TechTarget News - Week of Oct 18, 2015
Mon Oct 19, 2015
Opera chooses Workday over Oracle as it moves HR to cloud
Browser company Opera opts for slick internal IT as it competes with Apple and Google for skilled technologists
Mon Oct 19, 2015
FTTP roll-out almost justifiable in economic terms, say analysts
The operational savings of deploying FTTP broadband are soon to overtake the capex costs associated with deployment, says Point Topic
Mon Oct 19, 2015
Amazon sues sellers using paid-for product reviews
Amazon’s brand is being damaged by "false, misleading and inauthentic" reviews – paid for by sellers – to lure buyers, the organisation says in a lawsuit
Mon Oct 19, 2015
Dow Jones denies it was target of insider trading hack
Dow Jones says there is no information to support reports that it was the target of hackers seeking information for insider trading
Mon Oct 19, 2015
BT Openreach division expands services deal with Infosys to improve support for engineers
BT Openreach is using a software platform from Infosys that draws data from several sources to improve support for its engineers and customers
Mon Oct 19, 2015
HMRC VAT rules cut cloud costs by 20% for NHS and government departments
An HMRC ruling on reclaiming tax on cloud services could drive up the use of off-premise technologies in the public sector
Tue Oct 20, 2015
Google offers free cloud apps to encourage Office 365 users to ditch Microsoft
Google ups ante in ongoing war to dethrone Microsoft as the enterprise's preferred provider of cloud-based productivity tools
Tue Oct 20, 2015
CityFibre fills broadband connection voucher gap
CityFibre offers businesses free connections to replace government’s connection voucher scheme
Wed Oct 21, 2015
Dell channel partners can expect 'future-ready' investments
Dell executives told Dell PartnerDirect Summit 2015 attendees to expect channel investments in reference architectures, enablement and education.
Wed Oct 21, 2015
Consumer take-up of Gigaclear fibre broadband exceeds BDUK rates
Ultrafast altnet Gigaclear marks a major milestone in its network roll-out and claims a higher take-up rate for its FTTP product than BT is seeing on the Openreach FTTC network
Wed Oct 21, 2015
Infosec pros should start preparing for the future, say experts
Information security professionals need to grow their skills, engage with the business, increase security awareness, set business goals and tailor their messages, says a panel of experts
Wed Oct 21, 2015
Nationwide Building Society outsources IT infrastructure
Nationwide has outsourced its IT infrastructure to Capgemini for the next five years to bring it up to date for the digital age
Wed Oct 21, 2015
James Arbuthnot takes Post Office IT fight to House of Lords
James Arbuthnot takes his seat in the House of Lords and continues campaign for subpostmasters who claim to have been wronged by faulty Horizon IT system
Wed Oct 21, 2015
MySQL 5.7 aims at deeper convergence with Oracle tech and NoSQL
MySQL 5.7 has been released with next-generation hardware in mind, offering greater interoperability with Oracle and NoSQL database technologies
Thu Oct 22, 2015
CIO interview: Frans Westerlund, Fiskars
Fiskars CIO Frans Westerlund tells Computer Weekly about the challenges faced by IT when a business instigates a major strategic transformation
Thu Oct 22, 2015
Police and industry to tackle cyber crime together, says TechUK
A TechUK report calls for collaboration between police and industry to raise standards of reporting, recording and responding to cyber crime
Thu Oct 22, 2015
Kent signs £23m digital services contract with Agilisys
Agilisys to manage Kent County Council's digital services and customer contact in a six-year contract
Thu Oct 22, 2015
Commvault drops Simpana brand and adds features
Commvault will drop the Simpana name from the end of 2015 as it opens up to third-party data and attempts to bridge the gap between backup and replication
Thu Oct 22, 2015
Changing needs of tech buyers rattle ADC market
A new breed of tech buyer is demanding application delivery controllers geared toward mobile and cloud development.
Thu Oct 22, 2015
How the Cabinet Office is using open data to tackle youth unemployment
The Cabinet Office invited IT professionals and young people to a Job Hack event with the aim of using open government datasets to help more young people into work
Fri Oct 23, 2015
TalkTalk warns customers about personal data breach
TalkTalk has warned customers their personal data may have been compromised in the second cyber attack on the firm in 2015, with some data left unencrypted
Fri Oct 23, 2015
German rail and transport group turns to virtual reality in war for talent
Deutsche Bahn claims to be the first company in Germany to use virtual reality as a recruitment tool
Fri Oct 23, 2015
Azure Active Directory creates an earnings virtuous circle for Microsoft
Microsoft is set to grow its cloud business to $20bn thanks to the growth of platform as a service and, in particular, Azure Active Directory
Fri Oct 23, 2015
Dell merger with EMC leaving customers cold?
In this week's blogs: The Dell merger with EMC is making some customers worried; a new packet capture appliance wins praise.
Fri Oct 23, 2015
Lagrange boosts CloudMaestro for Web traffic management
In this news roundup, Lagrange adds app support to CloudMaestro ADC; analysts assess converged infrastructure spending and FireEye, F5 team up.
Fri Oct 23, 2015
UK retailers could use data analytics more to cash in on Black Friday
Research by data visualisation supplier Tableau suggests British retailers could do better with analytics as Black Friday looms
Fri Oct 23, 2015
MSPWorld 2015 spotlights MSP sales craft
What makes a good MSP salesperson? How should you compensate sales staff? Execs tackled these and other MSP sales-related questions at MSPWorld this week; plus, more channel news.