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TECHNOLOGY > Infrastructure > NEWS
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.
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.
10/06/2008
BA CIO Coby apologises for T5 in Keynote speech
Frank and honest British Airways CIO refuses to hide from mistakes the airline made in T5 move
29/05/2008
NHS IT in crisis as Fujitsu walks away from £896m contract talks
The government’s NHS IT programme has been thrown into a new crisis by the collapse of negotiations with Fujitsu, which is providing IT services across the South of England.
15/05/2008
Premier Foods says SAP rollout on target
Premier Foods is on target with a business-wide SAP rollout, its chief executive has said.
18/04/2008
Departing NHS CIO tells IT to play its part
Major speech will outline the role of IT in the future of healthcare
16/04/2008
BA senior execs leave after T5 fiasco
British Airways has announced that two of its senior executives will leave the company following the chaotic opening of Terminal 5.
30/03/2008
Staff log on problems behind baggage disaster at Terminal 5
IT 'glitches' continue to cause flight cancellations
20/03/2008
Most IT pros unaware of SOA risks
Nearly half of all UK companies are in the initial planning stages of implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for their IT operations, a survey has revealed. But most IT professionals are unaware of system breakdown risks, another survey posited.
14/03/2008
Cost of green IT puts companies off
More than 80 percent of organisations have moved green IT further up their list of priorities, although it still lags well behind issues such as security, legacy software, data quality and server consolidation.
10/03/2008
Internet Governance Forum tackles e-crime
The first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held at the Houses of Parliament last week, with the group unveiling plans to tackle online crime by sharing information between law enforcement, ISPs and charities.
22/02/2008
Fujitsu Siemens offers virtualisation test drive
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is offering to provide a VMWare Infrastructure 3 solution for a free 45-day trial period to allow organisations to conduct detailed proof-of-concept and sizing analyses.
04/02/2008
Bracknell Forest council saves with virtualisation
Bracknell Forest Borough Council has saved £50,000 on hardware in the roll out of a single application on virtual servers – but expects reduced labour to yield even greater savings.
28/01/2008
Alstrom signs six-year desktop support deal with Atos
Power generation and rail infrastructure supplier Alstrom has signed a six-year deal with Atos Origin for desktop support for 55,000 users worldwide.
23/01/2008
SOA revitalises the mainframe
Up to three-quarters of an enterprise data is managed or stored on a mainframe. Research by IBM user group SHARE has revealed that the mainframe, which conventional wisdom had was old technology, is playing a big part in modern enterprise systems.
21/01/2008
Reducing government's IT carbon footprint
It wants to do it. How is it getting on?
CeBIT goes green this year
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative, established by many of the world’s leading computer companies will use the 2008 CeBIT trade show to drive home the green IT message.
18/01/2008
Barratt 'on course' with systems integration project
Housebuilder expects to move to single IT platform by June
15/01/2008
Burberry switches on SAP in retail and warehousing
Fashion retailer Burberry has gone live with a major new SAP implementation in its warehouses and European retail outlets, less than four months after its began the dual projects.
09/01/2008
