U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday urged government officials to clamp down on bad IT contracts and limit duplication across projects, with an estimated one quarter of federal spending on IT wasted every year. The U.S. government will spend nearly ...
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Moneycorp, the UK foreign currency and payments company, is now supporting its services in a virtualized data center. Founded in 1979, Moneycorp is a APS11bn provider of wholesale and commercial foreign exchange operations, with a growing ...
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The Co-operative Bank could write-down up to £200m of IT investments if it finalises a proposed acquisition of 632 Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) branches. The Co-op Bank's annual profits could be impacted significantly if its ...
Microsoft Gulf and Union National Bank (UNB) on Monday announced a partnership that will see UNB upgrade parts of its IT infrastructure to Windows 8. UNB said that, when it is completed, the IT model will be the first of its kind in the ...
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The UK faces a shortage of 33,300 skilled IT and tech workers by 2050 due to a skills deficit, an ageing workforce and restrictive migration policies, according to recruitment firm Randstad Technologies. The firm based its findings on the ...
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Nokia is planning to transfer up to 820 employees to HCL Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services and lay off up to 300 people as the company reorganizes its IT organization. The goal is to reduce operating costs and create an IT ...
UK charity Action for Children has chosen cloud provider Rackspace to tackle its big data challenges and scale up its IT infrastructure on demand. SAS launches academy to tackle demand for "52,000 a year" big data specialists Analysis: ...
NetApp on Tuesday announced that the Sauber Formula 1 team would now use the storage and data management firm as its storage foundation. Sauber will be using a FlexPod data centre solution, developed by Cisco and NetApp, and a NetApp ...
Following news that Dell was in negotiations for a private equity buyout, analysts said on Tuesday that multiple private equity firms would have to invest in Dell for a buyout to be possible. The analysts pointed toward the company’s ...
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The unemployment rate among U.S. IT workers stood at 3.3% in the fourth quarter of 2012, significantly lower than the overall unemployment rate of 7.8%, according to tech job board Dice. The technology consulting industry in the U.S. ...
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Direct Line Group (DLG) has appointed IT consulting firm Capgemini as a partner in a five year contract to design, deliver and run a new IT infrastructure, as it looks to move away from RBS's data centres. The £100m deal, which ...
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Software engineers working for the US military will have to follow new testing procedures to reduce the risk of security flaws in their code. That is one of a number of computer security-related measures contained in the 2013 National ...
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IDG News Service-The rapid expansion of business data poses challenges for companies across Europe,especially in the UK,per Aberdeen Group's research report Business Analytics in the UK:Transforming Data into Business Insight. ...
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Businesses that want to trade in their old systems for new IT should consider moving to open source first before thinking about a proprietary system, according to a report commissioned by transaction processing services provider Amadeus IT ...
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Mobility and security hardly go hand-in-hand. But not at the Essar Group. In fact, for this Indian, multinational conglomerate, security was the stepping stone to enterprise mobility and a vibrant BYOD environment. What got the ball ...
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