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• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Airline global distribution system Amadeus offers cloud scalability

  Amadeus, the airline flight ticketing system, has used Google Compute Platform to scale its service to support internet flight searches

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  HPE will use its experience to help customers with M&A, says CEO Meg Whitman

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s CEO claimed the firm would be able to better assist customers undergoing structural changes

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Fujitsu announces MetaArc cloud platform, acquires UShareSoft

  At Fujitsu Forum 2015 in Germany, Fujitsu announces a cloud platform called MetaArc and acquires French software business UShareSoft

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Ad agency that rejected cloud boosts Cleversafe object storage

  Ad content agency Hogarth rejected cloud storage as too expensive and unreliable, opting for in-house object storage from Cleversafe with nearly 5PB

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  London Stock Exchange appoints CIO

  The London Stock Exchange appoints Chris Corrado as its technology chief as the previous incumbent, Antoine Shagoury, returns to the US

• November 09, 2015 09 Nov'15

  Gartner: Time to take algorithms seriously

  Legacy systems and existing supplier relationships are barriers to digitisation. Instead, CIOs should focus on algorithms, says Gartner

• November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15

  Communication Workers Union warns subpostmasters of flaw in Post Office Horizon accounting system

  The union that represents Post Office subpostmasters has warned of a problem with the Horizon accounting system at the centre of a long-running dispute

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  How IoT will impact the Asean cloud landscape

  IoT deployments are in their early stages in the Asean region, but experts predict as take-up of IoT apps increases it will have a big impact on IT infrastructures in the region

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  The pros and cons of treating internal IT like a business

  Aligning IT with the business has become a CIO mantra – but now digitisation has pushed IT to the top of the business agenda

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Australia's outsourced datacentre market rising on back of cloud computing

  Datacentre investment in Australia is growing fast as corporates use data-intensive applications delivered via the cloud

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise: think of us as a startup

  As Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc finally part ways, UK managing director Andy Isherwood shares some insight on what the future holds for the newly minted enterprise business

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Torben Høeg Bonde, Vestas

  The CIO at Danish wind turbine company Vestas is playing a key role in turning the company into a software supplier

• October 30, 2015 30 Oct'15

  Alcatel-Lucent transformation cuts HR costs by 30% with cloud platform

  Alcatel-Lucent expects to have its cloud human resources (HR) platform used in 62 countries by the end of the year, replacing aging on-premise HR IT systems

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Mette Jæpelt, Egmont Group

  Egmont CIO Mette Jæpelt is a supplier and colleague to the company's business groups, which makes her current role different from any other in her 35-year career

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Tech will turn HR into a ‘productivity department’

  HR technologies are moving away from managing staff in favour of helping them become more productive

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Using open data to solve social challenges

  The Open Data Institute has spent the past two years funding startups to build applications that could solve socio-economic problems

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  Case study: Dutch firm Fugro moves to the cloud

  Geodata company Fugro is moving its IT infrastructure to the cloud in a project led by CIO Gerko Baarslag

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  Is OpenStack ready for mass adoption?

  The OpenStack community is working on a number of fronts to make it easier to deploy private clouds, including a a training programme due in 2016

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  CIOs collaborate on managing the business of IT

  A reference architecture from The Open Group aims to target infighting among suppliers to deliver interoperable IT

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Steve Watt, University of St Andrews

  CIOs at universities have very demanding clients in the form of tech-savvy students, but this is only part of the story, explains University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watts

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  Opera chooses Workday over Oracle as it moves HR to cloud

  Browser company Opera opts for slick internal IT as it competes with Apple and Google for skilled technologists

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  ServiceNow powers Royal Mail multi-sourcing

  As part of its £500m IT transformation, Royal Mail has deployed ServiceNow to manage new suppliers

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  NHS Education for Scotland deploys ServiceNow to power digital transformation

  Driving a digital strategy requires top-down executive support, says NES interim director of digital transformation Chris Wroath

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Enterprise IT buyers swap traditional servers for converged infrastructure, research shows

