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April 04, 2016
04
Apr'16
Intel-backed Collaborative Cancer Cloud expands to include two more universities
Joe Gray from the Oregon Health and Science University explains how its cloud-based cancer research project with Intel is progressing
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April 04, 2016
04
Apr'16
How operational analytics can help utility companies
Capgemini finds operation analytics has a low adoption rate among UK businesses despite many having data warehouses
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March 30, 2016
30
Mar'16
Hackers to probe engine control units amid emissions scandal
ICCT hires computer whizz-kids to find out who else besides Volkswagen uses ‘defeat devices’ in cars
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March 24, 2016
24
Mar'16
CIO interview: Martin Uudelepp, Fonus Group
The interim CIO of Swedish family law and funeral group Fonus tells Computer Weekly about his role as a “chaos pilot”
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March 24, 2016
24
Mar'16
Metcalfe’s law of connections will drive digital business value
Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet, proposed that the value of network cards increases as the number of networked devices grows
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March 03, 2016
03
Mar'16
IoT adoption held back by lack of business case, software and skills
The internet of things is at the top of Gartner’s Hype Cycle, but many organisations cannot build a business case to invest in IoT projects
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February 29, 2016
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Feb'16
CIO interview: Anders Candell, Stora Enso
CIO at Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer shares advice for shouldering a new CIO position and guiding the business towards innovative technology
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February 24, 2016
24
Feb'16
GE lures allies for Predix industrial internet dominance
Global manufacturer GE has established a partner programme for its Predix platform to drive the value of analytics across the industrial internet
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February 23, 2016
23
Feb'16
Case study: National Rail Enquiries tackles website uptime issues with AWS and SOASTA
The National Rail Enquiries website took a battering in the wake of the 2013 St. Jude’s storm, prompting the organisation to rethink its hosting and load-testing procedures
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February 19, 2016
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Feb'16
CIO interview: Robert Sjöström, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA)
CIO of Swedish hygiene and forest products company tells Computer Weekly how digital technology is changing the firm from inside out and how he manages this transformation
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February 16, 2016
16
Feb'16
Case study: How ITIL has helped Essex keep IT aligned with council goals
Essex County Council has undergone an IT transformation to improve the credibility of its IT and achieve ISO 27001 accreditation
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February 11, 2016
11
Feb'16
CDOs lack organisational design experience, says Gartner
Research firm identifies immaturity in the organisational design of the set-ups led by the new breed of chief data officer and offers a menu of four design options
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February 08, 2016
08
Feb'16
Post Office faces group litigation over Horizon IT as subpostmasters fund class action
Subpostmasters who claim to have been wrongly convicted of fraud take the Post Office to court after getting the funds for a group action
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February 08, 2016
08
Feb'16
CIO interview: Johan Kestens, ING Belgium
ING Belgium’s CIO talks to Computer Weekly in depth about the technology-driven changes in the banking sector
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January 27, 2016
27
Jan'16
CIO interview: Jo De Vliegher, Hydro
The CIO at Norway's Hydro has established an IT department that allows for regional autonomy and central guidance at the same time
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January 25, 2016
25
Jan'16
Alstom outsources IT transformation to HCL Technologies
Train engineering company Alstom has outsourced its IT to HCL Technologies as part of a five-year transformation project
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January 22, 2016
22
Jan'16
Trinity Mirror Group taps into cloud, agile and microservices to boost web user experience
National and regional newspaper publishing group is using AWS and SOASTA's performance monitoring tools to improve the user experience for its online readers
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January 20, 2016
20
Jan'16
CIO interview: Janne Aalto, Finnish telco DNA
When Finnish telco DNA wanted to transform its business, it made startup consultant Janne Aalto its CIO to lead the move to lean and agile
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January 15, 2016
15
Jan'16
CIO interview: Michael Moesgaard, Dong Energy
Dong Energy’s IT head talks about the challenges of working for an energy company going through a business transformation
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January 13, 2016
13
Jan'16
NHS Scotland lets clinicians discover patterns in data with Tableau
The NHS in Scotland is using data visualisation from Tableau to level up health outcomes across the country
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January 13, 2016
13
Jan'16
DevOps success requires business and cultural shift
Cultural resistance and immature tools are limiting companies’ ability to ride the digitisation wave with streams of software-driven initiatives
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January 06, 2016
06
Jan'16
CIO interview: Mats Hultin, Saab Group
Saab Group's CIO talks to Computer Weekly about the huge challenge of integrating 40 separate IT organisations into one
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December 31, 2015
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Dec'15
Top 10 PC and desktop stories of 2015
The PC is not dead – but the desktop is evolving as IT departments embrace BYOD, software as a service and cloud-based storage
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December 30, 2015
30
Dec'15
Top 10 premium content articles for CIOs in 2015
Computer Weekly presents the top ten premium content articles for CIOs in 2015
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December 23, 2015
23
Dec'15
CIO interview: Henry Cohen, CIO, Telegraph Media Group
The newspaper publisher is developing an agile mindset in response to the growth of digital over printed publications
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December 23, 2015
23
Dec'15
Top 10 APAC IT stories of 2015
The top 10 Computer Weekly articles about enterprise IT in the Asean and ANZ regions
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December 22, 2015
22
Dec'15
Top 10 Nordic CIO interviews of 2015
A review of the top Nordic CIO interviews from Computer Weekly
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December 21, 2015
21
Dec'15
Top 10 HR technology stories in 2015
2015 saw businesses replacing their on-premise HR systems with cloud services at an accelerating rate. More companies are turning to virtual reality, analytics and other disruptive technologies to help recruit and retain talented staff
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December 21, 2015
21
Dec'15
The CW500 Club in 2015
Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the latest trends and technologies, and to discuss the challenges they face. Here, we present the coverage of all the 2015 CW500 events, including ...
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December 17, 2015
17
Dec'15
SThree to rein in IT budget by moving to cloud
Recruitment group plans to expand by 10% a year, but moving to the cloud will allow it to do more with the same IT budget
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December 14, 2015
14
Dec'15
Rockwool invests €2m in global HR project
Manufacturer interviewed other companies about their HR systems before choosing a system to harmonise its processes across 38 countries
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December 11, 2015
11
Dec'15
CIO interview: Farrer & Co IT director Neil Davison
The law firm that served Charles Dickens has a much more modern approach to its technology strategy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 30, 2015
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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
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October 29, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 25, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 07, 2015
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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June 30, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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June 23, 2015
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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
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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
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June 19, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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