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• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail

  New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Case study: Inside JP Morgan's Glasgow developer centre

  JP Morgan chief development officer Stephen Flaherty heads a team of developers in Glasgow, one of the bank's strategic hubs

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  High-performing DevOps teams create better quality code, research suggests

  The 2016 State of DevOps report makes the case for incorporating security checks into every stage of the software development cycle

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Australian government entices UK tech startups

  Australia is trying to entice UK technology firms to open operations in the country, with benefits including a stepping stone to Asia and a skilled workforce

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Gulf Air tinkers with Oracle suite and explores hybrid cloud models

  Bahraini airline Gulf Air is looking to make productivity gains across its enterprise resource planning system

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  Middle East CIOs put ambitious IT projects on hold as cheap oil hurts business

  A lack of business confidence leads some organisations in the Middle East to delay or abandon ambitious IT projects that may not show an immediate return

• May 20, 2016 20 May'16

  Why Apple is wooing open source developers with Swift

  Apple is among the most closed of tech companies, yet it is serenading open source with its Swift programming language

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  What we can learn from Facebook’s software developers

  Open source is not just about free code. It also offers a way to collaborate and share best practices

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  The network is the application: Why APIs are agents of change

  Sun Microsystems once described the network as the computer. Today, applications are beginning to offer the real network value

• May 12, 2016 12 May'16

  Are Asian CIOs ready for container technology?

  Could risk aversion slow the growth of containerisation – touted as an enabler of innovation – in the region?

• May 10, 2016 10 May'16

  Nursery and baby store Kiddicare puts its hand up to data breach after attack on a test site

  Nursery and baby store Kiddicare suffers a data breach following a cyber attack on a test website that held real customer data

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Romanian companies look to attract programmers

  Romanian organisations are training software developers internally after having problems recruiting people with the right skills and experience through the labour market

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Visa chooses Singapore for its first innovation centre in Asia

  Visa opens its first innovation centre outside of the US to work with partners and customers to develop payment technology for the Southeast Asian market

• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  IBM develops quantum as a service

  IBM starts the ball rolling on what it would mean to program a universal quantum computer

• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  Shell the latest multinational to insource IT offshore

  Oil giant Shell is the latest large business to announce plans to insource its IT operations at a delivery centre in Bangalore, India

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  Wi-Fi aggregator iPass offers SDK to simplify network access

  iPass launches a software development kit to let enterprises, operators and suppliers integrate its technology and services into devices and apps

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  Mainstream adoption of blockchain by banks is 10 years away

  Banks could be putting blockchain under the microscope in a lab environment for the next 10 years, according to Forrester

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  Nordic corporations open their doors to tech startups

  Traditional Nordic corporations are starting to take advantage of the vibrant startup community in the region, and they are changing the way they think

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  Microsoft’s Q3 hit by cloud investments, income falls to $3.8bn

  Competing with AWS and expanding into new regions leaves a hole in the finances

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  DevOps advocates bust myths around use of agile software development in enterprise

  Continuous software delivery experts set out why enterprises could be missing out by shunning DevOps

• April 08, 2016 08 Apr'16

  CIOs lack faith in IT’s ability to meet digital demands of business

  VCE research suggests IT departments lack confidence in their ability to meet the digital demands of their organisation

• March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

  Premium ultramobiles set to drive PC sales

  The PC market remains weak, but premium products are selling in both the consumer and professional markets

• March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

  Microsoft sets out to woo iOS, Android and Linux developers

  Build is not just for Windows developers – Microsoft is keen to attract iOS, Android and Linux coders too

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  Metcalfe’s law of connections will drive digital business value

  Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet, proposed that the value of network cards increases as the number of networked devices grows

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  CIO interview: Mogens Kristensen, Sydbank

  Danish bank’s IT head explains the advantages of sharing some IT systems with other banks

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Rolls-Royce cloud HR project will pay for itself in two years

  HR IT director Mark Judd explains how engineering and aerospace firm swapped ageing ERP and spreadsheets for a company-wide core HR system

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Oracle Q3 2016: cloud revenue grows, US currency strength takes toll

  SaaS and PaaS combined contributed $583m in third quarter, up 57% in US dollar terms, while IaaS was down 2% in dollars to $152m

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Bet365 donates Erlang libraries to GitHub

  The open-source initiative will help to drive adoption of the Erlang functional programming language among enterprise developers

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  IoT adoption held back by lack of business case, software and skills

  The internet of things is at the top of Gartner’s Hype Cycle, but many organisations cannot build a business case to invest in IoT projects

• March 01, 2016 01 Mar'16

  Cern uses AppDynamics to improve application performance

  The home of the Large Hadron Collider has deployed AppDynamics’ APM tool to improve the speed and efficiency of application monitoring

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Tech Nordic Advocates partners with Nordic Startup Conference

