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• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  How AWS keeps its rivals at bay

  A relentless focus on building for customers and inking partnerships with enterprise software bigwigs while lowering prices has given AWS a leg-up over rivals in the ANZ market

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  IT hub shadowed by Everest gives opportunities to homegrown IT professionals

  Katmandu is the choice for offshore delivery for increasing numbers of multinational companies and is becoming more attractive to local IT professionals as a result

• May 15, 2018 15 May'18

  The NHS is failing to deliver 'basic IT', says Matthew Swindells

  NHS England’s national director for operations and information calls for the NHS to get to grips with data, and says it won’t be able to deliver an integrated health and care system without getting the basics right

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Barclays to set up biggest office outside UK in India

  Bank is expanding its presence in India with plans for an office for 8,000 staff in Pune

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  Unified communications supplier Mitel bought by VCs

  Unified communications and networking technology supplier Mitel is to be acquired by affiliates of Searchlight Capital Partners for $2bn

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Capita’s £500m loss raises more questions for outsourcing

  The latest loss announced by Capita adds uncertainty to an outsourcing sector already tarnished by the collapse of Carillion

• April 19, 2018 19 Apr'18

  UK and Indian governments agree tech partnership

  Agreement aims to identify organisations in the two countries that can work together and open up opportunities for tech entrepreneurs

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  European IT services spending down as businesses focus on GDPR compliance

  European organisations are reducing their spending on IT services and are redirecting resources towards becoming compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Singtel, VMware to set up hybrid cloud sandbox

  The hybrid cloud sandbox environment will let companies test their cloud workloads and software-defined networks

• April 06, 2018 06 Apr'18

  Why Lufthansa went back to the drawing board with its HR IT project

  Aviation group says it is confident of landing a company-wide IT project following a sometimes turbulent journey

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  AWS expands edge computing service to Singapore

  Amazon’s Snowball Edge strengthens its support for hybrid use cases in a fast-growing market for the internet of things and hybrid IT

• April 02, 2018 02 Apr'18

  Lawyers more influential than IT staff in cloud deployments

  Traditionally considered risk-adverse, lawyers are twice as more influential than in-house technology staff about cloud, research finds

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  AWS ups ante on cloud services for Australian government

  Cloud supplier AWS says government agencies can now assess the prospect of running protected workloads, following an independent cloud security assessment

• March 23, 2018 23 Mar'18

  Telefonica cuts HR running costs by 40% as it replaces hundreds of ageing IT systems

  Multinational telecoms group Telefonica is on the verge of completing a project to replace 175 incompatible HR IT systems with a cloud service covering more than 40 countries

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Alibaba Cloud’s Indonesia datacentre is open for business

  The Chinese cloud supplier is pulling all stops to expand its Asia-Pacific footprint, including training local cloud professionals and nabbing notable customers – including one of Indonesia’s top e-commerce companies

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Infosys hires thousands more US staff as part of recruitment pledge

  Indian company opens new tech centre in the US to help fulfil its promise to hire more American workers while adapting to changing IT services trends

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  US defence chiefs cut $1bn cloud contract with AWS partner amid anti-trust complaints

  The US Department of Defense confirms it is revising down the cost and scope of a billion dollar cloud deal awarded to an AWS partner, after critics picked holes in the procurement process

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Norway’s Statkraft outsources IT infrastructure management

  Energy company awards India’s HCL five-year IT deal in order to free up resources to focus on core business

• February 27, 2018 27 Feb'18

  Sweden’s Systembolaget picks Evry for cloud transformation

  Government-owned retailer signs major IT outsourcing agreement as part of its digital transformation programme

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  Infosys opens delivery and innovation centre in Finland

  Infosys is stepping up its Nordic presence with a new operation in Finland, with a design and innovation centre in Helsinki in spring 2018

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Rackspace upgrade to save $12m with Scality object storage

  Cloud services giant Rackspace brings in Scality object storage in a move that slashes 4,000 boxes from its server count as it separates compute and storage

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Hong Kong, Singapore to continue datacentre bull run

  The two Asian cities, Hong Kong and Singapore, will remain primary destinations for datacentre deployments in the APAC region for the foreseeable future

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Google Q4 results show businesses are buying into its public cloud

  The Google Cloud Platform is earning the search engine giant $1bn per quarter. Expect more cloud investment this year

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  CIO interview: Aaron Powell, CDO, NHS Blood and Transplant

  NHS Blood and Transplant chief digital officer Aaron Powell explains why pushing a digital transformation agenda has a real impact on people’s lives

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure

  Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Capita to offload non-core business units

  Capita reveals it might sell some of its non-core business units after issuing a profit warning, which the CEO partly blames on its business being too broad and complex

