Veyance Technologies, the exclusive manufacturer of Goodyear Engineered Products, has ditched its traditional outsourcing relationship with IBM after it failed to perform to acceptable service levels, and is in the process of moving its SAP applications to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Virtustream.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has selected seven suppliers to provide services for its online identity scheme that will be integrated with the much anticipated Universal Credit system.
Broadband Delivery UK, the body armed with governing the competitive process for the UK’s superfast broadband rollout, is paying its external consultants some £834 a day, on average.
The government is reportedly having detailed discussions with both Microsoft and Google about acquiring licences for unused spectrum – otherwise known as white spaces.
The Cabinet Office’s strategic and commercial advisor for the Public Services Network (PSN) has revealed to Computerworld UK that decisions about the NHS’ ‘N4 network’, specifically around funding allocation and how it works alongside the PSN, will be made by early January.
China-based networking giant Huawei has declared that its presence in the UK will be long-term, despite ongoing international security concerns and a parliamentary investigation into its relationship with BT.
Richard Bennett, managing director of PSN supplier Updata, has hit out at the difficulty of procurement at a local government level, claiming that despite the right noises being made in the Cabinet Office it is still an unwieldy process for SMEs.
The Department for Education (DfE) spent some £12,539.50 on legal advice relating to a freedom of information (FOI) request for data in education secretary Michael Gove's private emails.
Andy Smith, an internet security chief at the Cabinet Office, has urged users to give websites fake details to protect their identity. Labour has spoken out against the comments, claiming that they encourage cyber crime and bullying.
Scottish ministers have revealed details of a plan to create a £325 million wide area network, dubbed SWAN, which will be available for use by all public service organisations within Scotland.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Stoke-on-Trent City Council £120,000 for failing to provide its legal department with encryption software, where a solicitor sent emails to the wrong address.
The UK government has largely shunned recommendations put forward by the House of Lords Communications Committee, following a controversial inquiry that warned of a closed and anti-competitive broadband infrastructure being created.
Westminster City Council is currently running a trial in the West End of London using sensor technology and data analytics that could transform parking congestion in busy areas.
BT and Virgin Media have made moves to block a decision by the European Commission to grant state aid approval to the city of Birmingham to invest £10 million of government money to create one of ten ‘super-connected cities’.
Defence companies can effectively "put a red line through public cloud offerings" because of the security risks involved, according to a senior IT solutions manager at Swedish military equipment manufacturer Saab.