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• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  Middle East businesses welcome Amazon Web Services region launch

  Bahrain AWS region, with three datacentres, links Middle East to AWS's global network and will help to accelerate digital transformation

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Six Nordic banks form alliance to offer KYC as a service

  Nordic Know Your Customer joint venture will create a common Nordic platform based on advanced data management technologies

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Why CIOs should focus on trimming their internal email footprint

  Better internal collaboration should be part of a CIO’s digitisation arsenal. But there is resistance to change, especially as email is so dominant

• July 29, 2019 29 Jul'19

  Global IaaS market grew by 31% in 2018 as enterprise demand for public cloud continues to soar

  Global IaaS market shows no sign of slowing growth, as its largest participants continue to increase their share at the expense of smaller, more niche competitors

• July 26, 2019 26 Jul'19

  AWS growth rate slows in Q2, as Amazon retail's run of quarterly record profit growth ends

  Amazon's latest set of results suggest the law of big numbers might be kicking in for its cloud division, while its retail arm grapples with spiralling costs pertaining to the roll-out of its one-day delivery service

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Microsoft-owned LinkedIn commits to multi-year, all-in move to Azure public cloud

  Professional social networking site reveals plans to move all its workloads to the Microsoft public cloud over the next few years

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Salesforce teams up with Alibaba in foray into China

  The cloud applications giant is tapping Alibaba’s footprint in e-commerce and cloud in an effort to expand its business in the Greater China region

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Australian organisations gain A$9bn in productivity benefits from cloud

  Australian organisations have become more productive by using cloud but some are still grappling with migration woes, a survey finds

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  US Department of Justice launches antitrust probe into dominance of online platform providers

  The US Department of Justice has called for an antitrust investigation into how “market-leading” online platform operators in the search, social media and retail space operate

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  UK CIOs bottom of digital workflow league

  Leading CIOs shift from tech to leadership focus, but a new survey from ServiceNow has found that UK CIOs have not increased workflow budget

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  AI to advance Swedish military systems

  Swedish report into use of artificial intelligence in military systems reveals opportunities and concerns

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  HPE reiterates focus on edge computing

  Enterprise technology bigwig HPE is trumpeting its ability to help companies better manage edge workloads, claiming that its purchase of Aruba has been its most successful acquisition

• July 23, 2019 23 Jul'19

  Use Windows 7 end of life to update desktop productivity

  The end of support for Windows 7 should be seen as the end of an era for traditional desktop IT. So what does 21st century desktop productivity look like?

• July 23, 2019 23 Jul'19

  Microsoft talks up benefits and pitfalls of machine learning in security

  Software giant Microsoft uses machine learning models to detect emerging threats while keeping an eye on potential bias in security data points that could derail its analysis

• July 22, 2019 22 Jul'19

  Morgan Stanley uses Box to power new Digital Vault

  Bank has integrated the Box collaboration platform to provide a new, secure document-sharing service for its customers

• July 22, 2019 22 Jul'19

  CDEI publishes reports on online targeting and bias in algo decisions

  Recommendations due in late 2019 and early 2020 from Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation’s work on online targeting and bias in algorithmic decision-making

• July 22, 2019 22 Jul'19

  Latest investments in Atom Bank will support cloud platform project

  Bank has raised £50m more finance, which will contribute to funding its project to migrate to the cloud

• July 22, 2019 22 Jul'19

  How AntWorks is addressing the pitfalls of RPA

  The Singapore-based startup hopes to lower the cost of deploying and maintaining robotic process automation technology with a platform that combines machine learning and data processing capabilities

• July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

  Government launches retraining scheme for workers impacted by tech

  Amid fears that artificial intelligence and automation will put people out of work, the government is working on a retraining programme to help those affected by AI to fit into new roles

• July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

  Microsoft gets boost in SaaS revenue and pushes Teams platform

  It is still a long way behind AWS, but the Microsoft cloud is the company’s big money-maker. It is also seeing Teams establish itself as a platform

• July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19

  IBM sees Red Hat as key to hybrid cloud strategy

  IBM’s second-quarter 2019 results show a 4.2% decline in revenue, but the supplier is betting big on hybrid cloud and cognitive computing

• July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19

  SAP Q2 2019: US-China trade war takes toll

  SAP’s second-quarter 2019 financial results indicate cloud revenue at 26% of total, and 600 new customers for S/4 Hana. The US-China trade war has adversely affected results

• July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19

  CIO interview: Kieran Delaney, director of IT, Innserve

  After 13 years at the drinks dispensing firm, Delaney moved into the top IT leadership role and has set out about using technology to empower workers across the company

• July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19

  Welsh council aims to cut back-office processing costs by 95% through automation

  A council in South Wales is expecting to reduce the cost of human resources business processes by up to 95% through robotic process automation

