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IT technical skills

• April 01, 2016 01 Apr'16

  Barclays Bank closes US technology hub

  Barclays Bank's investment banking arm will close its technology centre in McKinney, Texas, and move about 200 jobs

• April 01, 2016 01 Apr'16

  IT services firm creates 500 jobs in Welsh local authority

  IT services firm CGI creates 500 jobs in south Wales following a £3.2m investment from the Welsh government

• April 01, 2016 01 Apr'16

  Brits feel lack of digital skills holds firms back

  Almost half of employers think UK firms would be more productive if there was a higher level of digital skills

• March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

  DDoS attacks on universities normally performed by “disgruntled” students or employees

  The majority of distributed denial of service attacks on universities are made by students or employees, says the head of infrastructure services at the University of London

• March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

  Build out networks and mobile to rebalance UK economy, says O2

  In a major report, mobile operator O2 suggests that access to better digital infrastructure could boost the UK economy by £1.5bn outside of London and the South East

• March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

  Businesses should help shape graduates, says Hitachi Data Systems COO

  Lynn Collier, COO of Hitachi Data Systems, wants businesses to collaborate with educational institutions to ensure young people gain the right skills

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  The dawn of managed services in the Middle East

  Managed services are on the up in the Middle East, with enterprises looking at ways to support critical infrastructures while they invest in new technologies

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  BT says geography biggest barrier to finding apprentices

  Telecoms provider BT says that skilled young people for apprenticeships are readily available, but that it struggles to find them outside of London

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  CIO interview: Martin Uudelepp, Fonus Group

  The interim CIO of Swedish family law and funeral group Fonus tells Computer Weekly about his role as a “chaos pilot”

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  KPMG accelerates transfer of UK IT jobs to India

  KPMG is moving more jobs to India, with UK contractor roles the most affected

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  Cyber security budgets not rising in line with threats, say security pros

  While it is good news that businesses are increasing investment, it is clear that spending on security is still not at a level that matches the changing threat landscape, says IISP

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  Three quarters of firms believe tech skills gap could be solved by apprenticeships

  Around three quarters of firms think the tech skills shortage could be solved by employing apprentices

• March 18, 2016 18 Mar'16

  What does the IT sector think of the UK potentially leaving the EU?

  The referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union is fast approaching and the country’s IT sector is taking sides

• March 18, 2016 18 Mar'16

  PAC disappointed by Major Projects Authority’s lack of impact

  The Public Accounts Committee is concerned that the newly formed Infrastructure and Projects Authority will weaken project scrutiny and become a “champion for government projects”

• March 18, 2016 18 Mar'16

  Most students say cyber security is a growing threat

  Some 70% of higher education students say they are aware that cyber crime and attacks are a threat, but less than half think security is their responsibility

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Cyber security is becoming a Dutch export

  IT security is about to rival cheese, tulips, windmills and flood defences as an export from the Netherlands

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Teens interested in tech, but few seek career in engineering

  Most teens show an interest in technology, but do not want careers in engineering due to industry misconceptions

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Internet of things needs more innovative business models

  At a government event on IoT policy, speakers call for more innovative business models and joined up thinking to enable the IoT to live up to its potential

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Growing need for IT training in the Middle East needs careful planning

  IT training is becoming increasingly important in the Middle East – but organisations must look beyond suppliers' accreditation schemes

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Retail banking will be fully automated by 2020, say bankers

  Financial services employees believe the future of customer retail banking will be automated as the need for digital technology increases

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  Stemettes raise awareness of International Women’s Day with weekend hackathon

  Social organisation Stemettes ran a two-day hackathon to encourage girls into technology careers

• March 07, 2016 07 Mar'16

  Australia’s digital transformation head Paul Shetler marks a first year

  The man heading up Australia's digital government transformation talks to Computer Weekly about the progress his department made in its first year

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Australia’s corporate giants recruit digitally-minded outsiders to drive transformation

  Big Australian businesses are turning to digital professionals from outside rather than promoting from within

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Bet365 donates Erlang libraries to GitHub

  The open-source initiative will help to drive adoption of the Erlang functional programming language among enterprise developers

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Telecoms firms launch Stem mentoring scheme for girls

  BT joins Ericsson, O2 and Vodafone to create a mentoring scheme encouraging girls into science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) careers

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  IoT adoption held back by lack of business case, software and skills

  The internet of things is at the top of Gartner’s Hype Cycle, but many organisations cannot build a business case to invest in IoT projects

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Why are big government IT projects still going wrong?

