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• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Government smart meter project should be "halted, altered or scrapped"

  The Institute of Directors has weighed in on the controversial smart meter rollout and called for the scheme to be halted, altered or scrapped in its current form

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  National Police ICT Company operational after four years of wrangling

  The national Police ICT Company is operational and aims to save £465m a year – nearly four years after Theresa May proposed its creation

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Talk Talk moves HR systems to cloud

  Managers now have accurate information on their workforce numbers, salary and overtime costs

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Labour sets out digital government priorities in election campaign

  The Labour Party has set out its digital government priorities, criticising the coalition for failing to meets targets for 'digital by default' services

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security

  Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Failed FireControl project still costing taxpayers millions of pounds

  Empty buildings rented for failed £469m FireControl project are still costing the taxpayer millions of pounds

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  RSA Group taps up AWS to hit 2016 cloud targets

  The global insurance group behind More Than hopes to move all its websites to the cloud by 2016, with a little help from AWS

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  HP Helion Rack looks to speed up enterprise private cloud adoption

  HP wants to take the heavy lifting out of moving to the private cloud by offering enterprises pre-configured and tested infrastructure packages

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft contests Iowa's plans to adopt Google cloud services

  Microsoft files a law suit claiming its cloud products were overlooked in the process of moving systems of the US state of Iowa to the cloud

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  IT priorities 2015 – IT budgets on the rise as economy recovers

  Almost three-quarters of IT managers in the UK expect their IT budgets to increase or stay the same in 2015

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect from this leaner, meaner Windows Server

  With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see?

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  DWP to direct jobseekers to digital skills-sharing platforms

  Department for Work and Pensions to update guidance to Jobcentre Plus staff to direct jobseekers to digital skills-sharing platforms

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Why CIOs should become chief integration officers in 2015

  IT leaders risk being relegated to a “care and feeding” role if they do not take the initiative, says business advisory firm Deloitte

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  BIS sets out to assist development of digital sharing economy

  The government has set out a number of proposals to assist in the development of the £9bn trade body Sharing Economy UK

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Prepare for corporate PC price hike as manufacturers protect margins

  Gartner reports that the device market grew 2.8% in 2014 in units sold as revenues shrank 1%, predicting price hikes to protect margins

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  TfL now fastest growing contactless merchant in UK

  Transport for London has been named as the fastest growing contactless merchants in the UK and Europe

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Ben Booth on transforming IT at the National Offender Management Service

  The UK's National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has ended a year of IT-led transformation, managed by interim IT chief Ben Booth

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Isle of Man steps up efforts to court cryptocurrency startups

  The Isle of Man government sets out the legislative changes it's pushing through to make the island a haven for cryptocurrency firms

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Apple Watch: Getting ready for enterprise smart watches

  The Apple App Store lists over 30 apps for the Apple Watch. Can Apple’s new wearable device make it in the enterprise?

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Innovate finance aims to connect fintech hubs outside London

  Membership body Innovate Finance launches strategy to connect finance technology hubs across the UK and promote innovation

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Technology key as challenger bank OakNorth gets licence

  SME-focused challenger bank OakNorth says financial services technology will enable it to serve customers fast

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Multi-supplier cloud environments bad for business agility

  Telstra research suggests companies that rely on three or more cloud providers could find it harder to respond to business changes

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

  A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  2015 IT priorities: SDN yet to prove itself, fear of network hacks growing

  In Computer Weekly’s 2015 IT priorities study, software-defined networking is still behind management and monitoring as a networking priority

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Executive interview: GE software chief Bill Ruh on value of an industrial cloud

  Bill Ruh believes machines are getting smarter. The company has expanded its vision of an industrial internet to an industrial cloud

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Sharing Economy UK launched to champion digital businesses

  New trade body brings together digital businesses that encourage consumer and business asset-sharing, such as Airbnb and ZipCar

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Procurement guidelines saved government £91m in 2014, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

  The government made £91m savings in 2014 with “militant” guidelines around procurement, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Case study: How National Grid uses analytics to keeps the lights on

  National Grid has started a project to supplement its existing asset maintenance system with predictive analytics

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Server sales boosted by hyperscale computing and service providers

  Hyperscale datacentre deployments and service provider installations are driving x86-based server sales

• March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15

  IT industry lashes out over government procurement policies

  The UK IT industry has criticised the lack of clarity surrounding changes to government IT procurement plans

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  CIO interview: Sean Harley, group IT director, Top Right Group

  Sean Harley is an IT leader who likes to get stuck in – and he has plenty to get stuck into, having transformed IT at publishing firm Top Right Group

• February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15

  John Chen pushes BES12 as Android for Work platform

  BlackBerry may be heading for the breakthrough it needs under the leadership of CEO John Chen with a new Google tie-up

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  £700m spent on Universal Credit yet to deliver value for money, say MPs

  The Department for Work and Pensions has spent £700m on Universal Credit so far, but has yet to convince MPs it is value for money

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Organisations address virtual server backup but disaster recovery top priority in 2015