  Tech Nordic Advocates, sister organisation of startup group Tech London Advocates, is partnering with the Nordic Startup Conference show in Copenhagen in March

• February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

  Vision Direct rewrites enterprise applications using Mendix cloud-based platform

  Eyecare company has used the Mendix application platform as a service to create new apps to support the business

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Electronics supplier RS Components outsources business process systems in online push

  Electronics manufacturer RS Components outsources its corporate software development to Atos in a bid to modernise its customer services

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  Netflix is now 100% all-in on the AWS cloud

  Streaming firm details the challenges it faced during seven-year push to wind down its datacentres and move everything into the AWS public cloud

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Tech Nation 2016 report reveals demand for digital skills in all sectors

  The digital industries contributed £87bn to the economy in 2014 – but there remains a lack of skills and broadband is still unevenly distributed

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Met Office extends application program interfaces with CA Technologies

  The Met Office uses application program interface (API) management from CA Technologies to support new ways of accessing weather data

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  MK:Smart enlists IoT supplier ThingWorx for speedy development

  Milton Keynes smart city project selects ThingWorx to provide a rapid application deployment environment

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Finnish construction company YIT opens a virtual IT test lab

  Finnish construction company YIT has opened a lab to allow its staff test out their digital ideas

• February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16

  Executive interview: Oracle's cloud chief on why suites win

  As Oracle ramps up its new cloud offering, we speak to Shawn Price, senior vice-president for cloud, about the company’s plans

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Leading Edge Forum teams up with Imperial college on business disruption

  Global thought leadership membership organisation launches programme to teach business heads about digital disruption

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Dell SDN’s OS10 promises new levels of network flexibility

  Dell expands its SDN product with a new operating system designed to maximise customer choice and capability

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  DevOps success requires business and cultural shift

  Cultural resistance and immature tools are limiting companies’ ability to ride the digitisation wave with streams of software-driven initiatives

• December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Henry Cohen, CIO, Telegraph Media Group

  The newspaper publisher is developing an agile mindset in response to the growth of digital over printed publications

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  CIO interview: BT Business CIO Colin Lees

  The telecoms giant has overhauled its IT stack to become more agile for the changing needs of business customers

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Action for Children uses Mendix to power efficiency drive

  Children's charity uses visual programming environment from Mendix to create bespoke administration applications

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Europe's CIOs must raise their game in testing software quality

  CIOs across Europe have more work to do to ensure the structural quality of software is sound as IT becomes more important to organisations across different sectors

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Interview: Rackspace CTO John Engates on why hybrid cloud matters

  As businesses opt for a combination of public and private cloud applications, chief technology officer John Engates says Rackspace's aim is to remove complexity and make it easier for customers to deploy cloud technology

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Internet of things key to fast product design improvement, says PTC

  Products are becoming smart and connected – and product lifecycle management software has to change to support that, says PTC chief Jim Heppelmann

• November 09, 2015 09 Nov'15

  Gartner: Time to take algorithms seriously

  Legacy systems and existing supplier relationships are barriers to digitisation. Instead, CIOs should focus on algorithms, says Gartner

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Digital transformations will spur software quality measurement

  Ever more customer-touching systems will force organisations to ensure their underlying software is robust enough to prevent IT problems becoming public and causing brand damage

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  Enterprise software contracts stifle digital business initiatives

  Two software licensing groups have joined forces to put pressure on the European Commission to investigate leading software companies

• October 12, 2015 12 Oct'15

  Government sets up £4m fund to spur video games industry

  The Department for Culture, Media and Sport announces grants of up to £25,000 from the Video Games Prototype fund to help new UK games developers get off the ground

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Three technologies to drive business

  Emerging technologies such as 3D printers, the internet of things and APIs will deliver new business opportunities, and CIOs are in a position to drive forward these business strategies

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

  Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  Universal Credit digital service moves into the cloud

  New system under trial in south London has been migrated to an IaaS platform ready for further roll-out

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Businesses fail to test or maintain mobile applications

  A survey from Accenture finds that despite enthusiasm for mobile applications among enterprises, senior decision makers are not properly prepared to implement and support them

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  NHS-approved healthcare apps found to be leaking unencrypted user data

  A study into the data security of NHS healthcare apps highlights serious privacy shortcomings

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Application testing costs set to rise to 40% of IT budget

  Digital transformation has put software quality to the fore, resulting in CIOs spending more on quality assurance and testing

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Government Digital Service builds in-house PaaS to host government services

  Industry watchers query why the Government Digital Service (GDS) decided to build its own cloud platform, when many commercially available options exist

• 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

  University of St Andrews gets European funding to push the limits of C++

  Highly parallel computing represents the future of IT, but data processing applications cannot be made to work efficiently in such environments

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  William Hill kicks off football season with blast from the past

  A mathematical programming concept that dates back a decade before the world’s first electronic computer is proving itself in the era of web-scale computing

