Wednesday, December 31, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 1/1/2015





Hybrid cloud storage: What it is and how to deploy it
Hybrid cloud storage optimises the opportunities provided by the cloud while recognising and working with its limitations

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Top 10 storage stories of 2014
While users upgraded storage and backup for virtualisation, hyperscale, software-defined, OpenStack and object storage gained traction

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Top 10 cloud stories of 2014
Cloud computing has evolved, giving businesses an increasing array of options from simple IT infrastructure up to full business applications

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Top 10 flash storage stories of 2014
Most organisations have flash storage or plan to deploy it, but who are the key players and where’s best to install it?

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Top 10 datacentre stories of 2014
In 2014's datacentre market, trends of social, cloud, analytics and big data have influenced datacentre architectural decisions

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Apple Pay takes a huge step in US digital payment
Apple Pay was responsible for 1% of digital payments in the US in November, only a month after its launch

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How AWS remains resilient and enterprise focused
Eight years ago no one had heard of Amazon Web Services. Today it is at the forefront of enterprise computing

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Up to half of home and small business internet users at risk from router bug
An estimated 50% of home internet users are at risk from a bug affecting their routers

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Price cuts and posturing in the public cloud war
The price battle among commodity cloud players is set to rage on, but how much impact is it really having for enterprise customers?

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Why Azure failed: Procedural failure amplifies Azure bug
Microsoft has admitted procedural failure process in deploying updates led to last month’s catastrophic downtime of Azure storage

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European Space Agency turns to Orange for private cloud services
European Space Agency deploys a private cloud solution from Orange Business Services

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Nats funding emphasises cost control over investment
The Civil Aviation Authority has announced it will review Nats' licence following the failure of air traffic control on Friday

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Network strategies for 2015
Looking at the bigger picture provides an opportunity to assess what emerging companies are doing to redefine networking thinking

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Storage performance metrics: How suppliers spin performance specifications
Array makers’ storage performance specs are not always what they seem. Storage analysts explain how suppliers spin spec sheet figures

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The state of mobile back end as a service
Common mobile application services are increasingly being hosted on central back-end servers – but what does that mean for the enterprise?

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Avaya brings contact centres to Google Chromebooks
Avaya and Google team up to streamline customer service agent workflows by enabling desktop contact centres on Chromebooks

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Cern cuts latency in move from NetApp PCIe flash cards to drives
Large Hadron Collider operator Cern used PCIE flash cards for databases but found their limits and deployed flash drives in NetApp filers

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Hero Group uses vMotion to replace SAN and servers with Nutanix
Baby food, fruit and cereal bar company Hero Group has migrated its Holland operations over to a single virtual platform

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US technology companies facing growing UK pressure over internet spying
Tension is growing between the UK and US over Prism spying

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Cambridge college replaces legacy EMC with Nimble hybrid flash
Trinity Hall replaces end-of-life EMC Celerra with Nimble Storage CS220 hybrid flash in a complete upgrade of VMware virtual server environment

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Two resolutions every IT leader should make in 2015
Rather than waiting for somebody to take over IT, why not aim to do something different that gets you noticed

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Top 10 broadband stories of 2014
Computer Weekly takes a look back at the biggest broadband stories of 2014

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Top 10 IT security stories of 2014
2014 is likely to be long remembered as the year of the most far-reaching, long-standing SSL vulnerabilities

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Top 10 mobile stories of 2014
In a year that saw the battle of BYOD, many major device manufacturers did all they could to make their way into the enterprise mobile space

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Top 10 healthcare IT stories of 2014
It’s been a rocky year for technology and the NHS, succumbing to a marketing blow for its Care.data project and pushing back its e-Referral Service

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CW500 Club in 2014
Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

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Quiksilver expands e-commerce and sees 65% increase in revenue
Sports brand Quiksilver has seen a 65% increase in revenue after expanding its cloud-based e-commerce platform

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The Interview to screen despite threats of further attacks
Barack Obama has supported Sony’s decision to show The Interview in art-house cinemas across the US over Christmas

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Top 10 cyber security stories of 2014
Cyber security was high on the national agenda in 2014, with the UK government allocating more money on national cyber defence

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Top 10 IT outsourcing stories of 2014
IT outsourcing has had a big year in the IT services market. The increasing maturity and acceptance of cloud-based services has shaken up suppliers

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Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2014
Financial services regulators have put a flag in the sand this year with a huge fine on the Royal Bank of Scotland, directly related to an IT failure

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Top 10 networking stories of 2014
Computer Weekly takes a look back at the year in networking with a round-up of the biggest stories from 2014

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Monsoon Accessorize provides multi-channel promotions via e-receipts
Monsoon Accessorize is using data from both in store and online to provide personalised customer offers on emailed receipts

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Why are retailers breaking online delivery promises?
The Christmas period has seen a wave of UK retailers’ technology failing to meet the basic needs of customers

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Russian hacker group Anunak targets banks and payment systems
A hacker group based in Russia and Ukraine is gaining access to the internal payment systems of banks and payments providers

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IBM simplifies its cloud contract to two-page document
IBM has created a standard two-page contract for customers using its cloud computing services

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Apple Pay on its way to the UK and beyond with London team
An Apple job listing has revealed the company’s plans to expand Apple Pay beyond the US

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Top 10 public sector IT stories of 2014
From a near-independent Scotland to continued problems with Universal Credit, it’s been a bumpy year for UK public sector IT

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Banking on computers in decline as smartphones take over
Mobile is the most dominant form of banking in the world, according to a study of 80,000 people across 22 countries

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