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IT supplier relationship management
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March 17, 2025
17
Mar'25
Satellite technology to provide broadband to remote areas of Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire Council harnesses low Earth orbit technology to serve the most remote areas of the county with ultrafast broadband
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March 13, 2025
13
Mar'25
Government announces inevitable end to Payments Services Regulator
The government has abolished the Payments Services Regulator and will move responsibilities to Financial Conduct Authority
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March 13, 2025
13
Mar'25
Major strike by Fujitsu staff at ‘cash cow’ HMRC
Fujitsu staff working at government department will strike for 22 days in protest over pay offer
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March 11, 2025
11
Mar'25
Government to create pathfinder programme for digital spend
Changes to government digital spending will include staged funding with regular review and a pathfinder programme to test new funding models suitable for digital projects
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March 11, 2025
11
Mar'25
Post Office scandal data leak interim compensation offers made
Some subpostmasters affected by Post Office data breach offered interim compensation payments
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March 10, 2025
10
Mar'25
Government announcement on Fujitsu talks add ‘vague words’ and no interim payment
Peer James Arbuthnot says he is ‘disappointed’ that there was no mention of an interim payment in announcement of government’s latest talks with Fujitsu
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March 07, 2025
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Mar'25
Government to create digital sourcing strategy
Government officials revealed to the Public Accounts Committee that it will develop a sourcing strategy for digital technology, steering departments on what to build themselves and what to procure
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March 06, 2025
06
Mar'25
Why did IT suppliers allow Birmingham City Council to go live with Oracle?
Councillors at the local authority’s budget setting and audit committee meetings raised questions as Birmingham faces budget deficits
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March 06, 2025
06
Mar'25
NHS chief data officers concerned by FDP roll-out
The Chief Data and Analytical Officers Network has raised concerns over the way the NHS Federated Data Platform is being implemented and NHS England’s approach to its adoption
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March 06, 2025
06
Mar'25
Big bank systems crashed for over 800 hours in last two years due to IT outages
Bank bosses forced to reveal extent of banking IT failures to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee
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March 05, 2025
05
Mar'25
French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software
Oceanogaphic research institute keeps Atempo backup software for near a quarter century with no plans to replace it for protection of critical data helping map the world’s oceans
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March 05, 2025
05
Mar'25
NHS investigating how API flaw exposed patient data
NHS patient data was left vulnerable by a flaw in an application programming interface used at online healthcare provider Medefer
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March 04, 2025
04
Mar'25
Canadian businessman remains in French jail, accused of distributing Sky ECC cryptophones
Canadian businessman Thomas Herdman has been held in pre-trial detention without trial for nearly four years – he has once again been refused bail
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March 04, 2025
04
Mar'25
Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration
A recent event held by VMware rival Nutanix attracted many people new to the hyperconverged infrastructure provider
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March 04, 2025
04
Mar'25
Metropolitan Police concern puts brakes on Post Office Horizon data migration
The Post Office has paused its project to migrate all Horizon data from Fujitsu systems to its own while in discussions with Metropolitan Police
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March 04, 2025
04
Mar'25
Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce
Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%
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March 03, 2025
03
Mar'25
European fintech must take different path to Trump’s US on diversity
Leading light in women in fintech says Europe must take separate path to Trump’s US on diversity, equity and inclusion
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February 28, 2025
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Feb'25
NHS staff lack confidence in health service cyber measures
NHS staff understand their role in protecting the health service from cyber threats and the public backs them in this aim, but legacy tech and a lack of training are hindering efforts, according to BT
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February 27, 2025
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Feb'25
'Positive steps' in redress for Post Office Capture victims
Lawyers say progress has been made in efforts to provide financial redress and justice for former users of the Post Office's flawed Capture system
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February 25, 2025
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Feb'25
Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience
New advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats
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February 24, 2025
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Feb'25
Government seeks payments tech partner through £49m contract
UK government wants tech partner to help it embed open banking functionality into its Gov.uk Pay platform
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February 21, 2025
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Feb'25
Fujitsu’s £600m-plus prize with His Majesty’s ‘cash cow’ in 2025
Controversial supplier continues to reap the rewards of government IT contracts despite its participation in ‘ghastly fraud’
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February 19, 2025
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Feb'25
CaixaBank outlines artificial intelligence intentions in €5bn plan
Spanish bank announces Cosmos, an investment in its processes and technology that sits within its €5bn strategic plan
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February 18, 2025
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Feb'25
Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation
Meta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents
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February 18, 2025
18
Feb'25
MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage
Autodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume
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February 17, 2025
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Feb'25
Liverpool reinvents customer service through digital platform
Liverpool City Council wants to improve residents’ experience of dealing with the council, and sees digital technologies as key to achieving its goal
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February 13, 2025
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Feb'25
EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins
Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?
