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Businesses need to equip staff with the tools to do the job

Workforces will become frustrated if they do not have the technology they need to deliver what their organisation wants Continue Reading

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• David Johnson

Lookout bets on big data analytics to secure enterprise mobiles

Mobile security SaaS provider Lookout is betting on its cloud-based big data analytics capability to attract enterprise customers Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

IBM could create blockchain-based digital payments infrastructure for central banks

IBM has held informal talks with some central banks about building an infrastructure that can provide them with bitcoin-like digital payments systems Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Microsoft Azure brings success for McDonald's Sweden

McDonald's Sweden's Microsoft Azure system is named best-in-class across the fast food organisation's global operation Continue Reading

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• David Nikel

Post Office ends working group for IT system investigation day before potentially damaging report

The Post Office closed a working group involved in an investigation into claims against allegedly faulty accounting software used by subpostmasters Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Tieto’s Taneli Tikka brings startup drive to industrial internet business

Taneli Tikka has an unusual job description as the head of industrial internet at Tieto Corporation Continue Reading

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• Eeva Haaramo

Prepare for two modes of business intelligence, says Gartner

IT needs to open up business intelligence to the broader business to support its consumerisation Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

US cyber crime indictment prompts calls for zero tolerance

A newly-revealed US indictment of three suspected cyber criminals has prompted a call for zero tolerance for cyber intrusions Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

China and US cross swords over software backdoors

Barack Obama criticises Chinese plans to force tech firms trading in China to share encryption keys and put backdoors in software Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Strong future for enterprise IT in Nordic countries

From attracting the world to its ice-cool datacentres to the digitisation of the public sector, there is plenty going on in the Nordic region Continue Reading

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• David Nikel

Latest new UK bank launches virtually

Challenger financial services firm Charter Savings Bank has been launched, taking advantage of the lower cost of a virtual presence Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Google to launch Android Pay

Google is expected to launch a payments application programming interface at its I/O conference in May Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Microsoft to cut 9,000 jobs at Nokia plants in China

Microsoft plans to shut down two former Nokia manufacturing plants in China, which means 9,000 jobs will be lost in the latest round of cuts Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Bank of England considers issuing digital currency

The Bank of England could issue its own digital currency in the future, in the same way that it does with bank notes Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

PrivDog SSL compromise potentially worse than Superfish

Some versions of PrivDog software designed to block online ads compromise internet security in a similar way to Superfish Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Apple invests in European datacentres as EU investigates tax break

Apple is investing €1.7bn in two European datacentres to support iTunes, the App Store, iMessage, Maps and Siri Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Security fears stop small firms using cloud computing

Although 60% of small businesses are using cloud computing services, the remaining 40% are put off by security fears Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Intel Security warns of six social engineering techniques targeting businesses

An Intel Security report encourages businesses to address and educate employees on “six levers of influence” used by hackers Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

IBM and Oracle named as potential Monitise buyers

IBM and Oracle have emerged as potential candidates to take over British mobile software company Monitise Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

International spyware operation linked to NSA

The US National Security Agency has reportedly hidden surveillance software in the hard drives of several top computer makers Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Infosys acquires Panaya for automation

Infosys continues its move to non-linear business models through the acquisition of US automation software maker Panaya for $200m Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

MasterCard to pilot facial, voice and fingerprint authentication

MasterCard will pilot a biometric authentication and verification tool this year as part of cyber security technology investment Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Airwave's Tetra emergency services radio "costly and inflexible"

Incumbent Airwave failed to advance to the next stage of the Emergency Services Network procurement because its Tetra radio technology was too inflexible for current needs, according to reports Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks

Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same

In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Symantec continues cloud investment in spite of poor Q3 results

Symantec has reported third quarter 2015 revenue of $1.64bn, a drop of 4% compared with $1.70bn over the same period in 2014 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Kellogg's outsources digital marketing to Indian supplier

Food giant Kellogg's outsources the management of its digital marketing platform to Indian IT services firm Mindtree Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

IoT could be key to farming, says Beecham Research

The internet of things could be key to the farming industry meeting the challenge of increasing food production by 70% by 2050, says report Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Tesco Bank suffers computer problems

Tesco Bank customers are the latest to suffer as a result of IT problems Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Sony says cyber attack will cost $15m

Sony expects the investigation and remediation costs of the November 2014 cyber attack on its movie subsidiary will amount to $15m Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Offshoring data is biggest barrier to government in the cloud

Offshoring data is the biggest obstacle to putting government services in the cloud, according to a survey of MPs and peers Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Post Office CIO would talk to any subpostmaster about IT problems, promises CEO

The CEO of the Post Office defended the organisation’s support for users of its accounting system in a select committee inquiry into alleged problems Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

EC3 announces industry partnership in fight against cyber crime

Europol's European Cybercrime Centre has partnered with security firm AnubisNetworks to help fight the global threat of cyber crime Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Government network services tender deadline slips again

