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April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
IBM sales and profits down, but future focus areas see growth

IBM experiences another fall in sales, but it continues to sell more in areas that will make up its future business
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
Telefónica rolls out AI-based network management

Mobile operator tests Huawei’s SmartCare service operation centre to manage customer connections to its networks
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
Majority of open source has security flaws

Software audit highlights major security weaknesses across all open source software
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
How Dutch university quickly connected thousands of students to new learning management system

Dutch university TU Delft is replacing its legacy learning management system after 17 years

April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
How Oracle tackles licensing discrepancies

The recent publication of court filings from a licence dispute case shows a catalogue of 'damaging' techniques the supplier used following an audit
April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17
Robotic automation takes off in the Nordics

Software robots are rapidly automating traditionally manual tasks at enterprises across the Nordic region
April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17
Microsoft underlines importance of keeping software updated

Microsoft has underlined the importance of keeping software up to date by confirming that no supported versions of its software are vulnerable to leaked NSA hacking tools
April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17
FDM uses gamification to make graduate recruitment process more inclusive

IT services firm uses Yellow Hook Reef game to make its graduate recruitment process more inclusive and enjoyable for candidates
April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17
First MariaDB user conference hails renaissance of relational model

At its inaugural user conference in New York, MariaDB corporation leaders Michael Howard and Monty Widenius say the open source relational database model finds its moment beyond NoSQL phase
April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17
SAP S/4 Hana gains traction in APAC

While SAP now counts companies such as China’s Ameco Beijing as clients, it is also going all out to address hitches that stand in the way of wider adoption of its S/4 Hana software

April 13, 2017 13 Apr'17
Yelp deploys Splunk to improve data access

Yelp uses Splunk Enterprise in IT and across business services to help build revenue opportunities
April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17
New-format Patch Tuesday reveals Office and Hyper-V flaws

Microsoft has changed the way it alerts Windows admins and has issued critical patches for Office and Hyper-V
April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17
Chatbots, Fitbits and AI: IT suppliers identify the top trends in HR technology

Businesses are using Fitbits, artificial intelligence and chatbots to improve working life as competition increases to recruit talented ‘millennials’
April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17
Going mobile in Moscow: city digitisation the Russian way

Computer Weekly meets with Andrey Belozerov, strategy and innovations advisor to the CIO of Moscow, to learn how the city government is taking a joined-up approach to digitisation and smart city technology
April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17
‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies

The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role
April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17
House of Fraser drops Oracle support to invest in multi-channel retail

IT departments need to cut costs to reinvest in new projects. House of Fraser has a multi-channel strategy and Oracle support wasn’t strategic
April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17
Cloud increasingly part of the job for storage professionals

451 Group research finds storage professionals are less concerned with data growth than last year but increasingly likely to have to manage storage capacity in the cloud
April 07, 2017 07 Apr'17
Cyber security fears are a barrier to fintech innovation

Survey shows most large financial services firms believe better visibility of cyber security controls within fintechs would improve prospects of partnering with them
April 07, 2017 07 Apr'17
How an MSSP scaled up its security analysts' capacity

Irish-managed security services provider Smarttech has increased its speed and capacity to analyse cyber attacks using IBM’s fledgling cognitive computing technology
April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17
CIO interview: Richard Sharp, CTO, Shazam

We speak to the new chief technology officer at music discovery service Shazam about how to foster an innovation culture
April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17
Anti-trust complaints target Microsoft in the European Union

Microsoft comes under pressure as software suppliers raise market abuse complaints with the European Commission over bundling of Defender security software with Windows
April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17
Research fires warning at banks over branch closures

Traditional retail banks cannot rely on customer loyalty if service levels drop as a result of branch closures and staff cuts
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
Technology investments core to JP Morgan Chase success

US investment bank is reaping the benefits of its $9.5bn annual technology spend
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
Dutch IT companies introduce unlimited staff holidays

IT firms in The Netherlands are leading the way with strategies to give employees control of how much time they take off work
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut gets sweet on cloud

Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut is increasingly using cloud-based apps to improve productivity and reduce costs
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
Northern Ireland schools to continue with Capita IT services

Two-year, £60m contract extension covers ICT services for 1,100 schools
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
How to apply DevOps practices to legacy IT

