June 2013

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Daimler bringing IT in-house but offshore reflects high cost of software support

  Daimler is the latest corporate to announce plans to bring IT that is currently outsourced back in-house. The firm's announcement follows similar plans from fellow manufacturers General Motors (GM) ...  Continue Reading

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Universities minister David Willetts backs Chinese telecoms firm Huawei

  Universities and science minister David Willetts praises Huawei a week after the ISC voiced concerns over its involvement in UK infrastructure  Continue Reading

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  BMI adopts Avaya to boost communications

  The British Midlands International (BMI) airline installs Avaya's internet protocol (IP) phone system to connect 150 remote workers and two sites  Continue Reading

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  IT sourcing complexity makes supplier management a priority

  IT supplier management capabilities becoming business critical as correlation between IT and business performance strengthens  Continue Reading

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Parliament votes to cut electricity use by 27% by 2020. How? Switch off the internet?

  The Data Dynamics Census indicates a global growth in demand from data centres of 60%: let us assume that the UK is half that, as data centres are moved off shore to where electicity is cheaper and ...  Continue Reading

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Giving UK SMEs the digital tools they need

  It is vital that organisations use the digital tools at their disposal to ensure they are able to take advantage of growth opportunities.  Continue Reading

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Olympic Games accelerates smart city technologies, says Ovum

  Major international events – such as the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics – cement the host city’s future technology profiles, says Ovum  Continue Reading

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Technology companies call for more transparency over data requests

  Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft call on US government to allow them to publish greater detail about requests to hand over user data  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  The "free market" on-line world is under attack from all directions: who wants to save what and why?

  one of the lessons from the past is that the Internet as currently conceived cannot survive unless those who want it to do so work together to help rebuild confidence that it is worth protecting. ...  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  DCMS Consultation to put Computer Programming alongside Music and the Performing Arts

  I would, however, say that Skillset and NESTA are rather good at what they do and some of the new courses to develop the skills for the computer games industry are excellent. Nonetheless changing ...  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Public cloud adoption accelerates in India

  Indian businesses will spend 24.54 billion INR on public cloud services this year to lower costs and increase business flexibility  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to Retail IT

  Is the demand to keep up with the latest IT trends leaving the back-office functions of security and supply chain management and data analysis to wither on the vine? Our eight-page Buyer’s Guide to Retail IT assesses the implications and challenges ...  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to IPV6 migration

  The switch from IPv4 to IPv6 began on 6 June 2012, but surprisingly few organisations have done enough to prepare for the transition. The 32-bit IPv4 address space supports 4.3 billion addresses which are rapidly running out – eventually ...  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to outsourcing

  In this buyer’s guide to outsourcing, we look at these issues in depth, as well as identifying trends in the market and investigating the outsourcing options available to small and medium-sized businesses.  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  The BDUK project could be derailed by the NAO

  Late last week, the NAO revealed it was looking into the government's BDUK project to roll-out broadband across the country and whether the £530m being invested was value for money. Today, ...  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to IT tools

  This Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to IT tools shows how you can use software and systems to improve the running of your IT department.  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to customer relations (CRM)

  This nine-page Buyer's Guide to Customer Relationsip Management (CRM), written by Computer Weekly speciaists, analyses the factors CIOs and senior IT professionals need to consider as they plan their CRM strategies.  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to Government IT

  While the pace of the move to open source in the public sector has been slow so far, a number of factors are converging to determine the blueprint for its future use in government IT. These include the Cabinet Office’s consultation to define the ...  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Frimley Park NHS deploys VDI for efficiency and BYOD

  When the NHS trust came under pressure to make its IT budget go further, it opted to deploy VDI in its A&E department  Continue Reading

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  CISOs must shape up or ship out, says Forrester

  Chief information security officers (CISOs) must evolve into data risk managers if they are to survive in the future, says Forrester Research  Continue Reading