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IT services and outsourcing
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March 29, 2021
29
Mar'21
CW Innovation Awards: Bharat Petroleum refines operations with a digital nerve centre
Bharat Petroleum has developed a digital nerve centre powered by the internet of things and artificial intelligence technologies to monitor the journey of its products
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
China’s cloud infrastructure spending hits record growth
Public cloud infrastructure spending in China grew a record 62% in the last quarter of 2020 due to rapid economic recovery and focus on digital transformation
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Bharti Airtel taps OpenStack to modernise telco network
India’s Bharti Airtel turns to OpenStack to ready its network for emerging technologies such as 5G and edge computing
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
NUHS taps RPA in Covid-19 swab tests
Singapore’s National University Health System deploys RPA bots to automate patient registration during Covid-19 swab tests as part of broader efforts to improve efficiency
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge
Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
AWS rolls out clean energy initiative in Singapore
62MW solar project expected to generate 80,000MWh of clean energy a year, enough to power more than 10,000 homes
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Reshaping the women-in-tech debate in Denmark, from the top down
Tech Nordic Advocates adopts a different approach to closing the gap between women and men in the Danish tech startup sector
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Survey: Backup failures hit a high as pandemic working hits home
Veeam survey finds distributed working plus operations that span on-prem and the cloud the background to high numbers of failures in backup and restore, with 40% of SLAs not met
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Nordic healthcare digitisation drives medtech growth
Nordic medtech is growing rapidly as the healthcare sector adopts technologies such as artificial intelligence and the internet of things
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
One-fifth of all UK tech investment went to just 10 scaleup firms in 2020
Annual Tech Nation report shows UK technology firms saw record levels of investment in 2020, but a significant proportion of it was concentrated in a small number of scaleup enterprises
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Insurers unable to fill a quarter of tech roles
Insurance companies need to fill tech skills gaps if they are going to prosper in the age of insurtech
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
ST Engineering teams up with Google Cloud
Singapore’s ST Engineering and Google Cloud will explore offering secure cloud services for organisations in regulated industries
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March 15, 2021
15
Mar'21
IR35 private sector reforms: IPSE warns of UK contracting talent exodus unless start date delayed
Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed research into what contractors plan to do once the IR35 reforms come into play highlights growing risk of talent shortages
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March 12, 2021
12
Mar'21
UK technology business created every 30 minutes in 2020
New figures on UK business creation show surge in entrepreneurs setting up technology businesses during 2020, while the sector’s hiring efforts climb back to pre-pandemic levels
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March 11, 2021
11
Mar'21
APAC cloud spending up by over 38% in 2020
Public cloud infrastructure services made up the lion’s share of cloud spending last year as APAC organisations strive to modernise their IT infrastructure amid the pandemic, study finds
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March 10, 2021
10
Mar'21
Met Police chooses Capgemini as strategic IT infrastructure services provider
Capgemini has a history of providing the force with day-to-day technology services, and will now deliver its infrastructure services under the Pegasus programme
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March 09, 2021
09
Mar'21
Significant jump in number of hackers reporting vulnerabilities to companies
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of hackers reporting security vulnerabilities and bugs to enterprises has increased by nearly two-thirds
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March 08, 2021
08
Mar'21
Wipro makes its biggest acquisition ever with $1.45bn takeover
Indian IT services supplier Wipro makes biggest acquisition in its history as it bolsters consultancy offering
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March 08, 2021
08
Mar'21
Google Cloud makes inroads in Southeast Asia
Number three public cloud supplier has made inroads into Southeast Asian enterprises such as Indonesia’s Salim Group and is assessing opportunities for new cloud regions
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March 04, 2021
04
Mar'21
IR35 private sector reforms: HMRC under fire over ‘omission’ of employers’ NI from webinar guidance
HM Revenue & Customs confirms it has corrected a calculation error in a recent educational IR35 webinar that saw it fail to factor in employers’ NI in examples of how payments should be made between end-clients, agencies and PSCs post-April 2021
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March 04, 2021
04
Mar'21
Veritas looks beyond NetBackup for growth in ASEAN
Veritas has seen increased demand for its availability tools as it looks to address backup and recovery requirements from cloud, database and VMware workloads
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March 03, 2021
03
Mar'21
Glitch signs collective bargaining agreement with unionised workers
US software startup’s ‘milestone’ agreement with employees focuses on job security and labour rights rather than salaries and benefits
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March 03, 2021
03
Mar'21
SME backup: Card maker ditches tape-only for Nakivo 3-2-1 setup
IG Design Group gains a modern backup regime with data held on disk, in the cloud and long-term on tape in a move that has helped it to slash backup and restore times
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March 03, 2021
03
Mar'21
IBM eyes hybrid cloud opportunity in ASEAN
The hybrid cloud message is resonating among Southeast Asian enterprises that are looking to modernise their applications and systems, says IBM’s general manager for the region
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March 02, 2021
02
Mar'21
Reading Borough Council to overhaul IT infrastructure
Council and its children’s services partner award contracts worth £13.2m for shared IT infrastructure
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March 02, 2021
02
Mar'21
FINN completes Covid-delayed migration to the cloud
Norwegian online advertising marketplace completes cloud migration in a single night after months of delay due to the pandemic
