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• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Isle of Man eyes datacentre industry growth opportunity after Safe Harbour ruling

  Government's e-business head explains how island could be a safe haven for enterprises concerned by the Safe Harbour fallout

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  SThree to rein in IT budget by moving to cloud

  Recruitment group plans to expand by 10% a year, but moving to the cloud will allow it to do more with the same IT budget

• December 16, 2015 16 Dec'15

  Etihad Airways chooses Cognizant to support digital transformation

  Airline aims to improve customer satisfaction by implementing programme of digital developments

• December 16, 2015 16 Dec'15

  Ageas moves into Philippines cloud platform for insurers

  Insurance firm adopts cloud-only business application suite to support south-east Asian expansion

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  CIO interview: BT Business CIO Colin Lees

  The telecoms giant has overhauled its IT stack to become more agile for the changing needs of business customers

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Poundland launches e-commerce Christmas push with Rackspace managed support

  Budget retailer has turned to Rackspace to ensure its first foray into online retail can withstand the seasonal rush

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Interview: Lebara CTO sets out plans to go all-in on AWS cloud

  Lebara was a Europe-centric, single-product telco until the cloud paved the way for it to grow its service portfolio and expand overseas

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  VMware backs out of Virtustream hybrid cloud venture with EMC

  Virtualisation giant confirms exit from hybrid cloud joint venture with parent company

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Public cloud adoption fuels record spend on datacentre hardware by service providers

  Datacentre infrastructure findings from Synergy Research show how enterprise cloud adoption is affecting the market

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Rockwool invests €2m in global HR project

  Manufacturer interviewed other companies about their HR systems before choosing a system to harmonise its processes across 38 countries

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Farrer & Co IT director Neil Davison

  The law firm that served Charles Dickens has a much more modern approach to its technology strategy

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  HPE goes live with Europe-wide cloud service catalogue

  HPE’s Cloud 28+ service catalogue is open for business and hopes to encourage wider take-up of off-premises services across the continent

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  100Gbps network powers petabyte research cloud at Australia’s Monash University

  Australian university implements powerful network to support data hungry research cloud.

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  100Gbps network powers petabyte research cloud at Australia’s Monash University

  Australian university implements powerful network to support data hungry research cloud.

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  100Gbps network powers petabyte research cloud at Australia’s Monash University

  Australian university implements powerful network to support data-hungry research cloud

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  The FCA is open to cloud – but what of the firms it regulates?

  The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says cloud computing – even in its public form – is acceptable for finance organisations

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Jisc issues tender for second shared services datacentre in north of England

  Education network provider issues tender for second shared services datacentre, while warding off DDoS attack

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Trust in IT outsourcing outweighs lower cost for HW Fisher

  The value of a trusted relationship with an IT service provider is hard to measure, but HW Fisher IT head Tony Blonk says it outweighs price cuts

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Dropbox urged by users to open-source soon-to-be shut Mailbox app

  Dropbox finds itself in the firing line after calling time on much-loved email app

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Indian IT services supplier Infosys creates jobs in Ireland

  Indian IT services supplier Infosys is creating 250 jobs in Ireland to support customers and innovate around financial services IT

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Low-cost Nordics expect datacentre growth

  The Nordics offers advantages as a datacentre location, with each of its five countries offering something different

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Internet of things will be one of the Asean IT highlights in 2016

  IoT investments will be one of the major trends in Asean economies throughout 2016, according to predictions from Frost & Sullivan.

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Mikael Pommert, Modern Times Group

  Modern Times Group's CIO tells Computer Weekly about the challenges and benefits of moving an established business to the cloud

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  European Office 365 and Microsoft Azure users hit by service outage

  Microsoft claims to have addressed the issues that caused problems for Office 365 and Azure users earlier today.

