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• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

  Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  Mid-market reshoring to give UK an economic boost

  A quarter of mid-sized UK firms are considering bringing offshore operational activities back to the UK in the next three years

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Vtesse bought by Interoute in major fibre expansion

  Acquisition adds 7,000km of fibre infrastructure to Interoute’s European network

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Xerox aligns business and IT in streamlining applications

  Xerox's IT division has been working with the business to standardise its HR management on a global basis

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Almost three-quarters of big companies to increase outsourcing

  Investments in outsourced services will increase at almost three-quarters of global businesses

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Case study: Deutsche Post DHL develops software contract templates to reduce costs

  Deutsche Post DHL has created contract templates to manage software costs. Computer Weekly speaks to the people leading the initiative

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  BlackBerry Passport delivers a real keyboard and high-res screen to business

  BlackBerry has introduced its Passport smartphone featuring a 4.5in hi-res screen, a qwerty keyboard and 13MP camera

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Google to build giant '40-football pitch' datacentre in the Netherlands

  Google will invest €600m to build a giant, 120-megawatt datacentre in the Netherlands

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  SAP acquires Concur to build cloud-based expense management

  SAP has agreed to acquire online travel and expense management SaaS provider Concur Technologies for $8bn

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Asia dominates as outsourcing location and India remains unrivalled

  India is still the best place for businesses to outsource services and is unrivalled in its scale and availability of skills

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  KPMG: IoT, 3D printing and healthcare IT to have most impact

  Internet of things (IoT), 3D printing and biotech or healthcare IT are among the IT trends that will change the way people work and live

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  TechUK tasks future government with making the UK a digital leader

  TechUK has launched a digital manifesto detailing how the next government must turn the UK in a digital leader

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Salesforce issues advice on avoiding Dyreza attack

  Salesforce has issued a set of guidelines on tightening security after a number of its customers were targeted by the Dyreza email virus

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Clarks shoes steps into digital

  Shoe manufacturer Clarks is replacing its legacy e-commerce sites with a global cloud-based system next month

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  Tobacco giant outsources IT to Wipro

  Philip Morris International has outsourced IT infrastructure management to Indian services firm Wipro in a five-year deal

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

  BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  King's College, UCL and LSE back £900,000 national datacentre project

  A consortium of universities, including LSE, UCL and King's College, is backing a national datacentre for academics

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  EasyJet sheds 'scrum' image with hybrid IT

  EasyJet’s reservation system could not provision for allocated seating, so the airline added a feature on Azure

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Nude celebrity hack forces changes at Apple and 4Chan

  Apple and image-sharing site 4Chan take security measures after celebrity iCloud accounts were compromised and photos leaked

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  How Sony Music used Google cloud for One Direction’s 1D-Day event

  Sony Music and its digital agency AIS London adopted Google Cloud Platform services to handle One Direction's day event

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Apple and FBI launch iCloud hack investigation

  Apple and FBI investigate the breach of Apple’s iCloud causing fresh business concerns over cloud security

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Why bare metal cloud is in vogue

  Bare metal services have been around since 2009 but cloud is witnessing renewed interest in it thanks to new offerings

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Rolls-Royce CIO joins HMRC as non-executive director

  Rolls-Royce CIO Simon Ricketts has been appointed non-executive director of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

  Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  Nike builds datacentre cloud and network infrastructure

  Nike is creating a scalable next-generation datacentre cloud and retail network infrastructure using Juniper's MetaFabric architecture

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly

  Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Cabinet Office COO Stephen Kelly takes Sage Group CEO role

  UK accountancy software supplier Sage appoints Cabinet Office chief operating officer (COO) Stephen Kelly as CEO

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Why digitisation transforms supplier relationships

  As the economy moves forward, CEOs are looking for the next wave of innovation to fuel growth. But are IT service providers ready?

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  £700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre

  Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  AWS feels the pressure of cloud competition

  AWS became the gold standard of public cloud. But are price wars, hybrid cloud and increased competition denting its growth?

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

  Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Amazon’s share price falls 6% on quarterly results

  Amazon’s share price fell 6% in after-hours trade after the firm reported a second-quarter net loss of $126m

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Crew Clothing fashions cloud-based marketing to engage buyers

  British luxury casualwear brand Crew Clothing chose cloud marketing to move from batch email marketing to a more timely and personal approach

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  EU funds project to boost European cloud computing market

  Cloudcatalyst project will assess cloud market in Europe, identify barriers to cloud adoption and provide tools to boost its growth

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe

  BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  IBM partners with Apple to deliver enterprise services for iOS

  IBM has given Apple a major boost in the enterprise, through a partnership that will see it provide services and software for iOS

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Microsoft adds StorSimple hybrid storage arrays to Azure cloud service

  Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach

  At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP

  Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of location

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild

  Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres

  Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  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

• June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14

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

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

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  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

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  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

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  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

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  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?

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  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

• June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14

  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

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report

  Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report