Crown Commercial Service pushes back deadline for tender submissions to Network Services framework to give suppliers more time to prepare Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

IT sector outdoing rest of economy despite rise in IT supplier insolvencies

Insolvencies among information and communication suppliers increase by a fifth as the economy continues to pull out of recession Continue Reading

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• Tim Wood and Henry Kirby

Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis

The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Mobile banking will help the poor transform their lives, says Gates Foundation

Mobile banking can help the poor change their lives and two billion people who don’t have bank accounts store money by phone by 2030 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

A closer look at Google Container Engine

In just 12 months, Docker has transformed from a simple open-source container management project into a powerful platform Continue Reading

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• Janakiram MSV

MPs force inquiry into Post Office subpostmaster mediation scheme

MPs force inquiry into Post Office scheme to redress grievances of subpostmasters claiming to have been wrongly punished for false accounting Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Virgin Atlantic Airways outsources digital transformation to Tata Consultancy Services

Virgin Atlantic Airways (VAA) outsources IT to Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services as the airline creates digital services for customers Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Google to buy Softcard in latest round of financial services empire building

Google is in talks to acquire mobile phone payments system Softcard as it increases its financial services capabilities Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Blackburn with Darwen Council renegotiates Capita outsourcing deal

Blackburn with Darwen Council is renegotiating its £200m 15-year outsourcing deal with Capita as it tries to save millions of pounds in its budget Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Quantum key distribution is the future for secure comms

Quantum teleportation is a technology that will ultimately replace encryption as the foundation of communication security Continue Reading

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• Peter Ray Allison

Supplier relationship management lessons from the car industry

IT can learn a lot from the car industry, which has transformed supplier relationship management Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Amatis Networks waves goodbye to LUN woes and deploys Tintri hybrid flash

Managed service provider Amatis Networks deploys Tintri hybrid flash to slash latency and cut time-consuming LUN storage management overheads Continue Reading

Attackers bypass conventional security, says FireEye study

Hackers breach most conventional, signature-based security technologies, with 27% involving advanced threats Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Services provider Tech Mahindra adds banking IT expertise to its portfolio

Indian IT services supplier Tech Mahindra adds consultancy skills and gains finance customers after buying banking services firm Sofgen Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

User groups defend licensing, but should Oracle rethink remuneration?

Two Oracle user groups have defended Oracle's licensing policy following open letter by Campaign for Clear Licensing Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

How to make applications resilient on AWS

Cloud services are susceptible to network and other outages. There is no silver bullet to boost the resilience of an AWS-hosted application Continue Reading

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• Guido Soeldner

IBM still a bellwether despite industry departure from traditional IT services

Reports that IBM is reducing its offshore workforce are the result of cloud computing, automation and artificial intelligence Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Forrester: IT maintenance saps budget as tech spending increases

Technology spending is set to rise modestly, but the majority of IT spending will still go on maintaining existing systems Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Alibaba bank and WeBank show Google and Facebook the way

Technology can drive traditional banks to reform, says Chinese premier Li Keqiang at the launch of China’s first online-only bank Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing

In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Microservices: How to prepare next-generation cloud applications

A microservice architecture promotes developing and deploying applications composed of autonomous, self-contained units Continue Reading

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• Janakiram MSV

Google under fire over Windows zero-day disclosure

Google has come under fire for publishing a proof-of-concept attack exploiting a flaw in Windows 8.1 before Microsoft had released a security update Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Tablet growth slows as consumers hand down devices

Sales of tablets are expected to slow down during 2015 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Deal between RBS and CA over IT failure will remain secret

The details of the financial settlement between RBS and CA Technologies in relation to a massive IT failure will remain secret Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Price cuts and posturing in the public cloud war

The price battle among commodity cloud players is set to rage on, but how much impact is it really having for enterprise customers? Continue Reading

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• Jim Mortleman

Digital technology to open up core banking market

The challenges of digital banking will open core banking software market to more suppliers as banks attempt to keep up Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Accenture and BT to battle for NHS email contract

The NHS has shortlisted two suppliers for its email system, with BT and Accenture still in the mix Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

MP accuses Post Office of acting "duplicitously" in IT investigation

MPs claim Post Office was being "high handed" towards MPs and running a "flawed, deteriorating" accounting system Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries Continue Reading

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• Fiona O’Cleirigh

MPs to debate subpostmaster IT injustice claims

Debate about the Post Office scheme to redress grievances of subpostmasters will be held in Westminster Hall Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

DECC publishes annual report on delayed smart meter scheme

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published its annual report on the roll-out of smart electricity and gas meters Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

IoT will drive a middleware boom

Spending in middleware is expected to exceed $16.3bn, driven by a shift towards agile mobile application integration Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

The state of mobile back end as a service

Common mobile application services are increasingly being hosted on central back-end servers – but what does that mean for the enterprise? Continue Reading

