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IT services and outsourcing

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Asda outsources app development to support digital future

  Supermarket chain Asda is outsourcing its application development to HCL to access and build skills and experience in agile development methods

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  Waitrose to launch same-day delivery trial

  High-end supermarket Waitrose is partnering with retail delivery startup On the Dot to trial same-day delivery for its food and wine goods

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  Alibaba Cloud making deeper push into smart cities

  At its annual conference in Hangzhou, Chinese cloud supplier Alibaba demonstrated the transformative impact of its technologies on society and called for more manufacturers to adopt smart manufacturing processes

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  How SAP is riding on Asia’s growth story

  The enterprise software behemoth’s Asia-Pacific business is growing and believes its latest C/4 Hana suite is uniquely geared to the scale of the region

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  Leeds Beckett University asks Alexa for help cutting Clearing admin

  Dougal Scaife, head of digital experience and engagement at Leeds Beckett University, opens up about how combining chatbots with Amazon Alexa is helping update the Clearing process for the 21st century

• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  John Lewis blames profit drops on high IT costs

  Department store John Lewis has pinned the blame on high IT costs and the rising price of store real-estate for a drop in profit

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Snowflake making headway in Australia

  Cloud data warehouse supplier Snowflake has nabbed several Australian customers and is looking at delivering its software via the Azure cloud service next year

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Fashion retailer Desigual boosts sales opportunities with data-sharing technology

  Spanish fashion group Desigual reports 2% fewer lost sales after investing in technology to share stock, sales and pricing data between stores, websites and franchise partners

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Keppel, Salim Group to build new datacentre in Indonesia

  The facility located on the outskirts of Jakarta is a response to the growing demand for connectivity and data services in Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Irish tax office testing out artificial intelligence for customer services

  The Irish tax office and IT supplier Accenture tries out artificial intelligence for its customer service

• September 06, 2018 06 Sep'18

  Arriva ITSM implementation delivers beyond expectations

  Transport company replaces several tools with a single cloud-based ITSM platform

• September 03, 2018 03 Sep'18

  Zurich begins startup competition to improve its strategy for digital-savvy customers

  The insurance company has begun a competition across 20 countries in a bid to find the latest innovative products from startups.

• September 03, 2018 03 Sep'18

  Regulations might prove make-or-break aspect for Dutch scooter startups

  If new startups get their way, the classical Dutch bicycles might soon be replaced by a new mode of transportation: a scooter. New companies see a huge potential market, but regulations might become a barrier

• September 03, 2018 03 Sep'18

  CIO interview: Ian Cohen, global CIO, Addison Lee

  Addison Lee’s global CIO is building a business strategy and ensuring the transport company has a flexible platform for growth

• September 03, 2018 03 Sep'18

  Dutch bank ING sees financial boost from employee performance management rethink

  ING claims business has improved after replacing ‘scattered and fragmented’ IT systems to change the way it manages employee performance

• August 31, 2018 31 Aug'18

  How Forest Holidays migrated its hosted website to a managed service

  Holiday firm Forest Holidays switched from Rackspace’s SME hosted service due to fast business growth, with new UCS hardware now living at Node4

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Cloudian’s $94m new funds to target 100PB-scale operations

  CEO Michael Tso says funding in engineering efforts aims to make sure Cloudian can meet the challenge of object storage deployments growing to hundreds of petabytes

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  IT leaders at a crossroads as they grapple with digital technology

  CIOs have the opportunity to influence their company strategy as digital technology reshapes business. A survey of CIOs across 70 countries charts a path for IT leaders through emerging technologies

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Arsenal puts Acronis in defence for analytics cloud backup

  Football club is increasingly driven by video and data analysis and opts for cloud backup software-as-a-service and quick restore to any location to replace ad-hoc staff solutions

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Hyperscale datacentre capex investments hit new highs, Synergy Research shows

  Latest hyperscale capital expenditure tracker highlights dramatic year-on-year increase in investments from internet and cloud giants

• August 26, 2018 26 Aug'18

  VMware debuts VMware Cloud on AWS in Australia, cuts entry price

  Virtualisation juggernaut VMware rolls out its hybrid cloud service in Australia and has halved the entry price to sweeten the deal for enterprises

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  Australian government agency trials secure cloud service

  The Digital Transformation Agency has become the first government agency in Australia to test the use of Microsoft Office 365 in a secure cloud environment

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  No Deal Brexit papers warn of stark future for UK tech

  The government has published the first of its No Deal Brexit contingency planning notices, containing sobering messages for the UK technology industry

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Cost savings still in short supply for cloud users, Druva research suggests

  Enterprises are increasingly moving their virtual workloads to the cloud for ease of management reasons, but cost savings remain elusive for many, suggests Druva’s latest report on cloud virtualisation

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  Malaysia’s financial sector warms up to cloud, but lacks security leadership

  Almost two-thirds of Malaysia’s financial services firms are developing a cloud strategy, but not all have a security plan in place

