Investment in outsourced tech up 75 percent to £463 million
Public Sector
Insight Announces Darren Hedley As New Head Of Public Sector
HPE man takes reins of Insight’s growing public sector business
Derby City Council hires Maintel to manage contact centre
Maintel won the deal through the public sector's Network Services framework agreement
PGi awarded Scottish Government conferencing framework
Scottish public sector bodies offered audio, web and video conferencing and webcasting services
National Outsourcing Association calls it a day
NOA reacts to market trends in IT 'sourcing' and attempts a global revamp
Over half of public sector considers using robots
Sefton Council is already using a robot in its council tax department to save time and cut costs
Enfield council supports digital transformation with Civica
£1 million housing management system supports staff flexible working and tenant self-service
XMA wins Stockport council data centre deal with Nutanix
Computing, virtualisation and storage consolidated into a single and scalable appliance
North Lanarkshire Council joins Scottish Wide Area Network
SWAN is being delivered through a framework contract with Capita IT Enterprise Services
Proact wins infrastructure deal at Swedish government agency
Swedish Agency for Accessible Media deal will see the pan-Euro supplier provide hosting, cloud and network services
Government’s GDS gets ready for 2030 digital revolution
GDS chief Stephen Foreshew-Cain says digital will mark the biggest transformation in the civil service since its creation
BBC brings in IBM to replace SopraSteria for major technology refresh
Robots, mobile, cloud and analytics all on the agenda as Big Blue holds Beeb's hand through Charter renewal
CGI employs over 500 in South Wales
IT analysts, architects and engineers among those on the expanding payroll
Government ICT visa reforms ‘bring fairness’ to UK contractor market
Government makes it harder for outsourcing companies to undercut UK contractors with cheaper foreign staff
NTT Data acquires Dell Services to further expand footprint
NTT looks to expand IT services capabilities, Dell raises cash for EMC acquisition
Birmingham Women’s NHS trust brings IT back in-house
CASE STUDY: IT service provider out of the frame thanks to LANDESK deployment
Nearly 1m schoolchildren will start receiving BBC’s micro:bit computer today
In a ‘landmark moment’, the BBC’s micro:bit coding computer launches for Year 7 and 8 pupils across the UK as part of digital literacy initiative
CityFibre to build FTTP network in Southend
CityFibre agrees deal with Southend council to build 50km dark fibre network that could eventually be used for business and consumer broadband
Computacenter makes modest profit on stagnant sales
Computacenter also plans to open direct operations in the US as it continues to re-focus
Government reviews Atos contracts after another IT failure
Atos government contracts worth £500m face review following latest project failure
Activists pressure BT to come out against ‘Snoopers’ Charter’
A long march to change the habits of a lifetime?
Welsh government’s NPS names firms in £800m IT framework
Softcat, Insight, Computacenter and Centerprise among the winners across 12 categories
