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IT services and outsourcing

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Cyber attack combined with Covid-19 puts Travelex into administration

  Foreign exchange firm Travelex has cut UK staff by 1,300 and physical outlets will remain closed

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  India’s software industry calls for cuts to red tape

  Software industry lobby group iSpirt has called on the Indian government to ease the administrative burden of complying with rules related to taxes and trade

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  If you hire foreign IT staff, ‘you’re fired’, Trump tells bosses in government-owned entities

  Donald Trump has fired a pre-election warning to government organisations that give IT jobs to workers from overseas

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Bandwidth Inc wraps up Ribbon deal to boost home network capacity for AWS

  Session border controller software edition deployed on AWS to enable enterprise communications company’s customers to improve home working with no disruptions to network performance

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Coronavirus: IT contractors cite lack of government support during Covid-19 as source of stress

  ContractorCalculator research highlights the mental health toll the pandemic is taking on IT contractors

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Spurring digitalisation in Singapore’s tourism sector

  The Singapore Tourism Board has developed a digital pass and an analytics service, among other initiatives, to digitalise the city-state’s embattled tourism industry

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

  Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

  Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Covid-19 forces TechHub into administration

  Silicon Roundabout mainstay TechHub has been forced into administration after Covid-19 pandemic undermines ability to generate revenue

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Labour Party is latest victim of Blackbaud ransomware attack

  Widening Blackbaud data breach ensnares the Labour Party as the cloud software firm continues to duck questions about its behaviour

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  US lawmakers grill big tech chiefs over market power

  Sixth antitrust hearing sees CEOs of major technology companies face combative questioning from members of Congress over their market power and dominance

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Accenture selected for key role in Bank of England core settlement system replacement

  Accenture will be technology delivery partner in project to replace the core system used to settle payments between banks

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Campaigners urge government to resist big tech lobbying pressure

  Lobbyists for big tech, supported by senior US politicians, have rallied against stricter regulation of technology companies, and threatened the US-UK trade deal unless Britain scraps plans to levy a digital services tax

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Schrems steps up pressure on Irish data protection commissioner on Facebook’s data sharing with US

  Austrian lawyer is considering ‘other’ options if the Irish data protection commissioner does not make a decision by October on his seven-year-old complaint against Facebook

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Backblaze takes aim at ‘costly and complex’ AWS cloud storage

  Backblaze offers free transfer to its S3-based cloud storage – which it claims costs a fraction of AWS et al – as long as it’s more than 50TB and you commit to at least 12 months

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  NCSC inducts six security startups to Cyber Accelerator

  10-week programme will guide some of the UK’s most innovative security startups as they scale their businesses for future growth

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Latent demand for fertility tech identified by market study

  Global investment in fertility tech startups tops $2.2bn over five-year period, with significant growth opportunities going forward due to combination of technological innovation and latent demand for fertility treatments

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Vector and AWS team up on ‘new energy platform’

  New Zealand-based energy supplier Vector partners AWS to develop an IoT and analytics platform to speed up processing of smart meter data and to tailor products and pricing for customers

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Venture firm Public launches fourth GovTech accelerator

  The GovStart 2020 accelerator programme is looking for innovators working on transport, health and workforce-related technology to help get more startups working on the delivery of public services

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Loan charge: HMRC's plans to clampdown on loan-scheme promoters slammed by IT contractors

  HMRC is seeking feedback on its plans to tackle tax-avoidance scheme promoters, in the wake of criticism over its past enforcement of the loan-charge policy

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  A question of trust: University and supplier on the hook for data breach

  Data on students at the University of York was stolen in a ransomware attack on a supplier two months ago, and the response of both parties raises serious questions

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  Business resilience key to startups ahead of post-Covid recession

  Startups should begin building up their resilience to resist unattractive acquisition bids ahead of post-Covid recession

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  APAC firms in early stages of digital transformation

  More than three-quarters of APAC firms struggle to revise their financial plans amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with many still lacking agile systems and processes, a new study finds

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Lloyds bank buys into cloud-native payments

  Lloyds Banking Group continues its digital journey by investing in and investigating a cloud-based payments service

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  BNP Paribas joins IBM financial services cloud project

  IBM’s financial services cloud is gathering steam as more banks join its public cloud ecosystem of finance firms and developers

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Privacy Shield: Companies face new hurdles to legally transfer data to the US

  Businesses will have to conduct legal assessments to ensure they can transfer data from the EU to the US and other countries, following a European Court of Justice ruling

