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Cloud computing software
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June 07, 2016
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Fintech poised to revolutionise banking in the Middle East
The Middle East has been slow to join the fintech revolution, but there is an opportunity for CIOs to help banks stride ahead as demand picks up
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June 02, 2016
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Finland to deploy national Sigfox IoT network
Internet of things service provider Sigfox has announced plans to extend its global network across Finland by 2017
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June 02, 2016
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LogMeIn customers complain over price hikes and contract renewals
Remote management supplier denies not notifying customers about impending price rises and renewal dates, as end-user complaints mount
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June 02, 2016
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Jun'16
Server shipments fall as firms use cloud and virtualisation to cut hardware costs
Gartner’s latest global server sales tracker highlights the toll that cloud and virtualisation are taking on the market
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June 01, 2016
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MPs’ private emails are routinely accessed by GCHQ
Computer Weekly investigation reveals the extent of interception of MPs’ and peers’ email communications and data
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June 01, 2016
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Safe Harbour confusion fuels rise in demand for European datacentre space, CBRE claims
User demand for locally hosted cloud services prompts cloud firms and infrastructure providers to rapidly take-up datacentre space in Europe, CBRE research shows
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May 31, 2016
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Sloppy SaaS firms lose out on G-Cloud deals, research suggests
Ex-EuroCloud general secretary Lindsay Smith claims SaaS providers need to stop blaming others for their lack of G-Cloud sales success
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May 26, 2016
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Nordic CIO interview: Petteri Naulapää, Stockmann
CIO of Finnish-listed international retailer tells Computer Weekly about the department store’s journey towards omnichannel
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May 26, 2016
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Salesforce to run more of its services from the AWS public cloud
Cloud CRM giant Salesforce names Amazon Web Services as preferred public cloud provider, as it sets out plans to expand use of its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings
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May 26, 2016
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European cloud buyers unmoved by low prices, suggests 451 Research
451 Research’s latest Cloud Price Index investigates link between low-cost cloud services and provider market share
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May 23, 2016
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Singapore retailer shifts IT infrastructure to the cloud
Challenger is moving its IT infrastructure to the cloud to enable it to respond better to business growth
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May 20, 2016
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HumanOps calls for improved working conditions for infrastructure operations staff
The pressure of delivering 24/7 support to IT infrastructure is taking its toll on the people tasked with caring for it, warns HumanOps advocates
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May 20, 2016
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CIO Interview: Esa Viitamäki, Posti Group
IT demands and a changing market prompted Finland’s state-owned postal provider to transform itself
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May 19, 2016
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Lawmaker Vaizey hails UK role in resolving datacentre sovereignty issues
Digital economy minister talks up government’s work in supporting the growth of the UK’s technology sector
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May 19, 2016
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SuiteWorld 2016: The way retailers use ERP is shifting, taking on an external focus
NetSuite manager for commerce products looks at how consumers are forcing the retail world towards an experience-led business models
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May 19, 2016
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HPE adds support for Microsoft, VMware and Docker to Cloud28+ marketplace
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) softens its stance on OpenStack compatibility by introducing support for Azure, VMware and Docker too
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May 17, 2016
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Vodafone CEO hints at return to growth for mobile operator as full-year results drop
Mobile operator Vodafone shares details of its full-year financial results, while talking up the role cloud has to play in its ability to deliver low-cost services
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May 17, 2016
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Equinix sells eight European datacentres to rival Digital Realty for $874m
As Equinix sells off eight European datacentres to rival Digital Realty, analyst Steve Wallage predicts what the fallout from the deal might be
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May 16, 2016
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GDS urged to reinstate G-Cloud web accessibility safeguards
Public sector IT buyers risk breaking disability discrimination laws, following removal of web accessibility safeguards from G-Cloud, it is claimed
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May 13, 2016
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Idiot UK Drivers Exposed enlists Hyve managed hosting as website traffic grows
Dangerous driving site explains how its videos going viral on social media prompted an urgent rethink about using a multi-tenanted hosting platform to support its website
