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• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  AWS bags multi-year deal to support Ford-backed bid to create open connected car cloud platform

  Amazon Web Services has secured a multi-year deal to provide underlying support for a Ford-backed bid to create an open cloud platform to accelerate the development of connected car services

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  Challenger bank Tandem migrates to AWS in one weekend

  Customer migration to Amazon Web Services demonstrates challenger banks’ agility in moving quickly to the latest technology

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  SAP Q1 2019 results: 400 more S/4 Hana sign-ups, €1.5bn in cloud

  SAP’s first-quarter 2019 financial results indicate cloud revenue at 26% of total, and 400 new customers for S/4 Hana. Senior executive losses, restructure and Qualtrix acquisition cost bite into profit

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  Eagle Eye enlists Rackspace to lead 'all-in' Google Cloud Platform migration

  Digital marketing platform provider Eagle Eye is leaning on Rackspace to support its move to the Google Cloud Platform

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  How technology is shaping Malaysia’s economy

  Malaysia has one of the most digitally connected societies in the world, but more work is needed to bridge the digital divide

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Stockholm prospers as tech hub as perceptions of entrepreneurs changes

  Stockholm has thrived as a tech startup hub after out-of-date attitudes to entrepreneurs changed

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Egypt aims to develop coding skills earlier in education system

  An Egyptian government initiative will see thousands of teenagers trained to code in HTML, CSS and Python

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Apple spends upwards of $30m a month on AWS during first quarter of 2019, report claims

  According to US media reports, Apple is spending upwards of $30m a month on procuring cloud services from Amazon Web Services

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Casual collaboration comms pose security risk, survey shows

  UK employees have a worryingly casual attitude to workplace communications, underling the need for employers to take steps to counter related cyber attack vulnerabilities

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  APAC set for blockchain boom

  Led by China, spending on blockchain technology in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan will surpass $2bn by 2022

• April 22, 2019 22 Apr'19

  With Anthos, Google seeks to unify open source cloud technologies

  Urs Hölzle, Google’s head of technical infrastructure, talks up efforts to deliver what he claims to be the first open source cloud stack

• April 18, 2019 18 Apr'19

  20 firms join Tech Nation’s cyber security scale-up programme

  Tech Nation scale-up programme is designed to boost the UK’s cyber sector, accelerate the growth of its top companies and build a robust, cross-industry network

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Autonomous vehicle tech is too costly and unreliable for production

  Level 5, fully autonomous vehicles are a decade away. By then, the tech will be so expensive, that it will only be available on high-end vehicles

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Understanding Anthos: Google’s multicloud bid to define the next 20 years of enterprise IT

  The unveiling of Google Cloud’s Anthos multicloud management tool dominated many discussions at the firm’s annual developer conference in San Francisco, amid claims that it could change the face of enterprise IT for decades

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  HM Land Registry completes blockchain trial

  HM Land Registry’s blockchain project is part of a wider digital transformation initiative which aims to simplify and speed up the process of buying and selling property

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Government says no conflict of interest in trial despite Post Office chairman’s dual role

  BEIS refutes MP’s suggestion of Post Office chairman’s conflict of interest in group litigation case involving Horizon IT system

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Qumulo upgrades hybrid-flash hybrid cloud C-series with C-72T

  Hybrid cloud-focused clustered NAS provider Qumulo’s C-72T takes advantage of cheaper and better components to start at 72TB and scale to petabytes from a 1U node

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Gartner: Shift to public cloud curbs datacentre spending

  More servers are being bought by public cloud providers, but these tend to be cheap, original device manufacturer equipment, rather than boxes from HPE, Dell or Lenovo

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  AI can help to reduce carbon footprint and manage environmental issues

  Artificial intelligence-powered applications could help policy-makers and industry leaders manage greenhouse gas emissions and support sustainability initiatives

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Nutanix powers Manchester City Council’s IT

  Manchester City Council has made considerable savings since migrating off a traditional architecture in favour of a hyper-converged infrastructure from Nutanix

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  MP questions government over Post Office Horizon case

  Labour MP asks the government about the costs associated with the Post Office Horizon legal battle

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  How Kubernetes has simplified Bet365’s software deployments

  Online betting company has begun using Kubernetes to make it easier for its IT infrastructure and product teams to share complex configurations

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Sweden to take up Finnish AI challenge

  Following Finland’s example, Swedish companies are starting to use a training programme to bring staff up to speed with artificial intelligence

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Fox Sports Australia predicts wickets with AutoML Tables

  Machine learning model powered by Google Cloud’s AutoML Tables service enables sports broadcaster to predict the fall of a wicket in live cricket matches

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Facebook takes extraordinary legal steps to contain document leak

  Facebook targets journalists and news organisations for computer searches

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Automation will bring job security, say most IT security pros

