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• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same

  In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Newport to get resilient fibre ring for community safety projects

  As part of a wide-reaching regeneration plan, Newport City Council deploys resilient fibre optic network to support community safety

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Network downtime more costly than previously thought

  A study conducted for network supplier Avaya has offered some insight into the true impact of network vulnerabilities

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Milan Expo 2015 builds smart city with Telecom Italia and Cisco

  The organisers of Milan Expo 2015 have built a smart city site from the ground up with the support of Telecom Italia and Cisco

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Windows 10: Preparing for Microsoft’s next enterprise OS

  Microsoft’s recent Windows 10 event had a strong consumer focus, but the company also unveiled changes that will impact corporate IT

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Your digital projects are doomed to failure, warns Cisco

  At Cisco Live! In Milan, Cisco set out the challenges of going digital, with many projects doomed to fail unless businesses embrace ‘Fast IT’

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Local councils losing billions due to poor use of technology and data

  Technology could help local authorities to avoid losing more than £1.3bn a year in tax fraud, claims report

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  IBM looks to Bitcoin blockchains for internet of things platform

  IBM sets out proof of concept for its ADEPT platform, using Bitcoin’s blockchain back-end to distribute the internet of things

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Interview: Omnifone chief engineer Phil Sant builds code Lego-style

  Phil Sant, co-founder and chief engineer at music streaming platform Omnifone, believes software developers need to take Lego approach

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  GIW Industries uses Pernixdata to avoid SAN upgrade

  GIW Industries has used PernixData to improve the performance of XenDesktop desktop virtualisation

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  European Space Agency turns to Orange for private cloud services

  European Space Agency deploys a private cloud solution from Orange Business Services

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  CIO interview: VMware's Tony Scott re-engineers IT as a service

  Agility is only as effective as the slowest step. At VMware, CIO Tony Scott has his sights set on tackling this

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Interview: Lucie Glenday, chief digital officer, Surrey County Council

  Chief digital officer Lucie Glenday was brought into Surrey County Council to change the way it thinks about digital services

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Whitehall meets digital leaders – but ignores local government

  The UK has played host to its first D5 digital leaders summit, but local collaboration was off the agenda

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  IoT will drive a middleware boom

  Spending in middleware is expected to exceed $16.3bn, driven by a shift towards agile mobile application integration

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Home Office appoints former Credit Suisse technology head as CTO

  Home Office appoints former Credit Suisse employee Sarah Wilkinson as its new chief technology officer

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Why MPs lost faith in the Post Office's IT investigation, but vowed to fight on

  A group of 140 MPs has removed its backing for a Post Office scheme to redress subpostmasters' grievances over alleged false accounting

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  NHS must partner with industry to embrace technology

  Healthcare providers must share expertise from the technology industry to make serious change, says NHS foundation CEO David Dalton

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising Stars 2014

  Computer Weekly’s five rising stars of 2014

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  Sainsbury's digital and technology director Jon Rudoe talks about customer-facing technologies, in-house development and data analytics

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  HP puts big data in the cloud and announces services enhancements

  On the opening day of HP Discover in Barcelona, HP has announced a major milestone in its big data strategy

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Is a local GDS the answer to local authority transformation? Lessons from the Labour digital review

  Labour’s digital government review touches on a number of issues, but what’s the future of GDS – and could it be scaled to help local authorities?

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  While supermarkets all over the UK are facing challenging times ahead of them, Sainsbury's is taking its technology and innovation into its own hands by developing digital products for its customers.

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  The IPv6 dilemma – are we making the same mistake?

  In 2012, the Regional Internet Registry for Europe claimed the five internet registries each had just 16.8 million IPv4 addresses left

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  Pressure on Universal Credit’s digital service mounts as testing begins

  Risks remain for Universal Credit as DWP continues its twin-track gradual roll-out of live and digital services

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  National Trust for Scotland overcomes legacy network challenge

  The National Trust for Scotland has replaced a historical network infrastructure with a core service from Brocade

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  Deloitte to investigate Bank of England outage

  The Bank of England has chosen Deloitte to launch an investigation into a systems outage that forced the temporary suspension of the Clearing House Automated Payments System (CHAPS) last month.

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Case study: JustGiving develops Facebook-like graph on HDInsight

  Online fundraising site JustGiving has created a Facebook-like media graph database to understand how people donate

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  NetApp: Hybrid cloud storage is a big deal; flash is not

  At its Berlin Insight event, NetApp says hybrid cloud is the big storage story, with flash set to disappear from prominence

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Asda opens technology centre in Leeds

  Asda opens a technology centre in its Leeds head office to provide a more streamlined service for online customers

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  Interview: 'Government is the best digital startup in London'

  Computer Weekly interviews Ministry of Justice chief digital officer Paul Shetler about transforming government public services

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Anna Barsby, CIO, Halfords

  Since joining Halfords as CIO, Anna Barsby has faced significant business challenges, including a risky cloud upgrade

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  CIO success is all about winning friends and influencing people

  If Gartner’s predictions are true, CIO working practices have to change to keep IT relevant

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Interview: Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information, NHS

