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• September 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

  Steve Ballmer uses final investor call to target Google

  In his last investor call as CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer took the opportunity to attack Google’s business practices

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  BMW gears up IT resilience with private cloud infrastructure

  After testing and validating its own private cloud services, BMW's IT team is ready to use it in production

• September 13, 2013 13 Sep'13

  After virtualising IT estate, Jaguar Land Rover now eyes cloud computing

  Jaguar Land Rover's IT team takes its newly virtualised infrastructure to the next stage of IT evolution by adopting cloud-based services

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  Box.com forges new cloud security model

  Service providers and consumers need to move to a security model better suited to the cloud computing, says Box.com

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Interview: Martin Russell, head of IT services, Just Eat

  Just Eat's head of IT services, Martin Russell speaks to Computer Weekly about his experiences of switching to Google

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  UCAS adopts public cloud to process university admissions

  Ten days before the A-level results, UCAS adopted a public cloud infrastructure to scale up its IT and to make admission process efficient

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  Enterprises spend more on third-party datacentres than in-house ones: Uptime survey

  Uptime Institute’s annual datacentre industry survey reveals shift in IT spend away from enterprise-owned datacentres to outsourced options

• August 08, 2013 08 Aug'13

  Government opens fourth iteration of cloud framework G-Cloud 4 for business

  Cabinet Office has opened the fourth iteration of UK government cloud – G-Cloud 4 to accept tenders from new cloud suppliers and existing ones

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Foreign direct investment to underpin Indian cloud computing

  Will the 100% FDI allowance in the telecoms sector help cloud computing reach Indian companies reliant on mobile connectivity?

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  Microsoft concedes to BSkyB over SkyDrive trademark

  The tech giant admits defeat and will be forced to rename its cloud storage service after losing a court battle in the UK

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Dutch banking regulator approves use of AWS public cloud in the financial sector

  Dutch banking watchdog approves use of AWS cloud in websites, mobile apps, retail banking platforms, HPC and credit risk analysis

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Hailo taxi app maker drops Sage for NetSuite OneWorld

  Taxi cab app maker Hailocab has switched from Sage Line:50 to NetSuite OneWorld, in a bid to speed up accounts reconciliation

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  European banking firm UniCredit to introduce cloud in its datacentres

  European banking firm UniCredit has signed a multi-billion dollar deal with IBM to bring cloud into its datacentres

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Michelin creates fuel efficiency service with Accenture

  Tyre maker Michelin has begun a major project to create a business division focused on providing IT solutions for logistics

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Hidden cost of cloud computing is CIOs’ biggest concern

  A study into attitudes and concerns relating to cloud computing has revealed that 80% of CIOs are concerned about its hidden costs

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  IT energy consumption lower than previously claimed

  Research has debunked the myth that consuming IT and media services on mobile devices is hurting the environment

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  Lower uptake of cloud, ICT limiting medium-sized enterprises' productivity: CEBR

  Medium-sized enterprises in the UK lagging behind large businesses in terms of productivity, because of lower adoption of ICT and cloud

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Anne Boden, COO, Allied Irish Bank - on moving to private cloud

  AIB’s private cloud has meant a tenfold reduction in the number of Oracle databases and gives the bank internal technological ability and development flexibility to respond to a changing and demanding market

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  Azure powers Eurozone network to combat counterfeit drugs

  Microsoft Azure will be used to power a cloud platform designment to combat counterfeit pharmaceutical product in the EU

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  How BP made its IT future-ready with a hybrid cloud infrastructure

  BP bridged its cloud gap with a cautious and calculated approach using a mix of private cloud, public cloud and in-house IT infrastructure

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Encrypting enterprises miss out on cloud benefits

  Enterprises sending encrypted data to the cloud are missing out on some of the greatest benefits of cloud computing, says Thales e-Security

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Oracle offers enterprise software on Azure and Hyper-V

  Microsoft and Oracle form an alliance to enable Oracle software to run on Hyper-V and Windows Azure infrastructure

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  HR technology booming as businesses turn to the cloud

  Over the next 18 months, 60% of companies plan to roll out HR technology solutions, says analyst group Bersin by Deloitte.

