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Announcement Announcement Total 100 articles, created at 2016-03-15 18:01 1 PCIe SSD roundup 2016: Some stall while others progress The PCIe SSD market is still important but PCIE flash drive makers are split between those that continue to develop their products and those for whom product evolution has stalled 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computerweekly.com 2 Seven steps to becoming a digital business leader Developing employees to embrace a digital-first approach can bring significant personal and organisational benefits. 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computerweekly.com 3 Q&A: Dinsmore sees open source Apache Spark moving to new stage Contradictory information on open source Apache Spark performance is giving way to more reasonable assessments, according to analytics expert Thomas Dinsmore. 2016-03-15 18:00 5KB searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com 4 CW@50: 1966 - Computer Weekly goes to bat for the British computer industry Launched in 1966 as part of a modernising wave to change British society, Computer Weekly battled for the nation’s industry against the US, and saw IT as an entry ticket to the Common Market 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computerweekly.com 5 CW@50: The heyday of British computing - how the Brits ruled IT We investigate how the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s became an age of great innovation for the British computer industry. 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computerweekly.com 6 HSCIC appoints director of data science Informatics specialist Daniel Ray appointed to head up Centre of Excellence for big data and data science,Big Data and Analytics,Careers and Skills,Health ,Big Data 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 7 Tor is 'brilliant' but highlights the dangers of encryption, claims GCHQ chief "Those who do harm are hiding in the noise of the internet by using what the rest of us use" - GCHQ's Robert Hannigan,Security ,encryption,GCHQ 2016-03-15 18:00 3KB www.v3.co.uk 8 Half of organisations would struggle to get mission-critical systems up-and-running in hours following a disaster - UPDATED Computing research: organisations fear terrorism almost as much as flooding,Security,Leadership ,security,Disaster Recovery,Business Continuity,Fujitsu 2016-03-15 18:00 969Bytes www.computing.co.uk 9 CSC Lorenzo system partly to blame for Sheffield NHS Trust £12m deficit Sheffield NHS Trust beset by "data issues" attributed to Lorenzo,Health ,CSC,NHS 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 10 100,000 people report phishing scams in the UK in 2015, say police Action Fraud and National Fraud Intelligence Bureau say that they received an average of 8,000 reports per month in 2015,Security ,security,phishing 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 11 Scottish Borders Council awards £92m digital services contract to CGI Contract will create 200 new jobs and inject £100m into local economy, claims council,Public Sector,Services and Outsourcing ,CGI 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 12 Email pioneer and man behind the @ symbol Ray Tomlinson dies aged 74 Invented email by mistake when slacking off,Leadership ,internet 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.theinquirer.net 13 Cisco is to acquire hybrid cloud management firm CliQr for £260m CliQr was founded in 2010 and has raised about $38m from investors including Google Ventures,Mergers and Acquisitions,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Cisco 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 14 Privacy and security in the cloud are not the same thing 'Companies claim they have world-class security and therefore privacy, but you can have world-class security and have no privacy whatsoever' ,Cloud and Infrastructure,Security Technology ,GDPR,EU Data Protection Regulation,NetApp,Safe harbour,Privacy By Design,AWS,Amazon Web Services,Cyber security 2016-03-15 18:00 1KB www.computing.co.uk 15 Surface Book review Microsoft's Surface Book is a clever piece of kit but does that make it worthy of the "ultimate laptop" crown?,Laptops,Portable,Tablets ,Microsoft,Surface Book,laptop,tablet,Windows 10,Surface Pen,Surface,Microsoft Surface 2016-03-15 18:00 910Bytes www.v3.co.uk 16 Hundreds of cloud companies still vulnerable to DROWN security flaw Companies ignoring threat posed by DROWN SSL vulnerability – as well as FREAK, Logjam, OpenSSL and Poodle,Security,Internet ,Heartbleed,security,Cloud and Infrastructure,Cloud Computing,Skyhigh Networks 2016-03-15 18:00 3KB www.computing.co.uk 17 Virgin Media wins Met Office networking contract Met Office's £97m supercomputer needs a very high-speed network connection,Networks,Communications,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Met Office,Virgin Media 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 18 Microsoft tempts Oracle customers with free SQL Server 2016 licences Microsoft says firms can save by switching, but they must be signed up for Software Assurance licensing,Applications,Licensing,Big