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• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Startups use AWS re:Invent 2013 as launch pad

  Several startups chose AWS re: Invent as a platform to showcase how they utilised the cloud service provider to get off the ground.

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Cloud imperative for companies to remain agile, says AWS

  Both enterprise and startups can benefit from the cloud, enabling employees to become more innovative, says Amazon Web Services

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  MoD appoints new CIO and releases ICT strategy

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has appointed Yvonne Ferguson as CIO and released its latest Defence ICT Strategy document

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  AWS re: Invent 2013 kicks off in Las Vegas

  Amazon Web Services' annual conference opens with product announcements to the 8,000 strong crowd during the keynote

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  Demand for big data specialists to soar over the next five years

  As one-third of large UK businesses plan to implement big data analytics programmes, demand for staff is set to rise to 69,000 jobs

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Citizens willing to let businesses use their data if they are in control

  Business opportunities from big data could be lost unless consumers trust business and public sector organisations with their personal data

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  Business-defined storage will help reconnect businesses with IT, says Forrester

  Business-defined storage and datacentres will make IT more business-centric, according to Forrester

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Co-operative Bank’s future dependent on £500m IT investment

  Co-operative Bank has set aside £500m for four stage IT transformation as it attempts to stabilise after investors contribute to a £1.5bn rescue

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Teradata goes cost neutral in the cloud

  Teradata has announced that its database, analytics platform and applications will also be available in the cloud, initially in the US

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Fulham football club address skills shortfall with cloud database

  Fulham football club’s IT team moves its database infrastructure to the cloud with a database as a service implementation

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Seven day account switching-service fuels modest increase in activity

  The seven day account switching service launched last month has led to an 11% increase in the number of consumers switching accounts in the last month compared to last year.

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  BT signs multimillion HR technology contract with Oracle

  The project, one of the largest contracts signed so far for Oracle’s Fusion technology, is strategically important both to Oracle and BT

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Case study: Pumps maker Hayward Tyler’s restructure sharpened ERP business focus

  When a restructure arrives half way through an ERP upgrade, it could be a threat to the IT programme. But Hayward Tyler saw it as a chance to ensure business goals were at the heart of its Epicor project.

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Businesses seek out data scientists to support big data initiatives

  A large number of businesses are recruiting data scientists in a bid to build up the right skills to support board-level big data initiatives

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Home Office e-borders programme still using pilot IT system from 2004

  Home Office yet to replace sacked Raytheon with new supplier for flagship programme to help protect UK borders

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Rugby Football Union uses analytics to educate and engage with users

  The RFU is introducing data analytics technologies for public use to encourage engagement with existing fans and education of the sport

• October 04, 2013 04 Oct'13

  CIO interview: Carlos Morgado, CTO, Just Eat

  Carlos Morgado, group CTO of online takeaway service Just Eat, discusses the company's move to public cloud

• October 01, 2013 01 Oct'13

  Ministry of Defence upgrades Oracle HR and payroll system

  The Service Personnel and Veterans Agency of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has upgraded its Oracle HP and payroll system

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Charity uses cloud HR system to keep track of staff working in danger zones

  It took a disaster in Haiti to demonstrate to charity World Vision why it needed better HR systems

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Executive interview: The significance of GPU accelerated Java

  Sumit Gupta general manager, Tesla GPU Accelerated Computing at Nvidia discusses general purpose GPU applications

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Tesco takes a multi-channel approach to customer experience

  Tesco has been using an array of Oracle technology, including its customer experience (CX) portfolio to turn the company in a multi-channel retailer

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Oracle launches database as a service

  Oracle continues to extend its cloud offering at OpenWorld 2013 by launching its database as a service (DaaS) offering

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Oracle is serious about the cloud as it launches ten services

  Oracle launches 10 cloud services, as well as a cloud marketplace, to prove its commitment to the cloud

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Oracle Open World 2013: Oracle launches in-memory database search

  Oracle has launched an in-memory version of its database which promises 100-times faster query processing.

