Microsoft 365 latest to secure G-Cloud accreditation
Microsoft’s cloud based productivity suite, Office 365, is the latest offering to be awarded Impact Level 2 (IL2) accreditation via the government’s G-Cloud framework.
Stories by Derek du Preez
easyJet: IT shouldn't block business users from buying SaaS apps
Bert Craven, enterprise architect at easyJet, has said that IT departments should loosen their controls and let business users buy and deploy software-as-a-service (Saas) applications in order to drive innovation.
Thames Valley seeks technology partner to provide intelligent data
Thames Valley Water has revealed that it is seeking a technology partner to help it convert data into management information, which it hopes will provide it with innovation opportunities during five years of massive investment.
Hyper-connected world brings government agility into question, says BIS
The hyper-connectivity of the general public through the use of modern technologies, such as social media and mobile, is shining a light on the government’s inability to quickly respond to current events and develop policy in an agile way.
Telefónica offers new M2M platform
Telefónica Digital has developed a proprietary machine-to-machine (M2M) communications system to enable organisations to retrieve and exchange business data.
Sportingbet decides against Hadoop to analyse 60Tb of data
Online gaming site Sportingbet has decided against using popular big data analytics software Hadoop in favour of technology provided by British-born SME Logscape, where it will analyse up to 60 TB of data within one year.
Nissan opts for financials in the cloud over SAP on-premise
Nissan has selected a cloud-based procurement and financial management tool rather than an SAP on premise solution, in a bid to migrate away from paper to full electronic order to invoice processing.
University of Nottingham to save 25% of £2m annual printing costs
The University of Nottingham is set to save at least 25 percent on its £1.5 million to £2 million annual printing costs by centralising the management of its printing estate, under a £9.2 million managed services deal with Xerox.
BDUK expects 63% of 2012/13 budget will be spent on rural broadband
Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), the body armed with governing the competitive process for the UK’s superfast broadband rollout into rural areas, expects that in 2012-13 it will spend just 63 per cent of its £3.8 million administration budget on the rural broadband delivery programme.
Half of business networks breached by personal devices in 2012
Over half of the UK’s business IT networks (51 per cent) were breached during 2012 due to employees using their personal devices at work, according to research carried out by Virgin Media Business.
Peers slam draft data-snooping bill as 'overkill'
A joint parliamentary committee investigating the Draft Communications Data Bill has described the current proposed legislation as 'overkill' and said that the Home Secretary shouldn't be given sweeping powers that would trample on UK citizens privacy.
AT&T: DDOS crime networks now based in hosting facilities not infected home PCs
AT&T's CSO, Ed Amoroso, has called on competitors and the US government to help it cope with increasing denial of service (DDOS) attacks over its network, according to the company's executive director of technology security, Michael Singer.
Maude hails UK Cyber Security Strategy one year after launch
One year after its launch, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has praised the UK’s Cyber Security Strategy, claiming that ‘a great deal has already been accomplished’.
'Ineffective' UBS computer system blamed for £1.4bn missed fraud
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has largely blamed UBS’ computerised risk management systems for failing to control the £1.4 billion losses incurred by rogue trader Kweku Adoboli.
Ofcom plans new legislation for white space devices
Communications regulator Ofcom has revealed plans to bring white space enabled devices to the UK, which will require new legislation to allow for a managed database to allocate unlicensed spectrum in real time.