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PSNGB rebrands to drive information sharing across PSN

PSNGB, the trade association set up to promote the Public Services Network, rebrands itself as Innopsis and says its work is far from over Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Benchmarking social business and collaboration tools

A complete social business strategy requires more than publishing social media guidelines for employees. CIOs need to rethink the enterprise as a social ecosystem Continue Reading

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• Nigel Fenwick, Forrester Research

Wearable technology to transform laggards in insurance industry

Wearable and other smart technologies set to transform the insurance industry in the next three to five years Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

The IoT industry needs to do more to secure data, says Beecham Research

There are key areas where the industry supporting the internet of things (IoT) needs to provide better security, according to Beecham Research Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

EU revamp of payment services draws nearer

The EU cannot afford to continue with costly payment services if it wants to be globally competitive, says MEP Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

IoT benefits and privacy not mutually exclusive, says industry expert

It is possible to mitigate the privacy and security risks of the internet of things (IoT) without losing its benefits, according to an industry expert Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Windows 10: Why you should work around PC price hike

IT departments planning a PC refresh to tie in with Windows 10 can expect to pay more due to the strong US dollar Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Criminal Courts Review Commission set to review subpostmasters' claims of wrongful prosecution

The Criminal Courts Review Commission (CCRC) reviews subpostmasters' claims of wrongful prosecution by the Post Office due to IT problems Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Time to embrace a new level of IAM, says Martin Kuppinger

A new level of identity and access management is at hand, yet many businesses still rely on usernames and passwords Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Captive IT centre boosts competitiveness at Danske Bank in Denmark

In 2014, Denmark's Danske Bank announced plans for its own captive centre in Bangalore and is now finalising the move to in-house IT delivery Continue Reading

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• Eeva Haaramo

Poor customer engagement at banks opens door to competitors

Customer experience levels at banks have failed to improve for the second year in a row and customers are more likely than ever to leave their bank Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Changing IT trends power banking in Norway

Norway's banking system is undergoing a seismic shift in technology as the country aims for a fully digitised society Continue Reading

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• David Nikel

Gartner: Enterprises opt for open-source and cloud middleware alternatives

Gartner has reported a bigger focus on subscription-based licensing and open-source platforms in the middleware market Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Why self-service and automation will power mass adoption of BI

Tibco’s analytics head, Brian Gentile, believes business intelligence needs to adapt for mass-market adoption Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Destructive cyber attacks making security a business concern, says Microsoft

Destructive cyber attacks are driving a fundamental shift in the information security market, according to Microsoft Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

SAP core banking platform will ease Deutsche Bank split following strategic retail review

Deutsche Bank plans a major IT project as strategic review advises spinning off its retail operations – but its SAP platform will ease the split Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

ISG blames UK general election for fall in outsourcing value

A lull in UK outsourcing activity in the run-up to the election caused a 25% drop in spending across the Emea region in Q1 2015, claims ISG Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Interview: The software processes behind Hailo's success

In the past, a traditional enterprise application would have been developed as a monolithic piece of software Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Lintel bank steers clear of traditional bank IT development

Lintel Bank applies for a UK banking licence and plans to join a growing number of new banks taking on the high street incumbents Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Rio Tinto to put IT systems in the cloud

Mining giant Rio Tinto is moving IT systems into the public cloud as part of a transformation agreement with Accenture Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Strong dollar may shift server upgrades off-premise

The strong US dollar will influence how CIOs spend their 2015 IT budgets. Server price hikes may drive spending to the cloud Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Foods manufacturer ConAgra expects to save $5m a year with data analytics

Food manufacturer ConAgra Foods is using data analytics technology to improve how it makes decisions about hiring and deploying its workforce Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

'Bored' RBS investment chairman Rory Cullinan resigns after daughter's Snapchat message goes public

Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment bank chairman Rory Cullinan leaves after a Snapchat message to his daughter appeared in Instagram Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Microsoft adds ODF 1.2 to Office 365 to adhere to government demands

Microsoft will roll out the ability export documents in open document format (ODF) in Office 365, regardless of original file format, to adhere to government policy Continue Reading

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• Clare McDonald, Business Editor

AWS gets EU approval for data replication outside of Europe

The European Union Data Protection Authorities has approved Amazon Web Services’ Data Processing Agreement Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Vodafone adds banking capability to mobile wallet

Mobile operator Vodafone is enabling its customers to add banking functionality to their Vodafone Wallets Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Talk Talk moves HR systems to cloud

Managers now have accurate information on their workforce numbers, salary and overtime costs Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Nordics' Glenna research cloud project underway

Researchers in the Nordics will soon enjoy a new cloud infrastructure from which to share systems and resources Continue Reading

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• David Nikel

Santander launches ISA mobile app

Spanish banking giant Santander launches a mobile app to help consumers navigate the ISA market Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Monitise no longer up for sale

Mobile banking software company Monitise to continue as an independent company rather than seek to be taken over Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Dutch bank ING puts HR services in the cloud

Finance company ING is using cloud-based software from ServiceNow to deliver HR services to its 25,000 staff in the Netherlands Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

MPs seek reassurance over Post Office mediation scheme

Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) select committee seeks reassurances over the Post Office mediation scheme Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Sabadell to migrate TSB IT to proprietary banking platform with £450m sweetener

Spanish bank Sabadell will move TSB IT systems to its own in-house core banking platform Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Home devices threaten enterprise data security, warn researchers

Poor or lacking security on ADSL routers and other devices used by teleworkers a threat to global enterprise information security Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Information Commissioner's Office calls for transparent public sector outsourcing

For greater transparency, public sector buyers and suppliers should be open about their dealings before signing contracts, says ICO Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Holland & Barrett outsources data handling to ITC Infotech

IT services firm ITC Infotech manages customer data for health food business to help it glean business value from the information Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Current account comparison from Gocompare announced in Budget 2015

The government used the Budget to announce changes in the banking sector that will increase consumer and business choice Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Satya Nadella: Every business will be a software business

Digitisation may the buzzword business leaders are trying to grasp, but Microsoft has begun its journey to build a digitisation product portfolio Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Businesses need to equip staff with the tools to do the job

Workforces will become frustrated if they do not have the technology they need to deliver what their organisation wants Continue Reading

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• David Johnson

Lookout bets on big data analytics to secure enterprise mobiles

Mobile security SaaS provider Lookout is betting on its cloud-based big data analytics capability to attract enterprise customers Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

IBM could create blockchain-based digital payments infrastructure for central banks

IBM has held informal talks with some central banks about building an infrastructure that can provide them with bitcoin-like digital payments systems Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Microsoft Azure brings success for McDonald's Sweden

McDonald's Sweden's Microsoft Azure system is named best-in-class across the fast food organisation's global operation Continue Reading

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• David Nikel

Post Office ends working group for IT system investigation day before potentially damaging report

The Post Office closed a working group involved in an investigation into claims against allegedly faulty accounting software used by subpostmasters Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Tieto’s Taneli Tikka brings startup drive to industrial internet business

Taneli Tikka has an unusual job description as the head of industrial internet at Tieto Corporation Continue Reading

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• Eeva Haaramo

Prepare for two modes of business intelligence, says Gartner

IT needs to open up business intelligence to the broader business to support its consumerisation Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

US cyber crime indictment prompts calls for zero tolerance

A newly-revealed US indictment of three suspected cyber criminals has prompted a call for zero tolerance for cyber intrusions Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

China and US cross swords over software backdoors

Barack Obama criticises Chinese plans to force tech firms trading in China to share encryption keys and put backdoors in software Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Strong future for enterprise IT in Nordic countries

From attracting the world to its ice-cool datacentres to the digitisation of the public sector, there is plenty going on in the Nordic region Continue Reading

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• David Nikel

Latest new UK bank launches virtually

Challenger financial services firm Charter Savings Bank has been launched, taking advantage of the lower cost of a virtual presence Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Google to launch Android Pay

Google is expected to launch a payments application programming interface at its I/O conference in May Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Microsoft to cut 9,000 jobs at Nokia plants in China

Microsoft plans to shut down two former Nokia manufacturing plants in China, which means 9,000 jobs will be lost in the latest round of cuts Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Bank of England considers issuing digital currency

The Bank of England could issue its own digital currency in the future, in the same way that it does with bank notes Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

PrivDog SSL compromise potentially worse than Superfish

Some versions of PrivDog software designed to block online ads compromise internet security in a similar way to Superfish Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Apple invests in European datacentres as EU investigates tax break

Apple is investing €1.7bn in two European datacentres to support iTunes, the App Store, iMessage, Maps and Siri Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Security fears stop small firms using cloud computing

Although 60% of small businesses are using cloud computing services, the remaining 40% are put off by security fears Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Intel Security warns of six social engineering techniques targeting businesses

An Intel Security report encourages businesses to address and educate employees on “six levers of influence” used by hackers Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

IBM and Oracle named as potential Monitise buyers

IBM and Oracle have emerged as potential candidates to take over British mobile software company Monitise Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

International spyware operation linked to NSA

The US National Security Agency has reportedly hidden surveillance software in the hard drives of several top computer makers Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Infosys acquires Panaya for automation

Infosys continues its move to non-linear business models through the acquisition of US automation software maker Panaya for $200m Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

MasterCard to pilot facial, voice and fingerprint authentication

MasterCard will pilot a biometric authentication and verification tool this year as part of cyber security technology investment Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Airwave's Tetra emergency services radio "costly and inflexible"

Incumbent Airwave failed to advance to the next stage of the Emergency Services Network procurement because its Tetra radio technology was too inflexible for current needs, according to reports Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks

Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same

In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Symantec continues cloud investment in spite of poor Q3 results

Symantec has reported third quarter 2015 revenue of $1.64bn, a drop of 4% compared with $1.70bn over the same period in 2014 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Kellogg's outsources digital marketing to Indian supplier

Food giant Kellogg's outsources the management of its digital marketing platform to Indian IT services firm Mindtree Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

IoT could be key to farming, says Beecham Research

The internet of things could be key to the farming industry meeting the challenge of increasing food production by 70% by 2050, says report Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Tesco Bank suffers computer problems

Tesco Bank customers are the latest to suffer as a result of IT problems Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Sony says cyber attack will cost $15m

Sony expects the investigation and remediation costs of the November 2014 cyber attack on its movie subsidiary will amount to $15m Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Offshoring data is biggest barrier to government in the cloud

Offshoring data is the biggest obstacle to putting government services in the cloud, according to a survey of MPs and peers Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Post Office CIO would talk to any subpostmaster about IT problems, promises CEO

The CEO of the Post Office defended the organisation’s support for users of its accounting system in a select committee inquiry into alleged problems Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

EC3 announces industry partnership in fight against cyber crime

Europol's European Cybercrime Centre has partnered with security firm AnubisNetworks to help fight the global threat of cyber crime Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Government network services tender deadline slips again

Crown Commercial Service pushes back deadline for tender submissions to Network Services framework to give suppliers more time to prepare Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

IT sector outdoing rest of economy despite rise in IT supplier insolvencies

Insolvencies among information and communication suppliers increase by a fifth as the economy continues to pull out of recession Continue Reading

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• Tim Wood and Henry Kirby

Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis

The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Mobile banking will help the poor transform their lives, says Gates Foundation

Mobile banking can help the poor change their lives and two billion people who don’t have bank accounts store money by phone by 2030 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

A closer look at Google Container Engine

In just 12 months, Docker has transformed from a simple open-source container management project into a powerful platform Continue Reading

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• Janakiram MSV

MPs force inquiry into Post Office subpostmaster mediation scheme

MPs force inquiry into Post Office scheme to redress grievances of subpostmasters claiming to have been wrongly punished for false accounting Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Virgin Atlantic Airways outsources digital transformation to Tata Consultancy Services

Virgin Atlantic Airways (VAA) outsources IT to Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services as the airline creates digital services for customers Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Google to buy Softcard in latest round of financial services empire building

Google is in talks to acquire mobile phone payments system Softcard as it increases its financial services capabilities Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Blackburn with Darwen Council renegotiates Capita outsourcing deal

Blackburn with Darwen Council is renegotiating its £200m 15-year outsourcing deal with Capita as it tries to save millions of pounds in its budget Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Quantum key distribution is the future for secure comms

Quantum teleportation is a technology that will ultimately replace encryption as the foundation of communication security Continue Reading

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• Peter Ray Allison

Supplier relationship management lessons from the car industry

IT can learn a lot from the car industry, which has transformed supplier relationship management Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Amatis Networks waves goodbye to LUN woes and deploys Tintri hybrid flash

Managed service provider Amatis Networks deploys Tintri hybrid flash to slash latency and cut time-consuming LUN storage management overheads Continue Reading

Attackers bypass conventional security, says FireEye study

Hackers breach most conventional, signature-based security technologies, with 27% involving advanced threats Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Services provider Tech Mahindra adds banking IT expertise to its portfolio

Indian IT services supplier Tech Mahindra adds consultancy skills and gains finance customers after buying banking services firm Sofgen Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

User groups defend licensing, but should Oracle rethink remuneration?

Two Oracle user groups have defended Oracle's licensing policy following open letter by Campaign for Clear Licensing Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

How to make applications resilient on AWS

Cloud services are susceptible to network and other outages. There is no silver bullet to boost the resilience of an AWS-hosted application Continue Reading

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• Guido Soeldner

IBM still a bellwether despite industry departure from traditional IT services

Reports that IBM is reducing its offshore workforce are the result of cloud computing, automation and artificial intelligence Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Forrester: IT maintenance saps budget as tech spending increases

Technology spending is set to rise modestly, but the majority of IT spending will still go on maintaining existing systems Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Alibaba bank and WeBank show Google and Facebook the way

Technology can drive traditional banks to reform, says Chinese premier Li Keqiang at the launch of China’s first online-only bank Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing

In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Microservices: How to prepare next-generation cloud applications

A microservice architecture promotes developing and deploying applications composed of autonomous, self-contained units Continue Reading

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• Janakiram MSV

Google under fire over Windows zero-day disclosure

Google has come under fire for publishing a proof-of-concept attack exploiting a flaw in Windows 8.1 before Microsoft had released a security update Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Tablet growth slows as consumers hand down devices

Sales of tablets are expected to slow down during 2015 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Deal between RBS and CA over IT failure will remain secret

The details of the financial settlement between RBS and CA Technologies in relation to a massive IT failure will remain secret Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Price cuts and posturing in the public cloud war

The price battle among commodity cloud players is set to rage on, but how much impact is it really having for enterprise customers? Continue Reading

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• Jim Mortleman

Digital technology to open up core banking market

The challenges of digital banking will open core banking software market to more suppliers as banks attempt to keep up Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Accenture and BT to battle for NHS email contract

The NHS has shortlisted two suppliers for its email system, with BT and Accenture still in the mix Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

MP accuses Post Office of acting "duplicitously" in IT investigation

MPs claim Post Office was being "high handed" towards MPs and running a "flawed, deteriorating" accounting system Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA