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• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  HMRC reaches halfway point on project to develop new UK customs IT system

  The new system for handling customs at UK borders is 50% complete, says HMRC - but CEO warns he cannot give guarantees over Brexit deadline

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  HMRC confirms Microsoft corporate vice-president Jacky Wright as new CDIO

  HMRC has tasked Microsoft corporate vice-president Jacky Wright with helping the department achieve its goal of becoming one of the world's most digitally advanced tax authorities

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics

  Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  £30m National Innovation Centre for Data launched

  The government and Newcastle University have teamed up to launch a £30m National Innovation Centre for Data, as part of the Northern Powerhouse

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Mobile networks restored to hurricane-hit Caribbean islands

  Emergency networking teams from the Vodafone Foundation and Télécoms Sans Frontières are working to restore mobile connectivity after the Caribbean was ravaged by Hurricane Irma

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  GDS is ‘sidelined’ and government as a platform ‘is dead’, says Francis Maude

  Former Cabinet Office minister cites diminishing of Government Digital Service role as he criticises civil service resistance to change

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  FCA warns UK consumers of risks associated with initial coin offerings

  The UK financial services authority has published warnings to consumers thinking of investing in initial coin offerings

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  BT offers enterprise customers flexible bandwidth for peak usage

  New element of BT IP Connect Global WAN service will enable businesses to dial their network capacity up and down at will

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Finnish energy company Helen outsources its basic IT services

  The energy company is the latest Nordic organisation to outsource IT services to enable it to focus on the business

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• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Equifax confirms massive data breach was result of missed patch

  Equifax appears to have failed to roll out a patch that might have stopped the massive breach of its systems

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Digital Catapult invites regional bids for IoT network expansion

  Digital Catapult is planning a major expansion of its Things Connected IoT network across the UK and has invited bids from regional bodies

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Enterprise appetites for cloud-based financial apps on the rise, Gartner research suggests

  Research into corporate appetites for cloud-based financial apps suggest demand is growing faster than expected, claims Gartner

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Government aligns data laws with GDPR

  The UK government announces details of its data protection law that will align with the EU’s GDPR

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Trust could be last hurdle for insurtech dominance

  Insurance startups that use the latest IT are gaining customers but still face challenges around trust, security and consumer awareness

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Dubai Health Authority unveils bilingual app for service providers

  The Dubai Health Authority has put the process for bidding for its contracts on an app

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  VMworld 2017: How vSphere operators will become container managers

  VMware is fleshing out its strategy to become the Swiss Army knife for hybrid computing. We investigate how vSphere will evolve

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Enterprise datacentre operators share staff recruitment challenges in 451 Research report

  New data from 451 Research shines a light on the challenges enterprise datacentre operators face when sourcing staff

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Technology vital to healthcare in Asia-Pacific

  The opportunities for technology to improve healthcare services were explored at HIMSS AsiaPac17 in Singapore, but experts warned that challenges must be addressed before innovation can truly transform the sector

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Lack of skills main barrier to civil service tech adoption

  TechUK civil servants survey highlights need for skills training, common standards and working practices across departments to deliver joined-up public services

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  Philip Hammond: AI will stoke productivity in government

  Philip Hammond, chancellor of the exchequer, told a House of Lords select committee that artificial intelligence could stoke government productivity in areas of “low-level decision making”

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  Apple faces challenge of convincing users to upgrade to iPhone X

  Apple has announced the iPhone X but it faces a challenge of convincing current owners to make the jump.

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  British Army enhances data-driven decision making to staunch churn

  The British Army is continuing to use SAS analytics software to improve its data management, with a particular focus on reducing high-value personnel churn

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  DevOps salary survey highlights link between server farm size and practitioner pay

  The Puppet 2017 DevOps Salary Report suggests practitioners working at larger firms, with sizeable server farms and low-level manual configuration management, get paid more

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  CIO interview: Karl Hoods, CIO, Save the Children UK

  The charity’s CIO is looking at the potential of blockchain technologies and establishing an internal digital academy to drive its digital transformation strategy

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  Finland’s Valmet transforms IT with €38m outsourcing deal

  Industrial tech firm Valmet outsources IT infrastructure services to focus its internal IT resources on business and digital developments

