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IT supplier relationship management

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Microsoft targets diesel backup power to reduce emissions

  As it pushes towards becoming carbon neutral, Microsoft has started to look at how it can replace backup power generators in its datacentres

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Lloyds bank buys into cloud-native payments

  Lloyds Banking Group continues its digital journey by investing in and investigating a cloud-based payments service

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  BNP Paribas joins IBM financial services cloud project

  IBM’s financial services cloud is gathering steam as more banks join its public cloud ecosystem of finance firms and developers

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Privacy Shield: Companies face new hurdles to legally transfer data to the US

  Businesses will have to conduct legal assessments to ensure they can transfer data from the EU to the US and other countries, following a European Court of Justice ruling

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  IBM's Q2 tapered by pandemic business recovery

  Country-specific coronavirus responses directly correlate to IBM customer IT investments, with some contemplating dialling back cloud subscriptions

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  BBVA explores quantum computing for banking

  Early results from BBVA's research into quantum computing shows that the technology's application in complex computational tasks in banking is not far away

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Schrems v Facebook: European court strikes down EU-US Privacy Shield agreement

  The European Court of Justice has struck down Privacy Shield, the EU-US data-sharing agreement, creating uncertainty for European countries that share data with the US and pressuring the US to reform surveillance laws

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  Warning over security holes in fake Cisco kit

  Two counterfeit Cisco Catalyst 2960-X switches were only found after a software update caused them to stop working

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Standard Chartered latest bank to explore quantum computing

  Standard Chartered is working with researchers to establish use cases for quantum computing in the banking sector

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Executive interview: Toyota’s Melody Ayeli on the significant role of ITAM

  Melody Ayeli recently took on the post of chair of the newly formed ITAM Forum. She believes ITAM is crucial for successful IT operations

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  NHS trust uses case management software to deliver time savings

  To deal with inefficient and unreliable processes, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Trust has implemented a case management system specifically designed for HR practitioners

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Most finance firms are multicloud, but many are unprepared for public cloud cyber attacks

  Financial services firms are moving to the cloud at pace, but many are uncertain whether they could cope with an attack on an application based in the public cloud

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Google commits to protecting open source projects

  Initiative to trademark projects aims to stop public cloud providers from offering their own managed service version of open source code

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Post Office scandal victims have days to raise thousands of pounds or perpetrators go scot-free

  Victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal need to raise thousands of pounds in a week or those responsible for their suffering will avoid scrutiny

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Swisscom taps Hitachi to improve network-based customer service

  Pentaho product helps business customer service reps of Switzerland’s largest telecommunications company and leading IT services provider provide better, faster service through centralised hub

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Banks need to think like Google and not just follow it

  Banks are recruiting senior thinkers from within the IT sector as digital transformations mature

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  Avinor creates contactless airport check-in for Norway

  Norwegian airport operator introduces touchless travel check-in to limit the potential spread of Covid-19

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  How Infor Nexus is helping to digitalise Asia’s supply chain

  Infor’s Nexus unit has been supporting digitalisation efforts in Asia’s supply chain industry before the Covid-19 pandemic, which has accelerated adoption of cloud-based offerings in the region

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Loan charge MPs denied House of Commons vote on Finance Bill policy amendments

  Despite securing the support of 50 named MPs, an amendment to the forthcoming Finance Bill that could have seen thousands of people fall out of scope of the Loan Charge policy has been denied

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Economic slowdown will force CIOs to redress SaaS pricing

  Business will need to work more efficiently and spend less, which means CIOs will need to forge new value-based partnerships with IT suppliers

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Go lean and embrace partnerships to plot a path for recovery

  Starting with the lean principle of a minimum viable product, CIOs should aim to partner with outsourcers and IT suppliers to deliver business value

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Post-pandemic security market still set for growth, but slower

  Frost & Sullivan report says the global security industry will withstand the economic crash caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, but growth will be slower for a few years

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Former Post Office CEO and Fujitsu play the blame game in Horizon IT scandal

  Post Office and Fujitsu blame each other for many of the failings in the Horizon IT scandal that wrecked lives

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  Firm that investigated controversial Post Office IT system to support criminal conviction appeals

  Second Sight is working with law firm in appeals by subpostmasters against criminal convictions in Horizon IT scandal

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  ITAM Forum aims to raise the bar on tech management

  Knowing what is deployed is the first step in any transformation exercise, and a strong IT asset management practice lowers risk

