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• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  AWS adds Chef to cloud Marketplace to drive up DevOps adoption

  Chef sets sights on winning over more AWS users with its DevOps-friendly automation tools

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Lars Ruben Hansen, Rema 1000 Denmark and Reitan Distribution

  The CIO of supermarket chain Rema 1000 Denmark and wholesale company Reitan Distribution wants his staff to love coming to work

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Rolls-Royce signs up to supercomputing on-demand from HPC Midlands

  Rolls-Royce is the first company to sign up to a supercomputing brokerage scheme, giving it access to £60m worth of high-performance computing

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Microsoft Azure price hike to hit cloud users in the Eurozone from 1 August

  The on-going economic instability affecting Europe could prompt further price increases from Microsoft and others, analysts warn

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  BBC to cut 1,000 jobs and merge tech teams due to low licence fees

  The BBC will cut jobs and merge its technology teams in an effort to save funds after a drop in licence fees as fewer people watch live TV

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Microsoft in the dark after Parliamentary email disrupted for three days

  After a week of investigations, Microsoft has been unable to provide an explanation for failure of the Microsoft 365 cloud-based email service used by Parliament

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Windows Server 2003 end of support: Five options to choose from

  Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 ends in July. Should you upgrade to a newer version of the operating system or choose an alternative?

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Google builds energy-efficient datacentre in US coal power plant

  Internet giant Google has said it intends to use a decommissioned coal power plant's infrastructure to deliver renewable energy to its next US datacentre

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Virgin Active CIO calls for wearables market to adopt open standards

  Health club provider's IT chief claims boosting the interoperability of devices will increase their overall usefulness to consumers

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Box ties up with IBM to boost enterprise credibility and global reach

  IBM and Box have forged a global partnership to integrate their existing products and services, and develop new ones for secure collaboration

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  IT professionals give Windows 10 Start button the thumbs up

  A survey of European and North American IT professionals has found that the return of the Start button is the most enticing feature in Microsoft's latest operating system

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Adobe patches Flash Player vulnerability CVE-2015-3113

  Security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux address vulnerability CVE-2015-3113 that allows attackers to control the system

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Innovate Finance dubs UK a fintech diversity hub

  Innovate Finance says financial technology is one of the easiest places to find diversity in business, and the UK has it in abundance

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Oracle goes after AWS and Hana with cloud add-ons

  Oracle has extended its cloud platform with a set of features it hopes will entice existing customers to migrate to the cloud

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

  Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Californian state officials reveal driverless car crash numbers for first time

  The Californian Department for Motor Vehicles bows to pressure from The Associated Press to reveal details of self-driving car crashes

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Enterprise adoption of hybrid devices tipped to soar post-Windows 7

  Enterprise IT departments should consider hybrid devices in their post-Windows 7 migration plans, claims Gartner

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Legacy systems holding back 90% of businesses

  Most businesses are being held back from making digital advances by their reliance on legacy applications

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  CIO interview: Rovio Entertainment's Kalle Alppi believes IT staff should be embedded in business

  The CIO at the company behind Angry Birds talks about running global IT with only five permanent staff

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  Oracle sets sights on cloud cash cow in shift from perpetual licensing

  Oracle reports Q4 operating income of $4bn on revenues of $10.7bn as it turns from software licensing towards 'stunningly profitable' cloud business

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

  RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Only 3% of civil servants think the government gets good value from the tech industry

  A survey by industry body TechUK has found only a small percentage of civil servants feel the government currently gets good value out of the tech industry

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Boots cuts 700 jobs in bid to restructure and improve tech

  Cosmetics firm Boots has announced it will be cutting 700 non-store roles in an attempt to invest in technology and simplify back-office operations

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  US state of Maine turns to BPM to cut admin costs

  The US state of Maine is automating a range of government processes in a bid to cut administration costs by more than 10%

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Case study: What the enterprise can learn from Etsy's DevOps strategy

  Jon Cowie, operations engineer at online marketplace Etsy, advises enterprises on how to develop a DevOps-friendly business culture

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  HSBC UK IT braced for cuts as bank weighs up opportunities in Asia

  HSBC's UK IT team is likely to be reduced in size as focus moves to Asia

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Home Retail Group appoints former Amazon executive as CTO

  Parent company of Argos and Homebase, Home Retail Group, selects former Amazon.com tech president as chief technology officer (CTO)

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  British Medical Journal revamps software development to support business transformation

  British Medical Journal has reorganised its software development teams to enable them to meet the needs of the business better

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

  Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  A tale of two boxes: Choosing between Box and Dropbox

  Box and Dropbox are in the content and collaboration business, but the two cloud services have taken very different approaches

