Space NK apothecary is one of a number of retailers using 3G as a replacement for ISDN to back up store IT systems. The retailer is using the service, supplied by Claranet, to reduce the risk of "copper theft", which can take out all ...
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Six London boroughs have agreed to implement the same version of Oracle's Release 12 Enterprise Resourse Planning (ERP) software in a bid to cut costs and improve services. With a combined population of 1.6 million, Lambeth, Lewisham, ...
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Simon Moorhead began his career as the Bank of England’s CIO with a baptism of fire, having started in November 2008 – just two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed and a year after Northern Rock was rescued by the government. ...
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IT vendors and analysts sometimes make statements about SMBs not "getting‟ the importance of disaster recovery (DR). But how true is this? And for those taking measures to allow recovery of IT systems and data in the event ...
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Businesses must make availability of IT services a boardroom issue because there is growing evidence of employee frustration and resentment when systems are unavailable, according to research from Imperial College. Many staff now expect ...
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Hurricane Sandy exposed a decided lack of contingency planning on Wall Street, according to a report by a research firm. With the Northeast still experiencing the effects of widespread storm damage, the business continuity plans of stock ...
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The Department of Health has clawed back £1bn from troubled supplier CSC in a legally binding agreement. The deal will see Lorenzo electronic patient record systems used in just 10 trusts, down from 160. CSC will retain ...
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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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Despite precautions by system providers, an extra second added to the official timekeeping record Saturday triggered several popular Internet services to crash over the weekend, including LinkedIn, Reddit and Quantas airline's reservation ...
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The provision of GP IT services are to be given to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), in a move which could see doctors’ systems outsourced to third-party providers, according to the NHS Commissioning Board’s (NHS CB) ...
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Almost 60% of IT executives have a plan in place to retire applications, according to a UK study by Accenture. The survey of 250 IT executives and 250 business executives in companies with 1,000 or more staff found that the amount of IT ...
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £17m five-year deal with HP for desktop IT break-fix services. "For the first time, the British Armed Forces can rely on a consistent and transparent level of support for IT assets in the ...
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EMC has named former Huawei Technologies executive John Roese as chief technology officer. Roese, also a former Nortel Networks CTO, will play a key role in shaping EMC's cloud and big data technology strategy, the company said. Reese ...
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Computer Generated Solutions (CGS), a leading global provider of technology solutions, has announced they will showcase their industry-leading BlueCherry enterprise software and Leadtec shop floor control solutions at the upcoming ...
Businesses have been urged to prepare for the arrival of HTML5 – the technology that underpins the next generation of the web. Organisations should start evaluating HTML5 now and assess its effect on customers' web browsing ...
Tags: HTML5, underlying back-end systems, underlying IT systems, web