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• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  NGOs challenge UK and US mass surveillance in human rights court

  Privacy International, Liberty and the American Civil Liberties Union are among 10 human rights groups backing a landmark challenge to mass surveillance in the European Court of Human Rights

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Is it NAS? Is it object storage? It’s both. It’s Avere’s C2N

  Avere launches C2N hybrid NAS/object storage box that uses touted efficiencies of erasure coding to take aim at claimed drawbacks of clustered NAS rivals like Isilon

• September 28, 2016 28 Sep'16

  Mastercard woos software developers with API platform

  Credit card company Mastercard is investing heavily in digital payments and wants to engage with developers and startups

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Emirates Islamic bank and the Muslim finance revolution

  The CIO at Dubai-based bank Emirates Islamic tells Computer Weekly how IT is supporting the company through industry change

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Bangkok Airways takes customer service to the cloud

  Airline is the latest Southeast Asian organisation to harness cloud-based software to improve customer services, deploying the Oracle Service Cloud

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Ministry of Justice IT systems are ‘fragile and precarious’, say MPs

  Public Accounts Committee calls on ministry to urgently improve its “inefficient” IT systems to avoid delays to service transformation

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Pizza Hut Hong Kong rips up traditional CRM rule book

  IT director of parent company Jardine Restaurant Group has transformed the way Pizza Hut interacts with customers in Hong Kong and plans the same in Myanmar and Vietnam

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Hypergrid adds metered usage and networks to hyper-converged kit

  Hyper-converged appliance maker will allow customers to pay for what they use in hardware that will now add networking

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Which? calls for user compensation over Windows 10 upgrade issues

  Consumer rights champion’s research shows 12% of Windows 10 users have downgraded to an older version of the software because of troublesome updates

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Ellison slams AWS at Oracle Open World 2016

  Oracle CTO Larry Ellison criticises Amazon Web Services as a cloud database environment at Oracle Open World 2016, fleshing out earlier critique

• September 19, 2016 19 Sep'16

  Italian bottle maker deploys 88TB of Syneto hyper-converged storage

  Serioplast gets reliable disaster recovery as it replaces NetApp plus remote physical servers with Syneto hyper-converged infrastructure at factories across Europe, Africa and Asia

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Royal Wolverhampton NHS merges IT systems

  The NHS trust has merged its community patient administration system with its central system used by the acute service

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Alleged hacker Lauri Love can be extradited to the US, court rules

  Westminster Magistrates’ Court has ruled that alleged hacker, Lauri Love, can be extradited to the US, where he could face a 99-year prison sentence

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Manchester City builds digital fan wall on Hana Cloud Platform

  Football club has unveiled an interactive fan wall, built on SAP’s Hana Cloud Platform, to engage fans better

• September 14, 2016 14 Sep'16

  Royal Shakespeare Company targets more groundlings with Progress

  The Royal Shakespeare Company revamps its web site and gets its customer engagement act together with content management and digital marketing tools from Progress

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  Banks and fintech firms respect each other, says HSBC boss

  The relationship between banks and fintech companies has sweetened over the past five years with mutual respect evident, says HSBC boss

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  DNB and Nordea to merge IT operations for Baltic super bank

  Two of the Nordic region’s banks will use joint operations, including IT, to help them grow in the Baltic area

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week

  SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Bank IT spending to hit $241bn across four major global regions

  IT spending across four major economic regions will increase by around 4% in 2016, but Europe is the least certain

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  Barclays uses blockchain for trade finance transactions

  Barclays Bank has successfully tested the use of blockchain technology to complete a large trade finance agreement, which promises huge efficiencies

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows

  Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  MoD becomes first tenant in Microsoft's UK Azure datacentre

  Microsoft’s UK Azure cloud is now fully operational, offering Azure cloud services and Office 365

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Banks should avoid customer service robots for a few more years

  Banking sector should not use software robots to automate customer services such as chat because consumers expect better service levels when it come to their finances

• August 31, 2016 31 Aug'16

  Welcome Break uses SAP Jam to spread collaboration

  Motorway services company is using SAP SuccessFactors HR technology to manage its people across franchises that include Starbucks and KFC

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Cloud firm Backbone relegates X-IO SAN with Atlantis tiered storage

