suite

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Volkswagen’s cloud-focused connected car collaboration with Microsoft gathers pace

  Car maker has confirmed its Microsoft-based Automotive Cloud setup will be extended beyond Europe into other key markets to support its push to digitise more of the driving experience for its customers

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Spotify and Just Eat join forces with tech firms to help enterprises manage cloud costs better

  A new non-profit, cloud-focused trade association has emerged that wants to help prevent financial management issues get in the way of enterprises embracing cloud

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  SME backup products offer diverse routes to the cloud

  We take the temperature on cloud-era SME-focused backup products that come as “traditional” software, replication-centric protection environments and hardware appliances

• February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19

  Facebook planned to spy on Android phone users, internal emails reveal

  Facebook planned to use its Android app to track the location of its customers and to allow advertisers to send political advertising and invites to dating sites to ‘single’ people, confidential documents show

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Organisations adopt multicloud strategies as shift from private cloud settles

  There is little change in the move from private to public clouds, according to Pierre Audoin Consultants – but more IT professionals are using multi-clouds

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  CIO interview: Martin Draper, CIO and change director, Liberty London

  Department store’s IT leader is bringing a traditional retail business into the digital, omnichannel age

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Activist Lauri Love’s computer ‘contained hacked data’, says judge

  Lauri Love, who has been accused of hacking into US government computer systems, has lost a legal action against the NCA for the return of his computers and storage device

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  IT Priorities 2019: UK investment intent for AI intensifies, SaaS applications mature beyond CRM

  AI continues to strengthen as a focus for IT systems buyers in the UK, according to this year’s Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey, while cloud applications are maturing beyond CRM

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  Dell Boomi taps APAC cloud market

  The supplier of cloud-based integration services has expanded into Southeast Asia following its debut in Australia about two years ago

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  CIO interview: Neil Holden, IT director, Halfords Group

  Motoring and bicycles retailer is growing its use of cloud, expanding on data analytics and exploring new technologies such as artificial intelligence

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Businesses fail to grasp the true cost of public cloud

  Public cloud infrastructure as a service sounds good on paper, but a survey has found that many IT professionals are seriously overspending

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Chesterfield NHS trust consolidates 30 data management systems into one with Civica

  Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust aims to become a paperless organisation by 2020

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  US Department of Defense backs multi-cloud model to support $10bn JEDI mega-cloud deployment

  The US Department of Defense has fleshed out its cloud strategy, as the industry awaits news of who has secured the decade-long contract for its $10bn mega-cloud environment

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Synergy Research Group hails 2018 as standout year for cloud infrastructure market growth

  The financial performance of the big cloud giants during the last quarter of 2018 prompts market watcher Synergy Research Group to declare it a "banner year" for the market

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Coders and developers: The new heroes of the network?

  Cisco is moving towards a software-based future. We chatted to Susie Wee, founder and leader of Cisco developer and innovation programme, DevNet, to find out how she is helping to enable this change

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Telegraph Media Group switches out AWS to go all-in on Google Cloud

  Telegraph Media Group CIO Chris Taylor on why the newspaper publisher is switching out AWS to go all-in on the Google Cloud Platform

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Alphabet 2018 results: 23% growth, profit squeeze from investment

  Alphabet – the conglomerate that includes Google and the search giant’s cloud business – grew revenue 23% in 2018, and stoked up R&D investment

• February 03, 2019 03 Feb'19

  Alibaba Cloud teams up with SMU on training programme

  Alibaba Cloud will equip small and medium-sized enterprises with cloud computing and other technology skills through a partnership with Singapore Management University

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  AWS reports fourth quarter revenue growth of 45% as public cloud demand continues apace

  Amazon's cloud arm appears to be pulling away, in performance terms, from its parent's company's e-tail business, having generated more operating income during 2018 than its North American retail operations

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Department for Transport revamps police road traffic accident reporting system

  Working with Civica Digital, the Department for Transport has ramped up the mobile capabilities of its road traffic accident reporting service for police forces across England and Wales

