BP is putting its global messaging infrastructure into a private cloud to benefit from pay-per-use functionality and the flexibility to easily scale up and down the number of users. Over 83,000 staff at BP will be connected to the cloud. ...
Tags: BP, messaging infrastructure, Microsoft Exchange 2010, computing cloud
Specialist charities such as housing associations and social enterprises face paying nearly four times as much for Microsoft software due to licensing changes to be introduced by the software giant in September. The changes will see ...
Tags: housing association, social enterprise, Microsoft software
The Ethiopian government is blocking access to the Tor Network that enables online anonymity, according to Reporters Without Borders. Tor client software routes internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers to conceal ...
Tags: Tor Network, online anonymity, software, internet traffic
20,000 PCs in the UK could be cut off from the web on Monday 9 July 2012, as a consequence of the DNS Changer virus. Infected machines will no longer be able to access websites, e-mail, chat or social networking sites such as Facebook, ...
Tags: UK, computer, DNS Changer virus, networking site, cyber security
Cyber crime has continued to become more professional in 2012, with the barriers to entry becoming ever lower with the emergence of increasingly powerful toolkits and exploits for sale online. In the past year, cyber criminals have used ...
Tags: Protection, Cyber Crime, Products
The benefits of server virtualisation are indeed quite impressive for today's server and datacentre administrators, but what about you – the storage manager? While everyone else is reaping the rewards of their newly virtualised ...
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Enterprise IT security professionals faced increasingly sophisticated, stealthy and dynamic threats in 2012, but numerous surveys revealed that knowledge and understanding of the latest attack techniques are lacking in many organisations. ...
Tags: IT security, user security awareness, IT industry, cyber
Undoubtedly 2012 has been another big year for mobile. From high-profile launches to security scares, from hot tablets entering the enterprise to huge players trailing with their tails between their legs, mobile is certainly the direction ...
Tags: mobile, security scares, tablet, IT infrastructure
Facebook met fresh criticism today after filings showed it paid just 2.6m in tax on profits of over 800m. The US-based company operates in numerous countries around the globe, but puts all of its transactions outside of its home territory ...
Research into the UK outsourcing sector in 2010 found that 7.4% of the UK’s total production came from outsourcing, and about a third of that – some 38.7bn – was IT outsourcing. It is a sector that adapts to market ...
Tags: UK, outsourcing, IT outsourcing, company news
Thousands of UK students are eagerly awaiting their GCSE and A-level results, with just weeks to go until they find out if they have made it through to the next step on their chosen career paths. But with unemployment on the rise, how ...
Tags: GCSE, cience, technology, engineering, UK education, IT industry
Adobe will keep its Flash Player available on the Google Play store for mobile applications. Adobe reverse its decision to ditch the app after pressure from companies using the technology. Adobe announced two weeks ago it was going ...
Tags: Adobe, Flash Player, Google Play, mobile applications.
Somerset County Council is making preparations for legal action from Southwest One, the shared services joint venture it formed with IBM in 2007. The stand-off is the culmination of 18 months of crisis talks over the joint venture's ...
Tags: Somerset County Council, IBM, computer, company news
Chief information security officers (CISOs) have an important role in moving their organisations, whether they are public or private, to a cloud computing environment, according to professional certification body (ISC)2. The move is ...
Tags: cloud computing, Chief information security officers, software, computer
Family business Bete, which specialises in distributing industrial spray nozzles, has adopted Claranet to support a staff of 10 home workers. The approach Bete has taken with its IT has put it in a position to offer specialist warehousing ...
Tags: Bete, industrial spray nozzles, IT, warehouse staff