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IT services and outsourcing

• September 20, 2016 20 Sep'16

  Essex hospital trust upgrades IT infrastructure

  Mid Essex NHS Trust upgrades its storage infrastructure to keep up with increasing volumes of data

• September 20, 2016 20 Sep'16

  Digital Catapult sets up London-wide IoT network

  The Digital Catapult is launching a London-wide internet of things network to support digital startups and SMEs as they develop applications and use-cases

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  MaidSafe secure internet concept enters testing phase

  Scottish internet startup MaidSafe brings its vision for a more private and secure approach to the web a step closer to reality

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week

  SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows

  Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Cloud collaboration boosts Cumbria County Council's disaster response abilities

  How Cumbria County Council tackled the unsanctioned use of cloud services within its organisation and improved the robustness of its disaster response in face of December 2015's Storm Desmond

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  Lessons from the Dropbox breach

  Dropbox is the latest major company to confirm a data breach, albeit four years old, but – as with all recent data breaches by cloud-based services – it highlights some key security lessons

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Cloud firm Backbone relegates X-IO SAN with Atlantis tiered storage

  London-based Backbone uses Atlantis USX as storage virtualisation layer on top of PCIe flash and X-IO and as a stepping stone to hyper-converged infrastructures

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  VMware to help enterprises manage AWS, Azure and Google cloud deployments

  Virtualisation giant VMware offers enterprises a helping hand with managing multi-cloud environments, spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn

  After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer

• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  London datacentre market enjoys pre-Brexit surge in demand for colocation space

  CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Rackspace ‘on brink’ of sale to private equity house – report

  Reports suggest managed cloud company could be sold in a matter of days, ending its time as a publicly listed company

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  Singapore’s DBS Bank signs up to Amazon cloud

  The latest move in the cloud journey of DBS bank in Singapore is an agreement with Amazon Web Services

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Liv Fiksdahl, DNB

  CIO of Norwegian bank tells Computer Weekly how Indian outsourcing partners help her keep costs down and digitise the business

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: How the enterprise cloud war is hotting up

  With Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reporting strong growth on the back of cloud, we take a closer look at how they have achieved it

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Mobile and video pay off for Google’s parent company Alphabet

  Alphabet ascribes strong second quarter financial results to long-term investments in mobile and video as demand for advertising through these channels increases

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Vesa Erolainen, Pöyry

  Doubts were raised when Vesa Erolainen, CIO at Finnish engineering and consulting company Pöyry, outlined his IT transformation plan, but he ended up winning an award for it

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Revealed: The battle for GDS – how Whitehall mandarins are trying to carve up digital strategy

  Insiders say senior civil servants want to break up the Government Digital Service and return IT to its previous departmental model

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Almost 60% of millennials search for jobs through company websites

  Research by Monster finds the younger generation react strongly to what they find on an employer’s website when looking for work

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Digital Greenwich joins forces with University of Surrey for 5G smart city tests

  Collaboration will investigate “smarter” ways to cope with challenges related to transport, health, energy and the built environment

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Apple highlights services revenue and future bets as iPhone sales decline

  Apple share price up on strong performance in services and investments in augmented reality and artificial intelligence, despite 27% year-on-year decline in quarterly profit

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Date set for landmark hearing into EU-US data transfers

  Irish court hearing triggered by Austrian law student Max Schrems could have huge implications for EU-US trade and the data privacy rights of millions of EU citizens

• July 25, 2016 25 Jul'16

  Skills shortage and poor IT infrastructure hinder tech adoption by Asean governments

  EIU report highlights governments’ desire for better use of data, including cloud access

• July 25, 2016 25 Jul'16

  Estonia seeks UK datacentre to protect citizens' personal data from hackers - report

  The Baltic state is reportedly in early stage talks with the UK and Luxembourg governments about setting up a backup site in either country to protect citizens’ data from risk of hackers

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Microsoft reports strong quarter driven by cloud

  Microsoft reports quarterly profits of $3.12bn, largely driven by the success of its focus on cloud services

