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• 11 June 2013

• News: Unstructured data: Can you crack the code?

  A simple motive for code cracking has always been the benefits of what lies beneath the complexity. As with the universe-load of unstructured data, CIOs want to break it down, lay it out, and extract from it some kind of business value. The power of Big Data has been highly talked about for some time, but it appears as though, if this issue of CNME is anything to go by, the time is finally upon us when organisations are ready to tackle it head on.

• News: The spaghetti incident: How enterprise architecture is helping the Middle East take control of its IT

  In 2009, DP World in the UAE decided to set up its own IT department separate from the shared services the global organisation operates. But with the inheritance of systems and technologies came the realisation of inconsistencies and redundancies. It turned to an enterprise architecture (EA) tool to obtain a complete view of its IT.

• News: MIT researchers advance cloud security with end-to-end encyrption

  Homomorphic encryption-based method makes it possible to process data without having to decrypt it

• News: The business end of IT

  Keeping the customer front and centre has been at the heart of Foxtel's IT strategy since the early days, says CIO Robyn Elliott.

• News: Marketo rolls out 'customer engagement' tools as Salesforce.com threat looms

  Marketo says it has created tools that put it far ahead of rival marketing automation software vendors by making it much easier to run targeted campaigns, and more effective ones to boot.

• News: Android Trojans spread by Bluetooth, hijack bank codes

  Mobile malware gets more complex, defeats two-factor authentication

• News: Tibco Software acquires event processing specialist StreamBase Systems

  Tibco Software has added streaming capabilities to its event-processing portfolio with the acquisition of StreamBase Systems.

• News: European Parliament delays vote on sharing passenger data with US authorities

  European Union lawmakers have delayed a vote on what authorities can do with airline passengers' data following the revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism data collection system.

• News: Digital forensics professionals to get global certification

  Non-profit certification body (ISC)² is preparing to launch what it believes is the world's first qualification designed to assess the skill set of experienced digital forensics professionals.

• News: Rights groups ask US spy court for justification of Verizon order

  Civil rights groups have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for the legal justification of the U.S. government's surveillance of Verizon's customer records.

• 10 June 2013

• News: A 5-minute Woz brain dump (AKA, 2013 UC Berkeley commencement address)

  Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, a veteran of the college commencement address circuit, shared a free-form talk with UC Berkeley grads last month during their ceremony.

• News: Cisco overtakes IBM as top cloud hardware provider, research firm says

  Cisco has overtaken IBM as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported today.

• News: iWork for iCloud highlights productivity suite update

  iWork is getting down to business in the cloud.

• News: The art and science of risk management

  Computers, networks, and information security seem to fall comfortably under the heading of science, but science alone is not enough. Security system developer Tripwire recently conducted a survey in cooperation with the Ponemon Institute to find out whether IT professionals consider risk management to be "science" or "art."

• News: Expert: Oracle's Fusion Applications still maturing, but offer real value

  Oracle still has some kinks to work out in its next-generation Fusion Applications and implementing them on-premises remains a daunting task, but customers on older product lines have good things to look forward to if and when they upgrade, according to one veteran of many early Fusion projects.

• News: Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS goes live

  After two years of beta testing, the Red Hat OpenShift Online platform as a service (PaaS) has been pressed into commercial use, charging customers and offering professional commercial support.

• News: FAQ: 5 things known and alleged about NSA surveillance

  Recent news reports alleging broad surveillance efforts by the U.S. National Security Agency seem to have left more questions than answers. Whistleblower Edward Snowden has accused the NSA of collecting massive amounts of data from U.S. residents, but U.S. officials have largely denied his allegations.

• News: After 10 years on Mars, NASA rover begins new mission

  After nearly 10 years since it left Earth, NASA's rover Opportunity is about to head out on a new mission -- a weeks-long trek to study a new area on Mars.

• News: Immigration bill could hike IT hiring, or send more IT jobs offshore, says Gartner

  The Senate immigration bill's impact on offshore outsourcing will be disruptive to outsourcers, their customers and potentially to the U.S. IT labor market, according to Gartner.

• News: Forrester: CIOs need change IT function to improve customer experience

  CIOs need to make a number of changes to the IT function in order to deliver better customer experience for the enterprise, claims Forrester's CIO analyst Nigel Fenwick.

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