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• March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15

  TNT outsources application development to support transformation

  International logistics company TNT signs deal with Indian IT services firm Infosys for application development services

• March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15

  Surrey and East Sussex councils to share IT services

  Surrey County Council plans to save millions of pounds by sharing services, including IT, with East Sussex County Council

• March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15

  Enisa looks to UK for government cloud security guidance

  Doubts raised over Enisa looking to the UK for guidance on creating a security framework that speeds adoption of government cloud services in Europe

• March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15

  Volvo develops car-to-car social networking for road safety

  Volvo has begun a pilot involving 1,000 vehicles for car-to-car communications to warn drivers of dangerous road conditions

• March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15

  HCL expands in Nordics with delivery centre in Norway

  Indian IT services giant HCL Technologies is expanding its reach in the Nordics with its third service delivery centre in the region

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Berkshire NHS trust gets Microsoft Lync as a service through G-Cloud

  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has made its first IT purchase using the G-Cloud framework

• February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15

  IT needs to reassess the meaning of compliance for cloud

  IT departments need to reassess the technology they deliver because users are circumventing corporate IT

• February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15

  Could IBM really function with tens of thousands fewer staff?

  Could IBM, or any of the large IT and BPO service providers, still function with tens or even hundreds of thousands fewer staff?

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Deutsche Bank signs 10-year deal to re-engineer wholesale banking IT

  Deutsche Bank signs 10-year deal with HP to re-engineer the IT that underpins its wholesale banking arm

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit

  Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  UK businesses' IT services better off in India than the cloud

  UK businesses have yet to be convinced of the benefits of cloud computing but continue to outsource IT, says a global survey from KPMG

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Schuh deploys public Wi-Fi and mobile stock checking in-store

  Shoe retailer schuh selects cloud Wi-Fi provider Purple WiFi to offer in-store access for customers and staff

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  BlackBerry 10.3.1 review: Access Android apps and Blend

  BlackBerry has finally released version 10.3.1 of its mobile operating system, which gives access to the Amazon Android app store

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Security fears stop small firms using cloud computing

  Although 60% of small businesses are using cloud computing services, the remaining 40% are put off by security fears

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Businesses opt for Amazon Web Services public cloud

  More than half of all business public cloud deployments use Amazon Web Services (AWS), but Microsoft Azure is gaining market share

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Digital adoption helps government to go green

  Implementing more digital systems in government has led to a reduction in cost and carbon emissions

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  Capgemini increases Indian staff by 20%, as profits rise by 31%

  Capgemini increased the number of staff it has in India by 20% in 2014, while its profits went up by 31% and its revenues by 3.4%

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  Europe awakes to Google Compute Engine failure

  Google Compute Engine is unavailable for two hours due to a network problem

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  Dutch bank ABN Amro outsources digital transformation to Infosys

  Dutch banking giant ABN Amro has outsourced IT services to Indian supplier Infosys to improve its digital credentials

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Healthcare organisations moving to cloud computing at a pace

  Global healthcare organisations will increase their spending on cloud computing services by 20% a year until 2020

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Santander data storage: Gimmick or real challenge to IT giants?

  Is Spanish bank Santander's offer of data storage just a sideshow to inject confidence in an industry facing increasing competitive tensions?

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Enterprise IT faces upheaval to move to cloud-first computing

  IT departments should prepare to change working practices to support cloud-based computing

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Microsoft achieves ISO cloud certification

  Microsoft says it now complies with ISO/IEC 27018, which aims to establish a uniform, international approach to data protection in the cloud

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Shropshire Council upgrades from iPads and BlackBerrys to Microsoft technology

  Shropshire Council reworks desktop IT strategy, using its Microsoft enterprise agreement to support devices running Office 365

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  Infosys acquires Panaya for automation

  Infosys continues its move to non-linear business models through the acquisition of US automation software maker Panaya for $200m

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  Gartner: CIOs boost spending on sci-fi technologies

  CIOs in the UK and Ireland are expected to increase spending by 1.4% in 2015, fuelled by the economic recovery

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Cisco’s software-defined networking business booms

  Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure customer base doubles in three months as its software-defined networking model gains traction

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  General election 2015: Major parties focus on tech agenda

  With advancements around data protection and state surveillance of internet traffic, the UK is heading into its first tech-aware general election

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Ed Vaizey: Ambition to have local government on one platform

  The question over whether Government Digital Services can scale locally was discussed at a Computer Weekly debate

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Actifio One adds hybrid cloud storage tier to appliances

  Actifio One adds hybrid cloud functionality to existing software and hardware appliances that slim multiple file iterations to fewest needed across the organisation

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  UK IT and business processing outsourcing deals hit £6.65bn in 2014

  The UK's IT and business process outsourcing spend reached £6.65bn last year. IT outsourcing accounted for £3.44bn of that

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Engineering firm Smiths Group to embark on landmark SDN project

  Engineering and technology firm Smiths Group renews AT&T contract ahead of major network refresh, and plans to put SDN at the heart of its project

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Symantec continues cloud investment in spite of poor Q3 results

  Symantec has reported third quarter 2015 revenue of $1.64bn, a drop of 4% compared with $1.70bn over the same period in 2014

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Kellogg's outsources digital marketing to Indian supplier

  Food giant Kellogg's outsources the management of its digital marketing platform to Indian IT services firm Mindtree

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  National Grid uses IBM to add predictive maintenance capabilities

  National Grid is using cloud-based analytics powered by IBM SoftLayer to provide preventative maintenance

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  UK government-backed peer-to-peer lending platform flexes its IT

  Cloud-based UK peer-to-peer lending platform MarketInvoice is moving to a Microsoft Azure-based platform as a service to cope with increasing demand

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Milan Expo 2015 builds smart city with Telecom Italia and Cisco

  The organisers of Milan Expo 2015 have built a smart city site from the ground up with the support of Telecom Italia and Cisco

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Offshoring data is biggest barrier to government in the cloud

  Offshoring data is the biggest obstacle to putting government services in the cloud, according to a survey of MPs and peers

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  Aeris and Tech Mahindra to launch carrier IoT platform

  M2M technology provider Aeris has linked up with services supplier Tech Mahindra to target mobile carriers that want to develop their IoT business

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  Google bank evolves with Gmail payment service in UK

  Google enables UK users to make payments through Gmail, 18 months after the service was launched in the US

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Cloud maturity: AWS leads but Microsoft almost doubles cloud revenue

  Amazon Web services has grown its lead over rival public cloud providers, while Microsoft experienced 96% year-on-year growth

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  IT services dominates UK outsourcing in 2013 but employment flat

  IT and digital services contributed more to the UK economy in 2013 than any other part of the business services sector

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Gandalf to become the Speaking Clock

  BT reveals it has engaged the services of actor Ian McKellen to be the voice of the Speaking Clock for Comic Relief

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Health trust proposed offshoring mental care through Skype

  Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust considered cutting costs by using Skype and low-cost staff to treat patients with depression

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Amazon to put cloud on the balance sheet

  Amazon will report on AWS in its financials from Q1 2015, as it continues to invest heavily in the cloud service

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Microsoft gets a step closer to Office everywhere with Office on Android

  Microsoft has released a preview version of Office for Android, almost 10 months after the iPad version was released

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Bank of Ireland outsources 130 jobs to Banktec

  Bank of Ireland has outsourced cheque clearing services that will see 130 staff transferred to supplier BankTec.

