Saturday, February 28, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 3/1/2015





Single inventory accuracy: the holy grail of retail
The ability to accurately pinpoint where stock is at every point in the supply chain is one of the biggest challenges facing retailers today

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Product survey: Hybrid flash arrays from the startups
Hybrid flash arrays from innovative startups have developed products that exploit the best of flash and HDD

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Solidfire slots in all-flash SF9605 and debuts storage software Element X
Solidfire adds the SF9605, a higher-capacity iteration of its 05-suffixed arrays, and announces availability of Element X operating system

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Cloud and the need for microservices
Cloud holds the promise to change the way IT supports the business by using hybrid private/public cloud services

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$/GB vs $/IOPS and how to compare enterprise storage pricing
While raw drive prices are pennies per GB, the actual cost of enterprise storage is much higher. Finding a baseline can save you money

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NTS gets DotHill hybrid flash with tiering in datacentre revamp
The National Trust for Scotland has deployed a DotHill hybrid flash SAN with automated storage tiering to support a revamp of its IT systems

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IT needs to reassess the meaning of compliance for cloud
IT departments need to reassess the technology they deliver because users are circumventing corporate IT

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Avaya sends SDN to the network edge for distributed environments
Avaya introduces SDN architecture that extends the potential of software-defined to the edge of the network

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HP sacks China division chairman as networking revenues drop
For the first quarter of 2015, HP reported a decline in revenue of 5% to $26.8bn compared to the same period the year before

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To partition or not to partition Oracle
Oracle licence contracts are unclear on soft partitioning so CIOs need to get to the licence negotiation table to extract the best deal

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Dell adds Nutanix-powered XC630 and XC730 hyperconverged systems
Dell targets range of use cases with XC630 and XC730 Nutanix-powered server/storage nodes

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Exploiting big data could save the European Commission up to €200bn a year
There are several obstacles to building a digital economy in Europe, says Marta Nagy-Rothengass, head of the EC's data value chain unit

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Axelos CEO: Companies must focus on being cyber resilient
Companies need to put more emphasis on improving their reactions to cyber attacks rather than continuing to focus on prevention, says Axelos CEO

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Target breach could cost $1bn or more, say security experts
Security experts say the data breach at US retailer Target in late 2013 could cost way more than the $162m cost declared by the company

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EE shows off 400Mbps mobile broadband at Wembley
EE conducts superfast mobile broadband trials using carrier aggregation at Wembley Stadium, in collaboration with Qualcomm and Huawei

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TalkTalk takes legal action against supplier over data breach
TalkTalk is taking legal action against a supplier after a breach led to the exposure of customer data at the mobile and broadband firm

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Berkshire NHS trust gets Microsoft Lync as a service through G-Cloud
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has made its first IT purchase using the G-Cloud framework

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Hortonworks president Cunitz: 141% customer renewal rate bodes well
Hortonworks president Herb Cunitz says his company’s recently declared 2014 results are cause for celebration

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Mobile apps bring benefits and problems for enterprises in Poland
Mobile business applications are gaining importance in Poland as broadband coverage expands and smartphone and tablet use increases

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CIO interview: Sean Harley, group IT director, Top Right Group
Sean Harley is an IT leader who likes to get stuck in – and he has plenty to get stuck into, having transformed IT at publishing firm Top Right Group

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Google to launch Android Pay
Google is expected to launch a payments application programming interface at its I/O conference in May

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Net neutrality lobby victorious after FCC ruling
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopts new rules to support net neutrality and preserve the open internet

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Cyber attacks top US national threat list
Cyber attacks by politically and criminally motivated actors top the list of threats facing the US, according to national intelligence director

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Microsoft to cut 9,000 jobs at Nokia plants in China
Microsoft plans to shut down two former Nokia manufacturing plants in China, which means 9,000 jobs will be lost in the latest round of cuts

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TSB is investing in bank branches, not closing them
TSB is countering the industry trend of branch closures in the light of increased digital services by opening 30 new branches

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Heavy 4G users head for Three as growth continues
Mobile network operator Three reports growth around 4G data services, claiming subscribers are downloading more data than on other networks

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One-third of UK broadband connections are superfast, says Ofcom
One-third of the UK’s broadband connections now meet Ofcom’s definition of superfast, according to new research

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Former Logica executive pleads guilty to insider dealing
Former Logica manager Ryan Willmott has pleaded guilty to trading using inside knowledge when Logica was being taken over by CGI group.

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