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  Self-preservation: The Gibraltar National Archives uses cloud to safeguard its history

  The head of the Gibraltar National Archives discusses how cloud and archiving technologies are safe-guarding its history for future generations

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  Vodafone identifies 50 future digital hubs

  A Vodafone research report has identified a number of towns and cities that have the potential to become what it refers to as Digital Super Towns

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  Vodafone whitepaper hails role of IoT in delivering personalised healthcare treatments

  Vodafone outlines how smart devices can improve patient adherence by offering them personalised healthcare

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  CBI calls for transitional deal with EU on data

  The CBI is warning of the risks to UK businesses of no deal with the European Union on data exchange when Brexit arrives

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Businesses that overlook ROI analysis are missing cost savings

  Organisations have more chance of meeting their cost saving expectations following cloud migrations if they carry out ROI analysis before

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Openreach and rivals want collaborative approach to broadband

  The government’s ambitions for FTTP broadband roll-out can only be met through collaboration, and an urgent shake-up of Ofcom regulatory policy is needed to reflect this, say Openreach and CityFibre

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Government wants to remain in EU cyber security club after Brexit

  The UK government wants to maintain deep links with the European Union’s cyber security working groups following Britain’s exit from the bloc in 2019

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  VMworld 2017: VMware updates software legacy

  VMware is beginning to recognise there is life beyond the hypervisor as it announces VMware HCX, which will provide interoperability between private and public cloud

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  University gets Nutanix for self-serve cloud to replace Red Hat

  The University of Reading replaces ageing and difficult-to-manage Red Hat storage with half a petabyte of Nutanix hyper-converged and dodges £1/2 million of VMware costs

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2017 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Patients will get access to NHS services via app by end of 2018

  Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will set out plans for giving patients access to records and booking GP appointments through app

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Nearly half of Asia-Pacific manufacturers will have fully connected factories by 2022

  Study finds that thinner margins and the desire for faster and higher quality production has driven manufacturers to modernise their operations through digital technology

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Home Office agrees back-office transformation deal

  The Home Office is moving more of its back-office processes into the cloud

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Riak NoSQL snapped up by Bet365

  Betting firm Bet365 aims to give away enterprise version of Riak NoSQL to the open source community and continue the development of the product

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  EE repurposes 2G spectrum to support expanded 4G mobile service

  The operator will re-farm a tranche of spectrum formerly used for 2G services to boost capacity and speed on its 4G network

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  Martha Lane Fox warns UK is 'sleepwalking' through digital disruption

  During a House of Lords debate, Martha Lane Fox claimed the UK has been “sleepwalking” through digital change and urged for more to be done to promote “digital understanding”

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  UK government sets to work on replicating the Digital Marketplace model overseas

  Government procurement chiefs and digital champions share details of the work being done to help export the principles of the Digital Marketplace overseas

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  Why the best way to encourage digital innovation is not to fund it

  Give people the space to grow and reward people for ideas rather than their output and innovation will come, says Frazer Bennett, a member of PA Consulting’s management team

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  HMRC should prioritise ‘basic’ customs IT system, says report

  Amidst concerns that the customs declaration service won’t be ready in time for Brexit, the Institute for Government calls on HMRC to focus on getting the basics right and let innovation come later

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  EAN airline broadband service moves closer to reality

  The European Aviation satellite has successfully completed in-orbit testing and will begin to service in-flight broadband customers later in 2017

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Government recovers £645m for BDUK broadband roll-out

  The government has recovered £645m of funding to be reinvested in future broadband roll-out through a mix of clauses in its BDUK contracts with BT and project savings

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Trainline uses predictive analytics to help rail passengers save money

  Travellers using Trainline’s app can save money on tickets after the introduction of an in-app feature called Price Prediction

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Millions of customer records compromised in Equifax breach

  Major security breach unfolded over a two-month period, and is thought to have affected 143 million customers in the US, as well as an undisclosed number of Britons and Canadians

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Interview: IT disruption hits outsourcing’s legal profession

  IT is disrupting almost every corner of the business world, and those who operate in the IT services are no exception, with lawyers in the sector feeling the disruption