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  IT leaders grapple with workforce skills gap as they deploy AI and digital technology

  Organisations will have to find new ways of reskilling their workforce as they get to grips with artificial intelligence and other digital technologies. CIOs also need to keep their skills updated if they are to succeed

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  SAP FY 2018: Cloud revenue nears €5bn, 10,500 customers for S/4 Hana

  SAP’s full-year 2018 results show cloud revenue at 20% of the total, which was €24.7bn, while the fourth quarter saw 1,000 customers added to its flagship S/4 Hana

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Lloyds Bank to migrate hundreds of thousands of customers to Google-inspired fintech

  Following its announcement that it was exploring the use of a fintech platform, Lloyds Bank has been quick to plan customer migration

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Facebook’s objections to court concerns over privacy more about ‘optics’ than facts

  Facebook’s challenge to a High Court ruling that raises serious concerns about data transfers between Europe and the US is more about appearance than facts, lawyers for the Irish Data Protection Commission told Dublin's Supreme Court

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Veeam Cloud Tier adds tiered storage for backups in S3 clouds

  Virtualisation backup specialist adds tiering of Veeam Availability Suite data to AWS, Azure and S3-compatible clouds, which can now also be used as a repository for its N2WS cloud-native backup

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  BigCommerce migrates 60,000 merchants from IBM and AWS to Google Cloud Platform

  E-commerce platform provider BigCommerce has swapped out IBM and AWS for the Google Cloud Platform to help its users give their customers a faster, more responsive online shopping experience

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Virtus plots £500m colocation expansion with five datacentres planned for Slough and Hayes

  Virtus Data Centres is continuing to build out its colocation footprint within the M25, with five facilities set to open during the next two years

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Facebook: US government does not engage in mass and indiscriminate surveillance

  Social media giant challenges a ruling by Dublin’s High Court over a judgment that it says made ‘extraordinary and incorrect’ findings about the US legal system

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Amazon shareholders demand halt in sales of image recognition tech to US government

  Amazon shareholders want its board of directors to halt sales of its image recognition service to US law enforcers unless it can independently verify it's not being misused

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Vodafone and IBM prep user clouds for future network tech

  Companies expand existing collaboration to enable enterprise customers to prepare for the impact of advanced networking technologies

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  AWS ‘does not dominate’ cloud market, claims Amazon’s UK public policy chief

  Amazon’s UK director of public policy, Lesley Smith, has told the House of Lords Communications Committee that Amazon is a “prevalent”, rather than “dominant” force in the cloud market

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Protego Labs launches serverless app security tool

  Security professionals and developers now have a way to assess the security of their serverless applications with a new open source testing tool donated to Owasp

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Growth of on-premise tech hit by enterprise cloud demand in 2018, Synergy Research shows

  Growth opportunities for on-premise technologies within the enterprise are starting to feel the pinch from cloud, claims Synergy Research's 2018 market review

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  How e-signatures fix broken digitisation

  A big barrier to the end-to-end digitisation of business processes is that certain steps require paper – but DocuSign plans to fix this

• January 01, 2019 01 Jan'19

  SAP user group’s Cooper: Indirect licensing progress welcome but slow

  SAP UK&I User Group chair Paul Cooper on the state of play between SAP and users: sanguine about end of ECC6; S/4 adoption growth steady, indirect licensing still an issue; and C/4 remains unknown

• December 31, 2018 31 Dec'18

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2018

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2018

• December 28, 2018 28 Dec'18

  Top 10 HR technology stories of 2018

  Companies are turning to artificial intelligence, robotic automation and chatbots to take the drudgery out of human resource management

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  Microsoft raises cloud prices for Australian enterprise customers

  Despite the price hike, Microsoft claims its Azure service remains competitively priced, with opportunities for additional savings

• December 17, 2018 17 Dec'18

  Financial services giant transforms application delivery through HCL

  Dutch financial services firm Aegon is outsourcing the management of its fintech supplier network