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• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IT departments aren't getting sidelined by cloud, suggests research

  Research from Harvard Business Review suggests IT departments are maintaining a firm grip on enterprise cloud deployments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  ElasticHosts-owned Springs.IO debuts use-based pricing for Docker-like IaaS

  Springs.IO says using Linux-based container technology can help users cut cloud costs

• July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15

  World Trade Organisation strikes $1.3tn deal to wipe out IT trade tariffs

  World Trade Organisation's planned update to the 1996 Information Technology Agreement could see prices fall across a wide range of technology products

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Mark Dixon, Standard Life

  Insurance company Standard Life is looking at new digital projects as work needed to meet regulatory changes is completed

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Notion Capital unveils $120m investment fund for European cloud startups

  Venture capital firm hopes to increase fund size to $150m by the time it reaches final close later this year

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Scottish government denies "cloud-washing" mobile device procurement framework

  Scottish government's National Framework for Cloud Computing and Proprietary Devices risks confusing suppliers, claim analysts

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  AirBnB, LinkedIn, Spotify & Twitter sign up for Box cloud storage

  As enterprise file sync and share supplier announces latest customers wins, but competitor flags data sovereignty limitations of Box's operations

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Software project will save Ford tens of millions a year in car repair bills

  Car maker Ford is rolling out sophisticated warranty software to 12,000 dealers worldwide in a project that is expected to bring rapid financial returns

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Cisco quits set-top boxes and reshuffles IoT and cloud organisation

  Cisco sells off the set-top box business it acquired in 2005 and restructures its cloud and IoT businesses

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  IBM steps up open-source cloud commitment to developers

  Big Blue has unveiled several open-source initiatives geared towards helping developers make cloud apps

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Cabinet Office launches consultation for future of Digital Services Framework

  A supplier consultation has been announced to discuss changes to the Digital Service framework before an Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) is published

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Investment in the internet of things boosts revenue for manufacturers

  A TCS report reveals executives plan to increase spending on IoT initiatives to boost business

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  GE to move 300,000 employees to Microsoft Office 365

  Microsoft announces one of its biggest Office 365 deals to date, after securing a contract to provide 300,000 GE staff with online productivity tools

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  CMA to probe Three and O2 over BT-EE merger

  The Competition and Markets Authority will run the rule over Three's proposed acquisition of O2 as it makes up its mind over whether or not BT should be allowed to acquire EE

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Government sets out code of practice for driverless car tests

  Business secretary Sajid Javid sets out plan to put the UK at the forefront of driverless vehicles, establishing a £20m fund and a code of practice for testing

• July 17, 2015 17 Jul'15

  Hunt elects Martha Lane Fox to develop NHS digital innovation proposal

  Jeremy Hunt has asked Martha Lane Fox to develop a proposal for more digital technology and innovation in healthcare

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  UK tech sector called to contribute to EC Digital Single Market consultations

  Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) says UK must feed back to the European Commission (EC) to inform the delivery of its Digital Single Market vision

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Enterprises miss out on cloud cost benefits by sticking with on-demand pricing plans

  451 Research suggests cloud users that sign up to long-term contracts with providers get better pricing overall than those who don't

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  GDS creates outcomes framework for digital inclusion

  Government Digital Service (GDS) launches Digital Inclusion Outcomes Framework to act as a template for digital inclusion evaluation

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  US datacentre company Digital Realty buys rival Telx to build out co-location business

  Digital Realty doubles its size with the acquisition of rival datacentre systems supplier Telx, as consolidation in the market gathers pace

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Defra could face a further £370m in penalties if CAP reform fails

  An additional £370m in fines could be faced by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs by 2021 if its revised CAP scheme fails to take off

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Fujitsu calls up Memset to deliver infrastructure services to HMRC

  Surrey-based datacentre provider to provide infrastructure hosting services to HMRC

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  AWS to build wind farm in North Carolina to power its cloud datacentres

  AWS follows up earlier renewable energy pledge by setting out plans to build 208MW wind farm

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Mattias Forsberg, Systembolaget

  Systembolaget CIO Mattias Forsberg says IT and business need to have a relationship of co-operation and expects every successful IT project to include some pain

