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• 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 12, 2016 12 Dec'16

  KPMG cautions CEOs against ignoring GDPR requirements because of Brexit

  Professional services giant KPMG says UK businesses cannot afford to ignore incoming European data protection requirements if they want to continue to trade successfully with the continent in future

• 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 08, 2016 08 Dec'16

  Cognizant acquires IT team at German steel giant Klöckner

  Cognizant buys the IT operation of one of its customers to gain additional sector and technology knowledge

• 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

• 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 28, 2016 28 Nov'16

  Metro fibre dig backs new Newcastle datacentre build

  Newcastle campus datacentre owner supports the connectivity needs of local businesses as well as cloud customers

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  Nasscom lowers sales growth prediction for India’s IT industry

  Nasscom lowers the rate at which it expects revenues for the Indian IT services industry as a whole to grow, citing domestic and global issues in its revision

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Alibaba to open datacentre in Australia

  Alibaba Cloud will open a datacentre in Sydney by the end of 2016 as part of its global expansion

• 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

  HCL completes integration of Volvo Group IT services

  Deal sees 2,560 Volvo Group staff transferred to HCL, bringing mainframe expertise to Indian IT services firm

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  Telenor IoT strategy required core software change

  Norwegian telco is expanding its internet of things business, which packages all the components its customers require to offer IoT-based services

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  SSP Worldwide under fire over cloud outage communication failings

  Insurance brokers blast SSP Worldwide over its approach to crisis communications during recent cloud outages

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Amber Rudd orders Lauri Love extradition to US to face hacking charges

  Engineering student Lauri Love faces trials in three US states and a possible 99-year jail sentence for allegedly hacking into US government computer systems as part of a political protest, despite concerns over his health

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  HyperGrid launches HyperCloud containerised hybrid cloud platform

  Hyper-converged appliance maker HyperGrid promises full two-way workload portability between on-premise hardware, private cloud and public cloud services in HyperCloud launch

• November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16

  Cloud co prefers Tintri hybrid flash to Dell, DotHill and NetApp

  Cloud service provider Access Alto struggled with reliable performance in legacy block and file environment, so moved to Tintri hybrid flash with VMware-native file access boxes

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  Trump election win creates uncertain future for IT services sector

  The IT services sector looks set to face a period of business uncertainty following Donald Trump's win to become US president

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  Copenhagen fintech hub opens its doors

  Copenhagen gets a financial technology startup co-working venue as the city attracts more digital entrepreneurs

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  Cloud datacentres to house 92% of workloads by 2020, predicts Cisco

  Networking giant Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index shines a light on how the growth of off-premise services is affecting the datacentre market

• November 10, 2016 10 Nov'16

  Centrica deal reveals deep cuts into the IT outsourcing sector

  Centrica’s move to Microsoft Office 365 is further evidence of how the cloud is forcing the IT services sector to transform

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Australia’s IFC Logistics virtualises storage to prevent further outages

  Australian logistics firm moved to virtualised storage through a managed service after a serious outage

• November 08, 2016 08 Nov'16

  AWS shares datacentre security secrets to inspire more enterprise cloud adoption

  CISO says there is no need to sacrifice security to pursue innovation in the cloud, as he reveals how the cloud giant safeguards customer information in its datacentres

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  Google cloud platform heats up the cloud market in Asia

  Google is set to inject more life into the Southeast Asian cloud market with new products and local datacentres

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  HPE: The UK business one year after split

  The headlines say one thing, but Marc Waters, UK and Ireland managing director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is confident CEO Meg Whitman’s strategy is paying off

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  Dropbox and Google commit to improving terms of use for cloud storage customers

  Dropbox and Google join the government’s push to ensure cloud storage users are not caught out by sudden price hikes or contract changes

• November 03, 2016 03 Nov'16

  Colt embarks on business network upgrade

  Network services supplier Colt has committed to a system-wide network upgrade to supply customers with bandwidth levels of up to 100Gbps

