Friday, April 17, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 4/18/2015





Benelux: Cloud storage grows as traditional storage alternative
In Benelux countries cloud storage is increasingly seen as an alternative to traditional storage and backup

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Making sense of the internet of things
Welcome to Thingalytics, the use of real-time analytics and algorithms to guide you through the maze of fast big data

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Digital technology transforms wealth management industry
Wealth management is a shrinking industry as technology makes it easier for the rich to manage their own money or find independent advisors

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Docker storage 101: How storage works in Docker
Docker nails some of the shortcomings of virtualisation, but what about Docker container storage?

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AWS beats Rackspace and Microsoft in 451 Research's top IaaS provider poll
Amazon Web Services (AWS) tops 451 Research’s poll of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) suppliers, based on how they meets customers' needs

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Bloomberg glitch causes chaos in finance sector
Finance sector workers unable to use their Bloomberg terminals as systems suffer outage

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Hutchison Whampoa launches Hue wholesaling for mobile virtual network operators
Hutchison Whampoa launches mobile wholesaling business Hue to help mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) expand internationally

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Ofcom: Openreach future is on the table
Ofcom chief executive Sharon White says she will consider the future of Openreach as a BT business in a major review of the telco industry

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IPsoft buys Swedish IT services firm ab1 Group AB in bid to realise Nordic ambitions
Automation software provider IPsoft expands into the Nordic region with its acquisition of Swedish IT services supplier ab1 Group AB

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Accenture chosen to run NHS email service
The NHS email service is to be provided by Accenture, after the IT services firm was announced as the preferred bidder by HSCIC

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Payments firm Monitise puts application programming interfaces in cloud to provide services
Monitise puts its application programming interfaces (APIs) in the cloud for banks and payment firms to use its technology in their services

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Microsoft has its eye on payments but no products to announce yet
The establishment of Microsoft Payments Inc by Microsoft in the US suggests mobile payments could be a future feature of Microsoft operating systems

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Equinix opens new Slough datacentre to answer CIO cloud demands
Equinix's UK MD explains why its chosen to increase its datacentre footprint once more in Slough

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HSBC customer mortgage information exposed
HSBC is informing some customers in the US that their mortgage account information was inadvertently made accessible via the internet

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Target to pay banks $19m for hack losses
US retailer agrees to help banks recover losses from 2013 data breach when up to 40 million accounts were breached

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Adnams selects Droplet for mobile payments
UK brewery chooses Droplet to supply mobile payments and a reward scheme across its customer-facing operations

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Which election manifesto deserves to win the digital vote?
The three main national political parties competing for the 2015 general election have released their manifestos - but which is the most digital?

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ICO investigates 173 UK law firms over data protection issues
The Information Commissioner's Office last year investigated 173 UK legal firms over Data Protection Act issues

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Pure e-commerce approach does not work for every retailer
Retailers can no longer be successful with an e-commerce approach alone, according to NYU professor of marketing Scott Galloway

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Retailers should think of consumers as “omni-customers”, says OVS Spa
Retailers should refocus their strategy to treat consumers as “omni-customers”, according to the director of e-commerce for Italian brand OVS Spa

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IBM to share security intelligence on X-Force Exchange platform
IBM says it will make its library of security intelligence data available to all on a new platform called X-Force Exchange

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Business intelligence and analytics overtakes security as banking IT priority
More banks see investment in business intelligence and analytics technology as a priority than security

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Harrow Council outsources IT to Sopra Steria
London’s Harrow Council has outsourced its IT services to Sopra Steria in a deal that will see the authority upgrade its IT

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London businesses turn to Wimax after Holborn fire
Some businesses affected by a fire under Kingsway in central London have implemented a temporary Wimax solution

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Infosec taking the strain as threats evolve and skills gap widens
Organisations are increasingly struggling to manage threats, according to (ISC)2 Global Information Security Workforce Study

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