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  UK to invest £45m in digital research and skills

  Millions of pounds will be invested in building research centres to fuel the UK’s digital economy research and skills

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Lotus Formula 1 gears up for racing with Microsoft Dynamics

  Microsoft Dynamics tools drive the Lotus F1 team's data analytics in ratcheting the performance of its cars, engineers – and business

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  AWS adds Chef to cloud Marketplace to drive up DevOps adoption

  Chef sets sights on winning over more AWS users with its DevOps-friendly automation tools

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Former Virgin Atlantic IT chief takes up Wellcome Trust interim CIO role

  David Bulman will be assisting the medical charity in the transition to a new CIO

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Lars Ruben Hansen, Rema 1000 Denmark and Reitan Distribution

  The CIO of supermarket chain Rema 1000 Denmark and wholesale company Reitan Distribution wants his staff to love coming to work

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Summer Budget 2015: George Osborne announces support for technology research

  Chancellor George Osborne delivers Budget commitments to roll out business tax reform and more money for research funding and the digital economy

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Microsoft confirms 7,800 jobs to go as part of mobile business restructure

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirms fresh round of job cuts as software giant moves to overhaul its mobile portfolio

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Facebook builds wind-powered datacentre in Texas

  Social networking giant Facebook adds momentum to green datacentre trend with plans to power a datacentre in Texas with a 17,000-acre wind farm

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Microsoft Azure price hike to hit cloud users in the Eurozone from 1 August

  The on-going economic instability affecting Europe could prompt further price increases from Microsoft and others, analysts warn

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Jaeger CIO Cathy McCabe

  The luxury retailer's IT chief is taking the iconic swinging sixties brand into the digital age

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Intel president Renée James departs in senior management reshuffle

  Intel's departing president, Renée James, will stay on until January 2016 to steady the ship in the face of sweeping management changes at Intel

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Camden Council uses IBM data analytics to beat austerity

  Camden Council has used data integration to link council systems, enabling it to cut waste and improve efficiency – and saving £93m in the process

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Sales of cloud-enabling infrastructure grew 25% in Q1, finds IDC

  IDC cloud infrastructure tracker suggests enterprises are coming round to the idea of hybrid IT

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  BBC to cut 1,000 jobs and merge tech teams due to low licence fees

  The BBC will cut jobs and merge its technology teams in an effort to save funds after a drop in licence fees as fewer people watch live TV

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  How Deutsche Telekom plans to challenge AWS and Google in the cloud

  German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to evolve into the public cloud and plans to beat sector giants such as Amazon and Google at their own game

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Unified commerce the next step for retailers

  Retailers should be adopting a unified platform and rethinking the value of stores if they want a true omni-channel business, says Demandware

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS to open first datacentres in India from 2016

  Public cloud giant wants to tap into sub-continent's growing demand for cloud services while tackling latency and sovereignty issues

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  CIOs warned of IT overspending risks as US dollar strength grows

  The strengthening US dollar could result in enterprises overspending on IT, as suppliers sneak in under-the-radar price hikes, Gartner warns

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Windows 10 release won't save the PC market, warns Gartner

  The next iteration of Windows will give PC sales a short-term boost, but nothing will change long-term, Gartner claims

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Google builds energy-efficient datacentre in US coal power plant

  Internet giant Google has said it intends to use a decommissioned coal power plant's infrastructure to deliver renewable energy to its next US datacentre

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  CIO Interview: Ian Bell, CIO, Cambridgeshire Police Service

  The CIO of Cambridgeshire Police Service talks about the constabulary’s move to digital for collaboration and information sharing in its effort to increase efficiency

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Virgin Active CIO calls for wearables market to adopt open standards

  Health club provider's IT chief claims boosting the interoperability of devices will increase their overall usefulness to consumers

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Digital government 'a chance to build a new state', says Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock

  Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock says the move to digital government is a “chance to build a new state” in a speech outlining his priorities

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  John Swainson, president of Dell Software, argues the case for rethinking datacentres

  Having previously worked for Silver Lake, CA and IBM, Swainson now heads the company’s software business

