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• 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

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Home Office appoints former Credit Suisse technology head as CTO

  Home Office appoints former Credit Suisse employee Sarah Wilkinson as its new chief technology officer

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Why MPs lost faith in the Post Office's IT investigation, but vowed to fight on

  A group of 140 MPs has removed its backing for a Post Office scheme to redress subpostmasters' grievances over alleged false accounting

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  Only 39% of banks can confirm daily liquidity status, says Swift

  Only 39% of banks can confirm payments from foreign accounts in real time, according to a survey from Swift

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  M&S turns to predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked over Christmas

  Marks & Spencer is using predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked with mince pies and turkeys over Christmas.

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  KPMG says businesses do not take IT risks seriously enough

  UK businesses are paying out £410,000 per year for unplanned IT problems, a study from KPMG has warned

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  NHS must partner with industry to embrace technology

  Healthcare providers must share expertise from the technology industry to make serious change, says NHS foundation CEO David Dalton

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  UKtech50 2014 - The most influential people in UK IT

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

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising Stars 2014

  Computer Weekly’s five rising stars of 2014

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  Sainsbury's digital and technology director Jon Rudoe talks about customer-facing technologies, in-house development and data analytics

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  Innocent Drinks: Why the UK is the best place for startups

  Innocent Drinks co-founder, Richard Reed, says the UK is the best place for a startup company

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  Competition essential if retail banks are to modernise their IT

  Only genuine competition in the retail banking sector will push banks to replace legacy IT, with fines and reputational damage making little impact

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Is a local GDS the answer to local authority transformation? Lessons from the Labour digital review

  Labour’s digital government review touches on a number of issues, but what’s the future of GDS – and could it be scaled to help local authorities?

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  While supermarkets all over the UK are facing challenging times ahead of them, Sainsbury's is taking its technology and innovation into its own hands by developing digital products for its customers.

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  Pressure on Universal Credit’s digital service mounts as testing begins

  Risks remain for Universal Credit as DWP continues its twin-track gradual roll-out of live and digital services

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  India’s IT spending to reach $73.3bn in 2015

  Indian IT spending is forecast to reach $73.3bn in 2015, up by 9.4% from $67.1bn in 2014

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  Operator error the root cause of Microsoft Azure failure

  Operator error was the root cause of the catastrophic failure of Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform on 19 November 2014

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Asda opens technology centre in Leeds

  Asda opens a technology centre in its Leeds head office to provide a more streamlined service for online customers

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  Interview: 'Government is the best digital startup in London'

  Computer Weekly interviews Ministry of Justice chief digital officer Paul Shetler about transforming government public services

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Anna Barsby, CIO, Halfords

  Since joining Halfords as CIO, Anna Barsby has faced significant business challenges, including a risky cloud upgrade

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Interview: Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information, NHS

  All divisions of the NHS must have electronic patient records by 2020 or risk losing their licence - we talk to the man in charge to find out why

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  How to deal with the next software renewal call from the big four suppliers

  IT departments are being subjected to ruthless tactics by software sales teams when they renegotiate contracts with the big four suppliers

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  Amazon not the biggest threat to high street retailers

  Competition from online-only traders does not pose the biggest threat to high street retailers, with cautious attitudes a bigger risk

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Councils need to embed digital more, says Hampshire's digital leader

  Local public sector needs to ensure digital is embedded into planning, policy and process, says Hampshire Country Council digital leader

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Interview: Building links between marketing and IT for the greater good

  Firms that forge relations between marketing and IT departments yield benefits in growing the range of their digital products

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Deutsche Bank gets first chief data officer

  Deutsche Bank has appointed its first chief data officer

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Three UK saves £10m a year by integrating stores, web and call centres

  Mobile operator Three aims to give customers the same service however they interact with the company, while reducing IT capital costs

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  First ever CeBIT India to focus on cloud, social, mobile and big data

  CeBIT is making its debut in India this month in Bangalore

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  OpenCo 2014: When do startups stop being startups?

  More than 100 UK digital companies opened their London offices to the public for a day to show how they work

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Lloyds Banking Group confirms 9,000 job cuts and digital investment

  Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it will cut 9000 jobs and close around 150 branches to focus more on its digital strategy

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Standards will enhance the maturity of IT, says Shell's Karel van Zeeland

  Shell's Karel van Zeeland is founding member and lead architect of IT4IT Consortium and campaigns for open standards for integrating IT

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Tablets now workplace standard, says Dell

  At least 90% of IT decision makers in most countries claim tablets are a standard part of their company’s IT strategy

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  HR technology used to save lives following natural disasters

  Plan International is using SAP's HR technology to deploy specialists relief workers within hours of a major emergency

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  Companies will move core HR technologies to the cloud by 2020

  Businesses will abandon on-premise HR IT systems in favour of cloud technology by 2020, says SuccessFactors chief

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Government needs to make technology exciting for women

  The government must make technology roles more exciting to attract females into the industry, says HMRC's Mark Dearnley

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum

  Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  McAfee Next Generation firewall addresses siloed security risks

  McAfee claims its Next Generation Firewall product will help CIOs mitigate the risks associated with siloed security products

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Enterprise IT should be more user-centric, says Box CEO Aaron Levie

  The CEO of cloud-based file sharing and content management service Box calls on enterprises to rethink IT delivery model

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  CIOs fear poor cloud investment is making businesses uncompetitive

  CIOs and CFOs fear their enterprises are missing revenue opportunities due to poor cloud strategies

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Indian government IT spend to hit $7.2bn in 2015

  The Indian government will spend $7.2bn on IT in 2015, with IT and BPO services the biggest area of investment, says Gartner

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Embedded SIMs key to unlocking internet of things

  GSMA’s eUICC Embedded SIM Specification will help M2M communications and the IoT become mainstream, say analysts

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Symantec splits storage and security

  Symantec is splitting its storage and security business, following just days after HP announced its split

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Tim Berners-Lee: Data sharing needs accountability

  The question of how much data an individual should share was a key theme of Tim Berners-Lee's keynote at IP Expo

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  The challenges facing HP as it splits in two

  HP is splitting its business in two - but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  L’Oreal aligns technology with the business to work faster

  L’Oreal’s digital technology is working with the business and marketing departments to become innovative and agile

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

  Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  Lloyds Banking Group to cut thousands of jobs

  Lloyds Banking Group set to cut thousands of jobs for digitisation strategy that will see manual tasks become automated

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Yes Bank adopts SunTec software suite

  Indian private bank Yes Bank is using software from SunTec for revenue management and business assurance

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Union Budget of India will boost hardware, software and services spend

  IT will play a key role in addressing issues like poverty alleviation and job creation, following the recent budget

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Translation issues between IT and HR causing poor IT employment choices

  Poor IT employments are being made due to poor communication between IT and HR, according to HR supplier Hudson.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Microsoft readies Windows 10 Technical Preview

  Microsoft is today releasing a preview of Windows 10, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system