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IT services and outsourcing
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 21, 2021
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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
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October 21, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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October 20, 2021
20
Oct'21
Alibaba Cloud to open datacentres in Thailand and South Korea
Chinese cloud supplier is expanding its regional datacentre footprint to Thailand and South Korea in 2022 alongside technology investments that include a custom Arm-based server chip
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October 19, 2021
19
Oct'21
VMware refines cross-cloud strategy
VMware’s CTO Kit Colbert talks up the evolution of the company’s cross-cloud strategy and how it stands out from other suppliers eyeing the multicloud pie
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October 18, 2021
18
Oct'21
DCMS appoints Plexal to drive telecoms diversity strategy
Government chooses UK innovation company to understand and develop the role of SMEs in the telecoms market with particular reference to how to create a diverse market that supports the creation of home-grown, sovereign technology
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October 17, 2021
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Oct'21
Graphcore opens Southeast Asia hub in Singapore
The AI chipmaker is looking to expand its sales teams and hire more engineers to support customer deployments in Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia
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October 15, 2021
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Oct'21
Global IT outsourcing sees record spending and no sign of slowing
Cloud services are being taken up by enterprises rapidly as they accelerate digital transformations
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October 14, 2021
14
Oct'21
Darlington Building Society invests in platform for digital transformation
Building society is looking to satisfy existing customers and attract new ones by meeting their digital service-level expectations
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October 14, 2021
14
Oct'21
HPE’s GreenLake strategy pays off in APAC
HPE’s transition to an as-a-service company is paying off in Asia-Pacific where it witnessed one of the strongest quarters, thanks in part to rising demand for services
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October 12, 2021
12
Oct'21
Nearly half of finance firms will acquire or partner fintechs in next year
UK financial services firms are preparing to acquire or partner fintechs as they target business growth
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October 11, 2021
11
Oct'21
Malaysia’s highway authority improves DR capabilities
The Malaysian Highway Authority is now more resilient against cyber attacks through a local disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering powered by Veeam software
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October 08, 2021
08
Oct'21
How Zoom is growing its APAC business
Zoom is driving its growth in Asia-Pacific by embedding business processes into video communications, supporting the hybrid workplace and expanding its headcount in the region
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October 07, 2021
07
Oct'21
HCL Benelux telco partnership targets SME and government
Indian IT service provider signs partnership that will see it modernise the core technology of Proximus to offer its services through
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October 07, 2021
07
Oct'21
How VMware is tackling the Indian market
VMware is eyeing growing opportunities in India around cloud-native application development, remote work as well as 5G and edge computing, says VMware president Sumit Dhawan
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October 06, 2021
06
Oct'21
Tech Nation adds 30 fintech scaleups to growth programme as funding continues to rise
UK government-backed startup network adds 30 fintechs to its growth programme amid record investments in finance tech sector
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October 06, 2021
06
Oct'21
Ocado gets closer to autonomous delivery with Wayve trial
Startup Wayve takes what it believes is a different approach to autonomous driving by modelling the behaviour of a driver
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October 06, 2021
06
Oct'21
5PRING issues call for 5G innovation in UK events sector
West Midlands telecoms industry testbed challenges innovators to help lead the next-generation networks revolution as live events industry gets back to life
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October 06, 2021
06
Oct'21
Israeli Orca to invest in UK cyber scene
Tel Aviv-headquartered Orca Security wants to set up a new R&D centre in the UK
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October 05, 2021
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Oct'21
Microsoft’s financial services cloud available next month
Financial finance sector-focused cloud service will be available at the beginning of November
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October 04, 2021
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Oct'21
Mastercard acquisition of Aiia is a further sign of open banking’s big future
Mastercard’s acquisition of Denmark-based open banking fintech Aiia follows rival’s takeover of Sweden’s Tink
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October 04, 2021
04
Oct'21
How GYG Singapore moved to paperless contracts
The Singapore franchisee of Mexican cuisine specialist Guzman y Gomez has turned to electronic agreements and digital signatures to ease the administrative burden on its HR team
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October 01, 2021
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Oct'21
Norway and IoT: A match made in heaven
Norway is becoming a centre of internet of things innovation as tech developers look for answers to some of the country's unique challenges
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October 01, 2021
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Oct'21
IR35: Giant Group cyber attack prompts renewed calls for statutory regulation of umbrella companies
As details about the fallout from the cyber attack on the Giant Group umbrella company emerge, stakeholders say the incident should prompt the government to expedite regulating contractor payroll processing firms
