June 2013

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Two-thirds of CIOs feel locked in with outsourcers

  Almost two-thirds of senior IT executives think their suppliers would not be open to renegotiating outsourcing contracts, despite increased activity  Continue Reading

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Case study: TGI Friday's goes wireless with Aruba

  TGI Friday's across the UK uses wireless technology from Aruba Networks to process payments and has big plans for the future  Continue Reading

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  New PCs enter the market at Computex

  Dell, Acer and Asus have all unveiled various PC models at Computex in Taiwan this week. In a midst of a PC market crash, the computer manufacturers have taken a leap of faith and revealed new ...  Continue Reading

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Backup and recovery challenges most small businesses, study shows

  Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are experiencing difficulties with data backup and recovery, a study has shown  Continue Reading

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  VDI and the enterprise app

  Over 200 attendees headed down to Briforum recently for two days of in-depth discussions on VDI, application virtualisation, etc including a look at the current state of the market across Europe. CW Europe looks at how European businesses are ...  Continue Reading

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Turkish protesters make innovative use of technology

  Turkish anti-government protesters are making innovative use of technology to stay ahead of the authorities  Continue Reading

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Denise McDonagh takes CTO role at Home Office

  Former G-Cloud director Denise McDonagh is taking the role of chief technology officer (CTO) at the Home Office  Continue Reading

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  UK authorities begin tackling pirate websites

  The City of London Police and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau have started contacting websites suspected of profiting by breaking copyright laws  Continue Reading

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Centrica migrates desktops from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7

  Utilities giant Centrica migrates 26,500 staff from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7, completing the desktop transformation by the end of 2013  Continue Reading

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Apple faces possible US sales ban on older iPad and iPhone models

  As the International Trade Commission rules Apple infringed a Samsung patent, some older iPad and iPhone models could face a US sales ban  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  The day application battery performance got sexy

  The next generation of applications will be better served by battery-aware technology existing at both the hardware and software level.  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to storage and back-up

  In 2011, storage represented an average of 15% of the total IT budget. Making the wrong bets on how you architect your storage environment could cause this number to grow more than your finance chief might like. In this buyer’s guide, we assess the ...  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  IBM buys SoftLayer to take on Rackspace

  IBM is set to boost its cloud offering with the acquisition of SoftLayer Technologies, in a bid to offer a cloud service that rivals Rackspace  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Caught between the Communications Bill, the Patriot Act and Anglo-US "mutual assistance" agreements

  That means cutting across a number of agendas: from the cyber warfare and defence responsibilities of the MoD and Foreign Office through the "defence of the realm" and the law enforcement agendas ...  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Warner Brothers tracks films to screens with FileMaker

  Every country in Europe has a George Clooney. Warner Brothers needs to know who the local dubbing actors are in each of 52 territories  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  NHS cancer diagnostic pathology thriving in open source

  The Free Diagnostic Pathology (FreeDP) Software Project came about as part of a Department of Health initiative to improve the NHS through the use of technology.  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Austrian Airlines’ off-the-shelf PPM creates efficiencies

  Austrian Airlines moved to packaged Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software when its highly-bespoke system could no longer cope  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Whitehall should use Twitter to engage public in open policy-making, say MPs

  Government should use Twitter for an ‘open policy’ approach, says the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC)  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  TCS, the billion pound company in the UK that actually understates its cloud story.

  IDC analyst Douglas Hayward sent me an interesting article he wrote, with other IDC analysts, about TCS. This followed an analyst day at TCS. It is interesting to see how big TCS is in the UK. We ...  Continue Reading

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  UK millennials consider tech skills crucial to securing a job

  Telefonica survey reveals 76% of young people in the UK see technology skills as key to future success  Continue Reading