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May 11, 2016
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Australia wants more fintech opportunity despite surprisingly low budget commitment
Australia’s federal budget has a surprisingly low financial commitment to fintech, despite the country’s clear appetite for developing the sector
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May 11, 2016
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Salesforce turns to AWS for internet of things cloud test support
Cloud CRM giant is reportedly using the AWS public cloud to give it the capacity it needs to cope with the internet of things data deluge
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May 10, 2016
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May'16
Nordea Bank launches crowdfunding platform in Finland
The Nordic financial services group offers a technology bringing together investors and startup businesses
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May 09, 2016
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Singapore smart city chief delivers vision to the world
The Singapore government minister running the city state's smart nation project tells the world about the country’s smart nation vision
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May 09, 2016
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Shadow IT cited as reason why some firms lack formal cloud strategy
Research from VMTurbo suggests firms are using cloud, even if they claim not to have a formal private or public deployment plan in place
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May 06, 2016
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Ford to invest $182m in PaaS firm Pivotal to support connected car push
Ford steps up involvement with Pivotal, and sets out plans to expand the use of Pivotal’s software development kit across its IT and product development teams
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May 05, 2016
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Visa chooses Singapore for its first innovation centre in Asia
Visa opens its first innovation centre outside of the US to work with partners and customers to develop payment technology for the Southeast Asian market
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May 05, 2016
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M&S credits Office 365 with rise in staff collaboration and communication
Marks and Spencer shares details of how moving to Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite has ushered in an era of ”smarter working” in its retails stores and corporate HQ
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May 03, 2016
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May'16
AWS Q1 Results: How the cloud giant plans to retain its hold on the market
In light of the continued growth of AWS, Computer Weekly looks at how the firm intends to retain its hold on the cloud market
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April 28, 2016
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Apple Pay gets a million new users a week but profit remains elusive
Apple's mobile payments service is popular with consumers and banks but the company has yet to find ways to make 'meaningful' money from it
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April 27, 2016
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OpenStack set for 100% adoption by Fortune 100 firms within three years
Managed cloud provider Rackspace claims the open source software platform’s acceptance is miles ahead of where Linux was at this part of its life cycle
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April 27, 2016
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OpenStack Foundation calls for greater enterprise input in open source initiatives
OpenStack Foundation claims enterprises are increasingly realising that their future depends on being actively involved with open source
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April 26, 2016
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Action for Children mobilises staff on Claranet’s managed network
Action for Children, the charity behind Byte Night, moves onto Claranet’s MPLS core network to support the wholesale revitalisation of its ICT
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April 26, 2016
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OpenStack: "Cloud success determined by business culture, not technology"
The OpenStack Foundation and its supporters claim companies that prioritise technology over business culture are doomed to fail in the cloud
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April 26, 2016
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OpenStack Foundation steps up efforts to address enterprise skills gap
OpenStack Foundation co-founder claims scarcity of techies with skills in using the open source cloud platform remains biggest barrier to enterprise adoption
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April 22, 2016
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Nordic corporations open their doors to tech startups
Traditional Nordic corporations are starting to take advantage of the vibrant startup community in the region, and they are changing the way they think
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April 22, 2016
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Rackspace embarks on renewed push to ease enterprise adoption of AWS and Azure clouds
Managed cloud provider Rackspace outlines how teaming up with IT consultancy Cloud Technology Partners will help enterprises struggling with the move off-premise
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April 21, 2016
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GCHQ told analysts to assume surveillance 'bulk data' is legal
Documents obtained by charity Privacy International reveal insights into GCHQ’s collection of sensitive bulk data, as lawyers question the impact of surveillance on legal privilege, fair trials and protection of whistleblowers
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April 20, 2016
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European Commission ready to splash €50bn on transformational digitisation plan
A cloud initiative for scientists and technologists among the developments as digital single market moves intensify
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April 20, 2016