The one constant in legacy systems is that they can’t just be switched off. We find out how Ticketmaster has adapted its legacy IT to DevOps
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
AWS cloud dominance under growing threat from Google and Microsoft, says 451 Research

Latest Voice of the Enterprise report from 451 Research suggests competition in the IaaS market is hotting up, with Microsoft and Google posing a growing threat to AWS
April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank unveils data analytics platform

Free platform made available to bank’s customers at a time when only 34% of the country’s SMEs are making data-driven decisions
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
DataWorks 17: Hortonworks promotes maturity of HDP upgrade

Hadoop distributor leads on an upgrade to its Hortonworks Data Platform at the DataWorks 2017 Summit in Munich
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
VMware to sell vCloud Air service and datacentre infrastructure to OVH

French IaaS challenger to take over the reins of global vCloud Air hybrid cloud service
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
Outsourced water market IT system up and running

England’s competitive water and sewage market is now in operation, underpinned by an IT system from CGI
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
Open Networking Summit expands collaboration around SDN and NFV

Standards bodies, suppliers, telecoms operators and academics gather in California for the annual SDN and NFV Open Networking Summit
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
Workers at least mentally prepared for robots to take over some of their work

One-fifth of workers are mentally prepared for technology to take over some of their roles, but employers must do more to support them
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
Nearly one in five Singapore business leaders bypassing IT

Frustrated with IT departments, business leaders are now taking technology matters into their own hands
April 03, 2017 03 Apr'17
Australian banks’ move to boycott Apple Pay denied

Australia’s competition watchdog is concerned that the proposed conduct is likely to reduce or distort competition
April 03, 2017 03 Apr'17
Executive interview: Tolga Kurtoglu, CEO, Parc

Palo Alto Research Center – formerly Xerox Parc – is the home of the modern computer. We speak to its new CEO about innovation
April 03, 2017 03 Apr'17
Teradata Universe 17: IntelliFlex 2.0 vaunted as emblem of flexibility

At its Universe conference in Nice, Teradata announces an upgrade to its MPP IntelliFlex platform in line with what it says is a fresh flexibility towards customers
March 31, 2017 31 Mar'17
Expanding business intelligence firm uses technology to bring in recruits

Chester-based GBG has saved £300,000 in recruitment costs and seen its ‘Glassdoor’ ratings jump from 1.9 to 4.2 out of 5
March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17
Microsoft to shut Skype office in Sweden

Stockholm base sees 120 jobs put at risk as tech giant seeks to reduce its geographical spread
March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17
How to start building enterprise momentum for microservices

The maturity of containers has given the IT industry a new architectural approach to engineer applications using microservices. We look at whether it is ready for the enterprise.
March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17
Government announces autonomous vehicle contest

Business secretary Greg Clark launches a contest to access funding from the government’s £100m connected and autonomous vehicle funding pot
March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17
UK insurtech startups follow fintech example

UK startups focused on technology for insurance companies saw capital investments double last year
March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17
Thorn CEO on using machine learning and tech partnerships to tackle online child sex abuse

The CEO of US-based no-profit Thorn explains how cross-industry collaboration and machine learning is helping her organisation stay one step ahead of online child sex abusers
March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17
Russian Airline at home in the cloud

S7 Airlines in Russia looks set to move more of its IT to the cloud after successful infrastructure-as-a-service project
March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17
Are ethical questions holding back AI in France?

France has been slow to create a strategy around the use of artificial intelligence, partly due to questions around ethics
March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17
CNCF: Cloud Native Foundation drives portability forward

The Cloud Native Foundation conference in Berlin kicked off with a set of initiatives to take on board popular container engines from Kubernetes and Docker
March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17
Singapore to shutter 2G services by April 1

2G is making way for 3G and LTE networks in the city-state, but the legacy technology will remain in other markets with significant machine-to-machine investments
March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17
ONS data science campus opens with “public good” mission

Data science campus opens at Office for National Statistics in Newport, south Wales with “public good” mission
March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17
1,000 sub-postmasters apply to join IT-related group litigation against Post Office

Group legal action against Post Office relates to allegedly faulty Horizon computer system
March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17
Microsoft facing $5m class action over Windows 10 upgrades

