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What’s Next After Digitization?
As businesses continue on their digitization roadmap, many have entered the last stage. Benefits are already becoming measurable and driving enterprise transformation. Silicon UK asks what barriers have been encountered, and what does a business do next, when it has achieved its digitization goals?

What is low code?
We speak to low code firm Outsystems about the growing sector, which many predict is going to revolutionise how businesses operate

Apple, Google, and Microsoft Back Legal Challenge Against Trump...
A cohort of tech firms said the order causes economic damage to the US

Linux Foundation Offering New Online Security Course
The Linux Foundation's new online Linux security training program will cover a broad range of topics, from application security to network security

Huawei Posts 40 Percent Revenue Growth
H1 sales on steady growth as company expects £57 billion revenue for 2016

Cross Channel: YouGov Deploys Pure Storage And Intel Posts Reduced...
Also in the channel this week: how Tech Data is ready to hold channel’s hand for IoT

IBM Claims It’s Hired 30,000 Staff As Non-Cloud Workers Get The...
Internal email describes massive hiring spree as IBM's "resource planning" scoops up skills for cloud and cognitive computing

Windows 10 Anniversary Update Nearly Finalised
With Windows 10 build 14383, Microsoft signals that the feature-packed OS update is nearly ready to be released to manufacturing

Why Use Of Video At Congress Sit-In Was Watershed IT Moment
ANALYSIS: New-gen IT carried on the business of government information distribution when conventional methods failed, and the government had nothing to do with it

EU Referendum: UK Tech’s Final Pleas Before Thursday’s...
"You’d have to be bonkers to want Brexit!" What tech bosses are saying ahead of referendum

Dell ‘Close’ To £1.4bn Software Division Selloff
Pre-EMC garage sell lines up software assets for $2 billion sale to Francisco Partners and Elliot Management Corp

Microsoft Boosts Azure Site Recovery With Flash Storage
Azure Premium Storage users can now replicate their workloads onto SSDs

U.S. Army CIO: We’re In The Market For New IT Solutions
Army IT teams are bogged down with legacy hardware and software that comprise about 80 percent of all their global systems

Microsoft Offering Free Cloud Training Programs For IT Pros
The company announces two free programs to help IT professionals brush up on their cloud computing skills on Azure

European Commission Will Build £5bn Cloud Platform For Scientists
European Open Science Cloud is part of Commission's Digital Single Market initiative

Huawei Revenue Booms 37 Percent As Company Strengthens In Europe
Huawei's net profit up 33 percent year-over-year as growing IT division and smartphone sales reap rewards

Cloud Is Cheaper In The US Than In Europe
Europeans are paying a premium for cloud data regulations, customer service, and localised applications

IT Workers Most Likely To Have Sex At Work Christmas Parties
Those who work in IT and HR are the biggest culprits for naughty behaviour, Ann Summers study reveals

What Can Companies Learn From The Digital Disrupters?
Ritu Mahandru, VP of Application Delivery at CA Technologies discusses the role of digital transformation in today’s application economy

Islington And Camden Councils Merging IT To Save...
Consolidated ICT service looks to reduce annual spend to £21m, down from £25m

Why The Future Of The UK’s Manufacturing Economy Relies On Today’s...
Proto Labs' Damian Hennessey discusses how the UK manufacturing industry can play its part in nurturing next-generation STEM talent

IT Life: Staying Secure
Canon Europe's Quentyn Taylor tells us about printers, Amara's Law, and why business agility is crucial to success

AWS Launches Service Catalog For IT Departments
AWS Service Catalog allows users to browse internal 'marketplace' of AWS products to run at their own will, with permission from an IT admin

Pole Position – How Williams F1 Is Using IT To Drive Formula One...
Ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix, Williams F1 CIO Graeme Hackland explains why IT systems are more important than ever

Global IT Spending ‘Set To Fall Dramatically’ In 2015
However global IT spend will still hit $3.5 trillion this year, Gartner survey says

RBS Customers Hit By Online Payments Fault
IT glitch means hundreds of thousands of payments have not gone through

White House Hires Ex-Facebook Director For Tech Modernisation
Former engineering boss at Facebook hired as the first ever director of IT at the White House

The Rise Of Rapid Communications Within IT To Meet Customer Service
xMatters' Teon Rosandic tells TechWeekEurope how IT is becoming increasingly customer facing

Omni-Channel And Beyond – Are Supermarkets Ready For The Next...
SQS' David Rigler tells TechWeekEurope why supermarkets need to be on the ball when implementing new technology