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IT management

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  Deutsche Bank creates group-wide CIO role

  New chief will drive technology transformation across the bank

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  AWS outage shows vulnerability of cloud disaster recovery

  The recent outage at Amazon Web Services has highlighted the risks of using any public cloud for disaster recovery IT

• March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17

  MoD ditches spreadsheets for SaaS-based collaboration tool

  The Ministry of Defence is taking advantage of G-Cloud for collaboration software to manage its global activities

• March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17

  Gov.uk Notify ready for use across government digital services

  The notification platform is now ready to be used by all central government services needing electronic progress updates for users

• March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17

  MWC 2017: Barcelona trial uses IoT and big data to manage tourists

  Barcelona, the host city for Mobile World Congress, has been demonstrating its use of the internet of things and big data to help manage visitors to Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Hundreds more sub-postmasters apply to join group action against Post Office

  Initial hearing regarding sub-postmasters who say they were wrongly punished for false accounting reveals admission by Post Office legal team

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Citizen Love: the story of an ordinary family's fight with the US government

  Finnish documentary makers Raimo Uunila and Lauri Danska tell the behind-the-scenes story of activist Lauri Love’s battle with the US government – and the impact of the case on his family

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Greenpeace calls for sustainable smartphone manufacturing

  Electronic waste and the carbon emissions from manufacturing are among the areas smartphone makers must address, says environmental organisation

• February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17

  NHS needs single point of access for data

  A report has found that clinicians struggle with access to basic data and recommends a single online point of access for healthcare datasets

• February 23, 2017 23 Feb'17

  BDUK head Chris Townsend to step down

  Government executive Chris Townsend, who oversees the DCMS-run BDUK rural broadband programme, is to step down in April

• February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17

  Corporate IT Forum aims to fill gap in discipline of SRM

  Forum to fill supplier relationship management gap opened up by growing centrality of IT to business, and transitions to cloud

• February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17

  HPE services and CSC to become DXC Technology

  The merger between HP's services division and CSC will launch in April 2017 and is expected to save the companies billions

• February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17

  Too many high-risk vulnerabilities leave CISOs scrabbling to patch

  Too many critical flaws are given high priority, leading to a patch overload that CISOs cannot keep up with, according to F-Secure

• February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17

  CIO interview: Matt Peers, Linklaters

  Linklaters CIO Matt Peers is taking the firm through a complete digital transformation and making some big changes

• February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17

  Deloitte readies enterprise public cloud practice with AWS and SAP

  A 2,500-strong consulting practice will focus on delivering SAP Hana on Amazon Web Services for analytics to drive digital business

• February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17

  UAE bank builds predictive marketing models

  Rakbank is using SAS analytics software to better understand its customers following a successful implementation of the supplier’s anti-money laundering software

• February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17

  AWS preps GDPR readiness by signing up to cloud Code of Conduct

  AWS is now a member of the Association of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, which means EC2 and the like need to follow certain rules

• February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17

  HMRC rejects Gov.uk Verify

  HM Revenue and Customs says it won’t be using Gov.uk Verify, which could cause difficulties for the government’s target of having 25 million Verify users by 2020

• February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17

  Co-op Bank up for sale now legacy shift to IBM is complete

  Bank put up for sale just days after it completed a multimillion-pound migration of its legacy banking platform into an IBM datacentre

• February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

  Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures

  Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  FDM Everywoman in Tech: 2017 winners announced

  Women’s network Everywoman announces the winners of its 2017 Everywoman in Technology awards, sponsored by FDM

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  MWC 2017: 4G still has plenty of mileage, say mobile analysts

  5G is likely to be a hot topic at this year’s Mobile World Congress, which kicks off at the end of February, but operators should be paying more attention to getting more out of their 4G networks

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  Rubbish digital collection needs to be addressed

  Services like rubbish collection, that are usually outsourced, need greater digitisation to join up to council processes

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  Government transformation strategy aims to 'restore faith in democracy', says minister

  Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer outlines his ambitious hopes for the new government transformation strategy at its launch

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  Lack of data sharing is barrier to health and social care integration

  NHS and social care organisations are still unsure of when to share information because of a “confusing” regulatory framework, and the National Audit Office is unimpressed with the progress on health and social care integration

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  Government digital transformation strategy promises to ‘serve’ its people

