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May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Gartner warns cloud buyers off hasty IaaS investments

With the competitive landscape in flux, end users should exercise caution when choosing their IaaS providers, Gartner warns
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Vodafone returns to quarterly revenue growth

A minute rise in quarterly sales gives mobile network operator Vodafone hope that its financial situation is now stabilising
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Google slashes public cloud prices to undercut rivals

Google cuts cost of its public cloud services to pass on hardware savings in line with Moore's Law
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Colt deploys 100GbE European Supercore network

Colt enhances connectivity into key European commercial trading centres, including London and Frankfurt, with its Supercore network

May 15, 2015 15 May'15
IT suppliers call on new-look GDS for commitment to G-Cloud's future

In light of Francis Maude's departure from GDS, G-Cloud suppliers want assurances from the government about what's in store for the framework
May 15, 2015 15 May'15
Patient care put at risk by IT problems at London NHS trust

IT problems and poor information governance put patients at risk at a London NHS trust, according to evidence disclosed at an employment tribunal
May 15, 2015 15 May'15
IT service providers are pushing too hard to sell extra services

IT services firms are not prioritising the services they are contracted to provide because they are too busy trying to sell additional services on top
May 14, 2015 14 May'15
Dreams beds down with Rackspace to reduce website downtime

Bed retailer revamps website infrastructure to guard against outages and sleepless nights for its IT team
May 14, 2015 14 May'15
Venom is serious, but no Heartbleed, say experts

Security researchers have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many virtualisation platforms
May 14, 2015 14 May'15
AWS Educate brings cloud to the classroom to address IT skills gap

Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to ensure students have the skills they need to make full use of cloud technologies in the workplace

May 14, 2015 14 May'15
Sweden’s Cerdo outsources savings and payments unit to Finland's Tieto

Swedish banking and finance services company Cerdo Bankpartner outsources close to home with fellow Nordic firm Tieto
May 13, 2015 13 May'15
UK cloud use is soaring among business users, claims CIF

CIF talks up UK cloud adoption surge, as Windows Server 2003 end of support deadline looms
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
European education network launches search for IaaS providers

Pan-European education network is on the hunt for IaaS specialists to populate its Cloud Catalogue
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
Rackspace's share price tumbles amid talk of revenue slump

Rackspace talks up prospect of supporting users of other firms' cloud services after lacklustre second-quarter guidance causes share price to plummet
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
Fujitsu embarks on 10-year datacentre upgrade project in Australia

IT services giant embarks on push to improve the reliability and performance of its Australian datacentres by 2025
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
PSNGB rebrands to drive information sharing across PSN

PSNGB, the trade association set up to promote the Public Services Network, rebrands itself as Innopsis and says its work is far from over
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
EMC: Rise of third platform could spell end for businesses unwilling to adapt

EMC World 2015 saw the storage giant warn about the business risks of ignoring new technologies and ways of working in the digital age
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
EMC predicts return to double-digit sales growth

Storage giant's EMEA chief claims downbeat first quarter results are as bad as things will get for EMC, and that normal service will soon resume
May 07, 2015 07 May'15
Manila breaks India top six in outsourcing index

The Philippines challenges India as a destination for outsourcing in Tholons Top 100 report
May 07, 2015 07 May'15
BT sales down at end of landmark year

In fourth quarter and full-year results, BT revealed its revenues fell 2%
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
Something disgusting at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal

Kevin Cahill explains why he has filed a case at the Investigative Powers Tribunal over US intelligence gathering on children.
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
Alcatel-Lucent to target enterprise UC market

Alcatel-Lucent signs collaboration agreement with OTT unified comms firm Counterpath to target enterprise and operator customers
May 04, 2015 04 May'15
Atlantic.Net unveils New York datacentre and sets out UK expansion plans

SSD-based cloud hosting firm opens datacentre, while setting out its UK expansion plans
May 01, 2015 01 May'15
OpenStack engineer shortage drives up private cloud TCO, finds 451 Research

OpenStack costs less to deploy than Microsoft, VMware or Red Hat private cloud, but engineering shortages drive up its total cost of ownership (TCO)
April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15
Vision Solutions debuts tool to ease Microsoft Azure cloud migrations