  A survey from 451 Research suggests enterprises will increase their use of converged infrastructure stacks to swap out traditional server estates

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Three technologies to drive business

  Emerging technologies such as 3D printers, the internet of things and APIs will deliver new business opportunities, and CIOs are in a position to drive forward these business strategies

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

  Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals

• October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15

  Workday seeks growth, not profit, as it expands in Europe

  Cloud services company Workday is setting its sights on growth as it expands from cloud HR, to finance, learning and analytics

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  UK bioinformatics team builds research-sharing cloud on OpenStack

  Genomics researchers must replicate the hardware and software environment of bioinformatic data analysis to reproduce results – which is where cloud can help

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  CIOs need to expand service management beyond IT department

  CIOs believe organisations are missing an opportunity by not applying IT service management outside the IT department

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  British Airways picks Juniper Networks to build out cloud, core network

  British Airways enhances the digital customer experience through a private cloud datacentre and IP MPLS core backbone

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  Nationwide Building Society deploys artificial intelligence to reduce back-end complexity

  Nationwide Building Society is using artificial intelligence to help it reduce the complexity of its back-end systems as it introduces more digital products

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Apple's Irish datacentre build hit by possible planning permission appeal delay

  A "valid appeal" has reportedly been raised in response to Galway County Council's decision to grant conditional planning permission for Apple's Irish datacentre build

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Antti Koskelin at Finland’s Kone

  Antti Koskelin joined Kone with the immediate task of finishing off a major IT infrastructure project that had already started, but has looked forward ever since

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute supports bio startups on Nutanix

  Converged infrastructure is helping Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's IT team to provide scalable servers and storage for its Campus Business project

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Why insurer Axa is entering the retail e-commerce market

  Digitisation in insurance is usually associated with digital policy documents – but Axa is using technology to take a lateral approach to the indemnity business

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Rob Threadgold, global head of IT infrastructure and operations, ICBC Standard Bank

  Standard Bank is taking a global approach to IT challenges following its acquisition by Chinese banking giant ICBC

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Application testing costs set to rise to 40% of IT budget

  Digital transformation has put software quality to the fore, resulting in CIOs spending more on quality assurance and testing

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  University of St Andrews gets European funding to push the limits of C++

  Highly parallel computing represents the future of IT, but data processing applications cannot be made to work efficiently in such environments

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Anna Berggren, ManpowerGroup Nordics

  ManpowerGroup Nordic CIO Anna Berggren talks about the importance of IT to the recruitment firm and the different approaches she takes to managing it

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  Upgraded NHS Spine communications hub saves £20m in first year, says HSCIC

  The NHS Spine communications infrastructure saves more than £20m in its first year, according to the Health and Soicial Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Software-defined networking underpins Nokia’s 5G architecture

  Nokia demonstrates programmable software-defined 5G networking architecture to dynamically manage network resources

• August 27, 2015 27 Aug'15

  Application modernisation remains a top CIO priority

  Targeting legacy is a key focus for IT departments as they shift more applications onto the cloud

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Elisabeth Stjernstoft, Apoteket

  When the Swedish government introduced competition to the pharmaceuticals sector in 2009, the former monopoly faced a major IT transformation

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  Torbay Council uses Logi Info for budget management

  Council's Jeff Scott explains the authority’s move away from its previous business intelligence software to focus on managing financial data

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Natural Resources Wales uses Microsoft and mobile to unify departments

  Natural Resources Wales won the Best Mobile Computing Project Award at this year's CW European User Awards. Find out why

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  TFL still wasting millions on telecoms despite IIPAG criticism

  One year on and Transport for London is still pouring millions into dispersed telecoms systems, according to the Independent Investment Programme Advisory Group

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  The IT supporting Finland’s Angry Birds 2

  The sequel to online game Angry Birds has been developed to withstand huge usage volumes, supported by scalable, cloud-based technology

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  3D XPoint memory chips '1,000 times faster than NAND'

  Intel and Micron say new 3D chip technology is biggest breakthrough in memory technology in nearly 30 years

