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• September 04, 2013 04 Sep'13

  DWP writes off millions of pounds on Universal Credit IT, damning NAO report reveals

  The government has written off £34m of IT work on its troubled Universal Credit project, and more than £140m is under review

• September 04, 2013 04 Sep'13

  Microsoft to build $250m datacentre in Finland for European customers

  Microsoft has chosen to design and build its next new datacentre in Finland to serve Microsoft customers in Europe

• 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

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  Vodafone confirms $130bn Verizon sale

  Less than 24 hours after admitting it was in talks, Vodafone sells off its share in US firm Verizon Wireless to focus on European operations

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  Companies risk project over-runs as training budgets cut

  Businesses risk a return to late, over-running IT projects, following a sharp decline in investment in project- management training.

• September 02, 2013 02 Sep'13

  Report wants government ‘remake’ for digital age

  The Policy Exchange think tank calls for more openness and innovation in government digital strategy in a new report

• September 02, 2013 02 Sep'13

  Vodafone admits ‘advanced discussions’ with Verizon

  Media speculation that the UK firm will sell off its 45% of the US firm Verizon Wireless has truth to it, but the UK operator says there is no certainty that an agreement will be reached

• August 29, 2013 29 Aug'13

  Met Police IT systems cause higher crime in London, says scathing report

  Crime rates in London are higher than they should be as a direct result of poor IT systems at the Metropolitan Police

• 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 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Why you need to think about BPM in a different way

  Look at business process management (BPM) in the right way and it has the potential to transform businesses

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  VMware must demonstrate it is a ‘serious IaaS provider’ at VMworld: Gartner

  As VMworld 2013 is about to kickoff, Gartner analyst explains what users can expect at the event and VMware’s future in the mobile and cloud era

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Case study: Derby school upgrades IT to make teaching more engaging

  Noel-Baker Community School virtualises datacentre to help students learn in a more engaging way and to provide an automated IT infrastructure

• 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 15, 2013 15 Aug'13

  Public cloud limitations drive enterprises to hybrid cloud, shows study

  Many enterprises are turning to a hybrid cloud model as the limitations of public cloud platforms become more apparent

• August 13, 2013 13 Aug'13

  SMEs struggling to win G-Cloud contracts due to accreditation complexities

  Despite government’s aspiration to put half of all new IT spending through small IT suppliers, SMEs have received only 10% of the G-Cloud contracts

• August 13, 2013 13 Aug'13

  Gartner expects a boost to government IT

  After years of austerity measures, government CIOs are set to start spending again, according to research from analyst Gartner

• August 12, 2013 12 Aug'13

  NHS Central Midlands CSU updates datacentre with standardised data warehousing

  It improved the quality and safety levels of healthcare for over 5 million citizens across the West Midlands by standardising data warehousing

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  CIO interview: Mike Timlett, CitySprint

  Mike Timlett's career as an IT director has tracked the rise of mobile technologies that empower new business processes

• 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

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  CIO interview: Jakob Kern, global CIO, World Food Programme

  As the World Food Programme undergoes changes in how food aid is provided, the IT strategy is also being completely revamped

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Google, IBM and Nvidia form datacentre consortium OpenPOWER

  Big enterprise technology stakeholders including Google, IBM and Nvidia are forming a datacentre alliance called OpenPOWER

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Luton and Dunstable Hospital finds IT efficiency with converged infrastructure

  Luton and Dunstable University Hospital has integrated IT into clinical workflows with converged infrastructure

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  IT investment in utilities needs quick ROI

  Western European utilities are expected to spend $10.4bn on IT in 2013, 62.9% of which will be dedicated to services

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  CIO interview: Andy Williams, global CIO, Save the Children

  A new IT strategy is about to be implemented at Save the Children, focusing on mobile technologies, cloud and advanced data analytics

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  Indian IT heads take on new roles

  About 70% of Indian CIOs will report directly to CEOs by 2016, up from 40% today, according to a report by Forrester Research

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  HMRC hires Vodafone CIO Mark Dearnley to drive digital strategy

  HMRC has appointed Mark Dearnley, the CIO of Vodafone, as the organisation’s chief digital and information officer

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Case study: Nexor dumps ageing proprietary operating system for open source OS

  IT services company Nexor is migrating to the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system for efficiency

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  BT forms new business retail division

  BT Retail will split into business and consumer divisions when its leader ascends to the role of CEO in September

