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IT services and outsourcing

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  Surge in Nobelium-linked supply chain attacks

  Mandiant’s researchers share new intel on two distinct clusters of Russian APT activity, linked to the Nobelium SolarWinds attackers

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  India’s IT spending to cross $100bn mark in 2022

  Led by software investments, the growth in IT spending comes as organisations in the subcontinent look to modernise their IT infrastructure and support a hybrid workforce

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Cloud-based Redwood becomes latest challenger bank to make a profit

  Cloud-based business bank becomes the latest of the new wave of challengers to achieve profit

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  UK MSP set to use Nebulon cloud-defined storage IaaS

  UK service provider Inca to use “cloud-defined storage” to support managed service provider offer in move which shunned hyper-converged infrastructure because of cited costly overheads

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  Financial Ombudsman Service takes step towards digital transformation with Workday

  Ombudsman uses human resource and financial management software in the cloud

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  Accenture to create 3,000 UK tech jobs

  Accenture’s recruitment plan in the UK is a response to businesses to the release of pent-up demand for digital transformations

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  How Maxim’s Group is using Oracle Cloud

  The Hong Kong-based F&B operator is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run its VMware workloads and datawarehouse to improve resilience and productivity

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  UK ‘impact startups’ raise £2bn in 2021

  Impact startups in the UK have raised record levels of investment this year, with most of the capital raised going to climate tech firms

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  DWP extends Capita contract for Scottish jobs programme

  Scotland’s JETS job-matching scheme, which uses digital tools to support people looking for work, extends contract with Capita

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  One in three Norwegian unicorns created in 2021 alone

  Norway’s tech sector has undergone rapid growth in the past year, consolidating the Nordic country’s position as an emerging European tech hub

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  Kazakhstan’s IT industry growing rapidly thanks to heavy government support

  Kazakhstan’s IT sector is being prepared for international expansion through government investment

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  More wrongful convictions overturned in Post Office scandal

  Seven more subpostmasters have been cleared after the Post Office charged them for crimes caused by its faulty Horizon software, taking the total of people wrongfully convicted to 72, with more to come

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  UK government announces safety tech challenge fund winners

  The Safety Tech Challenge Fund winners will now develop technologies to limit the spread of child abuse material in encrypted environments, which the government has claimed will not be repurposed for other uses

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  Six more former subpostmasters have convictions overturned

  A total number of 65 subpostmasters have now had criminal convictions overturned in Post Office Horizon scandal

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Security startups line up on Cyber Runway

  Some 108 cyber security startups representing the UK’s most cutting-edge innovators are to join Plexal’s Cyber Runway accelerator

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Post Office agrees to share privileged legal information with Horizon scandal inquiry

  The Post Office will waive professional legal privilege for documents relating to legal advice it received regarding subpostmaster prosecutions

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  GovTech to enhance Government on Commercial Cloud

  GCC 2.0 will include improvements in user onboarding and provide single credential access to public cloud services and engineering tools, among other areas

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Can UAE become a world leader in AI?

  The UAE has launched multiple programmes as it bids to be a world-leading location for artificial intelligence innovation

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  UK government proposes new rules for digital supply chain security

  Proposals could see IT service providers legally required to adhere to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework, among other things

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Cost reduction is still the biggest driver of banks’ cloud adoption

  More than 80% of banks now have a clear cloud strategy following a injection of urgency during the Covid-19 pandemic

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: APAC enterprises invest in digital future

  Nearly two-thirds of enterprises in Asia-Pacific plan to increase their IT budgets next year in areas such as cloud computing and cyber security to secure their digital future

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Post-Covid tech world to see 89% of UK tech operations hosted off-premise

  Leading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Stockholm and Copenhagen: Different IT innovation journeys, similar success

  Swedish and Danish capitals have build compelling tech startup success stories, and now rub shoulders with the likes of San Francisco

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Standard Chartered picks Starling Bank tech for product launch

  Standard Chartered able to quickly launch new product through fintech platform

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Vienna’s tech startup ecosystem gathers momentum

  After a sustained period of inactivity, Vienna’s startup environment is finally on the rise again

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Blockchain technology will help banks will cut cross-border payment costs by $10bn in 2030

  The use of blockchain technology in cross-border payments will save global banks $10bn in 2030, according to research

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Oracle eyes startups with Singapore cloud region

  Oracle is targeting startups and going beyond its enterprise stronghold with its first cloud region in Southeast Asia

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  CME Group signs 10-year cloud and product innovation deal with Google

  CME Group, one of the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange operators, has signed a multi-year infrastructure migration deal with Google Cloud

