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• May 16, 2022 16 May'22

  Gartner Data & Analytics Summit: Unleash innovation on emergence from pandemic

  Analysts at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London urged D&A leaders to unleash innovation as their organisations emerge from the shadow of the pandemic

• May 16, 2022 16 May'22

  Zoom furthers contact centre expansion with Solvvy acquisition

  In the next step of progression from being the pandemic’s breakout collaboration services leader, Zoom makes strategic buy to add advanced conversational AI and automation capabilities

• May 16, 2022 16 May'22

  Cisco enhances Webex for hybrid with ChomeOS, wellbeing support

  Network and collaboration technology provider enters into partnership with IT giant to build the Webex Meetings PWA for all Chrome OS devices, and introduces collaboration services that support wellbeing

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Open source community sets out path to secure software

  A 10-point plan to improve the security and resilience of open source software was presented this week at a summit in the US

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Government levelling up bill promotes open data-based digital planning

  The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech includes proposals for digital planning powers to be given to local government in England and Wales, based on open data

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Organisational silos hampering integration efforts in Asia

  Many organisations in Asia still approach integration in silos, choosing to build hard coded integrations that tend to be brittle and more prone to failure

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  App-based Starling Bank doubles its Cardiff workforce

  Digital bank is recruiting nearly 500 people, including data scientists and engineers, to its Cardiff operation

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Amdocs unveils digital transformation and SaaS support

  Software and services provider supports media and communications base with offerings designed to deliver integration of streaming services for leading UK cableco

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Fashion tech investment grew 66% during pandemic

  As the pandemic caused an increase in online shopping, fashion businesses began investing in technology to help them match customer demand

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Data Reform Bill announced in Queen’s Speech

  Government claims proposals to reform the UK’s data protection regime will create a framework ‘focused on privacy outcomes rather than box-ticking’

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Pure to offer on-prem object storage as Snowflake data source

  Pure Storage partnership with Snowflake will see the cloud data warehousing platform make use of on-prem FlashBlade fast file and object storage as a source for analytics data

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  DWP partners with AI-powered career and job services

  Partnership involves a trial to see how well artificial intelligence can be used to help job seekers find work more quickly

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Microsoft fixes three zero-days on May Patch Tuesday

  It’s the second-to-last Patch Tuesday as we know it, and Microsoft has fixed a total of 75 bugs, including three zero-days

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Sapphire 2022: Klein majors on sustainability and supply chain resilience

  At SAP’s first in-person Sapphire customer conference in three years, CEO Christian Klein and his top team revisited the themes of sustainability and supply chain resilience, which were prominent in 2020 and 2021

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  IBM lived up to its neutrality promise to Red Hat

  Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier claims IBM has lived up to its commitment to maintain the neutrality of Red Hat three years on

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  SAP ‘optimistic’ about S/4 Hana in APAC

  A top SAP executive is confident that more of its customers in Asia-Pacific will adopt S/4 Hana this year, as the company shores up integration of its ERP software with other business applications

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  CCRC to contact 88 more former subpostmasters with potentially wrongful convictions

  The Criminal Cases Review Commission is to contact 88 more potentially wrongfully convicted Post Office workers

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’

  NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  Post Office scandal inquiry chair brings forward urgent compensation hearings

  The chair of the Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry has brought forward hearings about compensation as victims warn that at this rate “people will die” before they get anything

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  What will a quantum datacentre look like?

  IBM has set out plans for hybrid supercomputing, with quantum and classical computing. This impacts both hardware installation and software

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  Avaya extends CCaaS reach on Microsoft Azure

  Avaya and Microsoft expand partnership by pairing CCaaS with Azure to provide more options to increase productivity and customer engagement by accelerating digital transformation initiatives in the cloud

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  DWP Digital sets out three-year plan to improve data sharing and cut legacy

  In response to the pandemic, the government department aims to improve collaboration and develop a reference architecture

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  How one Australian firm is creating smarter menus

  Me&u’s smart menus are intelligent enough to recommend food items based on customer preferences, and even help to reduce food waste and alleviate bartender workloads during peak periods

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Ctera opens up its storage to third-party analytics via APIs

  File system software builds pools of NAS-like storage accessible from anywhere, with APIs to third-party tools to interrogate data for business processes, anomaly detection and more

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Post Office scandal victims in Scotland to tell their stories, raising questions of law

  Inquiry into Post Office scandal moves to Scotland, with differences in English and Scottish law raising further serious questions about subpostmaster prosecutions

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  India’s IT services market grew at record pace in 2021

  Growing investments in cloud, artificial intelligence and cyber security have been a boon to India’s IT and business services market

