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DevOps

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  Australian enterprises warming up to DevOps

  The burgeoning DevOps culture in Australia has attracted new market players and led major banks and telcos to embrace the movement to get development and operations teams working in unison

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Financial services firms lack the culture to innovate fast

  Finance firms appear to be struggling to release new software quickly, a study from Contino has found

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Court RPA or get sidelined

  Robotic process automation (RPA) is helping businesses go through digital transformation. Time for IT to play catch-up

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Fix culture to make digital a success

  Businesses with well-honed processes will often find it hard to adapt to new, digital transformation initiatives, according to Gartner report

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Google wants to ease hybrid cloud woes

  Cloud supplier Google claims its Cloud Service Platform will alleviate complexities in managing microservices in a hybrid IT environment

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Organisations are ready to adopt DevOps to power digital transformation

  Companies across Europe are increasingly turning to DevOps to help them adapt their software processes to support new customer-centric business uses

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Broadcom acquires enterprise business with CA Technologies deal

  Broadcom buys into the enterprise software infrastructure arena, announcing $19bn acquisition of CA Technologies

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Investments in on-premise enterprise datacentres on the up as demand for multi-cloud rises

  IHS Markit's research into the investment priorities of enterprise datacentre operators suggests cloud is fuelling infrastructure upgrade projects

• July 11, 2018 11 Jul'18

  DevOps gathers pace in APAC

  Large enterprises such as DBS Bank have been shaking up their software development practices to fend off disruption from more nimble rivals

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Barclays banks on DevOps to support 'all-in' move to AWS public cloud

  Barclays Bank reveals details of its plans to go all-in on the AWS public cloud through adopting the principles of DevOps

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth

  A shortage of power availability in Amsterdam might make businesses look elsewhere in the Netherlands to site datacentres

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  CDO interview: Andrei Belevtsev, Gazprom Neft

  Russian oil giant will harness the latest technologies right across its business, says chief digital officer

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Skills gaps slow business cloud adoption, research shows

  Public cloud provider Skytap highlights the toll skills gaps take on cloud migrations

• May 31, 2018 31 May'18

  Retail sector flagged as slow to adopt cloud technologies in Bitglass research

  The fourth annual Bitglass cloud adoption survey reveals enterprise appetite for off-premise technologies is continuing to rise, but some industries are moving more slowly than others

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Save the Children International uses Microsoft Azure to bolster cross-border charity work

  Graham Kent, director of IT shared services at Save the Children International, talks about using Microsoft Azure to boost cross-border collaboration between the charity’s member organisations and present a more united front to the world

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  How AWS keeps its rivals at bay

  A relentless focus on building for customers and inking partnerships with enterprise software bigwigs while lowering prices has given AWS a leg-up over rivals in the ANZ market

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit

  Closing out the first day keynote at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical co-founder Mark Shuttleworth hit out at the firm's "more costly" competitors

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Thailand’s Ascend Money finds agility with OpenShift

  Besides implementing Red Hat’s OpenShift application platform, Ascend Money adopted an open source governance model to keep IT teams aligned with business goals

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  DWP IT engineering is ‘dysfunctional’ and lacks ‘ability to deliver’, claims report

  Internal report produced for DWP CTO details challenges faced by department in moving to more agile ways of working

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  Blockchain technology lacks enough use cases to be disruptive, says Worldpay

  Worldpay's Jason Scott-Taggart says although the company is looking at blockchain, there are too few strong use cases for the technology at present

• May 11, 2018 11 May'18

  NHS Business Services Authority trials AWS chatbot tech to field customer calls in contact centre

  Darren Curry, chief digital officer of the NHS Business Services Authority, shares details of how trialling the use of cloud-based chatbots in its contact centres has boosted staff morale and efficiency

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels hails ‘egalitarian’ impact of cloud on enterprise IT

  Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels claims that the “egalitarian” impact of cloud on IT means enterprises now need to find a new point of competitive difference

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Apple pulls plug on €850m Irish datacentre project after three-year planning delay

  Apple has confirmed it is abandoning its bid to build a datacentre on the west coast of Ireland, blaming three years of legal challenges and planning appeals that have blighted the project

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Ryanair takes full flight in the AWS public cloud

  Low-cost airline Ryanair is on course to go all-in on the Amazon Web Services public cloud, as part of its push to boost the agility and cost effectiveness of its operations

