Wednesday, August 19, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 20/08/2015





Hybrid cloud two to five years off hitting mainstream adoption, claims Gartner
Hybrid IT approach is still some way off reaching mainstream levels of enterprise adoption, according to market watcher Gartner

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Cloud storage service Wuala to close in November
Seagate-owned cloud storage player confirms its closure and gives users three months' notice to remove their data from its servers

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Q2 DDoS attacks double in a year, says Akamai report
For the past three quarters, distributed denial of service attacks have doubled compared with the equivalent periods the year before, according to the latest Akamai security report

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IaaS providers pin hopes on spending cut reprieve for G-Cloud 7
G-Cloud suppliers are calling on the government to step up, rather than scale back, investment in the framework as spending cuts loom

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Cloud computing in schools: privacy under threat
While IaaS and SaaS services are spreading in schools, the potential risks to the protection of students’ personal data are also growing

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CIO interview: Kjell Rune Tveita, If Skadeförsäkringar
Kjell Rune Tveita's first job as CIO at Nordic insurance giant If Skadeförsäkringar was to integrate three companies across three countries

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Android for Windows Mobile tools leaked on web
A set of Microsoft tools to enable Android developers to port their apps to Windows Mobile has been posted online

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First Darkode hacker suspect pleads guilty
Eric Crocker of Binghamton, New York, is the first of 12 Darkode suspects to plead guilty to charges after the hacker forum was dismantled in an international operation

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Hyperoptic turns on gigabit service in Nottingham
Urban FTTP supplier Hyperoptic has switched on its gigabit fibre broadband service in Nottingham

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Australian Cyber Security Centre sets baseline for businesses
The ACSC wants more organisations to take responsibility for protecting their information resources and computer systems

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More than 300,000 US taxpayers affected by data breach
The IRS initially said hackers had used data from breaches of non-IRS sources to gain access to the agency’s Get Transcript feature from February to mid-May 2015 and harvest 100,000 records

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Natural Resources Wales uses Microsoft and mobile to unify departments
Natural Resources Wales won the Best Mobile Computing Project Award at this year's CW European User Awards. Find out why

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