Sunday, June 28, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 6/29/2015





ARM wrestles its way into the datacentre with the help of 64-bit chips
Intel x86 technology has traditionally ruled the datacentre roost, but could the power consumption benefits of ARM 64-bit systems change all that?

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Housing provider in spat with EMC gets Tintri hybrid flash
Social housing provider Housing & Care 21 lost patience with EMC and signed Tintri hybrid flash with three years’ support for two-thirds of the price

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John Swainson, president of Dell Software, argues the case for rethinking datacentres
Having previously worked for Silver Lake, CA and IBM, Swainson now heads the company’s software business

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Satya Nadella calls on staff to help communities upgrade Windows
Microsoft chief Satya Nadella has sent a letter to all Microsoft employees calling on them to reinvent productivity

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Business urged to patch Cisco SSH vulnerability
The presence of a default authorised SSH key could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to connect to the affected system with the privileges of the root user, Cisco warns

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EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into sharper focus
European authorities have reiterated their resolve to reach an agreement by the end of 2015 on a new data protection law that will reach beyond Europe

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Norway’s DNB was inspired by Danish bank for new app
DNB in Norway has taken inspiration from Danske Bank in Denmark when creating its latest payment app.

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Click fraud an entry to ransomware, warns security firm Damballa
Criminals use devices compromised for click fraud as the initial step in a chain of infections leading to ransomware attacks, warns security firm Damballa

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Google builds energy-efficient datacentre in US coal power plant
Internet giant Google has said it intends to use a decommissioned coal power plant's infrastructure to deliver renewable energy to its next US datacentre

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Ransomware costs business at least $18m, says FBI
The FBI says CryptoWall ransoware attacks have cost US business $18m in the past year, not including indirect costs and unreported attacks

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Genomics England gears up IT for next phase of development
Genomics England, the government-owned organisation aiming to map 100,000 genomes by 2017, has recruited its first patients. It is also assembling the building blocks of its long-term IT strategy

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Dutch court orders Facebook to identify revenge porn poster
Facebook has a legal obligation to provide information about a user who posted a revenge porn video on the site, a Dutch court has ruled

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CIO interview: Peik Martin, TUI Nordic
Nordic CIO at TUI Travel wants to re-use IT systems across the 31 countries in which the firm operates

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21 major government IT projects flagged with problems
Annual report from the government's Major Projects Authority reveals latest assessments

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Universal Credit costs leap by more than 20% to £15.8bn
Figures reveal increase in lifetime cost since changes to the plan made to 'reset' the troubled welfare reform programme

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CIO Interview: Ian Bell, CIO, Cambridgeshire Police Service
The CIO of Cambridgeshire Police Service talks about the constabulary’s move to digital for collaboration and information sharing in its effort to increase efficiency

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Manchester Airports Group chooses Capgemini for SAP S/4 Hana project
Manchester Airports Group has opted to put SAP’s S/4 Hana ERP suite at the centre of its business efficiency plans, with Capgemini for project delivery

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Virgin Active CIO calls for wearables market to adopt open standards
Health club provider's IT chief claims boosting the interoperability of devices will increase their overall usefulness to consumers

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Digital government 'a chance to build a new state', says Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock
Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock says the move to digital government is a “chance to build a new state” in a speech outlining his priorities

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Security should be enabling, says HP strategist Tim Grieveson
Enterprises need to change the way they think about information security to see it as an opportunity for innovation, says HP's Tim Grieveson

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