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• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  UK challenger bank OakNorth puts its core systems in AWS cloud

  UK challenger bank OakNorth is putting core banking systems in the Amazon Web Services cloud

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  Salesforce to run more of its services from the AWS public cloud

  Cloud CRM giant Salesforce names Amazon Web Services as preferred public cloud provider, as it sets out plans to expand use of its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  European cloud buyers unmoved by low prices, suggests 451 Research

  451 Research’s latest Cloud Price Index investigates link between low-cost cloud services and provider market share

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  HPE second quarter results reveal risks in CSC services deal

  HPE’s CEO Meg Whitman admits the company’s flagship private cloud will need to run in CSC/ES datacentres

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  Atos hits Rio 2016 Olympics IT milestone

  The IT underpinning the 2016 Olympics in Rio enters a critical phase as one of its essential event management systems starts to work

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  CSC and HP’s services division merging, joint sales could hit $26bn a year

  Both entities will take an equal stake in the new business

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  Singapore retailer shifts IT infrastructure to the cloud

  Challenger is moving its IT infrastructure to the cloud to enable it to respond better to business growth

• May 20, 2016 20 May'16

  CIO interview: Antti Ylä-Jarkko, city of Vantaa, Finland

  The CIO of Finnish city Vantaa tells Computer Weekly why the Nordic public sector can lead the way in the use of digital

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Virgin Media uses Salesforce to build omni-channel sales

  Virgin Media is using Salesforce to offer a single customer view irrespective of the channel the customer uses to talk to the company

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Digital inclusion charity demands government enforcement of web accessibility laws

  AbilityNet claims government is "falling down on the job" by failing to act against firms that do not make their websites and services accessible to disabled users

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Lawmaker Vaizey hails UK role in resolving datacentre sovereignty issues

  Digital economy minister talks up government’s work in supporting the growth of the UK’s technology sector

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  HPE adds support for Microsoft, VMware and Docker to Cloud28+ marketplace

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) softens its stance on OpenStack compatibility by introducing support for Azure, VMware and Docker too

• May 17, 2016 17 May'16

  Equinix sells eight European datacentres to rival Digital Realty for $874m

  As Equinix sells off eight European datacentres to rival Digital Realty, analyst Steve Wallage predicts what the fallout from the deal might be

• May 16, 2016 16 May'16

  Telefonica launches own bank using challenger’s technology

  Spanish broadband and mobile operator ready to offer financial services via O2 Banking using the technology of startup Fidor

• May 13, 2016 13 May'16

  Idiot UK Drivers Exposed enlists Hyve managed hosting as website traffic grows

  Dangerous driving site explains how its videos going viral on social media prompted an urgent rethink about using a multi-tenanted hosting platform to support its website

• May 11, 2016 11 May'16

  Salesforce turns to AWS for internet of things cloud test support

  Cloud CRM giant is reportedly using the AWS public cloud to give it the capacity it needs to cope with the internet of things data deluge

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Shadow IT cited as reason why some firms lack formal cloud strategy

  Research from VMTurbo suggests firms are using cloud, even if they claim not to have a formal private or public deployment plan in place

• May 06, 2016 06 May'16

  Ford to invest $182m in PaaS firm Pivotal to support connected car push

  Ford steps up involvement with Pivotal, and sets out plans to expand the use of Pivotal’s software development kit across its IT and product development teams

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Consumers would buy banking and insurance from Google, Amazon or Facebook

  Consumers in Europe increasingly consider companies such as Facebook and Google as potential financial services providers

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Gulf Air creates private cloud to support open-source big data engine

  Airline is using a private cloud and open-source software to enable it to analyse social media and understand what consumers think about it

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  M&S credits Office 365 with rise in staff collaboration and communication

  Marks and Spencer shares details of how moving to Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite has ushered in an era of ”smarter working” in its retails stores and corporate HQ

• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  Shell the latest multinational to insource IT offshore

  Oil giant Shell is the latest large business to announce plans to insource its IT operations at a delivery centre in Bangalore, India

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  AWS Q1 Results: How the cloud giant plans to retain its hold on the market

  In light of the continued growth of AWS, Computer Weekly looks at how the firm intends to retain its hold on the cloud market

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  HCC Europe: Open standards, hybrid and integration are key to cloud services

  Cloud technology can bring businesses into the internet age, but has to be based on open architecture and innovation to bring value, according to Huawei

• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  Amazon strong quarter beats analysts’ expectations