• May 28, 2015 28 May'15

  IT must master coaching for success in digitisation

  CIOs can support their company's digital strategy, but it should be driven from the top down by the CEO

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  Linking threat modelling and risk analysis key to cyber security

  Organisations that link threat modelling and risk analysis will have a much better understanding of the cyber risks they face, according to Wim Remes

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  HP CEO hails business split progress amid downbeat Q2 revenue slumps

  Despite chalking up revenue declines in several business units, Meg Whitman is more convinced than ever of the need to breakup HP

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Societe Generale uses cloud service to place high fliers overseas

  Financial Services company, Societe Generale, says relocation software is helping it to attract talented employees

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Government cloud adoption hit by ongoing legacy tech investments

  IT supplier Eduserv wants government departments banned from investing in legacy tech to drive up cloud adoption

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Leeds Building Society embarks on digital services push with HP Cloud

  The building society wants to make it easier for customers to manage their money online using HP technology and support services

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Microsoft’s Wright: Focus on services to build data cultures

  Corporate IT must evolve towards service provision to make organisations more data-driven and agile, Microsoft’s Jacky Wright will tell the Data Governance 2015 conference

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  University of Surrey updates student timetables with cloud

  The University of Surrey has integrated cloud-based CMISGo solution into its information management system so it can deliver timetable updates to students via their mobile phones

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  IT problems lead to 588% rise in complaints for Scottish Power

  Problems with Scottish Power’s IT system have led to it receiving the biggest rise in complaints any energy supplier has ever seen

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  CIO interview: Henrik Trepka, ISS

  ISS CIO Henrik Trepka's vision is that ubiquitous internet-connected sensors will help make the Danish facility management company the greatest service organisation in the world

• 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 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 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 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Fortnum & Mason selects open source over commercial software

  Fortnum & Mason has opted for the Spree open-source e-commerce platform, for the underpinnings of its new website

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Software critical in Norwegian oil & gas risk management

  Crude oil price cuts meant thousands of jobs lost in Norway. It’s now more critical than ever for operators to make better use of IT

• May 07, 2015 07 May'15

  Mike Lynch names Vatican and Kraft as Autonomy case goes public

  Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has responded to HP’s formal litigation against him and former CFO Sushovan Hussain, highlighting major user contracts

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  HDS says its storage products are cogs in a much bigger machine

  HDS tells Hitachi Connect 2015 attendees of plans to expand reach beyond storage through social innovation strategy

• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  Fewer IT firms going bust in 2015, shows Exaro Insolvency Index

  Collapses among information and communications firms decreased in first quarter of 2015, according to Exaro Insolvency Index

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  The suburban rogue trader's algorithms behind the 2010 US flash crash

  US authorities accuse British trader Navinder Singh Sarao of manipulating the stock market with fraudulent trades, triggering the 2010 flash crash

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  How should the next government shape the future of the IT industry?

  As the election approaches and political parties are outlining plans to enhance the digital economy, the IT industry is bracing for the future

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Zurich Insurance turns to augmented reality to train 10,000 managers

  The £74bn turnover company aims to harness the capabilities of augmented reality to train 10,000 employees in 170 countries

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  IBM blames strong US dollar for 12% drop in first-quarter revenues

  IBM reports $2.4bn net income from continuing operations in its first quarter, down 5% on the same quarter the year before

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  HP's Bill Hilf hits back at public cloud exit reports

  Several days after first denying its exit from the public cloud market, HP issues a blog post to put paid to the speculation for good

• April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15

  Government IT over the last five years – the good, the bad and the digital

  As the general election approaches, Computer Weekly looks back at the highs and lows of the last five years in government IT

• April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15

  Chinese hackers to blame for 10-year cyber espionage campaign, says FireEye

  IT security firm FireEye claims to have uncovered a decade-long cyber espionage campaign against firms in south-east Asia and India

• April 10, 2015 10 Apr'15

  Microsoft enables Office editing in Dropbox

  Microsoft and Dropbox have extended their partnership, allowing users to share documents on OneDrive with Dropbox

• 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 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Nationwide introduces a full service IT services catalogue

  The Nationwide Building Society has put in place a full service IT services catalogue to provide greater transparency

• 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 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Kingsway fire brings down broadband services in London

  Electrical fire underneath London thoroughfare Kingsway takes down broadband services to businesses around Covent Garden and Holborn

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Major software companies bamboozle local authorities with audits

  Software companies are resorting to audits and complex licensing in a bid to make more money from existing public sector customers

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  The challenge of embracing digital and avoiding dystopia in the finance sector

