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IT services and outsourcing

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Startup’s data cleansing and analysis tools available to UK police via Microsoft Azure

  Tools will help police analyse case data, link disparate sources of information and develop new lines of inquiry from a single workstation

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Government revises outsourcing guidelines to balance risk with suppliers

  The government has published its latest guidelines on public sector outsourcing

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Huawei Cloud opens Singapore region amid growing cloud rivalry

  The Chinese tech giant is eyeing local and Chinese firms looking to expand operations in the Asia-Pacific region

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Activist Lauri Love’s computer ‘contained hacked data’, says judge

  Lauri Love, who has been accused of hacking into US government computer systems, has lost a legal action against the NCA for the return of his computers and storage device

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Pure launches ObjectEngine cloud dedupe, plus inter-rack NVMe

  Flash storage pioneer offers flash-to-flash-to-cloud ObjectEngine on-premise and in the cloud while boosting connectivity between datacentre racks with NVMe-over-fabrics

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Bank of England to migrate from core system with a one-off big bang

  The Bank of England will migrate from its current core settlement system with a 'big-bang' migration before the end of 2025

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Six experiential retail businesses chosen for Jlab

  The businesses and startups that will take part in John Lewis’ 2019 Jlab programme have seen selected following a pitch day

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  Dell Boomi taps APAC cloud market

  The supplier of cloud-based integration services has expanded into Southeast Asia following its debut in Australia about two years ago

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  NTT Data announces winner of UK regional heat for its ninth global Open Innovation Contest

  The UK regional heat for NTT Data's Open Innovation Contest has been won by startup GeoSpock

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Action needed as venture capitalists reluctant to invest in fintechs founded by women

  Action is needed if fintechs set up by women are to receive the same level of venture capitalist backing as those set up by men

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Chinese AI startup claims breakthrough in pediatric diagnosis

  Yitu Healthcare claims over 90% accuracy when diagnosing a range of pediatric diseases using a natural language processing system

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  London and Helsinki digital partnership challenges big IT platforms

  CDOs of London and Helsinki meet at London’s City Hall to sign a city-to-city digital declaration around AI, open data and digital innovation

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Deloitte will double Hyderabad workforce to support demand for technology services

  Deloitte will add 40,000 staff at its operation in Hyderabad, with IT professionals accounting for a significant portion of employees

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Lauri Love takes legal action against NCA for return of seized computers

  Lauri Love, a former engineering student who won a battle with the US Department of Justice against extradition to the US to face hacking charges, is suing the UK's intelligence agency, the NCA, for the return of his seized computers

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Vodafone announces winners of Techstarter accelerator

  Vodafone has announced the winners of its startup accelerator programme, aimed at helping young companies developing technology for social good

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Tech Nation launches its first cyber security scale-up accelerator programme

  Tech Nation hopes the accelerator programme will boost the UK's digital security sector

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Suffolk County Council awards 20-year WAN contract

  MLL Telecom will work with CityFibre to extend Suffolk County Council’s existing WAN to 600 sites and offer them ultrafast connectivity services

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  UK’s IT and BPO spend plummets because of Brexit uncertainty

  UK businesses cut their investment in IT and business process outsourcing last year because of confusion over Brexit, but there was a 68% rise in public sector spending

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Marks & Spencer launches charging banks as part of startup partnership

  Retailer Marks & Spencer has announced it will be adding battery charging banks to its stores as part of startup partnership

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Digital Isle of Man launches two initiatives to help blockchain businesses

  The Isle of Man continues to promote itself as an international hub for technology startups, and is now taking a much keener interest in blockchain

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Cambridge launches urban data IoT project

  The city of Cambridge will use Telensa IoT sensors and a Microsoft Azure platform to better manage its urban data assets

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Swiss bank moves away from file with Cloudian object storage

  PostFinance opts for Cloudian object storage as it migrates 100 million files away from NetApp and builds S3-compatible archives for Hadoop and Apache Spark

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Dedicated blockchain accelerator opens doors to first cohort

  A new accelerator programme, which balances business and wellness, takes seven startups into its first cohort

• February 03, 2019 03 Feb'19

  Alibaba Cloud teams up with SMU on training programme

  Alibaba Cloud will equip small and medium-sized enterprises with cloud computing and other technology skills through a partnership with Singapore Management University

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Met Police deploys live facial recognition technology for ninth time

  Police say technology is helping to prevent and detect crime by identifying wanted criminals, but privacy groups have voiced their opposition

