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• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Local government outsourcing shrinks workforce 35%

  The number of staff directly employed by a fifth of local authorities will reduce 35% by 2020 as a result of outsourcing

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Google shares down on mixed third quarter results

  Google's share price dipped around 3% in response to mixed financial results for the third quarter

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Starbucks uses cloud to manage innovation and disruptive technologies

  Starbucks coffee chain innovates IT strategies to hone its competitive edge using cloud services, says IT director Robert Teagle

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  Mid-market reshoring to give UK an economic boost

  A quarter of mid-sized UK firms are considering bringing offshore operational activities back to the UK in the next three years

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Vtesse bought by Interoute in major fibre expansion

  Acquisition adds 7,000km of fibre infrastructure to Interoute’s European network

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Asia dominates as outsourcing location and India remains unrivalled

  India is still the best place for businesses to outsource services and is unrivalled in its scale and availability of skills

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  TechUK tasks future government with making the UK a digital leader

  TechUK has launched a digital manifesto detailing how the next government must turn the UK in a digital leader

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Clarks shoes steps into digital

  Shoe manufacturer Clarks is replacing its legacy e-commerce sites with a global cloud-based system next month

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  Tobacco giant outsources IT to Wipro

  Philip Morris International has outsourced IT infrastructure management to Indian services firm Wipro in a five-year deal

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  King's College, UCL and LSE back £900,000 national datacentre project

  A consortium of universities, including LSE, UCL and King's College, is backing a national datacentre for academics

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  'Bungled' Army 2020 IT recruitment contract loses £70m of savings

  Mismanaged IT contracts lead to further setbacks in Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Army recruitment drive

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Rolls-Royce CIO joins HMRC as non-executive director

  Rolls-Royce CIO Simon Ricketts has been appointed non-executive director of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

  Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Government major projects watchdog needs more powers, says MPs

  Major Projects Authority needs stronger powers to improve project delivery across government, say MPs

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Raytheon wins £224m from Home Office over e-Borders cancellation

  Tribunal says Home Office unlawfully terminated a contract with Raytheon Systems Limited over its e-Borders programme

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Home Office pours £3.8m into shared service for biometric cards

  The Home Office has awarded a £3.8m contract to Thales for a service to support the production of Biometric Residence Permit cards

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly

  Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Cabinet Office COO Stephen Kelly takes Sage Group CEO role

  UK accountancy software supplier Sage appoints Cabinet Office chief operating officer (COO) Stephen Kelly as CEO

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  £700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre

  Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

  Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Big IT suppliers top government spending on contracts

  IT firms are earning the most from government contracts, with HP alone earning more than £1.7bn a year

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years

  Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010

• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  UK airports lead move to cloud services

  UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  Huawei signs datacentre services MoU with BT

  BT could become a major supplier of datacentre services to Chinese network giant Huawei after signing memorandum of understanding

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing

  NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use

• May 27, 2014 27 May'14

  Atos buys Bull for £503m

  French services supplier Atos buys Bull for £502.6m in a deal that could create one of the largest cloud services firms in Europe

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Cisco continues its push towards SaaS-based security services

  Chief information security officers (CISOs) should move away from product-based security solutions to a security-as-a-service (SaaS) model, according to Cisco

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  Public sector dominates UK outsourcing so far this year

  Public-sector outsourcing accounted for three-quarters of spending in the first three months of this year, according to analyst NelsonHall

• May 16, 2014 16 May'14

  Net neutrality under threat from US plan

  The US telecoms regulator has approved proposals that opponents believe will quash the principle of net neutrality

• May 12, 2014 12 May'14

  Government should use influence to cut outsourcer executive pay, says think tank

  The government should use its outsourcing budget to influence service providers to reduce executive pay, says a think tank report

• May 09, 2014 09 May'14

  Vodafone cuts 121 staff with Burton site closure

  A review of Vodafone sites following its 2012 acquisition of Cable & Wireless Worldwide will see its Vodafone Business Services centre in Burton-on-Trent shut down, with 121 jobs at risk

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  Next Treasury tower contracts go to Centerprise and NTT Data UK

  The HM Treasury has awarded its second and third SME supplier contracts to Centerprise International and NTT Data UK

• April 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  Golder Associates plans global WAN

  Engineering company Golder Associates is rolling out a wide area network (WAN) across its 180 global sites to optimise connectivity for its diverse and often remote locations

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  Fiat and Chrysler to integrate separate IT systems

  Car manufacturing group Fiat and Chrysler have contracted IBM to integrate their separate IT infrastructures into a single global operation, following the companies coming together after Chrysler applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  Six Degrees datacentre suffers outage for more than 12 hours

  Customers using Six Degrees’s datacentre and hosting services faced downtime as the hosting and managed services provider suffered an outage for over 12 hours

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  Centerprise ICT 2015 Treasury contract guarantee of SME commitment

  HM Treasury has handed a four year media and wireless contract understood to be worth around £2.5m to Hampshire-based services provider Centerprise, under the auspices of its ICT 2015 contracts

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Q&A: SAP's Mike Ettling discusses SuccessFactors cloud HR strategy

  Computer Weekly talks to Mike Ettling, global head of cloud and on-premise HR at SAP, about the company’s strategy for its SuccessFactors cloud HR technology

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud

  Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe

  Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacle

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Competition from FinTech startups keeps big suppliers on their toes

  Big suppliers in the financial technology space are becoming more agile because of the competition from startup technology companies

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  TechUK criticises OFT's reporting of IT cartel accusations

  TechUK criticises a report from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleging anti-competitive behaviour and collusion between public sector IT suppliers

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision

  State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Atos to distance itself from controversial DWP contract

  Atos is trying to exit its disability testing contract with the Department for Work and Pensions early as the controversial contract enters its final 18 months

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Gloucestershire County Council replaces Capita with Steria to transform IT delivery

  Gloucestershire County Council has signed a five-year ICT managed service deal with Steria to support a major change to IT delivery

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  BBC starts search for suppliers to replace £2bn Atos outsourcing deal

  The BBC is moving away from its single-supplier outsourcing deal to a multi-sourced 'tower' approach for its technology services

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills

  Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Why IT outsourcing is increasingly blamed for IT failures at banks

  Are the IT problems at UK banks caused by outsourcing or the use of decades-old mainframe technology – or is it a combination of the two?

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

  AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?