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• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Free energy from radio waves could power the internet of things

  A pocket-sized pollution monitor is one of the first applications to use free energy from Wi-Fi and mobile phone signals

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Employee use of cloud storage puts UK business data at risk

  UK businesses are struggling to catch up with employee use of cloud-based storage services and policies to maintain data security, according to security firm WinMagic

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  Universal Credit digital service moves into the cloud

  New system under trial in south London has been migrated to an IaaS platform ready for further roll-out

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  News UK reduces IT supplier complexity with single outsourcing contract

  News Corps UK subsidiary outsourced its IT infrastructure services in an effort to bring all its supplier management together and reduce complexity

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  US diplomats warn of economic dangers of scrapping Safe Harbour Agreement

  European Court of Justice confirms judgement on the future of the US Safe Harbour Agreement will be made public on 6 October

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Daniel Marion, head of ICT at Uefa

  Football might be Uefa's core business, but without IT and the cloud that underpins it, the company's commercial activities would not function

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  NHS hospital hails cost benefits of datacentre consolidation project

  Conquest Hospital claims sever room upgrade has made its operations more cost effective and energy efficient

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Apple's Irish datacentre build hit by possible planning permission appeal delay

  A "valid appeal" has reportedly been raised in response to Galway County Council's decision to grant conditional planning permission for Apple's Irish datacentre build

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  IT problems put Enfield patients at risk, claims MP Joan Ryan

  Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust invests in patient management systems after Enfield Town MP Joan Ryan claims waiting times put patients at risk

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Equinix signs deal to drive up green energy use in US datacentres

  Datacentre giant sets out plans to drive up its green energy use worldwide with new power purchase agreement

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Enterprises warned off rushing into software-defined datacentre investments

  Market watcher Gartner has urged users to take a cautious approach to software-defined datacentre investments

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Data-sharing agreement between EU and US called into question by European law makers

  The future of the US Safe Harbour Agreement has been thrown into doubt after EU law maker claims it may not adequately protect user data

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  IT buyers waste money using Tier III datacentres for non-critical workloads, claims IO

  IO's UK managing director claims datacentre users could save money by wising up about how much availability and resiliency their apps and workloads really need

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  BT platforms streamline UCC deployments for Microsoft and Cisco users

  BT introduces new cloud unified comms and collaboration clouds to support Microsoft and Cisco environments

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Telcos could help drive cloud services into SMEs, says report

  A study commissioned by cloud services marketplaces provider BCSG says telcos are a natural route to market for SME cloud services

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Belgian Privacy Commission accuses Facebook of using NSA tactics to spy on users

  Belgian Privacy Commission data protection watchdog likens Facebook's data handling processes to those of the US National Security Agency (NSA)

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Worldwide Skype outage finally fixed

  Microsoft-owned messaging service's technical difficulties have now been resolved, after users flooded social networking sites with downtime reports

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  DVLA looking for new CIO after completing major insourcing project

  The DVLA is looking for a new CIO as incumbent Iain Patterson completes major insourcing projects and moves back to Cabinet Office

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  AWS datacentre service trouble hits Netflix users

  North Virginia datacentre hit by service trouble, blighting delivery of more than 30 of the cloud giant's products

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Oxford University takes SaaS-led approach to IT department consolidation

  The University of Oxford has merged several IT departments to provide staff and students with centralised support

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Mads Madsbjerg Hansen, FLSmidth

  When Mads Madsbjerg Hansen joined Danish engineering giant FLSmidth he wanted get to know the company and its people, adjust the IT strategy where needed and change the IT organisation to fit that adjusted strategy

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Asean businesses fall behind in cloud business agility

  Businesses in Asean countries are slower to harness cloud computing than in other regions – but could overtake them, with much less legacy IT to deal with

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Oracle expands to 45 megawatt cloud business in SaaS and PaaS push

  Oracle expands its datacentre footprint as it pushes forward with its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) businesses

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Datacentre consolidation drive saves US federal agencies $2bn

  IT reforms pushed through by White House spending watchdog generate $3.6bn in overall savings

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  HP reinforces commitment to open, hybrid cloud vision as business split looms

