October 2014

October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
Enterprise web application components raise security risks, finds Veracode

Open-source and third-party components introduce vulnerabilities into enterprise web applications, says code analysis company Veracode Continue Reading
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
BMC - turnaround or more of the same?

BMC, long one of the "big 4" systems management vendors, was looking very tired just over a year ago. Since then, it has pulled itself off the stock market, changed its executive team and is now on ... Continue Reading
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
What’s driving the adoption of desktop as a service?

Two important factors are driving the cloud desktop phenomenon – the BYOD trend and the migration of enterprise workloads to the public cloud Continue Reading

October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
The lost opportunity – assessing the impact of OTT services

In this special report for Computer Weekly readers, Juniper Research looks at the challenges and opportunities facing mobile operator business models. Continue Reading
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
How to build a community application platform

Because Jive Software has announced the fall (they're American, they just mean November) cloud release of its JiveX external community platform. Continue Reading
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
Three in four banks struggle with stress testing

Banks are struggling to deal with the data management of the regimes of stress testing imposed since the 2008 financial crisis Continue Reading
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
Twitter announces text message-based password initiative

Twitter has announced a service that enables users to replace static passwords with a text message-based one-time passcode service Continue Reading
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
Inaccuracies revealed in technology candidates' CVs

More than a third of IT CVs have inaccuracies in education and employment history, a survey has found Continue Reading
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
UK needs "mature debate" on open data, says senior official

The UK's open data programme looks like it has hit a wall after a senior official intervened to call time on its release of the nation's most valuable public data assets.Things looked up for the ... Continue Reading
October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14
Companies will move core HR technologies to the cloud by 2020

Businesses will abandon on-premise HR IT systems in favour of cloud technology by 2020, says SuccessFactors chief Continue Reading

October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
Mobile operators will lose $14bn to OTT services this year

Report says mobile network operators will lose $14bn of potential sales to over the top services this year Continue Reading
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
Interview: Ed Vaizey MP talks digital economy and digital skills

Minister for the digital economy Ed Vaizey discusses his new role and the future of digital policy Continue Reading
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
A quarter of employees unaware of BYOD policies

Nearly a quarter of employees are completely unaware of their organisation’s bring your own device policy Continue Reading
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
Last QUANGO in town

Downtime remembers the days when any organisation with a solid coupling with the government could be simply labeled a QUANGO and they were more than happy with that. There were QUANGOs, QUANGOs for ... Continue Reading
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
Firms lack technology for workforce of the future

European businesses will rely increasingly on freelance, geographically dispersed employees as they vie to attract the top skills to their organisations over the next 5 years. Continue Reading
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
Liverpool council to save £30m taking BT joint venture in-house

Liverpool City Council will save £30m over three years by taking its Liverpool Direct Ltd joint venture back in-house Continue Reading
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
De Beers transforms global IT infrastructure in outsourcing deal with HCL

South African diamond company De Beers transforms its global IT infrastructure in an outsourcing deal with HCL enabling industrialised services Continue Reading
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
CIO interview: Ernest Gmünder, Touring Club Suisse

Ernest Gmünder is turning his expertise as a CIO into a consultancy business, offering advice to businesses that want to get more from their IT Continue Reading
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%

Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions Continue Reading
October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14
More than half of UK citizens hit by online crime, shows Get Safe Online survey

More than half of UK citizens have fallen victim to online crime, according to a survey commissioned by government security initiative Get Safe Online Continue Reading