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October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14
HR technology used to save lives following natural disasters

Plan International is using SAP's HR technology to deploy specialists relief workers within hours of a major emergency
October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14
Carlsberg cheers the move to Office 365 for collaboration among 20,000 employees

Carlsberg picked Microsoft Office 365, to improve collaboration among its employees as well as to support its business vision – GloCal – Carlsberg’s vision for global efficiency
October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14
Microsoft reports solid quarter driven by cloud and devices

Microsoft has reported revenues of $23.2bn for the quarter ended 30 September, up by 25% from the same period in 2013
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
BBC takes iPlayer video production to AWS cloud to beat bottleneck and storage woes

Having run Video Factory on AWS for over a year, BBC's Robert Shield explains how he overcame iPlayer bottleneck and availability challenges

October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
Companies will move core HR technologies to the cloud by 2020

Businesses will abandon on-premise HR IT systems in favour of cloud technology by 2020, says SuccessFactors chief
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
De Beers transforms global IT infrastructure in outsourcing deal with HCL

South African diamond company De Beers transforms its global IT infrastructure in an outsourcing deal with HCL enabling industrialised services
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
Lufthansa signs long-term outsourcing deal with IBM

Lufthansa is in final negotiations with IBM Global Services to outsource its IT infrastructure services
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
Google launches first FIDO-compliant 2FA key

Google leads the move away from password-based authentication with launch of FIDO-compliant USB security key
October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14
Local government outsourcing shrinks workforce 35%

The number of staff directly employed by a fifth of local authorities will reduce 35% by 2020 as a result of outsourcing
October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14
Oxfam unwraps mobile collaboration benefits with Box’s cloud content service

The move to Box will mean that Oxfam workers will get mobile access to data on the move and at remote locations

October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14
Enterprise IT should be more user-centric, says Box CEO Aaron Levie

The CEO of cloud-based file sharing and content management service Box calls on enterprises to rethink IT delivery model
October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14
CIOs fear poor cloud investment is making businesses uncompetitive

CIOs and CFOs fear their enterprises are missing revenue opportunities due to poor cloud strategies
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Microsoft, SAP and Facebook call on EU to support better IT education

IT giants have written an open letter to EU ministers urging them to support better ICT education and encourage children to code
October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14
Azure CTO Mark Russinovich's top ten public cloud security risks

Microsoft Azure cloud CTO Mark Russinovich identified ten key security risks of public cloud services
October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14
Starbucks uses cloud to manage innovation and disruptive technologies

Starbucks coffee chain innovates IT strategies to hone its competitive edge using cloud services, says IT director Robert Teagle
October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14
Cloud, web-scale IT and IoT in Gartner’s 2015 top technologies

Research firm Gartner has highlighted the top 10 technology trends for 2015
October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14
HP should use split to make up lost ground in IT services

When HP acquired EDS for $13.9bn in 2008 the scene was set for the IT giant to challenge IBM in the IT services sector
October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14
The challenges facing HP as it splits in two

HP is splitting its business in two - but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT
October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14
Volkswagen to open Indian IT development centre

VW is opening a development centre in India to keep IT knowledge in-house while benefiting from the offshore model
October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14
All Olympic systems to be on the cloud by 2018

Systems underpinning Olympic Game events will be run from the cloud by the time of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea
October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14
Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation
October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14
HP to separate into enterprise IT, and PC and printing companies

HP has confirmed plans to split into two separate companies, one focusing on PCs and printers, the other on enterprise computing
October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14
Mid-market reshoring to give UK an economic boost

A quarter of mid-sized UK firms are considering bringing offshore operational activities back to the UK in the next three years
October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14
HP plans to split business, say reports

Hewlett Packard is planning to split the company into two separate businesses, according to reports
October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14
Sunborn puts network in the cloud at Docklands’ first floating hotel

Hospitality firm Sunborn picks Mitel 3300 IP Communications platform for London's first floating hotel
October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14
Vtesse bought by Interoute in major fibre expansion

