December 2014

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Atos targets US growth with billion-dollar Xerox acquisition

  Atos is to spend over $1bn and take over the IT outsourcing operations of Xerox  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Does current IoT technology stack up?

  I recently met Todd Greene, the CEO and founder of PubNub. This is a company that provides a real time data network stream that allows a two way flow of real-time data. Its customers include ...  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Case study: Sky News turns to Red Hat for IT upgrade

  To ensure the resiliency of its operations, Sky News has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation and Red Hat Satellite in two datacentres  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  MongoDB puts a wild (wired) tiger in its tank

  The open source cross-platform document-oriented database company MongoDB has acquired WiredTiger for its database storage engine technology.  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Accenture and BT to battle for NHS email contract

  The NHS has shortlisted two suppliers for its email system, with BT and Accenture still in the mix  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  The internet of things: a second digital revolution worth trillions

  The government’s chief scientific adviser has released his long-awaited review on the internet of things  Continue Reading

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  The UK On-line landscape is being transformed in the week before Christmas

  The reason was nothing to do with awareness campaigns or consultancy advice. It was that the fibre to every tenant on the business park was accompanied by high speed, high reliability, secure, ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  NHS watchdog raises 27 questions over Care.data before roll-out can proceed

  An independent watchdog has raised 27 questions about the troubled NHS England Care.data project, saying they must be answered for it to proceed  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Lib Dems call for encryption by default

  The UK needs to enforce encryption by default to protect citizens' privacy, claim Liberal Democrat MPs  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  £1m grant handed to IoT competition winners

  A £1m grant has been given to seven startup companies that won a competition to create innovative internet of things projects  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  MP accuses Post Office of acting "duplicitously" in IT investigation

  MPs claim Post Office was being "high handed" towards MPs and running a "flawed, deteriorating" accounting system  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Oracle reports strong cloud growth for second quarter of 2014-15

  Oracle's cloud revenue grew by 45% to $516m in the second quarter of the 2014-15 fiscal year, making up 5.4% of total takings  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  There's not enough Dev in DevOps

  The 2014 technology marketing manual page #65718 advocates that IT vendors of all disciplines culture and refine a positioning statement on the portmanteau DevOps.  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Mercedes AMG Petronas IT director on the need for speed in IT

  When Matt Harris became IT director for F1 team Mercedes AMG Petronas in 2009, IT costs needed to be slashed  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Government scraps national roaming in £5bn "not spot" pledge

  Government strikes £5bn ‘landmark’ deal with UK MNOs to address mobile "not spots"  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Predictions for 2014 - how did I do?

  It's the time of year when we reflect on our progress (or failures) over the last year and anticipate the challenges of the coming year. Last year I made half a dozen predictions for 2014. How well ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Why Azure failed: Procedural failure amplifies Azure bug

  Microsoft has admitted procedural failure process in deploying updates led to last month’s catastrophic downtime of Azure storage  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Christmas indigestion for online retailers: what is the effect of pan-EU VAT regime?

  Governments face a triple fiscal whammy as the growing impact of the Ukraine dispute and associated sanctions coincides with the decision of Saudi Arabia to cripple its political enemies and ...  Continue Reading

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Christmas Stocking Fillers for Digital Government Anoraks: 1) Verify invitation to tender

  What is the business case, apart from a questionable interpretation of the European Union Regulation on Electronic Identities and Electronic Trust Services? .... only the digerati who wish to treat ...  Continue Reading

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Royal Opera House CTO Rob Greig appointed director of Parliamentary Digital Service

  Rob Greig, currently CTO at the Royal Opera House, has been appointed as the first director of the new Parliamentary Digital Service  Continue Reading