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  TfL contracts Capita for London Underground section of emergency services network

  Capita will implement the network infrastructure that will enable the emergency services mobile network to work on the London Underground

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Inside Intel’s transition into an enterprise tech company

  Computing giant Intel is pushing deeper into the enterprise with investments in data-centric and emerging technologies along with partnerships with local firms to develop new solutions

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  IBM's Q2 tapered by pandemic business recovery

  Country-specific coronavirus responses directly correlate to IBM customer IT investments, with some contemplating dialling back cloud subscriptions

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Loan charge: Government dashes hopes of revised down settlements for contractors

  HMRC and HM Treasury confirm there are no plans to alter the loan charge settlement terms, despite calls from cross-party MPs to consider doing so

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Schrems v Facebook: European court strikes down EU-US Privacy Shield agreement

  The European Court of Justice has struck down Privacy Shield, the EU-US data-sharing agreement, creating uncertainty for European countries that share data with the US and pressuring the US to reform surveillance laws

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  What do Accenture’s UK job cuts mean to the IT services industry?

  Accenture's decision to reduce its UK workforce by 8% will not be the last in an IT services sector hit hard by the Covid-19 disruption.

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  Huge declines in traditional outsourcing as Covid-19 puts a stop on deals

  Traditional IT outsourcing deals value plummets in the last quarter as contracts dry up amid Covid-19 disruption

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  HSBC chooses AWS for public cloud business operations

  HSBC will use a cloud platform from Amazon Web Services across its business operations to accelerate its public cloud use

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  European court to decide legality of EU-US data sharing in dispute between Schrems and Facebook

  A ruling by the European Court of Justice will have ramifications for hundreds of thousands of companies that share data with the US. The case aims to balance US surveillance laws with the rights of EU citizens to keep their data private

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  How SingEx is bracing itself for disruption

  Singapore’s SingEx started its digital transformation journey a few years ago and has already pivoted its approach to cope with new challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Majority of security pros fed up with alert fatigue

  A vast majority of security professionals say they experience alert fatigue, and 88% are facing challenges with their current SIEM setup, according to a report

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Most finance firms are multicloud, but many are unprepared for public cloud cyber attacks

  Financial services firms are moving to the cloud at pace, but many are uncertain whether they could cope with an attack on an application based in the public cloud

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Tencent Cloud teams up with ADBC on banking services

  Singapore’s Asia Digital Bank Corporation could leverage Tencent Cloud’s financial cloud platform to provide banking services to small businesses

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Oracle ups ante in cloud wars with dedicated customer regions

  Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud at Customer will let enterprises run an entire cloud region in their own datacentres in a potentially game-changing move

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Interview: Mayank Prakash, global consumer CIO, and Daljit Rehal, CDO, Centrica

  Two of energy giant Centrica’s tech bosses talk to Computer Weekly about the impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown and the importance of company culture, innovation and using technology to make life easier for customers

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Security funding soars despite Covid-19 slump, but problems lie ahead

  The overall cyber security funding ecosystem in the UK is healthier than ever despite Covid-19, but the figures mask stark and concerning disparities in where the money is going

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Succeeding with hybrid cloud deployments

  Where IT complexity is a given, a policy-driven approach and effective monitoring are vital for success

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  MSP Xchanging attacked in ransomware incident

  Specialist managed services provider is restoring customer access to systems after an unspecified ransomware incident

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Fujifilm software allows S3 access to LTO tape libraries

  Fujifilm Software Defined Tape allows tape libraries to act as an S3-based object storage archive accessible as a tier of storage on-premise or in the cloud

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Nutanix claims growth in ASEAN amid growing cloud adoption

  Nutanix’s business in ASEAN grew by over 40% as the region’s enterprises warm to hybrid and multi-cloud services

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  Lorca scale-ups bring diverse security to the fore

  London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement announces the cyber security scale-ups that will make up its fifth cohort

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  Ferry port implements terminal operation system remotely

  UK ferry port takes advantage of suppliers remote-working capability to complete IT project during lockdown

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  How Infor Nexus is helping to digitalise Asia’s supply chain

  Infor’s Nexus unit has been supporting digitalisation efforts in Asia’s supply chain industry before the Covid-19 pandemic, which has accelerated adoption of cloud-based offerings in the region

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  Green tech needed for post-Covid economic recovery

  Green technology investments could help society recover from the coronavirus – and prepare it for the long-term negative social and economic outcomes of climate change