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• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  IT monitoring tops uses for machine data analytics

  Advanced analytics is being deployed to make sense of the masses of machine data in IT operation, but complex environments is making this harder

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Virtual Instruments aims to be “the brain of the datacentre”

  Virtual Instruments hopes artificial intelligence and machine learning functionality that helps IT staff spot connections between application and storage performance could put an end to the “war room”

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Nutanix grows subscription revenue

  It made its name in hyper-converged hardware, but Nutanix is now growing its SaaS-based software infrastructure business

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  Why IT infrastructure approach needs modernising

  The freedom and flexibility to develop applications rapidly using diverse platforms will put IT infrastructure teams under increasing strain

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  Data volumes set to hit 175ZB with a tectonic shift to the cloud

  There will be more data in the public cloud than enterprise datacentres or consumer devices by 2025 as data shifts location, according to a study by IDC and Seagate

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  Post Office held back information about Horizon IT system errors

  Post Office director admits to Horizon errors and not sharing details with subpostmaster network

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2019

  Edge computing, data management and microservices will play a bigger role in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019 as enterprises reshape their technology architectures to become ‘digitally determined’ organisations

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  Challenger bank ready to get its banking licence back

  CivilisedBank is reapplying for a banking licence after giving it up to focus on its technology

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Why commercial software providers are buying into cloud native

  There is a reason why IBM has announced it will be spending $34bn to buy Red Hat, much like VMware’s acquisition of Heptio

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Why businesses must take a strategic view of automation

  For many CIOs, robotic process automation promises quick wins, but businesses should also take a longer-term view to drive digitisation

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Inside PropertyGuru’s DevOps journey

  The online property search firm is at ease with microservices, containers and serverless computing, even as it grapples with legacy applications that were developed earlier on in its history

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Businesses must get ready for a multi-cloud strategy

  The debate about what is the right enterprise IT architecture has moved beyond private, public and hybrid clouds to the need to run multiple clouds

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Porsche Informatik deploys OpenShift to accelerate software development

  The automotive manufacturer's software arm is using a Red Hat private cloud to develop new trading platforms

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Data analytics cuts queues and flight delays at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport

  Aeroporti di Roma’s CIO, Emiliano Sorrenti, describes how the city’s main airport is using data analytics technology to reduce delays and queue times, securing it an industry award for customer service

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  CIO interview: Fraser Ingram, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank

  Fraser Ingram joined the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banking group as CIO just at the right time – as it was embarking on its digital journey

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Agile IT held back by legacy tech and legacy budgeting

  CIOs admit their organisations cannot keep pace with digital transformation initiatives, with capex budgeting and legacy IT part of the problem

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  RBS announces branch closures as part of cancelled project to create challenger bank

  The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced more branch closures and job losses as digital transformation continues to transform the sector

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Slow cloud take-up among IT execs limits joined-up customer experience

  Cloud computing promises to declutter IT and link systems easily. Despite the benefits, adoption of the cloud for customer engagement remains low

• September 03, 2018 03 Sep'18

  CIO interview: Ian Cohen, global CIO, Addison Lee

  Addison Lee’s global CIO is building a business strategy and ensuring the transport company has a flexible platform for growth

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  IT leaders at a crossroads as they grapple with digital technology

  CIOs have the opportunity to influence their company strategy as digital technology reshapes business. A survey of CIOs across 70 countries charts a path for IT leaders through emerging technologies

• August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

  IT must prepare for an IoT-enabled digital workplace

  Smart lighting, intelligent speakers and screen-mirroring are among the technologies that are moving from the home into the office – and all have an impact on IT

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  3 Hong Kong gears up for 5G with “epic” transformation

  The Hong Kong telco is putting in an advanced technical architecture that will streamline and automate internal processes and IT as it prepares for the 5G era

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  IT service provider HCL acquires sector expertise as part of European strategy

  Indian IT services firm boosts its European car industry credentials though multi-million Euro investment

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  IT decision-makers increasingly opt for cloud-native architectures

  The world of IT is now much more multi-platform and the underlying architecture is cloud-native, according to a new survey from Cloud Foundry

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  NHS collaborates with private health on sharing patient data

  Work has begun on establishing a set of data standards to enable private healthcare patients’ data to be shared with the NHS

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  How Ocado built an online grocery delivery platform business

  Ocado has used open source tools and a cloud-native approach to develop its fully automated warehouse management platform

• May 25, 2018 25 May'18

  Two chiefs, two approaches to digital transformation

  While the definition of digital transformation is debatable, IT business leaders agree it's all about the data

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  IT executives think businesses are slow at adopting digital transformation

  Digital transformation may be impeded by the slow speed at which businesses are ready to adopt new, digitally empowered ways of working

• May 18, 2018 18 May'18

  Executive interview: Abby Kearns, Cloud Foundry Foundation

  Computer Weekly speaks to Abby Kearns, executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation about how open source is a key ingredient of digital transformation

• May 18, 2018 18 May'18

  GDS seeks advice on migration from Public Services Network

  The Government Digital Service has started the process of moving public sector organisations away from the Public Services Network

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  Ex-DWP IT contractor wins IR35 case appeal against HMRC

  Tribunal judge rules terms of contractor's engagement with the Department for Work and Pensions means HMRC was wrong to pursue a £26,000 claim for unpaid income tax and national insurance contributions

• 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 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 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 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

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  TSB IT disaster moves into a second week

  TSB's IT problems have moved into a second week, as the bank fights to get its services and reputation back on track

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  ServiceNow buys into SaaS licensing to drive digitisation

  The cloud-based service management company has extended its reach in IT asset management to help businesses optimise cloud subscriptions

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  ICO and finance regulator assess TSB IT blunder

  Customer data was exposed during migration to new core banking platform

• April 19, 2018 19 Apr'18

  CNCF wants to make Kubernetes ‘boring’

  CNCF is about to kick off its its Copenhagen conference. The organisation wants to make containers less exciting and more straightforward

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Elastifile adds NAS file access storage to Google Cloud Launcher

  Israeli startup Elastifile launches NFS file access service in the Google cloud to provide hybrid cloud distributed file system functionality with the speed of flash

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  IT transformation seen as essential for digital business projects

  Businesses that have modernised their IT are in a far better position to make the most of digital transformation initiatives

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  European CIOs have budget balancing act ahead of them

  There is some consensus among European CIOs on budget rises across the continent, but less so on what to invest in

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Microsoft plans to invest $5bn to boost IoT business

  Its vision involves sensor data from IoT devices being processed across a distributed computing infrastructure from the edge to Azure

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs

  Intelligent agents and automation will be needed to support digitisation efforts in business, but to succeed, IT will need to apply these techniques internally

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  HPE pushes prescriptive AI for industrial applications

  Predicting when a machine will fail is one thing, but HPE hopes its artificial intelligence service will help businesses augment their maintenance programmes

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  AB InBev settles out of court in $600m SAP licensing dispute

  SEC filing reveals that brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev has come to an agreement with SAP over the ERP provider's under-licensing claim

• 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

• February 20, 2018 20 Feb'18

  Executive interview: Sudheesh Nair, president, Nutanix

  Nutanix is top of the HCI Magic Quadrant, a new category for Gartner this year. We speak to the company's president about how the business is evolving

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Rackspace upgrade to save $12m with Scality object storage

  Cloud services giant Rackspace brings in Scality object storage in a move that slashes 4,000 boxes from its server count as it separates compute and storage