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T-Systems embarks on enterprise-focused cloud push with colocation provider Virtus
IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom shares five-year plan to close private datacentre in Feltham, after signing colocation deal with Virtus Data Centres
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April 19, 2016
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La Poste delivers internet of services
The French postal system is taking existing services and adding a digital dimension to support a new business model
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April 18, 2016
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The secrets of Nordic fintech boost
London has become the undisputed European capital for financial technology, but the Nordic countries have strong ambitions to challenge for the number one spot
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April 18, 2016
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The Middle East’s home-grown app market now really growing, but from a low base
Despite massive smartphone penetration, native app developers in the region need to listen more closely to what locals want
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April 14, 2016
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IBM and Oracle fortunes hit by rapid growth of PaaS, Gartner claims
Gartner’s application infrastructure market tracker reveals how PaaS growth is shaking up the supplier landscape
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April 14, 2016
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Apr'16
Ticketmaster tech chief claims software engineers should consider sales training
Ticketmaster tech chief says undergoing sales training could help software engineers become more persistent in tracking down bugs
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April 14, 2016
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Apr'16
Business needs education in cloud value and security, study shows
Improved trust and security are critical to encouraging continued adoption of the cloud, an Intel Security report shows
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April 11, 2016
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IDC research shows steady drop in on-premise hardware spend as cloud adoption soars
IDC infrastructure research highlights how enterprise demand for cloud is affecting on-premise IT spending trends
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April 07, 2016
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Rackspace debuts private cloud packages to drive up enterprise adoption of OpenStack
Rackspace claims pre-configured hardware, software and services stack will smooth enterprise path to OpenStack-based clouds
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April 07, 2016
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Executive interview: Harriet Green, IBM’s internet of things chief
Former Thomas Cook CEO is leading IBM's charge into the IoT, and is pushing its Watson AI technology as a unique differentiator
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April 07, 2016
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Apr'16
Cargotec saves €2m by moving HR systems to the cloud
Cargo handling equipment manufacturer Cargotech reduces the cost of managing its 11,000 employees by moving HR systems to the cloud
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April 06, 2016
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Volkswagen Group selects Mirantis OpenStack for private cloud build
Volkswagen outlines plans to use open source cloud platform, as it moves to embrace connected devices and agile software development techniques
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April 04, 2016
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Digital Single Market: European Commission warned not to over-regulate online platforms
Ministers from 11 EU member states warn European Commission off over-regulating use of online platforms during the creation of the Digital Single Market
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March 30, 2016
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What is behind the slowdown in public-sector sales of ‘true cloud’ services via G-Cloud?
With sales of “true cloud” services via G-Cloud showing signs of slowing down, Computer Weekly asks the experts the reasons why
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March 24, 2016
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BMW Group signs HPC and hosting deal with hydro-powered Swedish datacentre operator
BMW Group inks deal with green datacentre operator in Sweden
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March 23, 2016
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Google ups ante in cloud infrastructure services with global datacentre expansion plans
Google is set to expand global datacentre footprint, as competition in the cloud infrastructure services market heats up
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March 23, 2016
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GDS preps guidance for third-party suppliers to deliver 'government as a platform'
Government Digital Service (GDS) chief insists "pragmatic extensions" to outsourcing contracts implies nothing permanent in push for "government as a platform" (GaaP)
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March 22, 2016
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AWS and Microsoft UK datacentre plans could upset SME-rich Digital Marketplace, Kable warns
SME G-Cloud providers told to brace themselves for increasing competitive threats from AWS, Microsoft and Oracle once their UK datacentres open
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March 21, 2016
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Singapore and Malaysia most aware of gap in IT availability
The gap between IT availability and what users want is clear to organisations in Singapore and Malaysia, according to a global study
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March 21, 2016
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Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network
New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time
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March 21, 2016
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South Dublin County Council declares Amazon datacentre planning application "invalid"