  Amazon reports profits for the first quarter of $513m, compared with a net loss $57m in the same period the year before

• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  Tech-savvy Asean populations shake up enterprise IT, says AIA CTO

  A young, urban and tech-savvy population in the Asean region has forced enterprises to rethink their IT strategies

• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  Saudi Arabia could warm to cloud computing, so long as regulation and connectivity keep pace

  One of the world’s biggest oil producers has responded to tumbling crude prices by announcing a $2tn war chest to fund an economic diversification strategy, with IT set to be a beneficiary

• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  Case study: Athona recruits Mimecast to halt CEO fraud attacks

  Brentwood-based recruitment firm wanted to solve its email archiving problems, but ended up with better security, including new anti-whaling protection in the wake of an attack

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  Cloud services top priority in Australian and New Zealand enterprises in 2016

  Around 60% of IT leaders in Australia and New Zealand expect their cloud computing spending to increase in 2016, with hybrid cloud projects a priority

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  IT outsourcing starts year with a bang

  The IT outsourcing sector got off to a strong start in 2016, with sales volumes and values up

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  OpenStack set for 100% adoption by Fortune 100 firms within three years

  Managed cloud provider Rackspace claims the open source software platform’s acceptance is miles ahead of where Linux was at this part of its life cycle

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  Singapore is second most cloud ready country in Asia-Pacific

  Broadband quality, data privacy and pro-business regime makes Singapore the second most cloud ready country in the Apac region

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  OpenStack Foundation calls for greater enterprise input in open source initiatives

  OpenStack Foundation claims enterprises are increasingly realising that their future depends on being actively involved with open source

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  HMRC weighs up desktop services and cloud collaboration

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is considering tendering for managed desktop services and an integrated cloud-based system, worth up to £215m

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  OpenStack: "Cloud success determined by business culture, not technology"

  The OpenStack Foundation and its supporters claim companies that prioritise technology over business culture are doomed to fail in the cloud

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  OpenStack Foundation steps up efforts to address enterprise skills gap

  OpenStack Foundation co-founder claims scarcity of techies with skills in using the open source cloud platform remains biggest barrier to enterprise adoption

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Lloyds Bank offshores more IT roles to India

  Lloyds Banking Group is offshoring more IT jobs to India as part of its latest cost-cutting announcement

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  Microsoft’s Q3 hit by cloud investments, income falls to $3.8bn

  Competing with AWS and expanding into new regions leaves a hole in the finances

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  Rackspace embarks on renewed push to ease enterprise adoption of AWS and Azure clouds

  Managed cloud provider Rackspace outlines how teaming up with IT consultancy Cloud Technology Partners will help enterprises struggling with the move off-premise

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  Graduation of apprentices is coming of age for Accenture’s Newcastle hub

  The first group of IT graduates emerging from Accenture’s apprenticeship scheme in north-east England will walk straight into jobs, debt-free

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  GCHQ told analysts to assume surveillance 'bulk data' is legal

  Documents obtained by charity Privacy International reveal insights into GCHQ’s collection of sensitive bulk data, as lawyers question the impact of surveillance on legal privilege, fair trials and protection of whistleblowers

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  Singapore online grocer RedMart uses cloud ERP to drive growth

  Online retailer RedMart turned to cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) when its existing system struggled to keep up with business growth

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  European Commission ready to splash €50bn on transformational digitisation plan

  A cloud initiative for scientists and technologists among the developments as digital single market moves intensify

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  SAP's financials point to boom in cloud and Hana

  SAP is steadily growing its cloud business, but on-premise software licensing and support remain the cash cows

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  Intel to cut workforce despite strong Q1 results

  Intel says strong first quarter results show that its business transformation is working, but it also means cutting 11% of the global workforce

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  T-Systems embarks on enterprise-focused cloud push with colocation provider Virtus

  IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom shares five-year plan to close private datacentre in Feltham, after signing colocation deal with Virtus Data Centres

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  Zadara adds object storage, bigger flash and 16Gbps Fibre Channel

  Latest version of Zadara Storage features object storage, Fibre Channel and bigger cache options to software-defined cloud storage product that can run on-premise, off-premise and as a hybrid

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  IBM financials squeezed but cloud, mobile, security and analytics show growth

  Cloud, security, mobility and analytics are the future for IBM as revenue drops for 16th quarter

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  European Commission to create €6.7bn continent-wide cloud for scientists

  The European Commission hopes initiative will pave the way for greater collaboration between European research teams

