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Derek Gannon stepped from IT to COO of newspaper company Guardian News & Media and now moves the company into new horizons. Kevin O'Brien, head of IS at Comet sees networking as the key to the future of the electronics retail giant.
INDUSTRY > Construction > NEWS
02/07/2008
CBI calls for service sector innovation
Slow down is opportunity for leadership and inspiration say business leaders
18/01/2008
Barratt 'on course' with systems integration project
Housebuilder expects to move to single IT platform by June
19/12/2007
What's in store for IT and the CIO in 2008?
From Mobiles to Larry Ellison
04/12/2007
Getting tooled up on Virtualisation
Management and security issues in virtual server environments are already causing headaches but these vendors claim to ease the pain
19/10/2007
UK drags feet on disaster recovery
Half of British businesses are not ready to implement disaster recovery plans despite taking pains to simulate the situation, according to a Symantec survey.
09/10/2007
Good and bad news for IT budgets
Worldwide IT spending will surpass £1.5 trillion in 2007, an 8% jump over last year, as rapid growth in developing countries is spreading IT investments more widely around the globe, Gartner reported today.
11/09/2007
Caterpillar engineering data stolen by offshore worker
An IT engineer working for Caterpillar's engineering design centre in India allegedly used another employee's user name and password to access and steal about 4,000 confidential documents from a company server in the US.
13/08/2007
Scottish builders to roll out mobile job management
City Building (Glasgow), the former building services department of Glasgow City Council, has signed a three-year £650,000 contract with Civica for its Servitor job management system.
21/06/2007
NetSuite unveils next major SaaS release
NetSuite, the software-as-a-service vendor, has launched its next, major 2007.0 business management application platform release, targeting scalability, customisation and levels of automation to extend functionality.
15/06/2007
UK business failing in flexi working
A report published this week by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) highlights that in terms of flexible working, the UK is lagging behind its European competitors and failing to exploit innovative working methods.
07/06/2007
Oracle to launch 11g database
Oracle has finally committed to a launch date for the next major release of its database. Appropriately enough, the vendor plans to unveil Oracle Database 11g on 11 July.
04/06/2007
IT tool targets carbon footprints
Supply Chain Consulting has launched CarbonView, to enable companies to implement strategies that will reduce their carbon footprint while simultaneously improving their business performance.
AMEC keeps council build on target
Project management and reporting software is helping South Lanarkshire Council maintain a view of its £320m schools building project and contact with outsourced suppliers.
18/05/2007
Microsoft, Clinton develop green software
Microsoft will work with the Clinton Foundation to develop free web-based software and services that cities around the world can use to monitor their carbon emissions and share ideas about environmental protection.
16/05/2007
Digital age demands talent search
As many as 60% of IT organisations will underperform as they fail to attract and regain the employees they will need to succeed in the digital age, according to Gartner.
02/05/2007
Online tool reduces building energy use
A new online service aimed at landlords launched today can now report, monitor and drive down their buildings' energy use and CO2 emissions in an industry-standard way.
26/04/2007
Welsh Water maps IS improvements
Welsh Water has taken on new managed services as part of a project to update the company’s Geographical Information System in line with more accurate Ordnance Survey data.
Wimpey guarantees network performance
Moving from a distributed application model to a centralised solution, construction firm George Wimpey was planning to add to its existing WAN traffic load, and had no detailed visibility of the size or type of traffic.
28/03/2007
Hewdens secures remote access
Hewden, the UK equipment rental provider, has chosen SecurAccess from SecurEnvoy to protect its corporate systems when its team of rental professionals need to access applications and data remotely.
27/03/2007
