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Database management
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March 16, 2018
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Mar'18
Capgemini arm bags European Commission data infrastructure project
The European Commission has extended the contract of prime contractor Capgemini on its open data project
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March 07, 2018
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Mar'18
Wi-Fi provider uses big data analytics to drive customer experience
The self-styled “Uber of Wi-Fi”, iPass is using Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform and machine learning to monitor its worldwide network and help its customers get the best experience
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March 01, 2018
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Mar'18
Security fears delay roll-out of national e-voting system in Finland
Project enters problem-solving phase to identify advanced, effective and best practice solutions to develop a secure internet-based voting system
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February 28, 2018
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Feb'18
Government must rewrite illegal sections of Snoopers’ Charter, court told
A court has been asked to give ministers until July 2018 to rewrite powers to require phone and internet companies to retain data on the population. The government acknowledges parts of surveillance regime are unlawful
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February 26, 2018
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Feb'18
Estonia wants to introduce special visa for digital nomads
Baltic state’s next digital development could be a visa targeted at people who work online and are location independent
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February 14, 2018
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Feb'18
Blockchain to give global LGBT community a louder economic voice
Blockchain will underpin a global platform that aims to give the LGBT community a more powerful economic voice
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February 02, 2018
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Feb'18
Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure
Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system
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January 22, 2018
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Jan'18
2018 UK software budgets double for AI and blockchain
Artificial intelligence and blockchain initiatives are earmarked for a doubling of investment, finds the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey for 2018
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January 12, 2018
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Jan'18
Call for statutory regulation of police number plate cameras amid concerns over accuracy
The UK’s automatic number plate recognition database – one the largest non-military data-gathering systems – records up to 1.2 million false readings of number plates every day. It should be subject to statutory regulation, says an independent ...
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January 03, 2018
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Jan'18
Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2018
Nordic CIOs tell Computer Weekly about their intentions for the year ahead
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December 15, 2017
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Dec'17
Oracle Q2 2017-18 results see cloud revenue grow to $1.5bn
Oracle’s second-quarter 2017-18 results show an increase in cloud revenue of 44%, and overall growth of 4% to $9.6bn. Executives are bullish against competition, buoyed by artificial intelligence makeover of database
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November 29, 2017
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Nov'17
Councils continue to spend on Oracle despite budget constraints
Local authorities face a challenges balancing their meagre budgets with services they can afford to provide, but spending on Oracle seems to be increasing
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November 22, 2017
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Nov'17
DataRobot to boost AI in Singapore with new APAC headquarters
Boston-based supplier of artificial intelligence tools DataRobot is investing around $11m in a regional office and research outfit in Singapore
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October 18, 2017
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Oct'17
How Eurosport is using real-time data to create a second-screen experience
Broadcaster Eurosport talks about some of the digital technology advances improving the viewing experience for cycling enthusiasts
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October 16, 2017
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Oct'17
How technology is transforming healthcare delivery in Gulf region
IT will transform the healthcare sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries over the coming years
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October 02, 2017
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Oct'17
OpenWorld 2017: Ellison declares autonomous database 'revolutionary'
Oracle’s Larry Ellison claims revolutionary cast for autonomous 18c database at the supplier’s 2017 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco
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September 20, 2017
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Sep'17
Oracle announces simplified pricing model for cloud computing
Ahead of Oracle’s OpenWorld 2017 event, Larry Ellison announces simplification of cloud pricing, attached to increased automation in database and middleware
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September 19, 2017
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Sep'17
Veritas takes stock of data management play
Software supplier Veritas says it has delivered on its promises but there is still work to do in realising its data management vision
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September 15, 2017
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Sep'17
Oracle 2017-18 Q1 results: Cloud revenue jumps by 51%
Oracle’s first quarter 2017-18 results show jump in cloud revenue of 51%, boosted by NetSuite acquisition. Executives continue to be bullish on cloud growth, and the AI makeover of core database is flagged
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July 26, 2017
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Jul'17
Relational databases relatively poor at running digital transformation projects
Digital projects aren’t living up to expectations, with many only delivering incremental improvements to the status quo, survey reveals
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July 10, 2017
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Jul'17
Experian admits mobile and online issues after system upgrade
Some customers of credit referencing company are having problems accessing a service they pay for following an IT upgrade and large customer migration to a new system
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July 10, 2017
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Jul'17
Dutch database design drives practical innovation
IT often seems a mostly US industry, but other nations contribute a lot too, says Dutch database design scientist Martin Kersten, who has received the Association for Computing Machinery’s Fellow Award
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July 07, 2017
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Jul'17
Second phase of Dubai Health Authority’s electronic records implementation to start in August 2017
Unified electronic medical record (EMR) system to be rolled to more medical facilities across Dubai
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July 05, 2017
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Jul'17
