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December 2013

Universal Credit IT: What we know; what we don't know
Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 12 Dec 2013

"There is no debacle on Universal Credit" declared Iain Duncan Smith in his opening salvo to MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee this week.The beleaguered secretary of state yet again ...

RBS could change the face of UK banking if it took a radical approach to its IT overhaul
Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 05 Dec 2013

While Royal Bank of Scotland's IT is under intense scrutiny after its latest failure this week, don't underestimate the fact that every retail banking CIO in the UK is thinking, "There but for the ...

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Top 10 promising 5G use cases CIOs should know
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Spurned researcher posts trio of iOS zero days
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Cybersecurity leaders back law for critical infrastructure
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How to prevent ransomware: 6 key steps to safeguard assets
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Automate network validation for smoother changes
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Ways to speed up white box networking adoption
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A review of Cato Networks' SASE Cloud platform
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Considerations for sustainable data center design
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Use colocation and cloud together
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What does a DPU do?
Learn the basics of data processing units: What they are, what they do, who's making them and who's adopting them. Then decide ...

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The benefits and pitfalls of cloud-based data management systems
Learn the benefits of cloud-based data management systems, common pitfalls and strategies when considering varying data levels ...
NoSQL database types explained: Column-oriented databases
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Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud
Nutanix is aiming to make it easier to manage, deploy and protect data and databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments ...

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December 2013

Universal Credit IT: What we know; what we don't know

RBS could change the face of UK banking if it took a radical approach to its IT overhaul