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April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17
Accenture increasing Newcastle-based workforce

Accenture is expanding its operation in Newcastle with the addition of 60 recruits
April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17
Carrenza's US datacentre expansion plans help spend control firm get cloud compliant

Fourth, a customer of UK-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Carrenza, explains how the firm’s decision to expand its US datacentre footprint has benefited its business
April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17
Huddle needs $5m equity injection or to find a buyer, as investment declaration deadline looms

Companies House documents reveal Huddle needs to raise $5m or more by the end of April or find a buyer to meet its financial obligations for the next 12 months
April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17
Gulf Air refreshes storage and server farm hardware with Dell EMC

Airline completes major project to revamp its storage infrastructure with Dell EMC technologies

April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17
Research highlights cloud security complacency in organisations that ditch on-premise tech

Enterprise attitudes to cloud security are laid bare in the latest research report from Bitglass, and suggest more could be done to secure corporate data stored off-premise
April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17
Dunkin' Donuts and Here Technologies join AWS cloud customer roll call

Companies have separately declared AWS to be their preferred infrastructure partner, as the cloud giant continues to make significant in-roads into the enterprise
April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17
Australia to abolish visa for skilled workers

The Australian government will replace the 457 visa programme with temporary skills visas to stem the loss of jobs that could go to Australians
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
Virtustream extends enterprise cloud service to APAC enterprises

Public cloud supplier Virtustream is eyeing the APAC’s booming cloud market by touting the ability to host mission-critical applications
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
IBM sales and profits down, but future focus areas see growth

IBM experiences another fall in sales, but it continues to sell more in areas that will make up its future business
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
Trump’s clampdown on use of immigrant IT workers may have little impact

US president's latest executive order aims to reduce the number of immigrant IT workers in the country

April 13, 2017 13 Apr'17
Enterprise adoption of encryption accelerating, study shows

Cloud adoption and escalating threats are accelerating adoption of encryption, a study has revealed
April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17
Growth of hyperscale operators risks squeezing smaller players out of cloud, research warns

As the hold of the hyperscale datacentre operators on the wider cloud market tightens, Synergy Research Group looks at the impact their influence is having on the wider IT market
April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17
Chatbots, Fitbits and AI: IT suppliers identify the top trends in HR technology

Businesses are using Fitbits, artificial intelligence and chatbots to improve working life as competition increases to recruit talented ‘millennials’
April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17
‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies

The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role
April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17
Government outsourcing contracts to be extended due to Brexit

Government outsourcing contracts could be extended without renegotiation due to the civil service being overburdened with Brexit work
April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17
Outsourcing service left Scottrade Bank customer data exposed

Mistake by outsourcing service provider left the details of 20,000 Scottrade Bank customers vulnerable to theft
April 07, 2017 07 Apr'17
Most UK companies not prepared for service provider failures

UK businesses are ill-prepared for the impact on their business resulting from the failure of an IT of business process supplier
April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17
Sweden’s Bisnode consolidates outsourced IT

Swedish firm Bisnode brings multiple IT services contracts under one roof
April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17
New subsea cable to connect Australia and Southeast Asia

The Indigo submarine cable will provide additional capacity to mitigate disruptions caused by fibre cuts, as well as meet the growing demand for internet services in the region
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut gets sweet on cloud

Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut is increasingly using cloud-based apps to improve productivity and reduce costs
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
Northern Ireland schools to continue with Capita IT services

Two-year, £60m contract extension covers ICT services for 1,100 schools
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
AWS cloud dominance under growing threat from Google and Microsoft, says 451 Research

Latest Voice of the Enterprise report from 451 Research suggests competition in the IaaS market is hotting up, with Microsoft and Google posing a growing threat to AWS
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
IT services 'mega-child' DXC takes first steps

The merger of CSC and HPE Services is complete and the new company will focus on digital transformation
March 31, 2017 31 Mar'17
Expanding business intelligence firm uses technology to bring in recruits

