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• May 01, 2015 01 May'15

  OpenStack engineer shortage drives up private cloud TCO, finds 451 Research

  OpenStack costs less to deploy than Microsoft, VMware or Red Hat private cloud, but engineering shortages drive up its total cost of ownership (TCO)

• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  Salesforce takeover rumours: Oracle hailed as most likely suitor

  Oracle, Microsoft and IBM emerge as the ones to watch as speculation builds about who will buy cloud-based CRM company Salesforce.com

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Bravissimo calls on Nutanix support for move to virtual servers

  High street lingerie retailer opts for Nutanix's converged infrastructure platform to support its server consolidation work

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Vision Solutions debuts tool to ease Microsoft Azure cloud migrations

  AWS and VMware cloud users get a helping hand from Vision Solutions when moving apps and workloads to Microsoft Azure

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Deutsche Bank to spend €1bn to go digital

  Deutsche Bank is spending up to €1bn on digital technology over the next three to five years following the modernisation of its core banking platform

• April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15

  Cost cutting still draining IT outsourcing budgets against CIO wishes

  More than half of IT directors believe that money spent with IT outsourcing suppliers is focused on cost cutting, research reveals

• April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15

  Datacentre investments needed for IoT to fulfil its potential, warns IDC

  IDC warns the IoT could fail to reach its full potential unless datacentre capacity issues are addressed

• April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15

  AWS cloud operation bigger than Google, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce combined

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the leader in the cloud infrastructure services market, but competitors are carving out their own niches

• April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15

  Accenture and Oracle embark on enterprise cloud adoption push

  Accenture and Oracle are embarking on a joint push to make it easier for public sector and financial services firms to move to cloud

• April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15

  Data security remains top concern for public sector cloud procurement, says Socitm

  Data security is still a concern for public sector organisations planning cloud services, says the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm)

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Amazon first-quarter results value Amazon Web Services at $5bn

  Amazon's Q1 results confirm Amazon Web Services – AWS – as its most profitable business, valuing the cloud services provider at $5bn

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Kao Beauty deploys enterprise sales system to mobile employees

  Salon products distributor chooses Mendix to build enterprise sales system to distribute to mobile employees via iPads

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  IBM opens second SoftLayer datacentre in the Netherlands

  Big Blue seeks to capitalise on growing interest in public cloud services by opening another European datacentre

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Cloud infrastructure spend set to hit $52bn in 2019

  IDC shares five-year view of how it expects worldwide spending on both private and public cloud infrastructure to grow

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  BT sets out ambition to become enterprise's cloud integrator of choice

  BT outlines its 'Cloud of Clouds' vision to allow users to access cloud apps and services, regardless of where their systems are hosted

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  Huawei calls for global consensus on the future network

  At its Global Analyst Summit, Huawei calls on the networking industry to collaborate to optimise the network for future demands

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Cloud hardware investments now account for 30% of all IT spend

  IDC infrastructure tracker shows spending on cloud-enabling server, storage and Ethernet technologies is on the rise

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  ISG blames UK general election for fall in outsourcing value

  A lull in UK outsourcing activity in the run-up to the election caused a 25% drop in spending across the Emea region in Q1 2015, claims ISG

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Alternative financing platform C2FO gathers pace

  A platform enabling suppliers to bid to receive payment for their invoices early has set itself an ambitious target following acceleration in demand

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Equinix opens new Slough datacentre to answer CIO cloud demands

  Equinix's UK MD explains why its chosen to increase its datacentre footprint once more in Slough

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  Solihull Council's datacentre plans slammed by G-Cloud champions

  Solihull Council is building a new datacentre with 10-20 years of capacity, much to the chagrin of industry watchers

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  IBM to share security intelligence on X-Force Exchange platform

  IBM says it will make its library of security intelligence data available to all on a new platform called X-Force Exchange

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  AWS pours scorn on enterprise appeal of hybrid cloud model

  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels denies that moving to a hybrid IT model is the right fit for the enterprise

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  AWS beats Rackspace and Microsoft in 451 Research's top IaaS provider poll

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) tops 451 Research’s poll of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) suppliers, based on how they meets customers' needs