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  British Gas to power more of its business using public cloud from 2017

  Energy supplier says public cloud move will boost its business agility while cutting costs

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Case study: Model railway company Hornby overhauls payments with Braintree

  Hornby’s head of digital strategy explains how the firm chose Braintree as its online payments platform following its website migration last year

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Labour MP Chi Onwurah warns of nationalisation risk to UK citizens' personal data

  Shadow Cabinet Office minister Chi Onwurah calls on UK citizens to keep close tabs on how the government uses their personal data

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Former TalkTalk CIO to lead Police ICT Company

  Experienced CIO Martin Wyke has been appointed CEO of the Police ICT Company, set up to manage central police systems

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

  Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Government Digital Service insists Verify safe despite claims of vulnerabilities

  An academic paper suggests the Gov.uk Verify system could be used as a spy network, but the Government Digital Service (GDS) insists this is not the case

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Californian state officials reveal driverless car crash numbers for first time

  The Californian Department for Motor Vehicles bows to pressure from The Associated Press to reveal details of self-driving car crashes

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Enterprise adoption of hybrid devices tipped to soar post-Windows 7

  Enterprise IT departments should consider hybrid devices in their post-Windows 7 migration plans, claims Gartner

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  CIO interview: Rovio Entertainment's Kalle Alppi believes IT staff should be embedded in business

  The CIO at the company behind Angry Birds talks about running global IT with only five permanent staff

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

  RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Is HMRC making tax more taxing for non-digital taxpayers?

  Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has made tax data accessible online – but how should it cater for those unable (or unwilling) to use digital services?

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Only 3% of civil servants think the government gets good value from the tech industry

  A survey by industry body TechUK has found only a small percentage of civil servants feel the government currently gets good value out of the tech industry

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft

  The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Boots cuts 700 jobs in bid to restructure and improve tech

  Cosmetics firm Boots has announced it will be cutting 700 non-store roles in an attempt to invest in technology and simplify back-office operations

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  US state of Maine turns to BPM to cut admin costs

  The US state of Maine is automating a range of government processes in a bid to cut administration costs by more than 10%

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Case study: What the enterprise can learn from Etsy's DevOps strategy

  Jon Cowie, operations engineer at online marketplace Etsy, advises enterprises on how to develop a DevOps-friendly business culture

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  HSBC UK IT braced for cuts as bank weighs up opportunities in Asia

  HSBC's UK IT team is likely to be reduced in size as focus moves to Asia

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  HMRC denies reports of Verify causing users problems

  HMRC has denied that problems faced by the public attempting to claim marriage tax breaks are caused by the Gov.uk Verify scheme

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Home Retail Group appoints former Amazon executive as CTO

  Parent company of Argos and Homebase, Home Retail Group, selects former Amazon.com tech president as chief technology officer (CTO)

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Digital services not saving government departments money, says NAO

  Government departments are not making the savings digital services were aiming to deliver

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Cisco CEO-elect Robbins reveals leadership team

  Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has unveiled his leadership team, with more high-profile figures set to leave the business and a number of promotions

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Get ready for Windows 10 upgrade

  Windows 10 will be released on July 29. Computer Weekly looks at how the new operating system will impact enterprise IT

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Pressure grows on enterprise datacentre operators to wind-down investments

  Long-term investments in private datacentres could leave enterprises at a competitive disadvantage, warn experts

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Enterprise storage performance a mystery to most IT chiefs

  Survey finds more than two-thirds of storage leaders at large enterprises don’t know the impact of I/O from core applications on their storage infrastructure

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Cisco bans departing execs from vast swathe of IT industry

  A filing with the US government has revealed outgoing executives Rob Lloyd and Gary Moore will not be allowed to take up employment with, among others, HP, IBM or VMware

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  CIO interview: Dundee University CIO Paul Saunders calls for diversity in IT

  Paul Saunders, director of technology at the University of Dundee, talks about the cultural differences between the US and the UK in business attitudes

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Microsoft seeks planning permission for another Dublin datacentre

  Software giant will have to wait until August to see if the application for its latest Irish facility has been accepted

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  CIO interview: Adam Gerrard, Yodel