• November 03, 2016 03 Nov'16

  Suppliers fail to impress as companies ramp-up HR tech

  A major survey of European firms shows that few believe HR technology suppliers have had a positive impact on their business, as they ramp up spending on HR technology

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Coca-Cola cloud project bottles rewards for 25,000 staff

  Coca-Cola European Partners, which bottles 15 billion litres of soft drinks each year, is working with an HR technology supplier to develop flexible rewards packages for its 25,000 employees

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Network analytics gives mining firm a better view of its cloud

  Mining equipment manufacturer Weir Minerals deployed Xangati's monitoring and analytics tools to manage its VMware-based cloud and virtual desktop environments

• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  Amazon shares fall on disappointing quarter - but AWS up 55%

  Amazon reported disappointing quarterly profit but its AWS cloud business grew sales by 55% and is now 10% of the company's revenue

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Property firm flips to Azure to mobilise business processes

  Property consultancy Strutt and Parker engaged cloud services provider 3GI to upgrade its IT systems to Microsoft Azure as more clients demanded a mobile-first approach

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  SAP steps up data privacy in Europe

  SAP guarantees technicians outside of Europe will not be able to access companies’ sensitive personnel and other records

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Case study: Ocado uses machine learning to help customer services deal with email overload

  Ocado's head of data, Dan Nelson, reveals details of how the online grocer is using machine learning to bolster the responsiveness of its customer service teams

• October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16

  Microsoft hikes UK enterprise software and cloud prices as pound tumbles

  The software giant's policy of harmonising prices across Europe means charges go up from 1 January 2017

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud

  Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Huawei unleashes European cloud programme, commits to UK business

  At an event in Paris, Huawei launches a €75m cloud development programme, and reaffirms its commitment to its UK operations post-Brexit

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  IBM Q3 results suggest firm’s big cloud bets are paying off

  IBM posted flat revenue figures for third quarter overall, despite solid growth generated by its big data, cloud and artificial intelligence activities

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  VMware aims to virtualise the cloud with Cross Cloud Services

  Virtualisation giant wants to allow customers to run cloud operations in a common environment between on-premises private cloud and public cloud services

• October 17, 2016 17 Oct'16

  Post-Brexit drop in pound sees cloud costs rise by £1,750 a year in UK, 451 Research shows

  451 Research shows UK enterprises are on course to pay thousands of pounds more for the same cloud services as last year, in the wake of Brexit

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  IT startups suffer from strict, out-of-date Dutch laws

  The Netherlands government needs to ensure that legislation enables disruptive technology to flourish

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  Alsbridge Australia is taking root

  IT outsourcing and robotic automation firm Alsbridge now has presences in three cities in the ANZ region

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  IR35 dispute prompts mass walkout of IT contractors from MoD agency

  Public sector IT contractors leave UK Hydrographic Office en masse over IR35 clampdown, Computer Weekly understands

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  The Alan Turing Institute secures $5m of Microsoft cloud investment

  UK data science research institute secures Microsoft funding to accelerate its machine learning and analytics work

• October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16

  Royal Bank of Scotland to use AI platform for customer services

  RBS is using technology from IBM in a pilot using a software robot to provide direct customer support

• October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16

  Randstad group to consolidate network infrastructure with BT

  HR services giant Randstad Group is standardising its global network infrastructure with BT

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Microsoft calls for cross-industry collaboration to create ‘responsible and inclusive’ clouds

  Software giant launches A Cloud For Global Good campaign in a bid to get the industry focused on creating off-premise environments that are accessible to all

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism

  Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  Google to open UK datacentre region as enterprise cloud push gathers pace

  Internet giant outlines next phase of enterprise cloud development, including rolling out machine learning across its portfolio and building out its global datacentre presence

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  How IoT can revolutionise running railways

  Mobile computing, mobile sensor networks and deep learning are behind French rail operator SNCF’s efficiency drive

