Keep data safe – or face jail

Tagged with: data protection

The Editor, 2 days ago

Red faces and humiliating public apologies in the wake of serious data breaches are nothing new - but soon, hapless executives at organisations that negligently disclose personal data could face jail sentences of up to two years.Under legislation voted through by the House of Lords last week, policymakers proposed the addition to section 55 of the Data Protection Act (DPA) that would make it a criminal offence to lose persona information. They hope this will prevent further breaches of the kind seen at HM Revenue and Customs earlier this year, when it confessed to the loss of details about 25...

Releasing the Power to Innovate

Tagged with: power systems

Mandy Shaw, 15 days ago

Some thoughts on what the recent Power Systems announcements mean to Logicalis and its System i customers IBM's recent Power Systems announcement does two things. It completes the convergence of the System p (AIX) and System i (AS/400, iSeries) platforms. But, more interestingly, it may allow the System i's core operating system to free itself from the shackles of history and perception.Until these announcements, IBM's Power based hardware platform came in two flavours: a System p, which ran AIX and/or Linux, and a System i, which ran any combination of i5/OS, AIX, Linux and Windows. You'd think this was a no-brainer...

Bobbies on the Facebook beat

Tagged with: realtime generation, social networking

The Editor, 17 days ago

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have jumped on the Facebook bandwagon and are using the social networking site to catch criminals. The Force's web unit has created its very own Facebook application, to alert local residents to incidents, make appeals for information and update them on ongoing operations. It also features a news feed and links to video, all of which can be shared between members of the social networking site. Current news stories on the feed include sentencing details for two murder trials, appeals for information about robbery by a man with an axe, and calls for help locating two missing...