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  French public sector’s never-ending struggle with the cloud

  The French government has more hurdles to overcome than many of its European neighbours when it comes to adopting cloud computing services

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Chef CTO urges action to prevent DevOps staff burnout

  Chef CTO Adam Jacob has called on enterprises to cultivate a supportive working culture to protect DevOps staff from burnout

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  Standard Chartered takes global delivery network to next level

  Bank to invest $3bn in global delivery network, with particular focus on scaling up Malaysian centre

• July 11, 2016 11 Jul'16

  Case study: Odeon goes to hybrid cloud for digital transformation

  Odeon cinema chain reveals how it is using hybrid cloud to power its digital transformation and tackle competitive threats

• July 11, 2016 11 Jul'16

  DWP trials blockchain technology for benefit payments

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) trials blockchain's distributed ledger technology, with benefit claimants using a mobile app to track welfare payments

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail

  New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  McLaren-Honda rebuilds network platform on NTT foundations

  McLaren-Honda Formula 1 team embarks on three-year technology partnership with NTT Communications

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  The challenges facing social tech and what will tackle them

  As part of the Cast launch event, government, corporate and social tech representatives discussed some of the challenges facing social tech and how we can grow tech for good initiatives

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Amazon.com CTO cautions enterprises against underestimating value of test and development

  Speaking at the AWS Summit in London, Amazon.com CTO hits out at legacy suppliers and urges enterprises to get experimental to protect themselves against competitive threats

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Saudi Telecom Company leads nation’s transformation agenda

  Saudi Telecom Company and its technology partners support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s drive into digital public services

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Lufthansa IT services arm transforms to meet customer demands

  IT supplier Lufthansa Systems is changing its business model as its airline customers invest in digital technologies

• July 05, 2016 05 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Tore Burheim, University of Bergen

  IT director of Norwegian university tells Computer Weekly about digitising education and creating co-operative clusters

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Thailand’s TMB Bank modernises IT through the cloud

  Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Facilities firm ISS picks IBM Watson IoT to manage client sites

  Danish outsourcing and services firm signs new deal with IBM to use Watson’s internet of things capabilities to better manage its clients’ properties

• June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

  Five retail-based startups head for 2016 Jlab incubator

  Five of the 23 startups that pitched for a place on John Lewis’s 2016 startup programme will be spending the summer in the retailer’s Jlab accelerator

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Brexit: Datacentre investments set to slow as economic stability concerns hit CIOs

  As the economic uncertainty around Brexit continues, CIOs may put new datacentre investments on hiatus, warns analyst

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Hays Recruitment service desk project is all gain and no pain

  The firm was attracted by the many benefits of a cloud-based service desk, but chief among them was the low risk involved in implementation

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Technology key to supporting World Expo 2020 in Dubai

  Businesses in Dubai need to get ready for the expected boost in demand that will come with the World Expo exhibition to be held in the city in 2020

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  LogMeIn customers complain over price hikes and contract renewals

  Remote management supplier denies not notifying customers about impending price rises and renewal dates, as end-user complaints mount

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  MPs’ private emails are routinely accessed by GCHQ

  Computer Weekly investigation reveals the extent of interception of MPs’ and peers’ email communications and data

• May 27, 2016 27 May'16

  Bristol Water outsources IT as business model transforms

  Bristol Water outsources IT to Wipro to support it through a period of transformation to its operating model

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Virgin Media uses Salesforce to build omni-channel sales

  Virgin Media is using Salesforce to offer a single customer view irrespective of the channel the customer uses to talk to the company

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Digital inclusion charity demands government enforcement of web accessibility laws

  AbilityNet claims government is "falling down on the job" by failing to act against firms that do not make their websites and services accessible to disabled users

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Lawmaker Vaizey hails UK role in resolving datacentre sovereignty issues

  Digital economy minister talks up government’s work in supporting the growth of the UK’s technology sector

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  ING Turkey uses digital technology to improve services and grow customer base

  Turkish bank uses business process management technology to offer financial services through 1,500 grocery stores, technology outlets and post offices