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September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15
CIO interview: Mads Madsbjerg Hansen, FLSmidth

When Mads Madsbjerg Hansen joined Danish engineering giant FLSmidth he wanted get to know the company and its people, adjust the IT strategy where needed and change the IT organisation to fit that adjusted strategy
September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15
American Airlines forced to ground flights over IT issues

US airline confirms "connectivity issue" that prompted it to halt flights from several airports yesterday has now been resolved
September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15
Sainsbury’s hackathon showcases digital lab to improve customer services

Sainsbury’s digital lab hackathon brings together the IT team and staff from the wider organisation to generate ideas to improve customer services
September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15
Care.data chief Tim Kelsey to leave NHS England

NHS England’s digital chief will leave the organisation in December to take up a new role with Telstra Health in Australia

September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15
Oracle expands to 45 megawatt cloud business in SaaS and PaaS push

Oracle expands its datacentre footprint as it pushes forward with its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) businesses
September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15
Nurse 'scared' to return to work after blowing whistle on IT problems

A former nurse felt unable to return to work after raising concerns about the accuracy of records on a patient database at a London NHS trust
September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15
UK firms cope better with cyber attacks than continental enterprises, research shows

Trend Micro research suggests UK firms are at greater risk of cyber attack than their counterparts in continental Europe – but are better at dealing with them
September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15
HP cuts jobs in bid to grow strategic services

HP's Enterprise Services division is set for major cutbacks as the company attempts to reduce operating costs prior to the split in November 2015
September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15
Cambridge University Hospitals loses CEO and CFO amidst Monitor investigation

Cambridge NHS CEO and chief finance officer quit the trust, while Monitor investigates its finances and £200m eHospital programme
September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15
NHS trust failed to recognise IT whistleblowing

Managers at Southwark CCG did not realise that serious concerns raised by a former nurse of its IT systems should be treated as whistleblowing

September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15
NHS trust denies bullying and intimidation of IT whistleblower

Managers were already aware of whistleblower's concerns about the accuracy of NHS Southwark's data, tribunal hears
September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15
UK citizens fear data breaches are going undetected

The rise in high-profile security breaches has led to an increasingly worried UK public, calling for 24-hour monitoring of sensitive information
September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15
Haircare firm GHD rehomes hybrid cloud infrastructure in new Rackspace datacentre

Haircare product maker shifts hybrid website infrastructure to Rackspace's Crawley datacentre in preparation for Christmas rush
September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15
Drastic cuts coming to Samsung workforce

Samsung is to downsize its workforce by 10% in the next few months as part of a renewed cost-cutting drive as the electronics firm continues to struggle, according to reports
September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15
Chef secures $40m spending round as enterprise DevOps adoption soars

Automation software supplier Chef dismisses buyout talk after sharing details of latest funding round
September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15
The Data School: Former Facebook employee launches training programme for future data analysts

After working at Facebook as a data analyst, Andy Kriebel explains why he moved to the UK and launched a training programme for data scientists
September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15
CIO interview: Anna Berggren, ManpowerGroup Nordics

ManpowerGroup Nordic CIO Anna Berggren talks about the importance of IT to the recruitment firm and the different approaches she takes to managing it
September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15
Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust implements inventory management using Ingenica Solutions

Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust is using an inventory management system to streamline its purchasing and management of clinical products.
September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15
Islington and Camden Councils set out shared IT services plans

London councils want to tackle the government's austerity measures through adopting shared IT services model by April 2016
September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15
IT firm aims to close skills gap with technology training academy

Microsoft-endorsed firm Azzure IT has launched an IT skills academy to teach development, customer support and consultancy in a bid to close the skills gap
September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15
Companies would look outside UK for technology talent

The time it takes to hire technology talent is damaging businesses, who say they will employ workers from outside the UK to get the best
August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15
CIO interview: Elisabeth Stjernstoft, Apoteket

When the Swedish government introduced competition to the pharmaceuticals sector in 2009, the former monopoly faced a major IT transformation
August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15
CIO interview: Emil Dahlin, Svevia

Svevia CIO Emil Dahlin transformed the IT of a former Swedish government organisation as it became an independent company
August 19, 2015 19 Aug'15
UK government signs new MoU with Oracle

