Tuesday, May 21, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 22/05/2013






Managing the mobile enterprise
Mobile working has brought new challenges for IT departments, but the fundamentals of managing them remain the same.

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Union slams Aviva’s offshore plan
Union Unite has accused Aviva of betraying UK workers after it emerged that 600 of its 2,000 job cuts are being relocated in India

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Twitter uses open source to automate security
Twitter is increasingly using open source automation tools to ensure security processes are taken care of in all the code it produces

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Tech City startups struggling to acquire capital for further growth
One-third of businesses in London’s Tech City are struggling to develop due to a dearth of capital and skills

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Metropolitan Police weighs up outsourcing options
The Met Police Service is engaging with the outsourcing industry for back-office services as it targets annual savings of £500m

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Case study: Princess Alice Hospice goes wireless
The Princess Alice Hospice is awarded charity of the year by iWireless Solutions, winning a £20,000 wireless network installation from the firm

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Atos fights off HP and Capita to retain NS&I contract
Treasury-backed National Savings and Investments (NS&I) has awarded Atos a seven-year IT outsourcing contract

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Yahoo Japan says hack attack may have exposed 22 million users
Yahoo Japan has warned that the identity details of up to 22 million users may have been compromised in recent hack

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London Olympic Park will become home to a datacentre facility
The London Legacy Development Corporation has signed a deal with a UK provider to develop a datacentre facility at the Olympic Park

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Shanghai cyber hacking unit back in business, says US
China’s military cyber espionage Unit 61398 is back in business, deploying different techniques, say US officials

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FT is latest media group attacked by Syrian hackers
The Financial Times has confirmed that its website and several Twitter accounts were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

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Google makes IaaS product Google Compute Engine generally available
Google has made its IaaS platform, Google Compute Engine, generally available to any developer or business

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Yahoo board approves $1.1bn deal for Tumblr
Yahoo is set to acquire blogging service Tumblr in a $1.1bn deal, with an official announcement expected today

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Veeam adds WAN acceleration to virtual machine backup product
Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam has added WAN acceleration, storage array snapshots and other features to version 7 of its Backup & Replication virtual machine backup product

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