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IT services and outsourcing

• April 26, 2011 26 Apr'11

  Global cloud market to reach $240bn by 2020

  The global cloud market is set to explode in the next 10 years, growing from $40.7bn in 2011 to more than $241bn in 2020, according to Forrester Research.

• April 21, 2011 21 Apr'11

  National Archives scoops Queen’s Award for Enterprise

  The National Archives has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - the first public sector body to receive the gong in more than ten years.

• April 07, 2011 07 Apr'11

  Dell set to unveil cloud plans

  Dell is due to make a global announcement later today, where it is expected to unveil its plans for cloud computing.

• April 01, 2011 01 Apr'11

  CSC to acquire troubled NHS supplier iSoft

  IT services giant CSC has agreed to acquire troubled healthcare software firm iSoft after the latter suspended shares and put itself up for sale last week.

• April 01, 2011 01 Apr'11

  Exclusive interview: Deputy government CIO Bill McCluggage on the new government IT strategy

  Bill McCluggage, deputy government CIO, talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about the changes in the government's new IT strategy.

• March 29, 2011 29 Mar'11

  Government puts open source at the heart of its new IT strategy

  The government has launched its much-anticipated new IT strategy, highlighting open source and a promise that the coalition will do things better.

• March 29, 2011 29 Mar'11

  Marks & Spencer extends Cognizant outsourcing deal

  UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has expanded its outsourcing relationship with offshore IT service provider Cognizant, which extends a deal signed in 2009.

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  MoJ signs £22m shared services deal with Accenture

  The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has signed a £22m contract with Accenture to implement shared services across its human resources, payroll, finance and procurement operations for the next five years.

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  European Commission clears Atos bid for Siemens IT

  The European Commission has cleared the proposed €850m acquisition of Siemens' IT Solutions and Service (SIS) by French IT service provider Atos Origin.

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  DWP cancelled £300m Fujitsu deal over transition deadline failures

  The decision by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to cancel a £300m desktop support deal with Fujitsu before it even began will lead many in the public sector to question some IT suppliers' ability to deliver on their sales pitch.

• March 15, 2011 15 Mar'11

  Department for Work and Pensions cancels £300m Fujitsu contract

  The DWP cancelled its desktop support contract with Fujitsu before it passed to the supplier from incumbent HP.

• March 08, 2011 08 Mar'11

  Exclusive: Free software guru Richard Stallman on government IT and why he hates the cloud

  The founding father of the free software movement tells Computer Weekly why government just doesn't "get it"

• March 02, 2011 02 Mar'11

  Government publishes first contract in transparency drive

  The first contract to be published under the government's new transparency drive has been posted on BusinessLink's Contract Finder website.

• March 02, 2011 02 Mar'11

  Government losing billions by not moving to the cloud

  The public sector could be making unnecessary redundancies due to a reluctance to innovate in IT and shift to the cloud, says former CIO John Suffolk

• March 01, 2011 01 Mar'11

  Government spends £9.4bn on top 10 most expensive ICT contracts

  The government's top 10 most expensive IT contracts are worth a combined value of £9.44bn, Computer Weekly has found.

• February 07, 2011 07 Feb'11

  IT services contracts spiked in final quarter of 2010

  The total value of worldwide IT services contracts signed in the final three months of 2010 was 66% higher than the previous three months, according to research from Ovum.

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  Barclays offshores back-office and call centre jobs to India

  Barclays is cutting almost three hundred UK back-office jobs and sending the roles to India.

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Interxion hits colocation sweet spot and sees market shares soar

  Colocation provider Interxion recently made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange and saw its shares soar 18%; plus more news in brief.

• January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11

  Virgin supplies London schools with 10Mbps fibre optic broadband

  Virgin Media's business division is to supply a managed fibre optic network to London's Grid for Learning that will replace a broadband network supplied by Symmetrix, a Capita company.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  HP to offer enterprise cloud on demand

  HP has unveiled its enterprise cloud service compute strategy, which will offer UK users computing on demand from its Wynyard datacentre.

