Wednesday, July 22, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 7/23/2015





Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms to drive open-source cloud standards
The newly formed CNCF group aims to develop cloud standards for container technologies

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Mainframe fails to save IBM from 13th declining quarter
IBM's second-quarter revenue was down 13% year-on-year to $20.8bn, but IBM said the decline is only 1%, adjusting for the sale of its x86 server business and the impact of the strong dollar

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CIOs need to reboot supplier relationships
IT leaders need to rethink the balance of spending between maintaining traditional suppliers and introducing innovative new providers

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Retail should invest in upskilling to close employee skills gaps
A report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills suggests retailers will need to invest in upskilling to prevent a drop-off from older employees and appeal to the younger generation

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UK datacentre growth trends: Why are users shunning inner-city facilities?
Research suggests inner cities are falling out of favour with datacentre developers, with cost-sensitive users willing to look further afield for co-location services

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Microsoft pushes portability of experience with latest Visual Studio
Microsoft has been focused on making its own applications portable – now it wants Windows developers writing cross-platform.

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Average DDoS attack size increasing, Arbor warns businesses
While extremely large DDoS attacks grab the headlines, it is the increasing size of the average attack that is affecting enterprises, warns Arbor Networks

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Software audits cut government IT bill by £85m in 2014/15
Annual accounts for the government purchasing agency show at least £220m in technology related savings

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Nordea Bank launches startup accelerator to boost fintech innovation
Nordic bank is the latest finance firm to turn to startups for digital innovation

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Information security governance maturing, says Gartner
Increasing awareness of the impact of digital business risks, coupled with high levels of publicity regarding cyber security incidents, is making IT risk a board-level issue, says Gartner

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SAP Q2 2015 results: Cloud revenue grows as portion of overall sales
SAP’s second-quarter 2015 results show 5% growth in cloud revenue as a proportion of overall revenue. Emea triple-digit cloud booking growth in Q2 2015, above expectations

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GE to move 300,000 employees to Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft announces one of its biggest Office 365 deals to date, after securing a contract to provide 300,000 GE staff with online productivity tools

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Microsoft issues emergency fix for Windows flaw
Microsoft has issued an out-of-band patch for a security flaw in all supported versions of Windows that could allow attackers to take complete control of the affected system

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