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September 30, 2021
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Sep'21
Starling Bank takes its banking-as-a-service into European Union
API-based banking-as-a-service offering means customers can access services such as current accounts or debit cards without the need for heavy tech development or regulatory approval
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September 29, 2021
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Sep'21
Women in fintech welcome Barclays initiative and demand more from the sector
Women in UK financial technology have welcomed bank’s new female-focused lab and funding initiative and call for more like it from the sector
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September 29, 2021
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Sep'21
The Security Interviews: How SolarWinds came through its darkest hour
In his first major UK press interview, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna tells Computer Weekly how a relentless focus on transparency saw the company safely through a nightmare cyber breach scenario
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September 29, 2021
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Sep'21
AWS launches programme to advance health equity
The $40m global health equity programme will fund projects that improve health outcomes for underserved communities
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September 28, 2021
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Sep'21
How one red team exercise averted a new SolarWinds-style attack
Palo Alto Networks shares details of how its red teamers found and sealed a customer vulnerability that could have led to another SolarWinds-style supply chain attack
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September 28, 2021
28
Sep'21
Pure launches Fusion cloud control layer for storage
Pure Fusion is a storage control plane across cloud and datacentre. Portworx Data Services also launches to provide database management for container storage platform
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September 28, 2021
28
Sep'21
APAC IT spending to grow by 9.3% in 2021
Organisations across the region will spend more on technologies such as AI and IoT this year, as part of their long-term investment plans to improve operational efficiency and customer service
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September 27, 2021
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Sep'21
GCP gets triple-redundant NAS and built-in Kubernetes backup
Google Filestore Enterprise will provide synchronous replication across three zones, while Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine brings built-in container cluster data protection
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September 27, 2021
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Sep'21
Giant Umbrella contractors suffer salary payment delays following suspected ‘data breach’
Following the discovery of “suspicious network activity” in its systems, payroll processing firm Giant Umbrella has taken itself offline, leaving contractors to fume over missing salary payments
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September 24, 2021
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Sep'21
London publishes guidelines for ethical use of smart city tech
Latest draft of the ‘Emerging Technology Charter for London’ encourages local authorities, public services and technology companies to improve how they implement technology in the capital
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September 23, 2021
23
Sep'21
Tech Nation announces 15 startups for 10th Future Fifty cohort
Fifteen high-growth startups set to join Tech Nation’s 10th annual Future Fifty programme to help them scale further
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September 22, 2021
22
Sep'21
Salesforce to debut Hyperforce architecture in Singapore
Salesforce is rolling out its Hyperforce infrastructure architecture in Singapore by the year-end, enabling enterprises to run Salesforce applications on Amazon Web Services
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September 22, 2021
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Sep'21
JP Morgan Chase to replace core banking system with Google-inspired cloud platform
JP Morgan Chase is the latest bank to acquire the cloud-native core banking technology of UK fintech Thought Machine
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September 21, 2021
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Sep'21
Stax to expand in New Zealand, Southeast Asia
Australia’s homegrown cloud management platform is setting its sights on neighbouring markets amid growing cloud adoption across the region
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September 20, 2021
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Sep'21
ASEAN organisations face observability gap
Organisations in Southeast Asia are grappling with a hodgepodge of observability tools and have some way to go before they can achieve full visibility over their technology stacks
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September 19, 2021
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Sep'21
UK tech sector on track for another record year of investment
The UK creates one unicorn tech business a week, as startup funding during the first half of 2021 rockets to £13.5bn
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September 16, 2021
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Sep'21
NTT and Equinix lead APAC co-location market
The two datacentre service providers are leading the pack in co-location services in the Asia-Pacific region thanks to their growing business from hyperscale cloud suppliers
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September 15, 2021
15
Sep'21
Interview: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on supporting the UK tech sector
Computer Weekly talked to Sunak at a Treasury event in front of an audience of tech sector leaders, investors and startups, to discuss how the government can support the digital economy
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September 15, 2021
15
Sep'21
Tech Nation announces second cohort for Net Zero accelerator
The Net Zero programme from Tech Nation aims to help tech startups and scaleups realise their potential to reduce global emissions