Monday, August 31, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 01/09/2015





Demand for datacentre co-location services rises, as enterprise outsources more IT
Demand for co-location services is rising, with enterprises preparing to pay more to outsource their IT, 451 Research reveals

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Simplivity adds ROBO hyper-converged box and OS enhancements
Hyper-converged box maker adds a remote office appliance plus OmniStack operating environment upgrades to help clustering across the WAN and file level restore in backup

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Application modernisation remains a top CIO priority
Targeting legacy is a key focus for IT departments as they shift more applications onto the cloud

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Intel invests $60m in Chinese drone company Yuneec
Intel's $60m investment follows smaller investments in two other drone manufacturers as part of the chip maker’s strategy to gain ground against competitors

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Could Sweden do away with bank branches?
Technology developments are pushing Sweden towards a cashless society with little need for bank branches

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HSBC BACS glitch leaves thousands without bank holiday pay
IT failure affecting the bank’s BACS system has led to thousands of payments failing to arrive on time

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Spark versus MapReduce: which way for enterprise IT?
The younger, nimbler Spark technology looks set to replace MapReduce in big data architectures. What is the pace, scope and scale of replacement?

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Police arrest six UK teenagers for using DDoS cyber attack tool
Police arrest six UK teenagers on suspicion of using a DDoS attack tool targeting a national newspaper, a school and online gaming companies and retailers

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Office 365 overtakes Google Apps as business users' preferred cloud productivity suite
Use of Microsoft cloud suite has risen steeply over the past 12 months, leaving Google Apps trailing, research shows

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Why business should bet on open source
Online bookie William Hill has deployed a stack of open-source tools to present time-sensitive web content

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Google denies abusing dominant market position in Europe
Internet giant says the preliminary findings of the EC's investigation into its business practices are “wrong as a matter of fact, law and economics"

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Reinventing outsourcing through agile principles
Organisations are starting to use agile principles to reinvent the outsourcing selection process, with some excellent results

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Rapid7 calls on router makers to eliminate backdoors
Until manufacturers stop using default passwords, we will continue to see opportunistic attacks on home and small business routers, says Rapid7's Tod Beardsley

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Kellogg Brown and Root wins ESN Delivery Partner contract
Kellogg Brown and Root has won the contract to supply Lot 1 of the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme

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Research highlights security risk posed by cloud "super" users
CloudLock's third quarter report into cloud security trends reveals 1% of users create 75% of the risk in off-premise environments

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Consumer Rights Act will boost trust in digital content
New law presents a huge opportunity for the growth in sales of online movies, music downloads, e-books, apps and software

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Jim Henson’s Creature Shop kermits to Brocade network infrastructure
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop – the studio behind the Muppets and Sesame Street – picks a Brocade-powered network to run its advanced software platform

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European firms take proactive security stance on APTs
Intelligence and forensics will become the most important differentiators for companies selling APT defence systems and services, says Frost & Sullivan

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Lack of cloud confidence curbs mobile apps development
Businesses may want to create more mobile apps, but their ability to deploy them is being limited by poor cloud skills

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