Thursday, February 14, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 15/02/2013


US Army boots up VDI with Atlantis ILIO flash caching software US Army Medical Command equips 11,000 staff at six hospitals with virtual desktop access and login times slashed to 30 seconds using Atlantis ILIO flash caching software Read More ...
Mobile operators failing to plan for 4G backhaul Network providers not investing in their backhaul to keep performance levels high, despite increase in mobile data and influx of 4G services Read More ...
Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen resigns as company posts losses Telecoms hardware manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent reports losses of €1.37bn and confirms CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down Read More ...
2e2 datacentre administrators hold customers' data to £1m ransom Administrators of insolvent datacentre services provider 2e2 have asked customers for £1m in funding if they want uninterrupted services Read More ...
Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London Read More ...
Virtualisation and datacentre consolidation still top priorities for UK IT Many UK IT professionals are still prioritising virtualisation and datacentre consolidation over cloud computing in 2013 Read More ...
2013: a year of software-defined storage, convergence and cloud Simon Robinson of 451 Research says storage optimisation is the watchword of 2013, with software-defined storage, convergence and cloud also key trends Read More ...
Raspberry Pi Model A computer goes on sale for £16 The latest version of the small single-board Raspberry Pi computer – Model A – has gone on sale in Europe at just £16 Read More ...
Dell goes private helped by $2bn loan from Microsoft Michael Dell has succeeded in raising $24bn to buy back the company he founded in 1984, thanks in part to a $2bn loan from Microsoft Read More ...
How to effectively manage datacentre temperature and humidity A datacentre is a complex facility with different cooling equipment and power systems. Here's how to monitor its temperature and humidity Read More ...
Can cloud enable businesses to use IT as a strategic weapon? IT departments are using cloud computing to move IT resources from Capex to Opex. But do businesses understand the true benefits? Read More ...
Employee hardware ubiquitous but BYOD policies remain weak, finds survey Bring your own device (BYOD) policy remains patchy despite near 100% prevalence and instances of data loss Read More ...
Video interview: Why develop for Windows 8? In this interview, Anand Krishnan, director, developer & platform group, Microsoft UK speaks about Windows 8 development Read More ...
European Commission funds research to eliminate latency Researchers from universities and enterprises across Europe are undertaking a project to minimise latency over the internet Read More ...
Case study: ICEF Germany improves financial fortunes with Salesforce cloud apps The International College of Economics and Finance has brought IT efficiencies and doubled its revenues by using Salesforce and Financialforce for CRM tasks Read More ...
Mobile phone sales fall in 2012 Economic pressures and increased market competition are to blame for a 1.7% in the mobile phone market in 2012, according to Gartner Read More ...
Indian IT giant mentors UK digital entrepreneurs Indian IT services company Infosys will mentor British entrepreneurs focused on digital, wireless and mobile technologies Read More ...
UK companies use IAM for business not security, study shows UK businesses use Identity and access management (IAM) mainly for cloud and collaboration rather than security, a Quocirca study reveals Read More ...
Whitbread renews outsourcing contract with 14% cost cut Whitbread has signed a new IT-enabled BPO deal with Steria which extends the existing agreement by five years with a 14% annual cost reduction Read More ...
Datacentre managers fail to act on EC energy efficiency targets Only 21% of European datacentre managers have acted to address the EC's 20-20-20 Renewable Energy directive Read More ...
Twitter plans ‘pay by tweet’ system Twitter is working with American Express on a "pay by tweet" system for users to pay for real or virtual items through the microblogging service Read More ...
Barack Obama signs cyber security executive order US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to share cyber threat information with private companies Read More ...
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