  London-based Backbone uses Atlantis USX as storage virtualisation layer on top of PCIe flash and X-IO and as a stepping stone to hyper-converged infrastructures

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  VMware to help enterprises manage AWS, Azure and Google cloud deployments

  Virtualisation giant VMware offers enterprises a helping hand with managing multi-cloud environments, spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn

  After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer

• August 19, 2016 19 Aug'16

  Expect ransomware arrests soon, says bitcoin tracking firm Chainalysis

  Law enforcement organisations are set to ramp up arrests of cyber criminals behind ransomware attacks, according to financial technology startup Chainalysis

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  TfL’s 24-hour tube API retains app compatiblity

  TfL extends its open data API to support London’s 24-hour tube service, with TfL saying the API won’t break existing apps

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  UK data scientist roles grow by 32% in first half of 2016

  There has been a big rise in the number of data scientist positions in the UK and Europe in the first half of 2016

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  Case study: Improving food safety and traceability

  We look at how Transparency-One is using a Neo4j graph database to deliver traceability across the global food supply chain

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules

  Security service MI5 is responsible for 210 “clear contraventions” over five years for the way it accessed private internet and telephone data

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Rackspace ‘on brink’ of sale to private equity house – report

  Reports suggest managed cloud company could be sold in a matter of days, ending its time as a publicly listed company

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  RBS abandons IT project for hiving off 300+ bank branches

  RBS has abandoned a project to create an IT platform to support the sell-off of more than 300 bank branches

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Artificial intelligence takes centre stage in cyber security

  Artificial intelligence-led cyber security technology has been in the spotlight at two major industry conferences in Las Vegas, signalling a firm trend in cyber defence research

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  How Action for Children improved IT service delivery

  Children's charity Action for Children has rolled out Citrix remote access on tablets and is using ITIL to drive IT efficiencies

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  Singapore’s DBS Bank signs up to Amazon cloud

  The latest move in the cloud journey of DBS bank in Singapore is an agreement with Amazon Web Services

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  Panama Papers technology shows data journalism at its best

  The open source data analytics and visualisation software of the Panama Papers project empowers a new kind of journalism, says the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: How the enterprise cloud war is hotting up

  With Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reporting strong growth on the back of cloud, we take a closer look at how they have achieved it

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Vesa Erolainen, Pöyry

  Doubts were raised when Vesa Erolainen, CIO at Finnish engineering and consulting company Pöyry, outlined his IT transformation plan, but he ended up winning an award for it

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  UK’s top security judges struggle to assess privacy threats

  Technological advancements make it difficult for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to assess privacy threats, say the tribunal’s own judges

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Digital Greenwich joins forces with University of Surrey for 5G smart city tests

  Collaboration will investigate “smarter” ways to cope with challenges related to transport, health, energy and the built environment

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Accenture to move HMRC tax system to private cloud

  HMRC has awarded Accenture a contract that will run until 2020 to digitise the UK tax system

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Apple highlights services revenue and future bets as iPhone sales decline

  Apple share price up on strong performance in services and investments in augmented reality and artificial intelligence, despite 27% year-on-year decline in quarterly profit

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Tel Aviv Stock Exchange centralises functions with ERP

  The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has installed first ever ERP system. CIO Eldad Hershtig explains his strategic choices and implementation path

• July 25, 2016 25 Jul'16

  Skills shortage and poor IT infrastructure hinder tech adoption by Asean governments

  EIU report highlights governments’ desire for better use of data, including cloud access

• July 25, 2016 25 Jul'16

  Estonia seeks UK datacentre to protect citizens' personal data from hackers - report

  The Baltic state is reportedly in early stage talks with the UK and Luxembourg governments about setting up a backup site in either country to protect citizens’ data from risk of hackers

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Microsoft reports strong quarter driven by cloud

  Microsoft reports quarterly profits of $3.12bn, largely driven by the success of its focus on cloud services

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Chef CTO urges action to prevent DevOps staff burnout

  Chef CTO Adam Jacob has called on enterprises to cultivate a supportive working culture to protect DevOps staff from burnout

• July 11, 2016 11 Jul'16

  Case study: Odeon goes to hybrid cloud for digital transformation

  Odeon cinema chain reveals how it is using hybrid cloud to power its digital transformation and tackle competitive threats