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• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  UK outsourcing sector wants to remain in a reformed EU

  A survey of UK outsourcing companies reveals that three quarters of all respondents want to remain in a reformed European Union (EU)

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Dropbox invests in building out on-premise storage as user numbers soar

  Cloud-based file share and sync service reveals details of its hybrid cloud strategy, which has seen it invest large sums in building its own on-premise infrastructure

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  New UK law will criminalise failure to hack on demand

  MPs have been given only two weeks to read 1,200 pages of documents which disclose new powers to require technology companies to install secret surveillance capabilities in software, computer equipment or networks

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  451 Research warns of software-defined infrastructure skills gaps

  Analyst house 451 Research warns CIOs against the dangers of failing to pair software-defined technology investment with staff training

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Indian suppliers are mopping up Nordic business

  Indian IT suppliers are blazing a trail in the Nordic region with large deals and major local investments

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Equinix taps into Open Compute Project to build open source datacentre ecosystem

  Technology produced by Facebook-backed Open Compute Project gets snapped up by datacentre operator Equinix

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  IT outsourcing consultancy Alsbridge enters overlooked Australia

  IT outsourcing consultancy sets up operations in Australia, which it says has been overlooked for outsourcing services

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Gartner warns IT leaders about the perils of using private platform as a service

  Industry watcher Gartner warns IT leaders pursuing a private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) strategy to build cloud apps could be in for disappointment

• March 07, 2016 07 Mar'16

  Government launches review of Atos contracts

  The Cabinet Office will review all government contracts with Atos worth more than £10m per year after heavy criticism in a Public Accounts Committee hearing

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  MasterCard named as VocaLink suitor

  MasterCard is reportedly in talks with the banks that own payments provider VocaLink over a £1bn takeover

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  US researchers begin solar-powered datacentre research project

  Massachusetts-based project aims to uncover how best to integrate datacentres and smart grids

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Equinix and Interxion set out 2016 global datacentre expansion plans

  Colocation rivals outline their investment intentions and priorities for the year ahead

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  AWS cuts cloud data transfer fees for academic and research user groups

  Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolls out discounts in bid to lower the cost barrier to making scientific discoveries

• March 01, 2016 01 Mar'16

  Data sovereignty issues drive up cost of cloud for European CIOs

  Addressing data sovereignty concerns means European CIOs are forced to pay more for cloud services than their US counterparts

• February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16

  European Commission releases legal details of EU-US Privacy Shield

  EC claims the publication of legal texts and written assurances marks the start of the new-look data-sharing agreement coming into force

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  London overtakes Amsterdam as most in-demand location for datacentre space

  Research from real estate advisory organisation CBRE shows demand for colocation space in London continues to grow, outstripping Amsterdam

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Ministry of Defence collaboration contract goes to G-Cloud SME Inovem

  SME Inovem follows up G-Cloud contract wins with Ministry of Justice and Department of Health by clinching deal with the Ministry of Defence

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  The Met awards hosting and services contracts worth £250m to CSC

  CSC will provide hosting and end-user services for the Metropolitan Police Service in two contracts worth £250m

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Spotify to move datacentre workloads to Google’s cloud

  Spotify says building and buying datacentres to keep up with demand for its services is no longer viable, as it prepares to shift its infrastructure into the Google cloud

• February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

  Case study: National Rail Enquiries tackles website uptime issues with AWS and SOASTA

  The National Rail Enquiries website took a battering in the wake of the 2013 St. Jude’s storm, prompting the organisation to rethink its hosting and load-testing procedures

• February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

  Outsourcer MSXI puts Microsoft cloud in driving seat

  Business process outsourcer MSXI has replaced Salesforce with a Microsoft business applications stack to support its car dealership business

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Northern local councils miss SME targets

  Local government organisations in the north of England are failing to support local IT SME companies with supply contracts

• February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

  Amazon seeks permission to build datacentre on site of former Irish biscuit factory

  Cloud services giant is continuing on with its plans to build out its European datacentre region with another facility in Ireland

• February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

  CIO interview: Catherine Doran, Royal Mail

  Royal Mail CIO talks about replacing legacy systems, new contracts and moving to a platform-based model

• February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

  Two-thirds of UK firms plan to take their IT estate all-in on cloud, research claims

  According to the Cloud Industry Forum's latest cloud adoption research, UK firms are steadily coming round to the charms of running their IT off-premise

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Electronics supplier RS Components outsources business process systems in online push

  Electronics manufacturer RS Components outsources its corporate software development to Atos in a bid to modernise its customer services

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Interview: Digital Marketplace director Tony Singleton on why he is leaving G-Cloud

  With the government’s Digital Marketplace now a bona fide source of £1bn of public sector IT spend, Computer Weekly asks its programme director why he is moving on to pastures new

• February 16, 2016 16 Feb'16

  Mobile apps could put an end to ‘hated’ staff appraisals

  Josh Bersin, founder of Bersin by Deloitte, reveals the top HR technology trends for 2016

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Interxion to build third Irish datacentre as demand for colocation grows

