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Cloud computing services
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September 05, 2014
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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
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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
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September 03, 2014
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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
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September 02, 2014
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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
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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
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September 01, 2014
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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
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August 19, 2014
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Aug'14
FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings
Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service
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August 15, 2014
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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
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August 08, 2014
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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?
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August 06, 2014
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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
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August 04, 2014
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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?
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July 31, 2014
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Jul'14
£700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre
Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance
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July 25, 2014
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Jul'14
AWS feels the pressure of cloud competition
AWS became the gold standard of public cloud. But are price wars, hybrid cloud and increased competition denting its growth?
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July 25, 2014
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Jul'14
Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour
Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project
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July 25, 2014
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Jul'14
Amazon’s share price falls 6% on quarterly results
Amazon’s share price fell 6% in after-hours trade after the firm reported a second-quarter net loss of $126m
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July 24, 2014
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Jul'14
Crew Clothing fashions cloud-based marketing to engage buyers
British luxury casualwear brand Crew Clothing chose cloud marketing to move from batch email marketing to a more timely and personal approach
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July 21, 2014
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Jul'14
EU funds project to boost European cloud computing market
Cloudcatalyst project will assess cloud market in Europe, identify barriers to cloud adoption and provide tools to boost its growth
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July 18, 2014
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Jul'14
BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe
BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft
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July 16, 2014
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Jul'14
IBM partners with Apple to deliver enterprise services for iOS
IBM has given Apple a major boost in the enterprise, through a partnership that will see it provide services and software for iOS
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July 10, 2014
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Jul'14
Microsoft adds StorSimple hybrid storage arrays to Azure cloud service
Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays
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July 09, 2014
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Jul'14
Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach
At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products
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July 08, 2014
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Jul'14
Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP
Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of location
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild
Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres
Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.
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June 26, 2014
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Jun'14
Big IT suppliers top government spending on contracts
IT firms are earning the most from government contracts, with HP alone earning more than £1.7bn a year
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June 23, 2014
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Jun'14
Oracle set to boost retail business with $5bn Micros acquisition
Oracle is expected to acquire internet-enabled point-of sale-specialist Micros
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June 20, 2014
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Jun'14
Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years
Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud
eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself
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June 16, 2014
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Jun'14
Microsoft admits running out of IP addresses for Azure
Microsoft has assured US Azure customers data remains in the US, despite running out of US-registered IP addresses at times
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June 12, 2014
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Jun'14
Can Salesforce.com re-engineer business IT?
With 1.5 million developers and a new focus on industry solutions, is Salesforce.com a business platform?
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June 10, 2014
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Jun'14
Engineering firm fined for using unlicensed Autodesk software
Project Options has been fined £16,000 by the Business Software Alliance, following an online tip-off
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June 09, 2014
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Jun'14
Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead
Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart
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June 06, 2014
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Jun'14
Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report
Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report
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June 05, 2014
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Jun'14
UK airports lead move to cloud services
UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.
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May 28, 2014
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May'14
CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson
Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT
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May 28, 2014
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May'14
Huawei signs datacentre services MoU with BT
BT could become a major supplier of datacentre services to Chinese network giant Huawei after signing memorandum of understanding
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May 27, 2014
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May'14
Atos buys Bull for £503m
French services supplier Atos buys Bull for £502.6m in a deal that could create one of the largest cloud services firms in Europe
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May 22, 2014
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May'14
Cisco continues its push towards SaaS-based security services
Chief information security officers (CISOs) should move away from product-based security solutions to a security-as-a-service (SaaS) model, according to Cisco
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May 22, 2014
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May'14
Salesforce.com opens UK datacentre to support data sovereignty
Cloud CRM company Salesforce.com has announced its first UK datacentre, which is also its first in Europe
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May 20, 2014
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May'14
Shell thinks technology first in preparation for internet of everything
Shell is reshaping its business to think technology first as it uses the internet of everything to change its business processes
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May 19, 2014
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May'14
Public sector dominates UK outsourcing so far this year
Public-sector outsourcing accounted for three-quarters of spending in the first three months of this year, according to analyst NelsonHall
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May 19, 2014
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May'14
SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure
From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure
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May 19, 2014
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May'14
IT headcount lags behind growth in digital strategies
There is a huge gap in technology staffing for e-commerce operations, according to a new report from analyst Forrester
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May 16, 2014
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May'14
Net neutrality under threat from US plan
The US telecoms regulator has approved proposals that opponents believe will quash the principle of net neutrality
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May 14, 2014
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May'14
Google Maps gives small Indian retailers a mobile face
Google is offering small Indian traders technology to enable them to set up virtual stores through Indoor Google Maps
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May 01, 2014
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May'14
Case study: How the BBC uses cloud to process media for iPlayer
The BBC has taken its iPlayer video-on-demand service to the cloud and cut media processing time from 9-10 hours to 20-30 minutes
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May 01, 2014
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May'14
British Gas brings central heating control to smartphones with AWS
British Gas used public cloud IT to enable people remotely control their homes’ central heating with smartphone apps and save on utility bills
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April 30, 2014
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Apr'14
Oracle updates Solaris, but is its server strategy sound?
Oracle has released a beta versdion of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future?
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April 30, 2014
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Apr'14
SDL turns to cloud HR to join up businesses in 40 countries
The technology is central to the company’s strategy to integrate formerly autonomous businesses in 38 countries into a single operation
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April 28, 2014
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Apr'14
Fiat and Chrysler to integrate separate IT systems
Car manufacturing group Fiat and Chrysler have contracted IBM to integrate their separate IT infrastructures into a single global operation, following the companies coming together after Chrysler applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy