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• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Amazon contemplating next move in banking sector

  Amazon is in talks with a bank about setting up a current account that will appeal to young people

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Microsoft courts US government cloud users with Azure Stack integration promise

  Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to get the US government using its cloud in anger, with the promise of a forthcoming Azure Stack integration and new datacentre regions to house “secret” classified data

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Most Britons concerned about personal data sharing

  Most UK consumers are concerned about personal data they have shared online, but few know the extent of that data or their rights, a survey shows, indicating a need for education and transparency

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Security remains an afterthought in DevOps

  Enterprises in Asia are lapping up DevOps but less than one-third have baked security processes into their developments

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  How to improve SAP ROI with smart licensing

  A recent study suggested most SAP projects have a 50% chance of failure. The risk of having incorrect SAP licensing could be far higher

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Bitcoin burglaries: Icelandic police count cost of cryptocurrency kit thefts from datacentres

  Police in Iceland are investigating a spate of datacentre thefts, after thieves lifted 600 cryptocurrency-mining servers worth around $2m

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Hershey’s outsources SAP roll-out to Accenture

  US chocolate maker has signed up Accenture to support its SAP Hana S/4 implementation

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  MWC 2018: iPhone X device of choice for visitors to Barcelona

  Statistics compiled by mobile data crowdsourcing outfit Tutela has revealed in-depth insight into what devices visitors to Mobile World Congress 2018 were using, and how they used them

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Government aims to complete genome sequencing project by end of 2018

  The government-funded 100,000 Genomes Project, originally due to be completed by the end of 2017, has reached the halfway point and aims to have mapped 100,000 genomes by the end of the year

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  CIO interview: Helena Theakstone, head of digital, Oasis Fashion

  Oasis Fashion’s head of digital talks about GDPR preparation, collaboration between digital and IT, and the importance of listening to customers

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Most healthcare organisations have been breached, report shows

   Less than a third of global healthcare organisations remain untouched, as data breaches rise across the industry, a report reveals

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Spring Break flaw shows cross-industry collaboration

  A flaw that was discovered in Pivotal’s Spring Framework in September 2017 has only come to light now that users have had a chance to update

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  AWS outage: Datacentre power cut knocks ‘hundreds’ of internet services offline

  A year on from Amazon’s S3 outage at its US-East-1 datacentre region, a power loss incident in the same place has caused a fresh round of service disruption for the cloud giant’s customers

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Fibre broadband network builder challenges ASA on fake fibre

  CityFibre has filed for a judicial review of the Advertising Standards Authority’s November 2017 decision to allow fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband to be advertised as fibre

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Yorkshire Building Society implements cloud banking platform

  Yorkshire Building Society is using a cloud-based banking platform built on Salesforce.com to automate manual tasks

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Interview: Andy Street, mayor of the West Midlands

  West Midlands mayor Andy Street talks about why digital is key to the region’s economic growth, his hunt for a chief digital officer, and the importance of skills and collaboration

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Microsoft Singapore to tap solar energy for datacentre operations

  Software giant Microsoft will buy 100% of the renewable energy generated by solar panels installed on rooftops across Singapore to power its datacentre operations

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  UK will need data protection agreement with EU as part of Brexit deal, says PM

  Prime minister Theresa May's Brexit speech highlights need for data protection deal with EU, “advanced” border IT systems, and re-confirms UK won’t be part of the EU digital single market

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Cyber crime is a top threat to UK charities, says NCSC

  Cyber crime poses the most serious threats to UK charities, the National Cyber Security Centre has warned

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Scality Zenko 'multi-cloud controller' offers hybrid cloud boost

  S3-based software control layer will support Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds to bring hybrid cloud operations, with object storage across private and public clouds

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  CIO interview, Marcus East, chief technology officer, National Geographic

  National Geographic’s chief technology officer talks about the three pillars of its technology change programme and being “radical and innovative”

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Nesta challenge leverages Open Banking to help small businesses

  Innovation foundation invites enterprises of all sizes to compete for a share of a £2.5m prize fund in the second phase of its Open Up Challenge

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Cyber threat to industrial control systems highest yet

  The cyber threat to industrial control systems has never been greater, according to a report analysing malicious activity aimed at such systems

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Bank of England chief calls for cryptocurrency regulation

  Bank of England governor calls on cryptocurrencies to be regulated to protect financial system and reduce illicit activities

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Blockchain investment firm acquires Swedish colocation provider Hydro66

