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• September 21, 2015 21 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

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Nurse 'scared' to return to work after blowing whistle on IT problems

  A former nurse felt unable to return to work after raising concerns about the accuracy of records on a patient database at a London NHS trust

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  NHS trust failed to recognise IT whistleblowing

  Managers at Southwark CCG did not realise that serious concerns raised by a former nurse of its IT systems should be treated as whistleblowing

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  NHS trust denies bullying and intimidation of IT whistleblower

  Managers were already aware of whistleblower's concerns about the accuracy of NHS Southwark's data, tribunal hears

• September 11, 2015 11 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

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Cloudian boosts object storage HyperStore compliance features

  Distributed object storage software maker Cloudian upgrades HyperStore with added granularity of data protection features that can help meet compliance requirements

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  SAP embraces Spark on Hadoop with Vora

  SAP announces Vora software to “deeply embrace” Hadoop as it evolves with Apache Spark

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Why business should bet on open source

  Online bookie William Hill has deployed a stack of open-source tools to present time-sensitive web content

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Software project will save Ford tens of millions a year in car repair bills

  Car maker Ford is rolling out sophisticated warranty software to 12,000 dealers worldwide in a project that is expected to bring rapid financial returns

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Microsoft grows cloud business

  Microsoft's Azure and cloud business experienced triple-digit growth in its fourth quarter of 2015, according to CEO Satya Nadella

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Mainframe fails to save IBM from 13th declining quarter

  IBM's second-quarter revenue was down 13% year-on-year to $20.8bn, but IBM said the decline is only 1%, adjusting for the sale of its x86 server business and the impact of the strong dollar

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Comparethemarket uses Cloudera to gain single view of customer data

  Price comparison site Comparethemarket has turned to Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to get a better view of customer data from different channels. Doug Cutting, the father of Hadoop, explains

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Top suppliers as UK software and services market approaches £50bn

  The top five software and IT services firms in the UK are Capita, HP, IBM, Capgemini and Accenture, according to the latest figures from TechMarketView

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Automated predictive analytics on the rise, says SAP’s UK chief technologist

  Mark Darbyshire, SAP UK and Ireland’s chief technologist, reflects on the supplier’s updated predictive analytics software and service pack 10 for Hana

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Google eyes Tesco’s customer analytics arm Dunnhumby

  Google is reported to have joined the scramble to buy Dunnhumby, the customer analytics unit behind Tesco’s Clubcard

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  The diagram that scares the next generation of banking IT professionals

  The next generation of IT professionals in the banking sector will face the same legacy headache as their predecessors

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

  RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  US state of Maine turns to BPM to cut admin costs

  The US state of Maine is automating a range of government processes in a bid to cut administration costs by more than 10%

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Microsoft’s Wright: Focus on services to build data cultures

  Corporate IT must evolve towards service provision to make organisations more data-driven and agile, Microsoft’s Jacky Wright will tell the Data Governance 2015 conference

• May 13, 2015 13 May'15

  KPMG audit 'failed to address' patient data problems, claims former nurse

  A whistleblower who raised concerns about a health service database said an audit by an independent body did not address her worries

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Sapphire 2015: Hasso Plattner hails “applications explosion” on Hana

  At Sapphire 2015, Hasso Plattner said that Hana has now become a platform on which “an explosion of applications” is taking place

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  HDS executives share the secrets of a successful acquisition

  HDS executives reveal how to undergo a successful acquisition, during HDS Connect 2015

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  Sapphire 2015: SAP reveals internet of things cloud Hana service

  SAP unveils cloud version of Hana in-memory database for customers' internet of things (IoT) operations, dubbed the SAP Hana Cloud Platform

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  Sapphire 2015: McDermott declares SAP natively digital

  SAP CEO Bill McDermott declares the company “digital” at Sapphire 2015 and made “empathy” the watchword of his keynote

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Bravissimo calls on Nutanix support for move to virtual servers

  High street lingerie retailer opts for Nutanix's converged infrastructure platform to support its server consolidation work

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  SAP users plan in majority for Hana and hybrid

  SAP customers have a lot of work to do make the most of their SAP environments before they can move to Hana-based systems

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  BT sets out ambition to become enterprise's cloud integrator of choice

  BT outlines its 'Cloud of Clouds' vision to allow users to access cloud apps and services, regardless of where their systems are hosted

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Teradata Universe: QueryGrid expanded while Yodel signs for delivery

  Teradata has increased the span of its QueryGrid technology at its 2015 Universe event in Amsterdam

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  Open Data Platform marks 60 days' progress at Hadoop Summit Europe 2015

  The Open Data Platform (ODP) initiative marks growing co-operation between IBM, Hortonworks and Pivotal at the Hadoop Summit Europe 2015

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Sweden’s Transticket changes from MySQL to MariaDB to support growth

  Swedish ticketing website Transticket has moved from MySQL to MariaDB to support business growth