AWS and VMware cloud users get a helping hand from Vision Solutions when moving apps and workloads to Microsoft Azure
April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15
Cost cutting still draining IT outsourcing budgets against CIO wishes

More than half of IT directors believe that money spent with IT outsourcing suppliers is focused on cost cutting, research reveals
April 28, 2015 28 Apr'15
Brewer Marston’s ISP upgrades core network with SSE

Marston’s house networking unit Marston’s Telecoms rolls out a resilient nationwide network to accommodate demand for its managed services offering
April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15
Accenture and Oracle embark on enterprise cloud adoption push

Accenture and Oracle are embarking on a joint push to make it easier for public sector and financial services firms to move to cloud
April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15
Capgemini to acquire iGate for $4bn

Capgemini is bolstering its US business and global delivery capabilities with the acquisition of iGate
April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15
CSC staff on armed forces contract on strike

Staff at CSC working on the UK armed forces pension administration contract are on a five day strike following months of working to rule
April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15
BT sets out ambition to become enterprise's cloud integrator of choice

BT outlines its 'Cloud of Clouds' vision to allow users to access cloud apps and services, regardless of where their systems are hosted
April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15
Huawei calls for global consensus on the future network

At its Global Analyst Summit, Huawei calls on the networking industry to collaborate to optimise the network for future demands
April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15
ISG blames UK general election for fall in outsourcing value

A lull in UK outsourcing activity in the run-up to the election caused a 25% drop in spending across the Emea region in Q1 2015, claims ISG
April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15
Accenture chosen to run NHS email service

The NHS email service is to be provided by Accenture, after the IT services firm was announced as the preferred bidder by HSCIC
April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15
Harrow Council outsources IT to Sopra Steria

London’s Harrow Council has outsourced its IT services to Sopra Steria in a deal that will see the authority upgrade its IT
April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15
Cloud hype leads to enterprise dissatisfaction with off-premise services

NTT Communications' latest cloud report suggests enterprise decision-makers find the technology failing to live up to the hype
April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15
Rio Tinto to put IT systems in the cloud

Mining giant Rio Tinto is moving IT systems into the public cloud as part of a transformation agreement with Accenture
April 10, 2015 10 Apr'15
Nordic businesses continue to look to Ukraine for IT

Despite the conflicts affecting the eastern half of the country, Ukraine is enjoying growth in IT outsourcing from customers in Nordic countries
April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15
Indian outsourcing is booming in the Nordic countries

Headlines about Indian IT service providers securing high-profile outsourcing deals in the Nordics have become commonplace
April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15
UK law firm McMillan Williams moves to Interxion datacentre to support growth

UK law firm McMillan Williams Solicitors taps up co-location provider Interxion to support plans to expand its number of high street branches
April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15
Attraction World takes managed cloud route to website stability

Online ticket broker explains why it moved to a dedicated, managed cloud platform to safeguard its growth
April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15
CIO interview: Bill Wilkins, First Utility

First Utility's CIO explains how it is using cloud and smart meters to give the big six a run for their money in the energy market
April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15
Alsbridge makes its first UK acquisition with Source

Sourcing consultancy Alsbridge has kicked off its UK expansion with the acquisition of boutique sourcing advisory Source
April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15
Foods manufacturer ConAgra expects to save $5m a year with data analytics

Food manufacturer ConAgra Foods is using data analytics technology to improve how it makes decisions about hiring and deploying its workforce
April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15
Welsh council saves £1.4m through outsourcing

Denbighshire County Council expects to save £1.4m through a deal with Civica that sees business processes outsourced, but delivered locally
March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15
Brecon Beacons National Park soups up staff comms with Unify

Brecon Beacons National Park Authority deploys Unify’s OpenScape voice technology to keep remote staff and home workers in touch
March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15
Interoute bags private equity funding to support datacentre growth

Cloud services giant plans to use private equity funding to support its M&A activity and push ahead with its datacentre growth plans
March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15
Retired accountant fined in Logica share scam

A man who bought thousands of shares in Logica based on inside information has been fined £35,212 by the Financial Conduct Authority
March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15
Talk Talk moves HR systems to cloud

