databases in comment and analysis
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment While it would be foolish to claim any system is 100 per cent secure, Vernon said, she claims that the security of people's personal and biometric details will be protected by the fact that the National Identity Register (NIR) will be... [10 Jul 2009]
Preventing data loss - what's needed
Comment Of course, there are data repositories that limit what can be done with the information stored in them: content management systems for documents and databases for structured data. Though there are plenty of tools to help... [16 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.05.09
Round-Up According to the survey, the types of information the nefarious workers claimed they could get their evil little fingers on included customer databases, business plans and accounting systems. You've bought your boss... [01 May 2009]
As crunch bites: Don't neglect the logs
Comment This means establishing a system of electronics records management across the organisation, covering all data stores and including both structured data, such as databases, and unstructured information, such as emails and... [05 Feb 2009]
Cern CIO on the credit crunch and black holes
Comment Von Rueden: The control system used for the accelerators are run by the accelerator departments but we provide base infrastructure to everybody - including email, databases, networking, desktop support, web services and... [16 Oct 2008]
Naked CIO: Fishing for data
Comment Any piece of what appears to be insignificant data must now be stored in databases just in case a company might want to someday use it for one reason or another. Saving all your data all the time is not always smart. [08 Sep 2008]
The rise and rise of Infor
Comment Unlike Oracle, Infor has no software infrastructure side dealing with databases. The portfolio it has amassed relies on a wide range of disparate databases, application servers and operating systems.... [06 Aug 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment Perhaps if they realised this wasn't an inexhaustible well of data for them to dip into whenever their leaky databases start to run dry, they might be a little more careful about conserving it. It's been a while since... [26 Jun 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment This model is most useful in companies with legacy environments that often split their technology platforms into such categories as mainframe, distributed systems, and databases. Pool software developers and save money,... [09 Apr 2008]
Recession fears hit IT budgets
Comment There is also demand for skills around SAP Basis - the range of middleware programs and tools from the ERP giant that enable its modules to be interoperable across operating systems and databases. The state of the... [04 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment Databases must be protected yet functional - users must be able to confirm identity, yet cannot see particular personal information. So why as a consumer does he blithely share his own personal details at the drop of a hat? [25 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: ID cards - cock-up and conspiracy...
Comment Still, I couldn't resist the BBC's new politico-techno-conspiracy thriller - The Last Enemy - featuring ID cards, pervasive CCTV surveillance and gigantic databases. This is a giant government system that seems able to... [20 Feb 2008]
Leader: It's time for a data breach disclosure law
Leader The HMRC data breach - in which the unencrypted details of 25 million people on the child benefit database were downloaded by a junior official onto a CD and sent, unregistered and unrecorded, by post to the National Audit Office -... [22 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Animated statistics
Comment For decades the statisticians had failed to come up with anything meaningful in terms of illuminating the depth and trends hidden in UN databases. Written at an Amsterdam airport hotel and dispatched to silicon.com via... [12 Oct 2007]
Data breach laws 'make companies serious about security'
Comment And he said because most databases don't have California-only information, if an organisation has to notify Californian customers it is hard for them to leave customers in the other 49 states in the dark. [03 Sep 2007]
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