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February 11, 2025
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Feb'25
Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal
Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year
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February 11, 2025
11
Feb'25
AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up
A number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris
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February 11, 2025
11
Feb'25
New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage
One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components
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February 05, 2025
05
Feb'25
State of Open Con 25: Why public sector needs an open approach
Openness, open source and open data were among the topics discussed at OpenUK’s State of Open Con 25 in London
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February 05, 2025
05
Feb'25
MPs to scrutinise use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector
MPs launch inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the financial services sector
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February 05, 2025
05
Feb'25
APAC organisations to ramp up tech spending in 2025
Organisations across the region are prioritising cyber security, customer experience and application development, even as they navigate cloud repatriation and a growing skills gap in AI and security
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February 03, 2025
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Feb'25
Government failed to provide accurate cost of Post Office scandal compensation
Limited information is likely to lead to significantly inaccurate assumptions on the cost of Post Office scandal compensation schemes
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February 03, 2025
03
Feb'25
Australian government doubles down on AWS
Federal government signs three-year whole-of-government agreement with Amazon Web Services, expanding access to cloud services for all levels of government
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January 30, 2025
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Jan'25
First international AI safety report published
A global cohort of nearly 100 artificial intelligence experts publish first international AI safety report ahead of the third AI summit, outlining an array of challenges posed by the technology that will be used to inform upcoming discussions
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January 28, 2025
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Jan'25
Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?
Pure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an unnamed hyperscaler, be the first nails in the coffin for HDD?
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January 28, 2025
28
Jan'25
Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs
AWS Elastic Block Storage is often over-provisioned. Datafy virtualises EBS volumes to allow customers to scale capacity up and down, and says it will not charge customers if it doesn’t cut their costs
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January 23, 2025
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Jan'25
Apple and Google app stores come under CMA scrutiny
The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK is looking at whether the Play Store and App Store support innovation and are pro-competition
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January 21, 2025
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Jan'25
Weak supplier management hinders digital government
Procurement, legacy systems, data fragmentation and the changing IT market are among the issues highlighted in a review of digital services
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January 20, 2025
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Jan'25
Power grid constraints threaten Dutch digital innovation ambitions
The Netherlands risks falling behind in crucial digital innovations such as artificial intelligence as power grid congestion reaches critical levels across the country
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January 17, 2025
17
Jan'25
Enterprises need to make better choices to reduce GenAI emissions
Capgemini says the high environmental costs of generative artificial intelligence systems mean organisations need to develop roadmaps to make their use more sustainable
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January 16, 2025
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Jan'25
Biden signs new cyber order days before Trump inauguration
With days left in the White House, outgoing US president Joe Biden has signed a wide-ranging cyber security executive order with far-reaching implications
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January 16, 2025
16
Jan'25
Fujitsu staff at HMRC to strike for two days over pay
More public image woes for Fujitsu as hundreds of staff to strike after colleagues at HMRC get significantly bigger pay rise
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January 16, 2025
16
Jan'25
NAO calls for ‘cross-government’ revamp of IT procurement to improve ‘big tech’ project outcomes
The National Audit Office has highlighted a series of shortcomings in the government’s approach to digital procurement
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January 16, 2025
16
Jan'25
Almost half of UK banks set to miss DORA deadline
A significant minority of financial services organisations in the UK will not be fully compliant with the EU’s DORA cyber and risk management regulation when it comes into force on 17 January
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January 15, 2025
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Jan'25
UK’s female fintech leaders hit harder by investment collapse
UK fintechs led by women suffered disproportionately as a result of the fall in investment in the sector
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January 13, 2025
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Jan'25
Metro mayors face similar digitisation challenges to banks, but lack their resources
UK regional leaders want to be independent of central government when it comes to digital transformation decision-making, but don’t fully understand what’s ahead
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January 13, 2025
13
Jan'25
CNI operators should ask these 12 questions of their OT suppliers
The NCSC, CISA and others have set out 12 cyber security considerations CNI organisations and other users of operational technology should incorporate into their buying processes to force their suppliers to do better
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January 13, 2025
13
Jan'25
Experts say ‘something has to break’ before banks slow IT-driven cost-cutting measures
Banks will cut costs until something breaks and they are forced to scale back, according to industry experts