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IT architecture
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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December 03, 2014
03
Dec'14
Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising Stars 2014
Computer Weekly’s five rising stars of 2014
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 31, 2014
31
Oct'14
Ipswich hospital improves healthcare service with Esri data visualisation
Health pilots location-based technology that delivers data visualisation
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 07, 2014
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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