June 2013

• June 30, 2013 30 Jun'13

  How vulnerable is your broadband? Why BT and Virgin should be referred to Competition Commission

  But that raises the question of what Ofcom was created to do, whether those are still its objectives and whether they are still the right objectives. Having helped organise the scrutiny process for ...  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2013 29 Jun'13

  Whither Cyber Security

  I'm back blogging after a lengthy break due to extensive writing and consultancy commitments. Nothing much has changed in the cyber security sphere during that time apart from a very slight ...  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2013 29 Jun'13

  Comment from "Jim Prideaux" on my last blog

  The security services need a mix of talent and the processes to nurture them and actively maintain their motivation over time. So your reviewers should also raise their glasses to disgruntled older ...  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  The winning theory: Snowden was employed by the NSA, FSB, GCHQ and Unit 61938 to protect budgets

  Hence also the importance of the Cyber Security Skills framework for which e-Skills is currently seeking employers who will review it with a view to customising it for their own use. In fact, if we ...  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Careers Clinic: No Student Should be Left Behind in IT

  Today there is plenty of media hype around technology "re-wiring" the young mind. Many educational experts, teachers and parents have mentioned that the digital age has made an impact and improved ...  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  BlackBerry Z10 shipments a mystery as company posts $84m loss

  BlackBerry has reported a net loss of $84m on revenue of $3bn, compared with the $518m loss for the same quarter last year  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Get into Linux in under an hour on a Raspberry Pi

  Raspberry Pi (Photo credit: CesarCardoso)It's been a while since I raved about losing a weekend getting to grips with Linux on a home project to build a music server.It took a weekend to get the ...  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Nottingham targets troubled families with data analysis

  Nottingham County Council cuts the time to identify troubled families, from two weeks to two hours, with a data matching tool  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  IT leaders need to pressure cloud providers for open standards

  If there is one area more than any other that the IT industry has consistently let its customers down, it is standards.The old adage says that the great thing about standards is there are so many ...  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Power supply is top consideration when choosing datacentres, shows study

  Power supply is most important to managers choosing a new datacentre, says UK and European Data Centre Barometer study  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  IT professionals not sure how to get cloud skills

  UK IT professionals are not sure how to get cloud computing skills according to CWJobs.co.uk. Only 45% of IT professionals on CWJobs.co.uk's database have cloud skills.The IT outsourcing sector is ...  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Retailers losing £12bn of sales through failing to engage with digital

  Retailers failing to engage customers through digital channels are missing out on £12bn of sales  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Tech Mahindra lays Satyam name to rest and breaks top five of Indian owned IT suppliers

  After nearly four and a half years of change the IT services brand that was Satyam will disappear from our minds as Tech Mahindra integrates its operations.The company acquired Satyam after it ...  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Mid-sized UK IT companies invest in growth

  Mid-sized IT companies in the UK grew faster than the average and plan to increase spending on R&D by more than any other sector  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Customers are demanding M2M services, says Vodafone

  Consumers will drive Machine to Machine (M2M) usage across companies, with half adopting it by 2015 – according to Vodafone  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  HMRC gets £200m in digital services investment

  HMRC's digital services to receive £200m of government investment, in a move expected to save £51m year on administrative costs  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Secure Wi-Fi and digital documents set to transform UK courts

  Courtrooms will be fitted with secure Wi-Fi as part of a £160m programme to improve the efficiency of the Criminal Justice System  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Surveyor E.surv builds on Nimble hybrid flash arrays

  House valuation surveyor E.surv retires creaking Dell EqualLogic iSCSI arrays and boosts IOPS with a pair of Nimble Storage CS240 SAN with front end MLC plus bulk SATA drives  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Hounslow signs Salesforce G-Cloud deal

  Hounslow Council has signed a G-Cloud deal with Salesforce.com in a move which will form the basis of a new technology platform strategy  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business  Continue Reading