The Treasury Committee requested that RBS chief executive Stephen Hester provide a detailed explanation of what went wrong at the bank to cause its ongoing IT issues. In a letter to the bank, Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury ...
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HP has unveiled two new HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) four-socket servers that facilitate customers’ move to the cloud while delivering increased compute power in less space and a return on investment within three months. The ...
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WatchGuard Technologies has announced today that it is the first UTM security appliance vendor to offer a firewall that configures itself. The company is adding a new cloud-based configuration utility – RapidDeploy – that ...
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“Royal Mail wanted a CIO who is comfortable in a really volatile and changing environment to drive change. And I am. I joined because the scale of the challenge is huge and I would be mad to say no to that.” Catherine Doran ...
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Half of companies worldwide lack knowledge about potential security threats they may face, a global IT risks survey has revealed. Almost a third of more than 3,000 IT professionals, including 200 from the UK, polled by security firm ...
Zurich Insurance has extended an IT application outsourcing contract with CSC, which could lead to the relationship spanning 19 years. A seven-year extension to a deal originally penned in 2004, which will start in 2013, also has the ...
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We are happy to update our loyal customers and future customers as to the the continued effort we are putting into providing a more visiable Karis Computing and our efforts to release our new image MILWAUKEE,WI,November ...
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Halcyon Software,the global leader in systems management software,has announced the immediate availability of the first product of its class that fully supports the Japanese language.Halcyon was assisted by Solpac,its Tokyo-based strategic ...
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Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). Further reading Paypal: Big data is a scam Businesses ...
Network World-Motorola Solutions has unveiled a pair of quasi-cloud services that make it simpler for IT groups to set up secure connections for guest Wi-Fi users,including those with personally-owned devices,on corporate or retail wireless ...
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Citigroup is cutting 11,000 jobs,many in IT,as part of a restructuring announced Wednesday. The job cuts are part of a plan to save about$900 million through a variety of actions,including"increasing standardization and the use of ...
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In line with the previously outlined forecast, the Picanol Group realized a consolidated turnover of 116.72 million in the third quarter of 2012, which represents an increase in turnover of 19% compared to 97.88 million euros in the same ...
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Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
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The Department for Education is cutting IT staff among 1,000 job losses to reduce total headcount by a quarter. The announcement comes as the government aims to shrink Whitehall to its smallest size since the Second World War under the ...
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing(HKEx)is the nervous system of the city's financial industry.It operates the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is one of the world's premier exchange-owners based on market capitalization of its shares. ...
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