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Cloud services Achilles heel? Apply remote test
Cloud services provide a new and promising opportunity for Enterprises to address the growing complexity of Information Technology. The availability of smart-phones and the expectation of immediate, simple access to private and company specific information on a global basis are driving demand for IT services centralisation and related competences required to support these effectively.
Roke wins conformance monopoly
Roke Manor Research Ltd , acquired by the US Chemring Group in 2010 has been appointed by the UK Government's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG), as UK's only Conformance Test Facility of Protocol Requirements for IP Modular Encryption (PRIME) the UK's framework to ensure interoperability between large UK government networks such as the Public Services Network (PSN)
PRACE grows membership
PRACE Research Infrastructure welcomes three new members: Denmark, Israel and Slovenia, make a total of 24 PRACE members for 2012.
Acronis: backup & data recovery
Devastating floods, deadly earthquakes, near apocalyptic tsunami, typhoons, storms, Arab spring, and economic downturn lets Acronis dub 2011 a year of disasters, yet Acronis GM Northern Europe and MEA, David Blackman comments that businesses around the world have grown in confidence about their ability to back up and then recover data and IT systems following a disaster.
Browsing can bring on colour
When Gaberlunzie was fairly young, one of the more intriguing books he was shown was the one where numbers in colours helped doctors discover if you were colour blind (or colour vision deficient (CVD) to give it its preferred nomenclature)
Women research ID management
Professor Liesbet van Zoonen of Loughborough University and a team of women colleagues from Dundee, Essex and Northumbria universities have received a £1.36m grant to examine taboos and desires around future technologies of ‘identity management’.
£11.5m for aerospace & marine energy
Aerospace and marine energy are attracting more than £11.5m investment from UK government organisations, led by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). The slant for aerospace is solving high risk challenges, while the angle in marine energy is the nitty, gritty of array technologies.
Midlothian Council fined for data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of £140,000 on Midlothian Council for disclosing sensitive personal data relating to children and their carers to the wrong recipients on five separate occasions. The penalty is the first that the ICO has served against an organisation in Scotland.
Ensuring business continuity in Clouds
The cloud offers enhanced IT service availability and flexibility, but customers need to understand their responsibilities to achieve this. The risks associated with cloud computing depend upon both the service model and the delivery model adopted. This article focuses on two specific risks: availability and lock-in.
Autonymous car heads into legal storms
The car has always been an accommodating electronics box, but recently seems to be taking on the role of technology showpiece. GM turns car windows into interactive displays. BASF and Phillips integrate their solar OLED into car roofs. Google pushes its autonomous vehicle programme as achieving 200,000 miles under computer control without an accident. But the US warns that questions of legal liability, privacy and insurance may be far more challenging and difficult to resolve than any mere matter of technology.
Visualising slow bio processes
Pepric, a spin-off from Belgium research organisation imec, has successfully closed a €1.4m capital round. Pepric develops scanner systems for direct visualisation of magnetic labels and commercialises equipment for quantitative molecular detection and imaging to monitor biological processes evolving slowly over time.
RSPB: fisheries and peatland
The RSPB Scotland has warned that a new strategy for Scotland's inshore fisheries set out in the two year old National Marine Plan will not help fishing communities, unless it does more to protect our seas and is brought into effect and RSPB is also urging the Scottish Government to honour its manifesto pledge to restore Scotland’s peatlands.
Dundee is Tissue Bank founder
The University of Dundee/NHS Tayside is one of four collaborating centre sites where breast cancer tissue samples can be donated, along with blood samples and information about the donor’s breast cancer in a revolutionary new central bank.
LiDAR geodata comes online
A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so!
Sensors for concrete monitoring
Innovative sensors have been developed that will dramatically improve the ability to spot early warning signs of corrosion in concrete. More resilient and much longer lasting than traditional corrosion sensors they will make monitoring the safety of structures such as bridges and vital coastal defences much more effective as carbon steel bars used to reinforce submerged concrete in tidal zone areas are at particular risk of corrosion caused by wet conditions.
Devolution impact: telecoms and broadband
In January 2012 the Westminster government offered to devolve to the Scottish Parliament the powers necessary to conduct a referendum on the independence of Scotland, with the possibility of repealing the Act of Union of 1707. This could return Great Britain to a Union of the Crowns, with separate parliaments under one sovereign.
Weir acquires valves & pumps, seismic sensors next?
The engineering group Weir has made its second acquisition in the US shale oil and gas sector with the acquisition of Dallas-based US valve maker Novatech for $176m (£113m). Perhaps it should also consider the seismic sensor market too.
North China brewer uses Telemetry
China’s oldest and third largest brewer, Harbin Beer has hired British company Telemetry to serve and audit its online video advertising in China. Telemetry being the first foreign company to be permitted to serve and audit an online video campaign for a Chinese brand, within China not unjustifiably claims a major achievement.
Scotland needs its own Geospace
GeoPlace is one of two winners of the Best Project Delivery category at the 2011 UK Public Sector Digital Awards for the development and delivery of the National Address Gazetteer Database, alongside Surrey County Council for their separate e-safeguarding project. It follows on their European Award. But interestingly Scotland is not in the database. Great opening for a smart Scottish SME operation.
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