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Cloud computing services
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March 02, 2017
02
Mar'17
MoD ditches spreadsheets for SaaS-based collaboration tool
The Ministry of Defence is taking advantage of G-Cloud for collaboration software to manage its global activities
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February 20, 2017
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Feb'17
Accenture to add thousands of US jobs as Trump effect spreads to IT
Accenture has promised to create more jobs in the US and invest $1.4bn in skills development
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February 17, 2017
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Feb'17
HPE services and CSC to become DXC Technology
The merger between HP's services division and CSC will launch in April 2017 and is expected to save the companies billions
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February 13, 2017
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Feb'17
Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures
Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies
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February 09, 2017
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Feb'17
Case study: Australia’s Salmat to go cloud-only after getting a taste for the technology
Australian marketing company Salmat plans to move everything it can into the cloud following a highly successful initial SaaS implementation
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February 08, 2017
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Feb'17
How a Dublin court case could derail EU-US data privacy agreements
The Irish Commercial Court will consider whether privacy protection offered by standard contractual clauses for data transfers to the US from Europe is legally valid
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February 07, 2017
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Feb'17
Middle East and North Africa public cloud spend to hit $2bn by 2020
Middle East-based organisations are turning to public cloud services, with software as a service driving a major year-on-year spending increase
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February 06, 2017
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Feb'17
Google to appeal against order to hand over foreign emails
UK firms urged to consider the risks of non-UK cloud service providers and to encrypt data in the light of another US warrant to access emails held by a US cloud services firm on non-US servers
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February 01, 2017
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Feb'17
Executive interview: Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals firm's big cloud bets for 2017
New Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals details of what the future holds for the managed cloud company now it's under new ownership
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December 20, 2016
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Dec'16
Digital Realty sets sights on loosening Equinix’s grip on global colocation market
Digital Realty's managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa sets out how the business is drawing on its recent datacentre acquisitions to take Equinix on in 2017
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December 14, 2016
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Dec'16
Swedish Cider company upgrades to cloud ERP to keep up with growth
Apple-based product manufacturer moves to an industry-specific ERP system in the cloud
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December 09, 2016
09
Dec'16
IT Priorities 2017: Nordic organisations to spend more on cloud services
The adoption of cloud computing in its many guises will be a top priority in the Nordic region in 2017
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November 21, 2016
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Nov'16
Foot Locker to roll out ‘best fit’ recruitment software after productivity hike
Sports retailer to adopt online software to identify best job candidates after its use led to double-digit rise in team performance in US stores
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November 18, 2016
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Nov'16
HCL completes integration of Volvo Group IT services
Deal sees 2,560 Volvo Group staff transferred to HCL, bringing mainframe expertise to Indian IT services firm
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November 17, 2016
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Nov'16
Telenor IoT strategy required core software change
Norwegian telco is expanding its internet of things business, which packages all the components its customers require to offer IoT-based services
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November 15, 2016
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Nov'16
Amber Rudd orders Lauri Love extradition to US to face hacking charges
Engineering student Lauri Love faces trials in three US states and a possible 99-year jail sentence for allegedly hacking into US government computer systems as part of a political protest, despite concerns over his health
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November 09, 2016
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Nov'16
Australia’s IFC Logistics virtualises storage to prevent further outages
Australian logistics firm moved to virtualised storage through a managed service after a serious outage
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November 02, 2016
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Nov'16
Coca-Cola cloud project bottles rewards for 25,000 staff
Coca-Cola European Partners, which bottles 15 billion litres of soft drinks each year, is working with an HR technology supplier to develop flexible rewards packages for its 25,000 employees
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October 25, 2016
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Oct'16
Case study: Ocado uses machine learning to help customer services deal with email overload
Ocado's head of data, Dan Nelson, reveals details of how the online grocer is using machine learning to bolster the responsiveness of its customer service teams
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October 21, 2016
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Oct'16
Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud
Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm
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October 19, 2016
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Oct'16
Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school
Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier
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October 13, 2016
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Oct'16
IT startups suffer from strict, out-of-date Dutch laws
The Netherlands government needs to ensure that legislation enables disruptive technology to flourish
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October 11, 2016
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Oct'16
IR35 dispute prompts mass walkout of IT contractors from MoD agency
Public sector IT contractors leave UK Hydrographic Office en masse over IR35 clampdown, Computer Weekly understands
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October 04, 2016
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Oct'16
Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism
Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety
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September 30, 2016
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Sep'16
How IoT can revolutionise running railways
Mobile computing, mobile sensor networks and deep learning are behind French rail operator SNCF’s efficiency drive
