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• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Why insurer Axa is entering the retail e-commerce market

  Digitisation in insurance is usually associated with digital policy documents – but Axa is using technology to take a lateral approach to the indemnity business

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Rob Threadgold, global head of IT infrastructure and operations, ICBC Standard Bank

  Standard Bank is taking a global approach to IT challenges following its acquisition by Chinese banking giant ICBC

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Richard Corbridge, CIO, Health Service Executive in Ireland

  The Irish equivalent of the NHS is making great strides in digital healthcare and technology innovation

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  NHS trust denies bullying and intimidation of IT whistleblower

  Managers were already aware of whistleblower's concerns about the accuracy of NHS Southwark's data, tribunal hears

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Haircare firm GHD rehomes hybrid cloud infrastructure in new Rackspace datacentre

  Haircare product maker shifts hybrid website infrastructure to Rackspace's Crawley datacentre in preparation for Christmas rush

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  The growing importance of the Nordic CIO

  IT is becoming more important to businesses, in part due to the digital revolution, and the women and men who lead IT are now increasingly coveted

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Application testing costs set to rise to 40% of IT budget

  Digital transformation has put software quality to the fore, resulting in CIOs spending more on quality assurance and testing

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Drastic cuts coming to Samsung workforce

  Samsung is to downsize its workforce by 10% in the next few months as part of a renewed cost-cutting drive as the electronics firm continues to struggle, according to reports

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  High-performance computing and mainframe refresh limit server decline

  IDC's market share data for server shipments shows mainframe users are running Linux on the z13, while high-performance computing (HPC) lifts x86 sales

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Chef secures $40m spending round as enterprise DevOps adoption soars

  Automation software supplier Chef dismisses buyout talk after sharing details of latest funding round

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Case study: North Middlesex NHS aims to go digital by 2017

  North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust embarks on an ambitious project to go digital by the end of 2017 – three years ahead of the government’s mandate

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Anna Berggren, ManpowerGroup Nordics

  ManpowerGroup Nordic CIO Anna Berggren talks about the importance of IT to the recruitment firm and the different approaches she takes to managing it

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust implements inventory management using Ingenica Solutions

  Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust is using an inventory management system to streamline its purchasing and management of clinical products.

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  Cloud users speak out about day-to-day SaaS frustrations

  New research highlights problems users encounter when using cloud and suggests some might be planning to go back on-premise

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  The US Federal Aviation Administration's hybrid cloud plans take flight with help from CSC

  US aerospace agency sets out plans to wind down its datacentre investments and move more of its IT to the cloud

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  IT firm aims to close skills gap with technology training academy

  Microsoft-endorsed firm Azzure IT has launched an IT skills academy to teach development, customer support and consultancy in a bid to close the skills gap

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  Companies would look outside UK for technology talent

  The time it takes to hire technology talent is damaging businesses, who say they will employ workers from outside the UK to get the best

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  Strong US dollar hits European server shipments as CIOs protect IT budgets

  Gartner server shipment figures highlight the impact of a strong US dollar on European IT buying habits as the global economy braces for another period of uncertainty

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Elisabeth Stjernstoft, Apoteket

  When the Swedish government introduced competition to the pharmaceuticals sector in 2009, the former monopoly faced a major IT transformation

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  Torbay Council uses Logi Info for budget management

  Council's Jeff Scott explains the authority’s move away from its previous business intelligence software to focus on managing financial data

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Dell creates datacentre-focused business unit to help telcos and cloud providers scale

  Hardware giant wants to make it easier for telcos and cloud providers to rapidly respond to growing demand for datacentre space

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Digital skillsets needed to close creative industries' skills gap

  NextGen Skills Academy has launched a new course to teach the digital skills required by creative industry sectors

• August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Emil Dahlin, Svevia

  Svevia CIO Emil Dahlin transformed the IT of a former Swedish government organisation as it became an independent company

• August 19, 2015 19 Aug'15

  UK government signs new MoU with Oracle

  Memorandum of understanding builds on 2012 deal which promised to save the government £75m

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Kjell Rune Tveita, If Skadeförsäkringar

  Kjell Rune Tveita's first job as CIO at Nordic insurance giant If Skadeförsäkringar was to integrate three companies across three countries

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Android for Windows Mobile tools leaked on web

  A set of Microsoft tools to enable Android developers to port their apps to Windows Mobile has been posted online

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Home Office develops Online Application Service for visas with Equal Experts

