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IT services and outsourcing

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Tech Nation and PwC launch joint climate tech accelerator

  The Net Zero X programme by Tech Nation and PwC will help climate tech companies to overcome common growth challenges and scale faster

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Equinix to open new datacentre in Indonesia

  Equinix’s new facility in Indonesia follows a slew of datacentre builds that have been sprouting up in Jakarta to cater to the country’s growing digital economy

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  India telcos chart revenue growth with cloud and OTT services

  Telcos in India are eyeing new revenue streams from cloud and content services, but whether they can successfully monetise the offerings remains to be seen

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Public sector aims to close digital skills gap with private sector

  Digital leaders from the public sector have stressed the need to build up the digital skills and capabilities of civil servants to successfully deliver the government’s digital transformation ambitions, but not at the expense of supplier ecosystems

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  IR35 reforms to be scrapped: What IT contractors need to know

  News of the government’s plans to scrap the IR35 reforms took the contracting world by surprise, but IT contractors are being warned off making hasty changes to the way they work just yet

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Next phase of open banking already gathering pace

  Open banking has had a major impact on the banking industry as finance forms harness data to provide better services, but the next phase of open finance promises even more

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift roadmap, competitive play

  Red Hat’s newly minted CEO Matt Hicks talks up OpenShift’s roadmap, the competition with VMware and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud

  Software-defined storage and block access specialist to offer its product on high-performance AWS bare metal and memory-intensive compute, while claiming improved latency

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  A new take on an old relationship: Nordic startups lure UK investors to their front doors

  When startup worlds collide: investment and entrepreneurship partnerships form across the Nordics and UK

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  How Endowus is leveraging Kafka and microservices

  The Singapore-based financial technology company built a distributed microservices architecture to ensure its investment platform remains resilient at all times

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Cost-of-living crisis could spur fintech adoption

  The cost-of-living crisis could have a similar impact on fintech and digital banking as the Covid-19 pandemic did, inducing further innovation in the fintech sector

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Five startups to join NCSC for Startups initiative

  The NCSC has invited five startups to join its NCSC for Startups programme to help the government with pressing cyber challenges facing the UK

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  UK suffers third highest number of ransomware attacks globally

  Based on an analysis of around 5,000 ransomware incidents, NordLocker has found that UK businesses, and small businesses in particular, are a priority target for ransomware gangs

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  EnterpriseDB rides on PostgreSQL momentum in APAC

  The open-source database supplier has seen more enterprises in the region replacing their Oracle databases with Postgres to support their digital transformation initiatives

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Most hackers exfiltrate data within five hours of gaining access

  Insights from more than 300 sanctioned adversaries, otherwise known as ‘ethical’ hackers, reveal that around two-thirds are able to collect and exfiltrate data within just five hours of gaining access

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Robo investment platform adopts open banking-based payments

  Nordic consumer investment fintech simplifies customer experience through open banking software from Mastercard-owned Aiia

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  American football giants jet into digital age with HCLTech

  US football clubs the New York Jets and New York Giants outsource their digital transformations to Indian service provider as they target improved fan engagement

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  More than 30 startups to join Plexal’s Cyber Runway accelerator

  Now in its second year, the Cyber Runway accelerator has been designed to support firms at various stages of growth, as well as help the cyber security sector to improve on its diversity, inclusion and regional representation

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  FCSA calls for government clampdown on cloned umbrella companies

  One year has passed since the Freelancer and Contractor Services Association spoke out about the problem of umbrella company cloning, and it claims the authorities are not moving fast enough to tackle the issue

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  How AWS is tapping the groundswell in cloud adoption

  Phil Davis, managing director of Amazon Web Services in Asia-Pacific and Japan, talks up the company’s growth strategy and how it is retaining customers amid rivals nipping at its heels

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  Copenhagen Fintech connects its members to the world

  Copenhagen-based startup initiative is driving fintech developments across the Nordic region, with Mastercard its latest global partner

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  IR35 reforms to be scrapped in public and private sectors from April 2023, government confirms

  The government has confirmed that the 2017 and 2021 roll-out of the IR35 reforms to the public and private sectors, respectively, will be repealed in April 2023

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  Post Office scandal inquiry chair intervenes in slow compensation progress

  Chair of statutory public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal has aired his disappointment over the slow progress in making interim payments to victims

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  How Great Eastern is transforming its IT organisation

  Singapore-based insurer Great Eastern made painstaking efforts to rid itself of legacy systems and transformed its IT organisation to become nimbler by building up its cloud and DevOps capabilities

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Tech Nation announces 13 startups for 11th Future Fifty cohort

  Thirteen high-growth startups set to join Tech Nation’s 11th annual Future Fifty programme to help them scale further

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Nordic private equity firms pursue cyber security acquisitions

  Increasing interest in the security sector from Nordic private equity firms is a reflection of growing threats and increasing enterprise security budgets

