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Advertisement ISSUE DATE:  24 April 2014 TODAY'S TOP STORIES Apple beats expectations and woos investors Businesses face Oracle applications support timebomb Ecclesiastical outsources IT for the first time to get data benefits Home Office tenders for new Emergency Services Network (ESN) provider

PREMIUM CONTENT Managing IT projects for business change. Dealing with trouble. Jeff Morgan and Chris Dale offer advice on managing unanticipated events that can disrupt IT projects in this extract from their book, Managing IT Projects for Business Change.   Optimising the data warehouse Analysts Clive Longbottom and Rob Bamforth discuss approaches to optimising datawarhouses for big data.

MORE NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM COMPUTERWEEKLY AND THE TECHTARGET NETWORK TLA launches health tech competition for startups Tech London Advocates (TLA) has launched a competition to find innovative health tech startups.  Get your daily dose of Dilbert.   (ComputerWeekly.com) Six Degrees datacentre suffers outage for more than 12 hours Customers using Six Degrees’s datacentre and hosting services faced downtime as the hosting and managed services provider suffered an outage for over 12 hours. BI experts from Fortune 500 sound off on the future of analytics Here is a SearchCIO Snapshot of their views on the future of analytics and BI from the Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit. (SearchCIO.com) Up to 500 GP practices to pilot Care.data from the autumn Between 100 and 500 GP practices will trial the collection of patient data as part of the delayed Care.data project.  US Bank migrates all ATMs to Windows 7 US Bank has moved all of its ATMs on to Windows 7 after deciding to complete the project before Microsoft stopped support for XP. Google’s renewable energy purchase for datacentres soars over 1GW Google's latest agreement with MidAmerican Energy to power its Iowa datacentre with 407MW of wind energy takes its renewable energy deals to 1GW.  HDS upgrades its mainframe-friendly VSP G1000 enterprise storage array Hitachi Data Systems launches the Virtual Storage Platform G1000 enterprise storage array, which boosts capacity, performance and lifespan for the storage virtualisation platform.

BLOGS When IoT connected fridges send out spam Juniper Research predicted last week that the number of "connected appliances" (i.e. Internet-of-Things style devices) in so-called SmartHomes will reach 10 million by 2017.   Wearable technology isn't real yet, is it? So we all know that Google Glass is (kind of) available now and it represents one of the most progressive manifestations yet of real 'wearable' technology, right?

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