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Sporting Group CTO on selecting Sumo Logic over Splunk, and Google over AWS
Sporting Group CTO on selecting Sumo Logic over Splunk, and Google over AWS

Peter Wallis explains how the company moved from Splunk to Sumo Logic because of pricing, and how Kubernetes made Google the clear cloud choice

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 10 December 2019
Formula 1 talks up use of AWS AI for TV in 2019
Formula 1 talks up use of AWS AI for TV in 2019

Formula 1 managing director Ross Brawn explains how the sport will use machine learning to improve engagement

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 30 November 2018
 AWS Ground Station first customers include DigitalGlobe, BlackSky and Spire
AWS Ground Station first customers include DigitalGlobe, BlackSky and Spire

Pay-as-you-go 'ground station-as-a-service' is aimed at lowering costs and streamlining processes

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 28 November 2018
HMRC seeks commercial contract expert in £95k job to oversee post-Aspire IT deals
HMRC seeks commercial contract expert in £95k job to oversee post-Aspire IT deals

New hire at HMRC expected to help in shift from single biggest IT outsourcing deal in Europe to a portfolio of 200+ suppliers

  • Government
  • 09 April 2018
Financial Conduct Authority seeking three IT leaders to support IT transformation and manage supplier relations
Financial Conduct Authority seeking three IT leaders to support IT transformation and manage supplier relations

FCA is seeking a head of regulatory systems and two divisional service leads

  • Leadership
  • 09 April 2018
Microsoft beefs up protection for Office 365 users, including ransomware recovery
Microsoft beefs up protection for Office 365 users, including ransomware recovery

Microsoft adds specific features to help users recover files from malicious attacks including ransomware

  • Security
  • 06 April 2018
Mike Bracken slams government decision to shift data policy-making from GDS to DCMS
Mike Bracken slams government decision to shift data policy-making from GDS to DCMS

'Moving it to the Department of Fun, run by a minister who was forced to change the data privacy on his own app doesn't make sense,' says Bracken

  • Government
  • 06 April 2018
GDPR: Google to demand that publishers gain consent from users on its behalf when using Google's ad technology
GDPR: Google to demand that publishers gain consent from users on its behalf when using Google's ad technology

Google to make publishers responsible for obtaining consent for third-party websites and apps that rely on Google tech for ads

  • Legislation and Regulation
  • 23 March 2018
DNC hacker Guccifer 2.0 makes VPN mistake revealing they're a 'member of Russian military intelligence'
DNC hacker Guccifer 2.0 makes VPN mistake revealing they're a 'member of Russian military intelligence'

Hacker mistakenly left a Moscow IP address in server logs of US social media company

  • Hacking
  • 23 March 2018
Eighty per cent of councils still primarily rely on on-premise IT because of 'legacy IT hangover'
Eighty per cent of councils still primarily rely on on-premise IT because of 'legacy IT hangover'

Holding on to legacy technology is holding back digital transformation in local government, claim Eduserv and Socitm

  • Government
  • 23 March 2018
And then there five: Connexin pulls out of 5G spectrum auction days before it is due to start
And then there five: Connexin pulls out of 5G spectrum auction days before it is due to start

Connexin drops out of Ofcom auction due to start next week

  • Communications
  • 16 March 2018
Chip-and-pin payment cards can be cloned using Prilex malware
Chip-and-pin payment cards can be cloned using Prilex malware

UK adopted chip and PIN cards in 2004, but criminals are now trying to break down the security barriers

  • Security
  • 16 March 2018
Connexin drops out of 4G and 5G spectrum auction - before it's even begun
Connexin drops out of 4G and 5G spectrum auction - before it's even begun

Ofcom says there are only now five bidders in next week's spectrum auction

  • Telecoms
  • 16 March 2018
EU to levy three per cent turnover tax on Uber, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Airbnb and other US tech giants
EU to levy three per cent turnover tax on Uber, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Airbnb and other US tech giants

EU to demand tax from technology and internet giants based on where their customers are

  • Legislation and Regulation
  • 16 March 2018
HM Land Registry to recruit a head of IT operations in £70k role
HM Land Registry to recruit a head of IT operations in £70k role

HMLR has an ambitious transformation programme, which includes a centralised digital local land charges register

  • Careers and Skills
  • 09 March 2018
Former Yell CIO Robert Carr becomes CIO at Medivet The Vets
Former Yell CIO Robert Carr becomes CIO at Medivet The Vets

In addition to Yell, Carr has has also held IT positions at News International and Gartner

  • Leadership
  • 09 March 2018
National Express appoints Rob Muir as first ever chief digital officer
National Express appoints Rob Muir as first ever chief digital officer

Muir was previously a senior director at advertising and marketing agency McCann Worldgroup

  • Leadership
  • 05 March 2018
More than £100,000 in student loans stolen by phishing email scammers
More than £100,000 in student loans stolen by phishing email scammers

More than 70 students had their university funds redirected by scammers in just 15 months

  • Security
  • 02 March 2018
Edenred hires former P&G CIO Dave Ubachs as EVP of digital and IT
Edenred hires former P&G CIO Dave Ubachs as EVP of digital and IT

Ubachs has had CIO roles at Staples, Procter & Gamble and Ipsos

  • Leadership
  • 23 February 2018
Maersk CEO: self-sailing container vessels aren't worth investing in
Maersk CEO: self-sailing container vessels aren't worth investing in

Self-sailing container vessels won't be more efficient, says Soren Skou

  • Software
  • 19 February 2018
Food Standards Agency to recruit a chief digital officer
Food Standards Agency to recruit a chief digital officer

Digital 'a game changer' and vital to achieving ambitions, says FSA

  • Careers and Skills
  • 16 February 2018
West Midlands on the hunt for a chief digital officer
West Midlands on the hunt for a chief digital officer

Former John Lewis CEO Andy Street is now mayor of the region and is putting together a digital strategy

  • Careers and Skills
  • 16 February 2018
CIO Interview: Aviva international CIO Fin Goulding
CIO Interview: Aviva international CIO Fin Goulding

Goulding has the task of transforming the company's way of working - with agile at the forefront of his thinking

  • Leadership
  • 16 February 2018
South Gloucestershire Council selects Civica to build digital customer platform
South Gloucestershire Council selects Civica to build digital customer platform

Council wants platform to improve user experience and provide cost and efficiency savings

  • Public Sector
  • 12 February 2018
NHS trust CIO: Budget constraints makes agile and DevOps impossible without supplier help
NHS trust CIO: Budget constraints makes agile and DevOps impossible without supplier help

With budgets cut, Bradford NHS Trust CIO Cindy Fedell believes it is impossible to sustain in-house development

  • DevOps
  • 09 February 2018
Department for Education searching for a CISO
Department for Education searching for a CISO

£105k annual salary for chief information security officer who will be DfE's "policy owner" for cyber risk

  • Government
  • 09 February 2018
Digital secretary Matt Hancock urges organisations to prepare for GDPR - with less than half even aware of the new law
Digital secretary Matt Hancock urges organisations to prepare for GDPR - with less than half even aware of the new law

With only four months to go, many organisations haven't even heard of GDPR, let alone made the fundamental data-protection changes it demands

  • Government
  • 25 January 2018
Welsh NHS systems failure down to technical glitch, not cyber attack
Welsh NHS systems failure down to technical glitch, not cyber attack

Blood test and x-ray results couldn't be accessed because of a technical issue with two Welsh NHS data centres

  • Health
  • 25 January 2018
The Police ICT Company hires tri-forces CIO Ian Bell as its new CEO
The Police ICT Company hires tri-forces CIO Ian Bell as its new CEO

Bell is currently CIO for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Police Force

  • Police
  • 18 January 2018
Healthcare records of three million Norwegians compromised in "professional" cyber attack
Healthcare records of three million Norwegians compromised in "professional" cyber attack

Norwegian information security centre blames 'advanced' and 'professional' hackers

  • Hacking
  • 18 January 2018
Senior business executives welcome introduction of AI 'co-workers' - report
Senior business executives welcome introduction of AI 'co-workers' - report

67 per cent of senior execs believe 'workforce' will cover both intelligent machines and human colleagues in the future

  • Software
  • 18 January 2018
Intel: Spectre and Meltdown fixes should make PCs only 10 per cent slower, at most
Intel: Spectre and Meltdown fixes should make PCs only 10 per cent slower, at most