• 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 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  Services boost drives VMware double-digit revenue growth

  Virtualisation and IaaS provider VMware reported revenues for the second quarter of $1.24bn, an 11% increase compared to 2012

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Dell updates OpenStack cloud and Hadoop service as buyout vote delayed

  Michael Dell submits revised a buyout proposal – delaying a vote until next week – but it was business as usual in the cloud division

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  European Commission awards €1.7m for datacentre research

  EC funds a datacentre study project led by industry consortium Data Centre Alliance and the University of East London

• 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 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Monarch builds datacentre for Boeing 787 Dreamliner training

  Monarch Aircraft Engineering has picked a datacentre facility at its Luton engineering base for Boeing 787 Dreamliner training

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  How will SAP's cloud and in-memory drive affect existing customers?

  As SAP expands its cloud and in-memory computing businesses, Computer Weekly looks at how it is adapting its strategy to market forces

• 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 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  UK datacentres vulnerable to BYOD risks, shows Ponemon study

  About 60% of UK businesses have no personal device policy in place and are putting critical data at risk once it leaves a company

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  Case study: In-flight caterer modernises IT for efficiency during seasonal travel peaks

  Alpha LSG has launched a £10m IT transformation project and will host its IT on the cloud for scalability during travel peaks

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Mark Ridley, Reed.co.uk

  His track record as director of technology at Reed.co.uk shows that Mark Ridley is not afraid to take unconventional decisions

• 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 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  YouSendIt rebrands to Hightail

  After a year in the job, CEO Brad Garlinghouse makes a bold move and changes the cloud service provider’s name from YouSendIt to Hightail

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Consortium tests open cloud infrastructure for disaster situations

  The consortium is testing the use of open cloud infrastructure to respond to emergency and national disaster situations such as the Haiti earthquake

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  HP offers to help Microsoft users migrate from expiring Windows XP OS

  HP has teamed up with Microsoft to provide hardware and software tools to simplify users’ transition from Windows XP which loses support from April 2014

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Manchester opens up transport data with Microsoft CityNext

  Manchester is one of the first cities on Microsoft’s CityNext initiative to digitise public services using the cloud

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  IBM buys CSL International to expand cloud virtualisation capabilities

  IBM is buying virtualisation management provider CSL International with a view to expanding its cloud offerings and management capabilities

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Stuart Wright, director of IT & networks, Sega Europe

  Simplifying IT with a move to the cloud and reducing costs have been the main drivers of an IT overhaul at games publisher Sega Europe

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Colt adds 1.65MW of additional datacentre capacity to its Dutch facility

  Colt is adding an additional 1,000 m2 and 1.65MW of datacentre capacity to its network-neutral facility in the Netherlands

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Government saves £500m by going digital

  Latest report from the Efficiency and Reform Group claims central government saved £500m by moving services onto digital platforms

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Dutch retailer picks IBM cloud for merchandising

  Netherlands online retailer Wehkamp chooses IBM’s cloud-based merchandise analytics tool to manage price cuts and clearance

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  IT outsourcing contracts hold back adoption of latest IT

  Inflexible IT outsourcing contracts and traditional service delivery models are holding firms back from utilising the latest technologies

• 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

• July 01, 2013 01 Jul'13

  East Surrey College refreshes ageing XP desktop estate with VDI

  East Surrey College has refreshed its ageing desktop estate with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  Uefa considers BYOD policy for Euro 2016

  Uefa is considering a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy for its 7,000 volunteers during Euro 2016 to save costs on IT devices

• 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 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Government commits to future broadband spend in 2015-16

  Government will continue to invest in broadband in 2015-16, says chancellor George Osborne

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Microsoft to invest $700m on datacentre expansion

  Microsoft is planning a $677.6m (£440m) investment to expand its existing datacentre in West Des Moines, Iowa

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Europe's public sector could save €1bn a year

  The European Union’s public sector could save €1.1bn (£930m) a year by following new open standard guidelines to avoid ICT vendor lock-in.