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Carillion not a like-for-like comparison with IT services firms, but an overt reminder

  Although Carillion’s problems are unlikely to hit major IT services suppliers, its collapse is a reminder of the need to ensure good governance

• January 24, 2018 24 Jan'18

  Colt Technology Services outage: European customers hit by internet connectivity issues

  Voice and data network provider Colt Technology Services suffers outage, blighting users in several European countries

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Judge will take time to seek answers from EU court over Max Schrems Facebook privacy fight

  The Irish High Court will take time to decide what questions to put before the European Court of Justice in a case with significant implications for EU and US trade and the privacy of EU citizens

• January 21, 2018 21 Jan'18

  Cloud firm speeds customer analytics with Pure Storage arrays

  Cloudhelix replaces Pernix Data storage with Pure Storage FlashArray products to provide “brute force” performance approach for unpredictable customer workloads

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Demand for cloud services drives increase in IT outsourcing

  Cloud services spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offset a drop in traditional IT outsourcing in 2017

• January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18

  Google to open five more datacentre regions across the globe in 2018

  Cloud giant Google is on a mission to boost the capacity and performance of its services, through investments in new datacentres and subsea cables

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Cloud firm scales Cloudian object storage to 2.5PB for GDPR

  Calligo expands Cloudian Hyperstore from three nodes to 30 at worldwide datacentres, with object storage deployed for file-level and metadata capabilities suited to GDPR

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  Telco outsources digital transformation to Infosys

  Belgium's biggest telco will cut legacy systems as part of a digital transformation project

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  Insurance broker Simply Business ditches legacy MPLS for SD-WAN

  Insurance business finds networking a breeze after ditching its unresponsive managed services provider and implementing VeloCloud’s latest software-defined wide area network technology

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  Patch systems against Meltdown and Spectre, urges ICO

  UK’s data protection watchdog is calling for organisations to apply security updates to mitigate against exploits of microprocessor flaws as soon as possible to safeguard personal data

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2018

  Nordic CIOs tell Computer Weekly about their intentions for the year ahead

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Colt to expand datacentre footprint in APAC

  Datacentre service provider Colt is laying the groundwork to build datacentres in India and Singapore, and is working on new datacentre technologies to improve energy efficiency

• December 28, 2017 28 Dec'17

  Top 10 HR and training technology stories in 2017

  Advances in artificial intelligence, data analytics and cloud technology are changing the relationship between companies and their employees

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Highways England awards telecoms service contract to Telent

  Network upgrade will enable Highways England to prepare for technologies such as 5G and connected cars

• December 07, 2017 07 Dec'17

  Tieto wins Stockholm’s multimillion IT outsourcing contract

  Swedish capital switches IT services provider after “administrative error” ruled original contractor out of agreement

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Mayor of London opens Bangalore office to strengthen links with Indian businesses

  City of London’s office in India’s tech hub aims to promote Indian investment and IT jobs in UK capital

• December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17

  Third of Sweden's IT providers could be gone in two years

  The IT services sector in Sweden will be decimated as hundreds of local suppliers disappear

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  First female degree apprentices at Capgemini graduate

  The first female degree apprentices at Capgemini talk about their journeys into the IT sector

• November 27, 2017 27 Nov'17

  UK IT professionals could lose out in a free trade deal between UK and India

  There could be an increase in Indian IT professionals coming to work in the UK post-Brexit if a new trade deal is signed with India

• November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17

  Meg Whitman steps down as HPE CEO

  Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman is to step down after six years in charge

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  FA kicks off digital services contract with Cognizant

  The FA is working with Cognizant to improve digital engagement with players and fans

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  Jardine Lloyd Thompson outsources IT infrastructure to HCL

  Financial services group extends IT services contract to help it further modernise its IT infrastructure globally

• November 09, 2017 09 Nov'17

  Bangalore offers the best ecosystem for digital transformation, says Economist report

  Bangalore ranked as the number one location for businesses looking to access the right ecosystem to support digital transformation

• November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17

  CrowdStrike outlines expansion plans in APAC

  Endpoint security expert CrowdStrike plans to double its workforce in the APAC region next year on the back of triple-digit growth in sales and bookings since it opened its Sydney regional headquarters in June 2016

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  Third-party cyber security failures cost businesses the most

  Third-party cyber security failures are costing businesses the most – up to £1.5m – as security budgets shrink, a study by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International reveals

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  How SME comms firm Zen became a global network business

  Zen Systems, a family-run SME communications reseller based in Suffolk, is able to target multinational enterprise customers by working with enterprise network platform provider Interoute

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  TomTom navigates move onto global HR platform

