Thursday, October 30, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 10/30/2014





British fashion retailer AllSaints picks Google tools for innovation
Fashion brand AllSaints has refreshed its technology strategy with Google technologies to improve collaboration

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TechEd Europe 2014: Windows 10 OS will simplify PC deployments
Microsoft aims to simplify how the IT department deploys corporate desktops with the release of Windows 10 operating system (OS)

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Met Office supercomputer to increase weather forecast accuracy
Met Office buys £97m Cray supercomputer to help predict disruptive weather events with a far greater degree of accuracy

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Standards will enhance the maturity of IT, says Shell's Karel van Zeeland
Shell's Karel van Zeeland is founding member and lead architect of IT4IT Consortium and campaigns for open standards for integrating IT

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Fujitsu goes hyperscale with CD10000 open-source storage
In a tilt at the hyperscale market the CD10000 marries Fujitsu hardware with Red Hat Ceph open-source storage software

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Managing workloads in an era of changing datacentre architecture
Different workloads require different basic resources and hybrid cloud needs more intelligent workload management

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Cloud providers rush to build European datacentres over data sovereignty
Cloud providers IBM and Google build datacentres in the EU as enterprises insist on keeping their data in Europe

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Finding success in the public cloud: Financial Times CTO John O’Donovan
As the Financial Times migrates data workloads to the cloud, CTO John O'Donovan explains FT's cloud strategy

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Microsoft and Amazon’s cloud war reaches next level
Microsoft's Satya Nadella made a slew of Azure announcements in San Francisco

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Unify launches Ansible as Circuit UC SaaS platform
Unify’s long-awaited Project Ansible gets its formal launch as Circuit, a single-pane-of-glass unified comms software platform

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IT workers better off with IT service provider, says Lufthansa CFO
Lufthansa CTO says outsourcing deals could put some employees in a better position

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Interview: Ed Vaizey MP on broadband, mobile networks and the internet of things
Digital economy minister Ed Vaizey MP reflects on the next steps for the BDUK project and talks mobile roll-out, 5G and the internet of things (IoT)

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Internet of trains takes centre stage for Cisco IoT startup contest
Cisco launches contest to help startups and SMEs engage the transport sector around the internet of things (IoT) for railway stations of the future

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TechEd Europe 2014: Microsoft strengthens Azure hybrid cloud
Microsoft will offer private cloud users access to Azure functionality in their own datacentres

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Lloyds Banking Group confirms 9,000 job cuts and digital investment
Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it will cut 9000 jobs and close around 150 branches to focus more on its digital strategy

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EU regulators want trader Facebook messages
EU regulators want to see Facebook messages of foreign exchange traders as part of an investigation into collusion between banks

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Pioneering Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange opts for Fujitsu storage
Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange datacentre provider DARZ chooses Fujitsu’s Red Hat OpenStack-compatible storage nodes

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Most businesses do not understand risks of data breaches, study finds
More than 70% of businesses do not understand fully the risks associated with data breaches, a study shows

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Twitter shares down by 10% despite strong quarter
Twitter’s share price fell by 10% in after-hours trade, despite third-quarter revenues of $361m, up by 114% from 2013

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Government replaces Becta education IT procurement framework
Government seeks up to 20 suppliers to form a £300m procurement framework for ICT services to public-sector education organisations

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Universities must highlight digital skills to fill London IT jobs, says technology network
Universities and the private sector must collaborate to raise awareness of the skills needed to fill IT jobs in London, says Tech London Advocates

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US pharmacies reject Apple Pay
Some US pharmacies have rejected Apple Pay in favour of creating their own mobile payment standard

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Incident response: a common failing
Organisations hit by cyber attacks often lack an effective incident response plan. Why are so many unprepared?

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