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Swedish health company Elekta recoups costs of HR project in a year

  Medical company Elekta transforms its human resources (HR) processes by replacing legacy technology with cloud systems serving 3,800 staff in 24 countries

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  VMware research shines light on volume of UK enterprise data stored overseas

  A poll of UK IT decision makers suggests just 37% know exactly where their enterprise data is located

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Workday ringfences support in Europe after Safe Harbour ruled unsafe

  US cloud HR and financial services provider reponds to Safe Harbour failure by ringfencing European data

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  Interview: BT CEO Gavin Patterson

  For BT CEO Gavin Patterson, the UKtech50 most influential person in UK IT 2015, the network is a vital tool to balance the demands of a global services business with the responsibility of being the national incumbent telecoms operator

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  HPE will use its experience to help customers with M&A, says CEO Meg Whitman

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s CEO claimed the firm would be able to better assist customers undergoing structural changes

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  Singapore’s Yale-NUS deploys hybrid cloud

  Singapore college uses a hybrid cloud infrastructure to increase flexibility and reduce costs across its operation

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Gartner hails datacentre cost savings of halting virtual machine sprawl

  Gartner claims CIOs could be missing out on datacentre cost savings by considering server virtualisation a done job

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Infinity SDC sells Slough datacentre assets to rival Virtus

  Virtus expands greater London datacentre portfolio by purchasing rival's colocation facility in Slough

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Peterborough launches Digital City programme

  Initiatives such as a superfast fibre network and cloud computing services are part of the city’s digital drivers as it launches its Digital City Peterborough programme

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  UK competition watchdog to probe cloud storage sector for consumer law violations

  The Competition and Markets Authority vows to investigate cloud storage market, following user complaints

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Will the Paris terror attacks push the French government to compromise data protection for security?

  The Paris terrorist attacks could prompt the French government to relax data protection law – but the EU General Data Protection Regulation will forestall that

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Telefonica embarks on enterprise cloud push with Huawei

  Telco will work with Chinese networking supplier to offer enterprise access to OpenStack-based public cloud services

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  European colocation market growth buoyed by M&A and Safe Harbour, says CBRE

  Latest European datacentre market research from CBRE looks at effect of mergers and acquisitions and Safe Harbour on colocation adoption

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Digital drives business consultancy in IT outsourcing renewals

  As IT outsourcing contracts come up for renewal, CIOs might consider more business expertise to help them negotiate contracts that support inevitable digital expansion

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Case study: Tideway uses private cloud to manage London ‘super sewer’ infrastructure

  Infrastructure services director explains why Tideway has opted for a managed, private cloud setup to support sewer project

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  EMC weighs up VMware's involvement in Virtustream joint venture

  Concerns about how VMware's sliding share price could affect its merger with Dell have reportedly prompted EMC to reconsider its stake in Virtustream

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  Microsoft steps up efforts to clarify cloud security and privacy policy

  Microsoft debuts merged security information hub to make it easier for cloud users to find out more about the privacy and security policies of its hosted products

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  AWS draws on startup appeal to win over the enterprise

  The startup community has keenly adopted the cloud technologies of Amazon Web Services to disrupt the enterprise market, and now enterprises are fighting back

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Arcserve Cloud offers customers cloud target and remote failover

  Backup software and appliance supplier guarantees availability but latency depends on customer-bought infrastructure

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  NetSuite grant revolutionises workflow for Philippine non-profit organisations

  Non-profit organisations in the Philippines are benefiting from cloud-based software following the award of software grants from NetSuite

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Steel firm gets Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global ops

  Dowco rejected pure cloud over latency concerns but opted for Panzura hybrid cloud storage for global collaboration between offices on different continents

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  G-Cloud suppliers hit out at government IT pricing deal with Huddle

  Whitehall procurement chiefs respond to claims preferential pricing deal with Huddle goes against G-Cloud ethos

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Equinix rolls out AWS Direct Connect in Slough datacentre

  Datacentre provider launches private internet connection to Amazon Web Services to help customers build hybrid clouds

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Citrix cuts jobs and spins off GoTo business to drive profits

  Virtualisation giant Citrix will rationalise its operations after a large-scale business review that focuses on its core desktop virtualisation products

• November 19, 2015 19 Nov'15

  RAC signs up to Microsoft Azure following IT outsourcing deal

  Roadside rescue service RAC will use Microsoft’s Azure cloud after striking an outsourcing agreement with IT services supplier Getronics

• November 19, 2015 19 Nov'15

  451 Research highlights cost benefits of taking multi-provider approach to cloud

  Latest 451 Research cloud pricing report suggests buyers could get a better deal, if they're prepared to shop around