• June 17, 2013 17 Jun'13

  IT departments to shrink dramatically within five years as cloud takes over

  IT professionals will need to rethink their careers as corporate IT departments undergo a radical restructuring over the next five years

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Can Dell survive in the cloud era despite killing its public cloud offering?

  Dell has ditched its public cloud IaaS in favour of partner cloud programme. But will the strategy help secure its future in the cloud era?

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  UK cloud firm Iomart sees annual profits soar by 56%

  Cloud computing company Iomart has reported a pre-tax profit up 56% to £10.7m for the year ending March 2013

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

  Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes

  University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  CIO Interview: Graeme Hackland, CIO, Lotus F1 Team

  Graeme Hackland, CIO of Lotus F1, has worked for the race car team for 16 years. He has seen major changes in IT both on and off the track

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Domino’s Pizza plans to move web services to the cloud

  After using cloud for testing and development apps, Domino’s Pizza is now looking to move its web services to the cloud

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud

  SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Adobe moves to cloud-based subscription model

  Adobe has announced that it is to introduce a cloud-based subscription model for popular applications, including Photoshop

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  SME Arcus brings AWS IaaS and PaaS to public sector with G-Cloud

  UK SME Arcus Global has become the first certified Amazon Web Services reseller on the government’s third G-Cloud framework

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Salesforce.com targets communities

  Salesforce.com says it wants to address communities with its software as a service (SaaS) platform

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  Warwickshire Council adopts Gmail

  Warwickshire County Council is to complete a full Gmail roll-out across its 4,500 users next month, in a move that will deliver £250,000 in savings

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  Fifth of all IT services firms could disappear by 2014, says Gartner

  Up to 20 of the world’s top 100 IT service providers could disappear by 2014 because of the tough economic conditions, says Gartner

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Tesco to host private cloud infrastructure within its internal datacentres

  Tesco will run a private cloud infrastructure from its internal datacentre to host its website and retail related apps

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  British businesses are not making most of the cloud, study shows

  British businesses have yet to make the most of cloud computing services because many are hesitant to adopt it

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  Action for Children takes fundraising to the cloud with Rackspace

  Charity Action for Children has overcome its website traffic issues and has saved costs by using Rackspace cloud

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

  UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  CIO interview: David Matthewman, CIO, Open University

  Three years after joining the Open University, CIO David Matthewman continues to push a strategic programme to deliver value and innovation

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Totaljobs hires public cloud services for agility, better performance

  Totaljobs Group, the recruiter that runs Totaljobs.com, adopts AWS public cloud to improve IT performance and have an agile infrastructure

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Capacity management most underestimated cloud problem

  Capacity management is the most underestimated problem of cloud computing, says Morgan Stanley strategy director Evangelos Kotsovinos

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  EasyJet lifts off with Azure seat bookings

  The Azure cloud has allowed Easyjet to enable web site and mobile users to check seat availability

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Amazon sales soar in 2012

  Amazon sales rose 27% to $61bn (£39bn) in its 2012 results and 22% in its 2012 fourth quarter revenues to $21.27bn, compared with 2011

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Windsor and Maidenhead council migrates services to cloud

  Windsor and Maidenhead borough council will migrate critical services such as childcare, benefits and transport services to the cloud by 2014

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study

  European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  National Rail Enquiries puts web services on the public cloud

  National Rail Enquiries is migrating applications that power its home page, online journey planner service and real-time service updates on to AWS cloud

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  Interview: Alan Clark, chairman, OpenStack Foundation

  Alan Clark, chairman of the board of the OpenStack Foundation, talks to Computer Weekly about the future of cloud and the role of open source

• December 24, 2012 24 Dec'12

  Top 10 IT outsourcing stories of 2012

  Research into the UK outsourcing sector in 2010 found that 7.4% of the UK’s total production came from outsourcing, and about a third of that – some £38.7bn – was IT outsourcing