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February 14, 2017
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Feb'17
Diablo targets flash in DIMM slots at in-memory apps
Apps such as Apache Spark need memory. Diablo has changed tack to provide flash as memory in DIMM slots that acts as cache behind regular DRAM so apps don’t have to hit disk storage
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February 14, 2017
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Feb'17
Oracle expands cloud offerings in Australia
Tech giant Oracle will deliver platform and infrastructure services through its Sydney datacentre
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February 13, 2017
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Feb'17
Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures
Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies
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January 31, 2017
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Jan'17
SAP aims to clarify S/4 Hana, cloud apps roadmaps for customers
The SAP board has launched an initiative to publish and clarify roadmaps, especially in respect of S/4 Hana and its cloud applications, and one product of this is a new technology choice tool
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January 30, 2017
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Jan'17
Report blames human and legacy system failure for Yorkshire hospital problems
Old technology and human error combined to cause major IT outage at Yorkshire NHS trust, review finds
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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 23, 2017
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Jan'17
Singapore and Indonesia stand out for IT spend in Apac banking sector
Singapore is the top spender on IT for banking of all developed economies in the Apac region, while Indonesia has the fastest growth rate in IT spending
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January 23, 2017
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Jan'17
Schroders staff to complete daily tasks on mobile devices
The asset management company wants to make it easier for its staff to complete everyday tasks by linking mobile devices to enterprise systems
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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 21, 2016
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Dec'16
2017 UK IT budgets show increased CRM and business automation focus
CRM has emerged as the number one UK IT spending priority for 2017, in terms of packaged business applications. Beyond packaged, the top three software initiatives were business process automation, data quality and governance
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December 21, 2016
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Dec'16
How Shazam handles its data reserves
Chris Kammermann, senior infrastructure engineer at Shazam, explains how adopting the Splunk platform has helped the firm deal with legacy systems and data analysis
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December 21, 2016
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Dec'16
Doddle Parcels delivers for Christmas with NoSQL database
Parcel delivery company Doddle has turned to a NoSQL database to deliver on Christmas and set up more shops more quickly
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December 21, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 CW Middle East stories of 2016
Read the most popular articles about enterprise IT in the Middle East
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December 20, 2016
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Dec'16
IT error means 420,000 Scottish taxpayers not informed of new rates
National Audit Office report reveals how error in HMRC system led to thousands of taxpayers not receiving notification letters for Scottish Rate of Income Tax
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December 20, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 CW Nordics stories of 2016
Read the top 10 Nordic enterprise IT stories from Computer Weekly
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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 16, 2016
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Dec'16
Oracle Q2 2016-17 results: cloud growth but overall revenue flat
Oracle’s Q2 results for fiscal year 2017 indicate 70% growth in cloud revenue from $649m in same year ago quarter to $1.1bn, 12% of overall revenue, flat at $9bn
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December 16, 2016
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Dec'16
Amadeus turns to NoSQL to answer complex travel questions
Travel software and services company Amadeus has employed a NoSQL database technology to help travellers find answers to complex travel queries
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December 05, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016
Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016
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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 23, 2016
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Nov'16
Are Asean organisations ready for blockchain technology?
Blockchain promises to increase the efficiency and security of transactions in industries way beyond its financial services roots. But what does it mean in the Asean region?
