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• January 06, 2012 06 Jan'12

  Why CIOs must get a handle on their data woes

  Businesses are only making use of 5% of the data they collect, according to Forrester Research.

• January 06, 2012 06 Jan'12

  Ramnit worm steals 45,000 Facebook passwords

  A computer worm has begun targeting Facebook accounts and has stolen at least 45,000 login credentials from users, say security researchers.

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  Surrey County Council's data centre efficiency project: Case study

  The council will replace its existing primary IT facility this spring with a new energy efficient data centre facility which will help it save around £160,000 every year.

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  IBM buys Green Hat for cloud-based agile testing

  IBM is acquiring cloud-based software testing company Green Hat to bolster its Rational product family.

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  Gartner: Enterprise software spending to rise by 6.4% in 2012

  For 2012, Gartner expects telecommunications equipment and enterprise software to see the biggest growth in spite of the looming recession.

• January 04, 2012 04 Jan'12

  Shell moves SAP maintenance to Accenture

  Oil giant Shell has transferred the management of its HR and payroll applications to Accenture as part of a multi-year SAP managed service.

• January 04, 2012 04 Jan'12

  RIM shareholders support plan to appoint a new chairman

  Shares in Blackberry maker Research In Motion gained 7% on Tuesday in response to news that the company plans to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive.

• January 03, 2012 03 Jan'12

  British Waterways Scotland signs £2.3m ICT deal

  British Waterways Scotland has signed a £2.3m deal with business technology company Amor Group to develop its ICT systems.

• January 03, 2012 03 Jan'12

  Hacktivists plan to use satellites to by-pass internet censorship

  Hacker activists plan to launch communication satellites to overcome the threat of internet censorship.

• December 29, 2011 29 Dec'11

  Is it the end of the line for antivirus signatures?

  Traditional antimalware can't keep up with the threat landscape. Are antivirus signatures destined for the rubbish bin?

• December 29, 2011 29 Dec'11

  Emerging 2012 security trends demand information security policy changes

  2012 security trends involving cookies, fines, devices and threats will demand more skills -- and a little finesse -- from security professionals.

• December 29, 2011 29 Dec'11

  Networking 2012: Vendors predict what's ahead for the industry

  Senior vendor executives offer SearchNetworkingUK their Networking 2012 predictions for the challenges ahead, including addressing the transition to a mobile workforce.

• December 29, 2011 29 Dec'11

  Top 10 gadgets of 2011

  We pick our top 10 gadgets of 2011, with highlights including the rush to grab a cut-price HP Touchpad and the Nokia-Microsoft tie-up.

• December 23, 2011 23 Dec'11

  Top 10 SME IT stories of 2011

  For small businesses, 2011 has been another tough year, with many continuing to batten down the hatches as the economy continues to stall. But at the same time it has also been a year of technological innovation, both in terms of SMEs using the ...

• December 21, 2011 21 Dec'11

  ICO stands by unpopular UK cookie legislation with advice, warnings

  Website owners have resisted compliance with cookie legislation so the ICO has issued more guidance and warnings to nudge them along.

• December 21, 2011 21 Dec'11

  RIM rebuffs Amazon and Microsoft approaches

  Amazon considered buying troubled smartphone maker, Research in Motion, according to a report on Reuters.

• December 20, 2011 20 Dec'11

  Atos to provide £8m GP data mining system

  IT services company Atos has won an £8m five-year contract to provide a computer system which will retrieve patient information across GP practices.

• December 19, 2011 19 Dec'11

  Virtualisation technologies: hits and misses of 2011

  Amid a slew of virtualisation products and management suites that emerged in 2011, some products such as Spring platform impressed users, while others such as VMware MVP didn’t.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  Everything Everywhere spends £1.5bn on network expansion: News briefs

  SearchNetworkingUK briefs provide a summary of the week’s new product, services and appointment announcements. This week is filled with signs of network expansion.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  Sainsbury's rolls out superfast broadband

  Sainsbury’s has signed a deal with BT to deploy network connections of 24Mbps to its 1,000 stores in a move which will enable real-time data sharing.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  CIOs must trade off innovation and maintenance in 2012

  CIOs face major challenges in trading off stretched budgets between innovative projects and keeping the business running as usual in 2012.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  Investment bank JP Morgan goes live with FPGA Maxeler supercomputer

  JP Morgan has gone live with a supercomputer for fixed income trading operations. The investment bank is using a Maxeler dataflow supercomputer for analysing and profiling intra-day trading risk.

• December 15, 2011 15 Dec'11

  How HP played a key role in RAF air crew support in Libya

  The Ministry of Defence has praised HP over its Advanced Mission Planning Aid system, most recently used to support air crew in Libya.

• December 15, 2011 15 Dec'11

  Royal Mail posts IT services tender

  The Royal Mail Group has put out a tender for IT consulting services, which will be worth up to £50m over four years.

