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IT services and outsourcing

• 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

• June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14

  Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead

  Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report

  Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report

• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  UK airports lead move to cloud services

  UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson

  Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  Huawei signs datacentre services MoU with BT

  BT could become a major supplier of datacentre services to Chinese network giant Huawei after signing memorandum of understanding

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing

  NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use

• May 27, 2014 27 May'14

  Atos buys Bull for £503m

  French services supplier Atos buys Bull for £502.6m in a deal that could create one of the largest cloud services firms in Europe

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  HP job cuts head towards the 50,000 mark as company tackles cost

  A further 16000 jobs are set to go as HP continues to slash its workforce through a restructuring initiative which began in 2012

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Cisco continues its push towards SaaS-based security services

  Chief information security officers (CISOs) should move away from product-based security solutions to a security-as-a-service (SaaS) model, according to Cisco

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Salesforce.com opens UK datacentre to support data sovereignty

  Cloud CRM company Salesforce.com has announced its first UK datacentre, which is also its first in Europe

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  Shell thinks technology first in preparation for internet of everything

  Shell is reshaping its business to think technology first as it uses the internet of everything to change its business processes

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  Public sector dominates UK outsourcing so far this year

  Public-sector outsourcing accounted for three-quarters of spending in the first three months of this year, according to analyst NelsonHall

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

  From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  IT headcount lags behind growth in digital strategies

  There is a huge gap in technology staffing for e-commerce operations, according to a new report from analyst Forrester

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  YouTube Twitch acquisition not imminent, say reports

  YouTube’s acquisition of videogame-streaming company Twitch is not imminent, according to latest reports

• May 16, 2014 16 May'14

  Why did GPs turn their back on Choose and Book?

  NHS England has scrapped its £356m outpatient booking system, Choose and Book, which was largely ignored by doctors