Chipmaker publishes results of tests on CPUs running Windows 7 and Windows 10

  • Hardware
  • 11 January 2018
UCL Technology Fund invests in data anonymisation software developer Anon AI ahead of GDPR
UCL Technology Fund invests in data anonymisation software developer Anon AI ahead of GDPR

University tech fund invests in academics whose research has commercial potential

  • Privacy
  • 11 January 2018
MoD appoints Charles Forte as new CIO, replacing Mike Stone
MoD appoints Charles Forte as new CIO, replacing Mike Stone

Former deputy group CIO of BP and interim CIO of Thames Water to take up post at end of month

  • Careers and Skills
  • 11 January 2018
HM Courts and Tribunals Service seeks £90k digital programme director
HM Courts and Tribunals Service seeks £90k digital programme director

Director will be instrumental in £1bn HMCTS Reform programme

  • Careers and Skills
  • 05 January 2018
Personal data of one billion Indian citizens 'can be purchased for £6'
Personal data of one billion Indian citizens 'can be purchased for £6'

Report suggests software is also being sold online to generate fake government identity documents

  • Security
  • 04 January 2018
Amazon and Salesforce working on corporate shift from Oracle technology, claims report
Amazon and Salesforce working on corporate shift from Oracle technology, claims report

Ellison suggested only last month that Amazon and Salesforce will continue to rely on Oracle database technology for the foreseeable future

  • Services and Outsourcing
  • 04 January 2018
Government-led Cyber Discovery programme gets 20,000 student sign ups in just six weeks
Government-led Cyber Discovery programme gets 20,000 student sign ups in just six weeks

Youth-focused cyber security programme part of the CyberFirst initiative launched by Theresa May last year

  • Security
  • 04 January 2018
HMRC gears up for GDPR with search for data protection officer
HMRC gears up for GDPR with search for data protection officer

HMRC offering up to £90k for a candidate that has an in-depth understanding of GDPR

  • Careers and Skills
  • 22 September 2017
Hiscox is looking for a chief technology officer
Hiscox is looking for a chief technology officer

Insurance company is looking for a CTO in London

  • Careers and Skills
  • 22 September 2017
Ofwat offers up to £111k for director of ICT and digital
Ofwat offers up to £111k for director of ICT and digital

Water regulator wants IT pro who can lead a portfolio of tech-enabled changes

  • Careers and Skills
  • 21 September 2017
CCleaner malware: Tech companies targeted by second stage payload
CCleaner malware: Tech companies targeted by second stage payload

Domains of high-profile tech firms including Microsoft, Google and Samsung were targeted

  • Security
  • 21 September 2017
Avast: Cisco Talos didn't discover CCleaner compromise first
Avast: Cisco Talos didn't discover CCleaner compromise first

Avast claims Morphisec uncovered malware before Cisco and that the compromise began before its acquisition of Piriform

  • Security
  • 19 September 2017
Equifax was victim of hack five months earlier than disclosed
Equifax was victim of hack five months earlier than disclosed

Company was breached in March by the same attackers, claim sources

  • Security
  • 19 September 2017
Avast's CCleaner compromised to deliver malware to unsuspecting users in August and September, warns Cisco Talos
Avast's CCleaner compromised to deliver malware to unsuspecting users in August and September, warns Cisco Talos

Anti-virus firm Avast compromised in suspected supply-chain attack

  • Security
  • 18 September 2017
HMRC hires Microsoft's Jacky Wright to be chief digital and information officer
HMRC hires Microsoft's Jacky Wright to be chief digital and information officer

Wright will take over from interim CDIO Mike Potter, who filled in after Mark Dearnley's departure

  • Government
  • 18 September 2017
North Korean hackers could be stealing bitcoin to fund regime
North Korean hackers could be stealing bitcoin to fund regime

FireEye believes North Korea's interest in cryptocurrency is driven by international sanctions

  • Security
  • 12 September 2017
Oracle axed more than 1,000 employees in September
Oracle axed more than 1,000 employees in September

Cuts signify Oracle's continued restructuring towards the cloud

  • Software
  • 12 September 2017
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