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IT services and outsourcing
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April 25, 2022
25
Apr'22
Mimecast makes deeper push into ASEAN
Mimecast opens regional office in Singapore and is looking at setting up a datacentre in Southeast Asia as it makes a deeper push into the region
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April 21, 2022
21
Apr'22
Tech to account for over half of regulatory compliance spending
By 2026, regtech will account for more than half of the money that businesses spend on compliance with regulations
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April 21, 2022
21
Apr'22
More Scottish subpostmaster conviction reviews expected as part of Post Office scandal
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission expects more subpostmasters with potential wrongful convictions to come forward
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April 21, 2022
21
Apr'22
Alibaba Cloud eyes VMware workloads with new cloud service
The Alibaba Cloud VMware Service is aimed at Chinese enterprises that are looking to move their VMware workloads to public cloud, perform disaster recovery and reduce their on-premise datacentre footprint
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April 20, 2022
20
Apr'22
AWS fixes vulnerabilities in Log4Shell hot patch
AWS issues fixes for a series of Log4Shell hot patches after they turned out to leave its services vulnerable to further exploitation
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April 20, 2022
20
Apr'22
Financial Ombudsman Service chooses TCS as digital transformation partner
Tata Consultancy Services will build and implement key systems as part the Financial Ombudsman Service’s digital transformation
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April 18, 2022
18
Apr'22
Singtel expands datacentre footprint in Indonesia
Singtel’s datacentre platform will host selected datacentre assets from Indonesia’s Telkom as part of the telco’s move to grow its datacentre footprint in key regional markets
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April 14, 2022
14
Apr'22
Kyndryl kindles cyber incident recovery pact with Dell
IBM spin-out Kyndryl hops into bed with Dell Technologies in a joint cyber resilience proposition
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April 12, 2022
12
Apr'22
Universal IAM policy failings put cloud environments at risk
Almost all organisations lack appropriate IAM policy controls to effectively secure their data in the cloud, according to a damning study
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April 11, 2022
11
Apr'22
APAC enterprises are reducing their datacentre footprint
Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are moving from their own datacentres into co-location facilities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and lower their carbon footprint
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April 08, 2022
08
Apr'22
IT contractors warned as HMRC draws on ‘IR35-adjacent’ legislation in tax avoidance clampdown
IT contractors are being urged to take action now, as details emerge about how HM Revenue & Customs is drawing on some IR35-adjacent legislation to send out five-figure tax bills to individuals who engage with contractor-focused accountants
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April 07, 2022
07
Apr'22
AirAsia taps Google Cloud to bolster its super-app
AirAsia is setting up a cloud centre of excellence with Google Cloud to shore up its super-app and build capabilities in site reliability engineering and machine learning operations
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April 07, 2022
07
Apr'22
European IT and BPO outsourcing off to strong start
European IT and business process outsourcing services continue to increase rapidly, with cloud-based services now more than half of the total
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April 06, 2022
06
Apr'22
Denonia malware may be first to target AWS Lambda
The newly discovered Denonia malware appears to be custom designed to target AWS Lambda environments, and may be the first of its kind
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April 06, 2022
06
Apr'22
IR35 reforms: Private sector warned HMRC's 12-month 'light-touch' enforcement period is ending
HMRC confirmed, in the lead up to the IR35 reforms coming into force in the private sector in April 2021, that it would be taking a ‘light-touch’ approach to enforcing the rules for 12 months. And that grace period ends today
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April 05, 2022
05
Apr'22
Structured decentralisation is the key to unlocking Nordic-level innovation
Finnish tech entrepreneurs will be taking the stage at the World Economic Forum to tell the world about the role of trust in Finnish startup success
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April 05, 2022
05
Apr'22
Secrecy over police EncroChat hacking is unconstitutional, defence lawyers tell top French court
France’s constitutional court, the Conseil Constitutionnel, has heard arguments that the use of ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about police surveillance operations breaches the French constitution
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April 04, 2022
04
Apr'22
Fujitsu bags £430m government contracts despite rising cost of Post Office Horizon scandal
Fujitsu has won two huge government IT contracts, worth over £400m, while taxpayers face footing the massive bill for the Post Office scandal caused by its software
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March 30, 2022
30
Mar'22
Lax money laundering controls lands N26 with ban from Italian central bank
German digital bank N26 has had problems with anti-money laundering regulations in the past, and is now banned in Italy
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March 29, 2022
29
Mar'22
UK tech ecosystem reaches $1tn valuation
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted massive investment in the UK’s digital companies, which are collectively valued at $1tn
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March 29, 2022
29
Mar'22
HSBC chooses IBM support for its quantum leap
UK bank moves to the next stage of its work with quantum computers through a deal with IBM
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March 28, 2022
28
Mar'22
Backup: N-able emerges from white box to aim at enterprise customers
It spent years integrated with Solarwinds and as a re-sold product, but now it plans to target enterprise customers with a backup product that aims at granular file protection and restore
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March 28, 2022
28
Mar'22
Babylon Health expands hybrid cloud infrastructure setup to include Google
Digital healthcare provider Babylon has opened up about the work it is doing with the Google Cloud team, as it grapples with trying to meet the infrastructure needs of its rapidly growing business
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March 28, 2022
28
Mar'22
Most big businesses are taking up banking as a service