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  CIO interview: Phil Pavitt, global CIO, Specsavers

  Phil Pavitt, the new global CIO of Specsavers, has fixed his sights on helping the high-street optician take a great IT leap forward

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  AstraZeneca deploys Box to all its 51,000 staff to boost collaboration

  Multinational biopharma business AstraZeneca has chosen to deploy Box cloud-based collaboration to all its 51,000 employees

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Your digital projects are doomed to failure, warns Cisco

  At Cisco Live! In Milan, Cisco set out the challenges of going digital, with many projects doomed to fail unless businesses embrace ‘Fast IT’

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Indirect discrimination claim against TCS to progress after hearing

  Judge at employment tribunal against Tata Consultancy Services’ employment practice gives go-ahead for indirect discrimination claim

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Amazon acquires chip maker for cloud services business

  Amazon is reportedly acquiring an Israel-based chip maker as part of AWS, which could mean the firm plans to design its own hardware down to the chips

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  Rackspace offers vCloud hosting for enterprise private clouds

  Rackspace and VMware have joined forces to provide hosted private cloud services for business users

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  IBM revenue declines as company shifts to higher value deals

  IBM has reported a 12% decline in profits for the fourth quarter of 2014 following the sale of its System x business to Lenovo

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Virgin Atlantic Airways outsources digital transformation to Tata Consultancy Services

  Virgin Atlantic Airways (VAA) outsources IT to Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services as the airline creates digital services for customers

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Economist urges Indian Prime Minister to address outsourcing with Obama

  An economist wants Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to confront the US government’s stance against outsourcing because of public resentment

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Interview: Omnifone chief engineer Phil Sant builds code Lego-style

  Phil Sant, co-founder and chief engineer at music streaming platform Omnifone, believes software developers need to take Lego approach

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  London universities host datacentres at Infinity in Slough

  The Joint Academic network, Janet, has begun offering a shared service to universities and academic institutes

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Dartmoor National Park brings public wireless to remote sites

  Dartmoor National Park Authority deploys Cloud in a Box to offer visitors Wi-Fi at its facilities

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  IT infrastructure services fuel massive European outsourcing spend

  Organisations in Europe accounted for over half of global IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing spending in 2014

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  Microsoft Azure had more downtime in 2014 than main cloud rivals

  Microsoft Azure suffered more downtime than its main rivals in 2014, according to detailed analysis

• January 16, 2015 16 Jan'15

  Research shows full extent of cloud computing price war

  A report from RBC Capital has revealed the full nature of the price war being fought out between cloud computing service providers

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  More double-digit growth for Tata Consultancy Services

  India’s biggest IT services firm is still firmly on the growth curve, reporting a double-digit rise in revenue for its latest financial quarter

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Mobile shopping matures, but retailers must link up dispatch

  Mobile shopping matures, but retailers need to rethink logistics

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  IT fails to get a grip on shadow applications

  IT managers are unaware how much shadow IT is used by their business, the Cloud Security Alliance has warned

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Large fire at Amazon datacentre building site

  An Amazon datacentre in the US caught fire last week during construction

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  IBM still a bellwether despite industry departure from traditional IT services

  Reports that IBM is reducing its offshore workforce are the result of cloud computing, automation and artificial intelligence

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  No evidence the government's prompt payment for SMEs is working

  The government can't tell whether SME suppliers are benefiting from its commitment to pay 80% of its suppliers on time

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  CES 2015: Car companies showcase automotive digitisation

  Autonomous automotive technology has stolen the limelight from the usual fodder of gadgets at CES in Las Vegas

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  Europe shows slowest rate of IT budget growth worldwide

  Computer Weekly and TechTarget's 2015 IT Priorities report reveals Europe lagging behind rest of world in IT budget growth

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  Surrey County Council readies shared cloud on Nutanix

  Surrey County Council has migrated its datacentre infrastructure to a shared service, hosted platform based on Nutanix

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Indian IT staff could unionise, putting offshore model into question

  Trade union organisations in India are calling on millions of Indian IT workers to unionise, as fears spread over mass redundancies

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Will IBM’s simplified cloud contract suit everybody?

  IBM has announced its intention to make contracts for cloud computing services more simple, but will this suit all customers?

