July 2015

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  3 ways data lakes are transforming analytics

  This is a guest blogpost by Suresh Sathyamurthy, senior director, emerging technologies, EMC Data lakes have arrived, greeted by the tech world with a mix of scepticism and enthusiasm. In the ...  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Interview: CCS director Sarah Hurrell on improving government technology purchasing

  The government's procurement agency has plenty of critics, but its technology lead insists that IT and digital purchasing is improving fast  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  British Gas to invest £500m in connected homes business

  Energy provider aims to build on success of its Hive smart thermostat and roll-out of smartmeters  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Commercial software more secure than open source, finds report

  A study has found that commercial code is more compliant than open source code with security compliance standards, such as the Owasp top 10 and the CWE top 25  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  CW Buyer's Guide: DevOps

  Computer Weekly looks at how combining development and operations teams can cut time and raise quality; how DevOps done well can lead to a continuous loop where teams plan, code, build, test, release, deploy, operate and monitor – then repeat; and ...  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Obama orders superfast computer for 2025

  The US is aiming to build a supercomputer that is able to process one exaflop or a billion billion operations a second to process big data  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  IaaS mega-framework tender raises hopes of Europe-wide G-cloud launch

  Géant publishes contract notice seeking providers for IaaS frameworks, which will serve 50 million across Europe  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  European regulation shakes up online payments security

  Payment service providers and merchants should lose no time in assessing the affect of proposed European security regulations  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Ark Data Centres to underpin delivery of BT's managed cloud services

  BT signs multi-year deal with datacentre provider to support its push into the cloud integrator market  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Facebook to boost Internet.org with UK drone

  Facebook is ready to test a UK-developed drone that is designed to fly in a circle with a radius of about 1.8 miles and provide internet coverage for an area with a radius of 30 miles  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Confidence in data security part 1 - Room for improvement

  Improving user knowledge, deploying advanced technology and co-ordinating incident response and policy all make a big difference in the level of confidence organisation have about data security  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  With Windows 10, Microsoft has built a fine sail, but has the ship already left harbour?

  With Windows 10, Microsoft has built a fine sail, but has the ship already left harbour?If anything encapsulates the change in the technology world in the last 20 years, it's the relative reactions ...  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Consultancies hit amid rise in IT company insolvencies

  Rising insolvencies among IT companies contrasts with a fall in the rate of company failures in the wider economy  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Sony posts best quarterly results in eight years

  Sony posts its strongest June quarter since 2007 with profits driven mainly by Sony’s PlayStation 4 software and its camera sensors  Continue Reading

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  UK fintech sector targets 100,000 new jobs and $8bn investment by 2020

  Trade body Innovate Finance unveils manifesto for growth in financial technology market  Continue Reading

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  HMRC launches paid digital apprenticeship with bonus of funded degree

  HMRC tells Computer Weekly about its first 15 apprenticeships available under the government-led Tech Industry Gold Apprenticeship scheme  Continue Reading

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  Ghost cars plague Uber app users, claim researchers

  In Downtime's experience, Uber users tend to be a smug bunch, who love boring on about how much cheaper their cab journeys home have become since downloading the taxi-booking app. No longer do they ...  Continue Reading

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN clients

  Services used by hundreds of thousands of people to protect their identity on the web are vulnerable to leaks, according to this report researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and others.  Continue Reading

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  JavaScript – 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

  Robin Nixon gives a practical guide to JavaScript coding in this extract from his book, JavaScript – 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development.  Continue Reading

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  Google pledges security training for 10,000 UK internet users

  Google will host free workshops in five UK cities and 30 schools on safeguarding passwords, updating account settings, finding stolen devices and checking where data is being shared  Continue Reading