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  MEP calls for a raft of rules to protect EU users’ data in the cloud

  An MEP has called on the European Commission to outline a number of new rules that will help safeguard the data of EU cloud users

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Government IT is profession most reliant on external recruits

  Senior civil servants working in IT are more likely to be recruited from the private sector than any other profession across government

• 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 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  Worldwide government IT spending to remain flat in 2013, says Gartner

  Government organisations worldwide will spend 0.1% less on IT this year, but cloud computing, mobile technologies and IT modernisation remain top IT priorities

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Interview: Paul Greenberg on why relationships matter

  The times they are a-changing, so you need to get smart about customer relationship management, says Paul Greenberg

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Facebook's Arctic datacentre in Luleå, Sweden goes live

  Facebook’s newest datacentre in Luleå, Sweden is turned on to handle live traffic and is storing users’ photos, videos, comments and likes

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Network Rail's IT budget could be scaled back by £150m

  Network Rail could have its future IT budget slashed by £150m, according to the rail regulator

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  HP beefs up its converged cloud services, launches Cloud OS

  HP updates its Converged Cloud portfolio with features to reduce cost for cloud environments and releases OpenStack-based HP Cloud OS platform

• 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 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Dell bets on Oracle alliance and converged infrastructure

  Dell has expanded its strategic alliance with Oracle for a new x86 infrastructure product and launched converged infrastructure products.

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  IT not ready to be the ‘Apple Genius Bar’

  Aruba Networks' study shows BYOD will shape future of the enterprise, but CMO says the IT department needs to change for the mobile era

• 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 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Cambridge Academies to save 70% in licensing cost with new datacentre strategy

  A datacentre upgrade and use of a unified communication and management system across all its schools will help the Trust yield savings

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  London trusts adopt BT electronic health records

  BT and CSE Healthcare roll out RiO electronic patient record system to 62 community and mental health trusts in London and south England

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Capgemini wins European Commission's datacentre energy efficiency award

  Innovation and energy efficiency at Capgemini's Merlin datacentre in Swindon has won the 2013 EU Code of Conduct for Datacentres award

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Small businesses increase IT budgets

  Renegotiations and renewals inevitably bring better terms but businesses could be missing out by sticking with the suppliers they know

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Datacentre provider Node4 completes management buyout

  UK datacentre provider Node4 has been bought out by its management to fund further growth and acquisitions in the cloud space

• 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 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Where does Microsoft fit in the future of VDI and remote applications?

  Users say they prefer Citrix over Microsoft for desktop virtualisation, but will Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 change that?

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  EC-funded datacentre efficiency project CoolEmAll releases first prototypes

  The European Commission funded project CoolEmAll has released the first prototypes of tools designed to make datacentres more efficient

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Government urged to devise national data strategy

  Government urged to devise national data strategy following launch of review into the better use of public sector information

• 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 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Green Grid highlights crucial role of datacentre facility operator

  A datacentre facility operator should be involved throughout IT lifecycle to optimise energy efficiency and minimise complications

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Another datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) tool hits the market

  Digital Realty Trust has become the latest datacentre provider to launch a DCIM service called EnVision

• 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 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Virtualisation and automation help Jaguar Land Rover increase output

  Jaguar Land Rover launched a five-year IT upgrade project including virtualisation and automation and it has already started reaping benefits

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  NHS England to publish technology roadmap

  NHS England is to publish a technology roadmap for commissioners investing in IT, according to its Putting Patients First business plan

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  CIO interview: Paul Freemantle, IT director, Arqiva

  As the delivery of internet content to televisions grows, Arqiva's IT strategy is focused on demands for models such as IPTV

• 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

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  Technology fail during US 2012 election day averted by practising failure

  A “catastrophic” IT failure was avoided on the US presidential election day due to rigorous testing of the IT infrastructure

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  Chelmsford council sees 50% take-up of online transactions

  Chelmsford City Council to trial online transactions, a move which has seen nearly half of those services now being completed digitally.

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  Employees expected to bring own devices to work

  Analyst firm Gartner predicts businesses will stop providing mobiles and tablets with 50% of workers expected to bring their own devices by 2017

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  CIO of Eskom Sai Laher aims to deliver world class IT

  The IT department at Eskom, is working on a multi-year plan to become a top five IT department in the utilities sector

• 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 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Mobile access to council websites increases

  There is a high demand for mobile access to council websites, according to Socitm, the Society of IT managers

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  Professional Record Standards Body launches

  Standards body launched at HC2013 to help health and social care organisations move towards electronic health records

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  Over half of government ICT savings not sustainable

  Unsustainable government ICT savings raise questions about Cabinet Office savings target, claims NAO report

• April 11, 2013 11 Apr'13

  UK rises to 7th place in global ICT league table

  The UK has risen dramatically in a global ranking of the countries benefiting most from information and communications technology