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Microsoft’s grand plan aims to make big data intelligence accessible to all

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants to democratise access to big data intelligence across the enterprise through the use of cloud, machine learning and new datacentre chip technologies

• September 27, 2016 27 Sep'16

  Microsoft accuses public cloud rivals of overlooking enterprise

  Software giant talks up its enterprise credentials and heritage, while taking a swipe at its public cloud competitors

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Bangkok Airways takes customer service to the cloud

  Airline is the latest Southeast Asian organisation to harness cloud-based software to improve customer services, deploying the Oracle Service Cloud

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Dropbox gives UK enterprises option to host cloud data in Europe

  Cloud storage firm makes good on an earlier pledge to give enterprises the opportunity to host data in Europe, as its efforts to court the business community continue

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Many don’t test disaster recovery plans properly, survey finds

  Nearly 40% of UK organisations do not test disaster recovery plans properly, mainly because of concerns about disruption to production operations

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Skills gaps and ill-defined strategies hold back cloud adoption, suggests IDC research

  Cisco-backed research into cloud adoption trends suggests few enterprises have perfected their off-premise IT strategies

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  IBM opens first Nordic cloud datacentre

  Oslo datacentre is IBM’s 12th in Europe and 48th globally and will target large and small enterprises and startups to offer services

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2016 open for entries until 30 September

  The Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2016 are now open for entries until 30 September. Read the criteria and find out how to submit your nomination here

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Gartner highlights gap between enterprise cloud adoption expectations and reality

  Market watcher claims enterprise aspirations around cloud adoption are not being met

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  CIO interview, Rob Harding, Capital One

  Capital One’s CIO talks about having to adapt agile to fit the business, the importance of data and taking advantage of talent

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  ING Bank datacentre fire suppression system test knocks banking services offline

  Bank apologises after planned test of datacentre fire suppression system knocks out servers and storage, leaving Romanian customers unable to access funds

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers fear regulatory action over SSP Worldwide cloud outage

  Insurance brokers hit out at disaster recovery arrangements, fearing two-week outage could put them at risk of action by Financial Conduct Authority

• September 09, 2016 09 Sep'16

  Cloud security processes need to mature, says panel

  Many organisations still need to adapt their business practices to ensure security in the cloud, according to a panel of IT leaders

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week

  SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  HPE makes further divestments with Micro Focus tie-up to target software-defined market

  British software company Micro Focus becomes an enterprise software powerhouse as HPE offloads enterprise software infrastructure products

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  Managed services could be key to connecting up siloed IT in Middle East organisations

  Organisations in the Middle East will increasingly look for managed services to connect up their IT as they embark on digital transformation

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows

  Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework

• September 05, 2016 05 Sep'16

  Microsoft gets wide support in fight against US gagging orders

  Microsoft wins support from a wide range of US organisations in its push back against the secrecy of US government data access requests

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Cheshire councils face complaints over proposed 12-year ERP contracts

  The Crown Commercial Service confirms two complaints about a proposed joint council IT procurement framework – offering contracts up to 12 years in length – have been raised

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Cloud collaboration boosts Cumbria County Council's disaster response abilities

  How Cumbria County Council tackled the unsanctioned use of cloud services within its organisation and improved the robustness of its disaster response in face of December 2015's Storm Desmond

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  Lessons from the Dropbox breach

  Dropbox is the latest major company to confirm a data breach, albeit four years old, but – as with all recent data breaches by cloud-based services – it highlights some key security lessons

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Cloud firm Backbone relegates X-IO SAN with Atlantis tiered storage

  London-based Backbone uses Atlantis USX as storage virtualisation layer on top of PCIe flash and X-IO and as a stepping stone to hyper-converged infrastructures

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  VMware to help enterprises manage AWS, Azure and Google cloud deployments

  Virtualisation giant VMware offers enterprises a helping hand with managing multi-cloud environments, spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  VMware makes case for IT's involvement in line of business cloud purchases