  TomTom went live with HR platform in all 37 countries, serving 5,000 staff, in March 2017

• October 24, 2017 24 Oct'17

  IT department keeps Volvo Ocean Race sailors connected around the world

  As seven yachts compete in the latest Volvo Ocean Race, the IT team supporting the event is engaged in a race of its own

• October 20, 2017 20 Oct'17

  The 5G wheels are spinning in APAC

  Adoption of 5G across the Asia-Pacific region will be led by China, South Korea and Japan, but telcos will need to find the right pricing strategy to compete with IoT connectivity upstarts

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing

  Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  Puppet on why people, process and technology are mission critical to DevOps success

  At the PuppetConf user and partner summit in San Francisco, Puppet and its customers shared insights on how best to address the people, process and technology sides of the DevOps success equation

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  Employees will book time off using Alexa-style devices

  Voice recognition and artificial intelligence will take the drudgery out of HR, but CIOs need to help their HR team develop a long-term strategy

• October 13, 2017 13 Oct'17

  Don't use cost savings to secure senior management DevOps buy-in, CIOs advised

  IT leaders may find themselves unlikely to succeed by promising senior management DevOps-induced cost savings, according to PuppetConf panel

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Teva Pharmaceuticals turns to cloud HR as it weathers difficult trading conditions

  One of Israel’s largest manufacturing companies has invested more than $10m in cloud HR. The technology is helping Teva Pharmaceuticals turn its fortunes around.

• October 09, 2017 09 Oct'17

  Rackspace expands APAC footprint, eyes multi-cloud opportunity

  The managed cloud service provider has established a new office in Singapore to tap into the growing APAC market for cloud-based infrastructure

• October 05, 2017 05 Oct'17

  Singapore’s public sector finds agility and speed in AWS

  City-state’s government has been able to meet peak demands and address security issues through a cloud-based web-hosting platform powered by Amazon Web Services

• October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17

  ‘Formality’ puts Evry’s £278m outsourcing contract in Sweden at risk

  Court of appeal overrules City of Stockholm’s decision to award IT deal to Norwegian firm

• October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17

  Daisy and Redcentric named HSCN compliant as launch date nears

  Managed service providers Daisy Group and Redcentric have both been named as HSCN-compliant suppliers as the network service launch date nears

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  Coming to grips with managed security services

  Outsourcing IT security to a third party can improve an organisation’s cyber security posture, but in-house capabilities, such as drawing up security blueprints and strategies, should still be retained

• September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17

  Public sector cloud use still too focused on ‘low-hanging fruit’ IT projects, finds research

  Public sector cloud adoption continues to rise, but wide-scale digital transformation success remains elusive, claims Cloud Industry Forum research

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics

  Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Finnish energy company Helen outsources its basic IT services

  The energy company is the latest Nordic organisation to outsource IT services to enable it to focus on the business

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  Finland’s Valmet transforms IT with €38m outsourcing deal

  Industrial tech firm Valmet outsources IT infrastructure services to focus its internal IT resources on business and digital developments

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Interview: IT disruption hits outsourcing’s legal profession

  IT is disrupting almost every corner of the business world, and those who operate in the IT services are no exception, with lawyers in the sector feeling the disruption

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  CIO interview: Adrenaline junkie leaps from big pharma to cloud services

  Diana McKenzie, CIO of Workday and triathlon competitor, on analytics, data lakes and the relationship between IT and business

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  HCL expands global network with Swedish delivery centre

  HCL has opened another delivery centre in the Nordic region, this time in Gothenburg, Sweden

• August 25, 2017 25 Aug'17

  Business confidence in managing digital threats low, survey shows

  Business digital transformation and cyber threats have outpaced enterprise security capacity, a survey has revealed

• August 21, 2017 21 Aug'17

  HSBC streamlines mortgages with Capita software

  Bank is using software to improve its mortgage application processes and subsequently increase business through brokers

• August 21, 2017 21 Aug'17

  Infosys CEO resigns amid public criticism from a founder

  Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka steps down, with the company blaming criticism from a company founder for his decision

• August 14, 2017 14 Aug'17

  Film maker shuns cloud storage for Spectra Logic tape

  Smoke & Mirrors replaces Quantum tape library with 7PB of Spectra Logic tape and decides the cloud lacks security and would be too costly for the 16TB it archives every day

• August 02, 2017 02 Aug'17

  IT outsourcing demand fuels record deal value in first half of 2017

  The IT outsourcing market delivered its strongest half-year performance between January and June 2017, fuelled by the activity of the financial services industry and growing demand for IT services

• July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17

  IR35 reforms: IT contractor fleshes out details of potential HMRC legal challenge

