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IT services and outsourcing

• February 21, 2023 21 Feb'23

  Care provider’s IT capability expands to support wider sector and beyond

  Care Plus’s IT operation went from being under NHS control to an autonomous department selling its services

• February 21, 2023 21 Feb'23

  Seven million people in UK used open banking services in 2022

  More than seven million people used services that harnessed open banking last year, with 1.2 million of these first-time users

• February 20, 2023 20 Feb'23

  Veeam bundles backup products into Veeam Data Platform

  Backup and data protection specialist Veeam upgrades and rebrands, with a focus on the challenges of ransomware and rapid recovery, and a claimed 500 new functions

• February 20, 2023 20 Feb'23

  App-based Zopa bank buys BNPL fintech

  App-based Zopa bank is adding a buy now, pay layer platform to its technology stack through its first acquisition

• February 17, 2023 17 Feb'23

  Singapore’s IHiS taps Google Cloud for API management

  Integrated Health Information Systems is using Google’s Apigee API management platform to provide access to data and applications across Singapore’s public healthcare system

• February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

  Helsinki’s tech and business ecosystem in 90 days

  Helsinki gives tech entrepreneurs a taste of life and business in Finland for 90 days as it bids to attract global tech startups

• February 15, 2023 15 Feb'23

  UK saw fintech investment collapse in 2022, but is still a world leader

  Fintech investment in the UK sees steep drop, but the country was still a top destination for capital

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Akamai eyes cloud market with Connected Cloud

  Akamai marks foray into cloud computing with a distributed cloud computing platform that is touted to make it easier for enterprises to get applications and data closer to their customers

• February 13, 2023 13 Feb'23

  KPMG launches metaverse and digital twin hub in Saudi Arabia

  The Saudi Arabian government’s commitment to investing in metaverse technology has attracted a KPMG centre of excellence to its shores

• February 13, 2023 13 Feb'23

  Hycu aims at universal SaaS backup with R-Cloud

  Hycu’s R-Cloud aims to provide an API-driven backup product for any software-as-a-service application for enterprise customers, based on a simple low-code development environment

• February 13, 2023 13 Feb'23

  Porsche revs up Formula E team with NetApp hybrid cloud

  Porsche’s electric car racing team has to set up on city street courses in short order, and does it with a portable server setup and hybrid cloud storage managed by NetApp GFC

• February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

  Twitter CEO Elon Musk pauses datacentre downsizing push in wake of outage

  Twitter CEO Elon Musk has called a temporary halt to the company’s push to cut costs by downsizing its infrastructure expenditure after an outage left users around the world unable to post tweets

• February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

  How Check Point is keeping pace with the cyber security landscape

  Check Point Software CEO Gil Shwed talks up the company’s growth areas, its approach to cloud security and the impact of generative AI on cyber security

• February 06, 2023 06 Feb'23

  Estonian anti-money laundering platform used to fight APP fraud

  A real-time data-sharing platform originally built to identify money laundering is also being applied to the fight against authorised push payment fraud

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  BDx to open fourth datacentre in Hong Kong

  Big Data Exchange’s upcoming HKG8 facility will provide hyperscale and enterprise customers with fail-safe resiliency and connectivity in one of the region’s fastest-growing datacentre markets

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Symbio acquires Intrado Australia’s UCaaS business

  The all-cash A$5m deal will expand Symbio’s footprint in the UCaaS market and deepen its reach into enterprises and government entities

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  NCSC for Startups inducts four companies into programme

  Four more startups are set to join the NCSC accelerator, which helps the UK government develop technology and approaches to pressing cyber security challenges

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  PayPal slashes 2,000 jobs in face of tough economic outlook

  Fintech giant making thousands of redundancies as global economic outlook remains poor

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Reaping green dividends with data management

  Getting data management right has been pivotal for Singapore IoT startup SensorFlow to optimise energy consumption and reduce carbon emissions for its hotelier clients

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Tech Nation to shutter after more than a decade

  Tech Nation due to shutter after losing core funding to Barclays Eagle Labs, which will take over its role in supporting UK technology startups and scaleups

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  ATO renews major Macquarie deal

  The contract renewal will enable the Australian Tax Office to tap Macquarie’s security operations centre, among other services, to secure its IT environment and protect sensitive data

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  Tiger’s hybrid cloud storage targets medical imaging

  Tiger Bridge targets vertical sectors that find it hard to migrate to the cloud by allowing data storage in the cloud while using files locally as if stored on-premise

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  Former Fujitsu staff under police investigation to face Post Office IT scandal inquiry

  Two former Fujitsu IT professionals being investigated for potential perjury will face Post Office Horizon public inquiry in May

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  Noventiq eyes APAC IT services market

  IT services provider Noventiq has been expanding its presence in APAC through several acquisitions in India, and is eyeing a bigger slice of the region’s IT services pie

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  CEF selects HPE Greenlake to build out digitisation strategy

  The electrical wholesaler plans to migrate to Equinix datacentres and use Greenlake to run IT services in the cloud

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Will mass big tech lay-offs affect employment prospects of IT contractors in 2023?

