Computer Weekly – 24 June 2014: Betting on World Cup success

Computer Weekly – 24 June 2014: Betting on World Cup success

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to online gambling site Betfair about the technology challenges of preparing for the betting frenzy of the football World Cup. We examine the strategy of cloud software pioneer Salesforce.com as it grows its role in the IT department. And we explain erasure coding – an emerging method for protecting against storage hardware failures. Read the issue now.

Betfair raises its game as World Cup punters engage cloud infrastructure

Michael Bischoff, CIO at the online bookmaker, talks about the benefits of using software as a service to deliver the apps the business needs.

Salesforce.com: building business clout

As Salesforce.com works towards the expansion of its industry and geographic reach, we look at the software as a service provider’s business potential.

Erasure coding edges ahead of Raid as data protection method

Erasure coding has emerged as a method of protecting against a device failure. We examine the technology’s advantages and disadvantages.

Buyer’s guide to business process automation – part three: Co-ordinating IT to align with business processes

Organisations and their IT departments must learn to work differently if they want to take full advantage of business process automation.

Just Eat uses staffing outsourcer to build IT skills pool in Ukraine office

Danish staff supplier Ciklum helped online takeaway firm Just Eat to expand operations by setting up an office in Kiev to exploit the local IT talent.

Case study: How York City Council installed a Wi-Fi network in its historic streets

The ancient city now offers businesses, visitors and residents wireless access to its fibre network technology using smart access points.

Why VDI chases mobile users off the corporate network

Some CIOs think offering mobile users Microsoft Windows on virtual desktop infrastructure will suffice – until they lose those users.

Opinion: Policy makers must take technology more seriously for the UK to prosper

Politicians need to make the UK the world’s most connected and digitally skilled society, writes Eddie Copeland, head of the technology policy unit at influential think-tank Policy Exchange.

Vendor:: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Posted:: Feb 8, 2021
Published:: Jun 23, 2014
Format:: PDF
Type:: Ezine

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