TechTarget News - Week of Jun 14, 2015
Mon Jun 15, 2015
Wipro contemplates £1bn acquisition of UK outsourcer Equiniti
Wipro is reported to be considering the acquisition of UK business process outsourcing company Equiniti
Mon Jun 15, 2015
NHS e-Referral system goes live, despite 33 issues and GDS warning
NHS England has launched its replacement hospital appointment booking service, even though it has known errors and failed to follow government digital guidelines
Mon Jun 15, 2015
Council dodges £300,000 NetApp outlay with Atlantis flash caching
Somerset local authority avoids spending £300,000 on extra hard drives for its NetApp arrays and pays half that for Atlantis ILIO flash caching software that runs VDI from RAM
Tue Jun 16, 2015
BCSWomen hosts Guinness World Record attempt with marathon app-building event
BCSWomen hosts app-building event to encourage over 1,000 young people to simultaneously build Android apps in a Guinness World Record attempt
Tue Jun 16, 2015
CIO interview: Alan Jensen, Dansk Supermarked
Danske Supermarked is moving to an omni-channel model, and the CIO must ensure IT and business departments are on the journey together
Wed Jun 17, 2015
DD4B cyber extortion gang ramps up operations
Cyber criminals using DDoS attacks to extort funds from victims are carrying out more attacks despite a $26,000 bounty
Wed Jun 17, 2015
FBI investigates US baseball team over rival's hacking allegations
FBI investigations, into claims a US baseball team stole data from a rival, highlights cyber crime perpetrated by competitors – not just anonymous criminals
Wed Jun 17, 2015
Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data
RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service
Thu Jun 18, 2015
The diagram that scares the next generation of banking IT professionals
The next generation of IT professionals in the banking sector will face the same legacy headache as their predecessors
Thu Jun 18, 2015
MoD kick-starts procurement for new armed forces tactical communications system
The Ministry wants to replace aging Bowman Communications system with cutting edge networking kit by 2026
Thu Jun 18, 2015
Salesforce releases Wave Analytics Apps and Sales Wave Analytics
Wave Analytics Apps, the latest offering from Salesforce, makes crunching the numbers easier through tighter integration with Salesforce 1.
Fri Jun 19, 2015
CIO interview: Rovio Entertainment's Kalle Alppi believes IT staff should be embedded in business
The CIO at the company behind Angry Birds talks about running global IT with only five permanent staff
Fri Jun 19, 2015
Legacy systems holding back 90% of businesses
Most businesses are being held back from making digital advances by their reliance on legacy applications
Fri Jun 19, 2015
Veritas plans to revive backup fortunes with big data analytics
Symantec spin-out Veritas plans major backup product releases that leverage metadata to make backups more efficient and unlock valuable information via big data capabilities