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  How Rimini Street is growing its footprint in ASEAN

  Rimini Street is expanding its reach in ASEAN as more companies, such as Malaysian carmaker Proton, look for cheaper software maintenance options

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  IT infrastructure used to launch DDoS attack on Russian targets

  Organisations could unwittingly be participating in hostile activity against the Russian government as compromised IT infrastructure is used without their knowledge to launch denial of service attacks

• May 05, 2022 05 May'22

  Prepare for smart robot revolution

  While industrial robots are well established, smart robots are being deployed across retail and logistics – but much of the tech is still nascent

• May 05, 2022 05 May'22

  How PB Traffic is preventing traffic light theft

  New Zealand’s PB Traffic has deployed an IoT-based tracking system to gain oversight of its portable traffic light systems and prevent theft

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  Intellectual property theft operation attributed to Winnti group

  Winnti conducted a prolonged cyber espionage campaign that went undetected for years, allowing it to exfiltrate massive amounts of corporate data and intellectual property

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  UK government puts pressure on IT sector to clean up app security

  Apps can be exploited to carry malicious payloads that steal personal information and cause financial loss – and not enough is being done to secure them

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  Inside UnaBiz’s bid for Sigfox

  Singapore-based UnaBiz has made a successful bid for the French low-power wide area network technology supplier, in a deal that will advance its vision of a unified IoT world

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  CIO interview: Loïc Giraud, global head of digital platform and product delivery, Novartis

  Data is at the heart of life sciences – and for Novartis, that means investigating emerging technologies such as quantum computing and blockchain, as well as using analytics, artificial intelligence and automation

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  Judicial intervention 'inevitable' as Post Office compensation valuation falls short

  Lawyer negotiating compensation for victims of Post Office scandal says the two sides are 'poles apart' on valuations

• May 03, 2022 03 May'22

  Qualcomm to power Volkswagen’s future automated driving technology

  Volkswagen Group’s software division looks to global chip giant to supply system-on-chips to enable assisted and automated driving functions

• May 03, 2022 03 May'22

  Post Office scandal CEO could be stripped of CBE

  Honours Forfeiture Committee to review Paula Vennells’ CBE in the light of Post Office scandal

• April 29, 2022 29 Apr'22

  CIO interview: Jeffrey Wood, deputy director of ICT, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

  A move to a brand-new hospital site offers the NHS trust a chance to introduce a range of new innovations, building on the digital transformation delivered over the past few years

• April 29, 2022 29 Apr'22

  European employers missing the opportunity to automate processes for hybrid work

  The transition to hybrid work has stimulated a shift among employees looking to their business to streamline their workflows, but research finds just a tenth have access to automation tools

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  UK regulators seek input on algorithmic processing and auditing

  Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum is inviting views on how the four UK watchdogs involved should approach regulating algorithms, following its publication of discussion papers and a 2022 workplan

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Vercom plots ‘spectacular’ entry into global CPaaS market with MailerLite acquisition

  Communications platform-as-a-service market continues hot streak as Polish solutions provider enters the world stage by acquiring global provider of tools for email communication

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Naver outlines global AI ambitions

  South Korean internet giant Naver has built a global research network to advance and apply its artificial intelligence capabilities across its services

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  CIOs have the greatest impact on business

  Chief information officers see their role as core in building out the IT and security infrastructure and talent pool that their organisations require to grow post-pandemic

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Oracle teams with Verizon as it expands global network of industry innovation labs

  New facility outside Chicago will explore how 5G can create and test use cases to solve industry challenges, from carbon reduction to worker safety and sustainable building

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Slack and Salesforce go public with first major integrations since acquisition

  Slack and Salesforce have announced a set of developer products and integrations that Slack cofounder Cal Henderson says marks the first big public step to realising the value of the 2020 acquisition

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Scotland’s tech sector recovers pre-pandemic verve

  According to ScotlandIS research, the Scottish technology sector has recovered pre-pandemic levels of growth, and cyber security emerged as the hottest growth area from the industry body’s annual report

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Disappointing earnings at Google, but cloud still strong

  Google posts first-quarter 2022 revenue of $68bn, but growth is not as fast as last year

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Microsoft shows inflation-busting growth, driven by cloud adoption

  As prices rise, Microsoft is trying to position its cloud services as the public cloud that offers the best value for money

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Police question former Fujitsu worker again in Post Office scandal perjury investigation

  Police have interviewed a former Fujitsu employee for the third time in the investigation into potential perjury during trials of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters

• April 26, 2022 26 Apr'22

  Odense Robotics helps develop key export for Denmark

  Robotics seen as a future export sector for Denmark as investment startups build their skills in public sector projects