Three Windows users are attempting to claim $5m in damages from Microsoft for problems caused by faulty Windows 10 upgrades
March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17
Emerging APAC markets more prone to malware

Indonesia, India and the Philippines are among the top 10 countries with the most number of malware infections, according to a Malwarebytes study
March 26, 2017 26 Mar'17
HPE, Tata Communications to build world’s largest IoT network

The Lora-based network will benefit around 400 million people in India who can expect improvements in water quality and public safety
March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17
Case study: How the Department for Education deployed flexible IT

The Department of Education has upgraded its ageing datacentre to the Azure cloud and Office 365, and rolled out Microsoft Surface devices
March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17
AI and robots will 'create political instability' until humans find new occupations

The belief that advances in technology will create more jobs than they replace may no longer hold true
March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17
UK labour costs are cheap but automation will erode jobs market

PwC has estimated that millions of people may be affected by robots and artificial intelligence replacing their jobs
March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17
Serco uses HR technology to cut recruitment bill

International outsourced services supplier Serco is investing in HR recruitment technology to help it hire 15,000 to 20,000 people a year
March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17
Cisco unveils new Spark collaboration platform in APAC

Spark will be the future platform for integrating all of Cisco’s collaboration technologies, according to a Cisco regional executive
March 22, 2017 22 Mar'17
Tech City UK report trumpets nation’s digital economy

In its third TechNation report, Tech City UK says the nation leads the way in digital innovation across Europe
March 22, 2017 22 Mar'17
PostNord cutting up to 4,000 Danish jobs in response to digitisation

Logistics firm PostNord is set to cut jobs in Denmark due to falling mail volumes in the country, with a new production model set to be introduced
March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17
Mashraq uses beacon technology to make financial life easier

In its latest fintech launch, the UAE’s Mashraq bank is deploying beacon technology to ensure its customers get the loyalty rewards they are entitled to
March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17
Heathrow Airport updates clunky loyalty scheme through cloud-based software and services

Streamlined loyalty programme doubles number of airport users and boosts average spend
March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17
Robots to support children in Middle East classrooms

Teachers and children in the UAE will soon be supported by robots in the classroom
March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17
Half of banks think more payments will be via fintechs by 2020

Fintechs have gone from being an emerging threat to banks to an opportunity for collaboration, according to an EIU report
March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17
Openreach trains apprentice engineers in virtual reality

Openreach inductees get to experience an immersive simulation of life as an engineer, taking them up telephone poles and into underground chambers
March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17
Cardiff man Samata Ullah admits terrorist charges after posting encryption details on Islamic blog

Samata Ullah, a resident of Cardiff, pleaded guilty to five terrorism charges, including developing an encrypted version of an Islamic website and posting videos explaining how to use encryption
March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17
IBM cognitive assistant to help manage and secure devices

IBM has announced a cognitive assistant powered by IBM Watson to help businesses manage and secure endpoints, including devices making up the internet of things
March 19, 2017 19 Mar'17
Robot tax not feasible for Australia

Data61 CEO Adrian Turner says Australia needs to reskill workers rather than implement a robot tax
March 19, 2017 19 Mar'17
Middle East fintech sector to accelerate this year with UAE leading the way

The financial technology industry could be at the start of a period of rapid growth in the Middle East
March 19, 2017 19 Mar'17
SAP to invest $200m in United Arab Emirates

European software maker plans investment to get near customers in the Middle East
March 17, 2017 17 Mar'17
Singapore startup partners IBM to pilot blockchain technology

Invictus’ distributed ledger prototype will offer financing options for small and medium-sized enterprises
March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17
HMRC urged to delay digital tax plan for businesses

Lords committee echoes previous criticism by MPs over timetable for Making Tax Digital programme and calls for further trials
March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17
Nordea goes beyond what is mandatory for PSD2

Nordic bank prepares for the introduction of the latest banking regulations through a platform that is open to third parties
March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17
CIO interview: Jon Cheyne, IT director, National Theatre

We speak to the IT head at the National Theatre about what it means to have a 99% cloud strategy
March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17
Oracle Q3 2016-17 results: cloud revenue up, overall growth 2%