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  SSE hooks up Manchester datacentres with 10Gbps connectivity

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms launches Manchester Lightnow, a high-capacity optical network service connecting a number of datacentre facilities

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  HP's Bill Hilf hits back at public cloud exit reports

  Several days after first denying its exit from the public cloud market, HP issues a blog post to put paid to the speculation for good

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  Cloud hype leads to enterprise dissatisfaction with off-premise services

  NTT Communications' latest cloud report suggests enterprise decision-makers find the technology failing to live up to the hype

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  Rio Tinto to put IT systems in the cloud

  Mining giant Rio Tinto is moving IT systems into the public cloud as part of a transformation agreement with Accenture

• April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15

  Minor parties react to public concern over mass surveillance: Labour and Tories silent

  Liberal Democrats, SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP and the Green Party support tighter controls on government surveillance after Snowden's revelations

• April 10, 2015 10 Apr'15

  Nordic businesses continue to look to Ukraine for IT

  Despite the conflicts affecting the eastern half of the country, Ukraine is enjoying growth in IT outsourcing from customers in Nordic countries

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  US Army moves logistics processing to IBM hybrid cloud

  IBM follows up $60m US Army IT contract by helping the organisation to tap into hybrid cloud's benefits

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Nano Server: Microsoft debuts simpler Windows Server for the cloud era

  Microsoft finally confirms details about Nano Server, its stripped back Windows Server operating system designed specifically for cloud apps

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Indian outsourcing is booming in the Nordic countries

  Headlines about Indian IT service providers securing high-profile outsourcing deals in the Nordics have become commonplace

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Strong dollar may shift server upgrades off-premise

  The strong US dollar will influence how CIOs spend their 2015 IT budgets. Server price hikes may drive spending to the cloud

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  HP rebuffs public cloud market exit reports

  Hardware giant reinforces commitment to public cloud, but analysts claim it needs to be clearer about its off-premise strategy

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Oracle Retail expands cloud services portfolio in wake of Micros buy

  Oracle introduces six cloud services to help retailers get to grips with loss prevention, customer engagement and inventory management

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  UK law firm McMillan Williams moves to Interxion datacentre to support growth

  UK law firm McMillan Williams Solicitors taps up co-location provider Interxion to support plans to expand its number of high street branches

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  CIO interview: Bill Wilkins, First Utility

  First Utility's CIO explains how it is using cloud and smart meters to give the big six a run for their money in the energy market

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Alsbridge makes its first UK acquisition with Source

  Sourcing consultancy Alsbridge has kicked off its UK expansion with the acquisition of boutique sourcing advisory Source

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Fears about Prism's long-term impact on cloud declared "overblown"

  Forrester claims the fallout from the 2013 Prism surveillance scandal has had a minimal effect on the cloud industry

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Google Drive for Work users to benefit from tighter document security controls

  Search giant is stepping up security around its cloud productivity platform, with new controls limiting document sharing and deletion

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Brecon Beacons National Park soups up staff comms with Unify

  Brecon Beacons National Park Authority deploys Unify’s OpenScape voice technology to keep remote staff and home workers in touch

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Interoute bags private equity funding to support datacentre growth

  Cloud services giant plans to use private equity funding to support its M&A activity and push ahead with its datacentre growth plans

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Skyhigh Networks' research highlights cloud collaboration dangers

  Skyhigh Networks urge cloud users to be careful who they share their business data with in the cloud

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Retired accountant fined in Logica share scam

  A man who bought thousands of shares in Logica based on inside information has been fined £35,212 by the Financial Conduct Authority

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  AWS gets EU approval for data replication outside of Europe

  The European Union Data Protection Authorities has approved Amazon Web Services’ Data Processing Agreement

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Sky Italia looks to the cloud for better customer experience

  Sky Italia “remakes” its customer acquisition, customer service and change order management processes using cloud

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Mark Holt, chief technology officer, TheTrainline.com

  A major cloud migration and a range of mobile initiatives are high on the agenda of the UK’s best-selling train booking website, TheTrainline.com

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  KPMG teams up with Microsoft to boost enterprise cloud adoption

