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August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11
Cisco hardening guides for IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS devices

Patching routing and switching infrastructure in any organisation is often delayed, sometimes due to the potential impact on production systems and sometimes because the IT resources are simply too busy fighting fires.
August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11
APEJ’s content management software sales grow by 11% in H2-2010:IDC

Content management software sales in APEJ region grew by 11% in second half of 2010. Know the latest trends in content management software space.
August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11
UK business should educate internally to get the right IT security skills at lower cost

UK businesses should look to internal training to meet future IT security needs rather than paying high prices by competing to recruit scarce skills externally, warn experts.
August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11
Atos employees to be investigated over Facebook remarks about disability benefit applicants

Two Atos Healthcare employees are being investigated over allegations they made inappropriate remarks on Facebook about the people they assess for sickness benefit.
August 16, 2011 16 Aug'11
Information Commissioner calls for more privacy improvements at Google

The Information Commissioner's Office says an audit at Google's London office shows the company has taken reasonable steps to improve its privacy policies, but could do more.
August 16, 2011 16 Aug'11
Microsoft to discontinue support for its e-book reader application

Microsoft is to halt support for its e-book reader application in a year's time, with no new content to be released after November this year.
August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11
Veeam brings virtual server backup for NHS trust

Storage roundup: Hospital cuts restoration times to minutes using Veeam Backup & Recovery; Buffalo launches Windows NAS family; Coraid partners with The Blueprint IT; Dot Hill appointments; and more.
August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11
Government must change the way it stores citizens' personal data, calls the EHRC

The government must bring in changes to better protect personal information, calls the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

August 12, 2011 12 Aug'11
Data quality improvement impeded by lack of automation

Data quality improvement has boosted revenue at 12% of a sample of UK companies. Progress impeded by poor automation, says research from QAS: 42% use Excel spreadsheets to detect data quality issues.
August 12, 2011 12 Aug'11
Parliamentary group of MPs to discuss outsourcing and shared services

A parliamentary group of MPs that will look at how the public sector can get more out of outsourcing and shared services will begin work when it has its first meeting this month.
August 12, 2011 12 Aug'11
Gist uses IBM cloud to improve supply chain messaging

Gist, a logistics company specialising in the distribution of chilled, frozen and ambient foods, has implemented IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services.
August 11, 2011 11 Aug'11
US woman sues Google over Gmail scanning

A woman has filed a class action suit against Google for scanning all e-mail sent to Gmail account holders to use for targeted advertising campaigns.
August 11, 2011 11 Aug'11
IT firm grows business five-fold after hiring apprentices

Computer repair company D&J Henry says its business has grown five-fold after hiring apprentices.
August 11, 2011 11 Aug'11
Government moves Alpha.gov.uk one-stop website to beta phase for public testing

The government has moved an alpha version of a pilot website - which could replace all .gov.uk URLs - to beta.

August 10, 2011 10 Aug'11
RDBMS now a low focus area for BI pros

Traditional RDBMS technology is incapable of handling the demands of unstructured, big data. BI pros are now going beyond RDBMS and exploring new options.
August 10, 2011 10 Aug'11
Adobe issues security updates for Flash, Shockwave, Photoshop and RoboHelp

Adobe has issued fixes for vulnerabilities in Flash, Shockwave, Photoshop, RoboHelp and Flash Media Server in the latest security update.
August 09, 2011 09 Aug'11
Ten-year-old hacker exposes exploitable flaws in Apple and Android games

A 10-year-old Californian hacker has exposed a new type of security vulnerability in many mobile games at a hacker conference in Las Vegas.
August 09, 2011 09 Aug'11
Twitter acquires social network site Bagcheck

Social network site Bagcheck has been bought by Twitter for an undisclosed sum.
August 09, 2011 09 Aug'11
Windows 7 deployments delayed by economic uncertainties, says Gartner

Economic uncertainty may cause a slowdown in Windows 7 operating system (OS) deployments in Western Europe, according to research firm Gartner.
August 09, 2011 09 Aug'11
Blackberry to co-operate with police after youths used BBM to organise riots

Research in Motion has said that it will co-operate with the police after it was revealed that London rioters used Blackberry Messenger rather than Twitter to organise looting sprees across the capital, with violence later spreading to Birmingham, ...
August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11
Customer data privacy program poised to roll out at Airtel

Airtel’s customer data privacy program will roll out in phases. With the pilot almost completed, Airtel is confident of meeting data privacy regulations.
August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11
Royal Pharmaceutical Society outsources to cope with restructure

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has outsourced the management of e-mail and storage to support a major restructure.
August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11
US standards body issues warning to energy suppliers over cyber attacks

A US energy industry standards body has warned suppliers to improve their defences against cyber attacks.
August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11
Toxic National Programme for IT contracts to be housed under one body

Billions of pounds of toxic IT contract exposures at the Department for Health could be housed under one central unit, according to reports.
August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11
Who needs MPLS? A dark fibre network saves York Council

The City of York Council set out to rethink its Internet and voice network services and ended up building a dark fibre network that will support city-wide free wireless.
August 07, 2011 07 Aug'11
Maritime museum backs up with HP LeftHand, Microsoft

The Australian National Maritime Museum has revamped its storage infrastructure, selecting HP LeftHand and Microsoft.
August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11
Is your BI safe in the hands of ERP vendors?