  Meg Whitman restates firm's stance on enterprise appeal of hybrid cloud, as latest version of HP Helion CloudSystem goes on general release

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Accenture buys Cloud Sherpas for SaaS applications push

  Accenture sets out plans to acquire Salesforce consultancy business and give enterprises a helping hand with moving to the cloud

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Haircare firm GHD rehomes hybrid cloud infrastructure in new Rackspace datacentre

  Haircare product maker shifts hybrid website infrastructure to Rackspace's Crawley datacentre in preparation for Christmas rush

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Organisations in Asean countries adopt hybrid cloud approach

  While developed economies such as Singapore are emulating the rapid take-up of other Asian nations, many other Asean organsiations are taking longer

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Apple datacentre plans win cautious approval from Galway County Council

  Galway County Council planning department says development can proceed – so long as Apple commits to meeting 12 separate construction conditions

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  HP topples Cisco to become cloud infrastructure equipment market leader

  Hardware giant overtakes rival in the cloud infrastructure market as demand for servers, storage and private cloud-enabling kit soars

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  UK CIOs lament lack of IT support for cloud services

  Research from ElasticHosts suggests most cloud users are unhappy with the level of tech support they receive from their providers

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Microsoft makes fresh legal bid to protect emails stored in Irish datacentre from US government

  Software giant's ongoing battle to protect emails stored in overseas datacentre from US government enters new phase

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Government Digital Service builds in-house PaaS to host government services

  Industry watchers query why the Government Digital Service (GDS) decided to build its own cloud platform, when many commercially available options exist

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Chef secures $40m spending round as enterprise DevOps adoption soars

  Automation software supplier Chef dismisses buyout talk after sharing details of latest funding round

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Equinix buys Japanese datacentre firm Bit-isle to tap into Asia-Pacific cloud demand

  Datacentre giant Equinix reveals details of its latest acquisition target, Japanese firm Bit-isle, to meet demand for cloud and hosting services in the Asia-Pacific region

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Case study: How Ebury took a cloud-first approach to delivering financial services

  Financial services firm outlines how it is helping customers expand their businesses internationally with the help of cloud

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  Cloud users speak out about day-to-day SaaS frustrations

  New research highlights problems users encounter when using cloud and suggests some might be planning to go back on-premise

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  IBM and ARM deepen collaboration around internet of things

  IBM and ARM to offer device and risk management, as well as analytics capabilities, for the internet of things

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Islington and Camden Councils set out shared IT services plans

  London councils want to tackle the government's austerity measures through adopting shared IT services model by April 2016

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Four in five G-Cloud buyers fail to share savings data with government, FOI response reveals

  FOI response reveals four in five G-Cloud buyers are failing to share details of the savings they have made through using the framework

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  The US Federal Aviation Administration's hybrid cloud plans take flight with help from CSC

  US aerospace agency sets out plans to wind down its datacentre investments and move more of its IT to the cloud

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  Dell claims VDI projects must focus more on the client used than the datacentre

  Hardware giant Dell tells users that a good VDI experience requires more than just big datacentre investments

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Demand for datacentre co-location services rises, as enterprise outsources more IT

  Demand for co-location services is rising, with enterprises preparing to pay more to outsource their IT, 451 Research reveals

• August 27, 2015 27 Aug'15

  Research highlights security risk posed by cloud "super" users

  CloudLock's third quarter report into cloud security trends reveals 1% of users create 75% of the risk in off-premise environments

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  Singapore hosts Aliyun's new Asean-based cloud data center

  Alibaba's cloud computing arm is opening a data center in Singapore, which is good news for Asean businesses looking for more cloud options

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Dell creates datacentre-focused business unit to help telcos and cloud providers scale

  Hardware giant wants to make it easier for telcos and cloud providers to rapidly respond to growing demand for datacentre space

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Amazon Web Services opens up machine learning service to European developers

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) claims running service out of Dublin datacentre will reduce latency for European developers using predictive services

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Intel and Goldman Sachs invest in Mirantis to boost OpenStack enterprise adoption

  Chipmaker is one of a number of investors that have pledged to help Mirantis increase the enterprise appeal of open source OpenStack clouds