  All divisions of the NHS must have electronic patient records by 2020 or risk losing their licence - we talk to the man in charge to find out why

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  Microsoft moves .Net to open source framework

  Microsoft has announced that its .Net Core framework will be open source to develop cross platform capabilities

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Lack of in-house skills stymies IaaS migration, says report

  Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) supplier Reconnix says most businesses fear they lack the skills to move to the cloud

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  M&S online sales hit despite website refresh

  Marks & Spencer has reported a 6.3% fall in its online sales for the first half of 2014, despite its new-look website

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Three UK saves £10m a year by integrating stores, web and call centres

  Mobile operator Three aims to give customers the same service however they interact with the company, while reducing IT capital costs

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Google joins enterprise cloud battle with additions to its cloud platform

  Google made a raft of announcements at its GCP Live event, including enhancements to its networking stack and storage price drops

• October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

  Ipswich hospital improves healthcare service with Esri data visualisation

  Health pilots location-based technology that delivers data visualisation

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  GDS director Mike Bracken could become government CDO as digital roles evolve

  Government Digital Service (GDS) director Mike Bracken could be in line to become the government's chief digital officer (CDO)

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Lloyds Banking Group confirms 9,000 job cuts and digital investment

  Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it will cut 9000 jobs and close around 150 branches to focus more on its digital strategy

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Standards will enhance the maturity of IT, says Shell's Karel van Zeeland

  Shell's Karel van Zeeland is founding member and lead architect of IT4IT Consortium and campaigns for open standards for integrating IT

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  CIO interview: David Johnstone of Martin Currie Investment Management

  The head of solutions management at the asset management firm discusses IT projects and the changing role of IT leaders

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Tablets now workplace standard, says Dell

  At least 90% of IT decision makers in most countries claim tablets are a standard part of their company’s IT strategy

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Arrays cost councils four times more than software-defined storage

  Nexenta finds UK councils spend around £1,200 per terabyte on storage arrays – four times more than on storage software

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  BBC takes iPlayer video production to AWS cloud to beat bottleneck and storage woes

  Having run Video Factory on AWS for over a year, BBC's Robert Shield explains how he overcame iPlayer bottleneck and availability challenges

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  European enterprises can halve colo expenses by moving north, says Gartner

  Favourable environmental conditions in Northern Europe mean enterprises can save on their datacentre expenses

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum

  Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  IBM operating income falls by 18% as it offloads semiconductor unit

  IBM reported lower-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of 2014, with revenue down by 4% year-on-year

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  IT jobs hit hardest in trading exchange cuts, but is not a trend

  The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is cutting 5% of its workforce, with IT staff forming a large portion of the cuts

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Enterprise IT should be more user-centric, says Box CEO Aaron Levie

  The CEO of cloud-based file sharing and content management service Box calls on enterprises to rethink IT delivery model

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  CIOs fear poor cloud investment is making businesses uncompetitive

  CIOs and CFOs fear their enterprises are missing revenue opportunities due to poor cloud strategies

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud

  SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Government as a platform will be fully ready in three years, says Liam Maxwell

  Government CTO Liam Maxwell has outlined its digital transformation vision of delivering government as a platform

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  L’Oreal aligns technology with the business to work faster

  L’Oreal’s digital technology is working with the business and marketing departments to become innovative and agile

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  All Olympic systems to be on the cloud by 2018

  Systems underpinning Olympic Game events will be run from the cloud by the time of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  Lloyds Banking Group to cut thousands of jobs

  Lloyds Banking Group set to cut thousands of jobs for digitisation strategy that will see manual tasks become automated

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: US fashion retailer Tilly’s aligns IT with marketing

  US retailer Tilly’s has aligned its e-commerce and marketing teams to focus on customer experience

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  ARM enters mainstream datacentre with HP’s ProLiant Moonshot servers

  ARM chips have entered mainstream enterprise datacentre with HP's production-ready ARM-powered Moonshot servers

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Lenovo releases servers that can run at 45°C

  Lenovo has become the third server manufacturer to update its enterprise server portfolio with latest Intel Xeon chips E5 2600 v3

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Huawei ploughs $4bn into fixed broadband research

  Huawei announces major R&D investment in ‘ultra-broadband’ research over the next three years as interest in new networking standards grows

• September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14

  IBM opens cloud datacentre for business continuity

  IBM has opened a cloud resiliency centre in North Carolina to provide business continuity capabilities in the cloud

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Interview: Government digital chief Mike Bracken on the next five years

  The Government Digital Service celebrates its third anniversary soon, but has plenty more challenges ahead to change Whitehall thinking

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Government digital chief signals move away from 'tower model' approach to IT outsourcing

  Government digital chief Mike Bracken has signalled a move away from the “tower model” approach to IT outsourcing

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  Gas company builds datacentre in The Shard

  London’s 87-storey skyscraper, The Shard, which is home to plush restaurants, cafes and bars, also has a datacentre

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Microsoft pitches new Dynamics CRM 2015 as ‘one cloud for all’

  Microsoft is making its Dynamics CRM 2015 available next quarter along with updates to its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online services

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  What’s driving OpenStack’s rise as a viable cloud alternative?

