Sunday, September 28, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 9/29/2014





Lenovo releases servers that can run at 45°C
Lenovo has become the third server manufacturer to update its enterprise server portfolio with latest Intel Xeon chips E5 2600 v3

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Oracle releases OpenStack Support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM
Oracle has made its Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux distribution generally available to support customers

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BlackBerry Passport delivers a real keyboard and high-res screen to business
BlackBerry has introduced its Passport smartphone featuring a 4.5in hi-res screen, a qwerty keyboard and 13MP camera

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Public shared service cuts costs and improves operations
Kent's Fire and Rescue and police force's shared command and control system saves costs and improves operations

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BlackBerry losses narrow as restructuring plan bears fruit
Losses at struggling mobile communications supplier BlackBerry narrowed significantly during the second quarter of its fiscal 2015

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Protective monitoring key part of DWP cyber security
Protective monitoring is an essential part of cyber security as traditional approaches are no longer enough, says DWP IT security chief

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Government mandates Cyber Essentials for public-sector supply chain
Compliance with the Cyber Essentials Scheme will be mandatory for IT suppliers to government from 1 October 2014

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Apple rushes out second iOS 8 update
Apple has rushed out a second update for iOS 8 after the initial operating system and its first update were riddled with flaws

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Government CTO Liam Maxwell commits to GDS until 2018
Whitehall chief technology officer Liam Maxwell has committed to the Government Digital Service beyond the election

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Creative industry employers team up for Next Gen Skills Academy
Animation and gaming employers secure £6.5m investment from UKCES for training academy

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Bafta encourages kids to join games industry
Bafta has reformed its initiative designed to encourage children to consider training for careers in the gaming industry

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Visa loses mobility director to Apple
Mary Carol Harris, former director of mobile for Visa Europe, has left the firm to take up a position at Apple

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Apple to release fix for Bash bug
Apple has confirmed that its Mac OS X operating system is vulnerable to the Bash bug

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CIOs miss out on funding for digital innovation, claims research
IT budgets are rising but less than 10% is allocated to supporting innovation, a survey of 900 CIOs finds

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What to expect from Europe’s NIS Directive
With cyber crime on the rise, the European Union is trying to fight back with its NIS Directive. The five main points are oulined here

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Lancaster University supports SDN development with HP Networking
Lancaster Uni deploys 40 OpenFlow-enabled HP switches to run SDN research and production environments concurrently

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Why you should drop staff who are not cloud savvy
CIOs may need to lose staff who are not prepared to move to new ways of working brought on by cloud computing

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AstraZeneca brings in-house transformation to India
The opening of an IT service centre in Chennai last week will kick off AstraZeneca’s bold insourcing strategy, announced earlier this year, and focus on a trend that is seeing large businesses invest in global delivery operations.

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Ebay slow to react to phishing scam
Ebay has removed malicious links in a listing for iPhones that diverted to a phishing site designed to steal user credentials.

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Polish banking, energy and public services weigh up benefits of big data applications
For many Polish institutions big data is still only in the planning stage, but banks and the energy and public sectors are beginning to use the technology

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