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Asean financial services firms more cautious on cloud

  South-east Asian finance companies are adopting cloud technology with more caution than in other regions of the world

• August 21, 2015 21 Aug'15

  UK bucks worldwide security question trend

  Businesses are moving towards authentication methods that are easy to use and more secure than security questions, according to an Okta report

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Cloud storage service Wuala to close in November

  Seagate-owned cloud storage player confirms its closure and gives users three months' notice to remove their data from its servers

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  IaaS providers pin hopes on spending cut reprieve for G-Cloud 7

  G-Cloud suppliers are calling on the government to step up, rather than scale back, investment in the framework as spending cuts loom

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Natural Resources Wales uses Microsoft and mobile to unify departments

  Natural Resources Wales won the Best Mobile Computing Project Award at this year's CW European User Awards. Find out why

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Netflix shuts down final datacentre to go all-in on public cloud

  Netflix is gearing up for the closure of its final datacentre, as it makes good on its earlier pledge to move more of its IT infrastructure to the public cloud

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Gloucester City Homes embarks on VDI-led tech transformation with Exponential-e

  Social housing firm taps into Exponential-e's Ethernet capabilities to make it easier for its staff to work flexibly

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Cisco leadership hits the ground running in strong fourth quarter

  New CEO Chuck Robbins closes out the fourth quarter on a high note and speaks of a renewed energy at the network supplier

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Domino's Pizza orders Hitachi Consulting to advise on DevOps push

  Pizza firm hopes agile development and continuous IT delivery will help it stay one step ahead of its competition

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  FOI response reveals G-Cloud suppliers escape fines for missing MISO sales data deadlines

  Freedom of Information response suggests Cabinet Office is taking a softly-softly approach to clamping down on non-compliant G-Cloud suppliers

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hotel trade body offers members 100GbE networking capability

  Hospitality sector trade association Hospa partners with network provider Exponential-e to enhance connectivity for its members

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Google now an Alphabet company

  Alphabet is a new parent company that includes a “slimmed down” Google alongside companies not related to core internet products

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  Autoglass moves to cloud-based IT infrastructure

  Autoglass has signed a 10-year outsourcing deal with US supplier CSC that will see its IT infrastructure move into the cloud

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  The IT supporting Finland’s Angry Birds 2

  The sequel to online game Angry Birds has been developed to withstand huge usage volumes, supported by scalable, cloud-based technology

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  Emerson Network Power makes case for datacentre PUE calculation overhaul

  Datacentre power expert makes case for the amount of water a facility consumes to be included in PUE calculations from now on

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Get into Docker for big job prospects

  Linux skills, especially Docker and Python, are in high demand and are commanding ever-higher salaries

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Skyscape cuts cloud storage price by 50% for public sector IaaS users

  Cloud services provider cites growing public sector business as reason for latest round of price cuts

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Gartner warns of IoT threat to corporate data stored in personal clouds

  Market watcher cautions IT managers to beware the risk IoT and virtual personal assistants pose to corporate data stored in 'personal clouds'

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Insurer Vitality outsources IT to Atos

  Insurance company Vitality aims to improve collaboration between its staff and increase customer satisfaction through an IT revamp

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Video effects firm Framestore offloads rendering to Google Compute Engine with Avere

  The Avere filer appliance is being used to run rendering jobs on the Google cloud

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  GE prepares Predix platform as a service

  GE plans to offer internal Predix analytics platform as a service to drive adoption of industrial internet apps

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  Outsourcing hits record levels in Europe

  Outsourcing activity in Europe recovers after a lull in the lead up to the UK general election, with more contracts than ever before

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  City of Liverpool College joins Jisc shared-services datacentre in Slough

  Further education college set to use facility to help support roll-out of shared-services portfolio to other colleges

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  Whitehall devolution threat means IT suppliers "must improve" at selling cloud to local councils

  Public sector IT suppliers must swot up on selling services to local councils, as Whitehall proposes devolving more power to them

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  SME G-Cloud deal volumes could be "under-reported", claim suppliers

