TechTarget News - Week of Oct 09, 2011
Mon Oct 10, 2011
Google previews new Dart web programming language
Google has introduced a new programming language, Dart , for building web applications.
Mon Oct 10, 2011
London 2012 Olympics opens Technology Operations Centre
The IT powering the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics has passed a major milestone with the formal opening of the Technology Operations Centre.
Mon Oct 10, 2011
Symantec uses visual maps to identify e-mail-based targeted attacks
Symantec has developed a way of detecting targeted attacks through mapping e-mail patterns to identify single gang activity.
Mon Oct 10, 2011
BI software migration to give IndusInd Bank a leg up
IndusInd is undertaking BI software migration to consolidate data and make most of customer information. Read more about the software migration project.
Mon Oct 10, 2011
CW500: Martin Taylor, head of infrastructure and service delivery, Mitchells & Butlers
In this CW500 Club video, Martin Taylor talks to Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick to share his practical advice on how to move to the cloud.
Tue Oct 11, 2011
CIO interview: Adam Gerrard, chief technology officer, LateRooms
The new IT chief at travel firm LateRooms talks about his plans for IT transformation to support a period of intense international business growth.
Tue Oct 11, 2011
Aviva reduces costs by 30% with cloud-based HR system
Aviva claims to have saved over £1m a year in reduced software licence fees after completing the first stage of a project to replace its Oracle-based HR systems with a cloud-based service.
Wed Oct 12, 2011
New batch of IDS, IPS evasion techniques are hitting their targets
Stonesoft has discovered 163 new advanced evasion techniques (AET), claiming these AETs can pass below the radar of some IDS, IPS products.
Thu Oct 13, 2011
Best of VMworld Europe 2010 winner adopts Cisco UCS
An Italian bank expands its virtual infrastructure to meet growing needs after winning the “Best virtualisation and server consolidation project” award at VMworld Europe 2010.
Thu Oct 13, 2011
Gartner: IT staff need new skills to manage big data
Enterprises will need to reskill their IT department if they are to successfully manage the explosive growth of data within their organisation, claims analyst group Gartner.
Fri Oct 14, 2011
BBC evolves digital asset management with Life
The BBC’s Life series marked an ongoing shift from film to digital media that is making the need for rigorous metadata and digital asset management in broadcast media more pressing.
Fri Oct 14, 2011
IT spending on cloud services to exceed 20% of IT budget in ‘12: KPMG
IT spending on cloud services will soar in 2012, predicts KPMG. Find out the reasons for this surge in IT spending on cloud services in this news report.
Fri Oct 14, 2011
Unix co-creator and father of C, Dennis Ritchie dies age 70
US computer scientist Dennis Ritchie - one of the co-inventors of the Unix operating system and the C programming language - has died at 70 after a long illness.
Fri Oct 14, 2011
What does Oracle's release of Fusion Applications mean for its customers?
After what seemed an interminable development period, Oracle has finally released its Fusion Applications and a public cloud.
Fri Oct 14, 2011
RSA: Tim Berners-Lee calls for a new breed of information security systems
World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called on the IT security industry to develop a new breed of systems that make it easier to manage the use of personal data.