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After years working in London for Mindtree, Prashant Mehra returned to Bangalore to help transform the lives of 1.5 million waste pickers in the city and make local government waste management more efficient Continue Reading

June 30, 2014 30Jun2014 E-Zine

Supporting Apple in the enterprise

In this week’s Computer Weekly, our latest buyer’s guide takes an in-depth look at how to support Apple products in an enterprise IT infrastructure. We find out how eBay built its own Openstack private cloud. And the chief of the government’s ... Continue Reading

June 30, 2014 30Jun2014 News

Net-a-Porter integrates testing and development

Online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter has integrated software testing and development to support agile methodologies Continue Reading

June 30, 2014 30Jun2014 News

Facebook under fire over secret experiment on users

Facebook has come under fire for conducting a psychology experiment on 689,000 users without their consent Continue Reading

June 30, 2014 30Jun2014 News

The CIO Playbook – Innovation

Nicholas R. Colisto describes a comprehensive practical method to tap into your company's reservoir of innovation to solve real business problems in this extract from his book. Continue Reading

June 30, 2014 30Jun2014 News

Managing the digital innovation process

Rob Lambert, visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management, offers advice to CIOs who want to drive digital innovation in this presentation. Continue Reading

June 30, 2014 30Jun2014 News

Realise Benefits from a Digital Strategy

Rob Lambert, visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management, offers advice to CIOs on developing business cases and maximising the business value of digital technology projects. Continue Reading

June 30, 2014 30Jun2014 News

Accelerating Digital Marketing

This study from CEB debunks the myths over the relationship between CIOs and CMOs and shows how CIOs can play a critical role in accelerating digital marketing. Continue Reading

June 27, 2014 27Jun2014 News

Roadchef exits IBM Global Services for direct supplier relationships

Motorway services firm Roadchef ended an outsourcing deal with IBM Global Services when its IT was up for refresh and moved to SAP Continue Reading

June 27, 2014 27Jun2014 E-Zine

CW Europe - July 2014 Edition

In this issue of CW Europe we investigate how changing your storage can make the world of difference to your company’s carbon emissions. Continue Reading

June 27, 2014 27Jun2014 News

Wearable tech must comply with privacy laws, warns ICO

Wearable technology must comply with UK data privacy laws, warns the ICO Continue Reading

June 27, 2014 27Jun2014 News

Google begins complying with European takedown requests

Google has begun removing search results in response to takedown requests from European citizens Continue Reading

June 27, 2014 27Jun2014 News

Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes Continue Reading

June 26, 2014 26Jun2014 News

Big IT suppliers top government spending on contracts

IT firms are earning the most from government contracts, with HP alone earning more than £1.7bn a year Continue Reading

June 26, 2014 26Jun2014 News

Security must change in Indian digital marketplace

More than 25% of large digital marketplaces will have explicit strategies for consumer computing and security by 2018, according to Gartner Continue Reading

June 25, 2014 25Jun2014 Photo Story

Maintenance of transport vehicles

June 25, 2014 25Jun2014 Photo Story

Go-Ahead transport provider

June 25, 2014 25Jun2014 Photo Story

Huddle help

June 25, 2014 25Jun2014 Photo Story

Why Huddle?

June 25, 2014 25Jun2014 Photo Story

Safety first

June 25, 2014 25Jun2014 Photo Story

Go Ahead uses Huddle to improve mobility

Go-Ahead transport’s engineers are using Huddle for mobility and collaboration when maintaining its fleet of vehicles. Continue Reading

June 24, 2014 24Jun2014 News

Why customer service automation goes awry

Customer service automation brings speed and improved quality to the effort of serving consumers. If poorly managed, it can also do the opposite. Continue Reading

June 24, 2014 24Jun2014 In Depth

Unilever puts SAP at the captain’s table

Consumer goods company Unilever works hand in glove with SAP in “speeding up its growth”, according to senior executives at the two firms Continue Reading

June 24, 2014 24Jun2014 News

Benefits of accessing data outweigh privacy risks for chronically ill

Over half of UK patients with chronic health conditions want access to their medical records and believe the benefits outweigh privacy risks Continue Reading

June 23, 2014 23Jun2014 News

Oracle set to boost retail business with $5bn Micros acquisition

Oracle is expected to acquire internet-enabled point-of sale-specialist Micros Continue Reading

June 23, 2014 23Jun2014 E-Zine

Betting on World Cup success

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to gambling site Betfair about the IT challenges of preparing for the football World Cup. We examine the strategy of cloud software pioneer Salesforce.com as it grows its role in the IT department. And we ... Continue Reading

June 21, 2014 21Jun2014 Blog Post

Google open sources PDF rendering

Google taken its PDFium software library forward into open source project status. Continue Reading