Experian upgrade causes glitches in service
Credit scoring company recently upgraded its systems and introduced a new mobile app that caused temporary issues for some customers
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June 22, 2017
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Jun'17
Oracle 2016-17 results: cloud revenue up 60%, overall growth 2%
Oracle’s full-year and fourth quarter results for fiscal year 2016-17 indicate 2% growth in overall revenue, with cloud representing 12% of total. Executives are once again bullish on cloud ERP growth prospects
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June 14, 2017
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Jun'17
Lufthansa Systems ‘crowdfunds’ BI to mine flight data
Open source business intelligence tool enables airline to gain new insights from a decade’s worth of ticket sales
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June 13, 2017
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Jun'17
University of Edinburgh and Huawei collaborate on joint data lab
University is setting up a research and development lab dedicated to distributed data management and processing, with help from Chinese company
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May 17, 2017
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May'17
Smart Dubai works with United Nations on smart cities index
Dubai is becoming a world leader in smart city developments and international organisations want to tap its experience
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May 16, 2017
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May'17
Customer experience transformation at Macquarie bank brings legacy system retirement as a bonus
Australia’s Macquarie bank builds a data layer on top of legacy IT systems to transform customer experience
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May 11, 2017
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May'17
New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience
The New York Philharmonic is digitally archiving millions of documents and making them available online
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May 11, 2017
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May'17
Microsoft shifts to intelligence in cloud and on the edge
Microsoft’s annual developer event in Seattle opened with a focus on AI, IoT edge computing and a new globally distributed database
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May 10, 2017
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May'17
EnterpriseDB Postgres powers TfL tunnel monitoring
EDB, based on the open source Postgres database, is powering a new monitoring application at Transport for London
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April 25, 2017
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Apr'17
UK trade department in New York to promote fintech firms
Group of financial technology firms taken to New York to show off their knowledge of regulatory compliance software
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April 25, 2017
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Apr'17
City University London launches undergraduate data science course after postgraduate success
Following the success of its postgraduate data science course, London university launches undergraduate programme
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April 24, 2017
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Apr'17
One in eight people have suffered a healthcare data breach
A quarter of victims had their NI number compromised and 18% saw their biometric identifiers compromised, but most people trust healthcare providers with their data
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April 18, 2017
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Apr'17
First MariaDB user conference hails renaissance of relational model
At its inaugural user conference in New York, MariaDB corporation leaders Michael Howard and Monty Widenius say the open source relational database model finds its moment beyond NoSQL phase
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March 01, 2017
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Mar'17
Dubai Health Authority electronic medical records to launch this year
Dubai citizens and health organisations will soon benefit from electronic medical records
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February 21, 2017
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Feb'17
Visa opens London technology centre
Visa opens a space in London where it can test out technologies alongside customers and suppliers
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February 20, 2017
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Feb'17
Sweden uses Minecraft for urban planning
Swedish National Land survey has put its maps on Minecraft to promote its work
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February 17, 2017
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Feb'17
High Court rules for SAP, against Diageo in indirect licensing case
Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database
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January 24, 2017
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Jan'17
SAP 2016 results: cloud revenue almost €3bn, 5,400 S/4 customers
SAP declares full-year 2016 revenue of €22bn, of which nearly €3bn was cloud – almost 14%
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January 18, 2017
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Jan'17
Oracle trumpets cloud applications progress at start of 2017
Oracle reports a new wave of customer take-up of its cloud offerings and announces new datacentres and increased IaaS availability of its Database Cloud Service
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December 19, 2016
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Dec'16
Review of 2016: Top 10 CW Benelux articles
Here are the 10 most popular Benelux-focused Computer Weekly articles of 2016
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December 18, 2016
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Dec'16
Could blockchain revolutionise the Middle East?
The Middle East could pioneer the use of blockchain, transforming the processes used by organisations in the region
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December 07, 2016
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Dec'16
The United Arab Emirates enterprise IT trends for 2017
The UAE is already a leader in areas such as smart city developments, and 2017 looks set to see organisations in the country increase its adoption of other transformational IT
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December 05, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016
The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016
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November 08, 2016
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Nov'16
CIO interview: David Cooper, interim CIO at Centrica
Interim CIO at utility company Centrica tells Computer Weekly how his job is more than just keeping the lights on
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November 07, 2016
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Nov'16
Newcastle United implements software to understand Toon Army better
Football club’s marketing teams are using data analysis software to give them a better picture of what supporters like off the field
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November 01, 2016
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Nov'16
Insurers face same legacy system battle as retail banks
The biggest barrier to insurance companies adopting digital technology is their heavy reliance on legacy IT systems
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October 20, 2016
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Oct'16
Diageo opts for additional services centre in Bangalore
Drinks maker Diageo is increasing its footprint in India with a new business services centre in the city of Bangalore.
