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August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
Five pitfalls to avoid when doing DevOps

As the DevOps movement gains traction in the enterprise space, here are five pitfalls CIOs need to avoid to make it work for the business
August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service
August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14
Ex-RBS CIO takes up Deutsche Bank role

Former CIO of Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) Markets division announced as global head of IT infrastructure at Deutsche Bank
August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14
CIO Interview: Hugh Fahy, CIO, Net-A-Porter

“I like to emphasis the ‘I’ bit in CIO,” says Hugh Fahy, chief information officer of the Net-A-Porter Group

August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14
How CIOs can put their organisations at the forefront of innovation

CIOs have a critical role in helping their organisations exploit innovative ideas developed by non-technical specialists.
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
Tackling the IT skills gap: University degree or apprenticeship?

While the GCE A-Level results show that more people than ever will be going to university, the IT industry is failing to attract enough new talent
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
Forrester: Top 10 facts about private cloud

Cloud is an essential component of every enterprise technology management strategy but designing a robust cloud strategy isn't easy
August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14
UK recession benefits IT industry

A fifth of IT staff believe the UK recession has had a positive impact on the IT industry, according to Randstad Technologies
August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14
60% of GDS staff contracts to expire within 12 months of general election

Almost 60% of employees at the Government Digital Service (GDS) could be gone within 12 months of next year’s general election
August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
European Medicines Agency signs €4.5m Serco contract for IT support

The European Medicines Agency EMA has signed a €4.5m contract with Serco for an outsourced IT helpdesk
July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14
Atos revenue slips but UK growth up 3.7%

Revenue of Atos dipped 1.9% in the first half of 2014 because of slowdown in IT orders in Europe, but UK growth was up
July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14
Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project
July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14
Law gives 'arbitary' protection against surveillance, tribunal told

Your choice of mobile phone service can determine whether the government can legally spy on you, tribunal told
July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14
FSB calls for major reforms to UK broadband market

Federation of Small Businesses calls for more ambitious government broadband targets, saying slow progress is hampering growth
July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14
UK leads in mobile adoption

UK businesses are getting a return on their mobile investments as they invest in technologies to underpin their digital strategies
July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14
Software asset management can drive down licensing costs

With suppliers pulling the audit card, IT needs to get licence key in order. But strong software asset management (SAM) offers more than just licence compliance
July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14
CIO India interview: VVR Babu, ITC Group

ITC Group might be over 100 years old but it is at the forefront of enterprise IT in India. CIO VVR Babu tells searchcio.in about his role at a company where he has worked for 35 years.
July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14
Dunnhumby heads to Oracle cloud for back-office standardisation

Data science company Dunnhumby has launched a project to globalise its back-office business processes using Oracle Fusion cloud
July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14
Wearable technology creates new privacy issues for employers

Wearable technology is creating new privacy headaches for employers, a leading law firm has warned.
July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14
CIO Interview: Simon Hill, Caravan Club

What do the corporate giants Shell, BP and Guinness Brewing Worldwide have in common with the Caravan Club? Simon Hill has worked in the IT departments of all four
July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14
Just Eat opens Bristol centre to boost native app development

Just Eat is setting up a development centre in Bristol to build native mobile apps and support its back-end e-commerce systems
July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14
Gartner: Now is a good time to buy IT

Pricing pressure has led to buyers getting a better deal from IT suppliers, according to Gartner analysts
June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14
Internet of Things already stretching networks to capacity

A new study reveals the scale of the challenges facing network managers as the Internet of Things becomes a reality
June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14
Business conditions looking brighter for IT suppliers as insolvencies fall

Business and domestic software development still struggling, according to insolvency index
June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14
Efforts to detect terrorism hampered by mass surveillance, says former NSA technical director

US at risk of missing terrorist threats under huge volume of surveillance data, says former NSA technical director
June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14
Cloud app logins reused in piracy scam

