November 2012 News
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Gartner Symposium: RBS emulates Amazon with private cloud
Royal Bank of Scotland has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices06 Nov 2012
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Gartner Symposium Barcelona: rewrite the rule book
Gartner is urging CIOs to change their IT budget to support a nexus of change arising from cloud, social, big data and mobile.06 Nov 2012
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Government confirms digitisation plans in Digital Strategy
The government has confirmed its plans to save billions of pounds per year by digitising transactions in the publication of its Digital Strategy06 Nov 2012
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EDF blames system upgrade for customer complaint failures
EDF blames a system upgrade for failing to handle customer complaints to standard, but says it will resolve the issue by the end of the year06 Nov 2012
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Telecity buys Finland datacentre operator Academica for €28m
Datacentre provider Telecity Group buys Finnish datacentre operator Academica for €28m to gain access to Russian markets05 Nov 2012
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Security Think Tank: Essential security questions for M&As
What is the role of IT security professionals in mergers and acquisitions?05 Nov 2012
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Microsoft sells discount Windows 8 devices to schools
Microsoft teams up with RM Education and Intel for the Shape the Future scheme to get Windows technology ‘in the hands of every child’05 Nov 2012
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UK organisations fail to address social networking risk
Unguarded corporate social networking accounts are leaving companies exposed to serious security breaches, a KPMG survey has revealed05 Nov 2012
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Brocade boosts SDN presence with Vyatta buy
Networking giant Brocade buys network operating system pioneer Vyatta to bolster its software-defined networking (SDN) folio05 Nov 2012
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German public sector firm BAG beat data woes with storage virtualisation
German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - found a solution to its data management problems in storage virtualisation05 Nov 2012
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UK spectrum valued at £52bn
Government research shows the UK’s spectrum contributes £52bn to the economy each year, thanks mostly to mobile services05 Nov 2012
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Government could save £1.8bn digitising transactions
Government Digital Service hopes to save £1.8bn per year moving to online services, according to draft Digital Strategy seen by Computer Weekly.05 Nov 2012
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Financial services takes big data beyond pilot stage
Survey reveals financial services is embracing big data, with more than half of the respondents claiming to have a big data strategy05 Nov 2012
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NetApp nips and tucks FAS3200 clustered NAS unified storage range
NetApp refreshes FAS3200 series unified storage arrays with changed drive capacities, plus clustered NAS and Flash Cache and Flash Pools05 Nov 2012
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Samsung tablet sales leap 325% as Apple iPad market share falls
Figures from analyst house IDC suggest Android OS tablet sales are surging while the the Apple iPad’s hold on the market begins to loosen05 Nov 2012
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Firms remain in denial about cyber attacks, says Guidance Software
If cyber attackers want to get into an organisation’s information systems they will find a way, says e-discovery firm Guidance Software05 Nov 2012
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Microsoft and Google eye unused UK spectrum
Microsoft and Google are in discussions with the UK government about unused sections of airwaves known as white space05 Nov 2012
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VMworld Europe 2012 User Awards The National Trust
For many, a green datacentre and a reduced carbon footprint strategy is a nice-to-have, but it was the driving factor behind a virtualisation project at the National Trust. The project has allowe...05 Nov 2012
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VMworld Europe 2012 User Awards Tiger Wheel and Tyre
Case Study: Tyre company innovates with back-up and replication in a virtualised IT estate Using virtualisation as a cost-effective alternative to refreshing an ageing physical server environment...05 Nov 2012
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The DNA of the CIO
This major piece of research from Ernst & Young provides fresh insight into what it is to be a Chief Information Officer (CIO) today.05 Nov 2012
