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• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  CIOs should 'leave innovation to marketing'

  CIOs should focus on managing the technical infrastructure and leave innovation to other parts of the business – conclusion of a major study.

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

  The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  Queen Mary University to offer networking crash course for ICT students

  Queen Mary University of London to pilot a four-day network training and certification course

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  IT supplier insolvencies fall for first time as economy recovers

  Technology companies have reached a turning point as insolvencies fall for the first time in 2014

• May 29, 2014 29 May'14

  BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

  British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson

  Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing

  NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  Business Objects use increases among SAP users, but Hana uptake low

  More UK and Ireland SAP customers are using Business Objects now than even two years ago, but only 15% are using Hana

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Salesforce.com opens UK datacentre to support data sovereignty

  Cloud CRM company Salesforce.com has announced its first UK datacentre, which is also its first in Europe

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Case study: Bank of America and Nationwide use in-branch telepresence

  Bank of America and Nationwide implement video conferencing technology to enable customers to speak to banking specialists

• May 21, 2014 21 May'14

  Tablet banking to quickly overtake mobile banking

  The number of people in Europe banking on tablets will grow at twice the rate of those on mobile phones, with security concerns not a major driver

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

  From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  IT headcount lags behind growth in digital strategies

  There is a huge gap in technology staffing for e-commerce operations, according to a new report from analyst Forrester

• May 16, 2014 16 May'14

  Why did GPs turn their back on Choose and Book?

  NHS England has scrapped its £356m outpatient booking system, Choose and Book, which was largely ignored by doctors

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Justifying the business case to update Oracle eBusiness Suite

  To justify the upgrade cost needed to move to Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12, IT departments need consider how the implementation can deliver value.

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  UK helping US military build intelligence software for drone targeting

  The UK has been helping the US military build software to share intelligence for weapons such as drones for the past 14 years

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  Addressing security and privacy on the industrial internet

  The smart grid and smart meters are part of the wider industrial internet, which will offer insight into people’s life at home. What are the security implications?

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  City University London launches data science and cyber security courses

  City University London will this year begin its first post-graduate courses in data science and cybersecurity.

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  Co-operative Bank report reveals challenge of legacy IT replacement

  A report into the £1.5bn losses at Co-operative Bank reveals numerous failures in a project to replace core banking systems

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  GDS working to secure Google Apps for government

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) is in talks with CESG, the IT security arm of GCHQ, to get approval for using Google Apps within government.

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  British Gas brings central heating control to smartphones with AWS

  British Gas used public cloud IT to enable people remotely control their homes’ central heating with smartphone apps and save on utility bills

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  Software developers suffer as IT companies endure rising insolvencies

  Increase in the number of IT insolvencies expected as the economy improves

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  Oracle updates Solaris, but is its server strategy sound?

  Oracle has released a beta versdion of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future?

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  SDL turns to cloud HR to join up businesses in 40 countries

  The technology is central to the company’s strategy to integrate formerly autonomous businesses in 38 countries into a single operation

• April 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  Case study: How big data powers the eBay customer journey

  With 50TB of machine-generated data produced daily and the need to process 100PB of data, eBay has an astronomic data challenge

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  US judge orders Microsoft to hand over email data held in Dublin

  A US Judge has ordered Microsoft to give the District Court access to the contents of one of its customer’s emails stored on a server located in Dublin

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  Fiat and Chrysler to integrate separate IT systems

  Car manufacturing group Fiat and Chrysler have contracted IBM to integrate their separate IT infrastructures into a single global operation, following the companies coming together after Chrysler applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

• April 25, 2014 25 Apr'14

  Heartbleed prompts tech firms to pledge open-source support

  Top tech firms have joined forces to support open-source software to help prevent future bugs like Heartbleed

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has his Trustworthy Computing moment

  In 2002, Microsoft chief Bill Gates sent out the Trustworthy Computing memo to staff. Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, had his Trustworthy Computing moment this week.

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Q&A: SAP's Mike Ettling discusses SuccessFactors cloud HR strategy

  Computer Weekly talks to Mike Ettling, global head of cloud and on-premise HR at SAP, about the company’s strategy for its SuccessFactors cloud HR technology

• April 15, 2014 15 Apr'14

  EU data privacy authorities approve Microsoft Azure, Office 365 cloud services

  The European Union's data privacy authorities have given approval to Microsoft's cloud services including Windows Azure and Office 365

• April 11, 2014 11 Apr'14

  Co-op Bank plans to 'fix the fundamentals' and invest in IT

  The Co-operative Bank intends to invest in IT systems following a troubled year

• April 11, 2014 11 Apr'14

  Microsoft halts Windows 8.1 update for businesses due to bug

  Microsoft has suspended the Windows 8.1 update for business users because of a bug.

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud

  Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  EasyJet flies with HR software in the cloud

  Airline easyJet is moving to cloud-based human resources software from Workday to manage its 8,000 employees

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe

  Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacle

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Law Society advises legal industry's IT teams over cloud

  The Law Society has published best-practice advice for legal firms' IT teams that are considering using cloud computing, following increased use of the cloud to store data

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  CIO interview: Leandro Balbinot, global CIO, HJ Heinz

  Food giant HJ Heinz is gearing up to expand its international presence with a technology modernisation programme encompassing 23 countries

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  John Lewis and Waitrose move to Google Apps for collaboration

  John Lewis and Waitrose have adopted Google Apps for sharing ideas, managing information and receiving real-time updates on the business

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Competition from FinTech startups keeps big suppliers on their toes

  Big suppliers in the financial technology space are becoming more agile because of the competition from startup technology companies

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Pharmaceuticals company turns to cloud HR technology

  Astra Zeneca CIO Dave Smoley turns lessons learned from an earlier cloud HR implementation to use at the pharmaceuticals giant

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  Government signs £5.5m Microsoft deal to extend Windows XP support

  The government has signed a deal with Microsoft to support Windows XP across the UK public sector for 12 months after 8 April deadline

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Ministry of Justice to invest up to £375m in court and tribunal technology reform

  The Ministry of Justice has announced a five-year programme to update and replace technology used in courts and tribunals across the UK

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

  Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UK

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Application support and maintenance costs increase 29%

  The cost of supporting and maintaining applications is increasing every year for Global 2000 companies in the US and UK, according to a study of 300 CIOs

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Mine machine data to boost business value

  Businesses risk losing their competitive edge if they are unable to drill down into the information captured by machine-generated data

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business

  Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Interview: Charles Phillips, CEO, Infor

  Charles Phillips is at a critical point in his role at Infor. Over the past three years as CEO he has invested heavily in overhauling the company's enterprise software

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday

  On March 14 2006 Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS)