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New centres of excellence will offer business transformation strategy, cyber security, analytics and manufacturing capabilities across the Asia-Pacific region

Certification on ISO27018 and planned European-based infrastructure put cloud file storage provider in good position for new EU rules

Organisations in the region are increasingly investing in wearable technology, but there are hurdles to overcome before there is broad take-up in the enterprise sector

IP Expo is holding an event focused on the Nordic region for the first time as countries such as Sweden and Finland become leaders in enterprise IT

Big Blue’s Zurich research labs announce project in which storage systems learn to put value to data so it can be assigned the most cost-effective media and lifecycle policies

UK consumers are unwittingly signing up to be location tracked and this data is being used and sold on for commercial benefit, warns privacy campaign

Joe Gray from the Oregon Health and Science University explains how its cloud-based cancer research project with Intel is progressing

Getronics completes acquisition of Colt's managed services business, as it looks to intensify European operations

Supplier plans to enhance its play in emerging networking segments such as 5G and the internet of things

Ministers from 11 EU member states warn European Commission off over-regulating use of online platforms during the creation of the Digital Single Market

EU countries lack a harmonised framework to respond to the challenges of a large-scale cyber incident, according to a report by security agency Enisa

Ferrellgas' switch from a hybrid array to a Violin flash storage array brought a boost in performance as well as surprising reductions in cost and management.

Financial sector sources say a pattern of payment card fraud indicates hackers have breached payment systems at some, and possibly all, Trump Hotel Collection properties

Turkey's data protection law, introduced in March 2016, will make Turkey a near total surveillance state, yet the EU, apparently more concerned about securing Turkey's help in controlling immigration, is turning a blind eye

Computer Weekly’s 2016 awards for the most influential women in UK IT are now open for nominations

Retailer John Lewis launches the 2016 round of Jlab, a programme designed to bring innovation and disruption to the retail industry with technology startups

UK teenagers believe the ICT and computing courses in schools teach them the skills they need for a digital job

Health trust is seeking a 10-year contract for an electronic patient record system, with the aim of going live in 2018

Thirteen health and care organisations across Lincolnshire will integrate records using the Intersystems HealthShare platform

Wide area network upgrade promises to help airline improve customer service and boost business

Agency sets out strategy for connected vehicles and promises to test fully-autonomous cars on motorway network in 2017

In-flight entertainment and connectivity specialist Panasonic Avionics unveils near-field communications system to let airline passengers use mobile payments in the air

Hyper-converged appliance maker adds Hyper-V support to VMware ESXi capabilities and upgrades OmniStack software to support workload optimisation on SimpliVity clusters

Internal review produced by Defra reveals full catalogue of errors that led to the withdrawal of the digital farm subsidy system in 2015

European firms are set to invest in data protection in 2016, with enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation just two years away, Computer Weekly’s IT priorities survey shows

Barclays Bank brings Apple Pay to its customers nine months after its main competitors, with the announcement of its support of the app

EMC unveils the virtual edition of its Data Domain disk library, DD VE, allowing the Data Domain operating system to run inside a VMware hypervisor and back up to any hardware.

Brocade's acquisition of Ruckus Wireless would counter the stronger portfolios of Cisco and HPE for the campus WLAN.

With half of its global staff now based in India, Capgemini expands its operations there by opening a facility for a further 30,000 staff

Breach underlines need to focus cyber security on key data, say experts, after law firm’s founder insists the company was breached by an outside hacker

Broadcaster seeks single supplier for IT provisioning, cloud management and hosting services, as Atos outsourcing deal nears end

Amazon Web Services will help the Met Office’s servers weather the storm of data requests as demand increases for location-based forecasts

A report produced for US network operator Verizon says data analytics will become a core competency as the internet of things becomes more widely adopted by businesses

Organisation takes over from Department for Communities and Local Government’s local digital programme with the aim of delivering joined-up local services

Finnish city Oulu is running a competition to unearth apps that can utilise 5G networks

Volkswagen outlines plans to use open source cloud platform, as it moves to embrace connected devices and agile software development techniques

The more encryption becomes ‘the norm’, the less resistance there will be to adopting it in businesses, say information security pundits

The 11.5 million files leaked from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca are being interrogated by journalists using a combination of Neo4j’s graph database and data visualisation software Linkurious

SSE Enterprise Telecoms becomes the first customer on CityFibre’s recently acquired long-haul national fibre network

This week, networking bloggers examine why the United States has so many compromised DNS domains, architecting for things and Brocade's acquisition plans.

Digital supply chain management is still five years off for almost half of the west’s global firms

When companies get serious about understanding what it costs to get work done, employment will change dramatically. Who's ready for the on-demand economy?

Exits Inc., an international trade software company, found greater reliability, cost savings and flexibility after tapping a services provider to manage its IT infrastructure.

2016 Fusion CEO-CIO Symposium caught on Instagram: Follow along as senior news writer Nicole Laskowski chronicles sessions on disruptive business models and digital investments.

Austin, Texas, Cancer Center uses AT&T's Network on Demand to get tumor diagnoses to patients faster.

Although consumers have been reticent about digital payments, new services -- such as Venmo and blockchain -- are making the benefits of mobile payments difficult to deny.

IT spending has increased slightly, but not enough to fuel major digital transformations, says Gartner

The man in charge of the IT supporting the UK's largest critical infrastructure project – the redevelopment of London Bridge station – tells Computer Weekly about life in a portacabin

Nokia embarks on a round of job cuts as part of its post-merger restructuring

Maynooth University in Ireland has installed a Juniper-based campus network to support its future growth plans

Korean mobile giant Samsung forecasts a turnaround in its financial performance during the first quarter of 2016

Shared records, video communications and online portals are key to a successful future for primary care, says report

US senators drafting a bill aimed at limiting encryption on consumer devices are being briefed on how the FBI hacked into the San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone

The Digital Leaders 100 is open for a public vote to decide the winners of this year’s awards, including Digital Leader and FinTech Innovation of the Year

Cargo handling equipment manufacturer Cargotech reduces the cost of managing its 11,000 employees by moving HR systems to the cloud

Trust is using the Medway BI system provided by System C to enhance clinical, operational and financial performance

Former Thomas Cook CEO is leading IBM's charge into the IoT, and is pushing its Watson AI technology as a unique differentiator

Three parent CK Hutchison is understood to have made a number of further concessions to curry favour with European regulators

Rackspace claims pre-configured hardware, software and services stack will smooth enterprise path to OpenStack-based clouds

Pfizer and IBM plan to work together on using IoT to monitor patients remotely to help in drug development and clinical therapies for Parkinson’s disease

Breach of more than 15,000 login credentials and email addresses at the National Childbirth Trust underlines that every sector must take cyber security seriously, say security pundits

Government Digital Service’s Liam Maxwell and Andy Beale talk about the service’s future, its relationship with departments, tactical outsourcing extensions and lessons learned

VCE research suggests IT departments lack confidence in their ability to meet the digital demands of their organisation

Statistics from broadband comparison site Thinkbroadband seem to suggest the government has hit its target of making superfast broadband available to 90% of UK premises

LinkedIn, which now has more than 20 million members in the UK, recently looked at how IT professionals’ jobs have changed over the past year

Innovative British security software firm Glasswall Solutions is tackling the growing threat of malware that tampers with files and exploits structural weaknesses in popular business document formats

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