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Dr Martens goes feetfirst into cloud-to-cloud backup

  Iconic bootmaker laces up for a strategy to move all applications to the cloud, beginning with cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 apps plus on-site VMware operations

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  Contractors call for IR35 review and tax cuts in Chancellor’s mini-Budget

  The contractor community is patiently awaiting the outcome of this Friday’s mini-Budget, with hopes for some concrete details on the Prime Minister’s proposed IR35 review and news of a corporation tax cut

• September 16, 2022 16 Sep'22

  Barnet Council awards Capita contract extension

  Barnet Council has awarded Capita a contract extension as part of its transition away from a large contract with the supplier

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  US to see huge increase in embedded finance transactions

  Retailers and other non-financial businesses are increasingly offering their customers financial services, such as credit and payment options

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  VMware Cloud on AWS debuts in Hong Kong

  VMware has expanded its VMware Cloud on AWS to Hong Kong, following the launch of the Alibaba Cloud VMware service in Greater China

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Cloud compromise a doddle for threat actors as victims attest

  Two separate studies into the state of public cloud security reveal insight into the ease with which threat actors can compromise vast numbers of targets, and some of the challenges security teams are facing in the cloud

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  JP Morgan acquires fintech for payments modernisation

  JP Morgan acquires cloud-native payments technology as it modernises its IT infrastructure

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Blancco works with charity to provide IT for African schools

  Blancco is providing data sanitisation and erasure software to The Turing Trust so that old IT equipment can be securely reused by school children in Sub-Saharan Africa, instead of adding to world’s growing e-waste problem

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Contractors lack confidence in prime minister to follow through with promised IR35 review

  Contractor poll suggests lack of faith among freelancers about new prime minister Liz Truss honouring her pledge to review the IR35 rules

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  How graph technology is making a dent in the database market

  Graph databases are making a splash in the database market, with specialist, multimodal and cloud database suppliers jostling for a slice of the pie

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Interview: Keeping an IT business going during the Russian invasion

  After heading home and discovering that his country had been invaded, Konstantin Klyagin was forced to make life-changing family and business decisions

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Sweden is ideal breeding ground for a direct-to-consumer unicorn

  Sweden’s socially driven technology prowess could soon yield an e-commerce unicorn digitising direct to customers

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Tech Nation Libra programme selects 35 scaleups for second cohort

  The Libra 2.0 programme is designed to help underrepresented founders in the UK who are growing and seeking specific support for scaling up their business

• September 06, 2022 06 Sep'22

  Saudi Arabian organisations choose to outsource to improve cyber security posture

  Overwhelmed by rising threats and a growing number of government mandates, many organisations in Saudi Arabia are looking for outside help to take care of cyber security

• September 05, 2022 05 Sep'22

  VMware doubles down on cloud in ASEAN

  Paul Simos, VMware’s managing director and vice-president for Southeast Asia and Korea, dives deeper into the company’s cloud strategy for the region

• September 05, 2022 05 Sep'22

  How Okta is regaining customer trust after a cyber attack

  In early 2022, cyber firm Okta was among several tech companies hit by the Lapsus$ gang. Vice-president of customer trust Ben King talks about how he has been working behind the scenes to rebuild confidence after the incident

• September 02, 2022 02 Sep'22

  Interview: Sibstar, the fintech app for dementia sufferers

  Creator of app and debit card designed to support people living with dementia tells Computer Weekly how the idea developed

• September 02, 2022 02 Sep'22

  Dutch government finally allowed to use public cloud

  Public cloud is finally within reach for Dutch public services. Previously, the Dutch government was only allowed to use private clouds due to risks concerning privacy and security

• September 01, 2022 01 Sep'22

  Police interview Horizon scandal victim in investigation into potential perjury by Fujitsu staff

  The Met Police have interviewed a former subpostmaster as part of an investigation into potential perjury by former Fujitsu staff

• September 01, 2022 01 Sep'22

  Google workers oppose cloud contract with Israeli government

  Google workers and Palestinian rights activists call on company to divest from involvement in cloud and artificial intelligence contract with Israeli government and military, following allegations the tech giant has retaliated against an employee ...

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  VMware beefs up Tanzu portfolio, adds OpenShift support

  The Tanzu Application Platform will include support for Red Hat OpenShift, air-gapped installations and other capabilities to improve developer productivity and code security

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  NetApp storage goes GA for VMware Cloud on AWS

  Move will bring up to 50% decrease in TCO for customers running VMware apps in the Amazon cloud, says NetApp. No date yet for extension of the service across other public clouds

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Home Office announces Scale-up visa for fast-growth firms

  Scale-up visa launched to help high-growth businesses employ talent from overseas, but sponsorship requirements could undermine effectiveness

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Farming tech projects get £16.5m in government funding

  Projects receiving funding through latest round of farming innovation programme include tech to improve fruit farming and the use of artificial intelligence to improve pigs’ welfare