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Fitness First slashes datacentre hosting costs with Nutanix

  Fitness First has migrated its traditional datacentre installation to converged infrastructure based on Nutanix hardware hosted at Telecity

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Major software companies bamboozle local authorities with audits

  Software companies are resorting to audits and complex licensing in a bid to make more money from existing public sector customers

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security

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

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  EMC launches “data lake” appliance

  EMC launches appliance to help customers build “data lakes”, melding tech from Information Infrastructure, Pivotal and VMware

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Law enforcement and security agencies face big data challenge

  Law enforcement and security agencies face the same big data challenge as business, according to Unisys

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Holland & Barrett outsources data handling to ITC Infotech

  IT services firm ITC Infotech manages customer data for health food business to help it glean business value from the information

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  IBM adds Twitter data to Watson Analytics and Bluemix

  IBM is extending its partnership with Twitter to include the social media site’s data in its Watson Analytics service, delivered in the cloud

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Cloudera CEO Reilly: ODP is 'affront to the Apache Software Foundation'

  The Open Data Platform initiative is “an affront to the Apache Software Foundation”, says Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Hortonworks president Cunitz: 141% customer renewal rate bodes well

  Hortonworks president Herb Cunitz says his company’s recently declared 2014 results are cause for celebration

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Ordnance Survey announces open data innovation project

  Ordnance Survey marked International Open Data Day by announcing plans to launch an open data digital map

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Yahoo chooses Splunk’s Hunk to do Hadoop analytics

  Yahoo is using Splunk’s Hunk tool to do analytics on Hadoop and NoSQL data stores

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  MarkLogic introduces bi-temporality with eye to regulated industries

  NoSQL database supplier MarkLogic adds feature which allows organisations to look at data as it has been at different points in time

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 open for entries

  Find out how to enter Computer Weekly’s third annual European User Awards

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Teradata reports tepid growth alongside big data investments

  Data warehousing company Teradata has reported revenue of $2.732bn for 2014, an increase of 1% on 2013

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Heinz puts SAP HANA in the cloud to boost global efficiency

  Food producer Heinz deploys SAP HANA on Virtustream’s xStream platform-as-a-service (PaaS) infrastructure to boost efficiency

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  SAP unveils S/4Hana as 'biggest launch in 23 years'

  SAP launches what CEO Bill McDermott calls “our biggest launch in 23 years, if not in the entire history of the company”, SAP S/4Hana

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Case study: Hedge fund AHL Man Group uses MongoDB to feed quants with data

  Hedge fund AHL Man Group replaces disparate relational databases with a single data platform built on NoSQL database MongoDB

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  SAP’s Cohen on 2014 results: Europe strong north and south

  SAP’s Emea president Franck Cohen optimistic about the supplier’s growth prospects in southern and northern Europe

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Public sector must make big data relevant

  Big data is set to revolutionise public services but projects should focus on those that the public will understand

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust embarks on clinical portal project

  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust selects HP Enterprise Services to supply a clinical portal from Orion Health, with single sign-on from Imprivata

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  SAP’s 2014 preliminary cloud revenue grows by 45% to €1.1bn

  SAP’s preliminary 2014 financial results indicate total revenue of €17.58bn, of which €1.1bn was cloud subscriptions and support

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  CERN gets real-time data with Software AG’s Terracotta BigMemory

  CERN is using Software AG’s in-memory data management software BigMemory to support system availability for the Large Hadron Collider

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing

  In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Care.data faces more delays over concerns about patients

  The NHS’s Care.data scheme may face more delays due to concerns over lack of publicity and clarity of the proposed programme

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Interview: SAP ramps up pressure on customers to move to Hana

  Philip Adams, chairman of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group, says SAP is increasing pressure on customers to move to Hana

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Case study: JustGiving develops Facebook-like graph on HDInsight

  Online fundraising site JustGiving has created a Facebook-like media graph database to understand how people donate

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  AWS launches Aurora cloud-based relational database engine

  AWS launches an open-source relational database engine called Aurora at its re:Invent 2014 cloud conference

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  How to deal with the next software renewal call from the big four suppliers

  IT departments are being subjected to ruthless tactics by software sales teams when they renegotiate contracts with the big four suppliers

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  What to expect from AWS re:Invent 2014

  Amazon is all set to unveil new services and features at its AWS re:Invent 2014

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Qantas puts Oracle ERP in the cloud with Tata Consultancy Services

  Airline Qantas signs IT outsourcing services firm TCS to upgrade its Oracle ERP platform and move it into the cloud

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Police forces use private cloud to access Holmes database

  Police forces across the UK will access the Holmes major investigation system via a private cloud service

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Airbus interview: research, innovation and the future of aviation

  IT plays a substantial role in creating the aircraft of the future, with research and innovation at the core of the Airbus business strategy

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  Hitachi to launch six innovation solutions in next six months

  Hitachi shares plans of its six systems set for announcement over the next six months