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Incorporating big data lends competitive edge, says Intel

  Only 15% of firms are fully exploiting big data, Doug Fisher, general manager of software and services at Intel, told Oracle OpenWorld 2013

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  DECC names IT suppliers for smart meter project

  The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced the IT suppliers that will provide the technology to underpin smart meters

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013 European update: Oracle extends cloud

  Oracle is continuing to drive forward its cloud operations in Europe

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Two-thirds of CIOs have big data on agenda

  Big data has not gone beyond the planning stage for over 92% of CIOs according to research from Gartner

• September 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

  Data analytics at MoD could save money and lives, says report

  Applying big data analytics at the MoD could save money and lives, says a report by the Royal United Services Institute

• September 19, 2013 19 Sep'13

  Software licences drive Oracle revenue, but hardware takes a hit

  A drop in hardware sales dragged down Oracle’s revenue in its Q1 financial results, but software revenue increased

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  BMW gears up IT resilience with private cloud infrastructure

  After testing and validating its own private cloud services, BMW's IT team is ready to use it in production

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  MPs brand NHS National Programme for IT a 'fiasco' as posthumous costs rise

  The now-axed NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is still incurring significant costs following the failure of the government IT project

• September 10, 2013 10 Sep'13

  Barclays reception IT system falls over globally

  Barclays' reception administration system has been down for almost two days, with no sign of when it is set to get fixed

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  Rubber and plastics converter Miers chooses Business One on Hana

  LJA Miers, a family-run company that turns rubber and plastic into gaskets and seals, has chosen SAP’s Business One, running on the supplier’s in-memory database Hana, to re-cast its business

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  eHarmony finds MongoDB the perfect match for data store

  Online dating site eHarmony has used open source NoSQL database MongoDB for its data store, to speed up delivery of matches between users

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  Case study: Seadrill migrates in-house datacentre to virtual private cloud in six months

  Offshore drilling company Seadrill moved its in-house datacentre in Norway to HP's virtual private cloud infrastructure in the UK in six months

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  Case study: Comparethemarket.com migrates from Microsoft SQL Server to MongoDB

  ComparetheMarket.com is migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to MongoDB as its business grows, slashing cycle time of idea to production

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Taylor Wimpey builds cloud forecasting process with Anaplan

  Homebuilder Taylor Wimpy teams up with Anaplan to ditch its old Excel suite and head for the cloud

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Newport Council predicts £500,000 five-year savings from ‘Save time, go online’ scheme

  Newport City Council sees cost savings and customer service improvements with its online services programme

• July 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  Banks speeding recruitment to get best talent

  Some banks are taking advantage of the slow recruitment processes of competitors to get the best IT professionals in the market.

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Remote access a priority for latest Oracle patch update

  The vulnerabilities that allow for remote unauthenticated access should be a priority for administrators applying the latest Oracle Critical Patch Update

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  CERN rolls out Oracle IT management

  CERN is using Oracle enterprise IT management software to monitor and manage its Oracle applications, middleware, databases and hardware

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Davenport: Travel industry data pioneer has lost way but can be saved

  Tom Davenport sees the travel industry as a data pioneer that has lost its way, but can be redeemed

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Time is running out to make business systems Sepa compliant

  Only 2.5% of direct debit payments and 45% of credit transfers are compliant with the Sepa standard required by February, says Experian

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Case study: Toyota fleet management system gathers global fork-lift truck data remotely

  Toyota Material Handling Europe develops operational data management system that monitors and controls fork-lift trucks globally

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  Buyer beware: Millions lost from rip-off software licences

  Software buyers are vulnerable to exploitation due to the demise of traditional user groups combined with aggressive sales targets

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Ocado delivers with in-house software development

  Online grocery retailer Ocado built its own software for its own business – and now it delivers for Morrisons

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  HMRC gets £200m in digital services investment

  HMRC's digital services to receive £200m of government investment, in a move expected to save £51m year on administrative costs

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Proprietary software a trap, says Hadoop founder Doug Cutting