Software piracy will remain prevalent even though more applications are delivered as a service, according to the BSA
June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14
BBC sets up expert group of cloud controllers

The BBC has set up a central group of IT, security and user communities to manage its purchase and use of cloud computing
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
CIO interview: Mark Bramwell, head of IT, Wellcome Trust

The world’s largest medical charity is shifting its technology focus to improving ways of working
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Don’t let bean counters determine your cloud strategy, says Bank of England CIO

John Finch, the CIO of the Bank of England, warns users to be wary of financial promises made by cloud providers
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Coca-Cola bottler seeks to put mission-critical systems on the cloud

Coca Cola bottling company is moving the company’s mission-critical workloads, including ERP systems on to the cloud
June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14
Kemp Little lawyers offer tips for public cloud journey

Cloud CIOs need to have a “sense check” while planning their public cloud strategies, say technology lawyers
June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14
Travel group Expedia aims to predict your holiday plans

Travel group Expedia is developing technology that will predict the needs of its customers before they call about their travel plans
June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14
80% of UK CIOs cite significant gap between business needs and IT delivery

80% of IT decision-makers in the UK feel there is a significant gap between business needs and IT delivery – the highest in Europe
June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14
UK airports lead move to cloud services

UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.
June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14
UK government launches cyber security support scheme

Government issues guidance and certification to help businesses with cyber security as part of the national Cyber Security Strategy
June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14
Decision-makers rely on intuition over analytics

Business leaders are more likely to trust their intuition than rely on business intelligence dashboards
June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14
CIOs should 'leave innovation to marketing'

CIOs should focus on managing the technical infrastructure and leave innovation to other parts of the business – conclusion of a major study.
June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14
Unsupported Windows XP still widely used

Two months since Windows XP support officially ended 25% of web users are still on the unsupported Microsoft operating system
June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14
VMware CTO hits back at AWS tool to manage virtual machines

VMware CTO Chris Wolf warns users against being fooled by tools disguised as hybrid cloud management as AWS launches administration portal
June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14
IBM escapes SEC action on its cloud revenue reporting

US regulatory watchdog SEC will not take action against IBM following an investigation into how it reports cloud revenue
June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14
Met Office swaps Oracle for PostgreSQL

UK weather service the Met Office has started swapping Oracle for Postgre SQL in a strategy to deploy more open source technology
June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14
Everywoman in Technology Leadership Academy opens its doors

The everywoman in Technology Leadership Academy opened its doors for women to learn key elements of leadership and career advancement
May 30, 2014 30 May'14
Microsoft and Salesforce bind SQL deal and Office 365 integration

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated the company’s new found openness with a strategic alliance with Salesforce.com.
May 30, 2014 30 May'14
IT supplier insolvencies fall for first time as economy recovers

Technology companies have reached a turning point as insolvencies fall for the first time in 2014
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
The challenges of going digital at the DVLA

The DVLA is seen as one of the early adopters in the public sector drive to provide digital services to save government £1.8bn per year
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
Technology companies 'lagging in talent management technology'

Technology and IT suppliers have been slow to deploy HR technology, with many relying on spreadsheets, word processors and legacy ERP systems
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson

Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT
May 22, 2014 22 May'14
iPass turns to cloud SaaS to ease road warrior Wi-Fi woes

With the launch of its Business Traveller 2.0 service, Wi-Fi specialist iPass moves into the cloud with the aim of making user adoption a breeze
May 20, 2014 20 May'14
Businesses increase IT spending at fastest rate for eight years, say IT leaders

IT spending is up, but role of CIOs under threat as companies appoint chief digital officers
May 19, 2014 19 May'14
Salvation Army scales IT through outsourcing

The Salvation Army is using a project-based outsourcing model to support its highly specialised but thinly spread IT department to ensure it keeps pace with IT developments
May 12, 2014 12 May'14
The digital CIO: How to be a digital innovator

