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Cloud computing software

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  Businesses must rethink HR IT as traditional jobs disintegrate

  HR software needs a complete rethink to deliver services to an increasingly dispersed workforce, says cloud technology specialist

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Government failed at promoting competition over BDUK, say MPs

  The government has consistently failed to promote competition during the roll-out of rural broadband across the UK, according to the PAC.

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Tech inefficiencies in UK policing cost £221m a year

  The lack of technology being used by the police in the UK is costing taxpayers up to £221m each year, says O2

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Ministry of Justice to invest up to £375m in court and tribunal technology reform

  The Ministry of Justice has announced a five-year programme to update and replace technology used in courts and tribunals across the UK

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Nationwide transforms to hybrid HR

  Nationwide combines cloud and on-premise HR technology in three-year transformation programme.

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Claire’s Accessories uses mobile to connect with younger customers

  Claire’s Accessories uses mobile to engage, interact and become closer to its younger customers

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Google throws down cloud gauntlet with massive price cuts

  Automatic discounts for sustained use bring true utility computing a step closer and could help Google close the gap on Amazon Web Services

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  M&S uses social media to make customers happy and drive sales

  Marks and Spencer has been using social media to engage with its customers and has seen a significant increase in sales from its marketing campaigns

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Online sales hit £1bn as Sainsbury's seeks multichannel success

  Sainsbury’s £1bn online retail sales make up only a small proportion of its £25bn overall turnover

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Microsoft releases Office for iPad

  In his first press conference, new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announces the long-awaited version of Office for the iPad

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Will Cisco’s $1bn Intercloud bridge the way for enterprise customers?

  The networking giant’s bid to build an open, hybrid cloud ecosystem could be good news for buyers - but analysts say its vision needs more clarity

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Blinkbox serves videos through Microsoft Azure

  On-demand video service, BlinkBox, has used Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure as a service to support video encoding and storage

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Government predicts 2013 IT savings will exceed £500m

  The government expects IT savings in 2013 to exceed the previous year’s £500m savings, said government CTO Liam Maxwell

• March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14

  Parliament must speed up internal processes to push forward with G-Cloud

  Parliament needs to speed up its internal decision making processes to continue taking advantage of G-Cloud, said director of Parliamentary ICT Joan Miller

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

  Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UK

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  DCMS to fund rural trials of superfast broadband

  The DCMS has opened up its £10m funding pot for suppliers with innovative ideas to help superfast broadband reach remote UK areas

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  EU project aims to boost urban datacentre efficiency

  GreenDataNet consortium will develop smart, open-source technologies to stop smart cities grinding to a halt amid rocketing energy demands

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Interview: Dan Taylor, head of BBC iPlayer

  When the BBC set about its coverage for the 2012 London Olympics, it changed audience expectations of how to view content online

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Interview: Russ Shaw, founder, Tech London Advocates

  Tech London Advocates is a network of more than 500 people in the technology ecosystem who link up to promote London’s emerging tech sector by dealing with issues and challenges they see on the horizon

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  CIOs to rip up outsourcing rule book

  Almost three-quarters of CIOs will change their IT outsourcing relationships in the next three years

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Interview: Francisco D’Souza. How do established IT suppliers keep growing?

  The last few years has seen IT budgets decimated and as a result IT suppliers have been forced to change their business models. The emergence of the digital world and globalisation are just two trends shaping the future of IT services

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Non-compliant organisations risk being cut off from the PSN

  Organisations not compliant with PSN security after the end-March deadline and who fail to engage for help are “effectively opting out”

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Case study: University of St Andrews squeezes green datacentre into squash court

  University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watt tells how the 600-year-old institution squeezed an energy-efficient datacentre into a squash court

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Parliament to unify web and ICT with Digital Office

  Parliamentary ICT (PICT) will soon be replaced by a Digital Office which aims to bring together online and Parliament ICT services

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  Is the government doing enough to encourage digital international talent to the UK?

  Last week, the government made a series of changes to the immigration rules which it hoped would help UK businesses employ skilled workers from overseas

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  British retailers to lose £1bn per year due to long queues

  Nearly three quarters of shoppers will abandon purchases if they have to queue for longer than five minutes, which could result in £1bn losses per year for UK retailers

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday

  On March 14 2006 Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  CIO Interview: Ian Turfrey, City & Guilds

  The IT chief of vocational training body City & Guilds is generally positive about cloud computing – with some key qualifications

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Mayor Boris Johnson launches London Tech Ambassadors Group

  Mayor Boris Johnson launches the London Tech Ambassadors Group as part of his vision to make London the technology capital of the world

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Why HR departments need to hire IT specialists

  Technology will fundamentally change the way people work, says psychology professor

• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  Case study: Footwear company Deckers takes e-commerce sites into the cloud

  The company behind shoe brands including Ugg Australia and Teva is using a cloud-based digital commerce platform to support global expansion

• March 11, 2014 11 Mar'14

  BBC launches redesigned iPlayer video-on-demand service

  The BBC launches the latest version of its video-on-demand service with improved navigation and recommendation features and sign-in function