• November 02, 2014 02 Nov'14

  Technology is changing society's values, says Hitachi

  Social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies are causing a shift in society says Hitachi’s executive officer

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Home Office to waste £1bn on immigration system IT

  Immigration system IT failures will cost tax payers £1bn and are causing a continued backlog of cases

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Met Police trials analytics to fight gang crime

  The Metropolitan Police is experimenting with analytics software to help predict which criminals are likely to re-offend

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  CIO interview: David Johnstone of Martin Currie Investment Management

  The head of solutions management at the asset management firm discusses IT projects and the changing role of IT leaders

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Hitachi Data Systems ploughs ahead with social innovation plans

  Hitachi Innovation Forum expects 16,000 delegates to share user cases on how technology is making society safer

• October 26, 2014 26 Oct'14

  How big data, mobile and cloud are fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone

  IBM applies data analytics, mobile technology and cloud computing to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Arrays cost councils four times more than software-defined storage

  Nexenta finds UK councils spend around £1,200 per terabyte on storage arrays – four times more than on storage software

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  CIO interview: Ernest Gmünder, Touring Club Suisse

  Ernest Gmünder is turning his expertise as a CIO into a consultancy business, offering advice to businesses that want to get more from their IT

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Data scientist demand evident in applications to new course

  Data scientist post-graduate course at City University London takes on three times more students than expected

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Tennis coaches get on-court data insights from SAP

  Tennis coaches can give players details on their performance during games through an SAP-based mobile app

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud

  SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  CIO interview: Andy Wolfe, CIO, Shop Direct

  Technology occupies centre stage at Shop Direct as the retail giant pursues its goal of becoming a "world-class digital retailer"

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  PernixData adds RAM pools to FVP flash caching software

  Flash caching software maker PernixData adds the ability to create cache pools from server RAM

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Public shared service cuts costs and improves operations

  Kent's Fire and Rescue and police force's shared command and control system saves costs and improves operations

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Oracle clocks $475m in cloud services for 2014-15 first quarter

  Oracle's Q1 2014-15 revenues were up 3% to $8.6bn, but GAAP net profit was flat at $2.2bn and non-GAAP was up 2% at $2.8bn

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Larry Ellison leaves Oracle CEO job to Hurd, Catz

  Oracle’s Larry Elllison has resigned as chief executive after 35 years at the helm of the company he co-founded in 1977

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Big data security analytics still immature, say security experts

  The big data security analytics concept and the tools are still immature, according to a panel of security experts

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  NHS England informatics head wants more CCIOs

  NHS England director wants to see a chief clinical information officer in every NHS provider and clinical commissioning group

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Morgan Motor Company swaps Sage for integrated IFS

  Morgan Motor Company is replacing its Sage 500 accounting system with IFS Applications

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Tesco to reduce IT spend in a bid to cut costs

  Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it will be cutting costs from its IT budget to save money

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Can IT change the course of history? The story of Graham Tottle, the IT guy trapped in Iraq

  Rarely does an IT worker affect history, but in 1990 Graham Tottle was in Saddam Hussein’s HQ at the start of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Banks are not contemplating core system replacement

  European banks are maintaining rather than replacing core banking IT, in spite of recent, high profile failures in such systems

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Office Depot uses Teradata Active EDW to perform real-time data analytics

  Office Depot is using data warehousing technology from Teradata to do real-time data analytics

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Universal Credit uptake slows to lowest since infancy

  The rollout of the Department of Work and Pension’s (DWP) troubled Universal Credit system has slowed to its lowest uptake since its infancy

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Home Office pours £3.8m into shared service for biometric cards

  The Home Office has awarded a £3.8m contract to Thales for a service to support the production of Biometric Residence Permit cards

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly

  Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Reducing costs no longer top IT priority at UK banks

  UK banks no longer consider reducing costs as their top priority as they focus IT developments on raising customer service levels

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  HP sues former Autonomy CFO

  HP is suing Autonomy's former chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, for his part in the 2011 acquisition of the UK software company

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  NHS develops shared framework to reduce cost of buying clinical data systems

  NHS Shared Business Services has developed a framework to help NHS trusts reduce the time and cost of procuring clinical data systems

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Royal Free Hospital digitises legacy patient medical records

  Royal Free teaching hospital in London has digitised 750,000 legacy case notes which contain patient medical records

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

  A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

  The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databases

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Microsoft makes severe job cuts - 18,000 to go

  Microsoft is cutting 18,000 jobs next year with Nokia bearing the brunt of the company’s strategy

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  SAP Q2 2014: steady growth for cloud and Hana

  SAP’s second quarter 2014 results indicate steady growth for its cloud business and Hana

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Vocalink system drives rise in current account switching

  The seven-day current account switching regime introduced last year has driven a 16% rise in the number of people doing so in the first half of this year

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Bank branches being used more despite online services surge

  Customers' use of bank branches is increasing in parallel with the surging take-up of online banking services, according to research