API-based banking services allow corporate customers to offer financial services without the need for heavy tech development or regulatory approval
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March 24, 2022
24
Mar'22
Ad agency slashes NetApp costs with Datadobi data migration
US-based branding agency needed to migrate 20TB of large files to new NetApp hardware, but unwilling to stomach the vendor’s migration costs it chose Datadobi instead
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March 24, 2022
24
Mar'22
Hiring and retention challenges in cyber security persist
Latest ISACA report shows that enterprises are struggling to find and retain cyber security talent
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March 23, 2022
23
Mar'22
Japan’s Mizuho partners Google to accelerate tech transformation after a year to forget
Following a year when it hit the tech headlines for the wrong reasons, Mizuho is on a mission to modernise IT in collaboration with Google
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March 23, 2022
23
Mar'22
Umbrella company Workwell refutes contractor’s ‘withheld holiday pay’ claim
A dispute between a contractor and their former umbrella company shines a light once more on the knotty issue of holiday pay
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March 23, 2022
23
Mar'22
NHS urgent care provider uses ID and access management to reduce complexity for clinicians
Provider of care through NHS 111 is using a cloud-based identity and access management system to remove the need for clinicians to remember multiple passwords
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March 22, 2022
22
Mar'22
NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection
Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware
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March 22, 2022
22
Mar'22
555 subpostmasters to get fair compensation after government U-turn
Government finally agrees to pay 555 Post Office scandal victims fair compensation
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March 22, 2022
22
Mar'22
Edge computing implementations still in their infancy
It’s still early days for enterprise implementations of edge computing, with one analyst likening it to the early days of cloud
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March 21, 2022
21
Mar'22
Teleperformance’s robotic process automation increases job satisfaction
A project to introduce software robots at the Dutch arm of Teleperformance has been adopted globally
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March 17, 2022
17
Mar'22
Online Safety Bill introduced in Parliament
The government has introduced its long-awaited Online Safety Bill in Parliament, alongside new criminal offences and sanctions for tech company execs
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March 17, 2022
17
Mar'22
FCSA takes steps to help umbrella company members protect themselves better from cyber attacks
After a spate of suspected ransomware attacks on its members, the Freelance and Contractor Services Association is partnering with a cyber security firm that can coach its umbrella firms on how to protect themselves better
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March 16, 2022
16
Mar'22
Estonian anti-money laundering software pilot reaps benefits
Estonian startup and local banks have successfully piloted a data-sharing platform that prevents money laundering
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March 16, 2022
16
Mar'22
TCS doubles down on innovation and talent in Australia
Indian IT service provider TCS has opened an innovation centre in Sydney and is investing in local talent to meet the digital transformation needs of Australian organisations
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March 15, 2022
15
Mar'22
IR35 private sector reforms one year on: Assessing the impact on the UK’s tech talent pool
With the first anniversary of the IR35 reforms taking effect in the private sector fast approaching, IT contractors set out how the changes have affected their ability to find work in the UK
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March 15, 2022
15
Mar'22
Alibaba Cloud debuts cloud computer in Singapore
The Chinese cloud supplier unveils cloud computer powered by Alibaba’s Elastic Desktop Service for the first time outside China
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March 14, 2022
14
Mar'22
‘Technical issues’ leave Post Office branches with ATM cash discrepancies
Discrepancies of up to £2,000 reported after an ‘IT change’ impacted more than 200 Post Office branches
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March 14, 2022
14
Mar'22
More Tableau-Salesforce integrations on the cards
Tableau and Salesforce are looking to deliver more ‘pre-integrated’ offerings that embed analytics capabilities into the latter’s portfolio of software-as-a-service applications
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March 11, 2022
11
Mar'22
Majority of UK adults support legal right to disconnect
The introduction of ‘right to disconnect’ legislation to stop employees having to engage in work-related electronic communications outside their normal hours remains popular in the UK
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March 11, 2022
11
Mar'22
AWS launches its first UK healthtech accelerator
A cohort of 12 startups will use AWS resources to accelerate their technology and business development, with opportunities to sell to public sector healthcare organisations at the end
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March 09, 2022
09
Mar'22
How Kofax is tapping the groundswell in automation
Kofax is counting on its pedigree in optical character recognition and other capabilities to tap the growing market for automation technologies
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March 08, 2022
08
Mar'22
Challenges for IT providers as Ukraine crisis worsens
Many IT providers have ceased sales to Russia, but cloud services can operate and be delivered anywhere, helping – indirectly – to fund the invasion
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March 07, 2022
07
Mar'22
Deutsche Bank tests IT operation resilience amid potential loss of Russian centre
German bank is confident the possible loss of operations in Russia will not affect the day-to-day running of its business
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March 07, 2022
07
Mar'22
NHS AI framework offers decision support for stroke diagnosis
Procurement framework aims to help hospitals gain access to pioneering AI-powered image analysis for stroke detection
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March 07, 2022
07
Mar'22
India’s Mahindra Group makes cloud move
The Indian conglomerate will migrate SAP S/4 Hana and its data warehouse to Google Cloud and build up its DevOps capabilities
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March 04, 2022
04
Mar'22
Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia
Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market
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March 02, 2022
02
Mar'22
How FinOps can rein in cloud costs
More organisations are warming to FinOps to keep escalating cloud costs in check, amid growing usage of public cloud services