How do you build an effective infrastructure to wind down a company? The Lehman’s Brothers Holding Inc. (LBHI)’s operating company LAMCO was forced to quickly build an infrastructure and technology that would meet the size, scope, and capacity requirements required by the estate. They found their answer in flexible and scalable cloud hosting. 

This paper highlights both positive developments and challenges the industry faces in the year ahead. More technological and advanced thinking in terms of PCI scope is clearly welcome news for merchants, and the hope is that it can begin to help merchants tackle the ever-increasing PCI compliance budget challenges they face. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we look at the new IT security proposals from the European Commission and ask whether the benefits will be worth it. We reveal the challenges of managing big data, with help from some industry analysts, and hear from the Open University CIO on IT tools that support learning. Read the issue now.