Amazon appears to have fallen foul of Irish council’s planning regulations, potentially delaying its latest datacentre building project
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March 18, 2016
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Danish taxi drivers protest against Uber at startup event
Taxi drivers in Denmark protest about the inclusion of Uber at Nordic Startup Conference in Copenhagen
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March 17, 2016
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TechUK calls for closer ties between cloud and communications providers
Technology association TechUK outlines measures to encourage greater adoption of cloud computing in the UK - starting with greater connectivity
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March 17, 2016
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Apple emerges as Google Cloud Platform user – report
Report suggests Apple has joined Spotify in signing up to use Google’s cloud infrastructure services
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March 17, 2016
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AWS at 10: How the cloud giant shook up enterprise IT
A decade on from the launch of its first cloud service, the UK managing director of Amazon Web Services reflects on its first 10 years in business
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March 17, 2016
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Private mobile network powers Ocado’s robotic warehouse
Online supermarket Ocado rethinks 4G mobile technology to power a network of 1,000 robot workers operating in the grocer's 'hive' warehouse
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March 16, 2016
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Fintechs want to take one-third of traditional banks’ business
Banks know they could lose large chunks of business to fintech firms, but if the challengers have their way, it will be more than expected
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March 16, 2016
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Rolls-Royce cloud HR project will pay for itself in two years
HR IT director Mark Judd explains how engineering and aerospace firm swapped ageing ERP and spreadsheets for a company-wide core HR system
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March 15, 2016
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Germany-Finland subsea cable tipped to fuel European datacentre market growth
The deployment of a European subsea data cable could put Finland on the map for datacentre investors
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March 15, 2016
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Dropbox invests in building out on-premise storage as user numbers soar
Cloud-based file share and sync service reveals details of its hybrid cloud strategy, which has seen it invest large sums in building its own on-premise infrastructure
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March 14, 2016
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New UK law will criminalise failure to hack on demand
MPs have been given only two weeks to read 1,200 pages of documents which disclose new powers to require technology companies to install secret surveillance capabilities in software, computer equipment or networks
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March 11, 2016
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Ex-Cabinet Office rep claims ‘simple’ tender rewrite could open up G-Cloud to Europe
Former Cabinet Office Crown representative says a simple rework of the G-Cloud tender could open up the procurement hub to public-sector buyers across the EU
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March 11, 2016
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Technology and new finance firms will test banking industry
UK bankers now think fintech is a bigger issue than regulatory change, according to a study
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March 10, 2016
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Equinix taps into Open Compute Project to build open source datacentre ecosystem
Technology produced by Facebook-backed Open Compute Project gets snapped up by datacentre operator Equinix
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March 09, 2016
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Challenger bank buys digital gaming specialist
Challenger bank Atom buys gaming expertise business Grasp to develop its online customer interfaces
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March 08, 2016
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Gartner warns IT leaders about the perils of using private platform as a service
Industry watcher Gartner warns IT leaders pursuing a private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) strategy to build cloud apps could be in for disappointment
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March 04, 2016
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Facebook to overhaul UK corporation tax-paying regime – report
Social networking giant plans to book larger deals with British firms via its UK arm, paving the way for it to pay more corporation tax
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March 03, 2016
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Civil engineering firm goes follow-the-sun with Azure cloud and Talon
Robert Bird deploys Talon Storage CloudFAST with Microsoft Azure cloud storage on the back end to enable 24-hour working between offices on three continents
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March 03, 2016
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US researchers begin solar-powered datacentre research project
Massachusetts-based project aims to uncover how best to integrate datacentres and smart grids
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March 03, 2016
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Equinix and Interxion set out 2016 global datacentre expansion plans
Colocation rivals outline their investment intentions and priorities for the year ahead
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March 02, 2016
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CSA outlines CIOs’ top 12 cloud security concerns
Cloud Security Alliance’s research team uncovers the “dirty dozen” off-premise threats