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  UK to invest £45m in digital research and skills

  Millions of pounds will be invested in building research centres to fuel the UK’s digital economy research and skills

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Dutch college live-streams lectures with SDN and load balancers

  Deltion College in the Netherlands beefs up its network with HP SDN and Kemp load balancing technology to support growing traffic levels across its infrastructure

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  AWS adds Chef to cloud Marketplace to drive up DevOps adoption

  Chef sets sights on winning over more AWS users with its DevOps-friendly automation tools

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Camden Council uses IBM data analytics to beat austerity

  Camden Council has used data integration to link council systems, enabling it to cut waste and improve efficiency – and saving £93m in the process

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  How Deutsche Telekom plans to challenge AWS and Google in the cloud

  German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to evolve into the public cloud and plans to beat sector giants such as Amazon and Google at their own game

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Unified commerce the next step for retailers

  Retailers should be adopting a unified platform and rethinking the value of stores if they want a true omni-channel business, says Demandware

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Do not leave digital government development to Whitehall, says Chi Onwurah MP

  Whitehall should not be left with sole responsibility for the government drive to building a digital future, says shadow Cabinet Office minister Chi Onwurah

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities

  Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  The rise of general-purpose AI and its threat to humanity

  Socially aware general-purpose artificial intelligence in the form of a dog could be the ideal form factor to take over the world

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Digital government 'a chance to build a new state', says Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock

  Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock says the move to digital government is a “chance to build a new state” in a speech outlining his priorities

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Businesses invest in software to fuel digitisation strategy

  A survey from Oxford Economics for CA Technologies found that businesses are investing heavily in software to create new business opportunities

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Government Digital Service insists Verify safe despite claims of vulnerabilities

  An academic paper suggests the Gov.uk Verify system could be used as a spy network, but the Government Digital Service (GDS) insists this is not the case

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Legacy systems holding back 90% of businesses

  Most businesses are being held back from making digital advances by their reliance on legacy applications

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Cambridge replaces enterprise storage with direct attach Dell-Lustre setup

  Cambridge University uses Dell's MD direct attached storage with Intel’s Lustre to support its data-intensive research programmes

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Nutanix offers hypervisor as it moves towards on-demand hardware

  Nutanix aims to offer public cloud economics for private cloud deployments

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Apple's Mac OS X El Capitan goes head to head with Windows 10

  At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple unveiled El Capitan, its latest operating system (OS) – but how does it compare to Windows 10?

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  CIOs need to cut legacy IT to help the business digitise

  While CEOs want to become more digital, CIOs will need to convince them that spending more on IT is the way to achieve this

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

  Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

• May 28, 2015 28 May'15

  Internet of things and smart cities need UK-wide consensus

  At a TechUK event, delegates call for cross-body collaboration on IoT to ensure local authority CIOs get the best from the emerging technology

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  CIO Interview: Mike Young, CIO, Dentsu Aegis Network

  CIO Mike Young describes how Dentsu Aegis Network used technology to become a consolidated company with a unified collaboration strategy

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  NATS failure down to bug from the 90s and redundant code

  A bug present in Nats since 1990s has been identified as the root cause of the five-hour outage of UK air traffic control on 12 December 2014

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  CIO interview: Austerity drives joined-up council IT with Force.com

  Peterborough has become a big user of software-as-a-service for council services. We speak to its IT head

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Can OpenStack free up enterprise IT to support software-driven business?

