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• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  New subsea cable to connect Australia and Southeast Asia

  The Indigo submarine cable will provide additional capacity to mitigate disruptions caused by fibre cuts, as well as meet the growing demand for internet services in the region

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Middle East enterprises urged to embrace governance, risk and compliance

  The enforcement of corporate governance issues is still variable throughout the Middle East and making a strong business case for investment in GRC can be a challenge.

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  NHS Digital plans September go-live for citizen identity service

  Health and social care patients will have a single online identity verification log-in to use across health and care by autumn 2017

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Technology investments core to JP Morgan Chase success

  US investment bank is reaping the benefits of its $9.5bn annual technology spend

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Dutch IT companies introduce unlimited staff holidays

  IT firms in The Netherlands are leading the way with strategies to give employees control of how much time they take off work

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut gets sweet on cloud

  Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut is increasingly using cloud-based apps to improve productivity and reduce costs

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Northern Ireland schools to continue with Capita IT services

  Two-year, £60m contract extension covers ICT services for 1,100 schools

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  How to apply DevOps practices to legacy IT

  The one constant in legacy systems is that they can’t just be switched off. We find out how Ticketmaster has adapted its legacy IT to DevOps

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Australia’s Commonwealth Bank unveils data analytics platform

  Free platform made available to bank’s customers at a time when only 34% of the country’s SMEs are making data-driven decisions

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  VMware to sell vCloud Air service and datacentre infrastructure to OVH

  French IaaS challenger to take over the reins of global vCloud Air hybrid cloud service

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  Analytics, internet of things to drive data volumes to 163ZB by 2025

  IDC study predicts consumers as creators of data will decline as the enterprise, analytics and “life critical” scenarios push total volumes to a tenfold increase by 2025

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  Chinese hacking group targeted firms through IT MSPs

  Security researchers have uncovered a China-based cyber espionage campaign that targeted IT services firms and their customers, underlining the need for supply chain security

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  IR35 reforms: HMRC 'delays' blamed for last-minute public sector compliance panic

  Public sector stakeholders claim the late release of HMRC's online tax status assessment tool and its supporting IR35 legislation is causing contractors to leave projects in their droves

• April 03, 2017 03 Apr'17

  Less than 8% of retailers respond to customer queries across all channels

  The omni-channel environment of the retail industry is raising customer service expectations, but very few retailers are responding to consumers on all of the channels they offer

• March 31, 2017 31 Mar'17

  How IT can be more defensible

  A renowned Google engineer calls for the IT industry to build devices capable of being defended and for enterprises to take a balance sheet approach in managing risks

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  Treasury Committee 'confidence collapse' in HMRC customs IT system

  The Treasury Committee is concerned HMRC’s new customs check system won’t be ready to go live by the time the UK leaves the EU

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  GDS builds DDaT jobs framework

  The Government Digital Service has created a framework to build common skills and capability across digital, data and technology roles

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  First cyber security startups graduate from GCHQ accelerator

  The first group of companies has completed a government-led cyber accelerator programme aimed at helping UK startups take the lead in producing the next generation of cyber security systems, with another round to be announced in 2017

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  HMRC contractors leave over inside IR35 ruling

  HMRC has begun classifying its public sector contractors as "inside IR35", prompting fears of a digital "brain drain" at the organisation

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  GDS digital transformation delivers mixed results, says NAO

  National Audit Office report examines Gov.uk Verify uptake, GDS strategy changes, spending controls and collaboration with departments

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Thorn CEO on using machine learning and tech partnerships to tackle online child sex abuse

  The CEO of US-based no-profit Thorn explains how cross-industry collaboration and machine learning is helping her organisation stay one step ahead of online child sex abusers

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Russian Airline at home in the cloud

  S7 Airlines in Russia looks set to move more of its IT to the cloud after successful infrastructure-as-a-service project

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  GDS needs a clearer role, NAO is expected to say

  Although the Government Digital Service has done well to change the government’s approach to digital transformation, there is a risk that its remit is still too broad, the National Audit Office is expected to say in a report due out tomorrow

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Almost 40% of firms seeking cloud skills find it hard to recruit

  Most orgainsations agree that cloud skills are important for the future, but those involved in recruitment are finding it difficult to hire talent

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Non-malware attacks pose bigger threat than malicious software

  Malware-free cyber attacks are on the rise and artificial intelligence in cyber security is still far from replacing humans, according to most cyber security researchers

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Are ethical questions holding back AI in France?