Acquisition adds 7,000km of fibre infrastructure to Interoute’s European network
September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14
Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Xerox aligns business and IT in streamlining applications

Xerox's IT division has been working with the business to standardise its HR management on a global basis
September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14
Canonical moves to HR as a service

We got to the point where we could not scale says Steve George, vice-president of operations
September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14
Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Larry Ellison demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to the cloud

Oracle CTO Larry Ellison highlighted Oracle’s commitment to the cloud by announcing new products at its OpenWorld conference
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
Almost three-quarters of big companies to increase outsourcing

Investments in outsourced services will increase at almost three-quarters of global businesses
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
BT launches cloud voice service for businesses

BT to deliver flexible cloud-based VoIP services to SME customers
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
Case study: Deutsche Post DHL develops software contract templates to reduce costs

Deutsche Post DHL has created contract templates to manage software costs. Computer Weekly speaks to the people leading the initiative
September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14
Lenovo releases servers that can run at 45°C

Lenovo has become the third server manufacturer to update its enterprise server portfolio with latest Intel Xeon chips E5 2600 v3
September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14
Why you should drop staff who are not cloud savvy

CIOs may need to lose staff who are not prepared to move to new ways of working brought on by cloud computing
September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14
BlackBerry Passport delivers a real keyboard and high-res screen to business

BlackBerry has introduced its Passport smartphone featuring a 4.5in hi-res screen, a qwerty keyboard and 13MP camera
September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14
Google to build giant '40-football pitch' datacentre in the Netherlands

Google will invest €600m to build a giant, 120-megawatt datacentre in the Netherlands
September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14
Securing virtual machines still a dark art, says Kaspersky Lab

Five common myths about virtualisation security is preventing businesses getting the greatest benefit with the least risk
September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14
IBM opens cloud datacentre for business continuity

IBM has opened a cloud resiliency centre in North Carolina to provide business continuity capabilities in the cloud
September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14
KPMG and Oracle target FTSE 350

KPMG is targeting the 350 biggest businesses by providing services through software giant Oracle’s cloud offering
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
SAP acquires Concur to build cloud-based expense management

SAP has agreed to acquire online travel and expense management SaaS provider Concur Technologies for $8bn
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
Asia dominates as outsourcing location and India remains unrivalled

India is still the best place for businesses to outsource services and is unrivalled in its scale and availability of skills
September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14
Rackspace ends rumours of partnership and acquisition

Rackspace remains independent and appoints Taylor Rhodes as chief executive to drive its managed cloud strategy
September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14
Guy's and St Thomas' licensing centre aims to standardise NHS software asset management

A licensing framework set up by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust is attempting to establish a SAM centre of excellence for working with suppliers like Microsoft and Adobe
September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14
KPMG: IoT, 3D printing and healthcare IT to have most impact

Internet of things (IoT), 3D printing and biotech or healthcare IT are among the IT trends that will change the way people work and live
September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14
College uses IBM software to reduce student dropout rates

Brockenhurst College is using software from IBM to reduce the number of students dropping out of courses
September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14
Three quarters of businesses don’t trust cloud suppliers on data protection

Almost three quarters (72%) of European businesses accuse cloud service providers of failing to comply with data protection regulations
September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14
Microsoft pitches new Dynamics CRM 2015 as ‘one cloud for all’

Microsoft is making its Dynamics CRM 2015 available next quarter along with updates to its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online services
September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14
Nokia and Red Hat collaborate to create open-source telco cloud

Nokia Networks and OpenStack provider Red Hat join forces so mobile broadband operators can create a telco cloud infrastructure
September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14
TechUK tasks future government with making the UK a digital leader

TechUK has launched a digital manifesto detailing how the next government must turn the UK in a digital leader
September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14
What’s driving OpenStack’s rise as a viable cloud alternative?

