London, 21st September 2010 - An IT manager for the NHS in Yorkshire has been warned he faces jail after admitting illegally spying on medical records of patients. Dale Trever, 22, was working for a primary care trust as a data quality manager when he accessed patient records - all for women and mostly for his family, friends and colleagues. It is thought he looked at records on 431 occasions, even going in on weekends to have an illicit peek. On 336 of those occasions, he was checking out the records of family, friends and colleagues.

 Amichai Shulman, Imperva’s CTO comments, “Dale Trever had been accessing the information between October 2008 and June last year and worryingly has only been caught now. With such a large system with very sensitive information in it, you would have expected the NHS to have some sort of alert system which monitors access and alerts in real-time when company policy is violated.”

September 22 2010 - UK data centres are facing a ‘data crunch’ unless more than £1billion is invested in this critical IT infrastructure over the next 12 months according to Alex Rabbetts, Managing Director of data centre specialists, Migration Solutions. Recent unparalleled growth in online services, cloud computing, lean organisation initiatives and the rise of data on mobile phones is seriously risking a melt down in available data centre capacity to the UK.

“Like the credit crunch, there’s an international dimension to this problem," says Rabbetts. “Worldwide the amount of digital information created last year was 800 billion gigabytes. This year it will grow by a factor of 67 - that’s over a Zettabyte! Simultaneously, the economic downturn has led to a prolonged under-investment in data centre infrastructure at a time when demand is soaring.”

IT departments are all too often being asked do more with less in order to clear the budget decks for what many CEOs view as a more important business investment.

But, says Clive Longbottom, it is important to realise that IT expenditure is an important aspect for business, for the simple reason it is a core expenditure.

Clive Longbottom, service director of IT analysis and research company Quocirca, who is a keynote speaker at 360°IT Infrastructure Event, says that any IT department that has allowed its expenditure to be classed as nice to have (rather than essential) should hang its head in shame.

The reason, he observes, is that it has effectively managed to divorce itself from the business and is therefore essentially viewed as an external provider.

The business IT industry is full of Cloud Computing apparatchiks, but few are as experienced as Lee Provoost of the London-based social business consultancy Headshift.

And Provoost says that many of today's business Internet start-ups will be highly disruptive to established business models within just a few years.

Writing in his blog for the 360°IT - The IT Infrastructure Event Web site, Provoost, who is an expert on enterprise social software and technology strategy, says that the ability to share information - and request information - between businesses, is set to revolutionise the way we do business.