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• Janakiram MSV

Why MPs lost faith in the Post Office's IT investigation, but vowed to fight on

A group of 140 MPs has removed its backing for a Post Office scheme to redress subpostmasters' grievances over alleged false accounting Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Banks are opening up IT to third parties, as hackathon demonstrates

National Australia Bank (NAB) opened its IT to its internal tech team and independent developers to access innovation Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

MPs blast Post Office over IT system investigation and remove backing

Post Office scheme to redress sub-postmaster grievances over IT system is failing, say MP group supporting alleged victims Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Cyber criminals are targeting smartphone supply chains, warn researchers

A new mobile trojan dubbed “DeathRing” is being pre-loaded onto smartphones somewhere in the supply chain, warn researchers Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

UKtech50 2014 - The most influential people in UK IT

Computer Weekly has announced the fifth annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK IT Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising Stars 2014

Chosen by the Computer Weekly team from people we’ve met over the past 12 months, here are our five rising stars of 2014 Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

HP is ‘coming back strong’, says CEO Meg Whitman

At the HP Discover event in Barcelona, CEO Meg Whitman addressed the future for customers following HP's split into two businesses Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Danske Bank latest to take offshore IT in-house

Danske Bank is the latest company to transform its offshore IT strategy by setting up a captive centre in India next year Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Networking technologies emerging in the enterprise

We look at the latest networking technologies on offer, and those being adopted in the enterprise Continue Reading

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• Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing

How resilient is the public cloud?

The recent downtime that affected some Azure services following an update illustrates the precarious balance CIOs face in the cloud era Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

HP results disappoint ahead of split

HP has announced disappointing fourth-quarter earnings ahead of the company’s planned split aimed at reversing its recent decline Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide features list 2015

The Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide maps the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial to help decision-making. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Mature Indian offshore IT services firms take larger chunk of market as US giants collapse

Indian IT services firms increased their share of UK private sector IT and BPO contracts from 4% to 25% in a five-year period Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

EDF extends IT outsourcing contract with Capgemini

Utilities company EDF Energy has extended its IT outsourcing contract with Capgemini by another two years Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Russian webcam-spying site highlights common security failing

A Russian website collecting images from internet-connected cameras highlights a common security failing, say security professionals Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Microsoft releases emergency security patch for Windows and Windows Server

Microsoft emergency patch fixes a Windows and Windows Server vulnerability hackers are exploiting to compromise networks Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Oracle: Five guaranteed cost-saving initiatives

There are plenty of pitfalls when dealing with Oracle licensing. here are five money-saving tips from The ITAM Review Continue Reading

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• Martin Thompson, ITAM Forum

Worldpay processes billionth contactless payment

Supermarkets account for most contactless payments as payments company Worldpay processes its billionth contactless payment Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Lufthansa confirms €1bn mega-outsourcing deal with IBM

German airline Lufthansa confirms seven-year outsourcing contract with IBM worth €1.25bn Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Intel merges PC and mobile divisions

Intel plans to merge its profitable PC group with the loss-making division that sells chips for smartphones and tablets Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Can Microsoft change its spots?

Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO of Microsoft, the company has become steadily more open and cross-platform Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

CIO success is all about winning friends and influencing people

If Gartner’s predictions are true, CIO working practices have to change to keep IT relevant Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

AWS launches Aurora cloud-based relational database engine

AWS launches an open-source relational database engine called Aurora at its re:Invent 2014 cloud conference Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

UBS move to Oracle HR in the cloud hits big delays

Swiss bank UBS has hit major delays migrating to a cloud-based HR system Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Network firewalls as relevant to data security as ever, says industry pioneer Gil Shwed

Network firewalls are as relevant to data security today as they were 20 years ago, says industry pioneer Gil Shwed Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

What to expect from AWS re:Invent 2014

Amazon is all set to unveil new services and features at its AWS re:Invent 2014 Continue Reading

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• Janakiram MSV

Drinks maker Edrington outsources SAP enterprise resource planning operation to Atos

Glasgow-based distiller Edrington outsources its ERP development, support and hosting to IT services firm Atos Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Future Decoded event raises questions on digital risk

Is technology good for society or bad? This was one of the issues covered at the Future Decoded event in London Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Why national roaming may not be the answer to mobile not-spots

Industry suggests alternative strategies as government threatens to force mobile operators to allow national roaming Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making

Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Tackling bloatware in the age of cloud-based apps

Microsoft Office general manager Julia White on Office 365 security and making cloud apps easier for users Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Banks see technology firms as biggest threat, says Infosys

Google, Apple and Facebook the biggest threat to banks as technology firms offer consumers financial services Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Lloyds Banking Group confirms 9,000 job cuts and digital investment

Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it will cut 9000 jobs and close around 150 branches to focus more on its digital strategy Continue Reading

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• Clare McDonald, Business Editor