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• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  SAP FY 2018: Cloud revenue nears €5bn, 10,500 customers for S/4 Hana

  SAP’s full-year 2018 results show cloud revenue at 20% of the total, which was €24.7bn, while the fourth quarter saw 1,000 customers added to its flagship S/4 Hana

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Cisco breaks out of physical datacentres to support app-based future

  At Cisco Live Europe, extending datacentre capabilities beyond the confines of the physical site to enable app innovation formed the core of a swathe of announcements made by the networking kingpin

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  Brexit won’t curb IT spending

  Analyst Gartner expects organisations to carry on buying more IT to support digitisation initiatives

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  UK IT spending worth £27bn held back due to Brexit uncertainty

  UK businesses are putting billions of pounds of IT investments on hold until they know the terms that the UK will leave the EU

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Google petitions Supreme Court to reconsider Android Java ruling

  Google’s legal chief claims Oracle’s copyright ruling on Java software interfaces will damage software development

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  NATS trials AI at Heathrow to cut delays

  NATS is trialling an artificial intelligence system from Searidge Technologies at Heathrow to discover if it can improve the airport’s landing capacity in low-visibility conditions

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Lloyds Bank to migrate hundreds of thousands of customers to Google-inspired fintech

  Following its announcement that it was exploring the use of a fintech platform, Lloyds Bank has been quick to plan customer migration

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  CIO interview: Charles Ewen, Met Office

  The Met Office’s CIO is working on a new, digital approach, using supercomputers, establishing pioneering partnerships and creating change

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Santander announces latest branch closures as digital channels take over

  Bank to close 140 more UK branches as in-branch transactions fall and digital banking accelerates

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Facebook’s objections to court concerns over privacy more about ‘optics’ than facts

  Facebook’s challenge to a High Court ruling that raises serious concerns about data transfers between Europe and the US is more about appearance than facts, lawyers for the Irish Data Protection Commission told Dublin's Supreme Court

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Veeam Cloud Tier adds tiered storage for backups in S3 clouds

  Virtualisation backup specialist adds tiering of Veeam Availability Suite data to AWS, Azure and S3-compatible clouds, which can now also be used as a repository for its N2WS cloud-native backup

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  IT leaders must address integration to support business ecosystem

  New survey finds that for most businesses, digitisation initiatives are hampered by legacy IT and integration issues

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Singapore releases Asia’s first AI governance framework

  The model framework will help businesses in Singapore tackle the ethical and governance challenges of AI implementations

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  XL Axiata teams up with Tibco in data science initiative

  The Indonesia telco’s data scientists will be provided with data science tools from Tibco to uncover customer insights and improve network planning, among other goals

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  BigCommerce migrates 60,000 merchants from IBM and AWS to Google Cloud Platform

  E-commerce platform provider BigCommerce has swapped out IBM and AWS for the Google Cloud Platform to help its users give their customers a faster, more responsive online shopping experience

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Mastercard fined over half a billion euros for unfair payment fees

  Mastercard has been heavily fined for having rules on interchange fees which distorted the EU single market

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Marks & Spencer introduces photo search for online shopping

  British retail brand Marks and Spencer has introduced a photo searching capability to its mobile site to help people find products they like using other images

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Davos 2019: Why data sharing is key to AI in Industry 4.0

  Machines can learn from humans, but no one does the same job in the same way, so it makes sense to identify best practices

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Virtus plots £500m colocation expansion with five datacentres planned for Slough and Hayes

  Virtus Data Centres is continuing to build out its colocation footprint within the M25, with five facilities set to open during the next two years

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Facebook: US government does not engage in mass and indiscriminate surveillance

  Social media giant challenges a ruling by Dublin’s High Court over a judgment that it says made ‘extraordinary and incorrect’ findings about the US legal system

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Amazon shareholders demand halt in sales of image recognition tech to US government

  Amazon shareholders want its board of directors to halt sales of its image recognition service to US law enforcers unless it can independently verify it's not being misused

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Thailand pushes for Industry 4.0 in ASEAN

  Nearly half of the kingdom’s deliverables as chair of ASEAN will be focused on spurring Industry 4.0 developments across the region

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Vodafone and IBM prep user clouds for future network tech

  Companies expand existing collaboration to enable enterprise customers to prepare for the impact of advanced networking technologies

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Davos: World leaders need to grasp future technological risks

  Technological advancement is both a benefit and risk to society, but often the risks are not identified until they are exploited

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  CIO interview: David Jack, chief technology and product officer, Dunnhumby

  Analytics pioneer’s CTPO is working to accelerate and scale up the company’s platforms, introduce new products and migrate to the cloud

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  O2 powers customer-centric network with Nokia AI