  Canadian investment firm Arctic Blockchain has acquired renewably powered colocation specialist Hydro66 to cash in on demand for datacentre capacity from cryptocurrency miners

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  CIOs ill-prepared for IT changes to enable digital business transformation

  Lack of skills, an inability to make the most of advanced analytics internally and slow software development are hampering digitisation efforts

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Equifax ups breach figure by a further 2.5 million

  Credit rating agency Equifax has increased the number of US records believed to have been compromised in 2017

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  People at risk of psychological side-effects of screen addiction

  Many Brits spend more than 10 hours a day attached to a screen and 60% look at two at once, research shows

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Vast majority of consumers unaware of Open Banking consequences, research finds

  Research shows most consumers have little or no knowledge of the Open Banking regulation and how it will affect them

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Cloud firms need $1bn datacentre investment a quarter to compete with AWS and co

  IT service providers must invest “at least” $1bn a quarter to keep up with the pace of Amazon, Google and Microsoft hyperscale cloud growth, research suggests

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Memcached servers irresistible to DDoS attackers, expert warns

  In the light of the biggest distributed denial of service attack to date against GitHub, organisations should ditch memcached servers or risk a blizzard of blistering attacks, says security researcher

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Wearables join mobiles as high-growth payment methods

  Banks must develop broad contactless payment strategies if they are to keep pace with consumer demand

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  New privacy fears as IT challenges delay surveillance oversight body by a year

  IT challenges have delayed government plans for an independent body to authorise requests to access the public’s internet and phone records by nearly a year, raising new legal and privacy concerns

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Imaging systems biggest security risk in healthcare

  Imaging systems have been identified as the biggest cyber security risk in the healthcare sector, a report on internet of things security has revealed

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Contractor confidence in HMRC’s IR35 online assessment tool remains low

  Research suggests contractors still have misgivings about using HM Revenue & Customs' IR35 online assessment tool, one year on from launch

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Trust underpins innovation, says UK information commissioner

  Underlining the relevance of data protection legislation to business, the UK information commissioner says consumer trust is key to innovation

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Case study: How the Moonlite Project will use green energy to power bitcoin-mining datacentres

  As the energy consumption habits of the cryptocurrency mining community continue to attract attention, we speak to the The Moonlite Project about how it is embracing renewable energy to clean up the industry’s image

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  NHS to pilot ID verification platform this spring

  NHS roadmap for digital services sets out plans for launching a joined-up NHS app, piloting its citizen ID platform and moving across to the new NHS.uk website

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Are mobile wallets about to make contactless cards look outdated?

  Mobile wallets look set to take root as consumers increasingly use their mobile phones to pay for goods and services

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  MWC 2018: Cisco and Vodafone demonstrate network slicing

  At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, network supplier Cisco and mobile operator Vodafone demonstrated network slicing techniques using segment routing

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Six bidders set to take part in 5G mobile spectrum auction

  Ofcom has confirmed the names of the six companies that have successfully qualified to take part in this year’s mobile spectrum auction

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Ofcom to enforce new rules on broadband speed disclosure

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom is to impose new measures on broadband providers, forcing them to provide better information about speeds to consumers

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  ICO head tops DataIQ data leader list

  The UK’s information commissioner has been named at the top data leader for 2018 in the DataIQ 100 list of most influential data leaders

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  It’s the year of the cloud, says backup giant Veeam

  Veeam roadmap adds cloud to virtual and physical backup with acquisitions that bring cloud and hybrid functionality. Object archives, CDP and NAS backup are also planned

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  CIO interview: Chris Ashworth, CIO, Hermes

  Hermes aims to deliver on its innovation programme with a new data platform, a mobile app and experimenting with robots and drones

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Pizza Hut customers can now pay for meals with Mastercard Qkr mobile app

  Pizza Hut has joined a number of UK restaurants in enabling customers to pay at the table using the Mastercard Qkr app

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Middle East faces IT talent crunch

  Countries in the Middle East are adopting the latest technologies at such a rapid rate that the region faces an IT skills shortage

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  CA Technologies helps teachers learn more about future jobs

  Technology firm CA Technologies has run its first Ambassador Academy to help teachers learn more about what skills will be needed for future jobs

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Security fears delay roll-out of national e-voting system in Finland

  Project enters problem-solving phase to identify advanced, effective and best practice solutions to develop a secure internet-based voting system

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  ANZ organisations grappling with cloud outages

  A majority of organisations from Australia and New Zealand admitted in a survey that they had not fully evaluated the impact of cloud outages which were longer than they had expected