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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
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Driving change is key barrier in APAC digital transformation

Rallying employees and business partners around digital engagement efforts is just one of the challenges facing companies in the region
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Centrica eliminates more than 20 IT systems after replacing SAP with cloud HR technology

Energy and services company claims major savings in IT costs after moving its HR services to the cloud
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Abu Dhabi finance regulator pens fintech agreement with Singapore central bank

The financial services regulator in Abu Dhabi is co-operating with its counterpart in Singapore to promote financial technology developments
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Investment industry to spend $2.8bn on AI by 2021, expected to cut quarter of a million jobs

230,000 jobs in the capital markets sector globally will be defunct because of the adoption of artificial intelligence technology
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
Country as a service becoming reality in Estonia

Programme to help foreigners set up businesses in Estonia through virtual residency is gathering pace
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
Bank branches still more popular than mobile apps for new accounts

Major research reveals the opportunities and challenges facing fintech firms
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
ZF Group opens doors to Hyderabad tech centre

German car parts manufacturer ZF Group opens a technology centre in India to focus on software lead innovation
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
Nodeum to add S3 connectivity to LTFS-powered tape archive

Belgium-based Linux-plus-LTFS startup adds S3 capability to allow customers to add cloud as a tier and data portability between on and off-premises archiving
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
Virtual reality simulation helps KLM engineers escape in an emergency

Dutch airline KLM develops virtual reality simulation to show engineers what to do if a maintenance hangar catches fire
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
3D printing gets serious in the Netherlands

3D projects abound in the Netherlands, with the technology being applied to canal bridges, bicycles, ship components and buildings
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
AWS outage shows vulnerability of cloud disaster recovery

The recent outage at Amazon Web Services has highlighted the risks of using any public cloud for disaster recovery IT
March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17
NSPCC CIO on combining hybrid cloud with managed services to boost Childline resiliency

NSPCC CIO Ray Bilsby sets out the work the children's charity is doing to boost the resiliency of its flagship services, with the help of its managed services partners
March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17
MoD ditches spreadsheets for SaaS-based collaboration tool

The Ministry of Defence is taking advantage of G-Cloud for collaboration software to manage its global activities
March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17
MWC 2017: Huawei R&D focuses on vehicles, drones, virtual reality

Huawei used its presence at the annual Mobile World Congress fair in Barcelona to showcase a number of its mobile innovation programmes
March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17
UK digital strategy highlights key issues but lacks measurable targets

The government’s digital strategy, which aims to set out plans to the “success of the UK’s digital economy” post-Brexit, has been received with mixed response by industry and experts
March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17
Singtel to start consumer IoT trials in Q3 2017

Southeast Asia's biggest telecom group Singtel has developed a platform that integrates standalone IoT applications, including connected cars
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
Dubai Health Authority electronic medical records to launch this year

Dubai citizens and health organisations will soon benefit from electronic medical records
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
CIO interview: Jim Downing, Metail

Jim Downing, CTO at digital fashion plugin Metail, believes selling fashion online is still difficult for retailers despite shifts towards omni-channel
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
Over 100 Norwegian banks join forces in mobile payments

Nordic banks form an alliance on mobile payments and take over the Vipps platform
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
AWS storage outage knocks US-hosted websites and cloud services offline

Cloud services giant suffers multi-hour outage that reportedly had a knock-on effect for 20% of the internet
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
Subscription-based air travel to hit Europe

Airline Surf Jet launches its membership-based service in Europe with cloud-based subscription management software at the core of the business
February 28, 2017 28 Feb'17
UK fintech investment down in 2016

Investment in UK fintech went down in 2016 but is still ahead of 2014 numbers, according to figures from FinTech Global
February 28, 2017 28 Feb'17
What are CIOs doing about the rise of blockchain?

Six CIOs share their views on the rise of blockchain and how to take advantage of this emerging technology
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Ankabut creates hyper-connected ecosystem for UAE education

United Arab Emirates education network implements cloud-based software to improve students’ access to resources
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff

Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Hundreds more sub-postmasters apply to join group action against Post Office

Initial hearing regarding sub-postmasters who say they were wrongly punished for false accounting reveals admission by Post Office legal team
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Citizen Love: the story of an ordinary family's fight with the US government

Finnish documentary makers Raimo Uunila and Lauri Danska tell the behind-the-scenes story of activist Lauri Love’s battle with the US government – and the impact of the case on his family
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Nimble offers Nimble Cloud Volumes all-flash cloud storage

Hybrid and all-flash array maker extends offer to the cloud with Nimble Cloud Volumes cloud storage that can be provisioned for compute on Amazon or Microsoft clouds or on-premise
February 25, 2017 25 Feb'17
Government puts artificial intelligence on the agenda

Government digital strategy’s plans to boost the artificial intelligence industry include a £17m fund to support new technological developments
February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17
The Dogs Trust gets its claws into the cloud

Charity Dogs Trust is implementing a cloud-based consent platform to capture and manage supporter preferences and improve engagement
February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17
Number of people hit by professional financial cyber attack grows after lull

Kaspersky Labs reports that the number of people hit by financial cyber attack grew in 2016 after falling in the previous two years
February 23, 2017 23 Feb'17
Starling Bank opens API with hackathon

Challenger bank Starling opens its API up to developers in hackathon at Google’s London Campus
February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17
Cloud demand fuels record European growth for colocation market in 2016, confirms CBRE

CBRE’s full-year colocation tracker data confirms record take-up for colocation space across Europe in 2016
February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17
Corporate IT Forum aims to fill gap in discipline of SRM

Forum to fill supplier relationship management gap opened up by growing centrality of IT to business, and transitions to cloud
February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17
Microsoft issues critical patches but not for zero days

After missing the monthly security update for 14 February, Microsoft has issued some patches but not for zero-day vulnerabilities despite the availability of exploit code
February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
Airborne cars to transform Dubai’s public transportation

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority is readying the launch of autonomous aerial vehicles in July this year
February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
Australian bank implements cloud-based people management software

Digital bank chose software as a service when it wanted more from its HR systems
February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
Why businesses need a more enlightened approach to phishing attacks

City firms often fire staff for accidently clicking on phishing emails, but there is a better approach, Intel Security’s Raj Samani tells Computer Weekly
February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
Visa opens London technology centre

Visa opens a space in London where it can test out technologies alongside customers and suppliers
February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
SAP users react with concern to SAP High Court victory over Diageo

SAP UK and Ireland User Group has reacted to the supplier’s High Court victory over Diageo in indirect licensing dispute
February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
Oracle fleshes out APAC cloud strategy

Enterprise IT giant Oracle is looking to better serve APAC customers with data sovereignty requirements
February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17
Netherlands expertise unravels enterprise blockchain

Dutch hackathons, pilots and projects are building new applications based on blockchains
February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17
Sweden uses Minecraft for urban planning

Swedish National Land survey has put its maps on Minecraft to promote its work
February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17
Singapore commits over S$80 million to transform SMEs

Funding will support digital transformation efforts and bolster cyber security and data analytics capabilities
February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17
Singapore companies to be cloud-first in two years

Large enterprises in Singapore will think cloud-first, though security remains a bugbear
February 19, 2017 19 Feb'17
Facebook calls on Middle East-based developers in bot challenge

Facebook is looking for software developers in the Middle East to create software robots on its Messenger platform
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
Gartner predicts BI market will jump 7.3% to $18.3bn in 2017

So-called “modern BI and analytics platforms” outpace traditional business intelligence, but rate will slow down
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
Visa, Bosch and Indiegogo debut IBM Watson IoT partnerships

At the inauguration of the Watson IoT HQ in Munich, IBM customers announced a swathe of new partnerships to bring IoT tech to market
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
Swedish capital uses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to cut road congestion

Stockholm transport authorities are gaining a better understanding of road traffic through technology
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
High Court rules for SAP, against Diageo in indirect licensing case

Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database
February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17
Sweden’s Kiviks Musteri turns to cloud to keep up with growth

Swedish fruit products manufacturer Kiviks Musteri plans to put further systems in the cloud as a cloud-based ERP migration nears completion
February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17
Oracle executives claim more comprehensive reach for cloud business

At a recent customer conference in London, US-based Oracle executives gave accounts of the supplier’s cloud business as becoming at once more enterprise and more mid-market
February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17
RSAC17: AI could help in IoT security, says Eric Schmidt

Former Google chief says artificial intelligence could be applied in internet of things security, but the technology is still a long way from Hollywood scenarios
February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17
Deloitte readies enterprise public cloud practice with AWS and SAP

A 2,500-strong consulting practice will focus on delivering SAP Hana on Amazon Web Services for analytics to drive digital business
February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17
UAE bank builds predictive marketing models

Rakbank is using SAS analytics software to better understand its customers following a successful implementation of the supplier’s anti-money laundering software
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
Public sector IT suppliers blast CCS over rising G-Cloud commission charges

CCS confirms commission charges on G-Cloud sales are to rise from 0.5 to 0.75% when the next iteration of the framework drops in May 2017, but suppliers fear it could harm their ability to innovate
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
Diablo targets flash in DIMM slots at in-memory apps

Apps such as Apache Spark need memory. Diablo has changed tack to provide flash as memory in DIMM slots that acts as cache behind regular DRAM so apps don’t have to hit disk storage
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
ONF lays out innovation roadmap for SDN and NFV

The Open Networking Foundation unveils its Open Innovation Pipeline to guide the next phase of development of software-defined and virtualised networking tech
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
Interview: Cloud Foundry on its 2017 awareness-raising plans for open source PaaS

Cloud Foundry’s executive director, Abby Kearns, sets out the organisation’s plans to ensure that market awareness of the platform keeps pace with its rapid enterprise adoption
February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17
Oracle expands cloud offerings in Australia

Tech giant Oracle will deliver platform and infrastructure services through its Sydney datacentre
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Singapore's central bank sets up analytics group

The move by The Monetary Authority of Singapore is part of larger efforts to position Singapore's financial sector for the digital economy
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Dutch tech hub is facilitating the next Google

Amsterdam is already a leading tech hub, and is now offering support for companies in their second phase of development
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Ford invests in artificial intelligence startup to boost autonomous drive

Motorcar maker Ford’s software development team will work alongside Argo AI on robotic vehicle technology
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Santander introduces voice-controlled payments

Santander has taken its voice-controlled banking initiative to the next phase, with customers now able to make payments by voice
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures

Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Intel: Enterprise trust in public cloud is on the rise, but skill shortages hinder adoption

The 2017 Intel cloud security report suggests enterprise attitudes to public cloud are softening, but a shortage of skilled security workers is holding back adoption
February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17
Ordinary citizens with no terror links caught by US surveillance, court hears

US government has “extraordinary access” to private data of non-US citizens around the world, a Dublin court is told
February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17
Motorcycle technical data available through Tibco managed API

Aftermarket vehicle information company Autodata uses Tibco Mashery to extend its developer platform
February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17
Thailand to roll out IoT network in April 2017

The country's first IoT network will offer location tracking, smart metering and smart street lighting services in Phuket and Bangkok