Data and Analytics ,Microsoft,Oracle,SQL Server,databases,SQL,licence 2016-03-15 18:00 4KB www.computing.co.uk 19 CityFibre CEO Greg Mensch's ambitious plan to bring FTTP to 100 UK towns and cities - and beat BT in the process Firm's £90m acquisition of Kcom in December has made it a force to be reckoned with in the broadband space,Telecoms ,BT 2016-03-15 18:00 749Bytes www.v3.co.uk 20 Microsoft releases 13 security bulletins in latest Patch Tuesday Patch now or be vulnerable as hackers get to work on coding exploits,Security ,Microsoft,patch Tuesday 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.theinquirer.net 21 Microsoft accused of bundling new Windows 10 nagware into latest Patch Tuesday updates More Windows 10 nagware being sneaked into Microsoft updates,Operating Systems,Software,Security ,Microsoft,operating system,Windows Update,security,patch Tuesday 2016-03-15 18:00 3KB www.theinquirer.net 22 Rural Payments Agency chief: GDS and Defra didn't listen to warnings that CAP project was failing 'I was not in a position to have my opinion prevail,' says RPA's Mark Grimshaw,Government,Leadership ,Government,Agriculture,Public sector 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 23 Five things to expect from Apple's imminent iPhone launch All the rumours about Apple's 21 March launch in one handy place,Hardware,Mobile Phones,Communications ,Apple,iPhone 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.v3.co.uk 24 Post Office to hire a 'head of IT vendor management’ Post Office wants someone with strong negotiation, relationship and inter-personal skills for newly created role,Leadership,Careers and Skills ,CIO 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 25 IT contractors set for new tax crackdown in this week's Budget IT contractors the 'collateral damage' in Chancellor George Osborne's attack on stars' and civil servants' tax avoidance,Strategy,Leadership ,tax,IR35,George Osborne,Budget 2016-03-15 18:00 3KB www.computing.co.uk 26 If you have less than a petabyte of data you don't need Hadoop 'Use it when you need it but when you don't, don't bother,' says Vincent de Lagabbe, CTO of bitcoin analysis firm Kaiko ,Big Data and Analytics ,Cassandra,Apache Software,Apache Spark,Hadoop,Bitcoin 2016-03-15 18:00 3KB www.computing.co.uk 27 Windows 10 Redstone update delayed for another year Microsoft needs more time to make its first major update to Windows 10,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Microsoft,Windows 10 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.v3.co.uk 28 Osborne to green light driverless-car motorway trials In 2017, the car in front may well be driverless,Big Data and Analytics,Internet of Things ,Driverless cars,Big Data,Internet of Things 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.v3.co.uk 29 Intel shoots for 3D broadcasting with Replay Technologies acquisition The acquisition is indicative of growing digital transformation across industries ,Strategy,Hardware,Business Software ,Intel,Data,IBM,Digital 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 30 You'll never be a captain of industry with Computer Science, says MP Conservative MP David Davis says Computer Science will only get you so far, but those with degrees in PPE get right to the top,Careers and Skills,Security ,Leadership,skills,Education,CIO,GCHQ 2016-03-15 18:00 3KB www.computing.co.uk 31 Opera to add native ad blocker to desktop web browser Need for speed? Opera's web browser will come with a built-in speedometer ,Software,Internet,Internet of Things,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Opera,Opera Software,Browsers 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.theinquirer.net 32 Bill Gates calls for tighter safeguards on bulk data collection Gates discusses the iPhone case, AI and the Microsoft Surface Book in his latest Reddit chat,Business Software,Privacy ,Microsoft,Bill Gates,Windows 10,Artificial Intelligence 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.computing.co.uk 33 API management – what's the business case? Computing discusses the merits of API management with top UK IT leaders and CA Technologies,DevOps ,DevOps,in-depth 2016-03-15 18:00 673Bytes www.computing.co.uk 34 The entrepreneurial Powa of Dan Wagner How the company that was going to be bigger than Google burned through $225m and crashed in just three years,Mobile,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Dan Wagner,Google 2016-03-15 18:00 3KB www.computing.co.uk 35 Google's AlphaGo AI smashes top professional at ancient game of Go First Chess, now Go. What next? Buckaroo? Ker-Plunk?,Software,Internet of Things ,Artificial Intelligence,Google,AlphaGo,DeepMind 2016-03-15 18:00 2KB www.theinquirer.net 36 DevOps not a silver bullet, but does have some merit, says Specsavers global CIO Phil Pavitt was sceptical that DevOps was "just another Gartner gimmick",DevOps,Leadership ,Specsavers,DevOps,Puppet Labs 2016-03-15 18:00 3KB www.computing.co.uk 37 Hilton installs IBM Watson-powered 'robot concierge' Concierge 'Connie' named after hotel chain's founder
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