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  European Commission tenders for first cloud services

  The European Commission (EC) has put out a tender for a framework to acquire its first cloud services

• December 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

  CW500 Club in 2014

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• December 24, 2014 24 Dec'14

  Top 10 IT outsourcing stories of 2014

  IT outsourcing has had a big year in the IT services market. The increasing maturity and acceptance of cloud-based services has shaken up suppliers

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  IBM simplifies its cloud contract to two-page document

  IBM has created a standard two-page contract for customers using its cloud computing services

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2014

  Cloud computing has evolved, giving businesses an increasing array of options from simple IT infrastructure up to full business applications

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  IBM expands cloud services globally

  IBM has stretched the global reach of its cloud computing services by adding 12 locations to its network of cloud centres

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  How AWS remains resilient and enterprise focused

  Eight years ago no one had heard of Amazon Web Services. Today it is at the forefront of enterprise computing

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Price cuts and posturing in the public cloud war

  The price battle among commodity cloud players is set to rage on, but how much impact is it really having for enterprise customers?

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Atos targets US growth with billion-dollar Xerox acquisition

  Atos is to spend over $1bn and take over the IT outsourcing operations of Xerox

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Accenture and BT to battle for NHS email contract

  The NHS has shortlisted two suppliers for its email system, with BT and Accenture still in the mix

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Why Azure failed: Procedural failure amplifies Azure bug

  Microsoft has admitted procedural failure process in deploying updates led to last month’s catastrophic downtime of Azure storage

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Accenture to hire 1,600 people in the UK

  IT services giant Accenture is recruiting 1,600 people in the UK next year in a wide range of roles spread across the country

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

  US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Mark Foulsham, group CIO, esure

  Mark Foulsham, group CIO at insurance firm esure, is overseeing an IT transformation plan that he hopes will help future-proof the business

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  European Space Agency turns to Orange for private cloud services

  European Space Agency deploys a private cloud solution from Orange Business Services

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  CIO interview: VMware's Tony Scott re-engineers IT as a service

  Agility is only as effective as the slowest step. At VMware, CIO Tony Scott has his sights set on tackling this

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  IT spending grows at fastest rate in five years

  Agile IT departments are emerging with the ability to flex their budgets quickly to meet new business demands

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Crest Nicholson got more from IT outsourcing contract second time around

  House building company Crest Nicholson used the end of an outsourcing contract to fine tune the relationship and drive a better deal

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  MobileFirst iOS apps released for airlines, retail and financial services

  Apple and IBM have delivered the first fruits of their partnership announced in July 2014

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Northamptonshire County Council cuts direct staff by 95% with outsourcing

  Northamptonshire County Council will cut its workforce from 4,000 to 150 over five years by outsourcing community services

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  CSC targeting UK private sector growth after quiet restructure

  US IT services company CSC has been quiet in the UK but, with a new team in place, it is targeting growth in the private sector

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  Cloud security remains a barrier for CIOs across Europe

  Security issues are the main factor limiting the further use of cloud computing services, according to a study by Eurostat

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  Post Office outsources IT to Computacenter in £100m deal

  The Post Office has outsourced user computing services to Computacenter in a four-year managed services deal

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  Government aims for 90% digital take-up by 2020

  The government aims to have 90% of the UK’s online population using digital public services by 2020

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  Alcatel-Lucent shores up cloud network pact with HP

  Alcatel-Lucent and HP expand their existing alliance to support the construction of network-enabled, distributed cloud systems

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  IBM bags billions of dollars in IT services deals in a matter of days

  IBM wins deals worth $3.6bn over the course of a few days, with advertising giant WPP the latest to ink a billion-dollar contract

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  European firms satisfied with IT infrastructure outsourcing but priorities are changing

  Although 60% of European businesses are satisfied with their IT infrastructure provider, focus is switching from cost reduction to services that offer business benefits