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Advertisement ISSUE DATE:  22 April 2014 TODAY'S TOP STORIES New iOS malware highlights threat to Apple mobile devices Dell skips smartphones to focus on convergence IBM hardware struggles, with first quarter earnings a fifth lower than last year Datacentre lessons learnt from Heartbleed bug

PREMIUM CONTENT The mid-market conundrum Analysts Bob Tarzey and Bob Brown look at how mid market organisations can achieve 'best in class' IT applications with limited resources.   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 DDoS toolkits boost attacks in first quarter of 2014 DDoS toolkits boosted amplification attacks in the first quarter of the year, according to Prolexic report.  Get your daily dose of Dilbert.   (ComputerWeekly.com) Is the PRA dream of ripping and replacing banking IT feasible? The head of UK financial services regulator the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) said it would be bold for banks to strip down and rebuild IT, but is this just a pipe dream?  Thomson Reuters flushes out internal engineering talent with crowdsourcing Thomson Reuters Corp. has hit upon an effective way to find engineering talent. The media and information company has figured out a way to crowdsource for problem solvers -- from behind the firewall. (SearchCIO.com) SAP declares 8% revenue growth in EMEA SAP has declared 8% revenue growth in the EMEA region for the first quarter of 2014, “despite uncertainties in the CIS due to the Crimea crisis”.  Just 2% of citizens think government’s digital services will have an effect Only 2% of the UK believe the government’s push to offer public services digitally will have a great effect on their lives. Claranet acquires Dutch cloud provider NovaData Managed hosting provider Claranet has acquired Netherlands-based cloud firm NovaData to expand its services portfolio.  Centerprise ICT 2015 Treasury contract guarantee of SME commitment HM Treasury has handed a four year media and wireless contract understood to be worth around £2.5m to Hampshire-based services provider Centerprise, under the auspices of its ICT 2015 contracts.

BLOGS Surviving the post Heartbleed Cyber Security Skills Crunch IT users and suppliers, particularly those in financial services and its suppliers, are about to be hit by an IT Skills shortfall akin to that during the run up to Y2K: for similar reasons.  Open source carrots, broccoli, celery, kale & coffee pods Reading over the Easter holidays (as one does) a good book like When Computing Got Personal: A history of the desktop computer [Kindle Edition] by Matt Nicholson, one is reminded that the birth of open source as a wider movement goes back further than the last 25 years of Linux.

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