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• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Dutch banking regulator approves use of AWS public cloud in the financial sector

  Dutch banking watchdog approves use of AWS cloud in websites, mobile apps, retail banking platforms, HPC and credit risk analysis

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Dell updates OpenStack cloud and Hadoop service as buyout vote delayed

  Michael Dell submits revised a buyout proposal – delaying a vote until next week – but it was business as usual in the cloud division

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  Budgets and lower cost service affect European outsourcing market

  Gartner expects a slight upturn in custom application outsourcing and infrastructure utility services, but Europe is being squeezed

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  Case study: In-flight caterer modernises IT for efficiency during seasonal travel peaks

  Alpha LSG has launched a £10m IT transformation project and will host its IT on the cloud for scalability during travel peaks

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  Young's Seafood rebuilds IT department using LANDesk

  Frozen fish food company Young's Seafood has deployed LANDesk's Total User Management to rebuild its IT function

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  Telecoms M&A ‘flourishes’ in UK

  Despite mergers, acquisitions and Equity Capital Market transactions falling in the first half of 2013, the telecoms market sees figures soar

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Anne Boden, COO, Allied Irish Bank - on moving to private cloud

  AIB’s private cloud has meant a tenfold reduction in the number of Oracle databases and gives the bank internal technological ability and development flexibility to respond to a changing and demanding market

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Lock in fears deterring businesses from moving data into the cloud

  Businesses are shying away from putting their data into cloud over fears that they may become locked-in to one supplier, it was claimed today.

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Stronger economy pushes up IT day rates

  The daily rates charged for IT services are rising, according to a benchmark from consulting firm Pierre Audoin Consultants

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Dutch retailer picks IBM cloud for merchandising

  Netherlands online retailer Wehkamp chooses IBM’s cloud-based merchandise analytics tool to manage price cuts and clearance

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Case study: Toyota fleet management system gathers global fork-lift truck data remotely

  Toyota Material Handling Europe develops operational data management system that monitors and controls fork-lift trucks globally

• July 01, 2013 01 Jul'13

  James Martin: Obituary

  James Martin – British computing pioneer, entrepreneur, visionary and guru of the information age – has died, aged 79

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  How BP made its IT future-ready with a hybrid cloud infrastructure

  BP bridged its cloud gap with a cautious and calculated approach using a mix of private cloud, public cloud and in-house IT infrastructure

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  HR technology booming as businesses turn to the cloud

  Over the next 18 months, 60% of companies plan to roll out HR technology solutions, says analyst group Bersin by Deloitte.

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Companies must rethink data sharing, says GE CEO Jeff Immelt

  GE CEO, Jeff Immelt (pictured), explains to customers the benefits of sharing machine data in an industrial internet

• June 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  Investigation into Post Office accounting system to drill down on strongest cases

  The investigation into the Post Office’s allegedly faulty accounting system will focus on a select few of the 47 claims

• June 17, 2013 17 Jun'13

  IT departments to shrink dramatically within five years as cloud takes over

  IT professionals will need to rethink their careers as corporate IT departments undergo a radical restructuring over the next five years

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Interview: Paul Greenberg on why relationships matter

  The times they are a-changing, so you need to get smart about customer relationship management, says Paul Greenberg

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Network Rail's IT budget could be scaled back by £150m

  Network Rail could have its future IT budget slashed by £150m, according to the rail regulator

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Cisco turns to rules engine in drive to tackle emerging markets

  Cisco is turning to business rules software to help it respond in a more agile way to new market opportunities, changing regulations, and business practices.

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Can IT survive digitisation?

  The role and operations of IT are set to change, as departments build up their own IT expertise.

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Frimley Park NHS deploys VDI for efficiency and BYOD

  When the NHS trust came under pressure to make its IT budget go further, it opted to deploy VDI in its A&E department

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Irish Life migrates mainframe workload onto Windows

  Insurer Irish Life has migrated 97% of its mainframe workload onto a Windows server environment to save costs and support expansion

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Steve Monaghan, IT & e-commerce director, Waterstones

  After a year of turmoil caused by migration away from HMV, the IT team at Waterstones is finally finding room to think about strategy

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Europe moving faster towards BYOD

  The head of Europe for Citrix believes the region is moving much faster towards embracing bring your own device than US counterparts

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Where does Microsoft fit in the future of VDI and remote applications?