  Cabinet Office is reviewing how SMEs report G-Cloud sales data, as reports suggest some are shunning existing online reporting process

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  HMRC explains plans for moving tax systems to the cloud

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) reveals more details of its plan to move tax systems into the cloud on its digital blog

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  IaaS mega-framework tender raises hopes of Europe-wide G-cloud launch

  Géant publishes contract notice seeking providers for IaaS frameworks, which will serve 50 million across Europe

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Ark Data Centres to underpin delivery of BT's managed cloud services

  BT signs multi-year deal with datacentre provider to support its push into the cloud integrator market

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  3D XPoint memory chips '1,000 times faster than NAND'

  Intel and Micron say new 3D chip technology is biggest breakthrough in memory technology in nearly 30 years

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IoT device makers stand to lose out on software licensing revenues, warns Gartner

  Gartner claims many IoT device manufacturers could lose out on recurring revenues by failing to safeguard their software investments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IT departments aren't getting sidelined by cloud, suggests research

  Research from Harvard Business Review suggests IT departments are maintaining a firm grip on enterprise cloud deployments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  ElasticHosts-owned Springs.IO debuts use-based pricing for Docker-like IaaS

  Springs.IO says using Linux-based container technology can help users cut cloud costs

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  AWS on course to become $6bn business, as sales soar during Q2

  Cloud giant's second quarter success prompts speculation about what Amazon might do next with the business division

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Rackspace and Intel outline plans to increase enterprise appeal of OpenStack

  Managed cloud company and chip maker are creating an innovation centre in Texas to accelerate maturity of OpenStack

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Notion Capital unveils $120m investment fund for European cloud startups

  Venture capital firm hopes to increase fund size to $150m by the time it reaches final close later this year

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Scottish government denies "cloud-washing" mobile device procurement framework

  Scottish government's National Framework for Cloud Computing and Proprietary Devices risks confusing suppliers, claim analysts

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  AirBnB, LinkedIn, Spotify & Twitter sign up for Box cloud storage

  As enterprise file sync and share supplier announces latest customers wins, but competitor flags data sovereignty limitations of Box's operations

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  GCHQ unlawfully intercepting parliamentary communications, tribunal hears

  Tribunal hears claims that GCHQ is unlawfully intercepting MPs' and peers' communications

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Alibaba makes data protection pledge to Aliyun cloud users

  Chinese cloud firm makes data protection promises, as it gears up for overseas expansion

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Cisco quits set-top boxes and reshuffles IoT and cloud organisation

  Cisco sells off the set-top box business it acquired in 2005 and restructures its cloud and IoT businesses

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  IBM steps up open-source cloud commitment to developers

  Big Blue has unveiled several open-source initiatives geared towards helping developers make cloud apps

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Worldwide public cloud spend tipped to hit $70bn in 2015

  Latest IDC cloud spending data highlights growing appetite for public cloud services across several vertical markets

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  GE to move 300,000 employees to Microsoft Office 365

  Microsoft announces one of its biggest Office 365 deals to date, after securing a contract to provide 300,000 GE staff with online productivity tools

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  HP Cloud 28+ on course to go live in December 2015 with 200 members

  HP's push to create a one-stop-shop for European Union cloud users is on course, claims Europe, Middle-East and Africa vice-president

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Cloud maturity still rare in Nordic organisations

  Nordic companies are early pioneers of cloud computing services, but few are using the technology beyond cost cutting

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Google sponsors OpenStack hybrid interoperability

  Google becomes a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack open-source private cloud platform, aiming to deliver container management and cloud-native apps

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Enterprises miss out on cloud cost benefits by sticking with on-demand pricing plans

  451 Research suggests cloud users that sign up to long-term contracts with providers get better pricing overall than those who don't

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  The obstacles to software-as-a-service adoption in banking

  Security tops the reasons why banks don't use software as a service for banking-specific applications

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  European IaaS adoption set to soar as more IT infrastructure moves off-premise

  The economics of using cloud-based storage and compute makes better financial sense for many enterprises, claims research

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Fujitsu calls up Memset to deliver infrastructure services to HMRC

  Surrey-based datacentre provider to provide infrastructure hosting services to HMRC