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October 18, 2016
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Oct'16
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange uses blockchain for e-voting
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange offers controlled access to the AGM information of listed companies through a blockchain-based service
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September 21, 2016
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Sep'16
Ellison slams AWS at Oracle Open World 2016
Oracle CTO Larry Ellison criticises Amazon Web Services as a cloud database environment at Oracle Open World 2016, fleshing out earlier critique
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September 19, 2016
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Sep'16
OpenWorld 2016: Ellison stakes claim for infrastructure as a service
In his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, Oracle chairman and CTO cites AWS, Workday and Microsoft as main competitors for cloud revenue in enterprise IT
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September 16, 2016
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Sep'16
Royal Wolverhampton NHS merges IT systems
The NHS trust has merged its community patient administration system with its central system used by the acute service
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August 22, 2016
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Aug'16
Bangkok Hospital recognised for its use of electronic records
Private hospital in Thailand is recognised for its effective use of IT by a global accreditation body
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August 10, 2016
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Aug'16
MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules
Security service MI5 is responsible for 210 “clear contraventions” over five years for the way it accessed private internet and telephone data
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August 08, 2016
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Aug'16
Australians vent census privacy concerns
The Australian census has triggered a privacy debate after it emerged that the citizen data it collects will be held for years
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July 20, 2016
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Jul'16
SAP Q2 2016: cloud revenue edges forward, 3,700 S/4 Hana customers
Second-quarter results show 3% growth in cloud revenue to reach 14% of the €5.2bn revenue total, as operating profit jumps 10%
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July 08, 2016
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Jul'16
New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail
New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard
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June 28, 2016
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Jun'16
MongoDB offers cloud overflow scaling with Atlas database as service
MongoDB has announced its entry into cloud computing with a database as a service, dubbed Atlas, at its annual developer conference in New York City
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June 17, 2016
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Jun'16
Oracle sets its sights on AWS as it ramps up cloud strategy
The company's full-year results show a focus on IaaS and PaaS, with investment in more efficient datacentres and co-location
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June 15, 2016
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Jun'16
Gaps remain in the digital and data-driven strategies of Asean firms
The majority of Asean business leaders acknowledge they lack a complete digital strategy, despite most believing it is important to have an agile, data-driven business
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June 03, 2016
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Jun'16
HPE demands $3bn from Oracle over dropped Itanium database support
The long-running dispute finally enters the courts, but whose fault is it really that organisations are buying fewer high-end HPE servers? Moreover, why are two big players beating each other up over a fast-disappearing market?
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June 01, 2016
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Jun'16
Thailand province successfully trials flood simulation system
A province of Thailand is using an IT system from NEC to help it predict floods
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May 20, 2016
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May'16
Cabinet Office failed to manage risks around migration to shared service centres, says NAO
The government’s delayed programme to migrate back-office functions to two shared service centres is not achieving value for money, lacks an integrated business case and has failed to track additional costs incurred, says the NAO
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May 05, 2016
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May'16
Consumers would buy banking and insurance from Google, Amazon or Facebook
Consumers in Europe increasingly consider companies such as Facebook and Google as potential financial services providers
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May 03, 2016
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May'16
EMC World 2016: Tucci and Dell vaunt datacentre modernisation
EMC World 2016 kicks off in Las Vegas, with the supplier vaunting datacentre modernisation, based on software-defined storage, cloud, flash and scale out architecture
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April 25, 2016
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Apr'16
Middle East CIOs face numerous data challenges as the regional market matures
Enterprise IT experts reveal to Computer Weekly the issues local technology leaders face when trying to use, back up and protect their valuable data
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April 22, 2016
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Apr'16
France takes the lead in the global open data race
The appointment of a chief data officer (CDO) has already seen the nation create five different types of economic and social value
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April 21, 2016
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Apr'16
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 19, 2016
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Apr'16
How BI can improve healthcare in Asean
The Asean region is developing fast and lifestyles are changing, but healthcare services are not keeping pace and the sector will be stretched
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April 04, 2016
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Apr'16
EY invests heavily in Singapore IT expertise
New centres of excellence will offer business transformation strategy, cyber security, analytics and manufacturing capabilities across the Asia-Pacific region
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March 21, 2016
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Mar'16
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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February 26, 2016
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Feb'16
Artfinder deploys Neo4j graph database to personalise recommendations
Can a machine understand art? Not yet and maybe never, so the Artfinder art website took a different approach, using a Neo4j graph database instead
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February 09, 2016
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Feb'16
Corporate Australia explores new ways to nurture data-based innovation
Australian enterprises are investing in creating the right environment for innovation around data
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February 09, 2016
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Feb'16
Executive interview: Oracle's cloud chief on why suites win
As Oracle ramps up its new cloud offering, we speak to Shawn Price, senior vice-president for cloud, about the company’s plans
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February 02, 2016
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Feb'16
Oracle fleshes out UK cloud strategy with Slough expansion
Oracle launches UK-based platform as a service (PaaS) – but can it deliver value for money compared with Azure and AWS?
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January 22, 2016
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Jan'16
Crunch time for Australian CIOs as analytics platforms drive strategy in 2016
CIOs in Australia and elsewhere will be expected to deploy technologies that promise to help them get more from the information they own
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January 19, 2016
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Jan'16
SAP executives see internet of things as flesh on digital skeleton
SAP’s senior management are putting the internet of things at the heart of the enterprise software supplier’s digital transformation offer
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January 18, 2016
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Jan'16
Irish Tax Institute accelerates tax database search with MarkLogic
The Irish Tax Institute has opted for MarkLogic for its TaxFind database service, with a system that pools a range of data types
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January 08, 2016
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Jan'16
Wildscreen conservation charity uses colocation to preserve endangered species media library
Wildlife charity explains how Virtus Data Centres is helping it spread the word online about the importance of conservation
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December 11, 2015
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Dec'15
Airline global distribution system Amadeus offers cloud scalability
Amadeus, the airline flight ticketing system, has used Google Compute Platform to scale its service to support internet flight searches
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December 10, 2015
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Dec'15
Three tips to help reduce Oracle licensing costs
London councils are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds a year with Oracle. Controlling these costs is the first step in taming Oracle licensing
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December 07, 2015
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Dec'15
Change is in the air as Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service applies analytics to everything
Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service unearths additional benefits of data analytics following its decision to use Splunk software to analyse operational logs
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November 04, 2015
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Nov'15
Accenture builds data scientist base in Australian city Perth
The data strategy of Australian energy giant Woodside has encouraged the IT industry to invest in the development of data science skills
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October 29, 2015
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Oct'15
Fitness club goes digital to recruit new staff quickly
Equinox turns to digital technology from SmartRecruiters to speed up hiring employees
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October 26, 2015
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Oct'15
Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Larry Ellison vaunts Oracle’s cloud services over rivals
Larry Ellison promoted his company’s cloud services and berated rivals in his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
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October 21, 2015
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Oct'15
MySQL 5.7 aims at deeper convergence with Oracle tech and NoSQL
MySQL 5.7 has been released with next-generation hardware in mind, offering greater interoperability with Oracle and NoSQL database technologies
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October 19, 2015
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Oct'15
Turning data into action still tricky for Australia's data scientists
Australian businesses need to change their attitudes towards data scientists if they are to unshackle the benefits of data
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October 15, 2015
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Oct'15
Why blockchain heralds a rethink of the entire banking industry
Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology behind bitcoin, is both a threat and an opportunity for financial services – and the banks are taking it very seriously
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October 13, 2015
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Oct'15
RBS to pilot product based on blockchain technology in 2016
Royal Bank of Scotland is among the early adopters of distributed ledger technology that could shake up the banking industry
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October 07, 2015
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Oct'15
Singapore and UK researchers investigate privacy in big data era
Academic organisations in Singapore and the UK collaborate on the privacy questions raised by big data and the cloud
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October 02, 2015
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Oct'15
Keeping up with Cassandra, the NoSQL database
What does Call of Duty, the Hive smart thermostats, Social Weather and the William Hill bookie app all have in common? They are all powered by the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database
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September 28, 2015
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Sep'15
Spark user survey suggests growth beyond Hadoop
Spark seems to be growing beyond Hadoop, as standalone instances outnumber Spark on Yarn on HDFS
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September 24, 2015
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Sep'15
What next for NHS Care.data plan after its leader Tim Kelsey quit?
Tim Kelsey, the driving force behind the Care.data project to set up an NHS patient records database, has quit - but what does his departure mean for the troubled programme?
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September 21, 2015
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Sep'15
Health chief 'should be held to account' for whistleblow errors
Former nurse and clincial commissioner Bernie Rochford claims unfair dismissal after blowing the whistle on IT problems which put patient care at risk
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September 17, 2015
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Sep'15
Oracle expands to 45 megawatt cloud business in SaaS and PaaS push
Oracle expands its datacentre footprint as it pushes forward with its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) businesses
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September 14, 2015
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Sep'15
Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Hub stokes local business with CRM
Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Hub has turned to Microsoft Dynamics CRM technology to report and organise work more effectively
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September 11, 2015
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Sep'15
European Broadcasting Union simplifies MySQL with Severalnines
Clustered and high-availability MySQL is not easy to manage without a skilled database administrator – but the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) found a tool to help
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September 09, 2015
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Sep'15
Tipping point for big data and advanced analytics in Australia
Data from analyst firm IDC shows that big data and advanced analytics in Australia could be about to accelerate.