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September 26, 2016
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Sep'16
Bangkok Airways takes customer service to the cloud
Airline is the latest Southeast Asian organisation to harness cloud-based software to improve customer services, deploying the Oracle Service Cloud
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September 08, 2016
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Sep'16
Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week
SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage
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September 07, 2016
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Sep'16
A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows
Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework
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September 02, 2016
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Sep'16
Cloud collaboration boosts Cumbria County Council's disaster response abilities
How Cumbria County Council tackled the unsanctioned use of cloud services within its organisation and improved the robustness of its disaster response in face of December 2015's Storm Desmond
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September 01, 2016
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Sep'16
Lessons from the Dropbox breach
Dropbox is the latest major company to confirm a data breach, albeit four years old, but – as with all recent data breaches by cloud-based services – it highlights some key security lessons
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August 30, 2016
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Aug'16
Cloud firm Backbone relegates X-IO SAN with Atlantis tiered storage
London-based Backbone uses Atlantis USX as storage virtualisation layer on top of PCIe flash and X-IO and as a stepping stone to hyper-converged infrastructures
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August 30, 2016
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Aug'16
VMware to help enterprises manage AWS, Azure and Google cloud deployments
Virtualisation giant VMware offers enterprises a helping hand with managing multi-cloud environments, spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
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August 26, 2016
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Aug'16
Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn
After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer
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August 24, 2016
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Aug'16
London datacentre market enjoys pre-Brexit surge in demand for colocation space
CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter
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August 05, 2016
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Aug'16
Rackspace ‘on brink’ of sale to private equity house – report
Reports suggest managed cloud company could be sold in a matter of days, ending its time as a publicly listed company
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August 04, 2016
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Aug'16
Singapore’s DBS Bank signs up to Amazon cloud
The latest move in the cloud journey of DBS bank in Singapore is an agreement with Amazon Web Services
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July 29, 2016
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Jul'16
AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: How the enterprise cloud war is hotting up
With Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reporting strong growth on the back of cloud, we take a closer look at how they have achieved it
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July 29, 2016
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Jul'16
Mobile and video pay off for Google’s parent company Alphabet
Alphabet ascribes strong second quarter financial results to long-term investments in mobile and video as demand for advertising through these channels increases
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July 27, 2016
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Jul'16
Apple highlights services revenue and future bets as iPhone sales decline
Apple share price up on strong performance in services and investments in augmented reality and artificial intelligence, despite 27% year-on-year decline in quarterly profit
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July 25, 2016
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Jul'16
Skills shortage and poor IT infrastructure hinder tech adoption by Asean governments
EIU report highlights governments’ desire for better use of data, including cloud access
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July 25, 2016
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Jul'16
Estonia seeks UK datacentre to protect citizens' personal data from hackers - report
The Baltic state is reportedly in early stage talks with the UK and Luxembourg governments about setting up a backup site in either country to protect citizens’ data from risk of hackers
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July 20, 2016
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Jul'16
Microsoft reports strong quarter driven by cloud
Microsoft reports quarterly profits of $3.12bn, largely driven by the success of its focus on cloud services
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July 18, 2016
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Jul'16
French public sector’s never-ending struggle with the cloud
The French government has more hurdles to overcome than many of its European neighbours when it comes to adopting cloud computing services
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July 14, 2016
14
Jul'16
Chef CTO urges action to prevent DevOps staff burnout
Chef CTO Adam Jacob has called on enterprises to cultivate a supportive working culture to protect DevOps staff from burnout
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July 11, 2016
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Jul'16
Case study: Odeon goes to hybrid cloud for digital transformation
Odeon cinema chain reveals how it is using hybrid cloud to power its digital transformation and tackle competitive threats
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July 08, 2016
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Jul'16
McLaren-Honda rebuilds network platform on NTT foundations
McLaren-Honda Formula 1 team embarks on three-year technology partnership with NTT Communications
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July 07, 2016
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Jul'16
Amazon.com CTO cautions enterprises against underestimating value of test and development
Speaking at the AWS Summit in London, Amazon.com CTO hits out at legacy suppliers and urges enterprises to get experimental to protect themselves against competitive threats
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July 07, 2016
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Jul'16
Saudi Telecom Company leads nation’s transformation agenda
Saudi Telecom Company and its technology partners support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s drive into digital public services
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July 06, 2016
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Jul'16
Lufthansa IT services arm transforms to meet customer demands
IT supplier Lufthansa Systems is changing its business model as its airline customers invest in digital technologies
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July 05, 2016
05
Jul'16
Nordic CIO interview: Tore Burheim, University of Bergen
IT director of Norwegian university tells Computer Weekly about digitising education and creating co-operative clusters