June 20, 2014 20Jun2014 News

Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years

Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010 Continue Reading

June 20, 2014 20Jun2014 News

Sourcing and integrating managed services

Analysts Bob Tarzey and Clive Longbottom look at the issues business managers need to take into account when deciding how to deploy applications and when they should consider turning to managed service providers (MSP) for resources and advice. Continue Reading

June 20, 2014 20Jun2014 News

Strategic IT

Find out how two leading CIOs have enabled their organisations to use information technology as strategic driver, in this extract from the book Strategic IT. Continue Reading

June 20, 2014 20Jun2014 News

The Future of Corporate IT

This report from CEB looks at 5 key opportunities for IT to drive productivity and growth as digital technology changes the nature of the work environment. Continue Reading

June 20, 2014 20Jun2014 News

A Sustainable Print Agenda

Analysts Louella Fernandes and Clive Longbottom recommend strategies for achieving a cost-effective, reliable and sustainable print infrastructure. Continue Reading

June 19, 2014 19Jun2014 News

Six suppliers shortlisted for NHS HR system replacement

Six suppliers have been shortlisted for the NHS electronic staff record project – the world's largest HR and payroll software implementation Continue Reading

June 19, 2014 19Jun2014 News

BDUK to grill local authorities on broadband postcode data

New BDUK CEO Chris Townsend plans urgent review of local authorities to establish which are releasing broadband postcode data Continue Reading

June 19, 2014 19Jun2014 News

BlackBerry makes small profit in light of internal shakeups

BlackBerry has achieved a net profit of $23m with revenue of $966m in three months from May until the end of March 2014 Continue Reading

June 19, 2014 19Jun2014 News

Government reveals winning bids in superfast broadband trials

Government reveals names of eight suppliers that have won a share of a £10m funding pot to trial superfast broadband in rural areas Continue Reading

June 19, 2014 19Jun2014 News

Facebook launches Slingshot to rival Snapchat

Facebook has launched its limited lifetime messaging app Slingshot in the US to rival Snapchat Continue Reading

June 18, 2014 18Jun2014 Podcast

Voice recording compliance: What it is and how to achieve it

Voice recording compliance is subject to the regulation by the FSA, PCI, and Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts Continue Reading

June 18, 2014 18Jun2014 News

Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud

eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself Continue Reading

June 18, 2014 18Jun2014 News

Bangalore IT sector supports waste pickers through cloud platform

A cloud-based platform created by IT services firm MindTree aims to help India’s waste pickers to organize themselves as small businesses Continue Reading

June 18, 2014 18Jun2014 News

Interview: John Swainson, president of Dell Software

Dell Software president John Swainson's aims to make Dell Software a $5bn business Continue Reading

June 18, 2014 18Jun2014 News

YouTube to block indie labels unwilling to join paid service

YouTube plans to drop music videos from independent record labels unwilling to join its new subscription music service Continue Reading

June 17, 2014 17Jun2014 News

Department of Health sets out technology priorities for coming year

The Department of Health (DoH) has outlined changes in the way technology and information will be used over the coming year Continue Reading

June 17, 2014 17Jun2014 In Depth

Backup vs replication, snapshots, CDP in data protection strategy

Best practice data protection strategy combines backup with snapshots, CDP and replication for different levels of recovery Continue Reading

June 17, 2014 17Jun2014 News

IFDS integrates UK and India service centres

International Financial Data Services has implemented software to balance workloads across UK and Indian delivery centres Continue Reading

June 17, 2014 17Jun2014 News

Wimbledon to analyse social interactions at tennis championship

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon will be analysing social interactions throughout tennis championship Continue Reading

June 17, 2014 17Jun2014 News

Domino’s breach underlines value of personal data, say experts

The latest cyber breach to hit a high-profile brand underlines the high value of personal data, say security experts Continue Reading

June 17, 2014 17Jun2014 News

A Computer Weekly buyer's guide to networks

Computer Weekly looks at an increasingly complex networking environment and offers advice for IT leaders on managing it in this 10 page Buyer's Guide. Continue Reading

June 17, 2014 17Jun2014 News

Improve the success of HR systems implementation

Mark Martin, former HR executive at Direct Line Group and T-Mobile, lists the key questions you need to ask suppliers when selecting a HR Technology system. Continue Reading

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

A lakeside setting

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

Wireless market growing

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

The traditional working day is dead

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

Heathrow Airport - the customer experience

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

Meet GenMobile

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

A storm is coming

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

Aruba Airheads@ EMEA Atmosphere: a new generation of Wi-Fi user

Aruba Airheads@ EMEA Atmosphere 2014 brought together engineers, customers and innovators to learn more about the future of wireless networking, and the dawn of the 'Third Place' and 'Generation Mobile' Continue Reading

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 News

Just Eat builds in-house IT workforce in Ukraine

Online takeaway service Just Eat has built a team of software development and project managers in the Ukranian capital Kiev Continue Reading

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 News

Travel group Expedia aims to predict your holiday plans

Travel group Expedia is developing technology that will predict the needs of its customers before they call about their travel plans Continue Reading

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

SQL Server data files in Microsoft Azure data

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

What’s new in SQL Server 2014

We give Microsoft’s latest release of SQL Server a test drive to find out if the new features really make the effort of upgrading worthwhile Continue Reading

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

Is SQL Server 2014 worth the upgrade?

