March 2014
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March 28, 2014
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Mar'14
Don't say big data, say big data in motion
The firm has recently announced the addition of data-in-motion encryption as a new feature in its Zettaset Orchestrator management and security add-on application for Hadoop. Continue Reading
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
Download: BCG: The Trust Advantage
This report from Boston Consulting Group, based on surveys of 10,000 people, takes the temperature on how consumers around the world are feeling about the collection and use of personal data. Continue Reading
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
Online sales hit £1bn as Sainsbury's seeks multichannel success
Sainsbury’s £1bn online retail sales make up only a small proportion of its £25bn overall turnover Continue Reading
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
Indian businesses to switch to biometric authentication
Almost a third (30%) of global organizations will use biometric authentication on mobile devices by 2016 compared with just 5% now, according to a recent report by Gartner Continue Reading
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
Google says government data requests are up 120% since 2009
Government requests for information about Google customers, have increased by 120% since 2009 Continue Reading
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
Turkey now targeting YouTube
Turkey appears to be attempting to block YouTube a day after a court ordered an end to the ban on Twitter Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
SAP partners with Uni of Cambridge to launch autism intern programme
SAP works with Autism Research Centre to recruit and support employees with autism Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
Correction: The Bletchley Crypto and Sigint operations were only 73% female
Hence my comment that Information Security is an unsuitable job for a man and my strong support for plans to organise trips for schoolgirls to visit Bletchley and start preparing for the jobs of ... Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
Microsoft releases Office for iPad
In his first press conference, new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announces the long-awaited version of Office for the iPad Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
Confidence in IT job security slowly on the rise
Randstad Technologies survey reveals 2% increase in employees feeling a sense of job security in 2014 compared to 2009 Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
The CIO supplier relationship: How to get the best from your suppliers
Professor Merlin Stone offers some insights to help CIOs manage their suppliers while avoiding potential pitfalls Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
Security an unnecessary expense, say one in six techies
One in six IT professionals see security as an unnecessary expense, a study has revealed Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
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Mar'14
Cloud economics will challenge every IT supplier
The over-used phrase "price war" has rarely had a lot of relevance in the corporate IT market. At best, we may have seen PC or server makers cutting prices by a few percentage points, or more ... Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
Blackrock: measuring risk in a datacentre
How the investment giant handles the risk of managing $13 trillion of other people’s money Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
27
Mar'14
Two years after 'unacceptable' - the state of government IT today
Two years ago, G-Cloud founder Chris Chant called government IT 'unacceptable'. Now outside Whitehall, what does he think has changed? Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
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Mar'14
Atos pays “substantial financial settlement” for DWP contract release
Atos Healthcare paid a substantial amount of money to be released early from the controversial disability testing contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) 18 months before it was due to end Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
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Mar'14
The Java parallelism paradox
Java 8 has been reengineered with the strength of Project Lambda Expressions. Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
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Mar'14
Will Cisco’s $1bn Intercloud bridge the way for enterprise customers?
The networking giant’s bid to build an open, hybrid cloud ecosystem could be good news for buyers - but analysts say its vision needs more clarity Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
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Mar'14
Java 8 grasps parallelism (more tightly) with Lambda Expressions
Oracle's Java coding cognoscenti gathered in the Czech capital of Prague this week to analyse, present and postulate over the arrival of the Java 8 language. Continue Reading
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March 27, 2014
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Mar'14
State surveillance keeping a third of firms from the cloud
A third of security professionals do not keep corporate data in the cloud because of fears of government snooping, survey reveals Continue Reading