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  GDPR prompts data migration U-turn from public cloud to corporate datacentres, finds Forrester

  Forrester Research’s latest public cloud adoption report shines a light on how enterprise attitudes to using corporate datacentres are changing as the GDPR deadline approaches

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  Colt DCS pledges support for PwC-led push to boost number of women in tech

  Carrier neutral datacentre provider, Colt DCS, is joining a number of other organisations in supporting PwC's push to make the tech sector a more diverse and inclusive place

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Interview: Amazon Web Services Sweden

  Eric Morales leads the AWS business development team for startups and gaming companies in the Nordics. Computer Weekly caught up with him at AWS’s Nordic headquarters in Stockholm

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  The dawn of open banking in Australia

  Financial services firms will need to embrace DevOps and modernise their IT infrastructure to compete with more nimble fintech companies in an open banking regime

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  Oracle expands availability of cloud services from UK datacentre region

  Database giant claims expansion of UK datacentre region shows its commitment to customers

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs

  Intelligent agents and automation will be needed to support digitisation efforts in business, but to succeed, IT will need to apply these techniques internally

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Security remains an afterthought in DevOps

  Enterprises in Asia are lapping up DevOps but less than one-third have baked security processes into their developments

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  IT managers in the dark over work-life balance pressure of on-call work, research shows

  PagerDuty's inaugural work-life balance report highlights how unspoken frustrations about punishing on-call schedules can contribute towards employee attrition and workplace stress

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  CBRE adopts artificial intelligence to help troubleshoot issues across 800-plus client datacentres

  The datacentre operations arm of real estate consultancy CBRE wants to use artificial intelligence to troubleshoot issues in its clients' 800-plus datacentres

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  CIO interview: Aaron Powell, CDO, NHS Blood and Transplant

  NHS Blood and Transplant chief digital officer Aaron Powell explains why pushing a digital transformation agenda has a real impact on people’s lives

• February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Where senior IT managers plan to spend their budget

  It is the year when IT departments migrate to Windows 10, upgrade to Windows Server 2016, architect microservices and deploy cloud management

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Datacentre infrastructure investments show no signs of slowing

  The 2018 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities poll suggests datacentre infrastructure revamps could be on the cards at enterprises across the UK and Europe, as the push to consolidate their server farms picks up pace

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  Case study: Gleadell Agriculture supports cloud-first push with change in backup strategy

  Commodity trading firm Gleadell Agriculture won the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2017 Awards, with its account of how an overhaul of its disaster recovery practices has set it up to become a ...

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  Telecoms industry at major tipping point

  Communications service providers should gear up for a software-driven operations model and embrace microservices and DevOps to thrive in the digital economy

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017

• November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17

  AWS fleshes out cloud database proposition, while taking aim at Oracle

  The second-day Re:Invent keynote saw AWS lift the veil on 22 new cloud products and services, and aim a few more jabs at Oracle's database proposition

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  Dutch digital coin miners offered datacentre space to reduce costs

  The Netherlands’ Datacenter Group is providing digital coin miners with space in a professional datacentre

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  Universal Credit moves into Amazon Web Services cloud

  Parts of the digital system underpinning the controversial welfare reform programme are now running on AWS under DWP’s hybrid cloud strategy

• October 23, 2017 23 Oct'17

  Microservices are about organisational change

  Microservices technology can pave the way for companies to decentralise the way they build software to deliver innovation and reduce the cost of failure

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing

  Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  Apple Irish datacentre objectors to seek fresh High Court appeal against project

  The remaining objectors to Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry, Ireland, are preparing to launch another appeal against the project, which has now been delayed by more than two and a half years

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  Puppet on why people, process and technology are mission critical to DevOps success

  At the PuppetConf user and partner summit in San Francisco, Puppet and its customers shared insights on how best to address the people, process and technology sides of the DevOps success equation

• October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17

  Belgian telco Proximus picks Cloudify to support NFV roll-out

  Belgium’s largest telecoms operator Proximus will deploy a cloud-native orchestration platform to support its adoption of NFV services in the business

• October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on why empathy is essential for technology innovation

  Speaking at the London launch of his Hit Refresh book, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed how a shortfall in empathy nearly cost him a job at the firm in the 1990s

• September 19, 2017 19 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

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2017 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona