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QNAP TS-1079 Pro review - business NAS is powerful and well specified

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Andrew Harrison) — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:38:00 GMT

A powerful and well specified NAS aimed at business use, here's our QNAP TS-1079 Pro review, with QNAP TS-1079 Pro speed benchmarks and test results.

Update: SITA loses airport technology lawsuit as delegates gather for key IT summit

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Antony Savvas) — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:16:00 GMT

As the great and the good of the airline industry gather today (Wednesday) in Brussels for the first day of their annual airline IT conference, the organisers have been left reeling after losing a £20 million court battle over an IT deal that went wrong.

CIOs bemoan lock-in and the 'false flexibility' of the cloud

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (James Niccolai) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:33:00 GMT

Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the cloud for big customers is a similar type of lock-in as they experience with on-premise apps vendors such as Oracle and SAP, two CIOs said Tuesday.

Financial servies firm figures out how to do social safely

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Chris Kanaracus) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:51:00 GMT

The freewheeling flow of information on public social media sites may cause many people in conservative, highly regulated industries such as financial services to shudder. But one Canadian firm has taken the plunge, believing its employees can use social tools in a safe and ultimately profitable way.

Many companies are negligent about SAP security, researchers say

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Lucian Constantin) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:32:00 GMT

SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to security researchers.

The panic is over. Facebook is back up

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Sharon Gaudin) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:32:00 GMT

Facebook suffered a service disruption for about four hours Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times.

Apple end-to-end encryption far from bulletproof

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Antone Gonsalves) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:28:00 GMT

Apple won't provide experts with details of encryption architecture, so what it means by 'cannot decrypt"' data is unclear, expert says

Myriad IT launches infrastructure services

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Hafizah Osman) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:40:00 GMT

Technology services company, Myraid IT, has launched its newest line of business, Infrastructure Services, to provide its customers with managed services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and bespoke support.

Inky review - email client shows promise

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Yaara Lancet) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:58:00 GMT

Inky is an email desktop client that brings all your email accounts together under one roof. Here's our Inky review.

Keeper 6 review - password manager does the basics well

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Liane Cassavoy) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:36:00 GMT

Keeper covers the basics in password management, but it's not as cheap or as easy to use as it should be. Here's our Keeper 6 review.

Dell committee says Icahn's new proposal is not 'actionable'

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (John Ribeiro) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:17:00 GMT

A Dell special committee has rejected a new proposal from a key shareholder Carl C. Icahn, and said it will continue to support the proposal by founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners to take the company private.

GE thinks it's time to put industrial data in the cloud

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Stephen Lawson) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:53:00 GMT

Internet tools are just starting to be applied to industrial tasks such as maintaining equipment and optimizing operations, but the wealth of data being produced by industrial systems could make this a major focus of development in the coming years.

Microsoft Dynamics ERP software now available on the Azure cloud

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Chris Kanaracus) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:14:00 GMT

Microsoft is upping the stakes in the growing market for cloud-based ERP, with its Dynamics GP 2013 and NAV 2013 products now available for deployment on its Azure service.

Google puts $7M into fighting child porn, abuse

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Sharon Gaudin) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:35:00 GMT

Google said it's spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them.

Venture firm Accel makes another huge Big Data bet

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Bob Brown) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:19:00 GMT

Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups.

Wall Street sets example for testing security defenses

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Antone Gonsalves) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:08:00 GMT

Quantum Dawn 2 will test institutions' playbooks while also finding more efficient ways to share real-time information

How to Evaluate the Risk of Outsourcing Locations

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Stephanie Overby) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:07:00 GMT

IT organizations and CIOs don't contract and outsource to countries, they contract and outsource to companies. Given that, it's time to stop assessing location-based risk in a vacuum because sometimes the 'riskiest' suppliers may have the most innovative solutions.

Most data in organisations is "junk," difficult to get context: CommVault

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Patrick Budmar) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:05:00 GMT

Big Data without context is just noise, according to CommVault A/NZ area vice president, Bryan Stibbard.

Verizon extends private IP service to Equinix datacentres

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Hafizah Osman) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:48:00 GMT

Broadband, wireless and communications services provider, Verizon has partnered with datacentre and co-location provider, Equinix, to offer Verizon's private IP service in Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX) datacentres globally.

Microsoft kills linked accounts in Outlook.com

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Mark Hachman) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:46:00 GMT

Microsoft said Monday that it is eliminating the ability to link accounts within Outlook.com, replacing them with aliases instead.

Jive boosts mobile capabilities of its enterprise social suite

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Juan Carlos Perez) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:02:00 GMT

Jive Software is making a mobile push with new and enhanced mobile applications that have an emphasis on helping users of the enterprise social networking (ESN) suite create, not just view, content from their tablets and smartphones.

Dragon Notes review - speak your sticky notes

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Erez Zukerman) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:52:00 GMT

Dragon Notes is marginally useful on its own, and is mainly helpful as a tech demo for Nuance's speech recognition technology. Here's our Dragon Notes review.

HP OfficeJet Pro 276dw review - a great inkjet printer for business

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Jon L Jacobi) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:22:00 GMT

HP's OfficeJet Pro 276dw is a worthy inkjet printer for business - it may even save you money over a laser printer. Here's our HP OfficeJet Pro 276dw review.

Aon centralises telecoms management

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Antony Savvas) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:09:00 GMT

Insurance broker Aon is centralising its telecoms management with Azzurri after its outsourcing supplier ended an IT services contract.

Open Data Center Alliance tackles big data analysis

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (James Niccolai) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:17:00 GMT

The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers.