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News International uses Amazon's DynamoDB to improve paywall content control
News International has used Amazon Web Service’s DynamoDB to gain greater control over access to content across its paywalled publications, as the publisher group uses cloud systems to modernise its multimedia business. read more »
Standard Bank completes migration of another 3.5m South Africans onto SAP banking system
AccessPoint system integrates with the bank's SAP back end servers and CRM platform read more »
Wall Street pushes for exemptions in state social-media monitoring laws
Brokers and traders need to be able to keep tabs on non-personal social media chatter by their employees, FINRA says read more »
Analysts want more evidence for Microsoft Office 365 adoption claims
Q3 results claims for SaaS uptake under scrutiny read more »
Yahoo CEO reaffirms decision to prohibit telecommuting
Marisa Mayer: You have to be seen to be working.... read more »
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CA World 2013: Is service virtualisation for dev/ops a management disaster waiting to happen?
CA Technologies’ CTO, John Michelsen, took to the stage at the company’s annual event in Las Vegas this week to tell customers and partners that most companies have a “mess of test environments” and that what they should be doing is transforming their organisations so that there is a quality relationship between development and operations. read more »
IT outsourcing relationships buckling under pressure
Almost all CIOs want to retender one or more deals read more »
Wanted: IT staffers with vertical industry chops
Fast-changing business processes and ever-mounting government and industry regulations are complicating day-to-day operations -- and making deep vertical industry expertise a must-have. read more »
Ten tips to win security programme funding
CIO for Los Angeles World Airports outlines ten essential tips for getting your financial team on board with your security funding requests read more »
Security Manager's Journal: A little housecleaning
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Microsoft Surface tablet
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One weakness of the current CloudStore is that it is difficult to benchmark compare prices given the different metrics each vendor prices by.G-Cloud iii – Is the framework getting any better?
For Microsoft to "suppress" it's HP paid study claiming a savings of €40 million if Munich stayed with them is an insult to the intelligence of an orangutangMicrosoft refuses to release study challenging Munich Linux success
Pity Ofcom can't be persuaded to take the same view. They confirmed to me in November 2011: "Despite its popularity, broadband is not regarded as an essential service."Internet connection crucial to everyday life, German federal court rules
Big surprise, Microsoft/HP study finds it's cheaper to use their product. The freedom gained by moving away from Microsoft is priceless.Microsoft refuses to release study challenging Munich Linux success
Don't the Microsoft boneheads realise that by not releasing the results of the study, they only lend credence and validity to the very point they're trying to refute?Microsoft refuses to release study challenging Munich Linux success
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Hosting Companies Shouldn't Be Parasites
A hosting company calls for hosting companies to support the open source software that makes them successfulread more »
IT Service Management benchmarks - for you, by you
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Clinical Trials Must be Open Data: Please Contact MEPs
Back in February, I noted that the UK's investigation into making clinical trial data freely available was somewhat subsidiary to the EU's major initiative on the same subject. The battle there between those who wish to keep clinical trials data...read more »
Collected insights on Microsoft's Q3 performance
The Windows installed base gives Microsoft power to get up to speed on mobile and cloudread more »
Software Patents Storming Up the Agenda Again
As regular readers of this column will know, software patents have never really gone away, even though the European Patent Convention forbids them, and the European Parliament explicitly rejected them again in 2005. Fans of intellectual monopolies just keep coming...read more »
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Nice to have more alternatives than the usual Microsoft Office but, LibreOffice have a long road to beat Office.LibreOffice 4.0 - Six new features coming to open source suite