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• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Nano Server: Microsoft debuts simpler Windows Server for the cloud era

  Microsoft finally confirms details about Nano Server, its stripped back Windows Server operating system designed specifically for cloud apps

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  HP rebuffs public cloud market exit reports

  Hardware giant reinforces commitment to public cloud, but analysts claim it needs to be clearer about its off-premise strategy

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Oracle Retail expands cloud services portfolio in wake of Micros buy

  Oracle introduces six cloud services to help retailers get to grips with loss prevention, customer engagement and inventory management

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  UK law firm McMillan Williams moves to Interxion datacentre to support growth

  UK law firm McMillan Williams Solicitors taps up co-location provider Interxion to support plans to expand its number of high street branches

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  CIO interview: Bill Wilkins, First Utility

  First Utility's CIO explains how it is using cloud and smart meters to give the big six a run for their money in the energy market

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Digital agenda streamlines public sector in Norway

  While governments are eager to toot the horn of digitisation, real-world effects are still a few and far between, but Norway is aiming to change this

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Fears about Prism's long-term impact on cloud declared "overblown"

  Forrester claims the fallout from the 2013 Prism surveillance scandal has had a minimal effect on the cloud industry

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Foods manufacturer ConAgra expects to save $5m a year with data analytics

  Food manufacturer ConAgra Foods is using data analytics technology to improve how it makes decisions about hiring and deploying its workforce

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Microsoft and Accenture push Azure hybrid cloud platform for the enterprise

  Accenture, Microsoft and Avanade talk up hybrid IT, promoting a platform that allows enterprises to exploit cloud with existing infrastructure

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Google Drive for Work users to benefit from tighter document security controls

  Search giant is stepping up security around its cloud productivity platform, with new controls limiting document sharing and deletion

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Interoute bags private equity funding to support datacentre growth

  Cloud services giant plans to use private equity funding to support its M&A activity and push ahead with its datacentre growth plans

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Skyhigh Networks' research highlights cloud collaboration dangers

  Skyhigh Networks urge cloud users to be careful who they share their business data with in the cloud

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  KPMG teams up with Microsoft to boost enterprise cloud adoption

  Advisory firm to draw on Microsoft technologies to deliver cloud-based data analytics, and business transformation services to clients

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Google appeal ruling should send shivers through US tech companies

  What are the implications of Google's legal defeat in London and the UK court's hardening attitude towards privacy breaches?

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Google Cloud Launcher accelerates off-premise open-source app deployments

  Google hopes to make it easier for users to deploy open-source apps in its cloud through the release of its Google Cloud Launcher tool

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Amazon Cloud Drive targets Dropbox and Google with unlimited storage

  Amazon's cloud storage service to offer unlimited storage at cheaper rates than Dropbox and Google

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Talk Talk moves HR systems to cloud

  Managers now have accurate information on their workforce numbers, salary and overtime costs

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security

  Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  ProfitBricks ignites cloud pricing war with AWS, Google and Microsoft

  IaaS player promises to undercut rivals on price, but analysts question sustainability of business model

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  HP's push to build EU-wide "one-stop shop" for cloud gathers pace

  HP talks up growing momentum of its Cloud 28+ project in Europe

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  RSA Group taps up AWS to hit 2016 cloud targets

  The global insurance group behind More Than hopes to move all its websites to the cloud by 2016, with a little help from AWS

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Amazon Web Services hosts Nasa climate-change images in the cloud

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) follows up pledge to support climate change research by publishing 85,000 Nasa images in the cloud

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Dutch bank ING puts HR services in the cloud

  Finance company ING is using cloud-based software from ServiceNow to deliver HR services to its 25,000 staff in the Netherlands

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Nordic nations dominate Europe's digital league table

  The EC's Digital Economy and Society Index ranked Denmark, Sweden and Finland as first, second and fourth most digital European nation

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  CIF opens up membership to users in cloud skills push

  The Cloud Industry Forum opens doors to IT professionals to help them acquire industry recognition of their off-premise knowledge and skills

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft contests Iowa's plans to adopt Google cloud services

  Microsoft files a law suit claiming its cloud products were overlooked in the process of moving systems of the US state of Iowa to the cloud

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect from this leaner, meaner Windows Server

  With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see?