  Users say they prefer Citrix over Microsoft for desktop virtualisation, but will Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 change that?

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Facebook most popular social media tool in the enterprise

  Facebook dominates, but businesses will begin rolling out enterprise social media tools in the next 12 months

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Tesco uses big data to cut cooling costs by up to €20m

  Tesco is aiming to save over €20m a year by using sophisticated analytical technology to ensure its chillers work at optimum temperature

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Gartner: Big data will transform customer relationship management technology

  CIOs need to start thinking how to integrate big data into their customer relationship management (CRM) systems, says technology analyst

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Social media: How to navigate Europe's legal maze

  Specialist lawyers on the legal principles companies in Europe need to consider before they monitor employees' use of social media

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Oops! The risks of using social media at work

  Recent tribunal cases show the risks that employers and employees run when using social media services

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  Indian enterprises invest in IT for growth

  In 2013, Indian CIOs increasingly will spend money on IT aimed at helping their business grow, according to a joint survey from the CIO Klub and Ernst & Young India.

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Domino’s Pizza plans to move web services to the cloud

  After using cloud for testing and development apps, Domino’s Pizza is now looking to move its web services to the cloud

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Investors sue HP for $1bn over Autonomy deal

  HP investors have launched a class action lawsuit over the company’s botched acquisition of UK software firm Autonomy for $11.7bn in 2011

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Infosys partners IPsoft as automation trend shakes offshore model

  Indian IT services giant Infosys is using IPsoft’s technology to automate its IT and business process services

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Government reveals ecommerce scheme for SMEs

  The department for business, innovation and skills admits a programme to help SMEs take advantage of digital will launch later this year

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Case study: London's Olympic network from BT

  After receiving an honourable mention in the European user awards for networking, Computer Weekly looks at the challenge of rolling out the network for the London Olympic Games in 2012

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  How to make the most of corporate data

  IT departments focus on structured data but miss the needs of almost half their employees, says CEB managing director Andrew Horne

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  CEOs optimistic about IT innovation and investment, says Gartner

  A survey of CEOs and senior executives from Gartner finds the business climate right for IT investment to drive business development

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  Why CIOs need to become tax literate

  Digital technologies can have significant ramifications for corporate taxation. IT teams need to be aware of the issues, says PwC

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Patients and doctors must push for a paperless NHS, says Intellect report

  IT trade body Intellect says patients and doctors must undergo cultural change to realise government's ambition of a paperless NHS by 2018

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Can executive coaching improve your standing in the boardroom?

  The CIO is under threat. Tech savvy business managers are spending more on IT than on the IT department. How can a CIO stay relevant?

• March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

  UK banks are storing up additional costs for the future

  Financial services IT departments are creating higher costs in the long run by implementing short-term fixes to meet regulations

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer

  As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  AstraZeneca appoints new CIO David Smoley

  Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca has appointment David Smoley as chief information officer

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  Barclays streamlines phone banking with voice biometrics

  Barclays wealth investment management has been using voice biometrics from Nuance to streamline authentication when clients call

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Computers cannot replace human ingenuity, say business bosses

  Fears that machines will encroach on human skills in the workforce are greatly exaggerated, a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit claims

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  BYOD to force mobile operators into services

  O2’s former European president claims mobile operators will lose enterprise contracts if they don’t focus on services

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Businesses not embracing remote working

  Whilst employers claim to be keen on flexible working, employees still have their doubts around company policy

• February 21, 2013 21 Feb'13

  CIO interview: Carol Fawcett CIO of Dell software

  Fawcett deployed a 23 country BYOD strategy while at software firm, Quest, which was acquired by Dell. She is now hoping to take her experience to Dell.