  Cloud software company VMware claims IT departments should not fear the shift in technology buying power to line of business units, as their skills and experience will be in high demand

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn

  After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer

• August 25, 2016 25 Aug'16

  Forum to drive cloud adoption in the Philippines

  An online forum has been set-up in the Philippines to promote cloud take-up in the country

• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  London datacentre market enjoys pre-Brexit surge in demand for colocation space

  CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Cisco confirms 5,500 lay-offs amid restructuring

  Networking giant has confirmed it will cut more than 5,500 jobs in an effort to trim the fat in low-growth business areas and enhance its performance elsewhere

• August 15, 2016 15 Aug'16

  Cloudian makes HyperStore object storage available from AWS

  System available with storage tiers on-site and in the Amazon cloud monitored and billed from the AWS interface

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  Security pros split on government access to cloud data, survey shows

  Despite rapid cloud services adoption, security and compliance concerns revolving around inappropriate use or access of sensitive cloud data continue to loom large, a survey has revealed

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  IDC: Global public cloud spend set to double by 2020

  Market watcher predicts use of public cloud will soar over the next five years, with IaaS and PaaS leading the way

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Johan Tömmervik, SKF

  Johan Tömmervik, CIO of Swedish-founded bearing and seal manufacturer SKF, tells Computer Weekly about the challenge of creating services for a diverse customer base

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Rackspace divests Cloud Sites as managed cloud services take off

  Rackspace offloads ‘non-core’ Cloud Sites business as speculation about its future as a public company continues

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Microsoft hails cloud security breakthrough with encrypted data

  Microsoft researchers talk up cloud security breakthrough that allows encrypted data to be processed without prior decryption

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  Global infosec spending to reach £63bn in 2016, says Gartner

  Although security spending is moving to detection and response, Gartner expects preventive security to continue strong growth

• August 08, 2016 08 Aug'16

  CIO interview: Omid Shiraji, interim CIO, Camden Council

  Camden Council’s interim CIO talks cloud migration, partnerships and digital leadership in local government

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Rackspace ‘on brink’ of sale to private equity house – report

  Reports suggest managed cloud company could be sold in a matter of days, ending its time as a publicly listed company

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  Singapore’s DBS Bank signs up to Amazon cloud

  The latest move in the cloud journey of DBS bank in Singapore is an agreement with Amazon Web Services

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  Gap between biggest and smallest cloud infrastructure firms is growing

  Synergy Research Group's second-quarter cloud infrastructure services tracker reveals that the gap between the market's biggest and smallest players is getting wider

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  White House efficiency reforms will limit new datacentre investments from January 2017

  US government CIO Tony Scott outlines the next wave of reforms designed to curtail datacentre use by public sector agencies and departments

• August 01, 2016 01 Aug'16

  Canadian government reveals ‘right cloud’ adoption strategy for public sector organisations

  Government plans G-Cloud-like resource to help public sector CIOs procure cloud services more easily

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: How the enterprise cloud war is hotting up

  With Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reporting strong growth on the back of cloud, we take a closer look at how they have achieved it

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Amazon rides high on sales growth, especially in cloud services

  Amazon's share price climbed 2% on news of strong second-quarter sales growth boosted by a 58% year-on-year rise in sales of cloud services

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Mobile and video pay off for Google’s parent company Alphabet

  Alphabet ascribes strong second quarter financial results to long-term investments in mobile and video as demand for advertising through these channels increases

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Most cloud applications not GDPR-ready, report reveals

  Just 2% of more than 15,000 enterprise cloud application analysed are GDPR-ready, according to a cloud risk report

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Privacy Shield good to go for at least a year, say EU regulators

  Transatlantic data transfer framework approved, but will need more fine-tuning in the first joint review in a year’s time

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Apple highlights services revenue and future bets as iPhone sales decline

  Apple share price up on strong performance in services and investments in augmented reality and artificial intelligence, despite 27% year-on-year decline in quarterly profit