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Misys boss to join CSC as CEO after Temenos merger

08 February 2012

Troubled IT services company appoints Mike Lawrie as CEO as banking software vendor Misys agrees terms of merger with Swiss rival Temenos

Greenpeace puts Oracle last in green IT rankings

08 February 2012

Environmental pressure group rates enterprise IT vendors on green solutions, their own energy impact and green IT advocacy

Cisco issues burning server warning 

07 February 2012

Certain blades in networking giant's Unified Computing System are prone to overheating following power transistor failure

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Changing the barrels

Pub and restaurant operator Mitchells & Butlers recently switched its data centre and network outsourcing supplier to achieve more scalable, outcome-based IT services

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Highlights

Security & Continuity

Franchises at high risk of data breach – report

An analysis of data breaches in 2011 finds that the standard IT systems shared by franschises places them at high risk

Comms & Networking

Speechly Bircham extends network to support global growth

How the UK law firm extended its network infrastructure to support new offices in Switzerland and Luxembourg

The Cloud & Virtualization

The cloud shift

Cloud computing is shifting the IT department’s role from handling technology to managing contracts and suppliers, Information Age’s latest roundtable debate heard

Security & Continuity

Malicious emails spike on US public holidays

The volume of emails with malware attachments spikes around Thanksgiving and Labour Day, according to research from security company FireEye

IT Services

Talent economics

Outsourcing was back in vogue in 2011 but a movement to address the IT skills gap in the UK began in earnest 

Security & Continuity

Showing up security 

Hacktivists and cyber criminals continued to make a mockery of the security practices of some of the world's most respected organisations in 2011

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