  With some of the biggest tech firms in the world announcing mass redundancies, will the flood of new entrants to the jobs market affect the prospects of IT contractors already looking for work amid the cost-of-living crisis?

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Boards struggle to resolve cyber risk in digital supply chains

  Accelerated digitisation of supply chains is introducing more cyber risk for which many organisations seem unprepared, according to the BSI’s annual report on supply chain risk

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  AWS opens Melbourne region, to invest $4.5bn by 2037

  Amazon Web Services’ new Melbourne cloud region will better serve Australian customers such as ANZ Bank and is expected to benefit over 2,500 full-time jobs in the country

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Executive interview: Andrew Roughan, CEO, Plexal

  Plexal CEO Andrew Roughan talks about how tech startups collaborate with the government to transform public services, the barriers to entry, and how the process can be improved

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  NGX: Turkish arrays to challenge US mainstream storage vendors

  Ankara-based NGX offers block, file and unified storage with use of cache and RAM to speed access. Software-defined storage, cloud and NVMe-over-fabrics are also coming

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Barclays Eagle Labs awarded Digital Growth Grant over Tech Nation

  Barclays Eagle Labs incubator to take over Tech Nation’s role in administering UK government digital growth grant amid backlash from startup ecosystem

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation

  Annual report shows secular trend to the cloud and increased use of containers, but prevalence of ransomware attacks means digital transformation is hindered

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Atempo plots course to containerised backup with S3 storage

  Containerised modularised backup services will allow integration with third-party systems and backup storage unified onto S3 object storage for cost and analytics purposes

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Gartner: CIOs will struggle to retain and attract IT talent

  While the latest spending forecast from Gartner shows continued growth in enterprise IT spending, how budgets are invested is set to change

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  UK fintech payments unicorn cuts back as Covid-19 boost wears off

  Payments infrastructure firm Paddle downsizes as Covid-19-generated business boost runs out of steam

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  StarHub to undertake major network transformation

  Singapore telco StarHub is deploying a hybrid cloud architecture that will enable it to launch sovereign cloud services, among other capabilities

• January 13, 2023 13 Jan'23

  Unionised contract workers who train Google’s AI win pay rise

  Google contract workers employed at artificial intelligence training supplier RaterLabs have secured their first-ever pay rise, following collective demands that Google fulfil its own commitment to pay its extended workforce a minimum of $15 an hour

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  AWS opens first Australian Local Zone in Perth

  AWS’s first Local Zone in Australia will bring low-latency performance to companies such as Woodside Energy and Nearmaps

• January 11, 2023 11 Jan'23

  SMEs eye moving business to challenger bank

  Known for their consumer banking success, challenger banks are now winning over hearts and minds in the small business sector

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Latest Innovate Finance report reveals decrease in UK fintech investment, but like-for-like increase

  Innovate Finance’s latest figures on fintech investment show reduction in UK, but report methodology leaves this open to change

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Tech firms failing to address forced labour in supply chains

  Subpar due diligence processes in the tech sector – including poor purchasing practices, sparsely implemented collective bargaining coverage, and a lack of redress for workers – is leaving supply chain workers open to abuse, says KnowTheChain

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  How cloud technology is supporting space missions

  Cloud-based machine learning and other services are finding their way into space to analyse satellite imagery and monitor space debris, among other space applications

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  Cyber gang abused free trials to exploit public cloud CPU resources

  A South Africa-based cyber crime gang exploited free trials and introductory offers to run cryptominers via public cloud services, then did a runner without paying

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  How technology is fuelling CommBank’s customer experience

  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has built up capabilities in cloud and microservices while empowering engineering teams to solve complex customer problems

• January 04, 2023 04 Jan'23

  Traditional banking under threat from platform-based alternatives

  Banking as a service embedded in non-banking business offerings will take large chunks from traditional banks

• January 04, 2023 04 Jan'23

  Why India’s Mphasis chose West Yorkshire for tech hub

  IT services firm Mphasis is moving more service delivery to the UK with around 1000 tech recruits planned for Northern England

• January 04, 2023 04 Jan'23

  How Tencent Cloud is cracking ASEAN’s cloud market

  The Chinese cloud supplier is playing to its strengths in platform services, media streaming and communications to grow its business in Southeast Asia

• January 03, 2023 03 Jan'23

  CDO interview: Lisa Heneghan, global chief digital officer, KPMG

  The advisory and consultancy firm’s former UK CDO has stepped up into a global role – with a whole new set of challenges and opportunities around taking digital transformation further

• January 03, 2023 03 Jan'23

  Batam datacentre to capture spillover demand from Singapore

  NeutraDC’s new datacentre facility in Batam will enable it to meet the spillover demand for datacentre services from neighbouring markets

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  CIO interview: David Schwartz, vice-president, PepsiCo Labs

  The food and drinks giant actively seeks out innovative tech startups and runs a programme to find creative ways to use their products to benefit the business