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IT services and outsourcing

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  Tech and telecoms advisory group set up to help trade negotiations

  Department of International Trade launches new Trade Advisory Groups to guide trade negotiations with other countries

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  Aggrieved Amazon employees organise protests at homes of Jeff Bezos

  A newly formed workers’ collective will protest outside the homes of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos seeking to secure a number of concessions for essential workers

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  Nordic startups send a message to global investment community

  Early-stage tech companies across the world should set up Nordic operations earlier in their development journeys

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  Council to connect hundreds of its sites through wide area network

  Local authorities invest in networking and contact centre technology through IT outsourcing contracts

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  MongoDB grows Asian footprint through Alibaba Cloud

  MongoDB teams up with Alibaba Cloud to expand its presence in Asia-Pacific as it prepares to release a serverless variant of the open-source database

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  SMEs outperform Q2 expectations but remain cautious about Q3 prospects

  Small confidence boost for small to medium-sized enterprises puts tech investment back on the table over coming 12 months

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Veeam to add CDP, plus Google cloud as a target

  Backup giant set to add continuous data protection for the most critical workloads, plus Google cloud as a target – all on the back of a storming quarter during the pandemic

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Zoom dials into Southeast Asia with Singapore datacentre

  Zoom’s new Singapore datacentre is expected to shore up the performance of its conferencing tool and phone service in the city-state

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Oracle takes aim at hyperscalers, eyes VMware workloads

  Oracle claims it is addressing the limitations of competing services by offering better security controls, consolidated billing and global availability

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  Comms startup Element helps support secure communications during pandemic

  With the huge increase in remote working, Element is using an open, decentralised network to give organisations more control over their communications

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  The Security Interviews: How Crest is remaking the future of consultancy

  Crest president Ian Glover taught himself cyber security while working on government computing systems in the 1970s and 1980s. Now he is on a decade-spanning mission to change security consultancy models

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  DBS Bank teams up with AWS on AI skills

  Singapore’s DBS Bank is organising an AWS DeepRacer League to equip thousands of employees with skills in artificial intelligence and machine learning

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  EU and US start discussions on ‘enhanced’ Privacy Shield data-sharing agreement

  Talks begin on a successor to the Privacy Shield EU-US data-sharing agreement declared unlawful in July 2020 – a decision by the European Court of Justice that left thousands of businesses facing legal uncertainty

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Government awards funding for innovation projects

  The funding for innovative projects forms part of the government’s plan to increase research and development spending, which it claims will aid the UK’s post-Covid-19 economic recovery

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  NHS SBS spies £75m savings on IT purchases through new procurement framework

  NHS organisations and public sector bodies will be encouraged to use £500m procurement framework to acquire IT software and hardware in a more cost-effective way

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Police use of facial recognition found ‘unlawful’ in court

  In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled that South Wales Police’s facial recognition deployments breached human rights and data protection laws

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix launches Clusters in AWS for hybrid cloud hyper-converged infrastructure

  HCI pioneers launches Nutanix Clusters, which will provide hyper-converged deployments across customer datacentres and the Amazon cloud, but only in Acropolis and on AWS for now

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Pandemic acts as catalyst for digital-led recovery

  Economies with strong digital services are set to grow cross-border trade, while 3D printing could revolutionise goods manufacturing

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Looming threat of Covid-19 and IR35 reform conspire to keep contractor confidence dampened

  Quarterly data on how confident freelancers feel about their job and earning prospects highlights the negative impact Covid-19 and the government's looming tax reforms are having on the sector

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix Clusters on AWS debuts in 20 cloud regions

  In technical preview since 2019, Nutanix Clusters on AWS will enable unified operations across private and public clouds

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Security teams struggle to keep pace with cloud threats

  Security professionals face challenges in keeping pace with cloud deployments and migrations, and the additional security threats they open up

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Cyber attack combined with Covid-19 puts Travelex into administration

  Foreign exchange firm Travelex has cut UK staff by 1,300 and physical outlets will remain closed

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  India’s software industry calls for cuts to red tape

  Software industry lobby group iSpirt has called on the Indian government to ease the administrative burden of complying with rules related to taxes and trade

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  If you hire foreign IT staff, ‘you’re fired’, Trump tells bosses in government-owned entities

  Donald Trump has fired a pre-election warning to government organisations that give IT jobs to workers from overseas

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Bandwidth Inc wraps up Ribbon deal to boost home network capacity for AWS

  Session border controller software edition deployed on AWS to enable enterprise communications company’s customers to improve home working with no disruptions to network performance

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Coronavirus: IT contractors cite lack of government support during Covid-19 as source of stress

  ContractorCalculator research highlights the mental health toll the pandemic is taking on IT contractors

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Spurring digitalisation in Singapore’s tourism sector

  The Singapore Tourism Board has developed a digital pass and an analytics service, among other initiatives, to digitalise the city-state’s embattled tourism industry

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

  Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

  Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Covid-19 forces TechHub into administration

  Silicon Roundabout mainstay TechHub has been forced into administration after Covid-19 pandemic undermines ability to generate revenue

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Labour Party is latest victim of Blackbaud ransomware attack

  Widening Blackbaud data breach ensnares the Labour Party as the cloud software firm continues to duck questions about its behaviour

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  US lawmakers grill big tech chiefs over market power

  Sixth antitrust hearing sees CEOs of major technology companies face combative questioning from members of Congress over their market power and dominance

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Accenture selected for key role in Bank of England core settlement system replacement

  Accenture will be technology delivery partner in project to replace the core system used to settle payments between banks

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Campaigners urge government to resist big tech lobbying pressure

  Lobbyists for big tech, supported by senior US politicians, have rallied against stricter regulation of technology companies, and threatened the US-UK trade deal unless Britain scraps plans to levy a digital services tax

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Schrems steps up pressure on Irish data protection commissioner on Facebook’s data sharing with US

  Austrian lawyer is considering ‘other’ options if the Irish data protection commissioner does not make a decision by October on his seven-year-old complaint against Facebook

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Backblaze takes aim at ‘costly and complex’ AWS cloud storage

  Backblaze offers free transfer to its S3-based cloud storage – which it claims costs a fraction of AWS et al – as long as it’s more than 50TB and you commit to at least 12 months

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  NCSC inducts six security startups to Cyber Accelerator

  10-week programme will guide some of the UK’s most innovative security startups as they scale their businesses for future growth

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Latent demand for fertility tech identified by market study

  Global investment in fertility tech startups tops $2.2bn over five-year period, with significant growth opportunities going forward due to combination of technological innovation and latent demand for fertility treatments

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Vector and AWS team up on ‘new energy platform’

  New Zealand-based energy supplier Vector partners AWS to develop an IoT and analytics platform to speed up processing of smart meter data and to tailor products and pricing for customers

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Venture firm Public launches fourth GovTech accelerator

  The GovStart 2020 accelerator programme is looking for innovators working on transport, health and workforce-related technology to help get more startups working on the delivery of public services

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Loan charge: HMRC's plans to clampdown on loan-scheme promoters slammed by IT contractors

  HMRC is seeking feedback on its plans to tackle tax-avoidance scheme promoters, in the wake of criticism over its past enforcement of the loan-charge policy

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  A question of trust: University and supplier on the hook for data breach

  Data on students at the University of York was stolen in a ransomware attack on a supplier two months ago, and the response of both parties raises serious questions

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  Business resilience key to startups ahead of post-Covid recession

  Startups should begin building up their resilience to resist unattractive acquisition bids ahead of post-Covid recession

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  APAC firms in early stages of digital transformation

  More than three-quarters of APAC firms struggle to revise their financial plans amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with many still lacking agile systems and processes, a new study finds

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Lloyds bank buys into cloud-native payments

  Lloyds Banking Group continues its digital journey by investing in and investigating a cloud-based payments service

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  BNP Paribas joins IBM financial services cloud project

  IBM’s financial services cloud is gathering steam as more banks join its public cloud ecosystem of finance firms and developers

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Privacy Shield: Companies face new hurdles to legally transfer data to the US

  Businesses will have to conduct legal assessments to ensure they can transfer data from the EU to the US and other countries, following a European Court of Justice ruling

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  TfL contracts Capita for London Underground section of emergency services network

  Capita will implement the network infrastructure that will enable the emergency services mobile network to work on the London Underground

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Inside Intel’s transition into an enterprise tech company

  Computing giant Intel is pushing deeper into the enterprise with investments in data-centric and emerging technologies along with partnerships with local firms to develop new solutions

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  IBM's Q2 tapered by pandemic business recovery

  Country-specific coronavirus responses directly correlate to IBM customer IT investments, with some contemplating dialling back cloud subscriptions