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

Clustered columnstore indexes

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

The advantage of in-memory data processing

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

SQL Server 2014: Backup to the cloud

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 Photo Story

Microsoft delivers in-memory OLTP in SQL Server 2014

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 News

St Pancras International WLAN upgrade promises gigabit speeds

Upgrade at St Pancras International and other stations served by High Speed 1 rail service will see increases in capacity and speed Continue Reading

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 E-Zine

The Met Office turns to open source

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out why the Met Office turned to an open source database to replace Oracle at the UK weather forecasting service. We take an in-depth look at Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014 release. And we analyse the ... Continue Reading

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 News

Technology key to secure document future, says UK Home Office

Physical security is just as important as digital security in documents such as passports, says UK Home Office Continue Reading

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 News

House of Lords sets up Digital Skills Select Committee

The House of Lords has set up a select committee for digital skills Continue Reading

June 16, 2014 16Jun2014 News

Microsoft admits running out of IP addresses for Azure

Microsoft has assured US Azure customers data remains in the US, despite running out of US-registered IP addresses at times Continue Reading

June 13, 2014 13Jun2014 In Depth

Dame Stephanie Shirley: Entrepreneurs learn to survive

Dame “Steve” Shirley shares her experiences of being an entrepreneurial woman in IT during the 1950s and 1960s Continue Reading

June 13, 2014 13Jun2014 In Depth

Micro-datacentre: What IT problems it solves and what workload systems suit it

A micro-datacentre is a smaller containerised datacentre system designed to solve different problems or to handle different workloads Continue Reading

June 13, 2014 13Jun2014 Blog Post

Can social science save the web?

Pretty much every week these days you can expect a story in Computer Weekly on one of two topics: the growing importance and influence of the web to business and economic development; and the ... Continue Reading

June 13, 2014 13Jun2014 Blog Post

Drone kill communications net illustrated

Computer Weekly can illustrate how a UK network connection forms part of a US weapons targeting system that has slaughtered civilians in attacks gone wrong.The illustrations add credibility to a ... Continue Reading

June 12, 2014 12Jun2014 News

HSBC makes executives responsible for application consolidation

In the next few weeks, senior executives at HSBC globally will have KPIs to reduce the number of applications they run Continue Reading

June 12, 2014 12Jun2014 News

Can Salesforce.com re-engineer business IT?

With 1.5 million developers and a new focus on industry solutions, is Salesforce.com a business platform? Continue Reading

June 11, 2014 11Jun2014 News

Datacentre spending shifts to Europe as buyers focus on low-cost servers

Server manufacturers made 20% less in sales in the first quarter of 2014, compared with the fourth quarter of 2013 Continue Reading

June 11, 2014 11Jun2014 News

Tesco Bank launches current account on off-the-shelf platform

Tesco has launched a current account four years after implementing its core banking platform Continue Reading

June 11, 2014 11Jun2014 News

Register to vote online goes live

The latest online transactional service from government has gone live as part of the ‘digital by default’ initiative Continue Reading

June 11, 2014 11Jun2014 News

EE drives mobile phone deals with CRM software implementation

Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere claims a 400% increase in phone deals after rolling out customer relationship management software Continue Reading

June 10, 2014 10Jun2014 News

Engineering firm fined for using unlicensed Autodesk software

Project Options has been fined £16,000 by the Business Software Alliance, following an online tip-off Continue Reading

June 10, 2014 10Jun2014 News

Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters

Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges Continue Reading

June 09, 2014 09Jun2014 News

Gartner: Indian BI and analytics software spending to grow 15%

Indian businesses will increase spending on business intelligence and analytics software by 15% to reach a total of 8,228 crore in 2014 Continue Reading

June 09, 2014 09Jun2014 News

Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead

Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart Continue Reading

June 09, 2014 09Jun2014 In Depth

Will silicon photonics replace copper cabling in mainstream datacentres?

Silicon photonics can increase bandwidth in servers, improve data transfer speeds and reduce complexity. But are datacentres ready for it? Continue Reading

June 09, 2014 09Jun2014 E-Zine

The case for a European cloud market

In this week’s Computer Weekly, the European Commission wants to create a digital single market in Europe based on industry standard clouds – but is the plan realistic? Network encryption promises to solve many IT security threats – we examine the ... Continue Reading

June 09, 2014 09Jun2014 News

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