Chester-based GBG has saved £300,000 in recruitment costs and seen its ‘Glassdoor’ ratings jump from 1.9 to 4.2 out of 5
March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17
Russian Airline at home in the cloud

S7 Airlines in Russia looks set to move more of its IT to the cloud after successful infrastructure-as-a-service project
March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17
Almost 40% of firms seeking cloud skills find it hard to recruit

Most orgainsations agree that cloud skills are important for the future, but those involved in recruitment are finding it difficult to hire talent
March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17
Serco uses HR technology to cut recruitment bill

International outsourced services supplier Serco is investing in HR recruitment technology to help it hire 15,000 to 20,000 people a year
March 23, 2017 23 Mar'17
Apple denies hackers holding millions of iPhones, iCloud accounts ransom

Apple reassures customers that none of its systems have been breached, dismissing hackers' claims that millions of iPhones and iCloud accounts are at risk of being wiped
March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17
Heathrow Airport updates clunky loyalty scheme through cloud-based software and services

Streamlined loyalty programme doubles number of airport users and boosts average spend
March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17
HCL Technologies to support IT for Volvo Ocean Race

HCL Technologies is to build and support the IT that will make the Volvo Ocean Race available to spectators around the world
March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17
Cloudability acquires Australian cloud automation firm

The acquisition will expand the supplier’s footprint in the ANZ market through new automation capabilities
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Nordic airline averts business disaster with application performance monitoring

Following an emergency decision to move to Amazon Web Services, Iceland’s Wow Air has wholeheartedly bought into the cloud
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Portakabin’s biggest-ever IT investment unifies CRM

Modular construction firm is moving to a single source of business information through cloud technology and services
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal

Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Outsourcing gives Scottish charity’s IT team time to think ahead

Carr Gomm outsources IT support to allow internal IT team to think beyond keeping the lights on
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
HPE plots next move on services

HPE’s financial results suggest it has not had a good time in the IT services and outsourcing business. Will it be third time lucky?
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Rackspace to roll out managed service support for Google Cloud Platform in Q3 2017

Managed cloud company becomes first managed service provider partner for the Google Cloud Platform
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt: “Enterprise must move to the cloud now”

The executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, says the “speed limit” to moving to the cloud has been lifted, and enterprises need to pick up the pace of their plans to move off-premise
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Centrica eliminates more than 20 IT systems after replacing SAP with cloud HR technology

Energy and services company claims major savings in IT costs after moving its HR services to the cloud
March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17
NSPCC CIO on combining hybrid cloud with managed services to boost Childline resiliency

NSPCC CIO Ray Bilsby sets out the work the children's charity is doing to boost the resiliency of its flagship services, with the help of its managed services partners
March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17
Australian crowdsourcing platform turns to cloud storage to fuel growth

Airtasker is using Amazon Web Services to ramp up its storage capabilities to meet the needs of an expanding user base
March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17
MoD ditches spreadsheets for SaaS-based collaboration tool

The Ministry of Defence is taking advantage of G-Cloud for collaboration software to manage its global activities
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
CIO interview: Jim Downing, Metail

Jim Downing, CTO at digital fashion plugin Metail, believes selling fashion online is still difficult for retailers despite shifts towards omni-channel
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
AWS storage outage knocks US-hosted websites and cloud services offline

Cloud services giant suffers multi-hour outage that reportedly had a knock-on effect for 20% of the internet
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
Subscription-based air travel to hit Europe

Airline Surf Jet launches its membership-based service in Europe with cloud-based subscription management software at the core of the business
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Nimble offers Nimble Cloud Volumes all-flash cloud storage

Hybrid and all-flash array maker extends offer to the cloud with Nimble Cloud Volumes cloud storage that can be provisioned for compute on Amazon or Microsoft clouds or on-premise
February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17
Computacenter apprentices are business-critical today

Apprenticeships in IT are increasingly seen as an alternative to university for many. Apprentices at Computacenter tell their stories
February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17
Accenture to add thousands of US jobs as Trump effect spreads to IT

