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• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust goes for Servelec RiO EPR

  Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust has finally chosen an electronic patient record system – 18 months after first going out to tender

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Construction of £150m biomass-powered datacentre starts in Scotland

  The developers behind Scottish green datacentre project confirm the campus is finally under construction

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Security is crucial to IoT market success

  Growth of the internet of things will be slowed or stunted if the industry fails to be proactive about data security, according to IoT Security Foundation

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Police spending too much on outdated IT systems, Theresa May says

  Police ICT reform is “gritty and unglamorous” but necessary to tackle crime, according to home secretary Theresa May

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  VMware to cut 800 jobs in cloud-focused company restructure

  Virtualisation company VMware confident adoption of software-defined datacentres will offset softening demand for older products

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  New government plan to support cyber security startups

  Government has announced a £250,000 programme to increase the rate of cyber security startup development in the UK

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Apple warns of dip as it posts record quarter

  Apple's share price dips in response to forecast fall in iPhone sales despite record quarterly revenues and profits

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Government may consider state-owned broadband provider

  A public sector-owned broadband infrastructure provider is one option on the table as DCMS consults on the future of the £1.7bn BDUK scheme

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Average DDoS attacks fatal to most businesses, report reveals

  Criminal activity is top motivation for DDoS attacks as average attacks become strong enough to down most businesses, Arbor Networks report reveals

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  AGS Airports outsources IT after Heathrow split

  AGS Airports signs Getronics to provide IT support services after splitting IT from its former owner

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Low oil prices to fuel datacentre expansions in 2016, claims Canalys

  Canalys claims access to cheaper energy will make it easier for datacentre operators to respond to growing demand for cloud

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Wal-Mart to make huge data and analytics investment in India

  Retail giant Wal-Mart is investing heavily in its IT development centre in Bangalore, turning the city into its most important centre outside the US

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Industry leaders call on next London Mayor to prioritise technology

  Ahead of the mayoral election, Tech London Advocates, techUK and Centre for London produce a manifesto lobbying for “a truly digital city”

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Facebook to start building second European datacentre in Ireland

  Facebook to construct second datacentre facility in Ireland after overcoming resident opposition in planning application appeal

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Google pays HMRC £130m in tax deal

  Google is to pay more UK tax in line with new rules – £130m, said to cover the last 10 years – but denies any wrongdoing in the past

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  Riverbed buys software-defined WAN specialist Ocedo

  Supplier says acquisition will accelerate its Project Tiger strategy around next-generation software-defined networking services

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  Crunch time for Australian CIOs as analytics platforms drive strategy in 2016

  CIOs in Australia and elsewhere will be expected to deploy technologies that promise to help them get more from the information they own

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Broadgroup: Colocation providers must act on competitive threat posed by AWS

  Datacentre analyst house uses annual finance forum to coach colocation sector on how to respond to AWS and its public cloud

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Norfolk County Council embarks on £20m network and mobile upgrade

  Norfolk County Council has awarded Capita-owned public services network supplier Updata a £20m framework agreement to upgrade its network infrastructure

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Candy Crush maker King secures mobile access through cloud

  Candy Crush maker King.com uses cloud-based Duo Security authentication for access to cloud services, customised apps and remote VPNs

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Revamped Dridex Trojan continues to plunder UK banks

  Cyber criminals operating the revamped Dridex malware are targeting business accounts at UK banks

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  IBM beats estimates with growth in strategic areas

  IBM claims its transformation efforts are working, but share prices dropped on news of a fall in revenue for the 15th consecutive quarter

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Bournemouth Council considers bringing IT back in-house

  Bournemouth Council could bring IT and other services back in-house to gain more control over its budget and meet tough cost-cutting targets

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Anchor tenants sought for £150m cross-border Irish datacentre

  The development team behind a £150m dual-site datacentre that straddles the Northern Ireland border say it could generate thousands of jobs in the years to come

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  NHS 24 admits ‘systematic failure’ of £117m IT project

  NHS 24 has admitted that a “systematic failure around project governance” was the cause of its major IT transformation project disaster