  OpenStack revenue will soar from $883m in 2014 to $3.3bn in 2018. Here are five factors that are taking the open cloud mainstream

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Jeanne Harris: Successful business analytics combines data and intuition

  Accenture's executive research fellow explains how successful business analytics needs a crucible of skills

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Five signs that VMware is becoming a developer platform company again

  With its Docker and OpenStack love, and DevOps and mobile initiatives, is VMware under pressure to bring back developer platform capabilities?

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Why AWS is being held back in the public sector

  Public sector is a fast growing area of the Amazon Web Services cloud business. Yet it is often not seen as a first choice in government

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  HP buys Eucalyptus as it bets on open cloud future

  HP is acquiring open source software specialist Eucalyptus that helps build private and hybrid enterprise clouds as it bets on open cloud future

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Salesforce builds green datacentre in France for European users

  Cloud CRM specialist Salesforce is building its second European datacentre in France, powered 100% by renewable energy sources

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  How Sony Music used Google cloud for One Direction’s 1D-Day event

  Sony Music and its digital agency AIS London adopted Google Cloud Platform services to handle One Direction's day event

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Server OEMs at risk as white box providers target cloud datacentres

  Server ODMs are targeting datacentres operated by IT giants such Amazon and Microsoft, threatening traditional server OEMs

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Why bare metal cloud is in vogue

  Bare metal services have been around since 2009 but cloud is witnessing renewed interest in it thanks to new offerings

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Windows Server 2003 EOL: HP seeks to cash in as IBM-Lenovo deal yet to close

  As enterprises look to refresh their infrastructure, HP is playing the stability card to win deals as IBM and Dell are mired by uncertainties

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  HP launches cloud and SDDC-ready ProLiant servers

  The next generation of x86 ProLiant servers are designed for the new compute era and are cloud and software-defined ready, vouches HP

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Government appoints former Credit Suisse CIO as deputy CTO

  The government has appointed former Credit Suisse CIO Magnus Falk as its new deputy chief technology officer (CTO)

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Microsoft slashes Azure SQL database-as-a-service prices by half

  Microsoft will reduce the prices of its Azure SQL Database – a relational database as a service – from November onwards

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  IoT-enabled devices to top 40 billion by 2020, say researchers

  The number of active wireless connected devices will exceed 40.9 billion by 2020 – more than double the current total

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Banks are not contemplating core system replacement

  European banks are maintaining rather than replacing core banking IT, in spite of recent, high profile failures in such systems

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  VMware rebrands its cloud service vCHS to VMware vCloud Air

  VMware has rebranded its infrastructure-as-a-service offering vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS), to VMware vCloud Air

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Load balancing supports Kent County Council's VDI project

  Kent County Council picks Kemp Technologies load balancers to support a deployment of VMware Horizon View and Workspace across its estate

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Digital vouchers firm picks DevOps automation to speed apps deployment

  Digital vouchers provider Eagle Eye is deploying DevOps to manage the cloud infrastructure that supports its product network

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Five pitfalls to avoid when doing DevOps

  As the DevOps movement gains traction in the enterprise space, here are five pitfalls CIOs need to avoid to make it work for the business

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Government major projects watchdog needs more powers, says MPs

  Major Projects Authority needs stronger powers to improve project delivery across government, say MPs

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Kent County Council hands six-year PSN contract to Daisy Updata

  Daisy Updata Communications to manage Kent’s public services network (PSN) deployment across more than 1,300 sites

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Ex-RBS CIO takes up Deutsche Bank role

  Former CIO of Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) Markets division announced as global head of IT infrastructure at Deutsche Bank

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  Network upgrade levels the playing field for Infiniti Red Bull Racing

  Formula One team Infiniti Red Bull Racing uses AT&T network and UC services to stay in the running after big changes to sporting regulations

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Forrester: Top 10 facts about private cloud

  Cloud is an essential component of every enterprise technology management strategy but designing a robust cloud strategy isn't easy

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  BBC hands digital testing contract to Mindtree

  Multi-million pound contract awarded under the terms of the BBC Digital Services Framework initiative

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  NetScout sues Gartner over Magic Quadrant placing

  Network performance management supplier NetScout launches lawsuit after being labelled a ‘challenger’ on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Facebook optimises software infrastructure for datacentre power efficiency

  Facebook has developed a system called Autoscale to optimise its software infrastructure and make its datacentre more energy efficient

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  60% of GDS staff contracts to expire within 12 months of general election

  Almost 60% of employees at the Government Digital Service (GDS) could be gone within 12 months of next year’s general election

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Intel unveils first 14nm processor aimed at mobile computing devices

  Chipmaker's first processor based on 14nm micro-architecture will be thinner, cooler and aimed at tablet PCs

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

  Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Five signs that Amazon is the new Microsoft

  Amazon’s business strategy is reminiscent of Microsoft's in the 1990s despite changes in market dynamics since then

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Bitcoin mining firm CoinTerra signs multi-megawatt datacentre deal

  CoinTerra, the firm that provides the hardware and software that power the bitcoin blockchain ecosystem, signs a multi-megawatt datacentre deal

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

  European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020