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November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14
Ministry of Justice searches for IT staff to join digital team

The Ministry of Justice is recruiting people to join its team tasked with designed digital public services
November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14
How networking brought innovation and automation to Heathrow Terminal 2

Heathrow Airport has put automation and collaboration at the heart of a £34m network deployment in Terminal 2
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
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 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 24, 2014 24 Oct'14
Universal Credit digital service set for first public test in Sutton

Digital service for Universal Credit to start testing with benefit claimants in Sutton, south London, in the next two months
October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14
HR technology used to save lives following natural disasters

Plan International is using SAP's HR technology to deploy specialists relief workers within hours of a major emergency
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
Confused procurement slows NHS IT progress

The NHS plans to invest in technology as part of its five year Forward View, to increase patient care and close growing gaps in service.
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 16, 2014 16 Oct'14
Cope could be the future of mobility, says BBC technology chief

A corporate-owned, personally enabled (Cope) implementation could be the best option for mobility plans in the future

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
Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation
October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14
IBM and Lenovo complete content migration

T-Systems has migrated essential content from IBM x86 Lenovo’s systems
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 30, 2014 30 Sep'14
Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Xerox aligns business and IT in streamlining applications

Xerox's IT division has been working with the business to standardise its HR management on a global basis
September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14
Canonical moves to HR as a service

We got to the point where we could not scale says Steve George, vice-president of operations
September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14
Creative industry employers team up for Next Gen Skills Academy

Animation and gaming employers secure £6.5m investment from UKCES for training academy
September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14
Virgin cuts travel costs by 20% after rolling out unified communications

Employees saving 15 minutes a day as Virgin Media turns to social media, web conferencing and video
September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14
Accommodation booking site picks Dell cloud to fix downtime issues

Eviivo, a UK-based online accommodation booking website, has placed its business-critical systems on a Dell cloud platform
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
How the HSCIC rebuilt NHS Spine

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has successfully upgraded the infrastructure behind the NHS Spine platform
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 18, 2014 18 Sep'14
Interview: Wood Mackenzie CTO John Linwood on life after the BBC

John Linwood, former chief technology officer at the BBC, talks about winning a high-profile employment tribunal and his new job at Wood Mackenzie
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
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 08, 2014 08 Sep'14
BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed
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 02, 2014 02 Sep'14
Online fashion retailer Asos seeks CIO

Asos.com is looking to appoint a CIO following the departure of Pete Marsdon after two years in the role
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
Land Registry digital project at risk after senior IT leaders depart

A major digital project at the Land Registry is at risk after two key executives on the programme left due to their tax arrangements
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 20, 2014 20 Aug'14
Only 32% of CFOs have a close relationship with their CIO

Only 32% of chief financial officers work closely with the CIO in their organisation to push forward business growth, research finds
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
FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service
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 15, 2014 15 Aug'14
How CIOs can put their organisations at the forefront of innovation

CIOs have a critical role in helping their organisations exploit innovative ideas developed by non-technical specialists.
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
Gartner: Start Windows 7 migration now

CIOs must start preparing for the end of Windows 7 support now, to avoid the issue many faced when XP support ended earlier this year
August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14
Lloyds uses NightWatchman to cut electricity bill by £2.3m in eight months

Lloyds Banking Group has used PC power management software to make energy savings
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 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?
July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14
Cloudwatt deploys SDN to orchestrate public cloud service

Cloud firm Cloudwatt integrates Juniper OpenContrail SDN, NFV solution to support its public cloud environment
July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14
Dr Who visual effects studio builds desktop as a service for graphics

Jellyfish Pictures, the visual effects and animation studio behind Dr Who and the Line of Duty link has developed a DaaS for GPU
July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14
Another CIO leaves Royal Bank of Scotland

Scott Marcar, CIO of Royal Bank of Scotland’s Markets division, quit this week, according to sources
July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14
TfL wastes millions on telecoms, says IIPAG watchdog

Watchdog IIPAG criticises Transport for London (TfL) for its inefficient and fragmented telecoms contracts
July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14
Isles of Scilly tap into seabed fibre cables to get superfast broadband

Superfast Cornwall initiative resorts to novel method to bring fibre broadband to offshore islands
July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14
Interview: Working with software providers to improve licensing Ts&Cs

Managing director Mark Flynn aims to turn Campaign for Clear Licensing into a membership and lobby group for IT users
July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14
System for seven-day bank account switching underused

The IT system that underpins government’s regulation of seven-day bank account switching is being underused
July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14
Zayo swoops on defunct South Yorkshire fibre network

US fibre optic network owner Zayo has bought the defunct fibre assets of Digital Region in South Yorkshire
July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14
Facebook carbon footprint grows but energy-efficiency metric glows

Facebook’s carbon footprint report shows energy-efficiency metric for all-important datacentres comfortably outperforms gold-standard figure and set to get better