Memorandum of understanding builds on 2012 deal which promised to save the government £75m
August 16, 2015 16 Aug'15
Mobile phone users at risk as hackers bug and track victims

An investigation by Australian TV show 60 Minutes demonstrates how hackers based thousands of miles away in Germany were able to record the calls of an Australian senator and track his movements
August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15
Met Police seeks MSPs as digital forensic investigations move closer to the frontline

Metropolitan Police Force wants to make it easier for frontline staff to embark on forensic investigations involving digital devices with the help of MSPs
August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15
Connecting Cheshire funds masterclasses for women entrepreneurs

#Eveolution scheme to support women-led SMEs in Cheshire with broadband support and advice on going digital
August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15
Interview: Government digital chief Mike Bracken – why I quit

Mike Bracken, the outgoing director of the Government Digital Service, talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his departure from Whitehall
August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15
Mike Bracken: I turned down an increase in GDS budget

Outgoing government digital chief says he rejected the chance of extra funding and that his platform strategy is still on the table
August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15
Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud
August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15
Business process automation fills people gap in Australia and New Zealand

Business process automation technology is more about helping businesses in Australia and New Zealand overcome staff shortages, than about cutting costs.
August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15
HMRC to transfer 250 Capgemini staff in-house ready for Aspire contract end

HMRC’s Aspire outsourcing contract will be replaced by slowly bringing staff in-house to give the department more control over IT
August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15
City of Liverpool College joins Jisc shared-services datacentre in Slough

Further education college set to use facility to help support roll-out of shared-services portfolio to other colleges
July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15
Consultancies hit amid rise in IT company insolvencies

Rising insolvencies among IT companies contrasts with a fall in the rate of company failures in the wider economy
July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15
BT Group's first-quarter results buoyed by superfast broadband and mobile demand

BT Group's first-quarter results highlight successes in superfast broadband and mobile divisions, but analyst warns of challenging times to come
July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15
Executive interview: Lenovo targets key tech provider position

Lenovo has set its sights on becoming the number one technology provider for corporates and consumers. We speak to the company’s UK general manager David McQuarrie
July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15
IT departments aren't getting sidelined by cloud, suggests research

Research from Harvard Business Review suggests IT departments are maintaining a firm grip on enterprise cloud deployments
July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15
World Trade Organisation strikes $1.3tn deal to wipe out IT trade tariffs

World Trade Organisation's planned update to the 1996 Information Technology Agreement could see prices fall across a wide range of technology products
July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15
Notion Capital unveils $120m investment fund for European cloud startups

Venture capital firm hopes to increase fund size to $150m by the time it reaches final close later this year
July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15
Software project will save Ford tens of millions a year in car repair bills

Car maker Ford is rolling out sophisticated warranty software to 12,000 dealers worldwide in a project that is expected to bring rapid financial returns
July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15
Microsoft pushes portability of experience with latest Visual Studio

Microsoft has been focused on making its own applications portable – now it wants Windows developers writing cross-platform.
July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15
Puppet Labs hails importance of IT managers in winning over DevOps sceptics in the enterprise

Automation supplier's fourth annual DevOps research report highlights the important role IT managers play in ensuring enterprise-wide adoption
July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15
UK tech sector called to contribute to EC Digital Single Market consultations

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) says UK must feed back to the European Commission (EC) to inform the delivery of its Digital Single Market vision
July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15
US datacentre company Digital Realty buys rival Telx to build out co-location business

Digital Realty doubles its size with the acquisition of rival datacentre systems supplier Telx, as consolidation in the market gathers pace
July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15
AWS to build wind farm in North Carolina to power its cloud datacentres

AWS follows up earlier renewable energy pledge by setting out plans to build 208MW wind farm
July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15
CIO interview: Mattias Forsberg, Systembolaget

Systembolaget CIO Mattias Forsberg says IT and business need to have a relationship of co-operation and expects every successful IT project to include some pain
July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15
UK to invest £45m in digital research and skills

Millions of pounds will be invested in building research centres to fuel the UK’s digital economy research and skills
July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15
Public sector organisations not consulting consumers about digital services

Although most public sector organisations agree consulting with the public is essential for digital services development, only a fraction are doing so
July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15
Cut IT team by a third, says VMware cloud chief

VMware's cloud chief, Bill Fathers, urges CIOs to rebuild their IT department and infrastructure for the cloud
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