Sustainability initiatives in the European coatings sector have reached a new phase with a much stronger focus on issues like low carbon footprints of products and waste reductions. Previously the industry has been concentrating on ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Decoration
Obese children who don't have type 2 diabetes but take the diabetes drug metformin while improving their diet and exercise habits seem to lose a bit of weight. But it isn't much more weight than kids who only make the lifestyle changes, ...
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An increasing focus on brands and a revamped management structure have been pinpointed as two reasons why profits at the Real Good Food Company (RGFC) rose by 24% to £10.5M this year. "We are already discussing the potential for ...
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HSBC Middle East has inked an exclusive agreement with Zurich Insurance Middle East for distribution of its personal and commercial general insurance products in the UAE over the next ten years. Involving distribution in other Middle East ...
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IT infrastructure company SCC has become the first supplier on the government’s CloudStore to win pan-government security accreditation. The firm has gained accreditation for its multi-tenanted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
Tags: SCC, Computer Products, G-Cloud
The G-Cloud looks set to become the future model for the way government buys its IT – with a new framework in the pipeline that will include secure email services for the NHS – and calls for it to become a blueprint for all new ...
Tags: G-Cloud ramps, secure email services, user device services
Speaking at Business Cloud Summit 2012, Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, called for public sector champions to push forward adoption of the G-Cloud. G-Cloud is in its third year of development. "We have to ...
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2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
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Technology is taking an ever more central role in the way we work, live and play. The future for the IT community is bright, and IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lead their organisations to a successful economic recovery. But ...
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Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is set to lose its stranglehold on the government mobile market, as momentum to broaden the number of smartphone suppliers in Whitehall gathers pace. Currently, Blackberry is the only smartphone ...
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Government IT is no longer in a "19th century" state, but there's still much work to be done especially when it comes to G-Cloud. That's the view of the programme's director and director of Home Office IT, Denise McDonagh, who was ...
Tags: Government IT, McDonagh, G-Cloud, Business Cloud Summit
Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
Tags: UK IT, UKtech50, ARM, GCHQ, Government Digital Service, Salesforce.com
The NHS Commissioning Board is looking to use multiple secure email providers via the government’s G-Cloud framework. The move would be the largest deal yet to go through G-Cloud, pushing many millions of pounds through the ...
Tags: NHS anticipates, G-Cloud, secure email services, Denise McDonagh
Enterprise cloud computing firm Salesforce.com has joined the UK government's G-Cloud framework, the cross-departmental initiative focused on introducing cloud computing across the public sector. It means government organisations can now ...
Tags: Salesforce, G-Cloud, cloud computing firm, Facebook
The government's second G-Cloud framework has gone live,with twice the number of original suppliers. Of the 458 suppliers on the 12-month framework,which allows public sector bodies to buy on demand IT services,three-quarters are small ...
Tags: government, second G-Cloud framework, UK, double number of suppliers