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October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
BBC takes iPlayer video production to AWS cloud to beat bottleneck and storage woes

Having run Video Factory on AWS for over a year, BBC's Robert Shield explains how he overcame iPlayer bottleneck and availability challenges
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
European enterprises can halve colo expenses by moving north, says Gartner

Favourable environmental conditions in Northern Europe mean enterprises can save on their datacentre expenses
October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14
Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum

Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards
October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14
IBM operating income falls by 18% as it offloads semiconductor unit

IBM reported lower-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of 2014, with revenue down by 4% year-on-year

October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14
CIOs fear poor cloud investment is making businesses uncompetitive

CIOs and CFOs fear their enterprises are missing revenue opportunities due to poor cloud strategies
October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14
Embedded SIMs key to unlocking internet of things

GSMA’s eUICC Embedded SIM Specification will help M2M communications and the IoT become mainstream, say analysts
October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14
Tim Berners-Lee: Data sharing needs accountability

The question of how much data an individual should share was a key theme of Tim Berners-Lee's keynote at IP Expo
October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14
L’Oreal aligns technology with the business to work faster

L’Oreal’s digital technology is working with the business and marketing departments to become innovative and agile
October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14
Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
ARM enters mainstream datacentre with HP’s ProLiant Moonshot servers

ARM chips have entered mainstream enterprise datacentre with HP's production-ready ARM-powered Moonshot servers

September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14
BlackBerry Passport delivers a real keyboard and high-res screen to business

BlackBerry has introduced its Passport smartphone featuring a 4.5in hi-res screen, a qwerty keyboard and 13MP camera
September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14
Accommodation booking site picks Dell cloud to fix downtime issues

Eviivo, a UK-based online accommodation booking website, has placed its business-critical systems on a Dell cloud platform
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
SAP acquires Concur to build cloud-based expense management

SAP has agreed to acquire online travel and expense management SaaS provider Concur Technologies for $8bn
September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14
Interview: Government digital chief Mike Bracken on the next five years

The Government Digital Service celebrates its third anniversary soon, but has plenty more challenges ahead to change Whitehall thinking
September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14
BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed
September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14
Online fashion retailer Asos seeks CIO

Asos.com is looking to appoint a CIO following the departure of Pete Marsdon after two years in the role
September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14
Why bare metal cloud is in vogue

Bare metal services have been around since 2009 but cloud is witnessing renewed interest in it thanks to new offerings
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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)
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
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 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 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 05, 2014 05 Jun'14
UK airports lead move to cloud services

UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.
June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14
CIOs should 'leave innovation to marketing'

CIOs should focus on managing the technical infrastructure and leave innovation to other parts of the business – conclusion of a major study.
June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14
Sapphire 2014: SAP CEO McDermott declares war on ‘complexity’ and sets Fiori free

Bill McDermott, SAP CEO, devoted his opening keynote at Sapphire 2014 to declaring war on business process “complexity”
June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14
High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson

Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
CIO interview: Robert Teagle, European IT director, Starbucks Coffee

Robert Teagle leads IT across the 30 markets that Starbucks owns and operates in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14
Interview: Nick Roberts, president of Socitm and IT group manager

This month, Nick Roberts, IT group manager at Surrey County Council, took over as president of Socitm, the association of IT and digital professionals working in and for local public services
April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14
SDL turns to cloud HR to join up businesses in 40 countries

The technology is central to the company’s strategy to integrate formerly autonomous businesses in 38 countries into a single operation
April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14
Gartner: CIOs spend more on BI as business growth returns

The return to business growth is driving IT spending among UK and Irish CIOs, according to Gartner's 2014 CIO Agenda survey
April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14
Q&A: SAP's Mike Ettling discusses SuccessFactors cloud HR strategy

Computer Weekly talks to Mike Ettling, global head of cloud and on-premise HR at SAP, about the company’s strategy for its SuccessFactors cloud HR technology
April 11, 2014 11 Apr'14
Co-op Bank plans to 'fix the fundamentals' and invest in IT

The Co-operative Bank intends to invest in IT systems following a troubled year
April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14
CIO interview: Leandro Balbinot, global CIO, HJ Heinz

Food giant HJ Heinz is gearing up to expand its international presence with a technology modernisation programme encompassing 23 countries
April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14
Pharmaceuticals company turns to cloud HR technology

Astra Zeneca CIO Dave Smoley turns lessons learned from an earlier cloud HR implementation to use at the pharmaceuticals giant
March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14
Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UK
March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14
Case study: BG Group turns to cloud HR to reach staff in multiple countries

Gas exploration and production company replaces SAP HR technology with Oracle Fusion in the cloud.
February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14
BBC starts search for suppliers to replace £2bn Atos outsourcing deal

The BBC is moving away from its single-supplier outsourcing deal to a multi-sourced 'tower' approach for its technology services