TechTarget News - Week of Sep 03, 2017
Mon Sep 4, 2017
Government launches FTTP pilot for businesses, schools and hospitals
The government has released £10m to six FTTP trial projects around the UK, testing ultrafast broadband technology in businesses, schools and hospitals
Mon Sep 4, 2017
Women still under-represented in Nordic IT despite region’s efforts
Although countries in the Nordic region are often hailed as pioneers of digital and equal worker rights, there is still gender inequality in the IT sector.
Mon Sep 4, 2017
HMRC denies IR35 reforms to blame for public sector IT project delays and cancellations
New research from ContractorCalculator suggests contractors have left the public sector in droves since the IR35 reforms came into force, but HMRC has a different take on the situation
Tue Sep 5, 2017
Gigaclear extends narrow trenching FTTP broadband dig
Fibre broadband provider Gigaclear is extending its BDUK dig in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire
Tue Sep 5, 2017
Met Police IT strategy: CCTV footage shared through Box
The Met Police digital policing strategy is taking shape under CIO Angus McCallum, and will use Box for sharing documents and CCTV footage
Tue Sep 5, 2017
People with non-IT backgrounds could help fill cyber security skills gap
Organisations should look to fill cyber security roles with people who are curious and have work experience rather than focusing solely on graduates
Tue Sep 5, 2017
Microsoft gives Westcon-Comstor Surface Hub distribution role
Microsoft has extended its UK distribution network for its large format Surface Hub collaboration tool
Wed Sep 6, 2017
IoT networks a massive sales opportunity for operators, claims GSMA
Commercial initiatives around low power wide area network infrastructure will present mobile operators with a potential $1.8tn revenue opportunity over the next decade
Wed Sep 6, 2017
European Union states question copyright law proposal
European states are questioning legality of a new copyright law proposed by the EU
Wed Sep 6, 2017
Coho Data falls victim to 'cutthroat' data storage market
After receiving $76 million to develop DataStream hybrid NAS arrays, Coho Data can't find more investors and falls into the storage startup graveyard.
Wed Sep 6, 2017
On tap for Microsoft Ignite conference: Adobe, Dynamics 365, LinkedIn
New Adobe integrations and further integrations of existing products are possible announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2017.
Wed Sep 6, 2017
Average female tech salary less than males regardless of role or experience
Research by Computer Weekly has found women in the technology industry are paid less than their male counterparts, regardless of the role they are in or how much experience they have
Wed Sep 6, 2017
Cloudian CEO sees favorable trends in object storage market
Cloudian CEO Michael Tso notes favorable trends for object storage: Capacities are increasing to petabytes, and customers want to use different clouds for different workloads.
Thu Sep 7, 2017
Legal services firm gets 54TB of NEC Hydrastor NAS as backup target
Quislex has cut backup windows by a third and will roll out 700TB of NEC Hydrastor to Hyderabad datacentre to provide a grid of deduplicated storage for backup and archive
Thu Sep 7, 2017
SHA-1 hashes recovered for 320M breached passwords
Security researchers once again proved how easy it can be to recover SHA-1 hashes by cracking the hashes on nearly 320 million passwords related to data breaches.
Thu Sep 7, 2017
Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub
Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub
Thu Sep 7, 2017
VMware network security improves with AppDefense launch
Bloggers examine AppDefense -- a new VMware network security offering -- and look into synchronizing BGP and OSPF, as well as the capabilities of new Savvius analytics.
Thu Sep 7, 2017
Thousands of Deutsche Bank employees will be replaced by robots
The CEO of Deutsche Bank said a "big number of staff will eventually be replaced by robots” as it looks towards artificial intelligence technology
Thu Sep 7, 2017
Dragonfly 2.0 hacker group seen targeting U.S. power grid
Security researchers claim to be tracking a threat group called Dragonfly 2.0 hacker group that has been attacking critical infrastructure and setting up persistent infections on ICS networks.
Thu Sep 7, 2017
Atlassian Stride UCaaS product marks the end of HipChat
Atlassian Stride, a new UCaaS product, is expected to eventually replace the Atlassian HipChat team messaging application. The new product is expected to compete with Cisco, Microsoft and Slack.
Fri Sep 8, 2017
Millions of customer records compromised in Equifax breach
Major security breach unfolded over a two-month period, and is thought to have affected 143 million customers in the US, as well as an undisclosed number of Britons and Canadians
Fri Sep 8, 2017
Trainline uses predictive analytics to help rail passengers save money
Travellers using Trainline’s app can save money on tickets after the introduction of an in-app feature called Price Prediction
Fri Sep 8, 2017
Apache Struts vulnerability affects versions since 2008
A researcher discovered a remotely exploitable Apache Struts vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild. A patch was released, and users were urged to update software immediately.
Fri Sep 8, 2017
Six new vulnerabilities in Android bootloaders uncovered
News roundup: Researchers used the new BootStomp tool to uncover six vulnerabilities in Android bootloaders. Plus, a new wave of AWS S3 bucket data leaks strikes and more.
Fri Sep 8, 2017
Equifax breach exposes 143 million consumers' personal data
A massive Equifax breach, which was discovered in July, exposed the personal information, including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers, of 143 million Americans.
Fri Sep 8, 2017
Switch used as container platform in software-based networking
Developers are building open technology on Linux to turn a top-of-rack white box switch into a services platform for software-based networking.