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Cisco warns of security skills shortage

The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report finds that not only is there a worldwide shortage of nearly a million skilled security professionals, but threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust have reached startling levels.

Microsoft names 25 global cloud providers

Microsoft has named companies in the Cloud OS Network, a worldwide consortium of more than 25 cloud service providers delivering services built on the Microsoft Cloud Platform: Windows Server with Hyper-V, System Center and the Windows Azure Pack.

High UK data centre pricing set to stay

UK pricing is among the highest in Europe and is significantly higher than in the other largest markets including Germany, France & the Netherlands says TCL (Tariff Consultancy Ltd).

France sees rising high speed mobile

The three biggest mobile operators in France have each signed up one million customers for faster mobile services, but a price war is limiting their income.

Businesses look to move away from US hosting

An independent survey of 300 businesses, commissioned by web infrastructure and cloud hosting provider Peer 1 Hosting, reveals that a quarter plan to move their company data away from the US due to NSA-related privacy and security concerns.

Big names seek big data maturity

"Big Data" is certainly one of the emerging technologies for IT industry in 2014, says researcher Frost & Sullivan.

SAP files credit management patent

A recent online filing of an SAP patent for credit management shows how this process could be further automated. Patent number 8615464 was published online last month in the US by SAP, which provides the sales processing engine for most of the large distribution companies.

Nokia widens injunction fight against HTC

Nokia is continuing its fight in Europe against HTC. After winning an injunction in the UK, it now has another against the Taiwanese firm in Germany.

EMEA service provider routers/switches bounce back

The global carrier router and switch market (IP edge and core routers and carrier Ethernet switches) totaled $3.6bn in 3Q13, an increase of 7% from the year-ago 3rd quarter. Europe/EMEA declined 10% in 3Q13 from 2Q13, an increase of 7% from the year-ago 3rd quarter.