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

  UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Southwest One outsourcing achieves 10% of target savings

  Somerset council's Southwest One outsourcing venture achieved just 10% of the savings initially targeted half way through the programme

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  SDN adoption plans still stalling in Europe

  TechTarget and Computer Weekly surveys find that less than 10% of organisations looking to implement software defined networking (SDN)

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  EasyJet lifts off with Azure seat bookings

  The Azure cloud has allowed Easyjet to enable web site and mobile users to check seat availability

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  CIO interview: Yann L’Huillier, Tradition

  Yann L’Huillier describes the three-pronged strategy he adopted after joining over-the-counter trading firm Tradition in April 2010

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Businesses wasting billions storing unnecessary data

  CIOs are urged to rethink their backup strategies following warnings that companies are wasting billions on unnecessary storage

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Government CIO Andy Nelson tipped for DWP CIO

  Government chief information officer Andy Nelson has been tipped as the next CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  IT contractors seek to fill skills gap left by public sector cuts

  IT contractors are increasingly confident about job opportunities in the public sector due to reductions in the civil service's head count, finds research

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  Misuse of social media could wreak havoc, warns World Economic Forum

  The rapid spread of false information through social media poses a growing threat to business and society, the World Economic Forum has warned

• January 02, 2013 02 Jan'13

  What does 2013 hold for financial services IT?

  While regulation will force banks to invest in IT, customer demand is imposing other pressures, such as mobile banking platforms

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  Top 10 CIO interviews of 2012

  The top IT leaders in the UK talked to Computer Weekly throughout 2012 to share their opinions and experiences

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  US Department of Justice is investigating allegations of accounting fraud at Autonomy

  HP has revealed that the US Department of Justice has been investigating fraud allegation at Autonomy since last month.

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Retailers are being let down by poor ERP

  UK retailers could lose an estimated £147 million of revenue this Christmas due to missed sales opportunities through out-of-stock products according to Vanson Bourne

• November 23, 2012 23 Nov'12

  CIO interview: Tom Baker, head of ICT, Sunderland City Council

  Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council’s datacentre, which provides commercial hosting, VDI and a cloud service

• November 22, 2012 22 Nov'12

  UKtech50 2012 - The most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT

• November 08, 2012 08 Nov'12

  IT suppliers cost UK businesses one billion man-hours a year

  Almost 40% of IT workers lose a day or more a week fixing IT problems and struggling to get support from IT suppliers, according to research

• October 29, 2012 29 Oct'12

  Big data could transform staff management

  Data analytics has the potential to help businesses make dramatic returns by managing their workforce more effectively

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  Cloud HR pivotal to Direct Line share offering

  Cloud HR proved pivotal to insurance group Direct Line separating from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) before it launched on the stock market

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Windows 8 OS is available now – but is it the right choice for your business?

  Windows 8 combines a desktop operating system (OS) with tablet-touch functionality, which will bring benefits to some organisations - but not all

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  HR needs to understand business to avoid IT failures

  The failure of human resources departments to understand how a business works is a common reason why HR IT projects fail

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Government expected to unveil eight IDA suppliers for online services

  The government is to announce suppliers – including PayPal, BT and the Post Office – to provide identity assurance (IDA) for online public services

• October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12

  CIO interview: David Cooper, chief information officer, British Gas

  British Gas CIO David Cooper's multimillion-pound IT transformation is one of the highest-profile jobs in UK IT

• October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12

  Telefonica Digital saves 40% with cloud HR platform

  Telefonica Digital is investing in a cloud-based HR system to manage its 6,500 worldwide workforce, saving 40% on the cost of non-cloud HR

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  Solvency II data management confronts regulative uncertainty

  Solvency II, the EU directive to regulate insurance, gets a deadline extension to 2014 to fix data management problems.

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  Shell plans to save 100s of millions with 'semantic' search

  Royal Dutch Shell aims to cut training time for engineers with technology to identify and deliver information from databases, blogs and social media

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  O2 to expand BYOD scheme

  Mobile phone group O2 is to introduce its bring-your-own-device scheme to operations in Europe and South America, following successful UK roll-out

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  BT and Yahoo block UK2 IP addresses

  Customers of ISP UK2 have received no emails from Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for over a week after their IP addresses were blocked

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Skandia Team GBR analysed its way to victory at the Olympics

  Business analytics software helped British sailing team, Skandia Team GBR, sweep up five medals against a target of four at the London 2012 Olympics.

