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July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15
NHS IT system for GP data upload slammed for delays and overspend

National Audit Office report highlights problems that led to four-year delay and a system that did not work when completed
July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15
Sungard follows Apple, Facebook and Microsoft's lead with Irish datacentre plans

Sungard teams up with Digital Realty to create new Irish datacentre
July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15
Post Office signs IBM for IT overhaul

MP James Bridgen reveals the Post Office intends to outsource an IT transformation to IBM as part of its drive to serve customers using modern technology
July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15
Finland's Tieto buys Norwegian enterprise software company

Tieto acqures Software Innovation to boost its business in Norway

June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15
Top suppliers as UK software and services market approaches £50bn

The top five software and IT services firms in the UK are Capita, HP, IBM, Capgemini and Accenture, according to the latest figures from TechMarketView
June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15
Do not leave digital government development to Whitehall, says Chi Onwurah MP

Whitehall should not be left with sole responsibility for the government drive to building a digital future, says shadow Cabinet Office minister Chi Onwurah
June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15
Post Office looking to replace controversial Horizon system with IBM, says MP

Days could be numbered for controversial Post Office computer system at the centre of miscarriages of justice, according to one MP
June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15
Windows Server 2003 end of support: Five options to choose from

Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 ends in July. Should you upgrade to a newer version of the operating system or choose an alternative?
June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15
The rise of general-purpose AI and its threat to humanity

Socially aware general-purpose artificial intelligence in the form of a dog could be the ideal form factor to take over the world
June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15
Norway’s DNB was inspired by Danish bank for new app

DNB in Norway has taken inspiration from Danske Bank in Denmark when creating its latest payment app.

June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15
Universal Credit costs leap by more than 20% to £15.8bn

Figures reveal increase in lifetime cost since changes to the plan made to 'reset' the troubled welfare reform programme
June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15
CIO Interview: Ian Bell, CIO, Cambridgeshire Police Service

The CIO of Cambridgeshire Police Service talks about the constabulary’s move to digital for collaboration and information sharing in its effort to increase efficiency
June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15
John Swainson, president of Dell Software, argues the case for rethinking datacentres

Having previously worked for Silver Lake, CA and IBM, Swainson now heads the company’s software business
June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15
Box ties up with IBM to boost enterprise credibility and global reach

IBM and Box have forged a global partnership to integrate their existing products and services, and develop new ones for secure collaboration
June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15
IT professionals give Windows 10 Start button the thumbs up

A survey of European and North American IT professionals has found that the return of the Start button is the most enticing feature in Microsoft's latest operating system
June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15
Waitrose uses ServiceNow for business continuity planning

Luxury retail brand Waitrose deploys ServiceNow to cope with business continuity across its supply chain
June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15
Bet365: A company betting on its own technology innovations

While many sites make great use of agile development, run on the cloud and are built on Java and JavaScript, Bet365 is doing IT its own way
June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15
Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process
June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15
Veritas plans to revive backup fortunes with big data analytics

Symantec spin-out Veritas plans major backup product releases that leverage metadata to make backups more efficient and unlock valuable information via big data capabilities
June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15
Google eyes Tesco’s customer analytics arm Dunnhumby

Google is reported to have joined the scramble to buy Dunnhumby, the customer analytics unit behind Tesco’s Clubcard
June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15
Legacy systems holding back 90% of businesses

Most businesses are being held back from making digital advances by their reliance on legacy applications
June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15
CIO interview: Rovio Entertainment's Kalle Alppi believes IT staff should be embedded in business

The CIO at the company behind Angry Birds talks about running global IT with only five permanent staff
June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15
The diagram that scares the next generation of banking IT professionals

The next generation of IT professionals in the banking sector will face the same legacy headache as their predecessors
June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15
Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service
June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15
CIO interview: Alan Jensen, Dansk Supermarked

Danske Supermarked is moving to an omni-channel model, and the CIO must ensure IT and business departments are on the journey together
June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15
Council dodges £300,000 NetApp outlay with Atlantis flash caching

Somerset local authority avoids spending £300,000 on extra hard drives for its NetApp arrays and pays half that for Atlantis ILIO flash caching software that runs VDI from RAM
June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15
NHS e-Referral system goes live, despite 33 issues and GDS warning

NHS England has launched its replacement hospital appointment booking service, even though it has known errors and failed to follow government digital guidelines
June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15
Is HMRC making tax more taxing for non-digital taxpayers?

Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has made tax data accessible online – but how should it cater for those unable (or unwilling) to use digital services?
June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15
OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft

The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed
June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15
Case study: What the enterprise can learn from Etsy's DevOps strategy

Jon Cowie, operations engineer at online marketplace Etsy, advises enterprises on how to develop a DevOps-friendly business culture
June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15
Digital services not saving government departments money, says NAO

Government departments are not making the savings digital services were aiming to deliver
June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15
Peugeot Citroën prepares for in-car apps with Sierra Wireless

French car manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroën plans to deploy device-to-cloud technology to support its connected car strategy
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
CIO interview: Billie Laidlaw, RSPCA

RSPCA CIO Billie Laidlaw explains how the charity's cloud-first approach to IT procurement benefits the animals in its care
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
Google announces security features for Android

Google announces better app permission controls and other Android security changes at its Google I/O developer conference
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
Top six enterprise IT priorities in the Nordics

The future of enterprise IT looks bright in the Nordic region, with growing focus on datacentre investments, national cloud and automatisation
May 27, 2015 27 May'15
CIF cloud certification scheme wins European Commission's backing

Cloud Industry Forum's Code of Practice has been added to European list of trusted certification schemes
May 26, 2015 26 May'15
NATS failure down to bug from the 90s and redundant code

A bug present in Nats since 1990s has been identified as the root cause of the five-hour outage of UK air traffic control on 12 December 2014
May 21, 2015 21 May'15
Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth talks about space, drones and smartphones

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, strives towards the vision of a converged handheld device
May 21, 2015 21 May'15
CIO interview: Austerity drives joined-up council IT with Force.com

Peterborough has become a big user of software-as-a-service for council services. We speak to its IT head
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
IT system related to subpostmaster prosecutions under review by CCRC

The Criminal Cases Review Commission receives 20 applications from subpostmasters related to prosecutions for account shortfalls
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
Government cloud adoption hit by ongoing legacy tech investments

IT supplier Eduserv wants government departments banned from investing in legacy tech to drive up cloud adoption
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
GDS will not scale locally with continued bespoke approach

If the Government Digital Service (GDS) continues to develop bespoke digital services, the progress it has made to date will not scale at a local level, Eddie Copeland, head of technology at the Policy Exchange, has warned
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Vodafone returns to quarterly revenue growth

A minute rise in quarterly sales gives mobile network operator Vodafone hope that its financial situation is now stabilising
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Google slashes public cloud prices to undercut rivals

Google cuts cost of its public cloud services to pass on hardware savings in line with Moore's Law
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Canonical offers SaaS pricing for on-site VMs and storage

Open source supplier Canonical has introduced software as a service pricing for on-premise storage in a move that could change the way traditional software is licensed
May 18, 2015 18 May'15
Whitehall technology chiefs vetoed new Windows XP support deal

Government technology chiefs vetoed a new deal with Microsoft to continue Windows XP support to force laggards to move off the OS
May 15, 2015 15 May'15
Rentokil opens up core IT systems to business

The IT department at Rentokil Initial has delivered coding interfaces to its back-end ERP system to enable the business to create new applications
May 13, 2015 13 May'15
Retailers still not delivering omni-channel experience, says Accenture

Research by Accenture finds customers think retailers could provide a more unified approach across all platforms
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
Global banking IT group completes standardised IT architecture

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian) has announced its standardised global IT architecture for banks