  Hadoop founder Doug Cutting believes enterprises have woken to the benefits of open source software, but says Europe is behind with adoption

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software: Winners

  The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software have been announced. See who made the top spots

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Oracle offers enterprise software on Azure and Hyper-V

  Microsoft and Oracle form an alliance to enable Oracle software to run on Hyper-V and Windows Azure infrastructure

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  TechEd Europe 2013: Microsoft releases preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2

  Microsoft has released the preview software for Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 at TechEd Europe 2013

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Teradata executives discuss big data, in-memory computing and data science

  Stephen Brobst and Martin Willcox offer insight into Teradata’s world view as big data gains momentum

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Reiss sees online sales increase after implementing Capture+ address finder

  Reiss chose Capture+ for its online check-out address finder and saw an increase in sales and delivery rates following its implementation

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Silicon Valley ‘forgets the rest of the world exists'

  San Francisco entrepreneur claims Silicon Valley forgets it is building products for the whole world, not just tech geeks in the Bay Area

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Barclays changes terms and conditions to harness big data

  Barclays Bank is to use customer data to innovate around customer services and provide insights to business customers

• June 21, 2013 21 Jun'13

  Oracle’s 2013 revenue flat, operating profitability up

  Oracle’s end of fiscal year 2013 revenues of $37bn were flat compared with 2012, but the supplier indicated a record operating margin of 47%

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Daimler moving IT in-house

  Daimler is planning to make savings of €150m a year by bringing IT services in-house and expanding its IT operations in India and Turkey

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  IBM and 10Gen collaborate on database standard for enterprise mobile

  IBM and 10Gen are to work together on a database development standard for mobile enterprise applications

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Ceva Logistics builds solid relationship offshore

  Ceva Logistics made a quick decision to outsource IT to India in 2008 and had its first offshore IT staff up and running in weeks

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Dell bets on Oracle alliance and converged infrastructure

  Dell has expanded its strategic alliance with Oracle for a new x86 infrastructure product and launched converged infrastructure products.

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Irish Life migrates mainframe workload onto Windows

  Insurer Irish Life has migrated 97% of its mainframe workload onto a Windows server environment to save costs and support expansion

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Warner Brothers tracks films to screens with FileMaker

  Every country in Europe has a George Clooney. Warner Brothers needs to know who the local dubbing actors are in each of 52 territories

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  SAP leaders bang the drum for Hana as a platform

  SAP executives are positioning the supplier’s in-memory database as a pivotal technology, not just an end in itself

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Interview: Government CTO Liam Maxwell

  Government CTO Liam Maxwell has driven Whitehall’s IT agenda for years, previously as deputy government CIO and director of ICT futures

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: Plattner, Sikka hail HANA growth beyond SAP

  In-memory database platform HANA is growing beyond SAP, with 431 startups building on it, Hasso Plattner and Vishal Sikka said at Sapphire 2013

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  IBM to support Thames Water's big data strategy

  Thames Water has earmarked investments in big data analytics as part of its next five-year investment programme, with IBM contracted to support it.

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  CSC returns to profitability

  Beleaguered software firm CSC has returned to profitability in its full year results, posting operating profits of $900m (£600m) compared with losses of $1.36bn for the previous year 2011-12.

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: Business Suite on HANA goes to general availability

  Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP, has announced the general availability of HANA on its Business Suite ERP software at Sapphire 2013 in Orlando

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: SAP declares for cloud expansion, on back of Hana

  SAP has announced a widening of the cloud delivery of its enterprise technologies

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Sainsbury’s outsources banking following £248m deal with Lloyds

  Sainsbury's Bank is embarking on a project to move its customers off the systems of Lloyds Banking Group

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  SAP introduces HANA to cloud at ‘petabyte scale’

  SAP has announced an enterprise cloud service, based on its in-memory database appliance, HANA

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Investors sue HP for $1bn over Autonomy deal

  HP investors have launched a class action lawsuit over the company’s botched acquisition of UK software firm Autonomy for $11.7bn in 2011