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March 02, 2021
02
Mar'21
How SAP is riding the rising tide of cloud
SAP’s newly minted president for Asia-Pacific and Japan talks up the company’s cloud traction and what is being done to ease the transition to S/4 Hana
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February 26, 2021
26
Feb'21
IR35 private sector reforms: Argos to offshore work of digital team in Milton Keynes to Mumbai
Retailer Argos confirms it has ‘identified opportunities’ to offshore tasks performed by its digital team, while its IR35 compliance strategy has seen the majority of contractors declared in-scope of the new rules, sources claim
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February 26, 2021
26
Feb'21
It’s now or never for UK fintech, government told
The UK government faces a ‘now or never’ moment if it wants financial technology to play a central role in the economy for years to come
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February 26, 2021
26
Feb'21
Nordic startups strive to fuel international e-commerce transformation
Nordic startups are developing technology for retailers that want to improve the customer experience when buying online
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February 25, 2021
25
Feb'21
IR35 private sector reforms: What IT contractors need to know
Computer Weekly asks contracting experts to answer questions about PSC bans, compliant umbrella companies and challenging status determinations, with the latest IR35 reforms coming into place
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February 24, 2021
24
Feb'21
Businesses forced to ask IT service providers for help during pandemic
IT service providers have been approached by long-time enterprise customers asking for price cuts due to the impact of the pandemic
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February 24, 2021
24
Feb'21
Arcserve and StorageCraft merger aims for ‘single pane of glass’
Arcserve and StorageCraft bring a lot of similarities but enough differences for their backers to bet on with their merger, with unifying management between product sets the only priority currently stated
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February 24, 2021
24
Feb'21
Veeam v11 adds continuous data protection and cloud archive
Backup specialist’s annual upgrade brings continuous data protection to offer better RPOs and RTOs than existing snapshot functionality and without impact on running processes
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February 23, 2021
23
Feb'21
How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics
Company’s GeoSpock DB is aimed at optimising queries of large volumes of geospatial data with scale and speed
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February 22, 2021
22
Feb'21
Startup founders worried about proposed capital gains tax changes
British technology startups are concerned about proposed changes to widen the UK’s capital gains tax, with just over four in five saying they would consider moving their enterprise abroad
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February 21, 2021
21
Feb'21
Dell to invest $50m in Singapore innovation hub
Dell Technologies’ global innovation hub will house a research and development lab and other facilities to drive development and adoption of emerging technologies
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February 19, 2021
19
Feb'21
European Commission proposes UK data adequacy agreement
The publication of two draft data adequacy decisions brings the UK closer to a final positive decision, which will enable the continued free flow of data between the EU and the UK if green-lit by member states
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February 19, 2021
19
Feb'21
Fujitsu bosses knew about Post Office Horizon IT flaws, says insider
A former senior developer who worked for Fujitsu on the Post Office IT system that led to subpostmasters being falsely accused of fraud, has claimed bosses knew of fundamental flaws before going live
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February 19, 2021
19
Feb'21
Oracle unveils final cog in cloud strategy
Oracle’s Roving Edge Infrastructure is getting interest from mining companies in Australia and manufacturers in ASEAN that are looking to run cloud-based workloads in edge locations
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February 18, 2021
18
Feb'21
Google Cloud partners Tata Communications in India
Tata Communications will offer managed services for Google Cloud that will include cloud architecture planning and workload migration
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February 17, 2021
17
Feb'21
Finnish IT sector demand increases after months of decline
IT sector in Finland sees small signs of recovery as demand increases after months of Covid-19-related decline
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February 16, 2021
16
Feb'21
TransferGo to harness Google-inspired tech capability
Payments fintech TransferGo chooses cloud-native core banking platform to build a digital wallet and expand its services
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February 15, 2021
15
Feb'21
How computer vision can protect coral reefs
The Australian Institute of Marine Science teams up with Accenture to protect coral reefs in a computer vision project inspired by a Netflix documentary
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February 14, 2021
14
Feb'21
Cancer Council NSW fixes data silos in integration move
The Cancer Council in New South Wales has integrated its core systems to eliminate data silos and improve productivity
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February 12, 2021
12
Feb'21
UK border surveillance regime highly privatised, says Privacy International
Research from Privacy International raises concerns about the deep involvement of technology companies in the development and deployment of various technologies throughout the UK’s border regime, along with the lack of scrutiny they receive
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February 11, 2021
11
Feb'21
Goldman Sachs reopens UK digital savings account
US banking giant resumes online account for UK savers after temporarily withdrawing it in response to high demand
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February 10, 2021
10
Feb'21
TCS to recruit 1,500 UK tech professionals this year
Indian IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services commits to recruiting UK IT professionals
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February 10, 2021
10
Feb'21
Tech sector calls for renewed cooperation in global digital tax talks
Industry groups want renewed multilateral negotiations between countries about taxation of the digital economy in the wake of Joe Biden’s election as US president
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February 09, 2021
09
Feb'21
Oracle claims major win in Australian public sector
Australian Data Centres will deploy Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to host cloud services for the federal government