Managers now have accurate information on their workforce numbers, salary and overtime costs
March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15
Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security

Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought
March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15
HP's push to build EU-wide "one-stop shop" for cloud gathers pace

HP talks up growing momentum of its Cloud 28+ project in Europe
March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15
Amazon Web Services hosts Nasa climate-change images in the cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) follows up pledge to support climate change research by publishing 85,000 Nasa images in the cloud
March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15
Information Commissioner's Office calls for transparent public sector outsourcing

For greater transparency, public sector buyers and suppliers should be open about their dealings before signing contracts, says ICO
March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15
Government creates Crown Hosting venture with Ark Data Centres

Cabinet Office signs seven-year joint venture agreement with Ark Data Centres to create Crown Hosting Service
March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15
Poll finds public demand for consultation on public-sector outsourcing

Poll finds 68% of the UK public want to be consulted on public-sector outsourcing, with Labour and UKIP supporters most in favour
March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15
TNT outsources IT infrastructure to HP cloud

International logistics firm TNT has outsourced its IT infrastructure to Hewlett Packard (HP) in a six-year deal that will see it move to the cloud
March 16, 2015 16 Mar'15
Shared business services help productivity and costs, says Deloitte

Global shared business services are on the rise and delivering an 8% average increase in productivity, according to research firm Deloitte
March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15
Microsoft and Cisco cloud partnership yields app deployment platform

Microsoft and Cisco claim new cloud platform will allow service providers to take advantage of DevOps-style app deployment speeds
March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15
Tieto’s Taneli Tikka brings startup drive to industrial internet business

Taneli Tikka has an unusual job description as the head of industrial internet at Tieto Corporation
March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15
2015 IT priorities: On-premise deployments high on agenda, but cloud interest on the rise

The 2015 Computer Weekly IT priorities survey points to growing interest in cloud technologies, but on-premise still rules
March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15
CGI to assess digital learning for Ministry of Defence

MoD signs outsourcing agreement with CGI as part of a programme to increase digital-based learning
March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15
US cyber crime indictment prompts calls for zero tolerance

A newly-revealed US indictment of three suspected cyber criminals has prompted a call for zero tolerance for cyber intrusions
March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15
Banks increase outsourcing but slash use of consultants

There will be an increase in the use of IT outsourcing in the global banking sector over the next 12 months but the use of consultants will fall
March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15
Procurement guidelines saved government £91m in 2014, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

The government made £91m savings in 2014 with “militant” guidelines around procurement, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude
March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15
European Commission outsources IT

Unisys-led consortiums have won a chunk of a €900m European Commission IT outsourcing programme
March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15
Has IBM found its place in the digital world?

Late last year, amid poor financial results and doubts over its direction, IBM announced $3.6bn worth of IT infrastructure outsourcing deals
March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15
Williams Martini Racing signs multi-year BT network services deal

Williams F1 teams forms long-term strategic partnership with BT for fixed and mobile communications and network services
March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15
UK to pilot European cyber security services for SMEs

The UK will be one of the first countries to pilot a security industry-supported scheme to provide cyber security services for SMEs in Europe
March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15
TNT outsources application development to support transformation

International logistics company TNT signs deal with Indian IT services firm Infosys for application development services
March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15
Surrey and East Sussex councils to share IT services

Surrey County Council plans to save millions of pounds by sharing services, including IT, with East Sussex County Council
March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15
HCL expands in Nordics with delivery centre in Norway

Indian IT services giant HCL Technologies is expanding its reach in the Nordics with its third service delivery centre in the region
February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15
Former Logica executive pleads guilty to insider dealing

Former Logica manager Ryan Willmott has pleaded guilty to trading using inside knowledge when Logica was being taken over by CGI group.
February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15
Could IBM really function with tens of thousands fewer staff?