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Progress made on Lloyds Bank's Project Verde segregation

  Lloyds Banking Group has reported good progress in its project to enable the systems for the new standalone TSB bank which will be sold off when complete

• April 11, 2013 11 Apr'13

  Cambridge University Hospitals signs £137m deal with HP

  Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) has signed a £137m deal with HP for its eHospital Program

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  How to make the most of corporate data

  IT departments focus on structured data but miss the needs of almost half their employees, says CEB managing director Andrew Horne

• April 05, 2013 05 Apr'13

  British Library archives the web

  The British Library is to archive 4.8 million UK websites and one billion web pages, following statutory changes to copyright legislation

• April 04, 2013 04 Apr'13

  Bank legacy systems will remain until CIO life expectancy increases

  CIOs at banks lack the job security required to transform IT through the replacement of legacy systems that have been in place for decades

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Patients and doctors must push for a paperless NHS, says Intellect report

  IT trade body Intellect says patients and doctors must undergo cultural change to realise government's ambition of a paperless NHS by 2018

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Government must address digital divide, says NAO

  Despite the public appetite for greater digital public services, government must start putting its plans into action to address the ‘digital divide’, according to a National Audit Office report.

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  NoSQL database firms step up attack on relational in UK and Europe

  NoSQL suppliers DataStax, CouchBase and 10Gen seek to expand on European territory, sensing a weakening of the relational model

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Southern Water contracts TCS for transformation

  Southern Water is transforming customer service and revenue management through IT services from Tata Consultancy Services

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  IDA services put on ice for Universal Credit delivery

  The DWP's Universal Credit programme is unlikely to use identity assurance services

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Software suppliers have local authorities over a barrel, says CIO

  Local authorities are faced with a choice of either forking out for costly software licence upgrades or keeping staff, says Geoff Connell, CIO

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  Hardware fault causes more RBS service outages

  RBS and NatWest customers experienced disruptions to online and telephone banking services after hardware fault.

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  MP adamant Universal Credit IT suppliers told to down tools

  Universal Credit IT contractors have been told to down tools, says Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  "Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

  "Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  Accenture consortium bags EC Visa system deal

  Accenture is leading a consortium of suppliers to maintain the IT system integrating national border controls across Europe

• February 19, 2013 19 Feb'13

  Are universities ready for influx of overseas students?

  If Indian students take up David Cameron’s open invitation to study in the UK, universities will need to ensure their visa processing systems are adequate

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Pitchford to head-up Universal Credit programme

  David Pitchford, executive director of Major Projects Authority heads up the Universal Credit at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Southwest One outsourcing achieves 10% of target savings

  Somerset council's Southwest One outsourcing venture achieved just 10% of the savings initially targeted half way through the programme

• February 12, 2013 12 Feb'13

  Beware of Oracle's Fusion Application plans

  Businesses are avoiding Oracle’s Fusion strategy according to research from Forrester. CIOs should be wary of the supplier's long-term plans.

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  NHS databases must be improved, urges report

  NHS information systems must be improved to prevent malpractice, a report has urged

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  SAP certifies Dell datacentre systems to run Hana

  SAP has certified Dell datacentre products – including servers, storage and networking systems – for running Hana as a pre-integrated system

• January 24, 2013 24 Jan'13

  Chris Chant calls for government IT heads to step down

  Outspoken former government IT reformer Chris Chant has called for the resignation of the Cabinet Office's Stephen Kelly and Bill Crothers

• January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13

  European bank IT investment lags US and Asia-Pacific equivalents

  Banks in Asia-Pacific and North America will increase their IT spending significantly more than those in Europe

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Defra plans £80m agile CAP system

  The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is planning a single integrated £80m Common Agricultural Policy system

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  G-Cloud powers Huddle’s public sector sales growth

  Cloud collaboration firm Huddle saw its public sector sales double to 30% of all revenues this year due to uptake generated through the CloudStore

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  European bank IT transformations optimistic or unrealistic

  IT transformation projects at European banks exceed budgets because early success stories lead to additional scope