• December 14, 2011 14 Dec'11

  DWP seeks £200m identity assurance framework

  The Department for Work and Pensions has issued a contract notice for a £200m framework agreement to provide identity assurance services for 21 million people on benefits

• December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11

  Network reliability to win over innovation in 2012, says Cisco survey

  Cisco’s first TechWatch 2012 report finds network reliability as opposed to innovation or performance is the most important factor for network architects in the new year ahead.

• December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11

  CIOs believe cloud, SaaS, consumerisation and mobility increase risk

  Business models such as cloud computing and trends such as the consumerisation of IT, social media and mobility are exposing performance blind spots in IT management, a CIO survey has revealed.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Cloud leaves many firewalls wanting – but could automation prove the silver bullet?

  Most companies rely on firewalls, but the IT landscape is changing and so must approaches to security. Is there a silver bullet?

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Businesses take risks with faulty software

  Unearthing software faults once software goes live is storing up problems for businesses.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Advanced analytics key component for ‘decision management systems’

  James Taylor, CEO of an independent consulting firm, discusses the need for advanced analytics to build “decision management systems,” which he believes are critical to staying competitive.

• December 09, 2011 09 Dec'11

  Martha Lane Fox launches Government Digital Service

  The launch of the Government Digital Service will “fundamentally transform the lives of millions,” says digital champion Martha Lane Fox.

• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  Adobe to release out-of-cycle patch for latest vulnerability

  Adobe has issued a security advisory about a newly discovered and still unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat which is being used in "limited, targeted attacks in the wild".

• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  UKtech50: Meet Mike Lynch, the most influential person in UK IT

  Mike Lynch, voted as the most influential person in UK IT, doesn’t like to think about challenges, but about opportunities.

• December 07, 2011 07 Dec'11

  Government extends G-Cloud deadline

  The government has extended its G-Cloud deadline following the application of more than 500 businesses to its framework.

• December 07, 2011 07 Dec'11

  VMware vSphere 5 uptake slow among users

  VMware vSphere 5 boasts of cloud-based features and monster VMs, but its uptake is lagging because of user satisfaction with vSphere 4.

• December 06, 2011 06 Dec'11

  Google chairman Eric Schmidt meets EC competition chief ahead of charges

  Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has met Europe's competition commissioner amid reports the European Commission (EC) is preparing a 400-page document outlining Google's alleged anti-competitive practices.

• December 06, 2011 06 Dec'11

  Four things the 2012 CIO will need to focus on

  As 2011 winds to a close, CIOs will already have turned their attention to 2012. What will you be doing?

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  Concerned about tablet security issues? Some are, others not so much

  Users love their tablets, but security pros are concerned about tablet security issues. However, though tablets bring new threats, not everyone is ringing the alarm.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  Unilever outsources business intelligence platforms to Capgemini

  Unilever has signed a deal with Capgemini to provide its global business intelligence platforms. The outsourcing company will work alongside Unilever IT to deliver a three-year programme to create an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  One in four IT security staff abuse admin rights, survey shows

  At least one in four IT security staff use their privileged login rights to look at confidential information, a survey has revealed.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets

  ‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  SAP buys SaaS firm SuccessFactors in $3.4bn deal

  Enterprise software company SAP announces a $3.4bn deal to acquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider SuccessFactors.

• December 02, 2011 02 Dec'11

  Yahoo shares jump following Alibaba takeover reports

  Yahoo shares have risen following reports that Chinese internet firm Alibaba is positioning itself to make a takeover bid.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Essex County Council invests £15m in IT to cut costs

  Essex County Council is pumping £15m into an IT infrastructure upgrade expected to create efficiency savings of £7m per year, says CIO David Wilde.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Shell enterprise MDM foundation proof of concept disturbs rulebook

  Shell has laid a foundation for enterprise master data management, choosing SAP MDM over Microsoft. The major lesson was that IT can build an enterprise MDM system to which the business will come.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  CIO interview: John Finch, global CIO, Experian

  John Finch, global CIO of Experian, discusses his plans to simplify supplier management and his approach to people development.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  United Nations Development Programme investigates hacking claims

  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is investigating claims from hacker group Team Poison that it extracted over 100 e-mail addresses and login details belonging to UN staff.

• November 29, 2011 29 Nov'11

  Standard Life overhauls IT department and cuts jobs

  Insurer Standard Life is to axe a number of IT staff following a review of its IT and operations division.

• November 29, 2011 29 Nov'11

  Framework accelerates safety-critical defence systems development

  Manufacturers and academics are collaborating in a 3.5 million project to create a software modelling framework that will speed up the development and certification of safety-critical systems used in aerospace and defence.

• November 25, 2011 25 Nov'11

  HDFC Bank’s server consolidation move for branch-level competitive edge

  Branch-level banking gets a boost with server consolidation at HDFC Bank, which wins for it the Best of vForum 2011 award for Outstanding Business Value.