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  Potential for sales bonanza as Oracle accelerates into cloud

  The supplier's shift to cloud means now could be a good time to starting accepting calls from Oracle sales reps

• April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16

  IBM and Oracle fortunes hit by rapid growth of PaaS, Gartner claims

  Gartner’s application infrastructure market tracker reveals how PaaS growth is shaking up the supplier landscape

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  UK poised to lead global fintech sector, says Tech City chair Eileen Burbidge

  Tech City chair and venture capital expert says the UK is in a position to become a world leader in financial services and sheds light on how cloud can provide failing firms with a stay of execution

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  Singapore releases cloud outage guidelines

  The Singapore government releases a set of tiered guidelines for organisations to follow if they have a cloud outage

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  Falconstor adds cross-platform storage analytics

  Falconstor leverages IP from Cumulus Logic buy to provide Freestor Analytics, which gives customers visibility across heterogeneous hardware of key storage metrics

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  IDC research shows steady drop in on-premise hardware spend as cloud adoption soars

  IDC infrastructure research highlights how enterprise demand for cloud is affecting on-premise IT spending trends

• April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

  Rackspace debuts private cloud packages to drive up enterprise adoption of OpenStack

  Rackspace claims pre-configured hardware, software and services stack will smooth enterprise path to OpenStack-based clouds

• April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

  Cargotec saves €2m by moving HR systems to the cloud

  Cargo handling equipment manufacturer Cargotech reduces the cost of managing its 11,000 employees by moving HR systems to the cloud

• April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

  How an IT department in a portacabin supports UK’s biggest critical infrastructure project

  The man in charge of the IT supporting the UK's largest critical infrastructure project – the redevelopment of London Bridge station – tells Computer Weekly about life in a portacabin

• April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

  Time to cut IT costs again, predicts Gartner

  IT spending has increased slightly, but not enough to fuel major digital transformations, says Gartner

• April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16

  Volkswagen Group selects Mirantis OpenStack for private cloud build

  Volkswagen outlines plans to use open source cloud platform, as it moves to embrace connected devices and agile software development techniques

• April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16

  The Met Office deploys Weather Cloud on AWS

  Amazon Web Services will help the Met Office’s servers weather the storm of data requests as demand increases for location-based forecasts

• April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16

  Capgemini strengthens its Indian backbone

  With half of its global staff now based in India, Capgemini expands its operations there by opening a facility for a further 30,000 staff

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  Digital Single Market: European Commission warned not to over-regulate online platforms

  Ministers from 11 EU member states warn European Commission off over-regulating use of online platforms during the creation of the Digital Single Market

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  What is behind the slowdown in public-sector sales of ‘true cloud’ services via G-Cloud?

  With sales of “true cloud” services via G-Cloud showing signs of slowing down, Computer Weekly asks the experts the reasons why

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  BMW Group signs HPC and hosting deal with hydro-powered Swedish datacentre operator

  BMW Group inks deal with green datacentre operator in Sweden

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  Cloud, compliance and data protection top storage priorities for 2016

  The results are in for Computer Weekly’s IT priorities survey 2016, with storage and backup for virtual servers a key task while flash storage has plateaued

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  The Israeli companies disrupting mobile technology

  Israel's high-tech startups are developing innovative technology that will bring new capabilities to consumers and mobile phone operators

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  Google ups ante in cloud infrastructure services with global datacentre expansion plans

  Google is set to expand global datacentre footprint, as competition in the cloud infrastructure services market heats up

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  Danish utility NRGi goes offshore for IT platform transformation

  Danish utilty NRGi has outsourced its IT to Indian services supplier Wipro as it attempts to transform its operations amid increased competition

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  GDS preps guidance for third-party suppliers to deliver 'government as a platform'

  Government Digital Service (GDS) chief insists "pragmatic extensions" to outsourcing contracts implies nothing permanent in push for "government as a platform" (GaaP)

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  AWS and Microsoft UK datacentre plans could upset SME-rich Digital Marketplace, Kable warns

  SME G-Cloud providers told to brace themselves for increasing competitive threats from AWS, Microsoft and Oracle once their UK datacentres open

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  T-Systems targets Amazon cloud customers

  Deutsche Telekom's IT services division plans to take business from Amazon with a cheaper public cloud that guarantees users' data stays in Germany

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Singapore and Malaysia most aware of gap in IT availability

  The gap between IT availability and what users want is clear to organisations in Singapore and Malaysia, according to a global study