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November 16, 2016
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Nov'16
UK almost bottom of OECD pile for ICT investment
The UK ranks low in terms of how much it invests in the ICT infrastructure as a proportion of GDP
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November 14, 2016
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Nov'16
Keeping pace with the evolving millennial consumer in Southeast Asia
Businesses are revamping their technology and omnichannel strategies to keep pace with the millennials
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November 12, 2016
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Nov'16
Gulf Cooperation Council’s local companies eye regional shared services
Enterprises indigenous to the Gulf region are taking their first step into business and IT shared services through internal developments
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November 02, 2016
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Nov'16
Sweden’s Civil Contingencies Agency updates document management system in digital push
Public sector agency modernises core system through an IT outsourcing agreement that will support digital transformation
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October 06, 2016
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Oct'16
Benioff follows Will.i.am on stage to promote Stem education as way out
Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff endorses Will.i.am’s education drive for black youth and Bono’s anti-AIDS charity, (Red)
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October 04, 2016
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Oct'16
Dreamforce 2016: Salesforce stakes claim for baked in artificial intelligence
Salesforce inaugurates Dreamforce 2016 by restating a claim to bring artificial intelligence to bear on its customer relationship management cloud-delivered software
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September 28, 2016
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Sep'16
UK Oracle MD: companies repeating tangled architectures in cloud
Oracle’s UK, Ireland and Israel managing director, Dermot O’Kelly takes stock of Open World 2016 and urges CIOs not to reinvent on-premise “accidental architectures” in the cloud
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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 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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September 16, 2016
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Sep'16
Oracle Q1 2016-17: Oracle's cloud sales grow to almost $1bn
Oracle’s first-quarter fiscal 2017 revenue increased by 2% year-on-year, with cloud revenue for the quarter reaching $969m
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September 15, 2016
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Sep'16
Manchester City builds digital fan wall on Hana Cloud Platform
Football club has unveiled an interactive fan wall, built on SAP’s Hana Cloud Platform, to engage fans better
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September 14, 2016
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Sep'16
Royal Shakespeare Company targets more groundlings with Progress
The Royal Shakespeare Company revamps its web site and gets its customer engagement act together with content management and digital marketing tools from Progress
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September 13, 2016
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Sep'16
Dubai Culture modernises its datacentre
Organisation that brings Dubai’s cultural heritage to life has implemented the latest technologies to support its mission
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September 08, 2016
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Sep'16
Bank IT spending to hit $241bn across four major global regions
IT spending across four major economic regions will increase by around 4% in 2016, but Europe is the least certain
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September 08, 2016
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Sep'16
Munich Re combines SAS with Hortonworks Hadoop to explore new business
German reinsurance firm Munich Re opts for Hortonworks’ open source Hadoop distribution, in combination with SAS, to deliver its big data analytics programme for new business
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September 07, 2016
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Sep'16
Barclays uses blockchain for trade finance transactions
Barclays Bank has successfully tested the use of blockchain technology to complete a large trade finance agreement, which promises huge efficiencies
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September 07, 2016
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Sep'16
SAP Hana implementation pattern research yields contradictory results
Research into the user adoption of SAP’s Hana database platform and its S/4 Hana ERP system presents a confusing pattern. Storming ahead or running aground?
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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 09, 2016
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Aug'16
Finland brings e-patient records and 5G into health tech testing
Oulu University Hospital in Finland is using replica electronic patient records to support technology testing
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August 03, 2016
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Aug'16
Blockchain could be decades away for Australian enterprises
Blockchain use by Australian enterprises could be decades away despite the hive of activity around the technology
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August 02, 2016
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Aug'16
Panama Papers technology shows data journalism at its best
The open source data analytics and visualisation software of the Panama Papers project empowers a new kind of journalism, says the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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July 28, 2016
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Jul'16
MI5 accused of compromising security court
Judges at the UK's most secret court were persuaded not to disclose the existence of secret intrusive data on the population after briefings and lunch with MI5's deputy director general
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July 28, 2016
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Jul'16
UK’s top security judges struggle to assess privacy threats
Technological advancements make it difficult for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to assess privacy threats, say the tribunal’s own judges
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July 21, 2016
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Jul'16
IT outsourcing falls steeply in second quarter but IT as a service sees strong growth
Sales of IT as a service growth in Europe helped offset a huge fall in the total value of traditional IT and business process outsourcing contracts