• January 20, 2011 20 Jan'11

  Eli Lilly signs Cognizant deal

  Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has signed a multiyear deal with Cognizant to provide a range of business services

• January 20, 2011 20 Jan'11

  Carlsberg agrees probably its best outsourcing deal

  Carlsberg has signed a five-year contract with Accenture for application services for its European brewery operations.

• January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

  iGate acquires outsourcer Patni in deal worth $1.22bn

  American IT services firm iGate has acquired Indian outsource company Patni in a deal worth $1.22 billion.

  iGate said it would pay $921m to buy a 63%...

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  $21m acquisition of Immunet takes Sourcefire to the cloud

  Snort creator Sourcefire has announced the $21m (£13.5m) acquisition of cloud-based anti-malware technologies firm Immunet.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  TPI and Compass come together

  The US owner of sourcing consultancy TPI has acquired Compass Management Consulting, to increase the transformational services it can offer.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

  David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

• December 20, 2010 20 Dec'10

  Government shelves FiReControl

  The government’s costly and overrunning FiReControl project has been axed. FiReControl has been cancelled because of serious delays with the EADS contract (now Cassidian) which began in 2004 and cost £225m.

• December 20, 2010 20 Dec'10

  FireControl project could be axed before Christmas

  The government's controversial FireControl project could be flagged for review today. The Fire Brigade's Union (FBU) said it was expecting an announcement from fire minister Bob Neil later today, in which it hopes the project designed to reduce the ...

• August 11, 2010 11 Aug'10

  The six roles that drive successful business process transformation

  CIOs must change how they approach BPM

• July 12, 2010 12 Jul'10

  NHS National Programme for IT set for major changes

  The controversial £12bn NHS IT project looks set for an overhaul as a result of a major reorganisation of the health service

• October 21, 2009 21 Oct'09

  Israel carves a niche in IT security

  IT security, risk, governance, continuity and compliance technologies are fast becoming some of Israel's top exports.

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• September 08, 2009 08 Sep'09

  EDS v Sky: the most significant judgement in an IT case ever?

  It is now about a year since the trial in the dispute between BSkyB and EDS drew to a close. At the time, judgment was expected within a couple of months. The absence of a judgment becomes more conspicuous by the day. We can surely expect a verdict ...

• August 19, 2009 19 Aug'09

  Gartner dispels concerns surrounding cloud computing services in India

  Diptarup Chakraborti, a principal research analyst at Gartner Inc., says fears related to cloud computing are overblown in India and shares his advice for IT departments that want to adopt cloud-based services.

• April 09, 2009 09 Apr'09

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• December 08, 2008 08 Dec'08

  Tens of thousands of IT jobs at risk in global finance sector

  The investment banking industry will see thousands of job cuts as mergers are completed and companies prepare for a slowdown in business.

• November 18, 2008 18 Nov'08

  Union calls for return of 4,000 offshored jobs

  Lloyds TSB Group Union will use the bank's extraordinary general meeting today to encourage shareholders to support the return of 4,000 jobs...

• July 18, 2006 18 Jul'06

  Midsized firms reach out to backup service providers

  Data growth and ever-tightening compliance rules are among the factors driving some organizations to turn to service providers for help with backups.

• May 03, 2006 03 May'06

  Shifting services back indoors

  Almost a quarter of blue chip firms in the UK are so disillusioned with outsourcing they are hauling their services back in-house.

• April 25, 2005 25 Apr'05

  Tight contract management vital, users told at SSRG debut

  The Strategic Supplier Relationships Group, which brings together 10 of the UK's most influential IT user groups, was formally...

• September 17, 2004 17 Sep'04

  Swansea strike battle to go to Acas

  Swansea Council and its striking IT staff are set to go to arbitration service Acas to settle a six-week dispute over a proposed...