22-28 July 2014 | ComputerWeekly.com HOME NEWS IBM PARTNERSHIP GIVES APPLE ENTERPRISE MUSCLE EXPERTS DEBATE STARTUP SUCCESS OUTSIDE LONDON PORT FACILITIES BUSINESS EXPLOITS ERP TO DIVERSIFY CARAVAN CLUB OUTSOURCES IT TO THE CLOUD EDITOR’S COMMENT OPINION BUYER’S GUIDE TO ENDPOINT SECURITY It’s time to get IN-MEMORY DATABASES: WHAT THEY DO AND WHAT THEY NEED serious about STREAMLINING THE STAFF APPRAISAL PROCESS endpoint security WITH BILLIONS OF DEVICES JOINING CORPORATE NETWORKS EVERY YEAR, SECURING THE ENDPOINT HAS NEVER BEEN A MORE DOWNTIME PRESSING CHALLENGE TO IT SECURITY PROFESSIONALS computerweekly.com 22-28 July 2014 1 VOLKER WITT/FOTOLIA VOLKER THE WEEK IN IT HOME IT suppliers IT skills Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs by mid-2015 Lloyds Bank strives to boost digital NEWS Microsoft is to cut 18,000 jobs next year, skills for SMEs and charities with the acquired Nokia business bearing Lloyds Banking Group has announced that IBM PARTNERSHIP the brunt of its strategy to change. A total it will push forward with a government-led GIVES APPLE of 12,500 cuts will be made in profes- initiative to increase the digital capability ENTERPRISE MUSCLE sional and factory positions eliminated of SMEs and charities across the UK. The through the alignment of the Nokia busi- bank, which is already part of the Digital EXPERTS DEBATE ness with Microsoft’s main operations. Inclusion Delivery Board, will oversee the STARTUP SUCCESS OUTSIDE LONDON The company said staff affected will be project by working with government, the notified over the next six months, with the digital skills charity Go ON UK and the six cuts completed by the end of June 2015. other digital inclusion partners. PORT FACILITIES BUSINESS EXPLOITS ERP TO DIVERSIFY Government IT IT in banking NAO criticises GDS IT savings method Thousands of Barclays branch cashiers The National Audit Office (NAO) has retrained and awarded pay increases CARAVAN CLUB criticised the Government Digital Service Barclays Bank is retraining 6,500 tra- OUTSOURCES IT TO THE CLOUD (GDS) over its approach to calculating IT ditional branch staff so they can offer savings made by the current government. financial management to customers as The NAO report looked at savings meth- IT increasingly takes care of day-to-day EDITOR’S COMMENT ods made by the government’s Efficiency transactional services. From 1 October, and Reform Group (ERG) between 2013 traditional Barclays cashiers will adopt the and 2014. It pointed to GDS as an area role of “community bankers” and branch OPINION where the ERG could improve. staff will use iPads to help customers. BUYER’S GUIDE Public sector IT Internet infrastructure TO ENDPOINT Shropshire primary school claims FSB calls for broadband reforms SECURITY first all-802.11ac Wi-Fi network The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) A Telford primary school has become the says current government targets for the IN-MEMORY first educational establishment in the UK roll-out of superfast broadband will not DATABASES: WHAT THEY DO AND to deploy a full 802.11ac Wi-Fi network allow its digital by default strategy to bear WHAT THEY NEED to support its mobile classroom strat- fruit and urged a more ambitious approach. egy. Windmill Primary plumped for the The FSB claimed current target speeds of STREAMLINING all-802.11ac system – supplied by Xirrus 24Mbps for 95% of the population and THE STAFF via local partner TechLab – to prepare for 2Mbps for the remaining APPRAISAL PROCESS a major deployment of mobile devices 5% would not meet the access the latest among 360 pupils aged four to 11. needs of businesses. it news via rss feed DOWNTIME BRAZIL’S WORLD CUP HUMILIATION SOFTENED BY TWITTER SUCCESS Despite being outclassed in the semi-final by eventual World Cup winners Germany, host nation Brazil can take some solace in the fact that its team was the most tweeted about in the finals, according to a data analysis app from Tata Consultancy Services. A total of 19% of World Cup tweets mentioned Brazil, while winning nation Germany accounted for only 7% of the action on Twitter. computerweekly.com 22-28 July 2014 2 THE WEEK IN IT HOME Data privacy Appointments Drip data law a serious expansion Ed Vaizey lands digital industries role NEWS of surveillance, say experts Culture minister Ed Vaizey has been The emergency surveillance legislation handed a new brief following a reshuf- IBM PARTNERSHIP being rushed through UK Parliament could fle of prime minister David Cameron’s GIVES APPLE be in breach of European law, 15 technol- Cabinet. Vaizey’s appointment as minister ENTERPRISE MUSCLE ogy law experts have warned. The contro- for digital industries was confirmed by a versial Data Retention and Investigatory tweet from Cameron’s official account. EXPERTS DEBATE Powers (Drip) bill is “a serious expansion” The newly created role will be split across STARTUP SUCCESS OUTSIDE LONDON of the surveillance state, the group of the Department for Culture, Media and UK academics said in an open letter to Sport and the Department for Business Parliament. Innovation and Skills. PORT FACILITIES BUSINESS EXPLOITS ERP TO DIVERSIFY Public sector IT Green IT Labour asks suppliers to share Microsoft signs 20-year wind their thoughts on public sector IT energy deal to power datacentres CARAVAN CLUB As part of the Labour Party’s review into Microsoft has signed a 20-year power OUTSOURCES IT TO THE CLOUD digital government, suppliers have been purchase agreement (PPA) for wind asked to share their top public sector energy with EDF technology priorities. Labour’s ongoing Renewable Energy – its access the latest EDITOR’S it news via rss feed COMMENT Digital Government Review has published “largest wind invest- the submissions, providing an insight into ment to date”. From what suppliers, large and small, would like 2015, Microsoft will purchase up to OPINION to see in the event of a Labour govern- 675,000MWh of renewable energy each ment next year. year to power its IT facilities. BUYER’S GUIDE TO ENDPOINT Data analytics IT suppliers SECURITY Imperial College and KPMG join forces HP staff vote to refuse to co-operate with £20m business analytics centre in relocation knowledge transfer IN-MEMORY KPMG and Imperial College London have HP staff working on contracts with the DATABASES: WHAT THEY DO AND joined forces on a £20m KPMG Centre for Department of Work and Pensions and WHAT THEY NEED Advanced Business Analytics. The project the Ministry of Justice will refuse to co- is to focus on business capital, growth operate with a knowledge transfer as 400 STREAMLINING opportunities, people, operations and jobs are moved from bases in north-west THE STAFF resilience. The centre will also develop England. HP is centralising work in north- APPRAISAL PROCESS analytical methods and tools for exploit- east England and Erskine in Scotland as ing big data. part of a cost-cutting plan. n DOWNTIME 79% OF BUSINESSES CONSIDER CLOUD IN IT STRATEGIES Response to the question: Does your company include consideration for cloud services within its wider IT strategy? No 21% Yes 79% Source: Cloud Industry Forum computerweekly.com 22-28 July 2014 3 ANALYSIS HOME Apple crashes enterprise party with NEWS IBM PARTNERSHIP IBM services and software hook-up GIVES APPLE ENTERPRISE MUSCLE An enterprise mobility partnership between Apple and IBM based on iOS offers big advantages for both – and for IT departments too. Cliff Saran reports EXPERTS DEBATE STARTUP SUCCESS OUTSIDE LONDON pple has gained a major enterprise boost through a partnership that IBM is developing a MobileFirst PORT FACILITIES will see IBM provide services and platform that will give Apple’s OS BUSINESS EXPLOITS A ERP TO DIVERSIFY software for Apple's iOS operating system. an end-to-end enterprise capability Supporting Apple devices such as iPads and iPhones in the enterprise is a challenge CARAVAN CLUB for IT departments. Custom support from OUTSOURCES IT TO THE CLOUD Apple is costly, and enterprises have to rely BERNARDASV/ISTOCK/THINKSTOCK on specialist resellers if they wish to inte- grate iOS with existing enterprise IT. EDITOR’S COMMENT Through the partnership, IBM will intro- duce MobileFirst Supply and Management, an IT service that offers device supply, OPINION activation and management services for iPhone and iPad. The service will also enable BUYER’S GUIDE organisations to lease the devices, software TO ENDPOINT and services. SECURITY IBM is also developing a product called MobileFirst Platform for iOS, which IN-MEMORY will deliver the services required for an DATABASES: WHAT THEY DO AND end-to-end enterprise capability, from WHAT THEY NEED analytics, workflow and cloud storage, to fleet-scale device management, security STREAMLINING and integration. for Apple. This is a radical step for enterprise THE STAFF The platform will offer mobile manage- and is something that only Apple and IBM APPRAISAL PROCESS ment, a private apps catalogue, and data can deliver.” and transaction security services. IBM will Apple has been making steady inroads DOWNTIME also develop a productivity suite for iOS. The into business IT due to the popularity of iOS products and services will be available on among employees. “When people talk about IBM’s development platform – Bluemix – and consumerisation in the enterprise, it is the the IBM Cloud Marketplace. use of Apple devices,” said Rob Bamforth. “Apple has great devices, but doesn’t have Big data meets consumerised IT an enterprise story and is not good at stitch- Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president ing technology together, which is what