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Advertisement ISSUE DATE:  03 June 2014 TODAY'S TOP STORIES Delusional councils spent less than 1% of IT budget on G-Cloud Met Office swaps Oracle for PostgreSQL High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS European retail data breaches largely hidden, SC Congress told

PREMIUM CONTENT Elliptic curve cryptography in transport ticketing This article in our Royal Holloway Security Series looks at how elliptic curve cryptography on transport payment cards improves transaction times.   Improve the success of HR systems implementation Mark Martin, former HR executive at Direct Line Group and T-Mobile, lists the key questions you need to ask suppliers when selecting a HR Technology system.

MORE NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM COMPUTERWEEKLY AND THE TECHTARGET NETWORK KPMG expands its technology consulting business Management consultancy KPMG has acquired Portugal based IT consultancy Safira in the latest in a series of acquisitions to increase its IT experience.  Get your daily dose of Dilbert.   (ComputerWeekly.com) Coventry to become gigabit city with core metro fibre upgrade Coventry City Council entrusts upgrade of its 140km Coventry Core metro fibre network to CityFibre.   Apple buys Beats and teaches CIOs how to get ahead It's official: Apple buys Beats from Dr. Dre. Also in Searchlight, Google diversity report reveals the uncomfortable truth and the IoT gets a high valuation. (SearchCIO.com) Tegile dives into all-flash array market with T3800 Hybrid flash maker Tegile enters all-flash market with T3800, and adds T3400 hybrid flash array with more flash on board. Russian cyber crime kingpin sought after wordwide server raids Businesses urged to take action after a worldwide raid on GameOver Zeus servers.  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software: Shortlist 2014 See who made the shortlist for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software 2014. Unified communications supplier Unify cuts workforce by half Unify, formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications, cuts its workforce by half in a move towards software-defined technology.

BLOGS Ubuntu beats Microsoft & Red Hat in OpenStack OS race OpenStack has been in the news a lot... well, we have just had the OpenStack summit in Atlanta after all.  Bringing the technology world to Russia The billions of rubles of government money being invested in the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on the outskirts of Moscow (read my previous post for more details) is not only going into developing the local tech startup community.

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