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IT services and outsourcing

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Bad outsourcing decisions cause 63% of data breaches

  Bad outsourcing decisions nearly two-thirds of data breaches investigated by security firm Trustwave in the past year

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

  UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  CIO interview: David Matthewman, CIO, Open University

  Three years after joining the Open University, CIO David Matthewman continues to push a strategic programme to deliver value and innovation

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Totaljobs hires public cloud services for agility, better performance

  Totaljobs Group, the recruiter that runs Totaljobs.com, adopts AWS public cloud to improve IT performance and have an agile infrastructure

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Capacity management most underestimated cloud problem

  Capacity management is the most underestimated problem of cloud computing, says Morgan Stanley strategy director Evangelos Kotsovinos

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  EasyJet lifts off with Azure seat bookings

  The Azure cloud has allowed Easyjet to enable web site and mobile users to check seat availability

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Amazon sales soar in 2012

  Amazon sales rose 27% to $61bn (£39bn) in its 2012 results and 22% in its 2012 fourth quarter revenues to $21.27bn, compared with 2011

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Windsor and Maidenhead council migrates services to cloud

  Windsor and Maidenhead borough council will migrate critical services such as childcare, benefits and transport services to the cloud by 2014

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study

  European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  National Rail Enquiries puts web services on the public cloud

  National Rail Enquiries is migrating applications that power its home page, online journey planner service and real-time service updates on to AWS cloud

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  Interview: Alan Clark, chairman, OpenStack Foundation

  Alan Clark, chairman of the board of the OpenStack Foundation, talks to Computer Weekly about the future of cloud and the role of open source

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  UK will be 33,300 short of IT workers by 2050, finds research

  The UK will be short of 33,300 IT workers in 2050 as a result of a skills shortage, an ageing workforce and a restrictive migration policy

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  Post Office wants to get to bottom of IT system allegations

  A system that set out to modernise the Post Office in 1996 is under the spotlight after claims that Horizon accounting system is error prone

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  NATS says BI key to five-year investment plan

  The UK’s air traffic control business NATS will make business intelligence (BI) a priority investment over the next five years

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  IT contractors seek to fill skills gap left by public sector cuts

  IT contractors are increasingly confident about job opportunities in the public sector due to reductions in the civil service's head count, finds research

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  UK Border Agency tenders for security systems

  The UK Border Agency (UKBA) and Border Force is tendering for an integrated border security system

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  VoIP awareness up but user numbers remain low

  A report from Ofcom claims four in five consumers know what voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is, but just 29% use the technology

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  MPs slam the award of government contracts to tax-avoiding IT firms

  MPs allege that Accenture used revenue from its deal with HMRC to reduce its tax bill

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Parliamentary commission calls for electrified banking ring fence

  A parliamentary report on plans to separate retail and investment banking calls for legislation to prevent breaches of the ring fence

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  Immigrants wrongly told to leave UK due to inaccurate data

  Some immigrants have been accidentally contacted by Capita and told to leave the UK as a result of inaccurate data used in a government push to remove thousands of illegal immigrants

• December 24, 2012 24 Dec'12

  Top 10 IT outsourcing stories of 2012

  Research into the UK outsourcing sector in 2010 found that 7.4% of the UK’s total production came from outsourcing, and about a third of that – some £38.7bn – was IT outsourcing

• December 19, 2012 19 Dec'12

  Unilever ramps up social networking for recruitment

  Unilever has agreed a five-year HR BPO contract with Accenture that will expand the manufacturer’s recruitment activity into social networking

• December 13, 2012 13 Dec'12

  Liam Maxwell named as first government chief technology officer

  Liam Maxwell becomes the first Whitehall CTO, in the latest stage of a major shake-up of the government IT leadership organisation

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Free tool that tracks costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds launched

  Apptio has launched Cloud Express, a free tool that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of AWS, Azure and Rackspace public clouds

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Low-level tasks eat up 30% of IT departments' time, report reveals

  IT departments spend 30% of their time carrying out basic tasks and are growing frustrated with the lack of time available to focus on transformational work

• December 06, 2012 06 Dec'12

  MPs call for wider promotion of mutuals beyond Whitehall

  Mutuals need to be effectively promoted across the whole public sector, not just Whitehall, say MPs

• November 30, 2012 30 Nov'12

  G-Cloud success depends on champions and a change in attitude

  G-Cloud director Denise McDonagh has called for public sector champions to push forward adoption of the service.