  The rural payments programme has again been in the spotlight over its failures, continuing the trend of government IT programmes being noted not for their success, but rather the opposite

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  RSAC16: Security industry needs to do more, says Intel Security Group head

  Chris Young calls on security industry to pay more attention to cyber threat intelligence sharing and encouraging people to become information security professionals

• March 01, 2016 01 Mar'16

  Cyber security professionals in Singapore could get 20% pay rise

  E-commerce and cyber security professionals in Singapore could gain 10 to 20% pay rises if they move companies, due to increased demand of niche IT skills

• February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16

  CIO interview: Anders Candell, Stora Enso

  CIO at Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer shares advice for shouldering a new CIO position and guiding the business towards innovative technology

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Everywoman forum: the importance of authenticity, confidence and being memorable

  At the 2016 Everywoman in Technology forum, speakers taught women in IT how to stand out from the crowd, when authenticity matters and how to have confidence

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Israeli high-tech startups seek UK funding

  Israeli high-tech startup companies visit London in search of venture capital and angel investors

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  We Are Colony: Tackling the death of traditional film and abundance of content

  Founder of content streaming platform We Are Colony explains why the film industry should be making the most of digital content to provide the best experience for modern consumers

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Everywoman launches Modern Muse career app for young women

  Member organisation Everywoman has launched the Modern Muse not-for-profit app to offer young girls access to female role models in Stem fields

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Girls compete in Network Rail Stem careers event

  Almost 90 teenage girls visited the Network Rail offices to take part in the second round of the Stem careers event to win work experience

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  IBM open sources Blockchain to help developers build ledgers

  IBM has released over 40 thousand lines of Blockchain code to help developers build ledgers for the distributed technology that underpins Bitcoin

• February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

  Media and marketing industries on the lookout for digital skills

  Creative industries such as media, marketing, advertising and sales place more value on digital skills than IT and telecoms sector does

• February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

  Average tech salaries rose by 2% over the past year

  The average salary for a technology professional rose by 2% in 2015, according to a study by IT jobs website Dice

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Gender and age are still defining factors of tech specialists

  The type of person working as a technology specialist stills skews towards older males, according to research

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  'We stumbled on e-commerce,' says Ecco marketing head

  Head of e-commerce at retailer Ecco Dana Schwartz explains how the firm’s transformational journey happened as a result of e-commerce adoption

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Accenture and Stemettes tackle lack of female role models with multi-city event

  Charity partners with tech firm to run five simultaneous events to inspire girls to pursue science technology, engineering and maths (Stem) careers

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  CIO interview: Ismo Platan, SSAB

  Retiring CIO of Swedish steel company tells Computer Weekly about the progress made in merging two Nordic steel firms and looks at the biggest hurdles that lie ahead

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Digital internships in India with TCS now open to UK graduates

  India’s biggest IT supplier, Tata Consultancy Services, plans to recruit 1,000 UK graduates for paid internships over the next four years

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  CIO interview: Jassim Haji, director of IT, Gulf Air

  IT boss at Bahraini national carrier views mobility as a way to keep costs down and improve customer experience

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  CW500: Skills, changing roles and cloud among key trends for CIOs in 2016

  At Computer Weekly’s first CW500 meeting of 2016, CIOs gathered to discuss the role of the CIO, business change, cloud uptake and skills

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  The OpenStack Foundation: Building enterprise trust in open-source clouds

  With HMRC and the European Commission emerging as OpenStack adopters, the OpenStack Foundation's CEO explains how it has set about winning over the enterprise with its open-source cloud platform

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Smart cities pointless without universal superfast broadband

  Smart city deployments will not get very far, or realise effective socioeconomic benefits, if more attention is not paid to the underlying infrastructure

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Marks & Spencer appoints new chief digital officer

  Marcus East leaves role as head of e-commerce at Apple to become CDO at retail chain

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  A quarter of SME IT managers are women

  Managed services provider Altodigital studied SMEs and found high esteem for IT; and a quarter of their IT managers are women

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Finnish construction company YIT opens a virtual IT test lab

  Finnish construction company YIT has opened a lab to allow its staff test out their digital ideas