  Moving the parcel delivery firm from legacy IT to a digital infrastructure attracted experienced CIO Adam Gerrard to Yodel

• May 28, 2015 28 May'15

  Internet of things and smart cities need UK-wide consensus

  At a TechUK event, delegates call for cross-body collaboration on IoT to ensure local authority CIOs get the best from the emerging technology

• May 28, 2015 28 May'15

  IT must master coaching for success in digitisation

  CIOs can support their company's digital strategy, but it should be driven from the top down by the CEO

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  TfL kicks off network tower procurement

  TfL is to begin £400m network tower procurement exercise in June

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  CIO Interview: Mike Young, CIO, Dentsu Aegis Network

  CIO Mike Young describes how Dentsu Aegis Network used technology to become a consolidated company with a unified collaboration strategy

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  Civil Servants point to lack of skills as barrier to IT procurement

  Adoption of IT for public services is held back due to a lack of skills, despite civil servants agreeing IT is a necessity, according to techUK

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  Government should take agile approach to policy and service delivery, says Hancock

  The future of service delivery and policy making will be more focused around an agile approach, said Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  HP CEO hails business split progress amid downbeat Q2 revenue slumps

  Despite chalking up revenue declines in several business units, Meg Whitman is more convinced than ever of the need to breakup HP

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Connected cars driving into mobile traffic jams

  Mobile network operators may face significant traffic management challenges as more connected cars take to the roads, says study

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  CIO interview: Mark Bramwell, IT director, Said Business School

  Mark Bramwell is drafting a strategy for IT investment at Oxford University’s Said Business School

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  CIO interview: Myron Hrycyk, CIO, Severn Trent Water

  Severn Trent water company is working on technology initiatives to lower bills and improve customer service

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Societe Generale uses cloud service to place high fliers overseas

  Financial Services company, Societe Generale, says relocation software is helping it to attract talented employees

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Salesforce claims to be on course to become $10bn enterprise software business

  Cloud CRM giant comes out fighting after posting better-than-expected Q1 results

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Government cloud adoption hit by ongoing legacy tech investments

  IT supplier Eduserv wants government departments banned from investing in legacy tech to drive up cloud adoption

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  BT and BDUK failed to make costs transparent, says report

  A major report on BDUK commissioned by DCMS identifies a number of failures around the transparency of the scheme’s costs

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  M&S sees drop in yearly online sales due to website changes

  Retailer M&S suffers a drop in online sales following disruption caused by website relaunch

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Leeds Building Society embarks on digital services push with HP Cloud

  The building society wants to make it easier for customers to manage their money online using HP technology and support services

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  GDS will not scale locally with continued bespoke approach

  If the Government Digital Service (GDS) continues to develop bespoke digital services, the progress it has made to date will not scale at a local level, Eddie Copeland, head of technology at the Policy Exchange, has warned

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Microsoft’s Wright: Focus on services to build data cultures

  Corporate IT must evolve towards service provision to make organisations more data-driven and agile, Microsoft’s Jacky Wright will tell the Data Governance 2015 conference

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Gartner warns cloud buyers off hasty IaaS investments

  With the competitive landscape in flux, end users should exercise caution when choosing their IaaS providers, Gartner warns

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Vodafone returns to quarterly revenue growth

  A minute rise in quarterly sales gives mobile network operator Vodafone hope that its financial situation is now stabilising

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  IT problems lead to 588% rise in complaints for Scottish Power

  Problems with Scottish Power’s IT system have led to it receiving the biggest rise in complaints any energy supplier has ever seen

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  CIO interview: Henrik Trepka, ISS

  ISS CIO Henrik Trepka's vision is that ubiquitous internet-connected sensors will help make the Danish facility management company the greatest service organisation in the world

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Patient care put at risk by IT problems at London NHS trust

  IT problems and poor information governance put patients at risk at a London NHS trust, according to evidence disclosed at an employment tribunal

• May 14, 2015 14 May'15

  Cisco’s John Chambers: I’m pumped about new leadership

  Outgoing Cisco boss John Chambers shares his thoughts on the future of the business as he prepares to step down from the bridge