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March 02, 2016
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AWS cuts cloud data transfer fees for academic and research user groups
Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolls out discounts in bid to lower the cost barrier to making scientific discoveries
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March 01, 2016
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Data sovereignty issues drive up cost of cloud for European CIOs
Addressing data sovereignty concerns means European CIOs are forced to pay more for cloud services than their US counterparts
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February 29, 2016
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European Commission releases legal details of EU-US Privacy Shield
EC claims the publication of legal texts and written assurances marks the start of the new-look data-sharing agreement coming into force
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February 29, 2016
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Global finance regulator to examine fintech risks
Global financial system stability group FSB will take a closer look at financial technology companies
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February 26, 2016
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Google calls for datacentre storage disk design overhaul
Search giant Google says an overhaul of traditional 3.5in disks could lower the total cost of ownership and improve infrastructure performance
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February 26, 2016
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Israeli high-tech startups seek UK funding
Israeli high-tech startup companies visit London in search of venture capital and angel investors
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February 26, 2016
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Tech Nordic Advocates partners with Nordic Startup Conference
Tech Nordic Advocates, sister organisation of startup group Tech London Advocates, is partnering with the Nordic Startup Conference show in Copenhagen in March
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February 24, 2016
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Ministry of Defence collaboration contract goes to G-Cloud SME Inovem
SME Inovem follows up G-Cloud contract wins with Ministry of Justice and Department of Health by clinching deal with the Ministry of Defence
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February 24, 2016
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GE lures allies for Predix industrial internet dominance
Global manufacturer GE has established a partner programme for its Predix platform to drive the value of analytics across the industrial internet
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February 24, 2016
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Mapping technology turning Depok in Indonesia into smart city
Depok in Indonesia is using mapping technology to support its smart city ambitions
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February 24, 2016
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Spotify to move datacentre workloads to Google’s cloud
Spotify says building and buying datacentres to keep up with demand for its services is no longer viable, as it prepares to shift its infrastructure into the Google cloud
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February 23, 2016
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Case study: National Rail Enquiries tackles website uptime issues with AWS and SOASTA
The National Rail Enquiries website took a battering in the wake of the 2013 St. Jude’s storm, prompting the organisation to rethink its hosting and load-testing procedures
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February 19, 2016
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Amazon seeks permission to build datacentre on site of former Irish biscuit factory
Cloud services giant is continuing on with its plans to build out its European datacentre region with another facility in Ireland
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February 18, 2016
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Two-thirds of UK firms plan to take their IT estate all-in on cloud, research claims
According to the Cloud Industry Forum's latest cloud adoption research, UK firms are steadily coming round to the charms of running their IT off-premise
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February 17, 2016
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Middle East telecoms operators face up to IoT smart city challenges
As smart city initiatives spring up in the Middle East, telecoms operators contend with the strain of the internet of things (IoT) on networks
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February 17, 2016
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Case study: SEO startup uses Elastichosts’ containers to solve cloud app scalability issues
Search engine optimisation startup talks about the challenges of running unpredictable, resource-hungry applications in the cloud
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February 17, 2016
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Renault Sport Formula 1 considers deploying VCE VxRail for trackside data analytics
The Renault Sport Formula 1 team explains why it is considering a refresh of its trackside converged infrastructure setup
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February 17, 2016
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Interview: Digital Marketplace director Tony Singleton on why he is leaving G-Cloud
With the government’s Digital Marketplace now a bona fide source of £1bn of public sector IT spend, Computer Weekly asks its programme director why he is moving on to pastures new
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February 15, 2016
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Peer-to-peer lender wants to acquire traditional mortgage firm
LendInvest suggests acquisition could help it become “the biggest mortgage lender in the country”
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February 15, 2016
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Interxion to build third Irish datacentre as demand for colocation grows
Colocation provider is set to begin the construction of its third Irish datacentre during the fourth quarter of 2016