September 2015

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Dreamforce: Benioff follows Stevie Wonder onstage to vaunt giving back

  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff beats the drum for tech’s broader social mission at Dreamforce 2015, praising Uber and Western Union for giving back  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Care.data chief Tim Kelsey to leave NHS England

  NHS England’s digital chief will leave the organisation in December to take up a new role with Telstra Health in Australia  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  F-Secure warns of Russian state-supported cyber espionage

  Russian state-sponsored hackers work office hours and target western governments, according to F-Secure report  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  MI5 chief Andrew Parker: Social networks have a responsibility to spy on users

  MI5 director general Andrew Parker calls for more surveillance powers for the agency and says social networks have a responsibility to report suspicious activity  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Singapore general election reveals growing importance of social media

  Organisations in all sectors in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) countries are recognising the influence of social networking  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Asean businesses fall behind in cloud business agility

  Businesses in Asean countries are slower to harness cloud computing than in other regions – but could overtake them, with much less legacy IT to deal with  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Oracle expands to 45 megawatt cloud business in SaaS and PaaS push

  Oracle expands its datacentre footprint as it pushes forward with its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) businesses  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  SolidFire puts flash for object (and file) storage on the roadmap

  All-flash array maker SolidFire plans to apply the speed of flash to object storage. So said CEO Dave Wright this week. We were discussing the prospects for the all-flash datacentre, following ...  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Nurse 'scared' to return to work after blowing whistle on IT problems

  A former nurse felt unable to return to work after raising concerns about the accuracy of records on a patient database at a London NHS trust  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Majority of UK citizens happy to share wearable data with GPs

  UK citizens willing to share data from wearable devices such as smartwatches or wristbands with GPs, but storing medical data in a central database is less acceptable, a KPMG survey shows  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Mobile networks hit by rise in Windows and PC malware, report shows

  Latest fixed and mobile network malware analysis from Alcatel-Lucent reveals growing threat posed by Windows PCs and laptops  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  UK firms cope better with cyber attacks than continental enterprises, research shows

  Trend Micro research suggests UK firms are at greater risk of cyber attack than their counterparts in continental Europe – but are better at dealing with them  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Pernix Data launches storage performance tool, Architect, and upgrades FVP

  Flash caching specialist Pernix Data launches storage performance monitoring tool, Architect, that runs as a module in vSphere and helps identify I/O issues in storage traffic  Continue Reading

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  NGINX release 7: what is an application delivery platform anyway?

  The company nginx is pronounced "Engine-Ex" and the firm is a specialist in software engine deliver technology -- so, it's an application delivery platform.  Continue Reading

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Datacentre consolidation drive saves US federal agencies $2bn

  IT reforms pushed through by White House spending watchdog generate $3.6bn in overall savings  Continue Reading

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Defence minister Michael Fallon promises increased MOD spending with SMEs

  Opening up the Ministry of Defence (MOD) supply chain to access SME innovation is vital to meet its technology needs, says secretary for defence Michael Fallon  Continue Reading

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Competition watchdog turns attention to O2 acquisition

  The Competition and Markets Authority invites formal comments on whether or not it should ask the European Commission to allow it to investigate the acquisition of O2 by Three  Continue Reading

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Cisco firmware exploit raises questions on internal network security

  Rogue Cisco IOS firmware could enable hackers to bypass all perimeter-level security controls, warns FireEye  Continue Reading

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  BT launches ethical hacking service for bankers

  BT introduces a certified Crest Star ethical hacking test service for financial services customers  Continue Reading

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  HP cuts jobs in bid to grow strategic services

  HP's Enterprise Services division is set for major cutbacks as the company attempts to reduce operating costs prior to the split in November 2015  Continue Reading