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  European Commission launches antitrust investigation into Amazon

  Amazon is being officially investigated by the European Commission to assess whether its use of data from independent retailers is anti-competitive

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Facebook accused of ‘breathtaking arrogance’ over Libra cryptocurrency plan

  US senators grill Facebook’s David Marcus over social media giant’s plans to launch cryptocurrency

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Suspected malicious MS Office tool maker arrested

  Dutch police have arrested a man suspected of producing and selling toolkits to create malicious Microsoft Office documents

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Deutsche Bank’s public contraction is a major landmark for fintech

  German bank is cutting costs overall but is investing more in the latest digital technology as fintechs chip away at banking business

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Danish government injects €200m into AI R&D

  Denmark is investing in a range of programmes to boost research and development into artificial intelligence and its place in various business sectors

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  UN resolution ignores special rapporteur’s call for halt to spyware sales

  UN’s Human Rights Council adopts resolution to explore the impact of new and emerging digital technologies on human rights, but the text ignores a damning report by the council’s own expert on freedom of expression

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  How Suse is taking open source deeper into the enterprise

  Suse’s focus on developer needs, industry-specific use cases and engineering partnerships with the likes of SAP are among efforts to take open source software deeper into the enterprise

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Smartodds bets on Rubrik backup appliance with cloud archive

  Betting intelligence analytics firm Smartodds replaced its old tape backup infrastructure with Rubrik appliances to cut management time and database restores from hours to minutes

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Alan Turing to be face of new £50 note

  Computing pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing is to be featured on the new polymer £50 note

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Organisations turn to AI in race against cyber attackers

  Businesses are racing to automate their defences as hackers and nation states launch increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  Blockchain.com banks on Google cloud to support growth of cryptocurrency management platform

  Blockchain.com reveals details of how it is ramping up its use of the Google Cloud Platform as the range of cryptocurrencies it supports grows, along with the size of its user base

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  Sweden’s SEB bank uses mob programming across business

  Hack day sees 70 developers successfully demonstrate mob programming method that banking group is now using to develop applications in an agile way

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  Windows 10 to enable passwordless sign-in

  Windows 10 users will soon be able to sign in to devices without using a password to encourage the use of two-factor authentication methods to improve security

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  European PC business boosted by Windows 10 refresh

  With Windows 7 support due to end on 14 January 2020, European organisations are refreshing their PCs as part of their Windows 10 upgrade

• July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19

  Attacks against AI systems are a growing concern

  European research group says attacks against AI systems are already occurring, difficult to identify, and could be far more common than currently understood

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  Gartner forecasts big shift in spending away from devices and datacentres

  The IT market is basically flat, but there is demand for software and cloud-based services as CIOs shift away from datacentre infrastructure

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  CDO interview: Julia Aymonier, École Hôtelière de Lausanne

  As organisations transform digitally, the roles of those leading these IT projects are changing too, says Julia Aymonier, CDO at Switzerland-based hospitality school École Hôtelière de Lausanne

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  How ASEAN firms are turning data into critical assets

  From enabling consumers to track their energy consumption to improving business operations, businesses in ASEAN are starting to put their data to good use

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Amsterdam’s datacentres face challenges to retain high growth

  The Amsterdam datacentre market is growing rapidly, but the industry behind it must get on top of some burgeoning challenges

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Post Office fixes technical problem causing accounting errors in Horizon

  Problem revealed during High Court trial left subpostmaster with £18,000 surplus after IT system failed to register full amount of cash scanned in

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Deutsche Bank cuts jobs but increases tech spend

  Deutsche Bank is making swingeing cuts to its workforce over the next two and a half years and has pinned its hopes on the latest technology to make it possible.

• July 08, 2019 08 Jul'19

  Thames Water uses ServiceNow to boost helpdesk efficiency

  AI-enabled monitoring helps IT to identify anomalies and improve service levels

• July 08, 2019 08 Jul'19

  Eventful second Post Office Horizon trial ends

  The latest High Court trial in the long-running dispute between the Post Office and subpostmasters has concluded, with part three set for March 2020

• July 08, 2019 08 Jul'19

  Robotics technology needs to go beyond automation

  A global robotics expert at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics says next-generation robots will need to keep humans in the loop to tackle immediate social problems

• July 07, 2019 07 Jul'19

  Public sector should embrace multicloud to cut risk of cloud market monopolisation, says report

  Joint report by the Internet Economy Foundation think-tank and business consultancy Roland Berger urges governments to take steps to prevent a cloud computing oligopoly that would leave organisations at greater risk of supplier lock-in

• July 05, 2019 05 Jul'19

  Autonomous delivery van drives at Goodwood Festival of Speed

  Kar-go aims to revolutionise online deliveries by cutting the cost of the final mile