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July 18, 2016
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Jul'16
Oracle targets cloud sales at Asia Pacific’s mid-sized firms
Software giant aims to hire 1,000 professionals to drive mid-market growth in Apac region
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July 13, 2016
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Jul'16
UK retail banks could get Google-like legacy IT replacement
Former Google engineers apply their experience to solving the huge handicap that core legacy systems place on the banking industry
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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 23, 2016
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Jun'16
Dell divests software business to free up funds for EMC deal
It has been less than three months since Dell sold off its services arm. Now its software business is being offloaded. We look at the implications
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June 15, 2016
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Jun'16
Gulf Air tinkers with Oracle suite and explores hybrid cloud models
Bahraini airline Gulf Air is looking to make productivity gains across its enterprise resource planning system
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June 13, 2016
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Jun'16
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26bn
Microsoft is taking over LinkedIn, with boosts to its Dynamics and Office 365 businesses expected
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June 10, 2016
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Jun'16
How data saves lives in Australia’s hospitals
Australia’s National Blood Authority saves A$10m as mobile and data innovations inject efficiency into the supply chain
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May 25, 2016
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May'16
Atos hits Rio 2016 Olympics IT milestone
The IT underpinning the 2016 Olympics in Rio enters a critical phase as one of its essential event management systems starts to work
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May 23, 2016
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May'16
Dutch mastering the art of big data analysis
Gathering and analysing huge amounts of data offers the promise of business efficiency and new opportunities. We look at what this all means for the once-cautious Dutch
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May 23, 2016
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May'16
Middle East CIOs put ambitious IT projects on hold as cheap oil hurts business
A lack of business confidence leads some organisations in the Middle East to delay or abandon ambitious IT projects that may not show an immediate return
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May 13, 2016
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May'16
European IT buyers prioritise BI and data management over ERP and CRM
Data warehousing and business intelligence top dogs in the UK, finds 2016 TechTarget IT spending priorities survey
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May 10, 2016
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May'16
Tel Aviv: A smart city where community engagement is the measure of success
Israel’s capital is using the latest technologies as a way of placing the needs of local citizens at the heart of regional government
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April 27, 2016
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Apr'16
Mainstream adoption of blockchain by banks is 10 years away
Banks could be putting blockchain under the microscope in a lab environment for the next 10 years, according to Forrester
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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 20, 2016
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Apr'16
SAP's financials point to boom in cloud and Hana
SAP is steadily growing its cloud business, but on-premise software licensing and support remain the cash cows
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April 18, 2016
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Apr'16
Teradata Universe 2016: MPP architecture recast as ‘Intelliflex’
Teradata announces a re-architecting of its “massively parallel processing” data warehouse, the expansion of managed cloud service to Europe, and availability of its database on AWS
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April 15, 2016
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Apr'16
Capgemini to build 100-strong team of blockchain specialists
The IT services firm is building a team of 100 blockchain experts as banks start to consider the technology as the future of financial services
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April 13, 2016
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Apr'16
Hadoop Summit 2016: Data in motion governs Hortonworks roadmap
Hadoop distributor Hortonworks uses Hadoop Summit 2016 in Dublin to announce alliances and product developments to support data in motion focus
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April 11, 2016
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Apr'16
Smith & Williamson starts legacy renewal with WhereScape Red
Financial services company Smith & Williamson migrates Cobol data into SQL Server data warehouse in a bid to recreate and cleanse legacy data
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April 04, 2016
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Apr'16
Intel-backed Collaborative Cancer Cloud expands to include two more universities
Joe Gray from the Oregon Health and Science University explains how its cloud-based cancer research project with Intel is progressing
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March 30, 2016
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Mar'16
Centrica deploys large scale Hortonworks cluster to boost business
Utility company Centrica is looking at how to grow the business by harvesting data lakes
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March 30, 2016
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Mar'16
San Francisco data analytics early-stage firms point to third-wave BI
California start-up and early-stage data analytics companies are positing technologies that point beyond second-generation business intelligence, such as Qlik and Tableau
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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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March 17, 2016
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Mar'16
CIO interview: Mogens Kristensen, Sydbank
Danish bank’s IT head explains the advantages of sharing some IT systems with other banks
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March 16, 2016
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Mar'16
Oracle Q3 2016: cloud revenue grows, US currency strength takes toll
