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• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Gartner Symposium: GE Capital reassesses supplier strategy

  Financial services business GE Capital, is rethink its strategy for selecting strategic suppliers, in a bid to boost innovation within IT

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Web surveillance not a good idea, says Info Commissioner

  Information Commissioner Christopher Graham says issues of national security cannot be allowed to overshadow concerns of legitimate public interest

• November 11, 2013 11 Nov'13

  Fear of cloud servers fading fast among UK firms

  Research shows traditionally risk-averse UK firms are being persuaded by the benefits of co-location, with more than 20% of servers now outsourced

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance violates EU law, study finds

  Mass internet surveillance by US and UK intelligence agencies violates European law, according to a study by two academics

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  UK intelligence heads defend mass surveillance operations

  Heads of the UK’s intelligence services insist all they do in term of mass surveillance is strictly within the confines of UK law

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  'Extraordinarily poor' Universal Credit project needs clear IT stategy, say MPs

  MPs say the Department for Work and Pensions must set out a clear IT strategy for Universal Credit and state how much money will be written off

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Luxury brands can avoid social media, says former Aston Martin director

  Luxury brands do not need to jump onto social media sites to as part of their marketing and IT strategy

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Intellect relaunches as TechUK and targets 500,000 new UK IT jobs

  The UK’s technology trade association, formerly known as Intellect, has relaunched as TechUK, unveiling plans to create over 500,000 jobs by 2020

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  IT spending up as companies invest in digital technology

  Businesses are stepping up their spending on IT as they invest in strategic digital technologies, a CIO survey by Deloitte reveals

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  School gets Nimble hybrid flash and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup

  Berkshire private college has revamped data protection with Nimble hybrid flash storage and Barracuda hybrid cloud backup

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  McDonald's to engage with tech-savvy customers in restaurants

  McDonald’s is engaging with customers by implementing interactive technologies in its restaurants

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  Business-defined storage will help reconnect businesses with IT, says Forrester

  Business-defined storage and datacentres will make IT more business-centric, according to Forrester

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  Nationwide to carry out mortgage consultations by video

  Nationwide Building Society will enable mortgage consultants to meet customers via high-definition video links using Cisco technology

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Crown Hosting Service to save £530m from government IT bill by 2018

  Government Digital Service to establish new Crown Hosting Service to consolidate hosting across Whitehall, saving £530m per year by 2018

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Co-operative Bank’s future dependent on £500m IT investment

  Co-operative Bank has set aside £500m for four stage IT transformation as it attempts to stabilise after investors contribute to a £1.5bn rescue

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  John Chen agrees to steer BlackBerry survival strategy

  CEO Thorsten Heins resigns from BlackBerry board as the ailing firm gets a $1bn cash injection from Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  DWP ministers to decide whether to scrap all of the £300m Universal Credit IT

  Ministers at the DWP are to decide this month whether to scrap all of the £300m Universal Credit IT systems and start again from scratch

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  Case study: How CERN scientists collaborate with Vidyo

  The European Nuclear Research centre moved from an internally developed video conferencing system to embrace SVC technology from Vidyo

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  DWP refused to release Universal Credit IT review to MPs

  DWP has refused to provide MPs with a copy of a review of the IT for the troubled Universal Credit project by programme chief Howard Shiplee

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Companies are not taking advantage of data analytics, research says

  Research by Bersin by Deloitte shows that 86% of businesses have yet to progress beyond using their HR data to generate basic reports

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  BDUK seeks new CEO

  The top job within the division with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport charged with rolling out broadband across the UK is up for grabs

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Government calls for more data scientists in the UK

  The government is calling on industry and academia to help produce more data scientists in the UK

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Software licensing: SAP terms and conditions are not above European law

  The district court of Hamburg has ruled against SAP over its case against a German second-user software reseller

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Identity assurance system moves into beta test phase

  The Government Digital Service has started testing of a key system to support plans for citizens to securely prove their identity when accessing online public services

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Former Lord Justice of Appeal Hooper joins Post Office Horizon investigation

  The Post Office's Horizon accounting IT inquiry appoints former Lord Justice of Appeal Anthony Hooper to chair mediation stage

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Analysis: RSA says security needs to change, but what does that mean?