• March 11, 2014 11 Mar'14

  London South Bank University: modelling tomorrow's cleaner, greener datacentres

  How London South Bank University (LSBU) meets the IT industry's rising demand for research into building more energy-efficient datacentres

• March 11, 2014 11 Mar'14

  British Gas puts board documents on mobile devices to save time and costs

  British Gas implements cloud-based software to give board members and administrators access to documents on mobile computing devices

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  Parliament suffers IT outages

  The Houses of Parliament have suffered from a number of IT failures and computer crashes after a supplier error

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  Case study: BG Group turns to cloud HR to reach staff in multiple countries

  Gas exploration and production company replaces SAP HR technology with Oracle Fusion in the cloud.

• March 07, 2014 07 Mar'14

  Cabinet Office completes first user trial of consumer technologies

  The Cabinet Office has completed its first user trial of consumer technologies within the department

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  Netflix shows how to get cloud rolling

  Streaming movie giant’s former cloud architect reveals how to dramatically speed up processes and shorten product development cycles

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  Why cloud's not reigning in the enterprise

  Lack of business-focused offerings from suppliers and misguided private cloud projects are stifling progress, say Cloud Expo speakers

• March 01, 2014 01 Mar'14

  John Lewis to launch startup incubator - JLab

  John Lewis is to launch its first technology startup incubator – JLab

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  Sainsbury’s appoints digital and technology director

  Sainsbury’s has created a digital and technology director and awarded the position to existing online director, Jon Rudoe

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Dragon tells cloud businesses to focus on service

  Outsourcery boss Piers Linney warns cloud providers that collaboration and investment are key to the industry’s future success

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Tesco expected to launch digital services “imminently”

  Tesco is expanding its multichannel portfolio by launching a digital wallet soon, with several other digital services also set to launch

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  CIOs 'need to think like venture capitalists' says study

  IT chiefs will need to start thinking like venture capitalists if they are going to help their organisations innovate

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Flexibility and integration drove NatWest Microsoft Dynamics migration

  NatWest Business Banking selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM when it realised it needed full CRM capability

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision

  State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Tech-savvy Mothercare boss quits

  Mothercare announces the resignation of chief executive Simon Calver

• February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  HMRC starts testing digital alerts for online self-assessment

  HM Revenue and Customs has started testing a digital alerts service for self-assessment - the latest 'digital by default' exemplar to go into beta

• February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  Datacentres must tackle local challenges for global growth

  Diverse range of opportunities and obstacles shows there’s no ‘one size fits all’ strategy for the datacentre industry

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Interview: Helen Milner CEO, Tinder, on the digital divide in Britain

  Eleven million people across the UK are struggling to connect to the internet. Not because of problems with hardware, bad connectivity, or even rural broadband challenges, but because they either don’t know how, or are too poor to get online

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Case study: South Tyneside NHS Trust deploys Huddle on iPads for board meetings

  South Tyneside NHS Trust has begun its paperless journey by moving its board meetings to the cloud using Huddle for iPad

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  Newcastle to go digital with £9m government fund

  The North Eastern city will benefit from superfast broadband, free Wi-Fi and a cloud computing centre

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  Civil servants believe government departments lack skills to achieve "digital by default"

  Just 36% of civil servants in central government believe their departments have the skills needed to achieve its "digital by default" strategy

• February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14

  Marks & Spencer relaunches website

  Marks & Spencer has unveiled its new-look website as part of its wider multi-channel approach to retail.

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  Interview: The systems supremo helping Sochi run smoothly

  Marta Sanfeliu, chief integration officer for Winter Olympics IT supplier Atos, helps ensure it's all smooth running for the IT at Sochi

• February 13, 2014 13 Feb'14

  The challenges of implementing Camden’s digital strategy

  Camden Borough Council's digital strategy sets out how technology will support and enable the local authority grow and develop

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  Telehealth startups cluster around Kent

  Telehealth technology startups cluster around Kent in industry move to provide digital health solutions for the UK’s aging population

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  Newcastle and Buckinghamshire councils win O2 Local Government Digital Fund

  Newcastle City Council and Buckinghamshire County Council have won a share of prize money from O2 which will be used by the councils to tackle social challenges using technology

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  Government tasks startup to build flood volunteering website

  A new website to help victims of the UK flooding disaster has been launched today

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  Businesses need to keep better track of IT ROI

  Business leaders are looking to new ideas and innovation to grow, but strategies must be supported by more detailed return on investment (ROI)

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills

  Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Poundland founder launches Poundshop online website

  The co-founder of the bargain store Poundland is to launch a Poundshop online store

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  Intelligent Energy uses Polycom to implement unified comms

  Intelligent Energy – a developer of clean energy technology – is using Polycom’s communications technology to deliver a unified system for conference calls as it expands globally.

