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IT services and outsourcing

September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14
Tobacco giant outsources IT to Wipro

Philip Morris International has outsourced IT infrastructure management to Indian services firm Wipro in a five-year deal
September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14
BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed
September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
King's College, UCL and LSE back £900,000 national datacentre project

A consortium of universities, including LSE, UCL and King's College, is backing a national datacentre for academics
September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
EasyJet sheds 'scrum' image with hybrid IT

EasyJet’s reservation system could not provision for allocated seating, so the airline added a feature on Azure

September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
'Bungled' Army 2020 IT recruitment contract loses £70m of savings

Mismanaged IT contracts lead to further setbacks in Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Army recruitment drive
September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14
Nude celebrity hack forces changes at Apple and 4Chan

Apple and image-sharing site 4Chan take security measures after celebrity iCloud accounts were compromised and photos leaked
September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14
How Sony Music used Google cloud for One Direction’s 1D-Day event

Sony Music and its digital agency AIS London adopted Google Cloud Platform services to handle One Direction's day event
September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14
Apple and FBI launch iCloud hack investigation

Apple and FBI investigate the breach of Apple’s iCloud causing fresh business concerns over cloud security
September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14
Why bare metal cloud is in vogue

Bare metal services have been around since 2009 but cloud is witnessing renewed interest in it thanks to new offerings
September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14
Rolls-Royce CIO joins HMRC as non-executive director

Rolls-Royce CIO Simon Ricketts has been appointed non-executive director of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs

August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14
Former bank chief launches financial trading app

A trading social network on Apple’s App Store hopes to attract more than 100,000 consumer traders as members by the end of 2014
August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14
Spanish bank spends €500m on contactless ATMs

CaixaBank has commissioned Fujitsu to build 8,500 ATMs that will be contactless
August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service
August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
Government major projects watchdog needs more powers, says MPs

Major Projects Authority needs stronger powers to improve project delivery across government, say MPs
August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14
Raytheon wins £224m from Home Office over e-Borders cancellation

Tribunal says Home Office unlawfully terminated a contract with Raytheon Systems Limited over its e-Borders programme
August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14
Nike builds datacentre cloud and network infrastructure

Nike is creating a scalable next-generation datacentre cloud and retail network infrastructure using Juniper's MetaFabric architecture
August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14
Home Office pours £3.8m into shared service for biometric cards

The Home Office has awarded a £3.8m contract to Thales for a service to support the production of Biometric Residence Permit cards
August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly

Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?
August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14
George Osborne launches fintech innovation programme

Chancellor George Osborne launches a programme designed to put the UK at the forefront of financial technology (fintech) innovation
August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14
Cabinet Office COO Stephen Kelly takes Sage Group CEO role

UK accountancy software supplier Sage appoints Cabinet Office chief operating officer (COO) Stephen Kelly as CEO
August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14
Why digitisation transforms supplier relationships

As the economy moves forward, CEOs are looking for the next wave of innovation to fuel growth. But are IT service providers ready?
July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14
£700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre

Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance
July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14
Hacker and UFO hunter Gary McKinnon launches SEO business

Hacker Gary McKinnon has set up a search engine optimisation business after winning a 10-year battle against extradition to the US
July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14
AWS feels the pressure of cloud competition

AWS became the gold standard of public cloud. But are price wars, hybrid cloud and increased competition denting its growth?
July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14
Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project
July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14
Amazon’s share price falls 6% on quarterly results

Amazon’s share price fell 6% in after-hours trade after the firm reported a second-quarter net loss of $126m
July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14
Crew Clothing fashions cloud-based marketing to engage buyers

British luxury casualwear brand Crew Clothing chose cloud marketing to move from batch email marketing to a more timely and personal approach
July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14
EU funds project to boost European cloud computing market

Cloudcatalyst project will assess cloud market in Europe, identify barriers to cloud adoption and provide tools to boost its growth
July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14
BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe

BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
IBM partners with Apple to deliver enterprise services for iOS

IBM has given Apple a major boost in the enterprise, through a partnership that will see it provide services and software for iOS
July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14
Microsoft adds StorSimple hybrid storage arrays to Azure cloud service

Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays
July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14
Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach

At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products
July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14
Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP

Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of location
July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14
Contact centre value-add services on the up

The global contact centre outsourcing market was worth almost $75bn in 2013 after growing 7% since 2011, according to research
July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14
Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild

Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users
July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14
Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres

Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Roadchef exits IBM Global Services for direct supplier relationships

Motorway services firm Roadchef ended an outsourcing deal with IBM Global Services when its IT was up for refresh and moved to SAP
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes
June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14
Big IT suppliers top government spending on contracts

IT firms are earning the most from government contracts, with HP alone earning more than £1.7bn a year
June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14
Oracle set to boost retail business with $5bn Micros acquisition

Oracle is expected to acquire internet-enabled point-of sale-specialist Micros
June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14
Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years

Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010
June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14
Six suppliers shortlisted for NHS HR system replacement

Six suppliers have been shortlisted for the NHS electronic staff record project – the world's largest HR and payroll software implementation
June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14
Facebook launches Slingshot to rival Snapchat

Facebook has launched its limited lifetime messaging app Slingshot in the US to rival Snapchat
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud

eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself
June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14
Just Eat builds in-house IT workforce in Ukraine

Online takeaway service Just Eat has built a team of software development and project managers in the Ukranian capital Kiev
June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14
Microsoft admits running out of IP addresses for Azure

Microsoft has assured US Azure customers data remains in the US, despite running out of US-registered IP addresses at times
June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14
Can Salesforce.com re-engineer business IT?

With 1.5 million developers and a new focus on industry solutions, is Salesforce.com a business platform?
June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14
Tesco Bank launches current account on off-the-shelf platform

Tesco has launched a current account four years after implementing its core banking platform
June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14
Register to vote online goes live

The latest online transactional service from government has gone live as part of the ‘digital by default’ initiative
June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14
Engineering firm fined for using unlicensed Autodesk software

Project Options has been fined £16,000 by the Business Software Alliance, following an online tip-off