  RSA executive chairman Art Coviello has issued a call to action to the security industry to improve technology and collaboration

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Most businesses need to transform IT security, says RSA

  No modern network or IT system can withstand the onslaught of a skilled adversary, given focus and time, says Amit Yoran, general manager of RSA

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Emulex ExpressLane and CrossLink boost HBAs for flash and Hadoop

  Storage card maker Emulex has added QoS prioritisation for flash storage and leveraged RDMA via Fibre Channel to increase server performance in clustered operations such as Hadoop

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Study finds cloud computing the most valued enterprise IT skill

  Cloud computing overtakes virtualisation, security, BI, database and project management as the most valued enterprise IT skill

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  CIO Interview: Ann-Marie Rafferty, head of IT, Access, on partnership models

  Ann-Marie Rafferty, who heads up IT for the partnership between Serco and Glasgow council, discusses strategic frameworks

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Loughborough University implements 400 virtual desktops

  Loughborough University has cut maintenance costs and enabled a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scheme for academics with virtual desktops.

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Six tips to help you negotiate the best deal with your datacentre provider

  Your willingness to negotiate can make a big difference to the deal you get, says Anthony Day, associate at law firm DLA Piper

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  End in sight for sub-postmaster claims against Post Office's Horizon accounting system

  Sub-postmasters' claims of errors made by the Horizon accounting system could be completed in three months

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Cyber attack shuts down Israeli toll road tunnel

  A cyber attack has shut down a major link in Israel's national road network, experts claim

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Home Office awards £621m contracts for visa application services

  The Home Office has awarded two contracts equating to £621m for managing visa applications

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Fulham football club address skills shortfall with cloud database

  Fulham football club’s IT team moves its database infrastructure to the cloud with a database as a service implementation

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  HP and Diageo take different paths to cloud-based HR

  HP and Diageo took very different approaches when they deployed cloud-based human resources (HR) software from Workday

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Samsung reports record Q3 profits of £4.8bn

  Samsung has reported record third quarter profits of £4.8bn driven mainly by revenues from memory chips

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  NTT Europe saves time with Sepaton data deduplication VTL deployment

  NTT Europe was sick of tape libraries “shoeshining” so went for a $2.5m deployment of Sepaton data deduplication virtual tape libraries to slash backup and restore times

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  European Central Bank warns against last-minute Sepa migrations

  The European Central Bank warns firms that have left migration to the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) they could face problems

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  Thales launches critical infrastructure cyber security lab

  Thales has set up a cyber security lab dedicated to help improve the security of critical national infrastructure, government and business

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Apple makes Mac operating system software free to download

  Apple has made its latest Mac operating system, OS X Mavericks, available to download for free from the Mac App Store.

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  US publishes draft cyber security framework

  The US has published a draft framework of voluntary cyber security standards aimed at reducing risks to critical national infrastructure

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  BT signs multimillion HR technology contract with Oracle

  The project, one of the largest contracts signed so far for Oracle’s Fusion technology, is strategically important both to Oracle and BT

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid

  Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Case study: Pumps maker Hayward Tyler’s restructure sharpened ERP business focus

  When a restructure arrives half way through an ERP upgrade, it could be a threat to the IT programme. But Hayward Tyler saw it as a chance to ensure business goals were at the heart of its Epicor project.

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Apple’s ‘arrogance’ offers Huawei opportunity

  The vice-president of market for Huawei devices admits his firm has a fight on its hands to grow in the mobile market

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Lotus F1 Team invests in converged datacentre to support race strategy

  Lotus F1 Team is about to go live with a converged datacentre infrastructure as it begins the development of a championship-winning car for 2015

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Microsoft withdraws faulty Windows RT 8.1 update for Surface tablets

  Microsoft has widthdrawn its Windows 8.1 update for Surface RT tablets after some users reported system crashes

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  Technology and innovation in European banks

  Innovations in online and mobile, in video banking, social integration and CRM, are taking precedence to connect with banking customers