  The Home Office explains how its implementation of the Online Application Service for visas bagged it the 2015 Computer Weekly European User Award for Best Public Sector Project

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Netflix shuts down final datacentre to go all-in on public cloud

  Netflix is gearing up for the closure of its final datacentre, as it makes good on its earlier pledge to move more of its IT infrastructure to the public cloud

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Sage Summit 2015 – How to use Facebook to grow your business

  Founder of online retailer Lolly Wolly Doodle told Sage Summit 2015 how she used social media platform Facebook to grow her startup fashion business

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  GDS saves the government £1.7bn through digital and technology transformation

  The government has made £18.6bn year-on-year savings, with £1.7bn coming from GDS-led efficiency and reform

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Interview: Government digital chief Mike Bracken – why I quit

  Mike Bracken, the outgoing director of the Government Digital Service, talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his departure from Whitehall

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  TFL still wasting millions on telecoms despite IIPAG criticism

  One year on and Transport for London is still pouring millions into dispersed telecoms systems, according to the Independent Investment Programme Advisory Group

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Cisco leadership hits the ground running in strong fourth quarter

  New CEO Chuck Robbins closes out the fourth quarter on a high note and speaks of a renewed energy at the network supplier

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  FOI response reveals G-Cloud suppliers escape fines for missing MISO sales data deadlines

  Freedom of Information response suggests Cabinet Office is taking a softly-softly approach to clamping down on non-compliant G-Cloud suppliers

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Mike Bracken: I turned down an increase in GDS budget

  Outgoing government digital chief says he rejected the chance of extra funding and that his platform strategy is still on the table

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Use technology to improve NHS, say patients

  Almost 70% of the population believes technology should be used in the NHS to improve patient outcomes and efficiency, says Trustmarque

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  How artificial intelligence is being tested by Asean businesses

  Organisations across the Asean region are using artificial intelligence technologies with examples in health and finance sector.

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust refreshes IT to drive digitisation

  Sheffield NHS Trust's Transformation Through Technology programme aims to drive efficiencies and improve patient care

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Manchester scraps Atos contract for smart transport ticketing

  Atos has been let go as the contract partner for Manchester’s Oyster-style ticketing system due to issues with delivery speeds

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  What will happen to digital government when GDS chief Mike Bracken moves on?

  The government’s digital chief Mike Bracken has announced he will be leaving, raising concerns over the future of digital government

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  HMRC to transfer 250 Capgemini staff in-house ready for Aspire contract end

  HMRC’s Aspire outsourcing contract will be replaced by slowly bringing staff in-house to give the department more control over IT

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Tech London Advocates launches four new tech-focused working groups

  Private sector technology network creates working groups to promote tech startup companies in particular sectors

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Sage Summit 2015: The move to cloud technology and the death of ERP

  Accountancy software firm Sage has released new cloud-based software, highlighting the gap between the use of cloud and on-premise in the workplace and declaring a move away from traditional ERP

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Police Mutual CIO on IT-powered business strategies

  David Loughenbury joined Police Mutual in 2011 as CIO to lead a change agenda and provide a single view of its members

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  City of Liverpool College joins Jisc shared-services datacentre in Slough

  Further education college set to use facility to help support roll-out of shared-services portfolio to other colleges

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  SME G-Cloud deal volumes could be "under-reported", claim suppliers

  Cabinet Office is reviewing how SMEs report G-Cloud sales data, as reports suggest some are shunning existing online reporting process

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  HMRC explains plans for moving tax systems to the cloud

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) reveals more details of its plan to move tax systems into the cloud on its digital blog

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  IaaS mega-framework tender raises hopes of Europe-wide G-cloud launch

  Géant publishes contract notice seeking providers for IaaS frameworks, which will serve 50 million across Europe

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  BT Group's first-quarter results buoyed by superfast broadband and mobile demand

  BT Group's first-quarter results highlight successes in superfast broadband and mobile divisions, but analyst warns of challenging times to come

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  Windows 10: your desktop upgrade strategy

  Microsoft says Windows 10 allows companies to bring the latest innovation to their existing PC fleet, but how good is the latest version of the operating system really?

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  NHS Central Southern deploys Clarizen for collaboration

  The NHS Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit has enlisted Clarizen to improve cross-group collaboration and improve efficiency

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  Digital adoption boosts GDP, says Accenture

  Digital technologies boost a country's competitive advantage and drive up its economic growth, Accenture has found

• 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