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• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  Brexit yet to dampen fintech recruitment in London

  Fintechs are still recruiting in London as large banks start to make plans to move staff to EU countries

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  SAP marks 20 years in Ireland with digital boardroom launch

  SAP has marked two decades in Ireland. CEO Bill McDermott hailed the millennial character of the country’s IT workforce, and argued for the strategic utility of SAP’s ‘digital boardroom’ concept

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  SAP focuses on training young Arab graduates in Middle East

  SAP has a raft of initiatives planned in the Middle East which includes a strategy to equip young people and entrepreneurs with the IT skills required as the region transforms.

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Barclays Bank opens startup hub in London

  Bank aims to support fintech firms in their early stages

• April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17

  SAP Q1 2017 results: cloud revenue €906m, 5,800 customers for S/4

  SAP has announced €5.29bn in first quarter 2017 revenue, of which €906m was for cloud subscription and support, 17% of the total. Supplier adds 400 S/4 Hana customer in quarter

• April 25, 2017 25 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

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Gulf Air refreshes storage and server farm hardware with Dell EMC

  Airline completes major project to revamp its storage infrastructure with Dell EMC technologies

• April 24, 2017 24 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

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  SAP board member talks Middle East investment

  In an interview with Computer Weekly, SAP’s chief financial officer, Luka Mucic, talks up the significance of the UAE and wider Middle East region in terms of IT transformation

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Motorola brings big data digital evidence service to UK police forces

  Motorola is launching a digital evidence management service to UK police forces, backed off into AWS cloud infrastructure

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  IBM sales and profits down, but future focus areas see growth

  IBM experiences another fall in sales, but it continues to sell more in areas that will make up its future business

• April 18, 2017 18 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

• April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17

  House of Fraser drops Oracle support to invest in multi-channel retail

  IT departments need to cut costs to reinvest in new projects. House of Fraser has a multi-channel strategy and Oracle support wasn’t strategic

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  DataWorks 17: Hortonworks promotes maturity of HDP upgrade

  Hadoop distributor leads on an upgrade to its Hortonworks Data Platform at the DataWorks 2017 Summit in Munich

• April 03, 2017 03 Apr'17

  Teradata Universe 17: IntelliFlex 2.0 vaunted as emblem of flexibility

  At its Universe conference in Nice, Teradata announces an upgrade to its MPP IntelliFlex platform in line with what it says is a fresh flexibility towards customers