Services and Outsourcing
Outsourcing and cloud use set to rise among UK organisations
Bimodal or 'two-speed' IT also set to increase, although firms admits concerns over the skills and experience needed to run this model
400-year-old government agency modernises with Citrix collaboration solutions
Remote working has enabled multiple cost savings at Registers
SMBs prefer MSPs for security deployments
More than half of US SMBs now use an external service provider; that number will rise as the need for security grows.
Serco claims Glasgow Council illegally awarded £400m IT contract to CGI
Serco claims that Glasgow City Council didn't follow an open competitive process before awarding £400m contract to CGI
BBC selects Atos for £560m enterprise IT and hosting services Aurora contract
BBC claims that new contract will cut costs by one-third compared to existing £2bn Atos contract
Old Mutual fires IT services supplier over cost over-runs and delays
City investment firm dumps IFDS over UK Platform Transformation project and shifts the work to FNZ
Top 10 big IT outsourcing and consulting disasters
When outsourcing goes wrong, it can go very expensively wrong...
5 jobs introverts can't wait to see replaced by robots
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Almost 2,000 Lloyds IT jobs to go as data centre services move offshore
Project Aurora will see data centre operations roles moved to IBM, then offshore
Major IT project delays alleged at Aecom following job loss announcement
Inside source suggests at least two major projects are delayed, while smaller projects are being rushed through before staff are lost
Aecom IT job losses: Only 50 out of 1,000 jobs being retained
Further details emerge from Aecom's decision to outsource its entire IT to IBM. "Visibly nervous and flustered" CIO Tom Peck delivered the news
Aecom to outsource entire IT estate to IBM
Thousands of IT redundancies possible as world's largest engineering firm scraps its entire IT department, with many employees facing an uncertain future
Fujitsu to axe 1,800 UK jobs
Cuts linked to customers moving to cloud, and not Brexit, Japanese company states
IT needs to understand users better, says CA Technologies
Operations grapple with need for end-to-end visibility, but this must be allied with a close understanding of the user experience in order for IT to properly align with the business, says software company
RSA CIO Darren Price on digital transformation, agile and what makes a good chief digital officer
RSA Insurance Group CIO Darren Price discusses the business factors driving the company's huge digital transformation programme, and explains why he won't be rushed into hiring a new chief digital officer
HMRC extends Accenture and Capgemini deals, as Aspire breakup lumbers on [UPDATED]
With Capgemini and Accenture again signed in to long-term deals at HMRC, the tax collector can now celebrate 22 years of outsourced IT failure
Microsoft unveils Windows 10 and 'Surface-as-a-service' managed service models
Has the other shoe finally dropped with Windows 10?
Police Scotland scraps Accenture-led unified IT project
Project intended to integrate Scotland's merged police forces abandoned due to critical flaws
Capgemini attacks internal IT departments and CIOs. Unwise...
Consultancy states that big data projects fail because they're managed by the CIO...
Socitm president Geoff Connell to take over as CIO at Norfolk County Council
Connell to take charge of troubled 'Digital Norfolk Ambition'
Many organisations fail to plan for a multi-cloud future and underestimate private cloud costs
Organisations not planning properly for a multi-cloud world, according to a new report
Chaotic scenes in Barnet as voting system fails on day of London mayoral elections
Voters urged to bring polling cards as glitch with electoral roll leads to people being turned away
Digital strategies must be able to adapt to changes in cloud services
Dr Will Venters argues that migrating to the cloud requires fluid partnerships
RBS banks on big data analytics to improve customer service
The bank has adopted analytics software from SAS