  Advisory firm to draw on Microsoft technologies to deliver cloud-based data analytics, and business transformation services to clients

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  National Police ICT Company operational after four years of wrangling

  The national Police ICT Company is operational and aims to save £465m a year – nearly four years after Theresa May proposed its creation

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Google Cloud Launcher accelerates off-premise open-source app deployments

  Google hopes to make it easier for users to deploy open-source apps in its cloud through the release of its Google Cloud Launcher tool

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Amazon Cloud Drive targets Dropbox and Google with unlimited storage

  Amazon's cloud storage service to offer unlimited storage at cheaper rates than Dropbox and Google

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Talk Talk moves HR systems to cloud

  Managers now have accurate information on their workforce numbers, salary and overtime costs

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Nordics' Glenna research cloud project underway

  Researchers in the Nordics will soon enjoy a new cloud infrastructure from which to share systems and resources

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  IBM adds block and file cloud storage options to SoftLayer

  Big Blue adds iSCSI block and file access to SoftLayer cloud storage services

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security

  Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  ProfitBricks ignites cloud pricing war with AWS, Google and Microsoft

  IaaS player promises to undercut rivals on price, but analysts question sustainability of business model

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  TCS shows big data credentials with general election app

  Tata Consultancy Services is demonstrating the possibilities big data can offer enterprises with an app that will analyse voter sentiment via Twitter

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  HP's push to build EU-wide "one-stop shop" for cloud gathers pace

  HP talks up growing momentum of its Cloud 28+ project in Europe

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Government seeks new £2bn consultancy deal despite concerns from SMEs

  Cabinet Office setting up £2bn agreement for the purchase of consultancy services across government, despite SME concerns

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  HP embarks on cloud services pilots in Greece, Spain and Portugal

  HP reinforces commitment to EU cloud adoption push with pilot projects in three European cities

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  RSA Group taps up AWS to hit 2016 cloud targets

  The global insurance group behind More Than hopes to move all its websites to the cloud by 2016, with a little help from AWS

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  HP Helion Rack looks to speed up enterprise private cloud adoption

  HP wants to take the heavy lifting out of moving to the private cloud by offering enterprises pre-configured and tested infrastructure packages

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Amazon Web Services hosts Nasa climate-change images in the cloud

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) follows up pledge to support climate change research by publishing 85,000 Nasa images in the cloud

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  European SMEs sign up to security as a service

  European SMEs see the value of security as a service (SaaS) and are signing up through resellers, says security supplier iSheriff

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  IT priorities 2015 – IT budgets on the rise as economy recovers

  Almost three-quarters of IT managers in the UK expect their IT budgets to increase or stay the same in 2015

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect from this leaner, meaner Windows Server

  With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see?

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Information Commissioner's Office calls for transparent public sector outsourcing

  For greater transparency, public sector buyers and suppliers should be open about their dealings before signing contracts, says ICO

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Queens Park Rangers signs BT as official comms provider

  QPR football club inks a multi-year deal with BT Business to supply voice and networking services at Loftus Road

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Deutsche Telekom and Huawei build a private cloud in a box

  Deutsche Telekom and Huawei are working together to develop IT infrastructure and private cloud products and services.

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Interview: Building the 'world's greenest datacentre' in Falun, Sweden

  The world’s first datacentre operating to mutual advantage with the district's heating and energy systems is being built in the Swedish town of Falun

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Ford drives connected car journey with Microsoft Azure

  The Microsoft Azure cloud will be used to power Ford's new software delivery and vehicle monitoring service

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Oracle talks up cloud revenue growth in the face of flat Q3 sales

  Database giant Oracle hails a rise in cloud sales, as overall revenue remains flat in the third quarter - for which it blames a strong US dollar

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Red Nose Day 2015: How Comic Relief used cloud to bank a record £78m

  Comic Relief CTO Zenon Hannick explains how the charity used cloud to process a record number of donations during Red Nose Day 2015

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Satya Nadella: Every business will be a software business

  Digitisation may the buzzword business leaders are trying to grasp, but Microsoft has begun its journey to build a digitisation product portfolio

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  HM Revenue & Customs moves UK tax systems to the cloud