  Most security professionals believe that although automation can support humans, it will not result in a reduction in job opportunities, a study shows

• April 14, 2019 14 Apr'19

  Singapore firms streamline operations, fend off disruption with cloud

  Certis and financial institutions are among those in the city state that are turning to cloud services to gain a competitive edge

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  Mott MacDonald builds smart cities on Azure cloud

  The Microsoft cloud will be used to run digital twins of city infrastructure to help city planners manage infrastructure more effectively

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  O2 5G network to support Millbrook CAV trials

  O2 will activate 59 5G sites in June to support trials of connected and autonomous vehicles at the Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire

• April 11, 2019 11 Apr'19

  Google Cloud eyes big expansion in Asia, sharpens industry focus

  Google Cloud’s new CEO, Thomas Kurian, unveils plans to turn his company into a bigger player in Asia’s booming cloud computing market

• April 11, 2019 11 Apr'19

  Google doubles down on machine learning to drive up energy efficiency of global datacentre fleet

  With enterprises becoming more mindful of how sustainable their IT consumption habits are, Google outlines its work to ensure the datacentres underpinning its cloud platform continue to push the envelope on energy efficiency

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  ANZ business users calling the shots in ICT decisions

  Business users in ANZ firms have more sway about technology decisions, but it is not always a case of shadow IT

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  SuiteWorld 2019: The shifting landscape of the manufacturing industry

  At SuiteWorld 2019, the managing director of OSL Cutting Technologies told Computer Weekly about the shifting skills needs of the manufacturing industry, the increased importance of data, and the impact this has on businesses

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Skype blocked in UAE will hit businesses as well as people

  Skype has been blocked to users in the United Arab Emirates, and its effects will be felt by businesses as well as citizens

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  JetStream DR cloud replication aims to make backup redundant

  JetStream’s IO Filter allows for continuous replication to the cloud of VMware virtual machines and virtual disks instead of scheduled snapshots or backups, and with a near-zero RPO

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Microsoft aims to coax AI developers

  Microsoft has traditionally had strong ties with developers. It now wants to emulate its success, using a platform to simplify AI development

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  EC publishes artificial intelligence guidelines

  Report is intended as a starting point of an international discussion around trustworthy AI and its recommendations will be put to the test in a trial later this year

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  How to remove the paper trail

  The speed with which a contract is signed is often the rate-determining step in a digitally enabled business process

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Should you buy SaaS ERP or best-of-breed enterprise software?

  The major ERP providers are pushing their customers to their cloud offerings. It makes sense, but there are plenty of SaaS alternatives

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Google Cloud CEO outlines plans to take firm even deeper into the enterprise

  CEO Thomas Kurian used inaugural Google Cloud Next keynote to detail how infrastructure investments, supplier partnerships and simplified processes will be key to its plans to conquer even more of the enterprise market

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Google slams public cloud rivals over 'mistreatment' of open source community

  Google Cloud has committed to forging closer ties with the open source community, while hitting out at its competitors for not doing enough to support it

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Google Cloud expands APAC footprint, makes hybrid cloud move

  Cloud supplier Google Cloud has opened its eighth Asia-Pacific cloud region in Seoul, where major cloud suppliers have been ramping up operations in recent years

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Judge in Post Office trial rejects application to recuse himself

  The Post Office’s claim that the judge overseeing the case concerning its controversial Horizon IT system was biased has been dismissed – but will now be considered by the Court of Appeal

• April 08, 2019 08 Apr'19

  PC industry suffers as Microsoft severs link between Windows and hardware refreshes

  If Microsoft succeeds, a Windows upgrade will no longer mean that businesses need to refresh their PC estate

• April 07, 2019 07 Apr'19

  APL Logistics fast-tracks global shipments with cloud

  The Singapore-based supply chain firm has moved its transport management system and other business applications to the cloud, while keeping its ‘secret sauce’ on-premise

• April 05, 2019 05 Apr'19

  Dutch government to make AI national priority

  The Dutch government wants to increase its focus on the artificial intelligence sector, as other countries gain an advantage

• April 05, 2019 05 Apr'19

  European firms see value in ‘known good’ approach to security

  European data protection regulations are driving enterprise interest in an approach to security being championed by virtualisation software maker VMware, says the company’s security lead

• April 05, 2019 05 Apr'19

  Interview: Innovating with data science

  Amadeus’s head of data science for innovation, Baptiste Chatrain, discusses his GitHub page and how the business innovates with data

• April 04, 2019 04 Apr'19

  The rise of digital workers and the bot economy

  Automation Anywhere’s booming business, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, is a sign of things to come in the new world of work where digital workers can be hired from a bot store

• April 04, 2019 04 Apr'19

  No-deal Brexit threatens future of UK CAV sector

  The UK has turned itself into a global leader for connected and autonomous vehicles, but its position is at risk because of Brexit, a new report warns