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IT services and outsourcing

• 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

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2022

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  Top 10 technology startup stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology startup stories of 2022

• December 27, 2022 27 Dec'22

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2022

  Despite the challenges over the past year, ASEAN businesses have taken things in stride as they press on with digital transformation, whether it is empowering citizen developers or building cloud-native applications

• December 23, 2022 23 Dec'22

  Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services IT articles of 2022, looking back at the moves and changes over the past year

• December 22, 2022 22 Dec'22

  Top 10 India IT stories of 2022

  We recap the top 10 stories in India, including the digitisation work undertaken by global firms in the country and the progress made by local enterprises in harnessing technology

• December 21, 2022 21 Dec'22

  Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2022

  We recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the opportunities and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022

  There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  GitHub CEO: Artificial intelligence will not replace developers

  Artificial intelligence will enable developers to learn at their own pace and become more productive rather than take over their jobs, says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke

• December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

  Digital Ethics Summit: Who benefits from new technology?

  Experts at the 2022 Digital Ethics Summit say expedited development cycles and obviously over-hyped PR material, in tandem with the public’s near-total exclusion from conversations around technology, is creating distrust towards the tech sector

• December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

  Alibaba Cloud to debut blockchain service

  The Chinese cloud supplier is readying a blockchain node service to simplify and speed up blockchain technology deployments

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  Criminal Cases Review Commission calls on more convicted subpostmasters to come forward

  The Criminal Cases Review Commission wants more former subpostmasters to come forward if they think they were prosecuted by the Post Office based on data from the error-prone Horizon computer system

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  Microsoft and London Stock Exchange agree £2.3bn 10-year cloud deal

  The London Stock Exchange is building on its acquisition of financial data provider Refinitiv through a deal with Microsoft

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  New cyber approaches ease Registers of Scotland’s AWS migration

  As the holder of the oldest national public land register in the world, Registers of Scotland has a storied history dating back centuries. Find out how Palo Alto Networks is keeping its processes and data secure as it goes all-in on Amazon Web ...

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  How India is moving towards net zero

  Home-grown companies and multinational firms are doubling down on sustainability efforts, but more needs to be done to improve datacentre efficiency and avoid greenwashing

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  More Uber data exposed in possible supply chain attack

  A second incident affecting ride-sharing app Uber appears to have originated through a third party in a supply chain attack

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  Special educational needs students use virtual reality to help navigate real world

  Students on the autistic spectrum are using virtual reality to help them prepare for real-world interaction

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  Customer frustrations mount as Rackspace investigation proceeds

  Rackspace says it is making progress on restoring services following a ransomware attack on its Hosted Exchange business, but customers are becoming frustrated with a lack of communication

• December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2023

  Robotics, cross-cloud data mobility and cyber insurance are some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2023