June 2010
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
There, but for the grace of Dave and Nick...
Do you remember the UK ID Cards scheme? You know, the government's promised 'gold standard' of identity? The unforgeable, unbeatable, genius of authentication that was promised to do anything you ... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
BCS members apologise to vice-president Ken Olisa
Members of the BCS behind calls for an Extraordinary... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Tasty merger challenge sees Yummy benefits from IT
Dickie Oliver, vice-president of global IT for Yum, the company behind KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, speaks to Adam Burns about how IT keeps the company cooking. Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Success in move to cloud computing requires business change approach
Cloud computing offers business potentially huge cost savings and productivity gains, but security concerns are preventing many organisations tapping in to these benefits. Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
St John Ambulance gears up for PCI DSS compliance
First aid charity St John Ambulance is rolling out a security information system to ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Immigration caps make life difficult for some companies
Just got this in from corporate law firm Dundas & Wilson in regards to the government changing immigration rules. As there is a debate going on in this blog I will try and post the views of as ... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Backfiring biometrics
I've written on a number of occasions about the fallibility of biometrics as a trusted means to find or identify an individual. Setting aside problems with the mathematics of biometrics and ... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
What has Spain got for IT directors?
I was talking to Valueshore Spain this morning about the likely trends in offshoring. As I have recently blogged about alternative destinations to India such as Egypt, Brazil and China, why not ... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Review: iStorage diskGenie secure mobile storage
What makes the diskGenie secure portable disk drive special is that it carries on-board encryption - either 128bit or 256bit AES. Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Symantec launches security benchmarking tool for small businesses
Symantec has launched an online tool to enable small businesses to see how their security, data protection and storage profiles measure up against those...
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
HM Revenue & Customs freezes IT spending
HM Revenue & Customs has frozen spending on IT, according to a report from the National Audit Office. Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
More software services head offshore this year
Software services are set to be the biggest IT capability offshored by UK IT directors over the next 12 to 18 months, as businesses look for customised and... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
FSA chief information officer jumps ship
CIO Darryl Salmons has left the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to lead a newly-formed CIO advisory practice at a London consulting firm. Salmons... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
SSD breathes new life into old PCs
Solid state discs (SSDs) are set to become the preferred way to achieve high performance and high availability storage in the datacentre and, increasingly, on the desktop. Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Leveraging the cloud for more effective email archiving
For many organisations, the ability to invest in a full-fledged in-house email archiving system is beyond their means. However, cloud-based email archiving services take away much of the pain of ... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Open Source monitoring tools and visibility
An open source network monitoring tools conference dedicated to the Nagios platform will be held in the German city of Nuremberg in October of 2010. Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Online education passes 20m milestone
What are the industries of the future?Education? Security against terror? Healthcare? The environment...? They are all going to develop into huge global industries. The Open University in the UK ... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
Could China's offshore cost advantage become a handicap?
I recently met a company that provides offshore IT services from China, known as Bleum. The company was clear to me that one of the big advantages of China is the fact that the wages are low. But ... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
IBM believes in commoditised HPC for BI
BI needs power. Lots of power. Before multi-core processors and desktop BI arrived, companies doing serious BI either used mainframes, mini-computers or small High Performance Computing (HPC) ... Continue Reading
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June 30, 2010
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Jun'10
IBM believes in commoditised HPC for BI
BI needs power. Lots of power. Before multi-core processors and desktop BI arrived, companies doing serious BI either used mainframes, mini-computers or small High Performance Computing (HPC) ... Continue Reading