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IT management

• 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 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Windows Server 2003 EOL: HP seeks to cash in as IBM-Lenovo deal yet to close

  As enterprises look to refresh their infrastructure, HP is playing the stability card to win deals as IBM and Dell are mired by uncertainties

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Government appoints former Credit Suisse CIO as deputy CTO

  The government has appointed former Credit Suisse CIO Magnus Falk as its new deputy chief technology officer (CTO)

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Local authorities can improve data protection, says ICO audit

  There is room for improvement in how local authorities protect personal data, says an audit report by the ICO

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Load balancing supports Kent County Council's VDI project

  Kent County Council picks Kemp Technologies load balancers to support a deployment of VMware Horizon View and Workspace across its estate

• 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 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Government major projects watchdog needs more powers, says MPs

  Major Projects Authority needs stronger powers to improve project delivery across government, say MPs

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  CIO Interview: Hugh Fahy, CIO, Net-A-Porter

  “I like to emphasis the ‘I’ bit in CIO,” says Hugh Fahy, chief information officer of the Net-A-Porter Group

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  CIO interview: Dave Ubachs, CIO, Staples Europe

  Staples is undertaking major IT projects in Europe that will see e-commerce improvements and back-end consolidation in 16 countries

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  UK recession benefits IT industry

  A fifth of IT staff believe the UK recession has had a positive impact on the IT industry, according to Randstad Technologies

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Intel unveils first 14nm processor aimed at mobile computing devices

  Chipmaker's first processor based on 14nm micro-architecture will be thinner, cooler and aimed at tablet PCs

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

  Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  AstraZeneca rolls out IT self service using ServiceNow

  Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has rolled out ServiceNow self service IT to 51,500 staff globally in four months

• 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

  Paddy Power hit by data breach in 2010

  Gambling firm Paddy Power owns up to 2010 data breach after recovering a compromised dataset in Canada

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Bitcoin mining firm CoinTerra signs multi-megawatt datacentre deal

  CoinTerra, the firm that provides the hardware and software that power the bitcoin blockchain ecosystem, signs a multi-megawatt datacentre deal

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

  European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

  A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed

• 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

  Search firms meet EU regulators over right to be forgotten

  Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have met EU data protection authorities to discuss the implications of the right to be forgotten ruling

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  TfL wastes millions on telecoms, says IIPAG watchdog

  Watchdog IIPAG criticises Transport for London (TfL) for its inefficient and fragmented telecoms contracts

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY

  Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  CIO interview: Rorie Devine, CTO, Hailo

  A technology overhaul is taking place behind the scenes at cab-hailing smartphone app Hailo as the company extends its international reach

• 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 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Privacy key to UK business opportunity, says KPMG

  Finding the right balance between privacy and business insight could help UK firms take the lead in innovative online services, says KPMG

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BBC 4G broadcast research wins support of Huawei and EE

  BBC Research and Development has teamed up with Huawei and EE to explore the role of 4G mobile networking in the future of broadcasting

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  System for seven-day bank account switching underused

  The IT system that underpins government’s regulation of seven-day bank account switching is being underused

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  NAO criticises GDS IT savings method

  The National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the Government Digital Service over its approach to calculating public IT savings

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Ed Vaizey gets digital industries role in Cabinet reshuffle

  Culture minister Ed Vaizey has been promoted to the post of minister for digital industries in this week’s Cabinet reshuffle

• 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 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Diageo puts ServiceNow fizz in IT service desk

  Diageo has gone live with an implementation of ServiceNow to automate IT services as part of a global transformation

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  The billion-customer challenge of ITC CIO VVR Babu

  ITC CIO VVR Babu explains the challenges for a business that targets over one billion consumers with its goods

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe

  Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups

• 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 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  ISPs take legal action against GCHQ over mass network infrastructure surveillance

  Six global internet service providers (ISPs) have filed a legal complaint calling for a halt to GCHQ’s use of network infrastructure for surveillance

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  BBC promotes R&D controller Matthew Postgate to CTO role

  The BBC has appointed its research and development (R&D) controller Matthew Postgate as the corporation's chief technology officer (CTO)

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Connected cars standard by end of 2018

  Juniper Research study finds integrated in-vehicle connectivity and apps will become standard in new cars by the end of 2018

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  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

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Wearable tech must comply with privacy laws, warns ICO

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

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Google begins complying with European takedown requests

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

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  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

• 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 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  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

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Interview: John Swainson, president of Dell Software

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

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  IFDS integrates UK and India service centres

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

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  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

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  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

• 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