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Freelancers hold generally positive attitudes towards gig economy

  Report finds that digital labour-sharing platforms are increasingly popular among freelancers

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  How traffic scrubbing can guard against DDoS attacks

  Although most scrubbing services can help fend off distributed denial of service attacks, a more comprehensive mitigation strategy is required to remain unscathed

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Australian government turns to Rimini Street for software support

  A slew of Australian government agencies have switched out SAP and Oracle maintenance contracts for third-party support services

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  IT leaders grapple with workforce skills gap as they deploy AI and digital technology

  Organisations will have to find new ways of reskilling their workforce as they get to grips with artificial intelligence and other digital technologies. CIOs also need to keep their skills updated if they are to succeed

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  Hong Kong’s JOS eyes Singapore IT services market

  The IT services firm claims to have an edge in being less rigid than larger rivals in pushing for specific IT implementation methodologies that may not suit the needs of mid-tier customers

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Tech Nation announces fourth cohort for Upscale programme

  Startups will receive six months of coaching and take part in workshops, mentoring sessions and networking opportunities with the programme’s alumni

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Lloyds Bank to migrate hundreds of thousands of customers to Google-inspired fintech

  Following its announcement that it was exploring the use of a fintech platform, Lloyds Bank has been quick to plan customer migration

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  CIO interview: Charles Ewen, Met Office

  The Met Office’s CIO is working on a new, digital approach, using supercomputers, establishing pioneering partnerships and creating change

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Finnish banks to share core banking platform and supplier

  Three banks in Finland have hired an IT services supplier to build a shareable core banking platform

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Veeam Cloud Tier adds tiered storage for backups in S3 clouds

  Virtualisation backup specialist adds tiering of Veeam Availability Suite data to AWS, Azure and S3-compatible clouds, which can now also be used as a repository for its N2WS cloud-native backup

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: Competition concerns fuel retail war between the big cloud three

  The retail market is no slouch when it comes to adopting cloud technologies, but competitive concerns appear to be influencing the cloud-buying decisions of some

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Digital Catapult explores LPWAN and IoT for industry

  A Connected Factory Demonstrator managed by the Digital Catapult is seeking input from LPWAN and internet of things specialists

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Facebook: US government does not engage in mass and indiscriminate surveillance

  Social media giant challenges a ruling by Dublin’s High Court over a judgment that it says made ‘extraordinary and incorrect’ findings about the US legal system

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Bahrain plans to create a world-leading tech ecosystem

  Bahrain is building a technology ecosystem that will help the country further reduce its economic reliance on the oil and gas industry

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  Siemens connects to world’s largest UCC deployment

  German technology powerhouse Siemens AG reveals how it unified communications and collaboration for hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Vodafone and IBM prep user clouds for future network tech

  Companies expand existing collaboration to enable enterprise customers to prepare for the impact of advanced networking technologies

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  CenturyLink opens Singapore SOC amid security services boom

  US telco’s second Asia-Pacific security operations centre in Singapore is one of eight globally as it bids to carve a slice of the security services market

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  New Zealand faces more state-sponsored attacks

  Nearly four in 10 cyber security incidents recorded by the National Cyber Security Centre were the work of state-sponsored threat actors

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Dutch pharma firm Centrient switches out MPLS for Cato SD-WAN

  Centrient Pharmaceuticals, a Netherlands-based drug company, has switched out its global MPLS service in favour of a high-performance software-defined WAN from Cato Networks

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Digital transformation is real, say ASEAN CIOs

  ASEAN CIOs are embracing digital transformation but face barriers in getting employees to adopt an agile mindset

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  Artificial intelligence qualification helps law firm implement AI-powered business systems

  International law firm Taylor Wessing wants to train staff in artificial intelligence so they can develop AI-powered business systems

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  Venture capital funding for UK tech startups drops 28% in 2018

  Despite remaining ahead of other European countries, venture capital investment in UK tech startups has suffered in 2018 due to political uncertainty

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  Singapore companies gearing up for hybrid cloud

  Traditional datacentres are making way for hybrid cloud adoption among Singapore companies, a study finds

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Alibaba Cloud opens second datacentre in Indonesia

  The new and existing datacentres will let Indonesian enterprises deploy mission-critical workloads in multiple availability zones and switch over within seconds

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Second Lorca cohort to focus on supply chain security

  The second cohort of companies to benefit from the new London cyber innovation centre will focus on user-centric security and securing supply chains