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TOP TEN CONCERNS > Infrastructure Refresh > NEWS
04/07/2008
UK IT chief takes axe to budgets
Newly appointed UK government IT chief Martin Read is to implement a wide-reaching programme to slash government spending over the next 12 months.
03/07/2008
DWP restructures £3bn IT services contract
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking suppliers for £3 billion worth of technology deals to run from 2010 to 2015.
NHS CTO:"Standards bodies need to stop arguing"
The chief technology officer on the £12.7 billion NHS National Programme for IT has told CIO sister title Computerworld UK that standards bodies must ‘stop arguing’ and work together, so that the NHS can deliver highly interoperable software in hospitals across the country.
02/07/2008
CIO News View: Eee but the PC is changing
Eee PC joins hot list of must have devices in the enterprise
Government refuses to reveal NHS Fujitsu 'termination' details
The government has said it will not publish any details of cancellation clauses in £896 million Fujitsu contract with the NHS, or details of the termination notice, citing legal and confidentiality interests.
01/07/2008
Google shoots for business mainstream with Taylor Woodrow win
Construction giant will deploy web-based suite across 1800 seats
30/06/2008
CIO News View: Don’t believe the Windows 7 hype
Five reasons not to get too excited by version 7
27/06/2008
CIO News View: Fear, loathing and semantic search
Call it, if you really must, Search 2.0, but the desperation to crack the code that makes semantic search a reality is becoming tangible.
26/06/2008
Betfair builds in-house platform for faster transactions
Betfair has built an in-house transaction processing and event platform, which it says has the capability of processing up to one million transactions per second, a 100-fold increase on previous rates.
B&Q owner Kingfisher to create central ITSM centre
Kingfisher, the home improvement group, is setting up a central IT service management centre based on Axios software, in order to consolidate its helpdesks into one centre.
Sainsbury's implements IP videoconferencing for easier meetings
Sainsbury’s is implementing an IP-based videoconferencing suite from BCS Global, to facilitate meetings without travel.
23/06/2008
Seven hundred NHS IT jobs under threat
Seven hundred jobs at Fujitsu could be at stake in the aftermath of the company’s decision into withdraw from its £1.1 billion contract with the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
20/06/2008
Verizon to boost unified comms in Europe
Verizon Business is set to bring its unified communications services to several more European countries, as well as expanding its existing services.
Desktop virtualisation gets military-grade security
Tresys Technology has released a desktop virtualisation platform with a difference - it is designed from the ground up for organisations needing tight security, including military bodies.
19/06/2008
CIO News View: Why freemail beats business email
Web-based consumer services often beat blue-chip offerings
HP and VMware partner up to manage virtual servers
HP has announced an expanded partnership with VMware to jointly develop software to manage VMware hypervisor technology.
Red Hat transforms virtualisation offering
Red Hat has released a beta version of a Linux-based hypervisor that can be loaded onto servers and desktop computers with a flash drive.
Mozilla struggles to fix 'severe' Firefox 3.0 bug
Security researchers at Tipping Point have found the first vulnerability in the new Firefox 3.0 web browser, ranking the severity of the bug as 'high'.
18/06/2008