  With Walmart going public with its use of OpenStack, now could be the time for big organisations to take the technology seriously

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Microsoft’s Wright: Focus on services to build data cultures

  Corporate IT must evolve towards service provision to make organisations more data-driven and agile, Microsoft’s Jacky Wright will tell the Data Governance 2015 conference

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Walmart deploys OpenStack to fuel next e-commerce step

  Walmart, has deployed an OpenStack-based private cloud in a bid to deliver the third generation of its e-commerce strategy

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  CIO interview: Henrik Trepka, ISS

  ISS CIO Henrik Trepka's vision is that ubiquitous internet-connected sensors will help make the Danish facility management company the greatest service organisation in the world

• May 14, 2015 14 May'15

  TrustFord chooses virtual load balancers to guarantee network performance

  Auto retailer TrustFord picks Kemp’s virtualised load balancers to deliver high availability and performance across the network

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Fujitsu embarks on 10-year datacentre upgrade project in Australia

  IT services giant embarks on push to improve the reliability and performance of its Australian datacentres by 2025

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  HDS says its storage products are cogs in a much bigger machine

  HDS tells Hitachi Connect 2015 attendees of plans to expand reach beyond storage through social innovation strategy

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  Google provides search engine database for big data analytics

  Google has introduced a cloud-based big data service, which it claims is twice as fast as competitors

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  BT sets out ambition to become enterprise's cloud integrator of choice

  BT outlines its 'Cloud of Clouds' vision to allow users to access cloud apps and services, regardless of where their systems are hosted

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  Huawei calls for global consensus on the future network

  At its Global Analyst Summit, Huawei calls on the networking industry to collaborate to optimise the network for future demands

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  IT faces uphill struggle in DevOps culture change

  More than half of IT departments will struggle with new ways of running software development projects

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  SSE hooks up Manchester datacentres with 10Gbps connectivity

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms launches Manchester Lightnow, a high-capacity optical network service connecting a number of datacentre facilities

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Juniper Networks goes after finance market with switch-integrated compute

  Juniper launches a compact compute-integrated network switch to boost performance of sensitive applications for financial institutions

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Microsoft and Accenture push Azure hybrid cloud platform for the enterprise

  Accenture, Microsoft and Avanade talk up hybrid IT, promoting a platform that allows enterprises to exploit cloud with existing infrastructure

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Axa builds broker web portal on OutSystems

  Insurer Axa has begun using the OutSystems rapid application development tool to help it modernise for 21st century business

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Talk Talk moves HR systems to cloud

  Managers now have accurate information on their workforce numbers, salary and overtime costs

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Mercy Ships rebuilds recruitment process using OutSystems

  Charity Mercy Ships uses OutSystems’ rapid application development tool to help it streamline the hiring of new volunteers

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  RSA Group taps up AWS to hit 2016 cloud targets

  The global insurance group behind More Than hopes to move all its websites to the cloud by 2016, with a little help from AWS

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect from this leaner, meaner Windows Server

  With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see?

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Why CIOs should become chief integration officers in 2015

  IT leaders risk being relegated to a “care and feeding” role if they do not take the initiative, says business advisory firm Deloitte

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Public sector slow to pick up on the internet of things, says Gartner

  A Gartner report predicts smart city deployments will be heavily skewed towards the private sector, leaving the public sector trailing

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  CIOs are ill-prepared for data-driven business

  The “I” in CIO has less to do with information than with technology

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Bristol signs NEC to develop smart city infrastructure

  NEC, Bristol Council and the University of Bristol create an open, programmable city for smarter transport, environment and health services

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Technology key as challenger bank OakNorth gets licence

  SME-focused challenger bank OakNorth says financial services technology will enable it to serve customers fast

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Prepare for two modes of business intelligence, says Gartner

  IT needs to open up business intelligence to the broader business to support its consumerisation

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  2015 IT priorities: SDN yet to prove itself, fear of network hacks growing

  In Computer Weekly’s 2015 IT priorities study, software-defined networking is still behind management and monitoring as a networking priority

• March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15

  IT industry lashes out over government procurement policies

  The UK IT industry has criticised the lack of clarity surrounding changes to government IT procurement plans

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  HP to introduce open network switching technology

  HP partners with Accton Technology and Cumulus Networks to deploy open network switches for web-scale cloud datacentres

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  HSCIC sets out five-year plan to make UK a world leader in healthcare apps

  Health and Social Care Information Centre sets out technology strategy to make UK a world leader in health and social care apps

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Cisco’s software-defined networking business booms

  Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure customer base doubles in three months as its software-defined networking model gains traction