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) starts moving the IT systems that collect tax to the cloud, with much of the work going to Fujitsu

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  VMware vCloud Air goes on general release in Germany

  Virtualisation giant brings hybrid cloud service to Germany as global rollout gathers pace

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  Poll finds public demand for consultation on public-sector outsourcing

  Poll finds 68% of the UK public want to be consulted on public-sector outsourcing, with Labour and UKIP supporters most in favour

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  Adobe Document Cloud seeks to end enterprise reliance on paper-based forms

  Adobe plans to roll out a cloud-based digitised document hub to make it easier for enterprise users to manage and process forms

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  IT priorities 2015: Desktop IT investments shift to the cloud

  The TechTarget IT Priorities 2015 survey reports that IT spending on cloud computing ranks third, behind hardware and software

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  TNT outsources IT infrastructure to HP cloud

  International logistics firm TNT has outsourced its IT infrastructure to Hewlett Packard (HP) in a six-year deal that will see it move to the cloud

• March 16, 2015 16 Mar'15

  Finland leads Europe in cloud service take-up

  Europe is catching up with the US for cloud adoption - and the Nordic countries lead the way, with Sweden and Denmark close behind Finland

• March 16, 2015 16 Mar'15

  Shared business services help productivity and costs, says Deloitte

  Global shared business services are on the rise and delivering an 8% average increase in productivity, according to research firm Deloitte

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Lookout bets on big data analytics to secure enterprise mobiles

  Mobile security SaaS provider Lookout is betting on its cloud-based big data analytics capability to attract enterprise customers

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Google squares up for new AWS cloud battle with Nearline beta launch

  Google unveils AWS Glacier challenger, which promises business users unlimited storage and fast data retrieval times

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  Rewrite 'absurdly complicated’ surveillance laws, say MPs

  The Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee has presented the Prime Minister with proposals to reform privacy and intelligence laws

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  Legal threat protection for public sector G-Cloud users on the way

  G-Cloud programme director Tony Singleton says work is under way to protect would-be cloud buyers from legal action

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  Greenpeace targets users in renewed clean energy datacentre push

  Environmental campaign group Greenpeace outlines its green technology push at Cloud Expo – but says AWS could do better

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Microsoft Azure brings success for McDonald's Sweden

  McDonald's Sweden's Microsoft Azure system is named best-in-class across the fast food organisation's global operation

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Microsoft and Cisco cloud partnership yields app deployment platform

  Microsoft and Cisco claim new cloud platform will allow service providers to take advantage of DevOps-style app deployment speeds

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Tieto’s Taneli Tikka brings startup drive to industrial internet business

  Taneli Tikka has an unusual job description as the head of industrial internet at Tieto Corporation

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Isle of Man steps up efforts to court cryptocurrency startups

  The Isle of Man government sets out the legislative changes it's pushing through to make the island a haven for cryptocurrency firms

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Security professionals look to workload security in the cloud

  The first Cloud Security Spotlight Report shows broad cloud adoption and move towards workload security

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  2015 IT priorities: On-premise deployments high on agenda, but cloud interest on the rise

  The 2015 Computer Weekly IT priorities survey points to growing interest in cloud technologies, but on-premise still rules

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Multi-supplier cloud environments bad for business agility

  Telstra research suggests companies that rely on three or more cloud providers could find it harder to respond to business changes

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Banks increase outsourcing but slash use of consultants

  There will be an increase in the use of IT outsourcing in the global banking sector over the next 12 months but the use of consultants will fall

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Executive interview: GE software chief Bill Ruh on value of an industrial cloud

  Bill Ruh believes machines are getting smarter. The company has expanded its vision of an industrial internet to an industrial cloud

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Telehouse's £135m datacentre to open in London in 2016

  London datacentre provider reveals further details about the forthcoming opening of its new facility in London Docklands

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  IBM confirms Q2 release date for OpenPower servers in Softlayer

  IBM Softlayer users will soon have access to OpenPower-based bare-metal servers for data-heavy workloads

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Has IBM found its place in the digital world?

  Late last year, amid poor financial results and doubts over its direction, IBM announced $3.6bn worth of IT infrastructure outsourcing deals