Sunday, July 22, 2012

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 22/07/2012





CIO interview: Mark Large, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital IT director Mark Large discusses resilient networks, standardisation and consumerisation of IT

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IBM experiences cloud growth, but traditional business areas suffer
IBM's second-quarter revenues remained relatively flat, although the company reported strong growth in its cloud, analytics and Smarter Planet initiatives

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Amazon offers cloud-based SSDs for low-latency applications
Amazon Web Services is offering SSDs in the cloud to support low-latency applications

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Forrester: Networking predictions for 2013
Senior Forrester analyst Andre Kindness reveals his predictions for the networking industry in 2013

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Apple ordered to run 'Samsung did not copy iPad' ads
A UK judge has ordered Apple to publish adverts that say Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad

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Key technologies driving healthcare
We look at the intelligent tools being utilised in the health sector to improve patient care and wellbeing

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Eurozone crisis hits IT outsourcing
IT outsourcing contract values hit their lowest in five years as fears over the stability of the Euro restrain European business spending

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Vodafone revenues plummet across Europe
Mobile operator Vodafone blames a weak economy and increased competition for drops in revenues across its major markets in Europe

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Universities invited to train cyber spooks
The government is hoping to shore up its defences against cybercrime through post-graduate training, and has asked universities to apply for funding to run training courses for post-graduates

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Google results: $774m spent on IT, with more to come
Google has reported a 10% increase in net income in the second quarter of 2012 and is continuing its datacentre expansion.

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Will Microsoft turn things around for Nokia?
With more disappointing results, Nokia is pinning its hopes on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 launch, but can the Redmond giant save the day?

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Forrester: How to build a security change plan
When the risk associated with a serious breach becomes overwhelming, organisations must invest to improve the skills, processes and controls

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BT wins Welsh broadband contract
The telecoms giant is to work with the Welsh Government and BDUK to get 80Mbps connections to 96% of the country by 2015

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Electrical power grids prime targets for cyber attack, says McAfee
Legacy electrical power grids are a prime target for cyber attack and security needs to be built into these critical systems, a study has found

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Businesses outsource IT for reasons other than cost
Cost-cutting is diminishing in importance as a reason to outsource IT, according to research of 630 contracts worth £14bn carried out by KPMG

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Imperial College London moves ITSM to the cloud
Imperial College London is moving IT service management (ITSM) into the cloud after it grew out of its eight-year-old system

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Nokia smartphone sales drop 39%
The struggling handset manufacturer reports Q2 sales of €7.5bn, showing a 19% drop since last year

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Many global firms unaware of online risk, finds KPMG
Many global organisations could do a lot more to protect their private data and reduce exposure to attacks by hackers, according to KPMG

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Cisco secures virtual machines with Virtuata buy
Details of the deal remain scarce but Cisco is keen to build up its cloud offerings by bringing Virtuata on board

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BP rolls out first global cloud for workforce
BP is putting its global messaging infrastructure into a private cloud to benefit from pay-per-use functionality and scalability

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Europol leads initiative to pool cyber crime intelligence
Europol is to lead an initiative pooling cyber crime intelligence from business, government, law enforcement and security agencies

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Co-op uses Lloyds managed service in branch acquisition
The Co-operative bank will switch to Lloyds TSB's IT platform when it buys the 632 Lloyds TSB and Cheltenham and Gloucester branches

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