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IT architecture

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  Blockchain tests delivering results and IBM seen as leader

  Businesses that have invested in trials of blockchain technology will repeat their investments

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  VMworld 2017: VMware updates software legacy

  VMware is beginning to recognise there is life beyond the hypervisor as it announces VMware HCX, which will provide interoperability between private and public cloud

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Riak NoSQL snapped up by Bet365

  Betting firm Bet365 aims to give away enterprise version of Riak NoSQL to the open source community and continue the development of the product

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Thousands of Deutsche Bank employees will be replaced by robots

  The CEO of Deutsche Bank said a "big number of staff will eventually be replaced by robots” as it looks towards artificial intelligence technology

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Met Police IT strategy: CCTV footage shared through Box

  The Met Police digital policing strategy is taking shape under CIO Angus McCallum, and will use Box for sharing documents and CCTV footage

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  HCL expands global network with Swedish delivery centre

  HCL has opened another delivery centre in the Nordic region, this time in Gothenburg, Sweden

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  Challenger bank Fidor reaches 200,000 customers

  Fintech trailblazer Fidor now has more than 200,000 people using its banking services, but its CEO believes the fintech environment is getting tougher

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  Saudi Telecom Company creates cloud computing giant

  The IT joint venture in Saudi Arabia will drive the digitisation of government services

• August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  UAE telco Du pushes SaaS adoption in Middle East

  The Middle East looks set to see strong growth in software as a service and IT departments need to take a different approach

• August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17

  Barclays ring-fencing project means downtime for customers

  Many Barclays services will be unavailable this weekend as part of the bank's project to separate retail and investment operations

• August 16, 2017 16 Aug'17

  A decade of IT change since banking meltdown

  With 10 years passing since Northern Rock had to be bailed out by the government, we look at how banking IT has changed since the financial crisis

• August 11, 2017 11 Aug'17

  HSBC uses IBM to automate the processing of 100 million document pages

  In another instance of banks adopting automation to lower costs and drive productivity, HSBC uses IBM analytics technology to cut down on its paper trail

• August 10, 2017 10 Aug'17

  CIO interview: Daniel Gebler, chief technology officer, Picnic

  The Netherlands has the highest supermarket density in the world, yet a technology company has been able to gain market share from the established order

• July 26, 2017 26 Jul'17

  Relational databases relatively poor at running digital transformation projects

  Digital projects aren’t living up to expectations, with many only delivering incremental improvements to the status quo, survey reveals

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  Nordea deploys AI to speed up customer service

  Nordea is reaping the rewards of its fintech investments through its latest project to use artificial intelligence to support customers

• July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17

  UAE hotel upgrades wireless network and internet connectivity

  Beach resort completes major project to revamp its wireless infrastructure with TP-Link technologies

• July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17

  What are Amazon Web Services’ Nordic plans?

  Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud

• July 20, 2017 20 Jul'17

  TSB to introduce iris scan authentication in September 2017

  TSB customers will soon be able to access their mobile bank accounts through iris scanning, which is regarded as the most secure biometric authentication available

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  London Stock Exchange uses IBM blockchain technology

  The London Stock Exchange is testing out IBM's blockchain technology in a platform to help SME operations become more transparent

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Stamford Bridge to offer stadium connectivity in partnership with Ericsson

  Ericsson has begun its partnership with Chelsea to offer home fans a “seamless” connected experience

• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  HPE and CSC merger wins confidence of Zurich

  Zurich Insurance has demonstrated confidence in CSC's merger with HPE through a contract extension

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Experian admits mobile and online issues after system upgrade

  Some customers of credit referencing company are having problems accessing a service they pay for following an IT upgrade and large customer migration to a new system

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Nordic CIO interview: Ann Hellenius, City of Stockholm

  Stockholm’s CIO is relishing the challenge of trying to make the Swedish capital the smartest city in the world

• July 05, 2017 05 Jul'17

  Sweden trials blockchain for land registry management

  Swedish land registry is trying out blockchain as a means of proving ownership

• June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17

  DVLA aims to slash IT costs by moving to public cloud and open standards

  Agency’s IT strategy for 2019/20 will see a concerted move to deprecate legacy systems, deploy applications in the cloud and develop in-house IT

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Most SAP users plan to stick with older ERP due to costly Hana migration

  Survey finds many SAP users are considering augmenting their existing enterprise resource planning with cloud applications rather than go to S/4 Hana

• June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17

  SAP users look to software suppliers to help with fast-approaching GDPR

  An SAP UK and Ireland user group survey has found user organisations crying out for help as GDPR approaches, with cloud delivery a special concern

• June 09, 2017 09 Jun'17

  The Barcode Warehouse deploys ServiceNow to streamline managed services

  Customisation of cloud-based tool has enabled ruggedised mobile devices company to streamline its business processes

• June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17

  Lloyds bank staff will move to IBM in outsourcing deal

  About 1,500 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group will join IBM as part of an IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement

• May 31, 2017 31 May'17

  Hundreds of sub-postmasters have applied to join IT-related legal action since March

  The number of sub-postmasters who claim to have suffered as a result of a faulty Post Office IT system has reached 1,300

• May 31, 2017 31 May'17

  Norwegian bakery chain gets the taste of mobile reporting

  Baker Brun, a bakery company in Norway, is modernising its business processes through the latest technologies

• May 26, 2017 26 May'17

  Swedish government agencies join IT spending benchmarking service

  Government agencies in Sweden are using a tool by Apptio to help them gain a better understanding of IT costs

• May 25, 2017 25 May'17

  Aggreko powers predictive maintenance with Azure machine learning

  Temporary power company moves from reactive to proactive, and now predictive maintenance

• May 19, 2017 19 May'17

  How to simplify IT integration

  Pressure on IT is mounting and point-to-point integration does not scale. Opening up APIs is one of the approaches now being considered

• May 17, 2017 17 May'17

  Sapphire 2017: McDermott declares SAP indirect licensing policy change

  At SAP’s annual Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida, CEO Bill McDermott ruled out charging for static read access from third-party systems, after recent controversy

• May 16, 2017 16 May'17

  Customer experience transformation at Macquarie bank brings legacy system retirement as a bonus

  Australia’s Macquarie bank builds a data layer on top of legacy IT systems to transform customer experience

• May 15, 2017 15 May'17

  Why IT needs effective monitoring for cloud applications

  IaaS and PaaS free up IT from running day-to-day administration tasks, but the cloud can become a black box, limiting visibility

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  Highly skilled professionals at risk of being replaced by computers

  Highly skilled jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence by 2022, says Gartner

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  Large UK businesses increasingly want CEOs to have IT background

  More large businesses in the UK want a CEO that has a good understanding of IT

• May 04, 2017 04 May'17

  Metropolitan Police to hit massive IT overspend

  The Metropolitan Police Service is set to massively overspend on IT as it attempts to improve digital policing

• April 28, 2017 28 Apr'17

  Microsoft chief reveals Azure upsell strategy

  Azure competes with AWS on price as an IaaS, but Satya Nadella sees this as a way to get CIOs to buy higher-level services

• April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17

  Demo shows GPUs are more than simple accelerators

  Graphics processor units have helped to accelerate a reservoir simulation program, showing that the technology could be applied to complex code

• 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 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Middle East enterprises urged to embrace governance, risk and compliance

  The enforcement of corporate governance issues is still variable throughout the Middle East and making a strong business case for investment in GRC can be a challenge.

• 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

• 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 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 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 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