  Colocation provider is set to begin the construction of its third Irish datacentre during the fourth quarter of 2016

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Bromley Council signs £9m desktop and datacentre contract with BT

  Bromley Council hopes to make 10% cost savings by contracting BT to deliver computer and datacentre services for the next five years

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  Netflix is now 100% all-in on the AWS cloud

  Streaming firm details the challenges it faced during seven-year push to wind down its datacentres and move everything into the AWS public cloud

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  Asean poised to gain in the global offshoring battle

  According to AT Kearney’s 2016 Global Services Location Index, robotics process automation and business process as a service could change the outsourcing industry, benefiting Asean countries

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  Datacentre operators must prepare for power use and emissions regulations

  Colocation provider Digital Realty says datacentre operators must prepare for tighter regulations around emission levels and power use

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Five local authorities around the country agree shared services contract

  Five councils in different parts of England have agreed to jointly sign outsourcing agreements, including IT services provision

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Combining edge datacentres with commercial property builds could boost sustainability

  Professor Ian Bitterlin makes the case for combining edge datacentres with commercial property builds for heat re-use purposes

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Public sector outsourcing grew more than 50% in second half of 2015

  IT outsourcing in the UK public sector accelerated in the second half of 2015, according to research

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Insurance giant RSA announces another outsourcing deal

  Insurance company RSA has penned its second major outsourcing contract in a week as it extends a BPO contract with Accenture

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  EC awards first cloud contracts to Accenture, Atos, BT and IBM

  The European Commission has revealed details of the suppliers that have secured a place on the three Lots making up its Cloud I framework

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  CIOs urged to act on datacentre power outage threats

  Colocation provider Verne Global calls on CIOs to pay attention to Institution of mechanical engineers' concerns over sustainability of UK energy supply

• February 04, 2016 04 Feb'16

  Insurance giant RSA outsources to Wipro

  Insurance group takes on infrastructure as a service from Indian supplier Wipro in a bid to consolidate its European IT

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  EC confirms EU-US Privacy Shield to replace Safe Harbour data-sharing agreement

  The European Commission (EC) confirms it has negotiated a replacement for Safe Harbour, and expects it to come into force in three months

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  NHS London Procurement Partnership to tender for EPR framework

  The NHS London Procurement Partnership plans clinical digital information systems framework tender to support the "paperless by 2020" agenda

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  21% of UK IT professionals now use OpenStack, SUSE research suggests

  Linux distribution provider claims UK IT decision-makers are coming round to the idea of using the open-source cloud platform

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  EU commissioner sets out challenges of finding a Safe Harbour replacement

  European commissioner Věra Jourová outlines the challenges of establishing a data-sharing agreement between Europe and the US

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  G-Cloud 6 wins six-month extension as government preps next-gen framework

  G-Cloud suppliers claim the extension could be a sign of bigger and better things to come in eighth version of the public sector procurement framework

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Microsoft Office 365 is beating Google Apps in enterprise adoption – Gartner research

  Gartner’s take on the use of cloud email tools within the enterprise shows that Microsoft Office 365 is leading the way

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  BT signs £7.4m health and care integration contract with Islington

  BT is set to develop an integrated digital care record, pulling information from both health and social care systems in Islington

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  BBC awards broadcast network contract to BT

  BT is awarded a seven-year, £100m plus contract to supply networking services to the BBC

• 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

  Case study: Vision RT protects radiotherapy tech IP using Adapt private cloud

  Radiotherapy imaging company Vision RT shifts IT estate to Adapt private cloud to protect its corporate data

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Microsoft confirms first Azure Stack technical preview to arrive on 29 January

  Microsoft hopes hybrid cloud platform will help enterprises that want to do more in public cloud but can't because of data sovereignty concerns

• 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

  CIO interview: Jo De Vliegher, Hydro

  The CIO at Norway's Hydro has established an IT department that allows for regional autonomy and central guidance at the same time

• 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

  BT adds software-defined WAN to enterprise services offering

  BT adds Cisco-based software-defined networking capability to its services offering, with retail pharmacist Boots among early customers

• 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 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Alstom outsources IT transformation to HCL Technologies

  Train engineering company Alstom has outsourced its IT to HCL Technologies as part of a five-year transformation project

• 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

  Trinity Mirror Group taps into cloud, agile and microservices to boost web user experience

  National and regional newspaper publishing group is using AWS and SOASTA's performance monitoring tools to improve the user experience for its online readers

• 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 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 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

  Cornwall Council transfers 270 staff back in-house as BT deal ends

  Cornwall Council’s £160m outsourcing deal with BT has officially come to an end as the council transfers 270 staff back in-house

• 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

  Offshoring IT services: Beyond the usual suspects

  India is the prime location for offshoring IT – but it may not be the best fit for every business, and there are now many alternatives around the world

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Kari Saarikoski, Finnair

  Finnair is on a digital transformation journey and the airline’s CIO is changing the IT department as it progresses

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  GMB takes concerns over British Airways IT outsourcing to MPs

  Trade union fears that the expansion of IT outsourcing at BA is a risk to security and will see UK jobs disappear

• January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16

  IT decision makers admit ignorance over datacentre environmental impacts

  Majority of datacentre operators unable to account for environmental impact of their sites, The Green Grid's research reveals

• 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

• January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16

  India still top destination for global service delivery

  Technological development and changing model for offshore business services and IT could threaten India’s dominance

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Verizon’s rumoured datacentre sell-off: Why telcos are turning their backs on colocation

  Reports suggest US comms provider Verizon will become the latest telco to sell off its colocation assets, but what is driving this trend?