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Why CIOs should become chief integration officers in 2015

  IT leaders risk being relegated to a “care and feeding” role if they do not take the initiative, says business advisory firm Deloitte

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Current account comparison from Gocompare announced in Budget 2015

  The government used the Budget to announce changes in the banking sector that will increase consumer and business choice

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Facebook introduces friend-to-friend payment system

  Facebook has introduced a feature to its Messenger app that enables people to transfer money to their friends in a few clicks

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Ford drives connected car journey with Microsoft Azure

  The Microsoft Azure cloud will be used to power Ford's new software delivery and vehicle monitoring service

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Oracle talks up cloud revenue growth in the face of flat Q3 sales

  Database giant Oracle hails a rise in cloud sales, as overall revenue remains flat in the third quarter - for which it blames a strong US dollar

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Red Nose Day 2015: How Comic Relief used cloud to bank a record £78m

  Comic Relief CTO Zenon Hannick explains how the charity used cloud to process a record number of donations during Red Nose Day 2015

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Six technology companies to hasten the demise of retail bank giants

  UK retail banks are under pressure from regulation, costs and increasing competition

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  Adobe Document Cloud seeks to end enterprise reliance on paper-based forms

  Adobe plans to roll out a cloud-based digitised document hub to make it easier for enterprise users to manage and process forms

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  Post Office could be the Carphone Warehouse of banking industry

  Atom Bank is latest digital bank to propose Post Office branches as places where customers can make transactions

• March 16, 2015 16 Mar'15

  Deal close with banks to maintain services in remote locations

  The government is close to agreement with the British Bankers Association on a set of rules for banks to follow before closing branches

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  IBM could create blockchain-based digital payments infrastructure for central banks

  IBM has held informal talks with some central banks about building an infrastructure that can provide them with bitcoin-like digital payments systems

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Google squares up for new AWS cloud battle with Nearline beta launch

  Google unveils AWS Glacier challenger, which promises business users unlimited storage and fast data retrieval times

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  Interception errors had serious consequences for individuals

  Law enforcement and security services made 12 serious technical and nine human surveillance errors last year

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  Rewrite 'absurdly complicated’ surveillance laws, say MPs

  The Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee has presented the Prime Minister with proposals to reform privacy and intelligence laws

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Ivor Nicholson, Nottinghamshire County Council

  Nottinghamshire County Council is facing £77m in cuts by 2018 and by rolling out new services, it plans to save £8m through technology alone

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  US government CIO tells cloud buyers to get tough on suppliers

  US Department of Labor CIO Dawn Leaf shares her learnings from helping 19,000 employees move off-premise at Cloud Expo 2015

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Connected Data targets business with Transporter cloud file sharing family

  Connected Data’s Transporter for Business appliances enable cloud file sharing services for employees from a preconfigured box

• 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 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 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

  Cloud-based CivilisedBank latest challenger bank to hit UK

  CivilisedBank will attempt to use cloud-based technology to challenge the dominance of the high street giants

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Online freelance platform dominated by IT requests in Nordic region

  Online freelance marketplace is fast becoming IT workers' go-to job board for lucrative contracts

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Tinder cuts app crashes with Rackspace cloud database

  Tinder matchmaking app turns to managed cloud provider for IT and database support

• 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 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

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  TSB is investing in bank branches, not closing them

  TSB is countering the industry trend of branch closures in the light of increased digital services by opening 30 new branches

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  University of Cambridge says peer-to-peer lending will become mainstream

  Financial transactions made on online lending platforms in Europe reached €3bn in 2014 and could hit €7bn this year

• 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 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Digital challenger bank Starling loses its CTO

  The CTO of digital bank Starling has left the company before it has even been granted a banking licence

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Scaling appropriately an issue for digital startups, says report

  Digital startups often scale their customer bases too quickly before they have had time to implement the appropriate infrastructure

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  Lloyds Bank accepts ID documents uploaded on social media

  Lloyds Bank group customers can upload identification documents on technology used in social media, reducing the need to visit a branch

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks

  Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Sweeping trend towards digital banking forces RBS branch closures

  Royal Bank of Scotland "taken aback" by ever-increasing take-up of digital banking and announces additional branch closures across UK

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Santander offers corporate clients cloud storage

  Santander’s cloud storage offer to corporate clients shows how banks could fight back against the IT giants encroaching on their market

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Media industry operates on a shoestring IT budget, says BT

  The media industry struggles to invest in technology, because investors are concerned with making new television and film content

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Google sees 2014 revenues hit $66bn

  Google has seen its revenues for the fourth quarter of 2014 increase by 15% year-on-year.

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Full steam ahead for P&O Ferries e-commerce website

  P&O Ferries has seen a 20% increase in users of its new e-commerce website, which it launched in December 2014

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Scotland sees startup growth, but Wales lags behind

  Scotland’s technology sector has seen a large growth in startup companies since 2009

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Microsoft gets a step closer to Office everywhere with Office on Android

  Microsoft has released a preview version of Office for Android, almost 10 months after the iPad version was released

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Nesta invests in apprenticeships website for young people

  Nesta has invested half a million pounds into a website to help young people connect with employers and colleges to find apprenticeship schemes

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Argos to open digital stores in Sainsbury’s supermarkets

  Argos has teamed up with Sainsbury’s with plans to open digital stores within 10 existing supermarkets.