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Half of UK fintech firms confident in growth but have doubts over skills

  UK fintech companies are confident that revenues will double over the next year, but have concerns over talent and customer take up of services

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Hillarys Blinds unveils SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as SAP Hana OS

  Blinds manufacturer Hillarys, a long-time SAP customer and Hana advocate, has revealed the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications to be the operating system underlying its stack

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Thousands of Deutsche Bank employees will be replaced by robots

  The CEO of Deutsche Bank said a "big number of staff will eventually be replaced by robots” as it looks towards artificial intelligence technology

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub

  Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  The storage controller has to go, says Scale Computing CEO

  Hyper-converged appliance maker Scale Computing says it achieved near bare metal performance from NVMe by doing away with controller functionality. Is this the end of the SAN?

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  CCS claims Technology Service 2 framework will help SMEs win more public sector IT deals

  With data suggesting the proportion of public sector IT spend secured by SMEs is falling, CCS embarks on a renewed bid to help smaller firms win government contracts

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Legal services firm gets 54TB of NEC Hydrastor NAS as backup target

  Quislex has cut backup windows by a third and will roll out 700TB of NEC Hydrastor to Hyderabad datacentre to provide a grid of deduplicated storage for backup and archive

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Barclays Bank ahead of schedule in ring-fencing project

  Barclays Bank is set to meet the government’s ring-fencing legislation well before the deadline

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Italian startup uses IoT network to improve bicycle security

  Turin-based Sherlock, a bike security startup, is connecting its GPS anti-theft units to Orange Business Services’ worldwide IoT network

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Average female tech salary less than males regardless of role or experience

  Research by Computer Weekly has found women in the technology industry are paid less than their male counterparts, regardless of the role they are in or how much experience they have

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: Shortlist announced

  Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, with the winners set to be announced on Tuesday 12 September 2017

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Developers won't ask bosses for help

  Software developers are turning to YouTube to find out how to solve technical problems, rather than asking for help from colleagues

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  European Union states question copyright law proposal

  European states are questioning legality of a new copyright law proposed by the EU

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Europeans slowly catching up with Asia for mobile payments

  Consumers are increasingly using their mobile phones to make payments in Europe, finds survey

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  IoT networks a massive sales opportunity for operators, claims GSMA

  Commercial initiatives around low power wide area network infrastructure will present mobile operators with a potential $1.8tn revenue opportunity over the next decade

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Leaked Brexit document shows plans for digital immigration status checker portal

  Government is set to create a joined-up digital portal to check immigration status of EU citizens post-Brexit, according to leaked Home Office document

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Microsoft will give legal aid to its 39 Dreamers

  Tech chiefs have spoken out against President Trump's plans to pull the plug on the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme. Now Microsoft's legal chief has promised to provide legal support to affected staff

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Huddle claims new ownership means "business as usual" for public sector customers

  UK cloud collaboration firm Huddle confirms Turn/River as new majority shareholder, and claims the tie-up will help accelerate its growth into new markets. But what of its existing customers?

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Middle East CIO interview: Rajiv Prasad, Xpandretail

  IT head at customer analytics provider Xpandretail says the CIO role is increasingly important as businesses digitise, but warns that CIOs must be given the human resources they need

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Accenture to deliver video-enabled justice to Sussex Police

  Sussex Police aim to save time and increase flexibility by providing video live links for witnesses to give evidence in court

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  UK universities increasingly targeted by cyber criminals

  Cyber attacks are turning their attention to UK universities, with research being the main prize

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Tegile set to compete with big six with cheaper arrays, says CEO

  Tegile’s takeover by Western Digital will propel it to competition with the big six storage array makers, as well as bring economies of scale and see NVMf and 3D Xpoint products

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Virgin Media owner Liberty Global rolls out Juniper NFV

  Media delivery company Liberty Global is to use Juniper Networks vMX virtual routers to improve network performance and scale

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  China cracks down on initial coin offerings

  Financial services regulators in China have cracked down on the use of Initial Coin Offerings to raise funds

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  People with non-IT backgrounds could help fill cyber security skills gap

  Organisations should look to fill cyber security roles with people who are curious and have work experience rather than focusing solely on graduates

