Thursday, May 16, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 17/05/2013






UK PC sales drop buffered by enterprise market
UK PC sales dropped 16% in the first quarter of 2013, but slower decline in the professional market cushioned the fall

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Security Think Tank: Management is key to secure BYOD
With BYOD and the growth of the personal cloud being used at work, what security measures can IT take to ensure security of enterprise data and does MDM really have a role in security?

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CIO Interview: Graeme Hackland, CIO, Lotus F1 Team
Graeme Hackland, CIO of Lotus F1, has worked for the race car team for 16 years. He has seen major changes in IT both on and off the track

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Cloud gold rush: Is it all just supplier noise?
IT providers are unveiling cloud services at lightning speed and are launching robust price wars. But are enterprise customers equally gung-ho in adoption?

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Intel readies next-generation Core mobile processors
At the Computex show in Taipei in June, Intel is set to update its range of mobile processors, in a bid to stimulate the ailing PC industry

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Carl Icahn and Southeastern join forces in fight over Dell
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has teamed up with Dell investor Southeastern to try to stop founder Michael Dell buying the firm

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TfL revamps mobile solutions on the buses
TfL has revamped its mobile solutions across the London bus network with O2 and Cognito

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EMC ViPR software-defined storage: Why, and can it succeed?
EMC’s ViPR software-defined storage aims to provide a multi-vendor management layer with cloud and big data capabilities. But can it convince other storage companies to play ball?

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Virtualisation and automation help Jaguar Land Rover increase output
Jaguar Land Rover launched a five-year IT upgrade project including virtualisation and automation and it has already started reaping benefits

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Acer sets sights on SME market amid sales drop
The SME market looks set to be a core strategy for Acer in the UK over the next five years

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SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud
SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications

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EMC: Data everywhere – ViPR software-defined storage the answer
At EMC World the company set out its vision of a future of massive amounts of distributed data and revealed ViPR – software-defined storage with which it aims to tame it

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NHS England to publish technology roadmap
NHS England is to publish a technology roadmap for commissioners investing in IT, according to its Putting Patients First business plan

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Government consults on mobile broadband deployment
The government has launched a consultation to lay out its proposals for accelerating mobile broadband infrastructure deployment across the UK

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EMC unveils ViPR software-defined storage platform
EMC’s Project Bourne comes out of stealth mode as ViPR, a software-defined storage platform aimed at a future of hyperscale datacentres and big data analytics

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CIO interview: Colin Rees, IT director, Domino's Pizza
The pizza delivery chain's IT director Colin Rees talks about its journey to cloud computing and the challenges of BYOD and IT consumerisation

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EE partners with Glastonbury for 4G festival
EE is official technology and communications partner for Glastonbury, providing 4G coverage, a mobile app, charging tents and free Wi-Fi

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Department for Transport rolls out IP telephony
The central government department chooses Azzurri for the new system, signing a five-year contract worth £1m

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Survey finds doctors making greater use of IT, but cost benefits in doubt
More doctors in England use healthcare IT and over three-quarters report improvements in effectiveness, according to research from Accenture

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Microsoft promises free Windows 8.1 update
The latest operating system from Microsoft – Windows 8 – is set to get an update this summer called Windows 8.1 at no cost to its users

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Microsoft declares conformance with ISO 27034-1
Microsoft has declared conformance with ISO 27034-1, the first part of an international standard for secure software development

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IT pros turn a blind eye to secure coding
Nearly two-thirds of IT professionals say their organisations do not build products and services with security in mind, a Microsoft survey reveals

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SAFECode publishes free secure code training modules
The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode) has developed six free secure software development training modules

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