TechTarget News - Week of Apr 23, 2017
Mon Apr 24, 2017
Criminal Courts Review Commission appoints forensic accountants for Post Office IT system cases
Investigation into claims of miscarriages of justice in relation to a Post Office accounting system has appointed a forensic accountant firm
Mon Apr 24, 2017
Cyber security centre of excellence to open at Cardiff University
Cardiff University and Airbus have launched the first centre of its kind in Europe to tackle cyber attacks on critical infrastructure
Mon Apr 24, 2017
Flash storage market shifting, Kaminario CEO says
Dani Golan of Kaminario sees NVMe as the next big disruptor in the flash market; says Kaminario focuses on cloud and SaaS, while legacy vendors fight over shrinking IT budgets.
Mon Apr 24, 2017
Consortium hopes to drive autonomous car from London to Oxford
The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles has awarded an £8.6m grant to back a consortium attempting the UK’s first Level 4 autonomous vehicle test run, to take place within the next two-and-a-half years
Mon Apr 24, 2017
Motorola brings big data digital evidence service to UK police forces
Motorola is launching a digital evidence management service to UK police forces, backed off into AWS cloud infrastructure
Mon Apr 24, 2017
Research highlights cloud security complacency in organisations that ditch on-premise tech
Enterprise attitudes to cloud security are laid bare in the latest research report from Bitglass, and suggest more could be done to secure corporate data stored off-premise
Mon Apr 24, 2017
Cancer researcher gets Nodeum LTFS tape NAS
Belgium-based OncoDNA replaces IBM tape library with flash-powered Nodeum LTFS to provide file access to backup and archive tapes at approaching nearline timescales
Tue Apr 25, 2017
Huddle needs $5m equity injection or to find a buyer, as investment declaration deadline looms
Companies House documents reveal Huddle needs to raise $5m or more by the end of April or find a buyer to meet its financial obligations for the next 12 months
Tue Apr 25, 2017
UK trade department in New York to promote fintech firms
Group of financial technology firms taken to New York to show off their knowledge of regulatory compliance software
Tue Apr 25, 2017
Pivot3 launches Acuity hyper-converged with NVMe flash and QoS
Acuity operating environment merges features inherited from NexGen acquisition and adds NVMe Accelerator nodes with flash as cache in front of main storage
Tue Apr 25, 2017
Violin flash storage emerges for encore, sans 'Memory'
Redux of Violin Memory's flash storage is under way with new CEO, new strategy and new ownership by Soros Fund Management's Quantum Partners. Will it finally turn a profit?
Tue Apr 25, 2017
Tips for getting started in healthcare vertical markets
Panelists at the Channel Partners Conference and Expo 2017 provided insight into this complex market and typically tightknit community of buyers.
Tue Apr 25, 2017
NSA spyware found infecting tens of thousands worldwide
A new security tool will let users scan their systems for the presence of NSA spyware found in the latest Equation Group leak, and tens of thousands are already infected.
Tue Apr 25, 2017
Symantec certificate authority issues, answered
Google and Mozilla weigh the proper response to Symantec certificate authority issues, as the CA giant prepares an alternative proposal for reinstating trust.
Wed Apr 26, 2017
Infor to buy cloud BI company Birst
Infor is buying cloud analytics firm Birst in a move to bolster its cloud-first ERP orientation
Wed Apr 26, 2017
Demo shows GPUs are more than simple accelerators
Graphics processor units have helped to accelerate a reservoir simulation program, showing that the technology could be applied to complex code
Thu Apr 27, 2017
Forge ahead with GDPR, says ICO
UK organisations cannot afford to lose the public’s trust in their ability to safeguard personal data and should be working to ensure they have that capability, says the Information Commissioner’s Office
Thu Apr 27, 2017
AWS promises to be GDPR compliant by May 2018 deadline
Amazon promises all AWS cloud services will be GDPR compliant before enforcement of the new EU data privacy regulation starts in 2018, offers customers assistance.
Thu Apr 27, 2017
Layer 3 network integration from Datera uses nodes as endpoints
An updated version presents Datera Elastic Data Fabric storage nodes as a cluster of L3 network endpoints in anticipation of increased container adoption.
Fri Apr 28, 2017
Nordea strikes partnership with Swedish mobile payment startup
Nordic bank links up with payments startup in its latest fintech project
Fri Apr 28, 2017
Microsoft chief reveals Azure upsell strategy
Azure competes with AWS on price as an IaaS, but Satya Nadella sees this as a way to get CIOs to buy higher-level services
Fri Apr 28, 2017
UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure
Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud
Fri Apr 28, 2017
CIO interview: Mark Foulsham, chief digital officer, Scope
The charity’s chief digital officer is implementing a three-stage plan to transform the organisation through building internal capabilities and technology stack, as well as creating a digital framework
Fri Apr 28, 2017
Still waiting for a cybersecurity executive order from Trump
News roundup: A cybersecurity executive order overdue, but 'close and nearby.' Plus, the USPTO says it will stop using HTTPS; a teenage hacker sentenced to prison; and more.
Fri Apr 28, 2017
Pretexting is a rising threat, according to 2017 Verizon DBIR
The 2017 Verizon DBIR details threats becoming more popular, like ransomware, and some that are less known, but dangerous, like pretexting.
Fri Apr 28, 2017
Verizon DBIR 2017: Basic cybersecurity focus misplaced
Basic cybersecurity measures like limiting password reuse and implementing multifactor authentication could be big benefits, according to the Verizon DBIR 2017.
Fri Apr 28, 2017
Symantec certificate authority offers counter-proposal to Google
Symantec certificate authority proposal takes the pain out of sanctions for misissued certs, offers more audits, greater transparency and promise of "continuous improvement."