IBM has been awarded a contract worth up to $1 billion to transform the US Department of the Interior's IT as part of a major cloud computing initiative. The DOI is aiming to move its data and applications into the cloud as part of a ...
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US government agency, the Department of Interior (DOI) has selected IBM in a deal worth up to $1bn (£600m) as it bids to shift its IT into the cloud. The contract is an "indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity" (IDIQ) contract ...
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Huawei released its preliminary financial performance results for 2012 this week, projecting its global sales revenue to reach $35.5 billion, an 8% year-on-year increase. Net profit is expected to reach $2.4 billion, a 33% increase over the ...
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Over the last decade banks have spent billions on high-frequency trading, but have simultaneously neglected their IT legacy systems, leading to a dangerous lack of data transparency. With the Banking Reform Bill in draft, is the time right ...
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The former chief technology officer at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Philip French has left the civil service to join Steria, a major provider of IT services to the department. French joined the Steria on 3 September in the role of ...
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The government is to test the feasibility of moving to a single enterprise resource planning(ERP)platform across Whitehall. In a GBP100,000,four-month tender as part of the Next Generation Shared Services programme,the government said it ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com's cloud services division, has claimed that more than 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions in the US are now using AWS for a wide variety of uses including "big data" analytics, ...
Network Rail is set to overhaul its data management programme to make its data more valuable. The organisation's infrastructure information services business unit,dubbed"asset information,"has turned to Informatica to develop its ...
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