• September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

  Interview: Catherine Doran, CIO, Royal Mail

  A year into the job, Royal Mail CIO Catherine Doran talks about transformation, business change, and recruiting 100 new IT staff

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Activision uses Salesforce to serve gaming community

  The Call of Duty designers use the Service Cloud and Chatter Communities to solve customer queries

• September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12

  CIO interview: Andy Haywood, Co-operative Business Group

  The new group CIO at the Co-operative Group talks about his plans for technology across the organisation’s businesses

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Tesco signs £65m datacentre deal to drive online expansion

  Tesco expects to cut several millions each year from its IT bill following a 15-year £65m datacentre deal with Sentrum

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Is the consumerisation of IT beneficial to anyone?

  Employees' personal devices are being used in business every day, and that is posing new challenges for IT departments

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Cabinet Office blacklists Fujitsu from government IT contract tenders

  The Cabinet Office has banned Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for public sector IT contracts as they constitute too high a risk

• September 10, 2012 10 Sep'12

  Circuit breakers could mitigate risk in automated trading

  Merchant banks that automate trading could use circuit-breaking technology to reduce problems caused by stock market volatility

• September 10, 2012 10 Sep'12

  Indian IT services firm Infosys buys management consultancy Lodestone

  Indian IT services provider Infosys has grown its business consultancy with the acquisition of Swiss-based management consultancy Lodestone

• September 05, 2012 05 Sep'12

  Digital technologies to spark major shake-up of IT suppliers, says report

  CIOs have been urged to rethink their partnerships with strategic suppliers as the industry goes through its most disruptive period since the dot com crash

• September 03, 2012 03 Sep'12

  PwC examines Phoenix IT's financial irregularities

  The cloud and networking firm suspends a manager as it prepares to reduce its net assets by £14m

• August 31, 2012 31 Aug'12

  Leading PC suppliers announce Windows 8 devices

  HP, Dell, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo and Sony have announced products, from laptops to smartphones, which will run Microsoft’s new operating system.

• August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

  BI users slammed by IT as banshees and telepaths

  Survey discovers IT professionals exasperated and world weary when confronted by BI users uncommunicative and exigent.

• August 14, 2012 14 Aug'12

  Macmillan runs roadshows to address resistance to service management

  Cancer charity Macmillan used a series of roadshows to overcome user resistance when it upgraded its IT service management (ITSM)

• July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12

  Vodafone appoints new CEO of Cable & Wireless Worldwide

  Following the acquisition of C&WW, Vodafone has transferred its head of global enterprise to run the new venture

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  CW500: The technology behind the BBC's Olympics coverage

  BBC CTO John Linwood told Computer Weekly’s CW500 Club about the “terrifying” challenge of providing live coverage of all events at the Olympics

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  Lack of IT investment could prolong recession

  Research suggests the UK economy could continue to suffer economically as businesses fail to invest in technology and innovation

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  Co-op uses Lloyds managed service in branch acquisition

  The Co-operative bank will switch to Lloyds TSB's IT platform when it buys the 632 Lloyds TSB and Cheltenham and Gloucester branches

• July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

  IT consultancy rises in construction and transportation sectors

  Finance and the public sector remain IT consultancies' biggest clients but the construction and transportation sectors are increasing their use

• July 16, 2012 16 Jul'12

  Home Office creates private police ICT company

  The Home Office has created a private firm to manage police IT after the the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) was abolished

• July 13, 2012 13 Jul'12

  What next for government open data?

  Campaigners are worried that plans for further data releases and their promised £16bn stimulus to the economy are being derailed

• July 11, 2012 11 Jul'12

  Deloitte: customer data analytics insight can breed new moral hazards

  Deloitte data survey indicates UK organisations should tread warily when doing analytics on customer data. But opportunities abound for those who educate their customers well and are transparent.

• July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12

  Businesses rein in spending on hardware and software

  Businesses are reining in spending on hardware and software amid continued uncertainty in the global economy, according to analyst Gartner