  Mobile operator O2 claims Nokia’s AI-driven Service Operation Center platform will help it anticipate its customers’ problems before they know they have problems

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Thousands of known errors on controversial Post Office computer system to be revealed

  Known errors log concerning Horizon IT system set to be announced during second High Court trial in subpostmasters’ long-running dispute with Post Office over financial losses

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Less than half of firms able to detect IoT breaches, study shows

  UK firms have one of the lowest internet-of-things device breach detection capabilities in Europe, a study reveals

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  Why CIOs need to reshape desktop IT for Windows 7 end of support

  With a year to go before Windows 7 reaches end of life, IT departments have more than just the operating system upgrade to consider

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  AI application overlooked in cyber security research

  Despite the proliferation of cyber security products and services claiming to be driven by artificial intelligence, the application of the technology is being overlooked by research, a study shows

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  AWS pushes MongoDB compatible alternative as licences change

  They probably didn't see that coming... MongoDB's switch to server-side licensing may have backfired, as AWS launches an API-compatible version

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  Artificial intelligence qualification helps law firm implement AI-powered business systems

  International law firm Taylor Wessing wants to train staff in artificial intelligence so they can develop AI-powered business systems

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  CIO interview: Darren Curry, CDO, NHS Business Services Authority

  NHS Business Services Authority chief digital officer Darren Curry talks about using technology to change people’s lives, developing accessible services and transforming the health service

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  Microsoft takes community approach to artificial intelligence in Sweden

  Microsoft is making increasing use of artificial intelligence in Sweden as it shares experiences with the development community

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Enterprises are increasing the human workforce while deploying AI

  Artificial intelligence is creating more jobs than it replaces, according to a study of businesses using the technology

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Mercedes-Benz collaborates with Nvidia on in-car supercomputer

  Partners plan to work on an in-car computer for autonomous driving, and to replace existing in-car systems

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  AWS ‘does not dominate’ cloud market, claims Amazon’s UK public policy chief

  Amazon’s UK director of public policy, Lesley Smith, has told the House of Lords Communications Committee that Amazon is a “prevalent”, rather than “dominant” force in the cloud market

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Smart speakers set to own the consumer ecosystem

  Consumers prefer to buy gadgets that are compatible with the digital voice assistants they already have in their homes

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Intel readies 10nm chips for AI, 5G and a new PC platform

  During CES, Intel revealed how it would address the market opportunity in 5G and support AI inference

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Exxon joins IBM’s quantum committee as Q System One goes commercial

  The Q System One is said to be the world’s first commercial quantum computer. ExxonMobil and CERN hope to exploit IBM’s latest tech

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  CES 2019: Here plugs Alexa into in-car navigation service

  Here, the former Nokia mapping unit now owned by a consortium of German carmakers, is to integrate Amazon Alexa with its navigation and location services

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Protego Labs launches serverless app security tool

  Security professionals and developers now have a way to assess the security of their serverless applications with a new open source testing tool donated to Owasp

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Growth of on-premise tech hit by enterprise cloud demand in 2018, Synergy Research shows

  Growth opportunities for on-premise technologies within the enterprise are starting to feel the pinch from cloud, claims Synergy Research's 2018 market review

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Downtime deterrent: Trustpilot SRE on using infrastructure as code to prevent site outages

  Online reviews site Trustpilot has a huge global readership, and here its site reliability engineering manager shares details of how his team help to ensure its services are always on when its users need them

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  NHS Long-Term Plan to bring health service into the digital age

  The long-term plan to transform the NHS by using Theresa May’s £20.5bn-a-year birthday present promises use of artificial intelligence, genomic testing and digital GP appointments for all

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  Huawei debuts Arm-based chip, eyes broader server market

  Huawei’s Kunpeng 920 processor is geared towards big data and infrastructure applications, marking its foray into Arm-based servers that are set to change the dynamics of the datacentre market

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  JP Morgan looks for someone to lead its blockchain developments

  Bank seeks executive to take on blockchain role, with responsibility for creating technology to solve business challenges

• January 03, 2019 03 Jan'19

  M&A in action: How Majestic Wine paired with Naked Wines to fuel cloud-led digital transformation

  Find out how the acquisition of online-only wine retailer Naked Wines in 2015 has shaped the digital transformation plans of its parent company Majestic Wine

• January 03, 2019 03 Jan'19

  Trust is key to Microsoft’s APAC cloud play

  A senior Microsoft Asia executive talks up the company’s cloud momentum in the region, how it stands out from the pack, and its priorities in the new year

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  Guide dogs not fazed by self-driving robots

  Robotics startup Starship Technologies and charity Guide Dogs are collaborating on a series of tests exploring how service animals interact with robots