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Domino's Pizza orders Hitachi Consulting to advise on DevOps push

  Pizza firm hopes agile development and continuous IT delivery will help it stay one step ahead of its competition

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Case study: How Finnish Saas provider LeadDesk cut its testing time in half

  Finland-based call centre software maker LeadDesk has cut software development times and improved processes through automation software

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Get into Docker for big job prospects

  Linux skills, especially Docker and Python, are in high demand and are commanding ever-higher salaries

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Video effects firm Framestore offloads rendering to Google Compute Engine with Avere

  The Avere filer appliance is being used to run rendering jobs on the Google cloud

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  GE prepares Predix platform as a service

  GE plans to offer internal Predix analytics platform as a service to drive adoption of industrial internet apps

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  ElasticHosts-owned Springs.IO debuts use-based pricing for Docker-like IaaS

  Springs.IO says using Linux-based container technology can help users cut cloud costs

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Rackspace and Intel outline plans to increase enterprise appeal of OpenStack

  Managed cloud company and chip maker are creating an innovation centre in Texas to accelerate maturity of OpenStack

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  IBM steps up open-source cloud commitment to developers

  Big Blue has unveiled several open-source initiatives geared towards helping developers make cloud apps

• 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 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms to drive open-source cloud standards

  The newly formed CNCF group aims to develop cloud standards for container technologies

• 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

  Google sponsors OpenStack hybrid interoperability

  Google becomes a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack open-source private cloud platform, aiming to deliver container management and cloud-native apps

• 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 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  BA opens up API on flight information

  British Airways offers an open application programming interface (API) for flight information to encourage developers to create value-added travel applications

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Addison Lee readies open API for global car bookings

  Addison Lee has laid the foundations for global expansion by offering an open API and cloud-based service

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Top suppliers as UK software and services market approaches £50bn

  The top five software and IT services firms in the UK are Capita, HP, IBM, Capgemini and Accenture, according to the latest figures from TechMarketView

• 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 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Choose Digital CTO makes case for "NoOps" software delivery approach

  Allowing developers to create, test and deploy updates alone lets companies take risks and innovate with greater ease, argues Mario Cruz

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Bet365: A company betting on its own technology innovations

  While many sites make great use of agile development, run on the cloud and are built on Java and JavaScript, Bet365 is doing IT its own way

• 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

  Cambridge replaces enterprise storage with direct attach Dell-Lustre setup

  Cambridge University uses Dell's MD direct attached storage with Intel’s Lustre to support its data-intensive research programmes

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Addison Lee supports business demands with MuleSoft API management

  Technology has always been a differentiator for Addison Lee and API management is the next stage in its roadmap

• 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

  Apple's Mac OS X El Capitan goes head to head with Windows 10

  At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple unveiled El Capitan, its latest operating system (OS) – but how does it compare to Windows 10?

• 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

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Peugeot Citroën prepares for in-car apps with Sierra Wireless

  French car manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroën plans to deploy device-to-cloud technology to support its connected car strategy

• May 28, 2015 28 May'15

  CA Technologies to buy agile software development firm Rally for $480m

  IT management vendor snaps up agile services and software specialist to capitalise on enterprise appetite for DevOps working styles

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  NATS failure down to bug from the 90s and redundant code

  A bug present in Nats since 1990s has been identified as the root cause of the five-hour outage of UK air traffic control on 12 December 2014

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  Cloud gives SMEs a competitive edge over the enterprise, claims Salesforce

  The rise of cloud computing means enterprises need to keep a closer eye on their SME competitors, claims Sage and Salesforce.com

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  Can OpenStack free up enterprise IT to support software-driven business?

  With Walmart going public with its use of OpenStack, now could be the time for big organisations to take the technology seriously

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Rentokil opens up core IT systems to business

  The IT department at Rentokil Initial has delivered coding interfaces to its back-end ERP system to enable the business to create new applications

• May 14, 2015 14 May'15

  AWS Educate brings cloud to the classroom to address IT skills gap

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to ensure students have the skills they need to make full use of cloud technologies in the workplace

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  EMC: Rise of third platform could spell end for businesses unwilling to adapt

  EMC World 2015 saw the storage giant warn about the business risks of ignoring new technologies and ways of working in the digital age

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  EMC courts developers with open-source storage software push

  Storage giant wants to make it easier for developers to get hold of its software and accelerate app development times

• May 04, 2015 04 May'15

  Atlantic.Net unveils New York datacentre and sets out UK expansion plans

  SSD-based cloud hosting firm opens datacentre, while setting out its UK expansion plans

• May 01, 2015 01 May'15

  Public sector IT suppliers call on government to extend G-Cloud 5

  After the Crown Commercial Service said G-Cloud 5 would not close on 22 May, public sector IT suppliers ask government to extend it even further