• June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20

  Post Office Horizon scandal victims keep pressure on government’s doorstep

  Subpostmasters fighting for justice in IT scandal are pressuring government on numerous fronts, as momentum is regained after reduced activity due to Covid-19 lockdown

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  EU-backed bid to build data preservation cloud for European research community gathers pace

  The Archiver project, which aims to create a hybrid cloud-based data preservation environment for scientific researchers across Europe, has named the ICT suppliers in the running to deliver on its vision

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  Select committee chair demands sharper teeth for review of Post Office IT scandal

  Call for government review of Post Office Horizon scandal to have the power to force individuals to give evidence under oath

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  IBM targets legacy modernisation with hybrid multicloud

  Every few years, the foundations of IT architecture are shaken up, but few businesses can easily rip out old systems to stay aligned to the latest trend

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  Gartner: CIOs should start preparing for coronavirus recovery cost cutting

  To recover from the Covid-19 lockdown, businesses will need to cut costs. In doing so, Gartner urges CIOs to look at value and cost optimisation

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Subpostmasters will not cooperate with government review into IT scandal

  A group of subpostmasters who suffered at the hands of the Post Office’s error-prone IT system refuse to participate in a government review into the scandal, describing it as a sham

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Tech firms respond to Nordic government calls

  Nordic firms are working with tech suppliers to help them get back up and running after Covid-19

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Amazon bans police use of its facial-recognition technology for a year

  Tech giant claims it has been an advocate for stronger government regulation on the ethical use of facial recognition

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  CISOs buying into unified security proposition

  The time is right for all-in-one security solutions, according to a report

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Anger as government launches ‘pathetic’ and ‘pointless’ review of Horizon scandal

  The government has been accused of launching a review that fails in getting to the bottom of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  CogX 2020: Matt Hancock on tech during Covid-19

  Health secretary Matt Hancock says technology companies have been vital in dealing with the pandemic, and praises UK for testing more people “than almost anywhere in the world.”

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  CogX 2020: Rethinking technological innovation

  Innovation processes and relationships must be fundamentally restructured to bring in more stakeholders, and spread the benefits of technological change as far as possible

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  Nordic CIO interview: Janne Puustinen, Valmet

  Janne Puustinen built Finnish industrial technology company Valmet’s entire IT organisation from scratch after a demerger

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Businesses develop apps quickly to manage disruption of Covid-19

  Healthcare companies, insurers, government agencies and big tech companies have used technology from Pegasystems to develop apps to manage the disruption caused by coronavirus

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  CaixiaBank gets ready to modernise IT using IBM Cloud Pak

  Spanish bank extends IBM relationship with the roll-out of Cloud Pak to modernise IT, which it says will allow it to innovate in quantum computing and blockchain

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  London Tech Week to go ahead through Zoom

  London Tech week will go ahead next week, with the tech industry attending through Zoom

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  MPs' investigation into Post Office Horizon IT scandal bares teeth

  Select committee chair writes to former Post Office CEO demanding answers over her role in IT scandal

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Malaysian minister backtracks on spectrum allocation decision

  Amid reports of a surreptitious decision to allocate spectrum to five Malaysian operators, the communications minister rescinds his own order, calling for a more transparent review of the allocation process

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Security procurement framework goes live for NHS and public sector

  Cyber Security Services Framework, developed by NHS Shared Business Services, has formally launched

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Government departments could cut payment costs through API deal

  The UK government adds fintech to its approved procurement list which promises to cut the costs of receiving payments

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  VMware vulnerability leaves private clouds open to takeover

  Ethical hackers from Citadelo uncovered a vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director that left private cloud owners open to takeover

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Subpostmasters to force scrutiny of government’s role in Post Office IT scandal

  The government's role in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal could soon be put under the microscope as subpostmasters take their complaints to the Parliamentary Ombudsman

• May 27, 2020 27 May'20

  Subpostmasters crowdfund for justice in IT scandal

  Campaign group calls for public support to help potential victims of Post Office Horizon IT scandal

• May 27, 2020 27 May'20

  Hospital uses robots to manage air supply to patients

  Northampton General Hospital deploys automation to ensure oxygen is always available as demand increases amid Covid-19 crisis

• May 26, 2020 26 May'20

  900 more criminal prosecutions of subpostmasters could be unsafe because of IT failures

  Post Office re-examines hundreds of prosecutions that could have resulted from faults in Horizon IT system