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• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Gartner claims pure-play IaaS providers could be sidelined as enterprise attitudes to cloud mature

  Gartner's latest public cloud services market tracker shows demand for IaaS is booming among enterprises, but providers whose cloud proposition does not feature a PaaS component may lose out in future

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Two-thirds of emails not clean, says research

  Two-thirds of emails don't make it to the inbox because security systems consider them unsafe, according to research

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  AIOps killed the IT support star

  There is no room for IT support stars, who can fix anything. As complexity increases, automation and machine learning are the only options

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Enterprise investments in datacentre infrastructure rebound as component shortage price hikes hit

  Enterprises are spending more on datacentre infrastructure, as demand for private and hybrid cloud environments increase, and price hikes from component shortages drive up average cost of hardware

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Good Things Foundation report highlights economic downsides of UK digital exclusion

  A report from the Good Things Foundation highlights the economic risks of failing to address digital exclusion in the UK

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Snowflake making headway in Australia

  Cloud data warehouse supplier Snowflake has nabbed several Australian customers and is looking at delivering its software via the Azure cloud service next year

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Higher education sector's poor response to cyber threats laid bare in EfficientIP report

  The 2018 EfficientIP Global DNS Report shines a light on how ill-prepared the higher education sector is for handling cyber threats

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Average technology salary in UK&I reaches over £80,000

  The average salary for IT professionals in the UK and Ireland is over £80,000 a year, Computer Weekly has found

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  British Airways data breach: Security researchers name suspects and query attack timeline

  Security researchers claim to have pinpointed the cause and perpetrators of the British Airways data breach, and also claim the attackers may have had access to its customer data for far longer than previously thought

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Fashion retailer Desigual boosts sales opportunities with data-sharing technology

  Spanish fashion group Desigual reports 2% fewer lost sales after investing in technology to share stock, sales and pricing data between stores, websites and franchise partners

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Health secretary launches digital platform for NHS staff

  Matt Hancock hopes the digital Talk Health and Care platform will encourage staff to share their ideas and views on how to make working in the NHS better

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  UK security vetting IT system failing, says NAO

  The National Audit Office is critical of the government’s project to centralise its security vetting process, as the IT system has been plagued by failures from the start and has led to serious delays

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Public cloud use surges among DDoS attackers, research shows

  According to data accrued by DDoS mitigation firm, Link11, the number of attackers that rely on public cloud services soared during the 12 months to June 2018

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Keppel, Salim Group to build new datacentre in Indonesia

  The facility located on the outskirts of Jakarta is a response to the growing demand for connectivity and data services in Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Cyber criminals outspend businesses in cyber security battle

  Cybercriminals are flexing their financial might and UK organisations are facing more attacks as a result

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Can technology save our NHS?

  By the technophiles, digital is seen as the holy grail that will save our NHS, but is technology the answer, and how long will it be before we have a digital NHS?

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Enterprise demand drives hike in storage sales, says IDC

  Healthy jump in all-flash and SAN/NAS sales is being driven by enterprise storage modernisation, but also by component price rises. Dell EMC and NetApp top the supplier sales charts

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Irish tax office testing out artificial intelligence for customer services

  The Irish tax office and IT supplier Accenture tries out artificial intelligence for its customer service

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Government positive to Science and Technology Committee’s report on algorithms

  The government has issued its overwhelmingly positive response to the Science and Technology Committee’s report on the use of algorithms in decision making, published earlier this year

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Software maintenance contracts lack scrutiny

  Paying a fifth of the original software contract value every year for support, big fixes and updates does not seem like good value for money

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Pladis aims to get closer to consumers with S/4 Hana

  Pladis, a UK-based Turkish-owned multinational biscuit and chocolate maker, has turned to cloud-delivered SAP software to move from a product-focused to a customer-centric way of doing business

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma to step down in 2019

  The executive chairman of Chinese online retail giant Alibaba is planning a year-long departure, as he prepares to hand over the company reins to CEO Daniel Zhang

• September 09, 2018 09 Sep'18

  Taming the data beast with software-defined storage

  Australian enterprises are turning to software-defined storage to improve data management and speed up testing and development

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  Senior civil servants address TechUK smarter state theme

  Senior government officials spoke at a TechUK “smarter state” event, revealing ambitious AI policy alongside a “back to basics” drive to get data right

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  Why AI should assist humans, not replace them

  At the 2018 Disruption Summit in London, BT’s lead of customer insight and futures said artificially intelligent systems should be there to assist humans, not get rid of them

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  RBS announces branch closures as part of cancelled project to create challenger bank

  The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced more branch closures and job losses as digital transformation continues to transform the sector

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  UK hesitant over immersive technologies despite positivity abroad, survey finds

