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IT project management
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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
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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
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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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October 31, 2014
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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 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 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
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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
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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.
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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 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
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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
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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
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October 01, 2014
01
Oct'14
IBM and Lenovo complete content migration
T-Systems has migrated essential content from IBM x86 Lenovo’s systems
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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 30, 2014
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 18, 2014
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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 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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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August 22, 2014
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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August 08, 2014
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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?
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July 28, 2014
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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
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July 25, 2014
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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
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July 25, 2014
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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
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July 24, 2014
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Jul'14
TfL wastes millions on telecoms, says IIPAG watchdog
Watchdog IIPAG criticises Transport for London (TfL) for its inefficient and fragmented telecoms contracts
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July 23, 2014
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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