My Technology Feed: 09/28/16

Balancing privacy and security requires highly developed information security policies and, of the UK intelligence agencies, GCHQ has taken the lead. Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Infosecurity-the-GCHQ-way

Rural fibre broadband supplier Gigaclear has teamed up with Affinity Water Distribution to study the feasibility of using disused water mains as an FTTP delivery mechanism Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450305141/Gigaclear-to-deliver-fibre-broadband-through-old-water-pipes

Splunk’s CEO Douglas Merritt explains how the organisation has been working to help people both in and outside its organisation to gain the skills needed to use its big data technology Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450305155/Splunk-vs-the-skills-shortage-trying-to-help-organisations-gain-the-right-skills

An EC-supported study conducted by InterDigital suggests investment in 5G could generate an annual benefit of €113bn by 2025 Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450305149/5G-worth-more-than-113bn-per-year-to-European-economy

In a speech to the Institute of Directors’ annual conference, Greg Clark calls for a major broadband upgrade to support the reinvention of the government’s industrial strategy Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450305169/Business-secretary-calls-for-national-broadband-upgrade

Canadian firm to focus on a strategy built around software development, including security and applications, and mobile device management Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450305180/BlackBerry-ends-production-of-mobile-phones

Oracle’s UK, Ireland and Israel managing director, Dermot O’Kelly takes stock of Open World 2016 and urges CIOs not to reinvent on-premise “accidental architectures” in the cloud Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450305102/UK-Oracle-MD-companies-repeating-tangled-architectures-in-cloud

NCSC is due to launch officially on 1 October 2016 and will help the healthcare sector deliver consistent quality of data security Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450305144/UK-National-Cyber-Security-Centre-set-to-launch

Credit card company Mastercard is investing heavily in digital payments and wants to engage with developers and startups Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450305142/Mastercard-woos-software-developers-with-API-platform

Docker, by default, doesn’t come with persistent storage, which presents an issue to some workloads customers that want to run in containers – however, there are ways to achieve persistent storage Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Docker-storage-how-to-get-persistent-storage-in-Docker

Microsoft claims field programmable gate array chips are now live in Azure datacentres in 15 countries, as it future-proofs its infrastructure for the rise of big data applications Linq: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450305093/Microsoft-preps-datacentres-for-AI-revolution-through-deployment-of-reprogrammable-chips

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