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Met Police IT strategy: CCTV footage shared through Box

  The Met Police digital policing strategy is taking shape under CIO Angus McCallum, and will use Box for sharing documents and CCTV footage

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Gigaclear extends narrow trenching FTTP broadband dig

  Fibre broadband provider Gigaclear is extending its BDUK dig in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  HMRC denies IR35 reforms to blame for public sector IT project delays and cancellations

  New research from ContractorCalculator suggests contractors have left the public sector in droves since the IR35 reforms came into force, but HMRC has a different take on the situation

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  Technology is needed to boost UK productivity, but not at the cost of employees

  The Trade Union Congress calls for a debate about the future of employment as more roles become automated or replaced by artificial intelligence

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  Women still under-represented in Nordic IT despite region’s efforts

  Although countries in the Nordic region are often hailed as pioneers of digital and equal worker rights, there is still gender inequality in the IT sector.

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  CIO interview: Adrenaline junkie leaps from big pharma to cloud services

  Diana McKenzie, CIO of Workday and triathlon competitor, on analytics, data lakes and the relationship between IT and business

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  Government launches FTTP pilot for businesses, schools and hospitals

  The government has released £10m to six FTTP trial projects around the UK, testing ultrafast broadband technology in businesses, schools and hospitals

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  AWS eyes Australian government growth

  Amazon Web Services is eyeing the Australian public sector for growth, with increased budgets and IT disasters in the past pushing government organisations towards the public cloud

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  Almost all UK law firms vulnerable to email fraud, study shows

  Robust defence of law firms’ email systems is critical to the £26bn industry in the face of increased impersonation attacks aimed at stealing money and data, claims security firm OnDmarc

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  US Open tennis uses IBM AI to create video highlights

  Fans of the US Open are able to access match highlights provided by IBM's Watson artificial intelligence system

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  Content delivery innovation improves user experience for e-tailer

  WorldStores Group, the owner of a number of online home and lifestyle retail brands, has transformed its customer experience with enhanced content delivery capabilities from Instart Logic

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  Two-thirds of British people have used contactless cards

  The take up of contactless payment technology continues at a pace, according to research by Visa

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  Business warned of massive ransomware campaign

  Security researchers are urging businesses to prepare for ransomware attacks after the discovery of a massive attack campaign

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  European investors back cloud, IoT and big data for insurance sector

  Investors are putting their money behind suppliers of technology to the European insurance sector

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Two-thirds of UK firms hiring for GDPR

  Most UK firms are planning to hire extra staff to help them meet the requirements of the EU’s new data protection regulation

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Government launches digital skills survey to find out more about UK’s needs

  The government has launched a survey to find out what advanced and specialist digital skills are needed in the UK

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Government consults on fibre broadband rate relief

  The Department for Communities and Local Government has launched a consultation on the draft regulations covering business rate relief for new fibre broadband infrastructure

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  App-based challenger bank Starling enters next stage of its journey

  Thousands of people are downloading Starling’s app every week as the bank builds its customer base

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  ICO fines council £70,000 for exposing personal data online

  The ICO has issued a monetary penalty to Nottinghamshire County Council for leaving personal information exposed online for five years

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Open source helps Schiphol fly to multi-clouds

  Amsterdam airport Schiphol is utilising open source software to create and use a multi-cloud platform with an open API

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  How an idea built on web freebies and low-cost tools evolved into a virtual NHS clinic

  We speak to an NHS trust about how readily available web software helped clinicians get a pioneering project off the ground

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Instagram fixes API blamed for celebrity data leaks

  Instagram says it has fixed the API responsible for enabling hackers to access some personal details of high-profile users of the service

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Use of healthcare data must improve, says report

  Life sciences sector report calls on government to create several digital innovation hubs, improve data use and establish a regulatory health technology assessment and commercial framework

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  In-house Vodafone MVNO pitches to youth market

  Vodafone targets under-25s with a free social data MVNO concept called Voxi

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana to offer integration

  Amazon and Microsoft’s voice assistants will be able to integrate with each other to provide users with the best features from both

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Suspected UK bank cyber attacker extradited from Germany

  A British man suspected of cyber attacks on banks is back in the UK to face charges