  Following the early-stage success of efforts to crowd-fund a legal challenge against the IR35 reforms, one of the IT contractors behind the campaign outlines details of what could happen next

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Traditional outsourcing boosts overall spending in first half of 2017

  Spending on traditional IT services contracts by Emea organisations increases in the first six months of 2017

• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  HPE and CSC merger wins confidence of Zurich

  Zurich Insurance has demonstrated confidence in CSC's merger with HPE through a contract extension

• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  Verizon denies data loss but admits potentially huge breach

  Verizon has responded to reports of millions of customer records being exposed to the internet by saying no data was accessed by malicious third parties, but the incident raises thorny issues

• July 11, 2017 11 Jul'17

  Met Police signs £8m digital forensics deal

  MASS wins seven-year contract to supply a digital forensics managed service to London’s Metropolitan Police Service

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Singapore firms unprepared for cyber attacks

  Many of the country’s medium-sized and large organisations do not have a dedicated security budget or teams to respond to cyber threats

• July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17

  IDC: On-premise infrastructure spend will continue to fall in 2017 as cloud demand soars

  IDC's latest quarterly cloud infrastructure spending forecast shines a light on how the dwindling demand for on-premise technologies is shaking up IT investments

• June 30, 2017 30 Jun'17

  Dreamscape to merge with Singapore hosting provider in regional expansion

  The Australian hosting provider will tap Vodien’s infrastructure to address the needs of mobile-first businesses in Southeast Asia that are going online for the first time

• June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17

  The big four cloud firms are set for price war over serverless computing, suggests 451 Research

  Cloud industry price wars could enter new phase, as demand for serverless computing services grows, suggests 451 Research

• June 27, 2017 27 Jun'17

  French aeronautics and aerospace manufacturer optimises datacentres

  High-tech manufacturer outsources datacentre management to support its digital transformation

• June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17

  News UK dumps tape for backup with Zadara cloud storage

  News publishing corporation saves up to 40% on hardware and software costs by switching in-house hardware for a cloud-first policy, using Zadara cloud storage as a backup target

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Cloud firm gets Infinidat hybrid flash to save £250,000 on storage

  Brightsolid replaced EMC and NetApp storage with 1.2PB of Infinidat hybrid flash to help win council contract that saw local authority save £250,000 in yearly storage costs

• June 20, 2017 20 Jun'17

  Analyst tips Microsoft Azure to overtake AWS as cloud revenue market leader in 2017

  US analyst house Pacific Crest claims Microsoft is on course to surpass AWS in revenue terms later this year

• June 20, 2017 20 Jun'17

  Salford City Council adopts Microsoft Azure to deliver hybrid cloud vision

  Greater Manchester-based local authority, Salford City Council, is following up its foray into private cloud by adopting Microsoft Azure

• June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17

  British Airways to outsource contact centre work

  British Airways is evaluating technologies from an outsourcing company as an option to replace contact centre staff

• June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17

  Lloyds bank staff will move to IBM in outsourcing deal

  About 1,500 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group will join IBM as part of an IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement

• June 02, 2017 02 Jun'17

  OVH makes foray into APAC cloud market

  With its regional headquarters in Melbourne and datacentres in Singapore and Sydney, the French cloud supplier plans to go after startups and enterprises

• May 25, 2017 25 May'17

  CBRE: Demand for colocation space in London holds firm in face of Brexit

  The latest CBRE quarterly report, charting the performance of the European colocation market, shows demand for capacity in London has so far been unaffected by the triggering of Article 50

• May 25, 2017 25 May'17

  IT firm gets Scality object storage to boost S3-based offerings

  Blue Chip deploys Scality Ring object storage on commodity hardware with S3 connectivity to enable new cloud, backup and archiving product offerings at “a few pence a gigabyte”

• May 18, 2017 18 May'17

  Cloud provider snubs SAN for StorPool hyper-converged infrastructure

  Coreix found costly SAN capex outlays too onerous so opted to build its own hyper-converged infrastructure from StorPool storage software and SuperMicro x86 servers

• May 18, 2017 18 May'17

  Half of CIOs have no Brexit plan because of uncertainty

  Uncertainty caused by the UK leaving the EU has caused a pause in activity for half of CIOs, while the others are accelerating their digital transformation

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  BT to cut 4,000 jobs in digital transformation plan

  BT is to cut 4,000 jobs as it tries to realign Global Services business for a digital world and recover from a massive corruption scandal

• May 10, 2017 10 May'17

  Orange eyes APAC cloud market, expands footprint in Malaysia

  French IT service provider Orange rolls out public cloud services in the APAC region and plans to grow its workforce in Malaysia by 70%