Wednesday, April 24, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 25/04/2013






IBM fleshes out flash and looks to the next solid state technologies
As IBM announces a $1bn bet on flash, UK-based ‘master inventor’ looks beyond flash and its shortcomings to the next wave of solid state storage

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UK chip manufacturer ARM increases sales by 28%
ARM sales rise by almost 30% as the increase in the use of smart devices drives demand for its processors

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Businesses buy more speciality MIPS, but IBM Power fails
Q1 revenue in IBM's server hardware business crashed due to poor sales of Power-based Unix systems

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Mobile devices could transform patient care
The director of the health informatics unit at the Royal College of Physicians reveals a greater need for using mobile

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World’s fastest supercomputer gets 40PB of DDN storage
The US Oak Ridge lab builds home-grown HPC NAS for 40PB DataDirect Networks with 1TBps of throughput as a SAN to back-end Spider II file system on Titan supercomputer

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US team claim revolutionary battery breakthrough
US researchers claim they have made a technological breakthrough to shrink the size of batteries by 10 times yet still offering the same power

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Apple shares hit 16-month low
Apple shares have hit a 16-month low due to concerns that the lower than expected phone and tablet sales may cause the company to miss its revenue targets.

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Intel CEO predicts rock-bottom prices will fuel PC growth
Intel CEO, Paul Otellini, expects PC manufacturers will introduce thin, touch-enabled laptops costing as little as £130

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HP to embed 3D controls in PCs with Leap Motion technology
HP has signed a deal with motion-control technology company Leap Motion to embed 3D gesture technology in PCs

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LTFS tape NAS: A great idea stuck in a niche
LTFS tape NAS: Linear Tape File System offers the potential to build nearline storage at the cost of tape but with NAS-like file access. Sounds great, but when will it catch on?

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Real-life disaster recovery boost at video firm with HDS clustered NAS
Special effects video firm The Mill boosts HDS/BlueArc clustered NAS capacity to cope with HD movies and build disaster recovery site at London’s Docklands

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Video interview with Ubisense CTO Andy Ward
Andy Ward is CTO at Ubisense, a company created to commercialise radio tagging technology following research at Cambridge University

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Video interview: Andy Harter, CEO, RealVNC
In this video, RealVNC CEO Andy Harter speaks to Computer Weekly about the company's remote access software

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Intel outlines reference design for hyperscale datacentres
Intel is developing a server rack design architecture for deployment as a full rack for improved server utilisation

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PC market crashes
The PC market crashed in the first quarter of 2013, with new PC shipments falling 14% compared with the same period last year

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Analysis: Can 3G be trusted for IPVPNs?
As Virgin Media Business launches its first 3G-based IPVPN, we ask whether the mobile network can be relied on for business purposes

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HP chief defends public attack on Autonomy management
HP CEO Meg Whitman has defended her company’s attack on the former management of Autonomy, which it acquired in 2011 for $11.7bn

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Law firm gets EMC unified storage for effective disaster recovery
Surrey law firm TWM builds VMware virtualised infrastructure with EMC VNX unified storage to enable disaster recovery best practice

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Nationwide systems down
Nationwide building society’s online banking, mobile banking and online payments systems are unavailable as a result of IT issues

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How to negotiate and assure cloud services
This guide provides the top tips to negotiating and assuring cloud services

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Infosec 2013: Every business in the cyber war frontline, says Kaspersky
Every business is on the frontline of the fight against cyber threats, says Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive of security firm Kaspersky Lab

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Health minister Jeremy Hunt tells SMEs: ‘The NHS needs you’
The health secretary admits there is ‘a long way to go’ before NHS procurement is as open to SMEs as large tech providers

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HSBC UK jobs cull won’t hit IT hard
IT roles will not be significantly impacted as HSBC removes over 3000 jobs in the UK as part of its three year cost cutting plan and the transformation of its wealth management business.

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Infosec 2013: Cyber threats, challenge and opportunity for UK, says minister
Cyber threats are a challenge to UK businesses, but they also present exciting opportunities, says Cabinet Office minister, Chloe Smith

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EE signs up 318,000 4G customers
Despite having almost 28 million customers on its books, EE has only managed to sign up 318,000 to its 4G services in the first five months since launch

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Infosec 2013: Research shows value in crowd-sourced threat intelligence
Businesses can reduce risk by sharing information on attacks targeting multiple sources, research reveals

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Infosec 2013: Every business a target of cyber attack, Verizon breach report shows
Every business is a target of some kind of threat, the most comprehensive Verizon data breach report to date has shown

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Infosec 2013: University research challenges reliability of IPS
Research shows intrusion prevention systems (IPS) are not as effective at detecting malicious activity as some might think

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Infosec 2013: Tech firms among top cyber targets, report shows
Technology organisations are among the most frequent targets of cyber attacks, according to a report from security firm FireEye

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