Sunday, May 17, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 5/18/2015





Erasure coding vs Raid for disk rebuilds
Erasure coding as a means of data protection has emerged with object storage and offers an alternative to Raid systems

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Mike Lynch names Vatican and Kraft as Autonomy case goes public
Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has responded to HP’s formal litigation against him and former CFO Sushovan Hussain, highlighting major user contracts

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Cloud collaboration company Box expands datacentre footprint outside US
Cloud collaboration provider Box is set to build datacentres outside the US to expand the firm's global operations over the next 12 to 18 months

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HP launches HDD-equipped Apollo 4000 at object storage and big data
HP upgrades Proliant SL family scale-out storage-dense servers to Apollo 4000 series with Intel Xeon chips to offer low-cost, high-volume DAS

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VCE takes wraps off "hyper-converged" VxRacks to fast-track users to the cloud
EMC-owned converged infrastructure specialist expands portfolio of cloud-enabling platforms

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Why companies need to start developing apps for Apple Watch
With the Apple Watch now available, companies are falling over themselves to push out apps for the wearable device

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Windows 10: Why you should work around PC price hike
IT departments planning a PC refresh to tie in with Windows 10 can expect to pay more due to the strong US dollar

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HP: Where next for the troubled Silicon Valley giant?
Numerous management changes and acquisitions have created confusion about HP's strategy, but is it too late to bounce back?

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PCIe SSD product survey 2015: New form factors emerge
PCIe SSD performance has not increased significantly but new form factors and protocols – such as NVMe – have emerged for better connectivity

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Samsung beats first-quarter forecasts with $44.2bn revenues
Samsung Electronics posts first-quarter revenue of KRW 47.12tn ($44.2bn) and KRW 5.98tn operating profit, beating the company’s forecasts

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SanDisk waves its Nand over SX350 PCIe SSD cards
SanDisk uses its own flash chips to create SX350 line of PCIe SSD, with claims of a drop in price per gigabyte by as much as 61%

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Datacentre PUE: Who's keeping score?
With datacentre operators under increased competitive pressure to cut their PUE scores, are their ratings really all they seem?

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EMC results: Storage arrays falter as VMware marches on
EMC results show hardware revenues’ relative decline as storage rivals and alternative approaches emerge

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Load DynamiX adds OpenStack protocols to storage testing product
Storage testing and validation provider adds OpenStack Swift and Cinder support to existing protocols in its Enterprise version 2.6 hardware

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Cloud infrastructure spend set to hit $52bn in 2019
IDC shares five-year view of how it expects worldwide spending on both private and public cloud infrastructure to grow

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Post Office failed to investigate account shortfalls before legal action, report claims
Post Office too quick to take legal action against subpostmasters, finds independent report

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Interview: The software processes behind Hailo's success
In the past, a traditional enterprise application would have been developed as a monolithic piece of software

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What’s slowing down your network and how to fix it
When using the network feels like wading through molasses, finding the cause can be a difficult process

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UK law enforcers support snoopers’ charter
Three of the UK’s law enforcement chiefs have come out in support of a revival of the so-called snoopers’ charter to monitor electronic communications

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Why the tech savvy Nordics are failing in international e-commerce
In the borderless online world, Nordic online retailers must expand beyond their home markets to keep up with growing competition

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IT suppliers call on new-look GDS for commitment to G-Cloud's future
In light of Francis Maude's departure from GDS, G-Cloud suppliers want assurances from the government about what's in store for the framework

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Joanna Shields appointed junior minister
Former Tech City CEO Joanna Shields appointed parliamentary under secretary of state at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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IT service providers are pushing too hard to sell extra services
IT services firms are not prioritising the services they are contracted to provide because they are too busy trying to sell additional services on top

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Ofcom proposals will force BT to open dark fibre network
Ofcom publishes a proposal to shake up the £2bn leased line market by granting other operators full access to BT’s dark fibre network

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United Airlines offers bug bounty, but with a twist
United Airlines has joined the growing number of firms offering rewards for reports of security vulnerabilities

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Fire services to keep Airwave Tetra radios until 2020
The Department for Communities and Local Government approves a major extension of the fire services' Firelink Tetra network to the end of 2019

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Rentokil opens up core IT systems to business
The IT department at Rentokil Initial has delivered coding interfaces to its back-end ERP system to enable the business to create new applications

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Digital age a turning point for policing, says commissioner Leppard
Policing in the digital age will face a turning point in the next two years, according to City of London Police commissioner Adrian Leppard

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Dreams beds down with Rackspace to reduce website downtime
Bed retailer revamps website infrastructure to guard against outages and sleepless nights for its IT team

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Venom is serious, but no Heartbleed, say experts
Security researchers have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many virtualisation platforms

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BDUK broadband hitting 6,800 homes per million pounds spent
Statistics released by the government give fresh insight into the value for money being generated by BDUK's superfast broadband roll-out

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Vodafone bemoans 4G business laggards
A survey of 4G take-up in business by Vodafone has revealed many businesses are struggling to understand how it can help them

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TalkTalk not buying Tesco Mobile
TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding tells the BBC she is not going to acquire mobile virtual network operator Tesco Mobile

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AWS Educate brings cloud to the classroom to address IT skills gap
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to ensure students have the skills they need to make full use of cloud technologies in the workplace

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TrustFord chooses virtual load balancers to guarantee network performance
Auto retailer TrustFord picks Kemp’s virtualised load balancers to deliver high availability and performance across the network

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Cisco’s John Chambers: I’m pumped about new leadership
Outgoing Cisco boss John Chambers shares his thoughts on the future of the business as he prepares to step down from the bridge

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Sweden’s Cerdo outsources savings and payments unit to Finland's Tieto
Swedish banking and finance services company Cerdo Bankpartner outsources close to home with fellow Nordic firm Tieto

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