OpenStack revenue will soar from $883m in 2014 to $3.3bn in 2018. Here are five factors that are taking the open cloud mainstream
September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14
Five signs that VMware is becoming a developer platform company again

With its Docker and OpenStack love, and DevOps and mobile initiatives, is VMware under pressure to bring back developer platform capabilities?
September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14
Salesforce issues advice on avoiding Dyreza attack

Salesforce has issued a set of guidelines on tightening security after a number of its customers were targeted by the Dyreza email virus
September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14
Clarks shoes steps into digital

Shoe manufacturer Clarks is replacing its legacy e-commerce sites with a global cloud-based system next month
September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14
CIO interview: Intel's Kim Stevenson on creating insight and value

When Computer Weekly met Intel CIO Kim Stevenson last year, she extolled the benefits of business intelligence – now it is taking BI to a new level
September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14
Design firm adopts sole supplier for outsourced IT

Small and medium sized enterprises should not overlook the advantages of a close relationship with a sole supplier
September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14
HP buys Eucalyptus as it bets on open cloud future

HP is acquiring open source software specialist Eucalyptus that helps build private and hybrid enterprise clouds as it bets on open cloud future
September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14
Hague reassures MPs on Office 365 data storage as Microsoft ordered to hand over email data

UK government reassures MPs parliamentary data is safe on Microsoft servers as US judge finds Microsoft in contempt for refusing to hand over data
September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14
EU opens public consultation on cloud computing

The European Commission has launched a consultation on cloud computing to help define future research priorities
September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14
Salesforce builds green datacentre in France for European users

Cloud CRM specialist Salesforce is building its second European datacentre in France, powered 100% by renewable energy sources
September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14
North Face optimises rewards programme through Tibco Engage

Outdoor apparel retailer North Face has used a new SaaS product from Tibco to develop customer rewards programme
September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14
Tobacco giant outsources IT to Wipro

Philip Morris International has outsourced IT infrastructure management to Indian services firm Wipro in a five-year deal
September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14
BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed
September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
King's College, UCL and LSE back £900,000 national datacentre project

A consortium of universities, including LSE, UCL and King's College, is backing a national datacentre for academics
September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
EasyJet sheds 'scrum' image with hybrid IT

EasyJet’s reservation system could not provision for allocated seating, so the airline added a feature on Azure
September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
Busting cloud myths: Four user instances where cloud computing failed

Cloud can be beneficial but only when implemented correctly. Here's why four enterprises failed in their cloud projects
September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
Nude celebrity hack forces changes at Apple and 4Chan

Apple and image-sharing site 4Chan take security measures after celebrity iCloud accounts were compromised and photos leaked
September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14
Ucas blends rival cloud services from AWS and Microsoft for results day

Ucas IT platform uses both AWS and Microsoft Azure services to scale up the infrastructure for a few hours during peak demand
September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14
BP signs Infosys IT services deal for application support and development

BP has awarded Infosys an IT services contract that will focus on application support and development for the energy giant
September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14
Microsoft faces deadline to hand Dublin email data to US government

Microsoft faces a deadline to hand over email data – stored outside the US, in Dublin – to the US government, by 5 September 2014
September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14
How Sony Music used Google cloud for One Direction’s 1D-Day event

Sony Music and its digital agency AIS London adopted Google Cloud Platform services to handle One Direction's day event
September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14
Yamaha UK adopts managed private cloud for flexible IT

Yamaha Motor’s UK arm has implemented a private cloud infrastructure and integrated a managed service system
September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14
Apple and FBI launch iCloud hack investigation

Apple and FBI investigate the breach of Apple’s iCloud causing fresh business concerns over cloud security
September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14
Why bare metal cloud is in vogue

Bare metal services have been around since 2009 but cloud is witnessing renewed interest in it thanks to new offerings
September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14
Rolls-Royce CIO joins HMRC as non-executive director

Rolls-Royce CIO Simon Ricketts has been appointed non-executive director of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs
September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14
Holiday Extras turns IT from a ‘no' department to a ‘yes' department with cloud