CIOs need to think about their IT budgets in a different way to free up funds for innovation
May 06, 2014 06 May'14
Department of Health selects SME online collaboration via G-Cloud

The Department of Health has signed a shared service with Inovem, an SME provider of online collaboration software
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Addressing security and privacy on the industrial internet

The smart grid and smart meters are part of the wider industrial internet, which will offer insight into people’s life at home. What are the security implications?
May 01, 2014 01 May'14
Mike Stone named as new MoD CIO

Mike Stone has been named as the new CIO for the Ministry of Defence, replacing Yvonne Ferguson who left last week
April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14
Interview: Nick Roberts, president of Socitm and IT group manager

This month, Nick Roberts, IT group manager at Surrey County Council, took over as president of Socitm, the association of IT and digital professionals working in and for local public services
April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14
SDL turns to cloud HR to join up businesses in 40 countries

The technology is central to the company’s strategy to integrate formerly autonomous businesses in 38 countries into a single operation
April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14
CW500: Why data analysts need a soft edge to make the most of hard data

The ability to present data in ways that make sense to business leaders is at the heart of analytics
April 25, 2014 25 Apr'14
Tech giants pay out $300 million to settle anti-poaching case

Adobe, Apple, Google and Intel have settled out of court in a salary fixing lawsuit brought against them by Silicon Valley workers
April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14
Six Degrees datacentre suffers outage for more than 12 hours

Customers using Six Degrees’s datacentre and hosting services faced downtime as the hosting and managed services provider suffered an outage for over 12 hours
April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14
Q&A: SAP's Mike Ettling discusses SuccessFactors cloud HR strategy

Computer Weekly talks to Mike Ettling, global head of cloud and on-premise HR at SAP, about the company’s strategy for its SuccessFactors cloud HR technology
April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14
IT budget gears towards innovation

Two-thirds of UK IT budgets will be allocated to innovative new products and services by 2017
April 14, 2014 14 Apr'14
Fearless women in IT setting their own tone on the startup scene

Females are turning to tech startups as a career route, according to FDM everywoman woman of the year Torie Chilcott
April 09, 2014 09 Apr'14
Caravan Club moves to cloud to support growth plan

The Caravan Club is in the process of moving to a private cloud after outsourcing parts of its IT to T-Systems to support growth plans
April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14
Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe

Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacle
April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14
India's Bharti Airtel and IBM agree scaled-down contract

Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel has restructured its IT services contract with IBM following changes to its business
April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14
Parliamentary computers crash 90 minutes after IT assurances

Network suffers ‘major incident’ soon after MPs and Lords are told, "It is working much better"
April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14
Pharmaceuticals company turns to cloud HR technology

Astra Zeneca CIO Dave Smoley turns lessons learned from an earlier cloud HR implementation to use at the pharmaceuticals giant
April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14
CIOs and CISOs should work more closely together, says panel

Chief information officers (CIOs) and chief information security officers (CICOs) need to collaborate and work closely together to encourage security throughout the organisation
April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14
Gartner: IT spending increases by 3.2% as businesses invest in digital strategies

Spending on IT is set to increase as businesses gain confidence in the economic recovery and start developing digital capabilities
April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14
Businesses must rethink HR IT as traditional jobs disintegrate

HR software needs a complete rethink to deliver services to an increasingly dispersed workforce, says cloud technology specialist
March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14
SAP signs up with Adobe to make Hana attractive to marketing

SAP has boosted its digital marketing efforts through a reseller partnership with Adobe.
March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14
Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UK
March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14
Three-quarters of UK charities are failing to adapt to digital

Charities in the UK are failing to adopt digital agendas in their organisations
March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14
Interview: Charles Phillips, CEO, Infor

Charles Phillips is at a critical point in his role at Infor. Over the past three years as CEO he has invested heavily in overhauling the company's enterprise software
March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14
Indian healthcare providers to spend INR 660 Crore on IT