SaaS and PaaS combined contributed $583m in third quarter, up 57% in US dollar terms, while IaaS was down 2% in dollars to $152m
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March 03, 2016
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Mar'16
World’s biggest banks complete joint blockchain trials
Forty major global banks have jointly run tests of the use of blockchain in wholesale banking
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February 22, 2016
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Feb'16
Dutch water wants to move beyond dipping its toes into big data pool
Dutch water company Brabant Water wants to use data to improve the service it provides to customers, as well as identify problems on its distribution network
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February 22, 2016
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Feb'16
IBM open sources Blockchain to help developers build ledgers
IBM has released over 40 thousand lines of Blockchain code to help developers build ledgers for the distributed technology that underpins Bitcoin
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February 12, 2016
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Feb'16
CIO interview: Ismo Platan, SSAB
Retiring CIO of Swedish steel company tells Computer Weekly about the progress made in merging two Nordic steel firms and looks at the biggest hurdles that lie ahead
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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
SAP doubles cloud revenues to €2.3bn in 2015 financial year
SAP saw its cloud revenues nearly double to €2.3bn and 11% of its overall revenue of €20.8bn for the 2015 financial year
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January 22, 2016
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Jan'16
Trinity Mirror Group taps into cloud, agile and microservices to boost web user experience
National and regional newspaper publishing group is using AWS and SOASTA's performance monitoring tools to improve the user experience for its online readers
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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 14, 2016
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Jan'16
Oracle to recruit 1,400 cloud sales professionals with Europe-wide recruitment campaign
Software giant hopes to capitalise on growing momentum around cloud with sales-focused hires
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January 06, 2016
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Jan'16
Forrester predicts boom time for software
Cloud, Saas and business analytics set to drive up demand for software
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December 30, 2015
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Dec'15
Top 10 information management stories of 2015
The maturing of big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL databases has been the standout theme of 2015, along with machine learning and predictive analytics
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December 18, 2015
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Dec'15
Exasol and Birst join in-memory database to ‘networked’ BI to aid mutual expansion
German in-memory database company Exasol and California-based BI cloud supplier Birst join forces
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December 17, 2015
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Dec'15
Oracle Q2 2015-16 results: Strong US dollar affects revenue growth
Oracle’s Q2 results for the 2016 fiscal year indicate 26% growth in cloud revenue to $649m, 7% of its total revenue
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December 16, 2015
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Dec'15
Ageas moves into Philippines cloud platform for insurers
Insurance firm adopts cloud-only business application suite to support south-east Asian expansion
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December 14, 2015
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Dec'15
Mobile advertising network Billy Mobile bets the farm on Hadoop
Barcelona-based mobile advertising network Billy Mobile has opted to bet its business on the Hadoop stack with Hortonworks
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December 14, 2015
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Dec'15
Rockwool invests €2m in global HR project
Manufacturer interviewed other companies about their HR systems before choosing a system to harmonise its processes across 38 countries
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December 11, 2015
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Dec'15
Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier
Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together
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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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November 20, 2015
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Nov'15
Departing DVLA technology chief says 'job done', moves back to centre
DVLA's former chief technology officer returns to Cabinet Office after executing 'exemplar' GDS programme
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November 12, 2015
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Nov'15
Informatica launches big data management platform
Informatica has launched a “big data management” suite that it says adds data quality, governance and security to its data integration offer
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November 06, 2015
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Nov'15
Inforum 2015 Europe: Infor targets majority cloud revenue
Infor is aiming at half its licence revenue coming from cloud installations in 2016, according to president Stephan Scholl
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November 02, 2015
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Nov'15
CIO interview: Torben Høeg Bonde, Vestas
The CIO at Danish wind turbine company Vestas is playing a key role in turning the company into a software supplier
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October 29, 2015
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Oct'15
Digital transformations will spur software quality measurement
Ever more customer-touching systems will force organisations to ensure their underlying software is robust enough to prevent IT problems becoming public and causing brand damage
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October 28, 2015
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Oct'15
Oracle’s Ellison says push security down stack to win cyber battle
At Oracle OpenWorld 2015, Larry Ellison called for next-generation security, pushed down the stack to the hardware level and always on
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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
Silicon Valley companies fill out big data technologies as they mature
Companies based in Silicon Valley discuss the issues created by big data technologies as they mature
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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