September 2013

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  The diverse roles for women in IT: Video interview with Natalie Harris-Briggs

  For our series looking at the diverse roles women play in the IT industry, Katrina Collier, speaker, trainer & writer on social media in recruitment, speaks with Natalie Harris-Brigg, head of ...  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  The future of eID in Europe

  In recent months the fuss about surveillance revelations has distracted attention from some good work in the European Commission to try to align and push forward a harmonised electronic identity ...  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Go ON UK aims to get north-east England online

  Go ON UK launches Go ON North East in bid to spread digital skills and get the region online  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Why IT departments shouldn't be responsible for cyber security

  It may be tempting to delegate cyber security strategy to IT, but to do so is to delegate responsibility.  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Developing a new strategy for information security

  What are the chief challenges facing information security practitioners and what are the solutions?  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Delta equips pilots with Microsoft Surface 2 tablets

  The airline furthers its commitment to the latest Windows software by supplying Surface 2 tablets to 11,000 of its pilots  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  How Barnsley Council became a tier three datacentre

  Spending cuts, the need to deliver high-quality IT at lower costs and efficiency needs saw Barnsley Council pick a robust tier 3 datacentre facility  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Network Rail to boost mobile broadband on trains

  Network Rail will work with industry partners to boost mobile broadband connections for train passengers by 2019  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Big storage turns the tide in the hybrid flash array market

  The hybrid flash array market has been all about startups, but has the tide turned with EMC’s re-architecting of its VNX line for flash?  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Indian government made second most Facebook data requests

  According to Facebook’s first global government requests report, Indian authorities made the second largest number of requests of any country.  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  IT marriage counselling to ensure outsourcing contracts don't lead to divorce

  I have written extensively about the large amount of contract renegotiations going on at the moment. Keeping suppliers and customers happy at the same time is difficult. Particularly when the ...  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Microsoft boosts Windows Azure security with multi-factor authentication

  Microsoft has added an additional layer of security, called multi-factor authentication, to its Windows Azure public cloud platform  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Why boardroom diversity brings business value

  It was disappointing to see that according to the Female FTSE Board Report 2013, progress in increasing the representation of women on UK boards has stalled. Although the number of women in ...  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  EE hit by weekend of outages

  Mobile operator EE confirms issues on its network but keeps quiet about the causes  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Charity uses cloud HR system to keep track of staff working in danger zones

  It took a disaster in Haiti to demonstrate to charity World Vision why it needed better HR systems  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Cloud computing drives infrastructure upgrade at service provider

  IT services company Ardenta has implemented F5 network security to upgrade its infrastructure and offer cloud services  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Huawei poses no competitive threat to US networking firms, says Enterasys CEO

  Too few US organisations trust China government-linked Huawei for it to pose a threat to networking firms, says Enterasys’s CEO  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  IT for talent management

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, we kick off our latest buyer’s guide looking at the growing interest in IT for human capital management. After the latest Gmail outage, we ask how IT leaders should prepare for cloud service failures. And we examine ...  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  ‘I don’t believe privacy exists,’ claims network executive

  Ipswitch executive claims European businesses more paranoid about privacy than US, where attitudes have changed since 9/11  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Europe fails to invest in downtimes

  Enterasys CEO Chris Crowell says economic downturns are the best times to invest, but with more activity in the US than Europe  Continue Reading