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• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Toyota e-learning upgrade aims to cut mechanics' training time by up to a year

  Car distributor Toyota Motor Europe is using e-learning to manage the training and certification of motor technicians and engineers

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  IBM interns join ShopDirect to combine gamification and Twitter analysis

  Undergraduate ShopDirect interns spent the summer with IBM on a project using gamification and Twitter to engage with customers

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Charity uses cloud HR system to keep track of staff working in danger zones

  It took a disaster in Haiti to demonstrate to charity World Vision why it needed better HR systems

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Businesses need to have constant digital conversations with the CIO, says PwC

  Companies which have strong digital conversations across their business are more likely to be successful in sales, innovation and growth

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  BMW gears up IT resilience with private cloud infrastructure

  After testing and validating its own private cloud services, BMW's IT team is ready to use it in production

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Executive interview: Andrew Brem, Connected Homes, British Gas

  British Gas is digitising energy. Andrew Brem speaks to Computer Weekly about the internet connected home

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  How the sale of Nokia’s mobile phone business will affect Microsoft

  Microsoft forges ahead with Steve Ballmer's vision to focus on hardware, software and services, with the $7.2bn acquisition of Nokia

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Bet365 improves latency and peering by updating network infrastructure

  Online gambling site Bet365 upgraded its network and improved its latency to deliver a fast, smooth and reliable experience to its customers

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  UCAS adopts public cloud to process university admissions

  Ten days before the A-level results, UCAS adopted a public cloud infrastructure to scale up its IT and to make admission process efficient

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  Enterprises spend more on third-party datacentres than in-house ones: Uptime survey

  Uptime Institute’s annual datacentre industry survey reveals shift in IT spend away from enterprise-owned datacentres to outsourced options

• August 08, 2013 08 Aug'13

  Government opens fourth iteration of cloud framework G-Cloud 4 for business

  Cabinet Office has opened the fourth iteration of UK government cloud – G-Cloud 4 to accept tenders from new cloud suppliers and existing ones

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Dutch banking regulator approves use of AWS public cloud in the financial sector

  Dutch banking watchdog approves use of AWS cloud in websites, mobile apps, retail banking platforms, HPC and credit risk analysis

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  European banking firm UniCredit to introduce cloud in its datacentres

  European banking firm UniCredit has signed a multi-billion dollar deal with IBM to bring cloud into its datacentres

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  GDS tracks 'digital by default' progress of top 25 government services

  Government Digital Service (GDS) launches website to track progress of the 25 services targeted as the first to go online under the digital strategy

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Anne Boden, COO, Allied Irish Bank - on moving to private cloud

  AIB’s private cloud has meant a tenfold reduction in the number of Oracle databases and gives the bank internal technological ability and development flexibility to respond to a changing and demanding market

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Pete Marsden, CIO, Asos.com

  As online fashion retailer Asos.com continues to expand, its IT strategy is focused on new international locations and keeping up with web retail

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Podcast: Virtual server backup fundamentals

  Virtual server backup is different to traditional backup. This podcast looks at the differences and examines key choices in selecting backup products

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  How BP made its IT future-ready with a hybrid cloud infrastructure

  BP bridged its cloud gap with a cautious and calculated approach using a mix of private cloud, public cloud and in-house IT infrastructure

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Met Police needs significant tech investment to overhaul creaking legacy systems

  The Metropolitan Police needs significant capital investment in technology if it is to overhaul its legacy IT infrastructure

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Frimley Park NHS deploys VDI for efficiency and BYOD

  When the NHS trust came under pressure to make its IT budget go further, it opted to deploy VDI in its A&E department

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Lloyds customer complaints plummet after automating manual processes

  Lloyds is claiming dramatic improvements in the quality of its customer service after automating manual banking processes

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Steve Monaghan, IT & e-commerce director, Waterstones

  After a year of turmoil caused by migration away from HMV, the IT team at Waterstones is finally finding room to think about strategy

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  France Telecom changes name to Orange

  The mobile operator will embrace the Orange branding globally, despite dropping it in the UK after merger with T-Mobile

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  HSBC axes 14,000 jobs

  HSBC is to lay off up to 14,000 global staff in a cost-cutting move likely to include redundancies among the bank's back-office IT employees

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Domino’s Pizza plans to move web services to the cloud

  After using cloud for testing and development apps, Domino’s Pizza is now looking to move its web services to the cloud

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Salesforce.com targets communities

  Salesforce.com says it wants to address communities with its software as a service (SaaS) platform

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  UK online businesses neglect mobile strategy

  Online businesses are failing to implement mobile strategies, according to a report from Barclays bank

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  CIO interview: Mike Croucher, head of IT architecture and delivery, British Airways

  After changes in IT leadership two years ago, the IT strategy at BA is focusing on infrastructure modernisation and smarter use of customer data

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Opinion split on whether to offshore IT to China

  Relatively low costs and high levels of software skills give China immense potential when it comes to providing large businesses with IT services, but opinion is split on whether it is an option

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  CIO interview: Mary Hensher, IT director, Cancer Research UK

  Charity Cancer Research has felt the impact of recession on fundraising and the need to innovate through technology is more important than ever

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  Universal Credit not at odds with agile, says former chief

  Former programme director of Universal Credit, Malcolm Whitehouse, has denied the mega-project is at odds with agile development

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer

  As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  AstraZeneca appoints new CIO David Smoley

  Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca has appointment David Smoley as chief information officer

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  O2: ‘We have not lost a single customer to EE’

  O2’s head of enterprise says no customers have been drawn to EE's 4G and expects a challenge to entice them even after all operators launch

• 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

• 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 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Businesses wasting billions storing unnecessary data

  CIOs are urged to rethink their backup strategies following warnings that companies are wasting billions on unnecessary storage

• 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 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 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 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Morrisons sees poor sales due to lack of online presence

  Supermarket chain Morrisons posted “disappointing” sales over the Christmas break, due to the retailer’s lack of online presence.

• December 14, 2012 14 Dec'12

  CIO interview: Kevin O’Connor, Carlson Wagonlit Travel

  As the new CIO at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Kevin O’Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company’s IT strategy

• 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

  Government IT reformers criticise IT leadership shake-up

  Government IT reformers have criticised plans to give procurement chief Bill Crothers a more prominent role in the IT leadership team

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Data to grow more quickly says IDC’s Digital Universe study

  IDC’s annual Digital Universe study finds data set to expand to 40 Zettabytes by 2020. Emerging markets and machine-generated data will account for increasing proportions of it.

• 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 20, 2012 20 Nov'12

  HP writes down Autonomy by $8.8bn

  HP blames Autonomy for misleading the firm before acquisition and refers former management to the Serious Fraud Office

• November 19, 2012 19 Nov'12

  Why Cisco chooses acquisition over R&D

  As networking giant Cisco buys its ninth company in less than a year, Computer Weekly asks, why the focus on acquisitions?

• November 12, 2012 12 Nov'12

  Gartner: BYOD will encourage self-support

  Self-support communities will offset the cost and manpower of providing a helpdesk for staff who use their own devices, according to Gartner