Sunday, September 7, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 9/8/2014





King's College, UCL and LSE back £900,000 national datacentre project
A consortium of universities, including LSE, UCL and King's College, is backing a national datacentre for academics

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EasyJet sheds 'scrum' image with hybrid IT
EasyJet’s reservation system could not provision for allocated seating, so the airline added a feature on Azure

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Busting cloud myths: Four user instances where cloud computing failed
Cloud can be beneficial but only when implemented correctly. Here's why four enterprises failed in their cloud projects

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Ucas blends rival cloud services from AWS and Microsoft for results day
Ucas IT platform uses both AWS and Microsoft Azure services to scale up the infrastructure for a few hours during peak demand

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Leaving the UK workforce to its own devices
Businesses are not designed for innovation. This notion is now being challenged by the rising trend of BYOD

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Unlikely bedfellows: Nato and business
What has a military organisation like Nato got to do with private-sector business?

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'Bungled' Army 2020 IT recruitment contract loses £70m of savings
Mismanaged IT contracts lead to further setbacks in Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Army recruitment drive

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Camden Market launches social Wi-Fi system to track footfall
Free Wi-Fi connectivity is available to shoppers in Camden Market in London, which also provides real-time data on users

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Security Think Tank: Apply internal security rules to third parties
What is the best way to expand identity and access management to third-party service providers to ensure data security?

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Backoff point-of-sale malware hits over 1,000 businesses
In an advisory, the U.S. government estimated that the Backoff point-of-sale malware campaign has struck over 1,000 businesses to date.

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Managing privacy in the age of big data
The concept of data privacy in the age of big data may seem somewhat antithetical to most commercial data-gathering operations, but organizations that don't respect their users' privacy may soon have big problems on their hands.

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Cloud partners: Cloud migration tools come up short
Cloud partners use a plethora of tools to help customers migrate to the cloud, but they find their automation efforts can bump into limitations.

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Nude celebrity hack forces changes at Apple and 4Chan
Apple and image-sharing site 4Chan take security measures after celebrity iCloud accounts were compromised and photos leaked

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Barclays bank launches biometric authentication
Barclays bank plans to launch biometric readers that read users' finger veins to authenticate customers

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Societe Generale rogue trader released from prison
The rogue trader who cost Societe Generale billions of euros using computer hacking techniques is to be released from jail

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Smartphone users unaware of hacking risks
More than half of mobile users are unaware that hackers can take control of their smartphones

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NOA launches outsourcing qualification
The National Outsourcing Association (NOA) has launched a course that will be the equivalent of a GCSE grade A* to C

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Ministry of Defence seeking IT leaders for six-figure salaries in IT overhaul
The Ministry of Defence is recruiting IT leaders as part of an overhaul of the way the armed forces manage their IT systems

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Home Office has "long way to go” to fix police IT and procurement
Police IT is going to take a long time to fix, according to home secretary Theresa May

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