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TECHNOLOGY > Databases > NEWS
02/07/2008
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
Darzi NHS review promises patients online access to care records
Patients will have online access to their electronic health records within the next year, according to yesterday'’s review of the NHS by Lord Darzi.
27/06/2008
Fujitsu launches £44 million Green datacentre
Fujitsu has opened a £44 million green datacentre in a former warehouse, which it claims will use half the energy of current datacentres.
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.
Information commissioner to take action on HMRC, MoD
Information commissioner will take formal enforcement action against both HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and Ministry of Defence (MoD), following spate of high-profile data loss incidents.
05/06/2008
Morrisons Q1 keeps Optimisation and IT plan on track
Tills ring in strong sales and change
29/05/2008
Post Office signs Logica to update business intelligence
The Post Office has inked a deal with Logica to implement two business intelligence systems from Kalido.
16/05/2008
NHS IT programme is four years late
The National Programme for IT in the NHS, the world’s biggest civilian IT project, is four years behind schedule, according to government auditors.
08/05/2008
BMA calls for halt to care records rollout
The British Medical Association has urged the NHS to stop immediately the rollout of Summary Care Records beyond initial pilot sites, until it has made the changes advised in a key report released yesterday.
ID card scheme still lacks "robust" governance and architecture - official
The ID card scheme lacks “robust” governance and design, according to government advisers of the project.
07/05/2008
NHS care records 'clunky' and 'immature', says report
The current NHS Summary Care Records system is “clunky” and "interfaces poorly with other ICT systems", according to a new report.
23/04/2008
Management key for virtualisation says Microsoft
Microsoft has said that system management will be its way of standing out from the crowd in the virtualisation market.
10/04/2008
Pharmaceuticals firm Nycomed outsources infrastructure to BT and HP
Pharmaceuticals company Nycomed has signed a contract for BT and HP to manage its infrastructure over the next five years.
08/04/2008
Information Commissioner slams HSBC for data loss
The Information Commissioner's Office and security analysts have slammed HSBC for losing a disc containing "sensitive information" on 370,00 of its customers.
01/04/2008
Staff ignore Data Protection Act to get job done
Information management policies are poorly executed and cast aside, survey finds
Database and web investment offer Bloomsbury magic future
Book publisher looks towards digital future with Microsoft, OUP and not Harry Potter
25/03/2008
IT faces business intelligence marginalisation
Corporate IT departments’ will become increasingly marginalised in the delivery of business intelligence as search and collaboration tools allow individuals and business units to build their own analytic applications, according to Gartner.
20/03/2008
CIOs struggle with datacentres capacity fears
More than one-third of CIOs believe their datacentres will be unable to meet the rapidly growing demand for business services and applications in two to five years.
18/03/2008
Centrica switches to frontline SAP
Centrica Energy, the sister company of British Gas, has extended its SAP platform from the back office into its power generating stations.
05/03/2008