The holiday and travel add-on company picked public cloud services to overcome its IT problems and make IT a business enabler
August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14
Bristol council migrates to the cloud to aid mandated cost savings

Bristol City Council is moving its ICT estate onto the cloud to help meet wider cost savings mandated by the government
August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14
IT services firm achieves non-linear growth through automation

Scandinavian IT services firm Cygate has expanded its business without adding human resources by using automation software from IPSoft
August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14
Microsoft slashes Azure SQL database-as-a-service prices by half

Microsoft will reduce the prices of its Azure SQL Database – a relational database as a service – from November onwards
August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14
London private equity firm shifts IT to the cloud to cut office move downtime

London-based private equity fund manager SOF Investments overcame the IT nightmares of an office move by migrating IT to the cloud
August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14
VMware rebrands its cloud service vCHS to VMware vCloud Air

VMware has rebranded its infrastructure-as-a-service offering vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS), to VMware vCloud Air
August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14
Microsoft migrates own IT to Azure as it faces datacentre closures and server EOL

Microsoft is moving the bulk of its IT to Azure cloud as two of its datacentres face closure and thousands of servers reach end of life
August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14
Digital vouchers firm picks DevOps automation to speed apps deployment

Digital vouchers provider Eagle Eye is deploying DevOps to manage the cloud infrastructure that supports its product network
August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14
Datacentres are a ‘soft target’ for environmental lobbyists, says CBRE

Lack of clear international standards for datacentres is allowing environmental groups to criticise the sector for its energy use
August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service
August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14
OpenStack market size will cross $1.7bn by 2016, says 451 Research

Free and open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack could reach an estimated market size of $1.7bn by 2016
August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14
Nike builds datacentre cloud and network infrastructure

Nike is creating a scalable next-generation datacentre cloud and retail network infrastructure using Juniper's MetaFabric architecture
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
Privacy group calls for halt of EU-US Safe Harbour agreement

A privacy group has called a halt to the EU-US Safe Harbour agreement pending an investigation of alleged violations by US firms
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
Forrester: Top 10 facts about private cloud

Cloud is an essential component of every enterprise technology management strategy but designing a robust cloud strategy isn't easy
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
Cisco cuts jobs as profits fall

Cisco is to cut 6,000 jobs, or 8% of its workforce, after another quarter of shrinking profits
August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14
M&S deploys Microsoft Azure cloud to run festive ad campaigns

Azure powered M&S's multi-million pound Christmas campaign Magic & Sparkle starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14
BBC hands digital testing contract to Mindtree

Multi-million pound contract awarded under the terms of the BBC Digital Services Framework initiative
August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14
Only one in 100 cloud providers meet latest EU data protection requirements

Majority of cloud providers are not yet prepared to meet the requirements of the new EU data protection regulation
August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
UK manufacturers more than double outsourcing spend

UK manufacturers spent £130m on outsourcing services in the first half of this year, with a big rise in functions being outsourced for the first time
August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly

Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?
August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14
Capita is biggest public sector software and IT services supplier

Capita has overtaken HP as the biggest supplier of IT services and software to the UK public sector after an 11% increase in sales in 2013
August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14
Interxion invests €45m in Marseille datacentre as profits climb

European cloud and colocation datacentre provider Interxion buys facilities in France to provide 5,700 square metres of space and 6MW of power
August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14
Cabinet Office COO Stephen Kelly takes Sage Group CEO role

UK accountancy software supplier Sage appoints Cabinet Office chief operating officer (COO) Stephen Kelly as CEO
August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14
Cost savings still clinch IT services contracts

Cost savings are the main reason UK firms are outsourcing services, but more than a third now cite service improvements as the top reason
August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14
Why digitisation transforms supplier relationships

As the economy moves forward, CEOs are looking for the next wave of innovation to fuel growth. But are IT service providers ready?
August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14
Travis Perkins beats ‘kingdoms of data’ woes with Google cloud services

Travis Perkins has chosen Google Apps and Google Drive services to store and share data more efficiently