  Financial services regulators are determined to avoid future problems that could be caused by out-of-control technological advancement

• 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

  Failed FireControl project still costing taxpayers millions of pounds

  Empty buildings rented for failed £469m FireControl project are still costing the taxpayer millions of pounds

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft contests Iowa's plans to adopt Google cloud services

  Microsoft files a law suit claiming its cloud products were overlooked in the process of moving systems of the US state of Iowa to the cloud

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Why CIOs should become chief integration officers in 2015

  IT leaders risk being relegated to a “care and feeding” role if they do not take the initiative, says business advisory firm Deloitte

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  Interception errors had serious consequences for individuals

  Law enforcement and security services made 12 serious technical and nine human surveillance errors last year

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  Rewrite 'absurdly complicated’ surveillance laws, say MPs

  The Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee has presented the Prime Minister with proposals to reform privacy and intelligence laws

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Technology key as challenger bank OakNorth gets licence

  SME-focused challenger bank OakNorth says financial services technology will enable it to serve customers fast

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Organisations address virtual server backup but disaster recovery top priority in 2015

  Computer Weekly survey shows fewer UK IT departments prioritise virtual server backup in 2015, but disaster recovery remains a key task

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Enterprise IT faces upheaval to move to cloud-first computing

  IT departments should prepare to change working practices to support cloud-based computing

• 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

  Digital Question Time: Growing UK tech

  Europe, growth initiatives for startups and a mature conversation with the IT industry were among the hot topics discussed at our political debate

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same

  In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Former Lloyds bank and Barclays CIO Darryl West joins HSBC

  HSBC has appointed Darryl West, who left Barclays in December, as CIO

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Symantec continues cloud investment in spite of poor Q3 results

  Symantec has reported third quarter 2015 revenue of $1.64bn, a drop of 4% compared with $1.70bn over the same period in 2014

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Executive interview: lowering the cost of enterprise IT

  Gartner stated that Risc server shipments declined by 17%, while IBM claims the System z mainframe is the most cost-effective server

• 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

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Amazon to put cloud on the balance sheet

  Amazon will report on AWS in its financials from Q1 2015, as it continues to invest heavily in the cloud service

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  IT leaders want to hire chief data officers this year

  A study shows 61% of CIOs at large organisations want to recruit a chief data officer (CDO) in the next year with data volumes hindering progress

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Microsoft gets a step closer to Office everywhere with Office on Android

  Microsoft has released a preview version of Office for Android, almost 10 months after the iPad version was released

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Will the mainframe survive IBM job cuts?

  The mainframe survived minicomputers, the client server, the web and Y2K, but its future is under scrutiny as IBM prepares a rethink

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  High-tech giants warned of breakdown in trust at Davos summit

  Technology sector risks banking-style crisis following collapse in public trust in IT giants, Davos summit warned

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Obama pledges to push cyber security reforms

  In his State of the Union address, the US president pledges to urge Congress to pass legislation to improve US cyber security

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  EE, Virgin Media and Vodafone sign net neutrality pledge

  EE, Virgin Media and Vodafone are last of the UK’s major internet service providers to sign up to Open Internet Code of practice

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing

  In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  Digitisation of government needs major transformation effort

  The public sector can achieve massive savings through digitisation, but this will require organisational transformation

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  CIO interview: Federico Florez Gutierrez, Ferrovial

  Armed with a Naval engineering degree, Federico Florez Gutierrez set course for a career in senior IT

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  Deal between RBS and CA over IT failure will remain secret

  The details of the financial settlement between RBS and CA Technologies in relation to a massive IT failure will remain secret

• December 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

  CW500 Club in 2014

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2014

  Cloud computing has evolved, giving businesses an increasing array of options from simple IT infrastructure up to full business applications

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2014

  In 2014's datacentre market, trends of social, cloud, analytics and big data have influenced datacentre architectural decisions

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

  US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  Hundreds of passengers hit after Air India's check-in system fails

  The flag carrier airlines of India owned by Air India, a Government of India enterprise, faced a major technical glitch in their check-in system

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  CIO interview: VMware's Tony Scott re-engineers IT as a service

  Agility is only as effective as the slowest step. At VMware, CIO Tony Scott has his sights set on tackling this

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  IT spending grows at fastest rate in five years

  Agile IT departments are emerging with the ability to flex their budgets quickly to meet new business demands

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Interview: Lucie Glenday, chief digital officer, Surrey County Council

  Chief digital officer Lucie Glenday was brought into Surrey County Council to change the way it thinks about digital services

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Whitehall meets digital leaders – but ignores local government

  The UK has played host to its first D5 digital leaders summit, but local collaboration was off the agenda