  France has been slow to create a strategy around the use of artificial intelligence, partly due to questions around ethics

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Uber shuts down in Denmark after less than three years

  Changes in Denmark’s taxi legislation force transportation network company to cease its operations in the country

• March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17

  Threats grow in Saudi Arabia’s cyber sector

  Saudi Arabia's wealth makes it an attractive target for cyber criminals, but what have been the recent trends in cyber crime?

• March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17

  Singapore to shutter 2G services by April 1

  2G is making way for 3G and LTE networks in the city-state, but the legacy technology will remain in other markets with significant machine-to-machine investments

• March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17

  KPMG launches campaign to encourage women into tech

  Professional services firm commits to increasing the number of women in its technology remit to encourage more women into the industry

• March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17

  1,000 sub-postmasters apply to join IT-related group litigation against Post Office

  Group legal action against Post Office relates to allegedly faulty Horizon computer system

• March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17

  UK business least likely to offer rewards to infosec professionals

  UK firms need to rethink incentives to attract and retain people with cyber security skills, according to the findings of a recent global study

• March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17

  Red Hat adds Gluster metadata cache and container deployment

  Scale out NAS parallel file system speeds operations with client-side caching, and allows container deployment and faster self-healing volumes

• March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17

  AWS London users suffer "insufficient capacity" problems with T2 Micro Instances

  Users of AWS's London-hosted T2 Micro Instances suffered capacity issues on Friday 24 March

• March 27, 2017 27 Mar'17

  Ofcom scuppers BT’s ‘deemed consent’ ploy

  Telco regulator fines BT for abuse of an opt-out clause that avoids service level fines on delays to Ethernet installations

• March 26, 2017 26 Mar'17

  HPE, Tata Communications to build world’s largest IoT network

  The Lora-based network will benefit around 400 million people in India who can expect improvements in water quality and public safety

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  AI and robots will 'create political instability' until humans find new occupations

  The belief that advances in technology will create more jobs than they replace may no longer hold true

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Serco uses HR technology to cut recruitment bill

  International outsourced services supplier Serco is investing in HR recruitment technology to help it hire 15,000 to 20,000 people a year

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Cisco unveils new Spark collaboration platform in APAC

  Spark will be the future platform for integrating all of Cisco’s collaboration technologies, according to a Cisco regional executive

• March 22, 2017 22 Mar'17

  CIO interview: Martin Hofmann, Volkswagen Group

  Volkswagen Group recently demonstrated how it was working with D-Wave to research uses for quantum computing. We find out what the car maker is hoping to achieve

• March 22, 2017 22 Mar'17

  Digital transformation of infrastructure key to UK’s future, says report

  The infrastructure sector needs to take advantage of digital technology to keep up with the pace of change, according to the Institution of Civil Engineers

• March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17

  NHS launches projects to increase digital health tech skills

  NHS England aims to create digital academy to up-skill CIOs and CCIOs, while NHS Digital has launched a three-year public digital participation programme

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Kaminario looks forward to NVMf, but not this year

  All-flash maker Kaminario plans to add NVMe drives, but only when it can replace existing fabric protocols with NVMf and a full stack of advanced storage features

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Global business leaders hail UK tech sector’s innovation potential

  KPMG report reveals global confidence in UK tech sector’s ability to create innovative products and services that are keenly adopted across the world

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  IBM cognitive assistant to help manage and secure devices

  IBM has announced a cognitive assistant powered by IBM Watson to help businesses manage and secure endpoints, including devices making up the internet of things

• March 17, 2017 17 Mar'17

  Singapore startup partners IBM to pilot blockchain technology

  Invictus’ distributed ledger prototype will offer financing options for small and medium-sized enterprises

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  Government to ramp up help for UK cyber security industry

  Government, in partnership with industry, is pursuing a range of initiatives aimed at establishing a UK cyber security ecosystem, developing skills and products and boosting exports, says DIT’s Conrad Prince

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  CIO interview: Jon Cheyne, IT director, National Theatre

  We speak to the IT head at the National Theatre about what it means to have a 99% cloud strategy

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  US accuses Russian spies of directing Yahoo breach

  US authorities have arrested a man in Canada who has been charged alongside two Russian intelligence officers and a Russian hacker in connection with a 2014 data breach at Yahoo affecting 500 million accounts

• March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17

  APAC topped the world in number of cyber attacks in 2016

  The prevalent use of pirated software is one of the possible reasons for the APAC region’s poor showing in Trend Micro’s annual study on the state of cyber security