ERP vendors are pitching integration as supreme for BI. But can these ERP vendors hit the ball out of the park?
August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11
Microsoft slots 22 patches for August Patch Tuesday

Windows, IE, Visio, .Net, Visual Studio and Report Viewer to get security updates; updated version of Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on charts.
August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11
Case Study: Data encryption at the Salvation Army

The Salvation Army in the UK supports flexible working from home using laptops owned by the charity, but says finding a good way of protecting data was a challenge.
August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11
US names former Microsoft executive as new Federal CIO

The US has appointed former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel as its new government chief information officer.
August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11
Energy giant outsources smart meter services to Logica

Scottish and Southern Energy has outsourced some of its smart metering processes to Logica to help support the UK national roll-out.
August 04, 2011 04 Aug'11
Missing USB drive, found in pub, contained unencrypted data

The ICO says two housing groups must improve data security after a contractor’s missing USB drive, containing unencrypted data, was found in a pub.
August 03, 2011 03 Aug'11
Hotmail makes sign-in changes, can't please everyone

The Hotmail sign-in page is in the news this week, with subtle changes to browser auto-complete behaviour to provide wider browser compatibility.
August 03, 2011 03 Aug'11
Sunderland City Council signs multimillion-pound 10-year network deal with BT

BT will deliver a corporate network connecting 188 sites.
August 03, 2011 03 Aug'11
eBay boosts virtual servers with 100 terabytes of flash memory

Online auction site eBay has deployed more than 100 terabytes of flash memory to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure. The S-class flash storage from solid state disk provider Nimbus is believed to be among the world's largest consolidated...
August 03, 2011 03 Aug'11
Round table: the value of big data

Learn what our round table of experts thinks of the value and significance of “big data.”
August 02, 2011 02 Aug'11
NHS trust forced to adopt National Programme patient records system or face £8.8m fine

An NHS trust was forced to buy care records software through the National Programme for IT or face the threat of an £8.8m fine - even though it had a longstanding supplier in place.
August 02, 2011 02 Aug'11
Tesco signs eight-year deal to use Microsoft products and services

Tesco has signed a software licensing and services deal with Microsoft aimed at helping improve the retail giant's global productivity and international growth.
August 02, 2011 02 Aug'11
Amazon closes Android appstore submissions in Germany after Apple lawsuit

Amazon has closed submissions for its Android app store in Germany following a lawsuit from Apple.
August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11
Bad sectors – Storage news from Dell, Zerowait and Waikato District Health Board

Dell plans to bring its vStart pre-packaged infrastructure stacks to Australia later this year, while ZeroWait has scored an Australian customer for its SimplStor product.
August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11
CSC closes acquisition of iSoft ahead of NHS IT contract renegotiations

Outsourcing provider CSC has closed the acquisition of beleaguered healthcare application provider iSoft for $189m (£115m).
August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11
CIO interview: Michael Foster, European vice-president of IT, FedEx Express

What role should IT play in business? This is the question Michael Foster, vice-president of IT at Fedex Europe, tackles at the global courier. Cliff Saran reports.
August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11
Former government CIO John Suffolk joins Huawei as head of cybersecurity

Former government CIO John Suffolk has joined China-based IT company Huawei as global head of cybersecurity.
July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11
Why the High Court ruling in the Newzbin2 case is such a big deal

The creative industries have welcomed the UK High Court ruling that BT must block access to pirated content aggregator site Newzbin2, but why is the ruling seen as such a game changer?
July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11
Government axes 376 more websites

The government has axed nearly half of its websites since June last year, following recommendations that all digital public services should be under one URL.
July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11
Apple and Samsung overtake Nokia as worldwide smartphone shipments grow 76%

Nokia's woes continue as Apple and Samsung overtake the Finnish giant to become the largest global smartphone manufacturers, according to analyst figures.
July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11
BSkyB wins 174,000 new broadband subscribers

BSkyB has reported a surge in its broadband business in yearly results, taking its subscriber base to 711,000.
July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11
Starting from scratch - the SMB CIO

The role of CIO is usually associated with large companies with lots of technology and several IT staff. But that's not always the case.
July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11
Highlights from 'A recipe for rip-offs' - the Select Committee report on government IT

The Public Administration Select Committee has published a scathingly critical report on government's use of IT. We've chosen a selection of the highlights from the report.
July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11
Managed services spending by SMBs to witness 23% growth: AMI Partners

Indian SMBs are aggressively adopting managed services. Explore how this market segment will shape up in the near future.