Sunday, November 29, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 30/11/2015





Top five things to know about flash and storage tiering
Automated storage tiering boosts storage efficiency and saves money, but why is tiering different from caching, why is it suited to use with flash and how do suppliers differ?

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Orange enhances internet of things strategy with additional services
Orange has beefed up its internet of things strategy and announced the deployment of a long-range network to support IoT projects in 17 urban areas in France

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Snapshots: Hypervisor vs Array
Snapshots are a valuable part of the data protection toolkit, but where is it best to run them from – the hypervisor or the storage array? We look at the pros and cons

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Revenues decline across HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is betting on cloud and a relationship with Microsoft and HP Inc

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Arcserve Cloud offers customers cloud target and remote failover
Backup software and appliance supplier guarantees availability but latency depends on customer-bought infrastructure

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First businesses connect to Edinburgh’s gigabit network
The first businesses have begun to connect to Edinburgh’s council-backed CORE fibre network

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UK immigration rules fly in the face of cyber security skills shortage
Despite the UK’s shortage of cyber security skills, recent changes to immigration rules make it no less difficult to hire skilled workers from outside the European Union

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How to avoid being caught out by ransomware
Businesses are still getting caught by ransomware, despite the fact that there are fairly straightforward methods to avoid it

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Telefonica embarks on enterprise cloud push with Huawei
Telco will work with Chinese networking supplier to offer enterprise access to OpenStack-based public cloud services

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Natural language generation progresses from robo-journalism to finance
While the robots are coming for journalists, might natural language generation also make inroads into financial, legal and medical analysis?

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Breach notification the biggest impact of EU data law overhaul, says law firm
The EU data notification law will mean most UK organisations will have to change their approach to data breaches, according to legal firm Olswang

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European colocation market growth buoyed by M&A and Safe Harbour, says CBRE
Latest European datacentre market research from CBRE looks at effect of mergers and acquisitions and Safe Harbour on colocation adoption

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How to avoid an innovation credibility crash
Among the innovation challenges a head of IT will face is how to introduce a digital initiative without losing face

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Digital drives business consultancy in IT outsourcing renewals
As IT outsourcing contracts come up for renewal, CIOs might consider more business expertise to help them negotiate contracts that support inevitable digital expansion

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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership takes control of its network
The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership enhanced network and application visibility and security using Fortinet technology

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Case study: Tideway uses private cloud to manage London ‘super sewer’ infrastructure
Infrastructure services director explains why Tideway has opted for a managed, private cloud setup to support sewer project

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Monster launches Tech Talent Charter for IT industry diversity guidelines
Recruitment firm Monster has launched a Tech Talent Charter to provide the IT industry with guidelines for diverse hiring

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Word ‘smart’ being abused by IoT advocates
Speakers at an event hosted by Cambridge Wireless say the term ‘smart’ is overused to describe connected devices on the internet of things

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TUI develops apps to keep in touch with holidaymakers all year
Travel group plans to create mobile apps for holidaymakers to ask questions, book excursions and potentially plan their next trip

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Microsoft security tools remove risky Dell certificates
Microsoft has updated its security tools to remove vulnerable certificates intalled on some Dell computers from the certificate root store, as well as the affected binaries that might reinstall the vulnerable certificate

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The future for CIOs: Deloitte’s Kevin Walsh on IT leadership
Kevin Walsh, global head of technology consulting at Deloitte discusses the future of IT leadership and the changing demands on the CIO

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City University London virtualises telephony and contact centre systems
City University London replaces a 24-year-old comms setup with a virtualised, cloud-based contact centre system

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CIO interview: Paul Haley, CIO, City University London
Higher education faces budget cuts and growing IT requirements, but a £200m overhaul at City University London is bearing fruit

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Three key areas to limit cyber attack liability, says Kemp Little
Identifying the source of the attack, reducing the spread of stolen data and mitigating liability to third parties are key areas businesses should focus on, according to law firm Kemp Little

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EMC weighs up VMware's involvement in Virtustream joint venture
Concerns about how VMware's sliding share price could affect its merger with Dell have reportedly prompted EMC to reconsider its stake in Virtustream

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