March 2012

March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
SIEM deployment case study shows patience is required

Williams Lea’s SIEM is already helping reduce manual log reviews. But there’s still a lot of work to be done before the SIEM can be fully deployed. Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
India Inc guns for SIEM tools as maturity, viability drive growth

SIEM tool adoption in India is rising, spurred by growth in maturity of both SIEMs and organizations. We take a broad status check of the Indian SIEM space. Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
The Great Liability Sinkhole

Building identity management systems is a doddle, it really is. All you've got to do is to knock up a web interface with a database behind it, offer a store for trusted attribute data, tie the lot ... Continue Reading

March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
RIM a RIM of roses, they all fall down

It seems Research in Motion is playing swings and roundabouts with its business strategy. It wants to clarify about getting out of the consumer market.This came in earlier today:Thorsten Heins RIM ... Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
Biggest upgrade to PAYE system to go live in April

The biggest upgrade to the UK's PAYE system since the 1950s goes live within two weeks. Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
Gatwick Airport uses data centre decontamination service: news roundup

Gatwick airport’s initiative to improve performance and life of its IT; public sector’s progress in virtualisation and IT pros’ server management woes are this week’s highlights. Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
UK saves 5 quid on Oracle

The Cabinet Office has shaved about a fiver off the cost of an Oracle licence after high powered negotiations in which minister Francis Maude pressed the flesh with Oracle president Safra Catz. Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
Barclays customers shut out of online banking site

Barclays customers are hitting glitches accessing the firm's banking site and mobile app Pingit, after Barclays rolled out a new website Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
Social media: the tiger the senior Civil Servant must ride

The exclusive thoughts of Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom, permanent Secretary at Large and Her Majesty’s Government’s Data Sharing Czar. Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
Salesforce.com ups software application development ante

Saleforce.com has set the dates in stone for its annual Cloudforce event this year on 22nd May 2012 at ICC ExCeL London. Labeled as the Cloudforce Social Enterprise Tour, this year's event is ... Continue Reading

March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
BlackBerry: Why ditching the consumer market is the wrong decision

I think RIM have hit the panic button. While I agree that they cannot compete with the likes of Apple, I still think that strategically they have made the wrong decision to pull out of the consumer ... Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
Cabinet Office issues guidance on IT contract under £100m

The Cabinet Office has released guidance to open up the public sector market to more SME IT suppliers. Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
VM backup infrastructure guidelines for your organization

In this tip you will gain insights on how to create the perfect virtual machine (VM) backup infrastructure for your environment Continue Reading
March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12
RIM kills off consumer business following Q4 losses

Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) announced it will exit the consumer business after posting large Q4 losses Continue Reading
March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12
Everywoman in technology awards: Winners announced

I had the pleasure of attending the Cisco everywoman in Technology Awards today, which Computer Weekly is a media sponsor for. Now in its second year the awards celebrate the most inspirational ... Continue Reading
March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12
Bank of India’s BS 25999 certification journey nears completion

This is the story of how Bank of India turned around its business continuity strategy from a state of chaos as it geared up for BS 25999 certification. Continue Reading
March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12
SIPCOM cut costs with storage and server upgrade

Hosting provider SIPCOM cut its licensing costs, and improved SaaS delivery for customers thanks to these infrastructure upgrades. Continue Reading
March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12
Is cloud computing more beneficial to business than traditional outsourcing?

I wrote an article today about some research commissioned by Google. I revealed a few things including the importance of cloud computing in driving company strategy.The survey talks about the ... Continue Reading
March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12
Danone uses SAP to reduce carbon footprint

Heath food maker Danone has used SAP to reduce its carbon footprint by 22%. Continue Reading
March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12
Microsoft redeploys OOXML in open standards battle

Microsoft has been trying to persuade the British government to break its promise to back a single document format, Computer Weekly has learned.If Microsoft's lobbying succeeds it will require the ... Continue Reading