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The data fragmentation challenge

Few organisations have policies to guide where data should and should not be stored. The result: data fragmentation Continue Reading

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• Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics

Aintree NHS saves £1m a year with electronic patient records

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust replaces paper medical records with an electronic system to save £1m per year Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

CW500: Back to the Future: Big Data at Channel 4

Bob Harris, Chief Technology Officer of Channel 4 Television, explains the broadcaster's approach to big data in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. Continue Reading

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NHS IT to embrace open source

A new report from NHS England promises open source will be at the heart of the plans to digitise the health service Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Data quality more important than fixating over big data, says Shell VP

Johan Krebbers, vice-president of architecture at Shell, says it is more important to get data quality right than to find a ‘big data silver bullet’ Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

The challenges of information governance in our increasingly litigious age

Formulating the right enterprise-wide information governance policies is essential in heading off potential legal and compliance costs Continue Reading

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• Doug Miles

An Information Architecture Vision

The Open Group assesses the "big data" problem and offers an Enterprise Information Planning and Architecture Model to help organisations make the most of their information. Continue Reading

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NHS numbers to be mandated by 2014

NHS providers must use an NHS number to identify all patient data, Tim Kelsey, director for patients and information at NHS England announces Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Gartner: Deriving value from Big Data for CRM

Kimberly Collins, research vice-president of Gartner highlights the critical steps organisations should to take to integrate big data into Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Continue Reading

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Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Information Security Breaches Survey 2013

Security breaches cost large businesses an average of £850,000, the 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey reveals. Continue Reading

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Open data leaders slam government over postcode privatisation

The Open Data Institute has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold for profit Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Enabling the secure use of RFID

Dario Bevilacqua and Keith Mayes describe the design of an UHF RFID system for secure identification and tracking. Continue Reading

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Effective print security for SMBs

Analysts Louella Fernandes and Clive Longbottom discuss how integrated print management provides SMBs with a simple and scalable approach for print security. Continue Reading

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Sap business suite now available on Sap Hana

This analyst report from Nucleus Research assess the impact of SAPs decision to power SAP Business Suite by its SAP HANA in memory database technology. Continue Reading

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Modelling the Insurance Enterprise

This report from the Open Group is aimed at managers, architects, and designers that serve the insurance industry or have an interest in integrating the TOGAF and ArchiMate standards. Continue Reading

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Don’t make big data stand alone, warns Gartner

Gartner cautions organisations against treating big data as unique and criticises business intelligence suppliers for failing to exploit mobility Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study

European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database

Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Scenes from EMC Momentum Vienna 2012

EMC Momentum took place in Vienna this year, at the Messe Wien Congress Centre. 1,100 EMC attendees descended on the conference for hands-on-labs and a selection of sessions. View photos from the event here. Continue Reading

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• Kayleigh Bateman, Computer Weekly