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• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  Greenpeace targets users in renewed clean energy datacentre push

  Environmental campaign group Greenpeace outlines its green technology push at Cloud Expo – but says AWS could do better

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Microsoft Azure brings success for McDonald's Sweden

  McDonald's Sweden's Microsoft Azure system is named best-in-class across the fast food organisation's global operation

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Microsoft and Cisco cloud partnership yields app deployment platform

  Microsoft and Cisco claim new cloud platform will allow service providers to take advantage of DevOps-style app deployment speeds

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Tieto’s Taneli Tikka brings startup drive to industrial internet business

  Taneli Tikka has an unusual job description as the head of industrial internet at Tieto Corporation

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Isle of Man steps up efforts to court cryptocurrency startups

  The Isle of Man government sets out the legislative changes it's pushing through to make the island a haven for cryptocurrency firms

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Security professionals look to workload security in the cloud

  The first Cloud Security Spotlight Report shows broad cloud adoption and move towards workload security

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  2015 IT priorities: On-premise deployments high on agenda, but cloud interest on the rise

  The 2015 Computer Weekly IT priorities survey points to growing interest in cloud technologies, but on-premise still rules

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Multi-supplier cloud environments bad for business agility

  Telstra research suggests companies that rely on three or more cloud providers could find it harder to respond to business changes

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Banks increase outsourcing but slash use of consultants

  There will be an increase in the use of IT outsourcing in the global banking sector over the next 12 months but the use of consultants will fall

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Executive interview: GE software chief Bill Ruh on value of an industrial cloud

  Bill Ruh believes machines are getting smarter. The company has expanded its vision of an industrial internet to an industrial cloud

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Telehouse's £135m datacentre to open in London in 2016

  London datacentre provider reveals further details about the forthcoming opening of its new facility in London Docklands

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  IBM confirms Q2 release date for OpenPower servers in Softlayer

  IBM Softlayer users will soon have access to OpenPower-based bare-metal servers for data-heavy workloads

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Has IBM found its place in the digital world?

  Late last year, amid poor financial results and doubts over its direction, IBM announced $3.6bn worth of IT infrastructure outsourcing deals

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Williams Martini Racing signs multi-year BT network services deal

  Williams F1 teams forms long-term strategic partnership with BT for fixed and mobile communications and network services

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Alibaba emerges as AWS challenger after US datacentre opening

  Chinese internet giant outlines US datacentre plans as it prepares for cloud battle with AWS, Microsoft and Google

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Connected cars set CIO agenda at Volvo

  IT has always tried to align with the business, but for Klas Bendrik, group CIO at Volvo Cars, it seems business has aligned with IT

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Strong future for enterprise IT in Nordic countries

  From attracting the world to its ice-cool datacentres to the digitisation of the public sector, there is plenty going on in the Nordic region

• March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15

  HP updates Helion OpenStack in latest hybrid cloud push

  Hardware giant follows up earlier open-source cloud pledge with product updates to speed user adoption of hybrid IT

• 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