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  South Dublin County Council declares Amazon datacentre planning application "invalid"

  Amazon appears to have fallen foul of Irish council’s planning regulations, potentially delaying its latest datacentre building project

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  TechUK calls for closer ties between cloud and communications providers

  Technology association TechUK outlines measures to encourage greater adoption of cloud computing in the UK - starting with greater connectivity

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Apple emerges as Google Cloud Platform user – report

  Report suggests Apple has joined Spotify in signing up to use Google’s cloud infrastructure services

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  AWS at 10: How the cloud giant shook up enterprise IT

  A decade on from the launch of its first cloud service, the UK managing director of Amazon Web Services reflects on its first 10 years in business

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Private mobile network powers Ocado’s robotic warehouse

  Online supermarket Ocado rethinks 4G mobile technology to power a network of 1,000 robot workers operating in the grocer's 'hive' warehouse

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Which IT services suppliers are European businesses most satisfied with?

  TCS has won top spot for European customer satisfaction for the third year running, according to Whitelane Research

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Rolls-Royce cloud HR project will pay for itself in two years

  HR IT director Mark Judd explains how engineering and aerospace firm swapped ageing ERP and spreadsheets for a company-wide core HR system

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Environment Agency acquires new flood warning system from Fujitsu

  Agency has signed a four-year, £4.6m contract for a cloud-based flood warning system that gives people more choice on how to receive alerts

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Germany-Finland subsea cable tipped to fuel European datacentre market growth

  The deployment of a European subsea data cable could put Finland on the map for datacentre investors

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  UK outsourcing sector wants to remain in a reformed EU

  A survey of UK outsourcing companies reveals that three quarters of all respondents want to remain in a reformed European Union (EU)

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Dropbox invests in building out on-premise storage as user numbers soar

  Cloud-based file share and sync service reveals details of its hybrid cloud strategy, which has seen it invest large sums in building its own on-premise infrastructure

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  New UK law will criminalise failure to hack on demand

  MPs have been given only two weeks to read 1,200 pages of documents which disclose new powers to require technology companies to install secret surveillance capabilities in software, computer equipment or networks

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Falling oil prices and disjointed data protection threaten Middle East datacentres

  A fixation on datacentre ownership and mistrust of third-party services could impede enterprise IT in the Middle East

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Ex-Cabinet Office rep claims ‘simple’ tender rewrite could open up G-Cloud to Europe

  Former Cabinet Office Crown representative says a simple rework of the G-Cloud tender could open up the procurement hub to public-sector buyers across the EU

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  451 Research warns of software-defined infrastructure skills gaps

  Analyst house 451 Research warns CIOs against the dangers of failing to pair software-defined technology investment with staff training

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Indian suppliers are mopping up Nordic business

  Indian IT suppliers are blazing a trail in the Nordic region with large deals and major local investments

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Third of knowledge workers expect their jobs to be computerised in five years

  Knowledge workers realise their jobs will either change dramatically or disappear as the result of new technology, according to research

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Equinix taps into Open Compute Project to build open source datacentre ecosystem

  Technology produced by Facebook-backed Open Compute Project gets snapped up by datacentre operator Equinix

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  IT outsourcing consultancy Alsbridge enters overlooked Australia

  IT outsourcing consultancy sets up operations in Australia, which it says has been overlooked for outsourcing services

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Gartner warns IT leaders about the perils of using private platform as a service

  Industry watcher Gartner warns IT leaders pursuing a private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) strategy to build cloud apps could be in for disappointment

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Facebook to overhaul UK corporation tax-paying regime – report

  Social networking giant plans to book larger deals with British firms via its UK arm, paving the way for it to pay more corporation tax

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Legal spears fly at Privacy Shield

  Police Scotland is investigating the implications of the end of Safe Harbour. Service providers must comply with UK law, regardless of where they are based

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Civil engineering firm goes follow-the-sun with Azure cloud and Talon

  Robert Bird deploys Talon Storage CloudFAST with Microsoft Azure cloud storage on the back end to enable 24-hour working between offices on three continents

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  US researchers begin solar-powered datacentre research project

  Massachusetts-based project aims to uncover how best to integrate datacentres and smart grids

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Equinix and Interxion set out 2016 global datacentre expansion plans

  Colocation rivals outline their investment intentions and priorities for the year ahead

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  CSA outlines CIOs’ top 12 cloud security concerns

  Cloud Security Alliance’s research team uncovers the “dirty dozen” off-premise threats