Accenture has promised to create more jobs in the US and invest $1.4bn in skills development
February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17
Singapore companies to be cloud-first in two years

Large enterprises in Singapore will think cloud-first, though security remains a bugbear
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
HPE services and CSC to become DXC Technology

The merger between HP's services division and CSC will launch in April 2017 and is expected to save the companies billions
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
Security platforms to disrupt industry, predicts Palo Alto Networks

Collaborative security platforms will enable developers to focus on innovation and force the security industry to change business models, predicts Palo Alto Networks
February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17
Enterprise IT buyers shed light on server makers’ shortfalls in customer service and support

451 Research's latest Voice of the Enterprise report sees IT buyers rate server and converged infrastructure makers on their approach to customer service and support
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 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
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
How a Dublin court case could derail EU-US data privacy agreements

The Irish Commercial Court will consider whether privacy protection offered by standard contractual clauses for data transfers to the US from Europe is legally valid
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
Google to appeal against order to hand over foreign emails

UK firms urged to consider the risks of non-UK cloud service providers and to encrypt data in the light of another US warrant to access emails held by a US cloud services firm on non-US servers
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 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
Trump unlikely to reduce IT from India

The fact that Donald Trump's labour secretary has previously offshored IT work to the Philippines could ease IT services fears, particularly in India
January 27, 2017 27 Jan'17
Union to fight CSC job cuts that threaten NHS services

Union to fight a planned 22% cut to CSC's UK workforce, which could impact customers including the NHS
January 27, 2017 27 Jan'17
Cloud gives financial boost to Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel

Cloud computing is making significant contributions to driving the revenues for companies in the technology sector, according to quarterly results posted by Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel
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 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
Cloud-based contracts make up a third of IT outsourcing contracts in 2016

Traditional outsourcing contracts reduce in number and are being replaced by cloud-based services
January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17
Expanding Doddle picks Cradlepoint to ease pressure on host networks

Click-and-collect service Doddle has implemented a cloud-based all-in-one network model to support its expansion, and be a better neighbour to its host organisations
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
Security concerns push Asian organisations to adopt managed and hybrid IT services

Security needs are persuading organisations in Asia Pacific to adopt managed IT, and hybrid services are crucial for digital transformation, according to a CenturyLink study
January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17
Asean storage moves towards hybrid model

Storage is moving to the cloud in the Asean region and a number of storage companies are jostling for position
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
GDPR compliance is top priority for Belgian CIOs in 2017

GDPR, cloud computing and a lack of IT skills are some of the challenges that CIOs in Belgium will address this year
January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17
Digital technology helps Environment Agency deliver earlier flood warnings

The latest flood forecasting system that covers England will use cloud computing, data analytics and data visualisation technologies
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 08, 2017 08 Jan'17
Cloud-based infrastructure is a top ANZ priority in 2017

Projects involving cloud storage and back-up will feature strongly for CIOs based in Australia and New Zealand this year
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 03, 2017 03 Jan'17
London Ambulance Service suffers New Year system crash

Control room staff forced to use pen and paper as five-hour outage hits performance of ambulance service’s communication systems
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 28, 2016 28 Dec'16
Top 10 IT outsourcing stories of 2016

Read 10 of the best of Computer Weekly IT outsourcing articles of 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 21, 2016 21 Dec'16
Hyperscale datacentre growth sees demand for OEM hardware soar, research shows

Synergy Research Group lifts the lid on how the growth of hyperscale datacentre operators is developing around the world, as well as the impact this is having on demand for hardware from legacy IT suppliers
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 19, 2016 19 Dec'16
Top 10 cloud stories of 2016

Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2016
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 15, 2016 15 Dec'16
Yahoo hacked: One billion users affected by August 2013 data breach, company confirms

Yahoo confirms details of a historic data breach, dating back to 2013, affecting one billion users
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
IT services advisory sector consolidates as ISG acquires Alsbridge

Significant robotic process automation skills included in ISG’s $74m acquisition of Alsbridge