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  Salford City Council keys into private cloud benefits

  Salford City Council’s award-winning private cloud helps speed up services, boost efficiency and nurture the city’s media startups

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  CIO interview: The Met's Richard Thwaite on its Total Technology IT strategy

  Metropolitan Police CIO Richard Thwaite on getting the business and IT suitably aligned as the force embarks on a four-year IT strategy

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

  AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Met Police releases ‘Total Technology’ IT strategy

  The Metropolitan Police Service has released a three to four-year plan on how to transform the use of technology in the organisation

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  Google delivers Chromebox-based video-conferencing for business

  Google has introduced a room video-conferencing product, which integrates Google+ Hangouts and Google Apps with HD

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  Startupbootcamp launches fintech accelerator programme

  The European startup accelerator Startupbootcamp has launched an accelerator programme focused on growing financial services companies

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  Finance sector early adopter of wearable technology

  Financial services firms are trialing the use of wearable technology as consumers and business clients seek new ways of using their services

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  Large internet companies could win insurance customers

  Almost a quarter of consumers would consider large internet companies – such as Google and Amazon – as possible insurance providers.

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Enterprise partnerships could solve startup skills gap, says panel

  Startups may find partnerships with larger corporations the best way to tackle talent-hiring blockades caused by UK immigration laws

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Satya Nadella replaces Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO

  Microsoft has named Satya Nadella as CEO almost six months after former incumbent Steve Ballmer announced his retirement

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Halfway through the Government Digital Service transformation project

  Halfway through a two-year project to move public services online, the Government Digital Service (GDS) is on track, but what challenges lie ahead?

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Case study: Putting disaster recovery into action when revellers strike

  How an out-of-hand office party in its building brought Icelandic IT services company Midverk to the brink of collapse

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  GDS intends to drop G-Cloud brand

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) is planning to rebrand the G-Cloud framework to simplify purchasing for users

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Amazon shares fall despite strong Q4 results

  Amazon reported record revenues of $25.6bn in the fourth quarter of 2013, up 20% on the previous year, but below analyst expectations

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Argos seeks new recruits for digital hub

  Argos has opened a ‘digital hub’ in London which will focus on creating more agile and flexible ways of working

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Are businesses turning to Windows Phone instead of BlackBerry?

  It's been a year since BlackBerry tried to reclaim the smartphone market with the BB10 operating system and the Z10 and qwerty Q10 handsets

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  ARM aims at Intel’s stronghold with 64-bit standard

  Intel hopes new baseline standard for ARM v8 chips will help it flex its muscles in the datacentre

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Government announces preferred open standards for documents

  The government has announced a set of open standards which it hopes will be used for documents across government

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Gaming site bets on flexible benefits software

  Online gaming company Bwin.party is betting on specialist benefits software to help it attract and retain its top talent

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust deploys iOS devices

  South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has deployed 300 iOS mobile devices onto its network to improve patient care processes

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  DECC IT overhaul follows government digital standards

  The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is accustomed to large outsourcing contracts, yet it is the first department within government to move away from a single supplier approach, to a new multi-sourcing model across all its core ...

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Cloud to drive Cisco Indian mid-market growth in 2014

  Cisco aims for growth in India by targeting the rising mid-market as 65% of India’s currently under-served mid-market firms plan to get more from their networks

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  CIO interview: Julian Payne, head of ICT, Science Museum Group

  The Science Museum Group has just completed a merger with the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Beginning in 2012 and took two years to integrate all business and IT functionality with the group

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Can elephants dance in the cloud?

  IBM’s renewed public cloud strategy could succeed in attracting customers old and new, but the company must tread carefully

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  CIO interview: Richard Warner, CIO, LV

  The IT industry is swarming with buzz words, from big data and the internet of things to social collaboration and consumerisation of distribution. Yet despite the hype around them making some doubt their importance, the CIO of insurer LV, Richard ...

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Barnardo’s uses Huddle Note for collaboration and communication

  Barnardo’s has chosen Huddle for cloud content collaboration to enable volunteers to share information securely with the charity’s staff

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  Councils must adopt a multi-channel strategy for public services

  Local government should be adopting a joined up multi-channel strategy for its public service offerings

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  HMRC to recruit 50 digital specialists in the North East

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is looking to recruit more than 50 digital specialists to work at a new digital centre in the North East

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  Tech firms lobby to keep open tax avoidance loopholes

  Big US tech firms are lobbying the OECD not to close tax loopholes they exploit to pay less tax in the UK and elsewhere

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  CIO Interview: Norfolk County Council's Tom Baker on using data to improve public services

  Norfolk County Council's smart city initiative uses the power of data to concentrate on the citizen and smarter public services

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  Schneider backs British liquid cooling startup

  Support from the datacentre giant could help Iceotope spread its innovative immersion cooling system around the globe

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  UK IT spending will outpace rest of Europe in 2014

  UK IT budgets will grow by 3.6% in 2014, second only to Germany

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Regional datacentre growth tempers UK price rises

  New datacentre clusters outside London keep average costs down, but firms that need space in the capital face a growing premium