Could IBM, or any of the large IT and BPO service providers, still function with tens or even hundreds of thousands fewer staff?
February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15
Deutsche Bank signs 10-year deal to re-engineer wholesale banking IT

Deutsche Bank signs 10-year deal with HP to re-engineer the IT that underpins its wholesale banking arm
February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15
NHS Trafford chooses CSC to deliver healthcare co-ordination centre

NHS Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is opening an IT-driven centre to co-ordinate healthcare in the region
February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15
Amey awards $87m IT services contract

Engineering company Amey outsources application development and management to CSC as part of seven-year contract
February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15
UK businesses' IT services better off in India than the cloud

UK businesses have yet to be convinced of the benefits of cloud computing but continue to outsource IT, says a global survey from KPMG
February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15
Schuh deploys public Wi-Fi and mobile stock checking in-store

Shoe retailer schuh selects cloud Wi-Fi provider Purple WiFi to offer in-store access for customers and staff
February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15
Capgemini increases Indian staff by 20%, as profits rise by 31%

Capgemini increased the number of staff it has in India by 20% in 2014, while its profits went up by 31% and its revenues by 3.4%
February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15
Dutch bank ABN Amro outsources digital transformation to Infosys

Dutch banking giant ABN Amro has outsourced IT services to Indian supplier Infosys to improve its digital credentials
February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15
Infosys acquires Panaya for automation

Infosys continues its move to non-linear business models through the acquisition of US automation software maker Panaya for $200m
February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15
Cisco’s software-defined networking business booms

Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure customer base doubles in three months as its software-defined networking model gains traction
February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15
Ed Vaizey: Ambition to have local government on one platform

The question over whether Government Digital Services can scale locally was discussed at a Computer Weekly debate
February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15
UK IT and business processing outsourcing deals hit £6.65bn in 2014

The UK's IT and business process outsourcing spend reached £6.65bn last year. IT outsourcing accounted for £3.44bn of that
February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15
Engineering firm Smiths Group to embark on landmark SDN project

Engineering and technology firm Smiths Group renews AT&T contract ahead of major network refresh, and plans to put SDN at the heart of its project
February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15
ShopDirect selects IBM managed service with SoftLayer hybrid cloud

Shop Direct is using IBM’s SoftLayer hybrid cloud in a 10-year outsourcing deal to provide analytics, mobile and social applications
February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15
Capita approved as supplier of NHS IT services

Capita is one of just a few private sector service providers to make it into the latest NHS supplier framework
February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15
Kellogg's outsources digital marketing to Indian supplier

Food giant Kellogg's outsources the management of its digital marketing platform to Indian IT services firm Mindtree
February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15
Newport to get resilient fibre ring for community safety projects

As part of a wide-reaching regeneration plan, Newport City Council deploys resilient fibre optic network to support community safety
February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15
Heinz puts SAP HANA in the cloud to boost global efficiency

Food producer Heinz deploys SAP HANA on Virtustream’s xStream platform-as-a-service (PaaS) infrastructure to boost efficiency
February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15
Milan Expo 2015 builds smart city with Telecom Italia and Cisco

The organisers of Milan Expo 2015 have built a smart city site from the ground up with the support of Telecom Italia and Cisco
February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15
Aeris and Tech Mahindra to launch carrier IoT platform

M2M technology provider Aeris has linked up with services supplier Tech Mahindra to target mobile carriers that want to develop their IoT business
February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15
IT services dominates UK outsourcing in 2013 but employment flat

IT and digital services contributed more to the UK economy in 2013 than any other part of the business services sector
February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15
Dixons Carphone joins MVNO fray to support internet of things

Electronics retail giant to launch mobile network using Three MNO services to support growth in the internet of things
January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15
AstraZeneca deploys Box to all its 51,000 staff to boost collaboration

Multinational biopharma business AstraZeneca has chosen to deploy Box cloud-based collaboration to all its 51,000 employees
January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15
Indirect discrimination claim against TCS to progress after hearing

Judge at employment tribunal against Tata Consultancy Services’ employment practice gives go-ahead for indirect discrimination claim
January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15
AstraZeneca consolidates on-site IT to sole service provider Computacenter

AstraZeneca has outsourced its on-site IT services to Computacenter in a three-year agreement
January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15
UK businesses handing over cyber security to third parties

More UK businesses are outsourcing their IT security because budgets are not growing as fast as the security threat
January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15
Rackspace offers vCloud hosting for enterprise private clouds

Rackspace and VMware have joined forces to provide hosted private cloud services for business users