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Harrods invests in digital to entice customers

  Harrods is investing in digital screen and publishing technologies to engage with its customers

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  River Island takes part in retail tech startup accelerator

  River Island is the latest company to get involved with a technology startup accelerator

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Future of parliament report calls for digital engagement and online voting

  A report outlines how parliament should embrace digital technology to be more transparent, inclusive and better able to engage the public

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Amazon acquires chip maker for cloud services business

  Amazon is reportedly acquiring an Israel-based chip maker as part of AWS, which could mean the firm plans to design its own hardware down to the chips

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Senior judge calls for technology to transform courtrooms

  A senior judge has called for the introduction of technologies such as video and online filing to bring the criminal courts into the 21st century

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  CIO interview: Omid Shiraji, CIO at Working Links

  Just a year into his first IT leadership role and Working Links CIO Omid Shiraji is already busy with a digital transformation programme

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Case study: BCBG Max Azria checks out customer engagement chic

  Fashion retailer BCBG Max Azria is stepping out in omnichannel chic with digital in-store solutions and localised web presence

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  UK leads in global ranking of social open data sharing

  The UK has been named the number one country to use open data for social and economic benefit

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Starbucks launches wireless charging in the UK

  Starbucks has launched wireless charging points in 10 shops in London

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Canary Wharf Group opens third tech startup space

  London’s Canary Wharf Group has opened a third dedicated space to technology startups as part of its Level39 initiative

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  HMRC trials Gov.uk Verify in busiest month of the year

  Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs is to trial the government’s Verify identity assurance scheme in its busiest month

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  GDS hints at future approach to government-as-a-platform

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) has hinted at a new approach to meet Whitehall’s government-as-a-platform goals

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  Microsoft Azure had more downtime in 2014 than main cloud rivals

  Microsoft Azure suffered more downtime than its main rivals in 2014, according to detailed analysis

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Ugg Australia trials RFID smart mat to digitise its stores

  Ugg Australia is trialing a smart mat system which allows shoppers to view more products electronically

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  UK bank to launch after penning Oracle deal

  Challenger bank Hampden will start operating in the first quarter of 2015 using a cloud-based banking platform from Oracle

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Gamestop’s Technology Institute engages digital customers in stores

  Gamestop has been investing in its store and digital channels through the Gamestop Technology Institute (GTI), which it launched in March 2014

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  TGI Fridays rolls out tablets and trials social media check-in

  TGI Fridays rolls out Microsoft tablets across its restaurant chain and experiments with data from social media check-in technologies

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Tesco embarks on image recognition technology for product placement

  Tesco is looking to pilot image recognition software to improve product placement in its stores

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Technology should complement traditional merchandising, says Hershey’s

  Retailers adopting innovative technology need to consider how it might affect traditional ways of merchandising at the point of sale

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Levi Strauss & Co thinks mobile first

  Levi Strauss & Co, the company known for Levi’s denim jeans, is thinking mobile first as part of its omni-channel retailing strategy

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  John Lewis to trial location technology for click and collect

  John Lewis plans to trial a micro-location technology to improve its click and collect service

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Solihull council launches digital strategy

  Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has launched a digital strategy which outlines how it will engage with citizens across multiple channels

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  Cabinet Office searches for CDO to lead digital and tech team

  The Cabinet Office is looking to create a digital and technology team, with a chief digital officer (CDO) at its helm

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  Retailers need to plan for online peaks and troughs

  Almost a third of British online shoppers experienced problems with their orders over the Christmas period

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Sainsbury’s experiences biggest online Christmas

  Sainsbury’s claims Christmas 2014 was its biggest to date for online groceries

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  Startups selected for London’s Fintech Innovation Lab 2015

  Seven financial technology startups have been selected for the annual Fintech Innovation Lab

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  European Commission tenders for first cloud services

  The European Commission (EC) has put out a tender for a framework to acquire its first cloud services

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  Online shoppers boost Christmas sales for John Lewis

  Online shopping accounted for 36% of all John Lewis sales over the 2014 Christmas period

• December 31, 2014 31 Dec'14

  Top 10 retail IT stories of 2014

  It’s been a busy year for retail as the industry proves it is leading the way in the adoption of technology innovations

• December 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

  Top 10 healthcare IT stories of 2014

  It’s been a rocky year for technology and the NHS, succumbing to a marketing blow for its Care.data project and pushing back its e-Referral Service

• December 24, 2014 24 Dec'14

  Quiksilver expands e-commerce and sees 65% increase in revenue

  Sports brand Quiksilver has seen a 65% increase in revenue after expanding its cloud-based e-commerce platform

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Monsoon Accessorize provides multi-channel promotions via e-receipts

  Monsoon Accessorize is using data from both in store and online to provide personalised customer offers on emailed receipts