Tighten our Belts? Tighten your Security!
Posted on 02. Dec, 2011 by Zach Meekings.
Last week, the Cabinet Office announced the UK Government’s 2011 Cyber Security strategy; hot on the heels of the recent Foreign Office-led London Conference on Cyberspace. The key themes: increased collaboration between GCHQ and business, and £650m of new money dedicated to, as the BBC put it, ‘better protect key infrastructure and defence assets from [...]
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Gartner and the shape of things to come
Posted on 23. Nov, 2011 by Alice Collins.
Last month’s Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando gave the industry plenty to think about. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner and global head of research, talked about the need to embrace the post-modern business landscape, one where ‘the customer is everywhere, and so must your business’. Sondergaard added: “You must pursue simplicity by putting [...]
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Test data management – an ‘every day’ concern
Posted on 27. Oct, 2011 by Alice Collins.
Nokia’s Chief Executive Stephen Elop hit the news headlines eight months ago as he presented his company with a stark analysis – he told staff that they were on a ‘burning platform’ and would have to choose whether to burn and die or jump into the icy water. Dramatic stuff but Elop understood that the [...]
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Nine million reasons to develop a sound data testing strategy
Posted on 12. Oct, 2011 by Vanessa Howard.
Ordinarily, ‘warehouse management systems’ might not be a subject that sets the pulse racing but as one UK company found, should a hitch occur, the result can hit a business’s bottom line very hard. Fashion retailer Supergroup had introduced new systems to help manage efficiencies and increased capacity – so far, so good, and eerily [...]
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What monkeys don’t know about probability
Posted on 27. Sep, 2011 by Alice Collins.
Perhaps you’ve heard that virtual monkeys are about to prove that given enough (virtual) typewriters and enough time, it is possible to reproduce the work of Shakespeare. The attempt used computer programmes issuing random nine characters long sequences of text. If a string of characters matches text found in the works of Shakespeare, then it [...]
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Cold hard cash and cold hard truths
Posted on 20. Sep, 2011 by Alice Collins.
So, the cuckoo clock isn’t Swiss but German, yet that wasn’t the biggest news story to emerge from the neutral landlocked country last week. As most will be aware Kweku Adoboli, a trader at UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, is alleged to have lost around $2bn in unauthorised deals. Rogue traders aren’t new but what caused [...]
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‘Technical issues’ can be life-changing, so where next for test data management?
Posted on 01. Sep, 2011 by Vanessa Howard.
Read any statement made by an organisation after a blunder has occurred and it is easy to marvel at the judicious use of bland phrasing. In ‘crisis management’, the first flurry of activity is almost invariably designed to buy time. Behind closed doors, there will be frantic scenes of accusation, investigation and counter-accusation. Perhaps there [...]
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US Deadlock – is the next crisis data management?
Posted on 04. Aug, 2011 by Vanessa Howard.
The hubbub surrounding the US Government’s impasse over raising its debt ceiling has made many of us aware of the mind-numbingly huge sums of money involved in government running costs but behind the headlines, there are issues pending that money alone may no longer be able to fix. At the start of the year, there [...]
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