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IT services and outsourcing

• September 25, 2020 25 Sep'20

  Tips on breaking free from long-term IT contracts

  Far-reaching, multi-year contracts are less popular these days, but IT departments often find the renewal date is still years away

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  Race to patch as Microsoft confirms Zerologon attacks in the wild

  Don’t be the organisation that made the headlines because it failed to patch. Microsoft says it is seeing cyber attacks ramping up around the Zerologon CVE-2020-1472 bug

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  Latest Tech Nation fintech cohort reflects diversifying sector

  The latest group of fintechs accepted into Tech Nation’s growth programme reflects the diversification of a maturing sector

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  The inside story of Taiwan’s AI whizz

  Not content with his stellar achievements in artificial intelligence, Chih-Han Yu wanted to create an impact with his work and formed one of Taiwan’s most important unicorns

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  GDS reviewing Cloud First policy post-Schrems II

  Review seeks to determine the future of government engagement with cloud hosting services as they relate to cross-border data flows

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Big questions to be answered over TikTok and WeChat reprieve

  TikTok and WeChat seem to have received a stay of execution, but big questions and contradictions remain

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  DBS taps AI and data analytics in intelligent banking move

  Singaporean bank has started using artificial intelligence and analytics to provide customers with hyper-personalised insights and recommendations, to win more market share

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Ex-NCSC boss Ciaran Martin joins cyber venture capital outfit

  Outgoing NCSC CEO Ciaran Martin is to take up a new role guiding new investments in cyber security

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Loan charge under review: Government’s tax policy set to be challenged under EU law

  A fresh attempt to judicially review the government’s controversial disguised remuneration policy is being launched, and its backers have already secured 85% of the £180,000 needed to test whether the loan charge breaches EU law

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Alibaba Cloud unveils ‘cloud computer’, delivery robot

  At its annual Apsara conference, Alibaba Cloud debuts a thin-client computer and a logistics robot that can carry 50 packages in one go

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Lorca security scaleups to get Splunk data expertise

  Lorca inducts Splunk onto its co-marketing programme, giving security scaleups access to new data expertise

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Singapore partners Apple on LumiHealth

  Singapore’s Health Promotion Board has developed a programme with Apple to encourage healthy living following a similar partnership with Fitbit last year

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Western Australia government goes all-in on Microsoft

  State agencies in Western Australia will be able to tap Azure cloud services and cloud applications through a new Microsoft agreement

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Nutanix bolsters Kubernetes playbook with managed service

  Karbon Platform Services claims to ease container deployments in public and hybrid cloud environments in the emerging Kubernetes platform war

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  Fintech Pledge launched to strengthen UK’s financial technology sector

  The Fintech Pledge initiative is designed to foster closer collaboration between banks and fintechs so that the UK can continue building a globally competitive fintech ecosystem

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  NTT taps data analytics and cloud for Tour de France

  NTT’s analytics and cloud capabilities stood up to the test amid crashes and poor weather conditions during the first stage of this year’s Tour de France

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  Government 'making progress' on Smart Freight System prep ahead of Brexit transition deadline

  The government appears to be heeding warnings about the readiness of the Smart Freight border IT system, as the January 2021 Brexit transition deadline looms large

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  Law Commission proposes greater protections for victims of online abuse

  The Law Commission wants to change the criminal law around communications offences to better protect victims from harmful online behaviour

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  UK ‘future tech’ development gets government funding boost

  £65m in funding will be used to develop electric batteries, robotics and advanced healthcare treatments

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  Santander to double investment in fintechs

  Santander is doubling the amount of money it invests in fintech startups after the success of its funding arm, which was established in 2014

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  HMRC signs up Fujitsu for two years of user computing support

  As it disentangles the Aspire contract, HMRC has been working directly with key IT suppliers, with this latest agreement providing managed desktop IT

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Global spending on enterprise datacentres continues to dampen in face of Covid-19

  Synergy Research Group hails continued, growing demand for datacentre hardware and software from hyperscalers for keeping market buoyant during pandemic

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Lorca security scaleups hit funding milestone

  £153m of investment has been raised by Lorca cohort companies in just two years, almost four times the original target

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Edinburgh council to create smart city operations centre

  Edinburgh council extends an outsourcing agreement with CGI as it steps up its smart city programme

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Datacentre firm Equinix investigating ransomware attack

  A number of internal systems at cloud and datacentre firm Equinix have been affected by a ransomware attack

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  Coronavirus: APAC organisations speed up innovation

  Innovation has become easier than before, with the most innovative organisations expecting to recover from the impact of the pandemic in less than six months, new Microsoft-commissioned study finds

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  London councils to share technology procurement platform

  A new technology procurement platform will help all 33 local councils in London diversify their IT supplier portfolios

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  Technology businesses vital to UK post-Covid economic recovery

  Technology firms are set to play a larger role in UK’s post-Covid economy and are being encouraged to expand overseas after a strong year for digital exports

• September 08, 2020 08 Sep'20

  UK leads Europe in net zero venture capital investment

  With the UK leading venture capital investment in net zero enterprises, Tech Nation have launched a new, government-backed scaleup programme to further develop the sector

• September 08, 2020 08 Sep'20

  TechUK urges government to back emerging digital clean technology sector

  To ensure the UK reaches its climate and decarbonisation goals, TechUK is calling on the government to support the emerging clean tech sector

• September 04, 2020 04 Sep'20

  Covid-19 has strained London tech firms but they have central role in recovery

  London tech startups are feeling the effects of the economic slowdown brought on by Covid-19, but there is a huge opportunity for those with the right focus

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Amazon to recruit 7,000 permanent workers in UK during 2020 hiring spree

  The online retail giant’s UK workforce looks set to expand to 40,000 employees by the end of 2020, as its network of fulfilment centres continues to grow

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Insurers accept they were slow to adopt digital

  Insurance companies know they must prioritise digital investment and are planning in-house development to help make up lost ground

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  UK tech firms urged to seek out international opportunities

  Tech Nation study finds UK businesses are in a strong position to take advantage of global tech growth

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Weta Digital goes all-in on AWS

  New Zealand visual effects studio plans to migrate most of its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services and tap machine learning and analytics to deliver projects more quickly

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  App integration means emergency services can identify caller location in three words

  Capita integrates What3words app into its emergency services control centre platform to help respondents identify the exact location of people who need help

• September 01, 2020 01 Sep'20

  Here East CEO advises startups to generate own revenue streams

  In a time of deep uncertainty, startups with their own streams of revenue independent of investors and large corporates will have more options and be in a much stronger negotiating position

• 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