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  Capita set to win £1.7bn Staffordshire outsourcing deal

  Capita has been named preferred bidder in an educational support services joint venture with Staffordshire County Council, in a deal worth £1.7bn over 20 years.

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Google pushes infrastructure-as-a-service into Europe

  Google is expanding its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing platform into Europe and cutting storage prices by 20%

• November 20, 2012 20 Nov'12

  Cloud computing IT outsourcing contracts triple

  Global IT outsourcing deals with a cloud computing element have tripled in number since 2010, according to Information Services Group (ISG)

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  Government wants suppliers to reveal UK taxes

  Government officials are considering the viability of ordering suppliers bidding for contracts to disclose the tax they pay relative to UK sales

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  London Stock Exchange technology sales up

  The growth of the London Stock Exchange’s MillenniumIT software has outstripped the wider business, with a 19% increase in sales of its trading software

• November 08, 2012 08 Nov'12

  Oracle buys cloud services provider Instantis

  Oracle is buying Instantis, a cloud and on-premise project portfolio management company, to boost its cloud portfolio

• November 08, 2012 08 Nov'12

  Capgemini reduces consultancy charges

  Capgemini has lowered pricing in its consulting and local professional services businesses, according to its latest quarter results.

• November 06, 2012 06 Nov'12

  Gartner Symposium: RBS emulates Amazon with private cloud

  Royal Bank of Scotland has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  Cloud HR pivotal to Direct Line share offering

  Cloud HR proved pivotal to insurance group Direct Line separating from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) before it launched on the stock market

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  UK public sector contracts keep Atos Origin Q3 results buoyant

  Large public sector contracts buoy IT services company Atos Origin, which has reported double-digit growth in the UK for its third quarter

• October 23, 2012 23 Oct'12

  CSC struggling to make a profit from Royal Mail outsourcing deal

  CSC has stemmed losses in its 10-year outsourcing deal with Royal Mail through job cuts, tax breaks and relief payments, according to accounts

• October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

  DevOps role continues growth: Is it here to stay?

  Competition is fierce in the tech arena. The DevOps role is a coveted one, and employers will do anything to secure the position, at least for now.

• October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Frank Modruson, Accenture

  Accenture’s CIO Frank Modruson on providing IT to 250,000 people who think they could do your job and why video is the next big thing

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  Case study: Syngenta multi-sourcing key to business growth

  Agri-business giant Syngenta has put multi-sourced IT at the heart of its ambitious plan to double its revenues in the next 8 years

• October 04, 2012 04 Oct'12

  Edinburgh Airport outsources IT infrastructure

  Edinburgh Airport’s new owner plans to grow the business, with a multi-million pound IT outsourcing deal the first of many investments

• October 04, 2012 04 Oct'12

  Meg Whitman unveils HP turnaround plan

  HP CEO Meg Whitman has unveiled a five-year plan for the troubled enterprise, admitting the turnaround would take longer than expected

• October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12

  UKtech50 2012: Who are the most influential people in UK IT?

  Computer Weekly is this week launching the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT

• October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Rolls-Royce signs outsourcing deal with HP

  Rolls-Royce has awarded a five-year contract to HP to host its applications, as part of the company’s multi-vendor IT strategy.

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  London gets another finance technology hub

  Canary Wharf Group is opening a centre for start-ups to work on financial services technology and services early next year

• September 27, 2012 27 Sep'12

  EC sets out strategy for EU cloud data and standards

  The European Commission (EC) has unveiled a strategy for standards and a legal framework for cloud computing in European Union (EU) states

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  How agile is Universal Credit?

  The DWP claims the IT for its flagship Universal Credit project is developed using agile principles. But how agile is a seven-year £2.2bn project?

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Activision uses Salesforce to serve gaming community

  The Call of Duty designers use the Service Cloud and Chatter Communities to solve customer queries

• September 17, 2012 17 Sep'12

  Fujitsu blacklisting part of tighter government policy

  Government policy flags up suppliers that perform poorly but, with so few, how far can government practically address failed outsourcing contracts?