Oracle locate data in Canada
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle CX Cloud from a hosting location in Canada. This will enable the company to provision several cloud platforms to be hosted and served from...
Salesforce Health Cloud announced
Salesforce has announced the preview version of Salesforce Health Cloud. The preview version is available today with general availability scheduled for February 2016.
It does not seem that long ago when patient...
Network Services Framework – Winners
From the number of announcements relating to the Network Services Framework one would think that every telecommunications company in the UK has won a serious piece of business from the UK...
Government SME spend to rise to £14.4bn
The UK Government has announced that by 2020 it plans to spend £14.4 billion or £1 in every £3 it spends with Small to Medium Businesses (SME).
In 2013/2014 central government spending...
Street gang in $14.3m ID theft scheme
Kamala D Harris, the Attorney General for California, announced the take down of a street gang last week that was responsible for $14.3 million in ID Theft and Tax Fraud.
The gang...
Azure goes compliance mad!
Microsoft Azure has announced in a blog by Tom Keane, Partner Director, Program Management, Microsoft Azure that reached Azure has reached another compliance milestone. In April Microsoft announced four industry certifications...
4 data breaches per day at UK Councils
Big Brother Watch has today issued a report that shows local councils in the UK averaged 4 data breaches per day between 2011 and 2014.
The report which can be downloaded from...
Free Cybersecurity Risk Assessment tools
According to the 2015 Information Security Breaches survey carried out by PWC 90% of large organisations suffered a security breach over the previous year, up from 81% in the 2014 report....
CGI wins €196m European IT contract
A consortium of IT companies led by Canadian IT giant CGI has been awarded a contract worth up to €196m to provide IT support for various European Parliament agencies.
Awarded by the...
Irish Justice and Equality appoint Capita
Capita Managed IT Solutions has signed a deal with the Irish Justice and Equality Department to deliver a managed IT service.
The deal will last for the next five years and was...