Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Sloppy SaaS firms lose out on G-Cloud deals, research suggests

Ex-EuroCloud general secretary Lindsay Smith claims SaaS providers need to stop blaming others for their lack of G-Cloud sales success

Friday, May 27, 2016

How to build your own IoT with Azure

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform has gone well beyond mere virtual machines and orchestrated workflows. It can now also power internet of things applications

EC sets out proposals for online platform regulation

The European Commission has outlined a number of proposals to better regulate the operation of online platforms in the Digital Single Market

Bet365 gets SwiftStack object storage as NAS pulls up short

Online gaming firm Bet365 is set to replace NAS for data with 0.5PB of more scalable and elastic object storage, built on SwiftStack and commodity SuperMicro hardware

Australian police raid opposition offices over leaked broadband documents

Australia's federal police have raided the offices of a Labor opposition politician in an investigation into leaked National Broadband Network documents

Unchecked social media use can damage career opportunities

Allegedly tech-savvy millennials are letting social media stand in the way of job prospects as potential employers turn to the internet for background information

Monday, May 23, 2016

Amazon S3 storage 101: Object storage in the cloud

Amazon S3 has emerged as a de facto standard for accessing data in the cloud. We run the rule over S3, its key attributes and what you need to know to use it with your applications

Friday, May 20, 2016

Copenhagen creates marketplace for trading data

Organisations in Copenhagen can buy and sell previously unavailable data on a data marketplace set up by the city government

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Digital inclusion charity demands government enforcement of web accessibility laws

AbilityNet claims government is "falling down on the job" by failing to act against firms that do not make their websites and services accessible to disabled users

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Monday, May 16, 2016

GDS urged to reinstate G-Cloud web accessibility safeguards

Public sector IT buyers risk breaking disability discrimination laws, following removal of web accessibility safeguards from G-Cloud, it is claimed

Friday, May 13, 2016

The Bimodal IT backlash: Should IT departments subscribe to the notion of a two-tier workforce?

Gartner's Bimodal IT vision has captured the imaginations of some CIOs, but industry watchers have queried how well cultivating a two-tier IT department works in reality

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Australia wants more fintech opportunity despite surprisingly low budget commitment

Australia's federal budget has a surprisingly low financial commitment to fintech, despite the country's clear appetite for developing the sector

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Nordea Bank launches crowdfunding platform in Finland

The Nordic financial services group offers a technology bringing together investors and startup businesses

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

AWS Q1 Results: How the cloud giant plans to retain its hold on the market

In light of the continued growth of AWS, Computer Weekly looks at how the firm intends to retain its hold on the cloud market