July 2014

July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
CIPD ditches 20-a-day tape habit for Exagrid data deduplication

HR professionals organisation the CIPD replaces tape backup with disk-based data deduplication backup hardware from Exagrid Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Ed Vaizey gets digital industries role in Cabinet reshuffle

Culture minister Ed Vaizey has been promoted to the post of minister for digital industries in this week’s Cabinet reshuffle Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Why businesses need brilliant social media

Social media is tturning out to be arguably the biggest disruptive challenge business has to face Continue Reading

July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
What does the IT industry want as future digital government policy?

Labour Party asks suppliers to share their top public sector technology priorities Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
When consumer grade doesn't make the grade

For Doug Miles, director of market intelligence at AIIM, new data proves the importance of providing safe data-sharing options Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
IBM partners with Apple to deliver enterprise services for iOS

IBM has given Apple a major boost in the enterprise, through a partnership that will see it provide services and software for iOS Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Microsoft signs 20-year wind energy deal to power datacentres

Microsoft has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for wind energy with EDF Renewable Energy – its “largest wind investment to date” Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Microsoft and Cisco work together on cloud and datacentre

Cisco has entered a three-year sales collaboration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise cloud and datacentre services Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Barefoot Computing offers primary schools teachers 800 workshops

Barefoot Computing project and BT offer 800 workshops to support primary school teaching children as young as five Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Yahoo shares up despite lacklustre quarter

Yahoo’s shares rose slightly in after-hours trading despite a lacklustre quarter that saw profits fall by 18% and revenue by 3% Continue Reading

July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
New data law a serious expansion of surveillance, say law experts

The emergency surveillance legislation being rushed through parliament could be in breach of European law, 15 technology law experts have warned Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
What is liquid computing?

Liquid computing. As is so often the way with this kind of terminology and nomenclature, this is a user-driven trend rather than a programmer one. Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Imperial College and KPMG join forces with £20m business analytics centre

KPMG and Imperial College London have combined to create a £20m ‘KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics’ Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
No skills follow-through for IT transformation of public services

Only a quarter of local government authorities consider investing in people to be a high priority, according to research from BT Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Download: Improve the success of HR systems implementation

HR technology is the answer - but you must ask the right questions HR directors in companies large and small are grappling with selecting and implementing HR systems that need to enhance the business and add long-term value. We pretty much have the... Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Why Rackspace is betting on managed cloud amid doubts over future

Rackspace has relaunched its public cloud services as managed cloud to differentiate its costly services from cloud heavyweights. Will the move help? Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Brazil's World Cup humiliation softened by Twitter success

Despite not winning the World Cup, host nation Brazil can take solace in the fact its team was the most Tweeted about Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Microsoft tells Labour not to mandate a single open standard for documents

Microsoft has told the Labour Party not to mandate a single standard for open documents Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Orange opens up to app developers and startups with Apigee

Orange picks Apigee’s digital API platform to help developers and startups create services by levering data already held by the telco Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Diageo puts ServiceNow fizz in IT service desk

Diageo has gone live with an implementation of ServiceNow to automate IT services as part of a global transformation Continue Reading