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• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Citrix touts digital workspace app in services play

  Software supplier Citrix’s cloud-based workspace app is part of its efforts to deliver integrated services that support the modern workplace

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Government must support SMEs, says Oliver Dowden

  The minister for implementation, Oliver Dowden, provides further details on the GovTech competition and talks about GDS’s role as an “innovation incubator”, losing data policy to DCMS and the importance of SMEs

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels hails ‘egalitarian’ impact of cloud on enterprise IT

  Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels claims that the “egalitarian” impact of cloud on IT means enterprises now need to find a new point of competitive difference

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Connectivity problem hits thousands of Post Office branches

  Post Office branches unable to connect to Horizon computer system for several hours after morning opening time

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Apple pulls plug on €850m Irish datacentre project after three-year planning delay

  Apple has confirmed it is abandoning its bid to build a datacentre on the west coast of Ireland, blaming three years of legal challenges and planning appeals that have blighted the project

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Barclays to set up biggest office outside UK in India

  Bank is expanding its presence in India with plans for an office for 8,000 staff in Pune

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  BT to shut London HQ and cut 13,000 jobs

  Another round of cuts comes as BT struggles to reposition itself for sustainable long-term growth

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  UK railways to save billions of pounds through digital signalling

  Network Rail hails digital transformation plans as “a turning point in the history of our railways”

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Embrace GDPR to remain competitive, says OWI

  The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is set to raise the bar internationally for data protection and should be embraced to remain competitive, says report

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Ryanair takes full flight in the AWS public cloud

  Low-cost airline Ryanair is on course to go all-in on the Amazon Web Services public cloud, as part of its push to boost the agility and cost effectiveness of its operations

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Government launches GovTech competition

  Implementation minister Oliver Dowden will launch competition for UK tech firms to help solve the country’s social challenges, using funding from the £20m GovTech challenge fund

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  How enterprises can cope with digital disruption

  Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says enterprises can take a leaf from DevOps and build modularity into their technology infrastructure to prepare for the forces of digital disruption

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  CNI providers face hefty fines for cyber security failings

  UK providers of critical national infrastructure face hefty fines for cyber security failings from 10 May 2018

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Equifax breach lessons not learned

  Businesses are still downloading vulnerable versions of the software that was at the heart of the Equifax data breach and failing to update to safe versions, a security firm has revealed

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Demand for big data contractors sees 128% year-on-year increase

  The number of job vacancies for people with big data skills has increased in the past year, with the demand for contractors in this area skyrocketing

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  NetApp adds Google Cloud NAS and AFF A800 NVMe flash array

  NetApp gets on the cloud NAS bandwagon with Google Cloud Platform file storage access, while adding its first NVMe flash-equipped storage array, the AFF A800

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Nutanix builds hooks to SDN and cloud with Flow, Era and Beam

  Hyper-converged pioneer builds in functionality from acquisitions with Flow software-defined networking, Beam cloud monitoring and Era database provisioning and data protection

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Dutch Tax Authority not fully GDPR-compliant as deadline approaches

  The Netherlands’ Department of Finance warns that not all aspects of the EU privacy law will be implemented by the 25 May deadline

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Schools minister announces programme of support for computing teachers

  A National Centre of Computing Science Education has been launched to help the government meet its commitment to training up to 8,000 computing teachers

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Justice system transformation programme faces 'daunting challenge', says NAO

  Government’s £1bn project to overhaul courts through use of technology has hit delays, with unresolved funding gaps and “significant risk” that it won’t deliver on time, NAO report finds

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Vodafone becomes largest next-gen broadband player in Europe

  Vodafone has acquired the operations of Virgin Media parent Liberty Global in four European markets, giving it access to 110 million homes and businesses

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  NatWest fintech investments bear fruit as SME loans platform goes live

  Online lending platform enables small businesses to apply for loans of up to £150,000 in 10 minutes

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Breach disclosure time still high, report shows

  Companies are getting faster at disclosing breaches, but the average is still too high in the light of the GDPR and other breach disclosure regulations, a report shows

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  HSBC launches open banking app

  In line with open banking regulation, HSBC has launched an app that enables users to see accounts from 21 different banks in one place

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Microsoft predicts five-year wait for quantum computing in Azure

  Industry experts predict it will take 10 years for quantum computing to become a reality, but Microsoft believes it has the research edge, with systems, software and technology to get there in five

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Singapore organisations not paying heed to data veracity

  Most Singapore respondents in a global Accenture survey said they have not invested in capabilities to verify data used in decision-making