• November 07, 2021 07 Nov'21

  Belfast City Airport: Most apps in the cloud by 2031

  George Best Belfast City Airport has already achieved 50/50 cloud and on-premise working, with 80% of workloads expected to be cloud-based in the next decade. We look at what hybrid cloud means in practice

• November 05, 2021 05 Nov'21

  Mining deaths lawsuit against major tech companies dismissed

  A legal case against five major US technology companies accused of knowingly benefiting from human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dismissed, but victims plan to appeal

• November 04, 2021 04 Nov'21

  Fujitsu escaped huge lawsuit because Post Office behaved so badly in Horizon scandal

  How Fujitsu has so far avoided a huge lawsuit in relation to its role in the Horizon scandal

• November 04, 2021 04 Nov'21

  What is Kyndryl?

  As IBM spins out its Global Technology Services business, we speak to the UK chief of the new independent company about its plans

• November 03, 2021 03 Nov'21

  Facebook self-imposes facial recognition moratorium

  Facebook and Meta have committed to halting their use of facial recognition technology and deleting the biometric data of more than a billion people by the end of 2021, but will retain the underlying algorithms and software for potential use in ...

• November 03, 2021 03 Nov'21

  UK’s Labour Party hit by third-party data breach

  Data on Labour Party members was recently compromised in an apparent cyber attack on a third-party data processor

• November 02, 2021 02 Nov'21

  Cloud-fuelled European IT outsourcing spend hits record high

  European IT services spend up on the back of strong demand for cloud-based services

• November 02, 2021 02 Nov'21

  Dell rolls out financing arm in Singapore

  Dell Financial Services will offer flexible and consumption-based payment options in local and regional markets as more enterprises consume and operate IT infrastructure via an as-a-service model

• November 01, 2021 01 Nov'21

  No cloud storage for Belfast City Airport in Nutanix hyper-converged switch

  George Best Belfast City Airport ditches ageing Dell iSCSI SAN for Nutanix HCI for half the price of nearest contender, and gets DR site into the bargain. Cloud storage was a no-go for cost reasons

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  TechUK slams government gift to big banks that will disadvantage fintechs

  The government will put challenger banks at a disadvantage through its reduction in the bank profit surcharge, says TechUK

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  Russian IT market growing steadily after pandemic

  Russia’s enterprise IT sector is recovering steadily after a slowdown caused by Covid-19

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  AWS to open cloud region in New Zealand

  Cloud giant will invest NZ$7.5bn in New Zealand over the next 15 years through the new Auckland cloud region

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  Cyber experts on how to nobble a Nobelium attack

  A recent spate of attempted Nobelium cyber attacks were mostly unsuccessful, but serve as a reminder to pay attention to some more fundamental aspects of security

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  Thought Machine: Google-inspired banking fintech to unicorn and beyond

  UK fintech unicorn Thought Machine is transforming the IT of large traditional banks, while working with fledgling digital-only challengers

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  Capita migrates systems to the cloud for TfL low emission zone expansion

  Capita has expanded its team and moved systems to the cloud to support Transport for London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone expansion

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  Lacework expands into ANZ, eyes APAC market

  DevSecOps supplier Lacework’s expansion into Australia and New Zealand will pave the way for a broader move into the Asia-Pacific region

• October 21, 2021 21 Oct'21

  Airport operator MAG boosts threat visibility with hybrid SOC

  With budget concerns weighing heavy during the pandemic, Manchester Airports Group ditched an impending capex-heavy cyber investment in favour of a hybrid managed/in-house approach. Learn more about its experience

• October 21, 2021 21 Oct'21

  German regulator imposes limit on number of new customers digital bank can sign each month

  BaFin limits the number of new customers that digital bank N26 can enrol until it is reassured on issues it has raised about the company

• October 21, 2021 21 Oct'21

  NetApp Insight frames moves to public cloud and cloud native

  Storage player highlights partnerships with cloud hyperscalers and development of Spot portfolio aimed at cloud-native applications, DevOps, FinOps and SecOps

• October 20, 2021 20 Oct'21

  Spectra Logic unveils Vail hybrid cloud storage virtualisation

  Vail provides single pool of storage overlay to on-premise flash, disk and tape, plus cloud via object storage interface with Posix-compliance promised in future releases

• October 20, 2021 20 Oct'21

  Police IT buyers should compel suppliers to prove AI claims

  House of Lords told that UK law enforcement bodies should use their position as buyers to compel private sector suppliers to divulge more information about how their AI-powered technologies work

• October 20, 2021 20 Oct'21

  Barbershop is part of digital revolution in small business sector

  Barbershop continues to add digital functionality to its business after the pandemic proved its value