  Long-awaited strategy aims to change the way government departments and services work though digital technology

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  Case study: Australia’s Salmat to go cloud-only after getting a taste for the technology

  Australian marketing company Salmat plans to move everything it can into the cloud following a highly successful initial SaaS implementation

• February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

  How a Dublin court case could derail EU-US data privacy agreements

  The Irish Commercial Court will consider whether privacy protection offered by standard contractual clauses for data transfers to the US from Europe is legally valid

• February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

  Middle East and North Africa public cloud spend to hit $2bn by 2020

  Middle East-based organisations are turning to public cloud services, with software as a service driving a major year-on-year spending increase

• February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

  APAC businesses turn to DevOps to improve app quality, security

  Security validation and metrics are some of the key trends in DevOps this year, according to CA Technologies

• February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

  Google to appeal against order to hand over foreign emails

  UK firms urged to consider the risks of non-UK cloud service providers and to encrypt data in the light of another US warrant to access emails held by a US cloud services firm on non-US servers

• February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

  Government digital transformation strategy finally set to be published this week

  The much-delayed plan – now expected to be known as the government transformation strategy – is due to be announced by Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer

• February 03, 2017 03 Feb'17

  CIO interview: Adam Gerrard, Yodel

  Parcel delivery firm has seen significant business improvements from a digital transformation programme and replacement of legacy IT systems

• February 03, 2017 03 Feb'17

  London Fire Brigade system crashes cause delays reacting to emergencies

  Control room system crashes have been causing delays in London Fire Brigade response times

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  European Union reaches final agreement on mobile roaming charges

  Mobile roaming charges in the European Union will end by 15 June 2017 after final agreement was reached on the regulation of wholesale prices

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  CIO interview: Alex Alexander, Yoox Net-a-Porter Group

  It is not always the catwalk where the biggest trends in fashion take place. Tech is driving fashion today, says CIO Alex Alexander

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  Finnish city takes €10bn leap into digitisation

  Tampere is encouraging its people, businesses and government organisations to come together to make digital transformation work for everyone

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  Mixed feelings on Australian enterprise app market

  The enterprise mobile app development market is attracting big money despite a lack of corporate appetite

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  Human-centric technologies will dominate next three years

  Accenture says businesses will develop technology and services to match human behaviour in the next few years

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  Microsoft’s cloud privacy battle may go to US Supreme Court

  The US Department of Justice is considering going to the Supreme Court after an appeals court refused to revisit its July 2016 landmark ruling blocking government access to Microsoft servers in Ireland

• January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Singapore and Indonesia stand out for IT spend in Apac banking sector

  Singapore is the top spender on IT for banking of all developed economies in the Apac region, while Indonesia has the fastest growth rate in IT spending

• January 20, 2017 20 Jan'17

  West Middlesex University Hospital pilots wireless vital signs tech

  West Middlesex University Hospital trials technology that allows the checking of vital signs through wearable patches on patients

• January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17

  Southampton FC signs up to cloud-based e-commerce

  The cloud-based system by Advanced supports fan engagement and is able to handle peaks in traffic on Southampton FC’s website

• January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17

  Facebook chief reveals real cost of Oculus in court testimony

  Testifying in an IP-theft case against Facebook-owned Oculus, Mark Zuckerberg reveals the acquisition cost $3bn, not $2bn as originally announced

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  Blockchain can cut investment bank infrastructure costs by 30%

  Investment banks can make huge cuts to their IT infrastructure costs through blockchain, according to analysis

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  HSBC appoints technology advisers to keep pace with IT changes

  Bank hopes to gain knowledge about technologies such as artificial intelligence and biometric security through its new technology advisory board

• January 16, 2017 16 Jan'17

  Australian government technology suffers failure after failure

  Former government IT leader says Australia’s IT is so bad that if the government were a private sector organisation, it would fail

• January 13, 2017 13 Jan'17

  Davos: Technology poses new risks to jobs, economies and society

  Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by technology to jobs, political stability and cyber security at the World Economic Forum in Davos

• January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17

  Lloyds Bank digital banking problems an industry warning

  Lloyds Bank’s digital banking problems still unresolved after a second day

• January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17

  Brexit should not hinder 5G development, says report

  A report commissioned by the government claims the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union should have minimal impact on the country’s ability to lead on the development of 5G networks