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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

• 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

• 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