Former RBS payment processing division WorldPay will reach a major IT milestone this month on its journey to stand on its own after it was sold in 2010. In December 2010, Advent International and Bain Capital acquired WorldPay for over ...
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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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Remote areas of Scotland are now able to access superfast broadband, thanks to a research project by two of the country's universities. The University of Edinburgh and the University of the Highlands and Islands have been working together ...
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The chief information officer (CIO) of media giant UBM (formerly United Business Media), Rorie Devine, has left the company to pursue other opportunities as a consultant. UBM confirmed that the IT chief has left the post but the firm said ...
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As workloads expanded at Dublin Airport Authority, it launched a major IT infrastructure overhaul earlier this year with HP’s converged infrastructure and VMware vSphere platform. In under a year, the virtualisation project has given ...
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As data volumes grow, virtualising the infrastructure helps a business streamline its processes, reduce its hardware footprint and manage costs. But without an apt data backup and recovery strategy, a virtual environment can’t be ...
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J9 Technologies offers BAC consulting and other application performance monitoring software that help companies improve availability and lower risks that a new application will impact end-user experience negatively. SEATTLE, WA, August ...
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Despite a highly virtualised server infrastructure and a consolidated data centre, London School of Economics and Political Science was not finding all the IT efficiencies it needed. Turns out its existing virtualisation management tool ...
Dublin Airport Authority will virtualise and automate its CCTV data storage by 2013 for easy retrieval and simplified data management. Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) owns and operates Ireland’s three largest airports in Dublin, Cork ...
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The Isle of Wight College (IoWC) has used deployed a Brocade wireless network across its campus. Based in Newport, the college plays host to more than 8,500 students, along with 520 staff, and as the only further education institution on ...
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And now, the end is near. On 23 November 2012, Gerry Pennell will leave the job of a lifetime. Four years after signing up as CIO for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, his IT team has won every technology gold medal going after ...
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When Andy Haywood says he is extremely busy, it is probably not an exaggeration. Eight months after joining the Co-operative Business Group (CBG) as group chief information officer (CIO), he is leading a full-scale IT transformation ...
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During the integration of three separate groups of Swiss telecoms provider SwissCom, the business intelligence (BI) function was the only place to get a view of the whole organisation. Following its decision in 2008 to converge groups ...
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Customers of AWS public cloud are reaping the benefits of cost savings, elasticity and scalability, but many are still wary of putting sensitive applications in the cloud, despite having a "cloud-first" and "cloud-ready" strategy. At an ...
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Strict standards in Germany Storage from Hitachi Data Systems Cost recovery Viability test and TrueCopy Licence Hitachi Dynamic Tiering For the German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - data management was becoming a big ...
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