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  2015 was a breakthrough year for cloud adoption, says Synergy Research Group

  Analyst house’s latest cloud market tracker reveals how enterprise IT buying behaviours are moving to incorporate off-premise technologies

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  AWS expands datacentre footprint in Apac

  Cloud services giant is opening new datacentres in Seoul in response to Korean customer demands

• December 22, 2015 22 Dec'15

  Dorset County Council rejects outsourcing

  Council decides against outsourcing back-office services, including IT, due to a lack of flexibility

• December 18, 2015 18 Dec'15

  Cisco to create 200 new cloud computing jobs in UK

  Networking giant outlines plans to treble the size of the Cisco Meraki team by 2017

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Isle of Man eyes datacentre industry growth opportunity after Safe Harbour ruling

  Government's e-business head explains how island could be a safe haven for enterprises concerned by the Safe Harbour fallout

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Poundland launches e-commerce Christmas push with Rackspace managed support

  Budget retailer has turned to Rackspace to ensure its first foray into online retail can withstand the seasonal rush

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Interview: Lebara CTO sets out plans to go all-in on AWS cloud

  Lebara was a Europe-centric, single-product telco until the cloud paved the way for it to grow its service portfolio and expand overseas

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  VMware backs out of Virtustream hybrid cloud venture with EMC

  Virtualisation giant confirms exit from hybrid cloud joint venture with parent company

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Public cloud adoption fuels record spend on datacentre hardware by service providers

  Datacentre infrastructure findings from Synergy Research show how enterprise cloud adoption is affecting the market

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Rockwool invests €2m in global HR project

  Manufacturer interviewed other companies about their HR systems before choosing a system to harmonise its processes across 38 countries

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

  Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Jisc issues tender for second shared services datacentre in north of England

  Education network provider issues tender for second shared services datacentre, while warding off DDoS attack

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Volvo finance department expands system support beyond Sweden

  Volvo Group Treasury has extended an outsourcing agreement with Virtusa to give it the same support response times worldwide

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Scottish Government gets electronic voting system for local elections

  The contract to design the electronic vote counting system for the 2017 local elections in Scotland has been awarded to CGI

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Trust in IT outsourcing outweighs lower cost for HW Fisher

  The value of a trusted relationship with an IT service provider is hard to measure, but HW Fisher IT head Tony Blonk says it outweighs price cuts

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Dropbox urged by users to open-source soon-to-be shut Mailbox app

  Dropbox finds itself in the firing line after calling time on much-loved email app

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Indian IT services supplier Infosys creates jobs in Ireland

  Indian IT services supplier Infosys is creating 250 jobs in Ireland to support customers and innovate around financial services IT

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  India’s HCL opens Estonian operation to support Nordic customers

  HCL Technologies opens an Estonian delivery centre which will support customers across Europe, including those in the Nordic region

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  CGI to provide electronic health records to MoD

  The MoD has extended an outsourcing agreement with CGI to build on existing work the IT services firm does with its global medical operations

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  European Office 365 and Microsoft Azure users hit by service outage

  Microsoft claims to have addressed the issues that caused problems for Office 365 and Azure users earlier today.

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Swedish health company Elekta recoups costs of HR project in a year

  Medical company Elekta transforms its human resources (HR) processes by replacing legacy technology with cloud systems serving 3,800 staff in 24 countries

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  VMware research shines light on volume of UK enterprise data stored overseas

  A poll of UK IT decision makers suggests just 37% know exactly where their enterprise data is located

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  Interview: BT CEO Gavin Patterson

  For BT CEO Gavin Patterson, the UKtech50 most influential person in UK IT 2015, the network is a vital tool to balance the demands of a global services business with the responsibility of being the national incumbent telecoms operator

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Gartner hails datacentre cost savings of halting virtual machine sprawl

  Gartner claims CIOs could be missing out on datacentre cost savings by considering server virtualisation a done job

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Digital drives business consultancy in IT outsourcing renewals

  As IT outsourcing contracts come up for renewal, CIOs might consider more business expertise to help them negotiate contracts that support inevitable digital expansion

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Case study: Tideway uses private cloud to manage London ‘super sewer’ infrastructure

  Infrastructure services director explains why Tideway has opted for a managed, private cloud setup to support sewer project

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Paul Haley, CIO, City University London

  Higher education faces budget cuts and growing IT requirements, but a £200m overhaul at City University London is bearing fruit