January 2016

• January 31, 2016 31 Jan'16

  More CISOs looking to recruit cyber-security trainers than leaders, analysts, engineers or testers

  Given than outsourcing decisions were claimed to be based on getting guaranteed access to subject matter expertise or lack of in-house skills, this implies a serious lack of awareness of the ...  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2016 31 Jan'16

  Walmart's bricks & mortar to digital business journey

  Couchbase has announced support for @WalmartLab's release of OneOps to the open source community through Github.  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Government adds wireless to BDUK consumer voucher scheme

  The government has extended the BDUK consumer broadband voucher programme to cover wireless systems in a few locations, in addition to satellite  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  IT security salaries on the rise as cyber crime increases

  Salaries for IT security professionals are on the rise as firms react to an increase in cyber crime  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  BT signs £7.4m health and care integration contract with Islington

  BT is set to develop an integrated digital care record, pulling information from both health and social care systems in Islington  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Industrial control systems a growing target for cyber attack

  Attackers with increasing capabilities have strong financial motivation to go after critical infrastructure and manufacturing firms, says security industry expert  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  BT completes EE acquisition on schedule

  BT has completed its £12.5bn acquisition of EE on schedule, with the mobile operator set to become a new business unit in the wider group  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Mike Ferguson on a decade of Hadoop

  This is a guest blogpost by analyst Mike Ferguson on the 10th anniversary of Hadoop's becoming a separate Apache subproject. In the 10 years since Hadoop became an Apache project the momentum ...  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Will people be at the heart of your business transformation?

  Areas of the business that hold workforce data face a huge opportunity to help their organisations accelerate end-to-end transformation and increase their odds of success  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Ofcom to probe EE over billing mishap

  Regulator announces an investigation into errors made by EE in applying European roaming charges  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  HSBC online services hit by DDoS attack

  HSBC was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which targeted its online personal banking services.  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  AWS closes in on becoming $10bn run rate business

  Amazon.com posts record profit, as its AWS cloud arm continues to go from strength to strength  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  MPs call for guarantee of no rural payments IT fiasco this year

  MPs have criticised the rural payments digital service and want assurances that there will be no return this year to paper forms when farmers claim their EU subsidies  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  ICO launches data privacy assessment tool for SMEs

  The ICO has launched an online self-assessment tool to help SMEs to comply with data protection laws and improve data handling procedures  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Google tax debate is just an early example of social upheaval from the digital revolution

  In many ways it is a shame that the most likely reason for a technology company to hit the headlines in national newspapers and on TV is because they don't pay enough taxes. For all the largely ...  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  The need for cyber security skills in Australia balloons

  Demand for people with the right mix of skills to keep organisations in Australia safe from cyber attack is far in excess of supply  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Microsoft profits fall but cloud success sends share price up

  Strong fourth-quarter performance of Microsoft’s cloud services indicates that CEO Satya Nadella’s transformation plan is working  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  And now for something completely analytical... Pentaho goes native Python

  Pentaho (let's remember to call it a Hitachi Group company) has announced news of its labs team now completing development of native integration for Python.  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  UKtech50 2015: The most influential people in UK IT - read all our coverage

  Computer Weekly announced the sixth annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy  Continue Reading

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  BBC awards broadcast network contract to BT

  BT is awarded a seven-year, £100m plus contract to supply networking services to the BBC  Continue Reading