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  StorageCraft launches OneXafe scale-out backup appliances

  Product revamp sees firm launch OneXafe scale-out secondary and primary storage with ShadowXafe data protection software in backup appliance for physical and virtual environments

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  Alan Turing Institute provides AI startups with opportunity to collaborate with researchers

  Alan Turing Institute and Digital Catapult will enable science and AI startups to work with researchers in the Data Study Groups

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  Home Office preps for migration of police IT systems to AWS cloud

  Digital Marketplace tender document reveals the Home Office is on the hunt for an IT supplier to support its work in migrating core police IT systems from an on-premise datacentre to the AWS cloud

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  Office 365 outage: Sign-in issues blight users across Europe and the US

  Microsoft claims to have resolved a “subscription activation” issue that left Office 365 users unable to access its services yesterday

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  CIOs being welcomed back to marketing

  The role of CIOs in shaping the technology buying decisions of marketers is being reinstated as more marketers realise the importance of integrating their services with IT systems

• August 16, 2018 16 Aug'18

  Global infosec spending to top $114bn in 2018, says Gartner

  The need for improved detection, response and privacy is driving the demand for security products and services in response to security risks, business needs and industry changes, Gartner reveals

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  IR35 tech compliance will take private sector 'over a year' to achieve, warns accounting trade body

  The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) cautions HM Revenue & Customs against rushing out IR35 reforms to the private sector, claiming it will take most businesses at least one tax year to ready their software systems for the move

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  Alibaba eyes retail sector with new cloud offerings

  Chinese cloud supplier says retailers will be able to use its machine learning platform to understand consumer preferences, among a slew of services it is making available globally for the first time

• August 13, 2018 13 Aug'18

  Government pumps £51m into Welsh tech hub

  Chancellor Philip Hammond promises £51m in additional investment for researchers and entrepreneurs to drive tech innovation in Wales

• August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

  How Indonesia’s Go-Jek scales the heights with cloud

  The unicorn’s microservices-based application architecture on the cloud has been key in supporting its growth in Indonesia – and now Southeast Asia

• August 06, 2018 06 Aug'18

  DfT pledges to spend one-third of its procurement budget on SMEs by 2022

  Department for Transport’s SME action plan promises to increase its spend with small and medium-sized enterprises to 33% by the end of this parliament

• August 06, 2018 06 Aug'18

  Alibaba Cloud makes deeper inroads into Malaysia

  The Chinese cloud supplier’s second availability zone and upcoming DDoS scrubbing centre in Malaysia comes on the heels of growing investments in the Southeast Asian nation

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  CIO interview: Alex von Schirmeister, CDTIO, RS Components

  The electronics distributor’s chief digital, technology and innovation officer (CDTIO) on putting in place a new IT infrastructure, creating a digital business and accepting risk

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  Google to alert firms of state-sponsored attacks on G Suite users

  As cyber security increasingly becomes a market differentiator, Google has announced that businesses using G Suite cloud-based software can opt in to cyber attack alerts

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  Google to build third datacentre in Singapore

  The facility will increase Google’s datacentre investments in the city-state to $850m, and follows the launch of Southeast Asia’s first Google Cloud Platform region in 2017

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  Public sector increases outsourcing in first half of 2018

  IT and business processing outsourcing in UK central government accelerates in the first half this year, almost matching the total spend by financial services firms

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  AWS revenue growth slows as competition in the global IaaS market heats up

  Gartner's latest look at the global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market shines a light on how the great and good of the public cloud supplier community are fairing

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Utilita Energy supplier uses cloud to rapidly scale IT service desk

  Energy provider Utilita Energy puts its IT service management in the cloud to support its rapid growth

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Briton ran pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign that helped Trump deny Russian links

  A British IT manager and former hacker from Darlington ran a disinformation campaign that duped former US intelligence agents and provided Donald Trump with manufactured “evidence” to deny that Russia interfered with the US election

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  AWS’s sales up almost 50% year-on-year in second quarter

  Cloud giant’s quarterly sales hit $6.1bn in third consecutive year-on-year rise as Ryanair, Major League Baseball and 21st Century Fox join its list of customers

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Large organisations less confident over cloud security compared to smaller businesses

  A study has found larger enterprises are not as confident as smaller businesses about the security of their data in the public cloud

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Google Cloud gaining ground in APAC

  The cloud supplier claims substantial growth in Asia-Pacific, and is upping the ante on partnerships and infrastructure investments across the region

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Government outsourcing at a crossroads, says PAC report

  The government needs to change the market that supplies it with services through better contracting practices if it is to achieve anything beyond lowest price, according to a PAC report

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Google wants to ease hybrid cloud woes

  Cloud supplier Google claims its Cloud Service Platform will alleviate complexities in managing microservices in a hybrid IT environment

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Atos acquires Syntel for £2.6bn

  French IT services firm buys Syntel to expand in the US and bolster its offshore delivery