Oracle’s third-quarter results for fiscal year 2017 show 2% growth in overall revenue, with cloud representing 13% of the total. Executives are bullish on cloud ERP growth prospects
March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17
Digital transformation shifts balance in IT departments

IT leaders are shifting the focus of the IT department, providing more staff to support digital business initiatives
March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17
Cloudability acquires Australian cloud automation firm

The acquisition will expand the supplier’s footprint in the ANZ market through new automation capabilities
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Unicef uses data science to track refugees

United Nations agency for humanitarian aid for children and mothers in developing countries is turning to data science, marshalling expertise from companies and other corporates
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Tablets on the decline in Middle East as big smartphones take over

A total of 13.8 million tablets were sold in the region in 2016 – 14.7% less than in 2015
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Nordic airline averts business disaster with application performance monitoring

Following an emergency decision to move to Amazon Web Services, Iceland’s Wow Air has wholeheartedly bought into the cloud
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Microsoft delivers enterprise chat through Office 365 and Teams

Teams is Microsoft’s latest step to put Office 365 at the heart of collaboration, cementing Office as the business workspace
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
National Theatre moves to Office 365

The National Theatre is increasingly using cloud technology, with the implementation of cloud-based productivity tools its latest move
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Middle East healthcare on cusp of IT innovation era

Healthcare in the Middle East looks set for a revolution, according to the first surgeon to use Google Glass during an operation
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Derbyshire NHS Trust takes simple BI approach to secure patient safety

Derbyshire NHS Foundation Trust opts for a simple, clinician and business-led approach to business intelligence to secure patient safety, using MicroStrategy
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Scale Computing to bring NVMe flash to hyper-converged

Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Scale Computing is set to introduce NVMe connectivity to its products in 2017 with tiers of all flash also on the roadmap
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
CIO interview: Simon McCalla, Nominet

Nominet, the registry for more than 10 million of the UK’s internet domains, is expanding into the internet of things and internet security services
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Portakabin’s biggest-ever IT investment unifies CRM

Modular construction firm is moving to a single source of business information through cloud technology and services
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Royal Dutch Touring Club stimulates innovation and renewal of ICT

Dutch motoring club has shaped its business in a way that enables the business and IT department to innovate together
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Analytics sell Tegile hybrid flash as college replaces iSCSI

Bolton College replaces six-year-old Dell EqualLogic iSCSI block arrays and is won over to Tegile hybrid flash by ease of troubleshooting troublesome VM I/O spike issues
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
NCC Group launches bounty for open source security flaw fixes

Firm hopes bounty scheme will inspire others to do the same to encourage security specialists to make open source software more secure
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Danish shipping company uses blockchain in IBM partnership

Maersk and IBM test out the application of blockchain technology to track and manage the paper trail of shipping containers around the world
March 12, 2017 12 Mar'17
Open source adoption in APAC no longer just about cost-cutting

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst calls for enterprises to tap open source technologies to build new capabilities and solve business problems
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Executive interview: Gideon Mann, head of data science, Bloomberg

We find out how Bloomberg’s Gideon Mann balances the certainty of analytics with the alchemy of machine learning
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Outsourcing gives Scottish charity’s IT team time to think ahead

Carr Gomm outsources IT support to allow internal IT team to think beyond keeping the lights on
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Tech firms to get first look at CIA hacking tools

WikiLeaks has promised to show tech firms details of what it claims is a leaked arsenal of CIA hacking tools to enable them to prepare fixes before any more are made public
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Singapore’s maritime sector facing talent shortages in big data

The skills gap in Singapore is putting big data analytics out of reach for port and logistics companies
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Open Rights Group calls for control of spies’ use of zero-days

Wikileaks’ publication of documents detailing CIA hacking tools has prompted calls for government to control spy agencies’ use of vulnerabilities in widely used hardware and software
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Nordea brings social aspect to saving with fintech startup Spiff

Nordea launches a mobile savings app from Norwegian finanical technology company Spiff
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Google: Democratisation of AI tech to ‘greatly improve’ quality of life

Fei-Fei Li, Google's chief scientist of artificial intelligence and machine learning, talks up societal benefits of making artificial intelligence tools and technologies accessible to all
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Domino’s Australia says hello to chatbots

The pizza chain has launched a chatbot that takes orders via its Australian website and mobile app