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Oracle’s autonomous database could leave DBAs unemployed

  The long-term future of database administrators could be at risk if every enterprise adopts the Oracle 18c autonomous database

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Red Hat teams up with Microsoft in hybrid cloud, container push

  Building on a strategic alliance first announced in 2015, the two software companies are working together on Red Hat OpenShift on Azure to reduce the complexity of managing containers in a hybrid cloud environment

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Nordic CIO interview: Helena Skarle, Handicare

  Swedish CIO believes more women might get the top IT jobs if organisations look beyond IT skills

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Met Police to get integrated policing system from Northgate

  Five-year contract covers integrated IT system to be used across the Metropolitan force, two years after it went out to tender

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Salford gets chief digital officer

  Jon Corner has been appointed the city’s first chief digital officer to lead Salford’s smart city and digital technology work

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Nigerian cyber attackers up their game

  Nigerian cyber attackers have modernised their approach to cyber crime, security researchers warn

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  TSB offers interest rate sweetener as IT issues continue at the bank

  TSB is offering customers higher interest rate to go towards making up for the problems its core banking system migration caused customers

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Financial sector cyber-related laws are a bellwether, says Deloitte

  As the regulatory landscape becomes more complex, organisations should look to the financial sector to see what else is coming, as well as focus on three key areas of GDPR compliance, according to Deloitte

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Virtual tripwire to keep elephant poachers out of Zambian national park

  Cisco and Dimension Data are working to protect Zambia’s at-risk elephant population after a successful pilot project in South Africa

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Majority of security professionals favour shorter disclosure deadline

  Google’s Project Zero unit’s 90-day deadline for software suppliers to disclose vulnerabilities has always been controversial, but a survey reveals that most security professionals feel even that is too long

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Build 2018: Microsoft addresses the role of Windows in mobile-first era

  Windows 10 Phone may be dead, but now Microsoft wants to make Windows 10 the best partner operating system for smartphones

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Nadella opens Build 2018 with cross-platform push

  Microsoft’s developer conference has kicked off with a renewed focus on making Microsoft products and services work well with other offerings

• May 07, 2018 07 May'18

  ASEAN seeks to tame data deluge with object storage

  Led by Singapore and Thailand, the object storage market in Southeast Asia is expected to grow at a double-digit rate in the next few years

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Security pros must avoid hype, demonstrate value, says RBS CISO

  Security professionals must avoid over-hyping cyber threats, and penetration testers need to reinvent themselves to demonstrate value to businesses to remain relevant, says RBS CISO

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Dell EMC freshens high-end SANs with VMAX makeover, PowerMax

  Dell EMC rebrands VMAX high-end SAN arrays as PowerMax, with CPUs upgraded, new inline data deduplication, controller code re-worked and NVMe and Optane hardware on the roadmap

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Twitter plots Hadoop cluster migration to Google Cloud Platform

  Social media giant plans to offload some of its Hadoop clusters to the Google Cloud Platform to boost the resiliency of its infrastructure

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Dell EMC unveils Isilon scale-out NAS in the Google cloud

  The trend to cloud NAS continues as Dell EMC announces beta phase of Isilon Cloud for GCP that will see fully-featured scale-out NAS available to customers via the Google cloud

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Businesses not ready for network implications of cloud native architecture

  Composable applications can be built from connecting microservices that run in their own containers. This cloud-first approach requires a new approach to networking

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Twitter password security bug underlines need for industry change

  Twitter has revealed that a bug in its systems resulted in some passwords being stored in a log in clear text, underlining the need for alternative authentication methods, say industry commentators

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Britons used contactless for 42% of card payments in 2017

  Paymentsense survey confirms rapid growth of contactless payments, but £30 limit is preventing further dominance

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Most CIOs not interested in “massively hyped” blockchain, finds Gartner

  Despite the noise surrounding blockchain technology, not many CIOs are using it or planning to do so in the near future, finds Gartner

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  GDPR prompts data migration U-turn from public cloud to corporate datacentres, finds Forrester

  Forrester Research’s latest public cloud adoption report shines a light on how enterprise attitudes to using corporate datacentres are changing as the GDPR deadline approaches

• May 03, 2018 03 May'18

  Fibre network breakthrough has implications for data security

  Researchers have devised a new protocol that they claim vastly extends the range of quantum key distribution over fibre networks

• May 03, 2018 03 May'18

  City Police use Lego simulation to teach businesses cyber security

  City of London Police are offering to train business leaders and IT security in cyber security using a Lego simulation that is surprisingly close to real life