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Tata move into London data centre market

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Plans to invest $2 billion up to 2012 to expand its global presence

India's Tata Communications is setting up a datacentre outside London as part of its strategy to expand in key markets worldwide.

HP to be Sun Solaris distributor and support agent

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:24:00 GMT

Playing catch up with IBM and Dell?

Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, fierce competitors in hardware sales, have unveiled an expanded partnership that will see HP become a key distributor of Sun's Solaris 10 operating system.

Cabinet Office aims for open source "level playing field"

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:36:00 GMT

Will tight budgets drive public sector open source and open standards uptake?

The Cabinet Office has published a new policy designed to "make sure of a level playing field" for open source software during procurement.

Unversity College London Hospital to operate on VOIP

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:33:00 GMT

Deal could save Trust £1.7m

University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust has signed a £10m seven-year contract to overhaul its communications, including implementing voice over IP.

Justice secretary Jack Straw hit by email fraud

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT

Hackers target Justice Minister

Fraudsters have hacked into Justice secretary Jack Straw's web email account.

International Beverage goes global with SAP

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:29:00 GMT

'FastStart' implementation to replaces siloed systems

International Beverage, the maker of Old Pulteney whiskey, has placed a £500,000 order with Chelford SAP Solutions to implement an SAP business platform across seven international sites, serving 250 employees.

Standard Life strengthan ID and access management

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:18:00 GMT

Investment aims to standardise processes and cut costs world wide

Standard Life will implement Oracle Identity and Access Management software to control customer and business partner access to its sites.

Gain virtualisation hints today

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:42:00 GMT

Webcast to provide helpful guidance.

Much of the debate has centred on server virtualisation with the emergence of Hyper-V challenging VMware's hegemony in this area but there's another side to it. Enterprises should be taking a broader view and looking at virtualising storage too.

If you're one of those people who have been looking at virtualisation and have been unsure how to proceed, CIO UK, is running a...

Home Office to detail £7m e-crime unit at the Met

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:12:00 GMT

Questions remain over amount of resource dedicated to serious problem

The government is expected to detail plans next week for the Police Central e-crime Unit, after rival parties and industry observers questioned how it would work with business, and criticised funding as insufficient.

Guardian News & Media goes Google Apps

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Newspaper group boosts webtop trend

Google Apps has picked up another big customer win in UK left-leaning publishing firm Guardian News & Media (GNM), which publishes The Guardian and The Observer newspapers and the Guardian.co.uk website.