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31 July - 6 August 2012 | computerweekly.com Virtual testing WE LOOK AT HOW NATIONWIDE HAS Microsoft Office REDUCED DEVELOPMENT TIME AND CUT COSTS WITH VIRTUAL TESTING PAGE 4 2013 preview World trading LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE CIO ANTOINE WE EXPLORE THE FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THE SHAGOURY ON DELIVERING TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE GIANT’S LATEST OFFICE APPLICATIONS PAGE 18 SERVICES WORLDWIDE PAGE 8 Highlights from the week online MOST POPULAR PHOTO STORY PREMIUM CONTENT First look: Microsoft Office > IT in Europe – July 2012 1 2013 – in pictures Innovations with business intel- ligence (BI) couldn’t be happening Will Microsoft turn things at a better time, with more and more 2 around for Nokia? decisions being made outside of the boardroom. Understanding best Apple ordered to advertise: practice in BI and analytics could 3 ‘Samsung did not copy iPad’ turn out to be the best decision your business ever makes. This July UK ISP says block on Pirate edition of IT in Europe explores 4 Bay site proving ineffective innovations with BI, what you need to succeed, and how to use them to Steve Ballmer launches aid business decisions. 5 Microsoft Office 2013 > An holistic approach to Online identity theft up 300% > First look: Microsoft Office 2013 managing datacentres 6 on 2010, warns Experian Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the Office 2013 suite earlier this month in For many organisations, IT is split San Francisco, describing it: “The biggest, most ambitious release in our history.” between two groups. The datacen- Microsoft reveals 26 October He claimed Office 2013 will provide consumers and businesses with unparalleled tre facility is provided and managed 7 launch for Windows 8 productivity and flexibility. “It is a cloud service and will fully light up when paired by facilities management, while the with Windows 8,” Ballmer said. IT equipment within the facility is PayPal buys mobile payment provisioned and managed by the IT 8 company Card.io department. The trend is towards a GUIDE blended mix of datacentre facilities BP rolls out first global cloud – yet each datacentre needs to be a 9 for workforce cohesive mix of facility and the equipment housed within it. iCity wins datacentre bid 10 for Olympics media centre > Women in technology Female IT experts pursue careers just as rewarding as men, but the sector’s image is deterring female recruits, exclusive research from Computer Weekly and Mortimer Spinks reveals. Three-quarters of women believe technology careers > Next-generation firewalls > CW500: The future of software are less attractive to potential For many years the firewall kept the development female recruits because of bad guys out of the corporate network In this CW500 Club event, IT leaders at concerns about the “macho” nature and your data safe. Now, the phrase on the forefront of software development of technology teams, and a fear of Get the latest IT news via RSS feed the lips of networking professionals is strategy explained their approach and being the sole woman in a male- computerweekly.com/RSSFeeds.htm next-generation firewall, where the shared their experiences of the future dominated department. safety of the application is king. of software development. OPINION BLOGS > To be or not to be open – > Mark Ballard: Europe’s doomed plan to avoid Microsoft lock-in that is the question The European Commission (EC) has been trying – and failing – to avoid being locked into proprietary The normal hullabaloo of consumer- Microsoft technical standards since 1992, it has been revealed in official documents released to isation, social media, big data and Computer Weekly. Its failure then led directly to the decision last year that ensured the EC will in 2013 cloud computing are all driven by an have been buying Microsoft software for 20 years without a competition. underlying cycle of change, but individually these subjects barely > Karl Flinders: What makes a convincing cloud service? scratch the surface of what is going on. I interviewed the Imperial ICT service centre manager at London’s Imperial College recently about the In a shift from competition to a fight for college’s move to a cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) service. What I found most interest- survival, swathes of companies face ing was his comments about unconvincing cloud offerings. He told me the college initially looked at seismic upheavals in their industry. 