  UK businesses are lagging behind their counterparts in the US, France and China for AR and VR implementation, due to concerns over security and complexity

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  North Korean programmer charged for WannaCry attacks

  The US has charged a member of a group of North Korean hackers linked to the WannaCry, Sony Pictures and other cyber attacks around the world

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  Argos launches voice shopping capability on Google Home Assistant

  Retailer Argos has developed a voice shopping service so customers can reserve items for pickup using the Google Home Assistant app

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  Facebook to build its first Asian datacentre in Singapore

  The high-rise facility will be the first of its kind to incorporate Facebook’s datacentre cooling system, cementing Singapore’s position as a datacentre hub

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  Ransomware down, but not out, report reveals

  Cryptojacking has taken over from ransomware as the top money spinner for cyber criminals, but the threat is not over and spam is also seeing a resurgence as an attack method, a report reveals

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  BA praised for swift GDPR-aligned action on data breach

  British Airways has been praised for its swift response to a customer data breach, which could be the first test case under the EU’s GDPR and new UK GDPR-aligned data protection laws

• September 06, 2018 06 Sep'18

  Health secretary Matt Hancock to boost NHS IT with £200m fund

  Matt Hancock will announce a £200m fund for further digital centres of excellence and plans to pilot the NHS app across England, but shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth calls the plans a “pipe dream”

• September 06, 2018 06 Sep'18

  Arriva ITSM implementation delivers beyond expectations

  Transport company replaces several tools with a single cloud-based ITSM platform

• September 06, 2018 06 Sep'18

  Chrome 69 security improvements welcomed

  The cyber security community has welcomed the improvements in the latest version of the Chrome browser, especially when it comes to generating strong, unique passwords

• September 06, 2018 06 Sep'18

  How Rituals is using Salesforce Commerce cloud to replicate physical experience online

  Cosmetics firm Rituals is using Salesforce Commerce Cloud to translate its website into 25 languages, helping the brand reach customers its physical stores can’t

• September 06, 2018 06 Sep'18

  All acute NHS trusts in England now using e-referrals

  NHS trusts have reached 100% uptake of NHS England’s e-referral service, ahead of October 2018 deadline

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Tibco plugs streaming data gap in Spotfire

  New streaming data analytics capability in Tibco Spotfire X is expected to be well-received by enterprises in competitive markets across Asia-Pacific

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  The fintech startups to watch in the UK

  Tech Nation’s choice of fintech companies to back reflects the changes expected to hit financial services IT

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Government projects watchdog recommends terminating Gov.uk Verify identity project

  Infrastructure & Projects Authority says Whitehall departments are unwilling to fund flagship GDS identity programme – cancellation would mean writing off at least £130m spent so far

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Health minister launches code of conduct for health tech data

  The code of conduct – focused around data-driven tech such as AI – aims to deepen trust between researchers, innovators, patients and clinicians, according to health minister James O’Shaughnessy

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Nordic states collaborate in Arctic IT projects

  Nordic countries are working together to introduce advanced communications networks in the most isolated Northerly regions

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  If we don't digitise NHS, we are condemning people to die, says NHS England’s operational director

  NHS England’s national director for operations, Matthew Swindells, calls for a complete overhaul of the way the NHS delivers care, claiming the current model “is not viable”

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  How Ocado has disrupted its own model

  At the Disruption Summit in London, Ocado’s head of technology explained how the firm built a technology-based model for efficient grocery delivery and how it has been disrupting that ever since

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Slow cloud take-up among IT execs limits joined-up customer experience

  Cloud computing promises to declutter IT and link systems easily. Despite the benefits, adoption of the cloud for customer engagement remains low

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Amazon becomes second publicly traded company to hit $1tn market cap

  Retail giant Amazon follows Apple's lead to become second company in history to achieve a $1tn market cap, with analysts predicting that its market value could double by 2020

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Half a million UK firms hit by CEO fraud, Lloyds Bank estimates

  Nearly 500,000 UK businesses are being hit by impersonation fraud, according to estimations by Lloyds Bank, with the legal sector most at risk

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  People top target for cyber attackers, report confirms

  As security controls have improved, cyber attackers are increasingly focusing their efforts on people within organisations as a way into corporate IT systems, a report confirms

• September 04, 2018 04 Sep'18

  Tibco to tackle blockchain challenges

  Integration and analytics software supplier Tibco has formed a new lab to tackle the challenges of implementing blockchain and other emerging technologies

• September 04, 2018 04 Sep'18

  DDN to make enterprise push with Tintri’s VM-aware storage

  DDN set to add Tintri’s portfolio of all-flash and hybrid flash arrays to its product offering following the purchase of the VM-aware storage pioneer after it filed for bankruptcy in June