  Computer Weekly survey shows fewer UK IT departments prioritise virtual server backup in 2015, but disaster recovery remains a key task

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Met Police begins search for replacement CIO

  The Metropolitan Police is searching for a CIO to implement its Total Technology IT strategy

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  CIO interview: Paul Coby, IT director, John Lewis Partnership

  Technology is an essential ingredient to the success of John Lewis, and the retailer is ploughing £100m into IT initiatives in 2015

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Enterprise IT faces upheaval to move to cloud-first computing

  IT departments should prepare to change working practices to support cloud-based computing

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  HSCIC sets out five-year plan to make UK a world leader in healthcare apps

  Health and Social Care Information Centre sets out technology strategy to make UK a world leader in health and social care apps

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  Virgin Media pumps £3bn investment into UK broadband

  Virgin Media makes major financial commitment to extend digital infrastructure to millions more homes and businesses

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Cabinet Office’s Maude: local GDS ‘very high priority’

  A local authority version of the Government Digital Service (GDS) is “very high priority”, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Cisco’s software-defined networking business booms

  Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure customer base doubles in three months as its software-defined networking model gains traction

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Digital Question Time: Growing UK tech

  Europe, growth initiatives for startups and a mature conversation with the IT industry were among the hot topics discussed at our political debate

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same

  In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  National Police ICT Company finally set to start operations

  A national Police ICT Company is set to begin operations after finally being approved by the UK’s police and crime commissioners

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Executive interview: lowering the cost of enterprise IT

  Gartner stated that Risc server shipments declined by 17%, while IBM claims the System z mainframe is the most cost-effective server

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  National Grid uses IBM to add predictive maintenance capabilities

  National Grid is using cloud-based analytics powered by IBM SoftLayer to provide preventative maintenance

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Milan Expo 2015 builds smart city with Telecom Italia and Cisco

  The organisers of Milan Expo 2015 have built a smart city site from the ground up with the support of Telecom Italia and Cisco

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  Aeris and Tech Mahindra to launch carrier IoT platform

  M2M technology provider Aeris has linked up with services supplier Tech Mahindra to target mobile carriers that want to develop their IoT business

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  2Mbps broadband not good enough, says Efra Committee report

  The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s inquiry into rural broadband roll-out deems BDUK’s target speeds insufficient

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  BT pledges ultrafast 500Mbps connections for all

  BT announces pilots of G.fast technology and promises universal ultrafast broadband within a decade

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  IT leaders want to hire chief data officers this year

  A study shows 61% of CIOs at large organisations want to recruit a chief data officer (CDO) in the next year with data volumes hindering progress

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  CIO interview: Phil Pavitt, global CIO, Specsavers

  Phil Pavitt, the new global CIO of Specsavers, has fixed his sights on helping the high-street optician take a great IT leap forward

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Your digital projects are doomed to failure, warns Cisco

  At Cisco Live! In Milan, Cisco set out the challenges of going digital, with many projects doomed to fail unless businesses embrace ‘Fast IT’

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Storage an investment magnet as 2014 funding soars to $1.79bn

  Investors pile into storage, with all-flash, hybrid flash and hyper-converged server/storage hardware hitting funding jackpot in 2014

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Property business enhances efficiency with Vodafone mobile… in 1985

  Property boom spurs a small business to enhance its workforce productivity with a mobile communications deployment – 30 years ago

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  IBM looks to Bitcoin blockchains for internet of things platform

  IBM sets out proof of concept for its ADEPT platform, using Bitcoin’s blockchain back-end to distribute the internet of things

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  CIO interview: Omid Shiraji, CIO at Working Links

  Just a year into his first IT leadership role and Working Links CIO Omid Shiraji is already busy with a digital transformation programme

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Networks First offers £50,000 startup funds to new staff

  Managed network services provider hopes to attract ambitious talent and fund new tech businesses through an incentive scheme

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  CIO interview: Sarah Flannigan leads change at the National Trust

  National Trust CIO’s IT strategy is a £40m transformation that represents the biggest change project in the charity's history

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  SFO drops HP-Autonomy fraud investigation

  The Serious Fraud Office is dropping its investigation into the sale of Autonomy to HP, but the US will continue its investigation

• January 16, 2015 16 Jan'15

  Public sector may get encrypted connections over PSN in defiance of PM

  Civil servants risk clash with Number 10 following remarks made by PSN chief technology officer James Duncan

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Vodafone names Ericsson's Johan Wibergh as CTO after Pusey retires

  Vodafone names Ericsson’s Johan Wibergh as its chief technology officer after incumbent Steve Pusey announced plans to retire

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Robots greet customers in bank branches

  The digitisation of banks enters a new phase as a Japanese bank deploys robots to greet customers and answer questions

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Gartner: Cost of customer relationship management set to fall 25% due to price war

  The cost of customer relationship management (CRM) software is set to drop by 25%, according to the latest forecast from Gartner

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Broadband investment top priority for UK SMEs

  SMEs are split on whether or not they will see much growth this year, but agree that improving broadband connectivity is a priority

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Solihull council launches digital strategy

  Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has launched a digital strategy which outlines how it will engage with citizens across multiple channels

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  CES 2015: Car companies showcase automotive digitisation

  Autonomous automotive technology has stolen the limelight from the usual fodder of gadgets at CES in Las Vegas

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  CIO interview: Federico Florez Gutierrez, Ferrovial

  Armed with a Naval engineering degree, Federico Florez Gutierrez set course for a career in senior IT

• December 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

  CW500 Club in 2014

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Catherine Doran, CIO, Royal Mail

  Royal Mail’s CIO is upbeat because after two years at the postal service she has started to see the results of her plan to transform the IT function

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Mark Maddocks, Cambridge University Press

  Technology has prompted unprecedented innovation and transformation in the media sector – Cambridge University Press is no exception

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Government chief scientific adviser: 'Don’t trivialise the internet of things'

  Government chief scientific adviser publishes report on the internet of things, making several policy recommendations

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

  US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Mark Foulsham, group CIO, esure

  Mark Foulsham, group CIO at insurance firm esure, is overseeing an IT transformation plan that he hopes will help future-proof the business

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  IT spending grows at fastest rate in five years

  Agile IT departments are emerging with the ability to flex their budgets quickly to meet new business demands

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Interview: Lucie Glenday, chief digital officer, Surrey County Council

  Chief digital officer Lucie Glenday was brought into Surrey County Council to change the way it thinks about digital services

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Whitehall meets digital leaders – but ignores local government

  The UK has played host to its first D5 digital leaders summit, but local collaboration was off the agenda

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Sarah Leslie, CIO, Iglo Foods Group

  Sarah Leslie, CIO at Birds Eye manufacturer Iglo Foods Group, is focused on delivering simplified and standardised IT systems

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Home Office appoints former Credit Suisse technology head as CTO

  Home Office appoints former Credit Suisse employee Sarah Wilkinson as its new chief technology officer

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  Quad-play operators to drive telecoms recruitment, says Manpower

  Recruitment is slowing slightly in telecoms sector, but competition will rise in the new year, according to ManpowerGroup

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  Only 39% of banks can confirm daily liquidity status, says Swift

  Only 39% of banks can confirm payments from foreign accounts in real time, according to a survey from Swift

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  Government aims for 90% digital take-up by 2020

  The government aims to have 90% of the UK’s online population using digital public services by 2020

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising Stars 2014

  Computer Weekly’s five rising stars of 2014

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  CIO Interview: Dustan Steer, IT director, Ted Baker

  Dustan Steer, IT director for clothes brand Ted Baker, talks about upgrading the company's enterprise resource planning system

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  Sainsbury's digital and technology director Jon Rudoe talks about customer-facing technologies, in-house development and data analytics

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  Innocent Drinks: Why the UK is the best place for startups

  Innocent Drinks co-founder, Richard Reed, says the UK is the best place for a startup company

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  HP puts big data in the cloud and announces services enhancements

  On the opening day of HP Discover in Barcelona, HP has announced a major milestone in its big data strategy

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  Competition essential if retail banks are to modernise their IT

  Only genuine competition in the retail banking sector will push banks to replace legacy IT, with fines and reputational damage making little impact

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Is a local GDS the answer to local authority transformation? Lessons from the Labour digital review

  Labour’s digital government review touches on a number of issues, but what’s the future of GDS – and could it be scaled to help local authorities?

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Kevin Cunnington, director general of digital transformation, DWP

  Kevin Cunnington is responsible for making the Universal Credit IT system work - while leading the DWP's digital transformation

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  While supermarkets all over the UK are facing challenging times ahead of them, Sainsbury's is taking its technology and innovation into its own hands by developing digital products for its customers.

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  Pressure on Universal Credit’s digital service mounts as testing begins

  Risks remain for Universal Credit as DWP continues its twin-track gradual roll-out of live and digital services

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Juggling politics for shared service success

  Newham is one of the poorest boroughs in the UK, yet CIO Geoff Connell is pushing forward a digital strategy

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  Customers say SAP knows too little about their businesses

  51% of SAP's customers find the supplier’s account managers don't know enough about their businesses, according to a user group survey

• November 21, 2014 21 Nov'14

  Network Rail extends fibre network to rural broadband providers

  Network Rail Infrastructure asks Ofcom for more powers to build out its fibre network for the benefit of broadband and mobile suppliers

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  NetApp: Hybrid cloud storage is a big deal; flash is not

  At its Berlin Insight event, NetApp says hybrid cloud is the big storage story, with flash set to disappear from prominence

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Asda opens technology centre in Leeds

  Asda opens a technology centre in its Leeds head office to provide a more streamlined service for online customers

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Fujitsu touts 'human-centric innovation' model

  Fujitsu wants to take customers on a journey towards what it terms “human-centric” IT

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  Interview: 'Government is the best digital startup in London'

  Computer Weekly interviews Ministry of Justice chief digital officer Paul Shetler about transforming government public services

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Anna Barsby, CIO, Halfords

  Since joining Halfords as CIO, Anna Barsby has faced significant business challenges, including a risky cloud upgrade