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  PwC acquires Polish cloud consultancy for European operation

  PwC is buying Poland-based IT services firm Outbox to build its cloud skills and resources across Europe

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Mobile services helping banks retain customers and add revenue

  Investments in mobile banking services are helping banks increase revenue and retain customers

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Microsoft to donate $1bn worth of cloud computing resources

  Microsoft's $1bn cloud computing donation is aimed at helping NGOs, academic research and developing countries

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Digital Single Market must be adopted without delay, says EU parliament

  MEPs pass resolution urging the EU to adopt Digital Single Market proposals and enact new protections for consumers as soon as possible

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  UK IT and business process outsourcing plummeted in 2015, show ISG figures

  The amount of money UK organisations spent on IT and business process outsourcing fell sharply in 2015, compared to the previous year

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Migration recommendations could hike the cost of Indian IT services

  Government recommendations to tighten up the rules around overseas workers in the UK could increase IT costs for businesses

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Only half of businesses ready to defend against cyber attack

  Lack of confidence in cyber security is driven by businesses' struggle to keep pace with the agility, resilience and persistence of attackers, says Cisco report

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  BT names global IT architect Howard Watson as CIO

  BT chief architect and managing director of global IT platforms, Howard Watson, is to replace Clive Selley as the telecoms firm's CIO

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Automated bots drive cyber attack innovation

  Persistent cyber attacks will feature highly in 2016 as automation takes over, according to cyber security organisation Radware

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Sigfox brings the internet of things to Antarctica

  Connectivity provider teams up with GPS supplier Sensolus and Belgian government to use the IoT to support climate change researchers

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Cloud host dumps hybrid for all-flash software-defined storage

  Cloud firm Togglebox tried Linux software-defined storage and Nimble hybrid flash, but customers hit it too hard so it opted for all-flash with storage software from StorPool

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  Irish Tax Institute accelerates tax database search with MarkLogic

  The Irish Tax Institute has opted for MarkLogic for its TaxFind database service, with a system that pools a range of data types

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  Data standards ‘should be led by market, not European Commission’, says UK government

  In its response to the EU consultation on a single digital market, UK government highlights the need for healthy competition and transparency

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Intel share price drops despite strong results

  Despite growth in Intel's key datacentre and IoT businesses, investors remain concerned by falls in its core PC chip business amid market declines

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Countries underestimate risk of cyber attack, says WEF

  Cyber attacks are one of the most serious risks facing global economies, according to the World Economic Forum's 2016 risk report

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Forcepoint combines Raytheon, Websense and Stonesoft

  Raytheon-Websense acquires Stonesoft and Sidewinder technologies, relaunching as Forcepoint

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Gigaclear gets European funding boost for further expansion

  Rural broadband provider secures £18m loan from the European Investment Bank

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  One-fifth of consumers will trust tech firms for all financial products by 2025

  Research suggests fintech companies will progress rapidly from niche products and services suppliers to join the financial mainstream

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  TalkTalk users report vanishing dial tone

  TalkTalk users say they have been unable to place calls from landline telephone lines and the dial tone has disappeared

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent celebrate honeymoon

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent officially complete their merger and celebrate their first day of combined operations

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  Hybrid flash not good enough, says Kaminario customer

  Cloud software provider Clarizen re-tools storage with all-flash arrays from Kaminario and forecasts the end for hybrid flash products that don't deliver on performance promises

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  Scottish Power picks Vodafone to manage smart electricity grid

  Four-year contract will see mobile operator manage performance monitoring and fault identification systems as energy supplier transitions to smart grid technologies

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  Watchdog urges US nuclear agency to close cyber security gaps

  An audit report has called on the US nuclear agency to revise its IT contracts to ensure better cyber security

• January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16

  More endpoints managed is security concern, say IT services firms

  The rising number of devices connected to corporate networks is a security challenge for the IT services firms managing these endpoints

• January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16

  Ofcom outsources IT management to Indian services supplier NIIT

  UK communications regulator Ofcom outsources its help desk, datacentre and application management services to IT services provider NIIT