Indian Healthcare providers will spend Rs. 660 Crore on IT products and services this year, with cloud, mobility, big data and social high on the agenda for healthcare providers, according to Gartner
March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14
Why HR departments need to hire IT specialists

Technology will fundamentally change the way people work, says psychology professor
March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14
BCS reports £2m losses on commercial activities

The Chartered Institute of IT (BCS) is 'haemorrhaging cash reserves' while its membership remains virtually static
March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14
Indian banks see double-digit increase in IT spending

The banking and security sectors in India will jointly spend 477bn Indian rupees on IT in 2014, according to Gartner.
March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14
Case study: BG Group turns to cloud HR to reach staff in multiple countries

Gas exploration and production company replaces SAP HR technology with Oracle Fusion in the cloud.
February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14
IT sector sees sharper rise in insolvencies than overall economy

Information and communications companies in the UK are suffering a rising number of insolvencies
February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14
CIOs 'need to think like venture capitalists' says study

IT chiefs will need to start thinking like venture capitalists if they are going to help their organisations innovate
February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14
HP services revenue declines as company readies litigation fund

HP has reported first quarter net revenue of $28.2bn, down 1%, while revenue in its Personal Systems division grew 4% year over year
February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14
Interview: The systems supremo helping Sochi run smoothly

Marta Sanfeliu, chief integration officer for Winter Olympics IT supplier Atos, helps ensure it's all smooth running for the IT at Sochi
February 13, 2014 13 Feb'14
CIO Interview: Lance Fisher, CIO, SThree

The IT department at global recruitment firm SThree has an emphasis on data analytics, cloud and mobile tools
February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14
Dynamic businesses use the network as the CEO

Yammer co-founder and CTO, Adam Pisoni, believes businesses need to reassess how they are organised
February 05, 2014 05 Feb'14
The BBC DMI project - what went wrong?

The BBC and its former CTO have engaged in tit-for-tat allegations over its failed £100m digital media project. But who was right?
February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14
Reserve Bank of India and the future of mobile banking

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is disappointed with the take up of mobile banking as consumers show a lack of confidence
January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14
Gaming site bets on flexible benefits software

Online gaming company Bwin.party is betting on specialist benefits software to help it attract and retain its top talent
January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14
BBC CTO John Linwood defends role in failed £100m digital project

Former BBC CTO John Linwood defends his role in the failed £100m DMI project, citing changing business requirements as a key factor
January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14
Viviane Reding: I know why the angry birds are so angry

In a speech to tie in with Data Protection day 2014, the vice-president of the European Commission spoke about mass surveillance of personal data collected from mobile apps
January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14
HB Fuller sticks with HR in the cloud

Cloud based HR system gives adhesives maker the ability to manage its global workforce
January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14
Internet at risk of 'cybergeddon' says WEF

Internet is at risk of fragmenting amid concerns over spying and cyber crime, says World Economic Forum
January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14
IT decision-makers accept SaaS as the future of software

Software as a service is set to become mainstream in 2014 as organisations replace on-premise systems with cloud applications.
January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14
UK IT spending will outpace rest of Europe in 2014

UK IT budgets will grow by 3.6% in 2014, second only to Germany
January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14
CIOs must combine traditional and agile IT projects

This year represents the beginning of the third age of IT. Gartner urges CIOs to embrace new working practices to avoid being left behind
January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14
Interactive graphic: 2014 European IT priorities and forecast

Find out the IT priorities and forecasts of European businesses for 2014 with our exclusive reader survey results
January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14
Former CEO of GSMA dies aged 62

Rob Conway passes away after battling an aggressive form of cancer
January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14
Fairfax bails out BlackBerry with another $250m

The mobile manufacturer’s largest shareholder ploughs another $250m into the firm, buying up more of its debts and giving BlackBerry some extra cash to play with.
January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14
Top 10 resolutions for the new year’s datacentre

For the datacentre manager, here are 10 New Year's resolutions that may come in useful for putting in place a technology platform for 2014