15 ITSM systems and narrowed it down to four. Of these, three were cloud-based. > Are you up to speed with business > David Lacey: One size should not fit all relationship management? I spend a lot of time working with big and small enterprises, helping with information security or risk Over the course of the past year there management issues. What continues to amaze me is how much they differ in their security gover- has been an increased discussion nance style and control requirements, but how similar they are in security initiatives and solutions. around business relationship Where is the appetite for innovation and diversity? management. While this was a “new” process in last year’s ITIL 2011 edition, > Philip Virgo: Does IT have an image problem? No more than the Taliban it is certainly not new to many others. In On one of the LinkedIn groups to which I subscribe I came across the question “Does IT have a bit of fact, as a concept at the very least, it’s an image problem?” There are many possible answers but over the years I have come to the been about for a long time across conclusion that IT has the image it deserves. Many IT professionals who whinge about the image of IT many different parts of any business. have mindsets akin to those of the introverted tribes who have taken Islam back to the middle ages. 2 | 31 JulY-6 AUGust 2012 Daily news for IT professionals at ComputerWeekly.com the week in IT OUTSOURCING HACKERS & CYBER CRIME PREVENTION Customers urged to boycott CSC Government invites universities to over CIA ‘torture flights’ train cyber spooks CSC customers are being urged to The government is hoping to shore boycott the supplier over allegations up its defences against cyber crime that it took part in illegal CIA rendi- through post-graduate training, and tion flights in the US “war on terror”. has asked universities to apply for CSC has been linked in court docu- funding to run training courses for ments to the rendition of German post-graduates. Through the Engi- citizen Khaled El-Masri, whose case neering and Physical Sciences Re- against alleged CIA collaborators in search Council (EPSRC), universities the Macedonian intelligence services have been invited to apply for grants. is pending at the European Court of Human Rights. MOBILE NETWORKS Orange offers connectivity under FINANCIAL SERVICES the English Channel NatWest customers hit by further Orange has announced it will online banking issues provide 2G and 3G services in the NatWest suffered a significant outage, Akamai on its marks to stream Channel Tunnel, for Eurostar foot leaving customers unable to access passengers and Eurotunnel drivers to their online banking or use their Olympics coverage across Europe use mobile phones. The 53km stretch debit cards. Customers have been of rail between Calais and Folkestone complaining about the problems at Akamai has signed deals with 15 European broadcasters to stream live in the south tunnel runs 100m below NatWest, with a number of readers footage of the London 2012 Olympic Games across its network. the surface of the English Channel contacting Computer Weekly to high- The company will use its existing content delivery cloud platform to provide and takes about 30 minutes to travel. light the issue. both live and on-demand videos for viewers who, in addition to TV coverage Now, passengers will be able to make of the Olympics, are expected to seek content via their mobiles, tablets, phone calls or surf the internet. CLOUD COMPUTING laptops and PCs. Windows Azure ‘availability The growing adoption rates of mobile devices mean these Olympic Games RISK MANAGEMENT issues’ hit users in Europe could be the most viewed in history, due to the ability to watch them wherever BlackHat 2012: UK firm reveals Users of Microsoft’s cloud-based the viewer may be. This puts extra pressure on Akamai, which has to provide chip and PIN vulnerability Azure computing platform have been the best experience for the broadcasters’ users. Retail chip and PIN devices can be affected by an availability issue. The “Consumers are much more discerning now, and expect an experience attacked easily, exposing banks, service was down for 2.5 hours. Mi- online that matches that of traditional TV,” said a company spokeswoman. retailers and customers to fraud. crosoft said the service interruption Researchers from Basingstoke-based in western Europe has been resolved. MWR InfoSecurity demonstrated at “Customers who have questions re- the 2012 Black Hat conference in Las garding this incident are encouraged Income from IT management Vegas that it is possible to attack chip to contact Customer Service and Sup- and PIN devices using a specially port,” said a Microsoft spokesman. consulting 2011 (by sector) prepared chip-based credit card. NETWORK HARDWARE HACKERS & CYBER CRIME PREVENTION n Alcatel-Lucent slashes 5,000 jobs 10% Public sector SQL injection attacks rise sharply following substantial loss 20% n Resources/ in second quarter of 2012 Telecoms kit maker Alcatel-Lucent energy SQL injection (SQLi) attacks rose 13% is to cut 5,000 jobs as part of a move n Manufacturing 69% in the second quarter of 2012 to save €750m (£588m) amid results compared with the previous quar- 3% n Construction/ which saw the company haemor- ter, according to cloud hosting firm transportation rhaging profits for the second quarter.