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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Engineering firm Mott MacDonald will roll out Microsoft products globally over the next year as it moves towards a Microsoft-centric business strategy. More than 12,000 of the company's staff in 140 countries will have access to Microsoft ...
Sally Howes, IT director at the National Audit Office, has extensive experience in the IT sector and was brought in to boost the government watchdog's technical skills. Under her guidance the NAO is expanding its role beyond project ...
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Business consultancy Deloitte is using cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) from ServiceNow to support 13,000 employees in the UK and Switzerland. ServiceNow is a cloud-based service that automates IT support. Customers pay an annual ...
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When Andy Haywood says he is extremely busy, it is probably not an exaggeration. Eight months after joining the Co-operative Business Group (CBG) as group chief information officer (CIO), he is leading a full-scale IT transformation ...
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Out with the old Delivering the “near-impossible” The agenda for 2013 Focus on Apple The next funding period Susan Cooklin has had an eventful 2012. The CIO at Network Rail delivered major technology upgrades, while driving ...
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Irish multinational drug maker United Drug has implemented Silver Peak WAN optimisation devices that have improved application performance, upgraded disaster recovery provision and saved on bandwidth costs to the tune of €30,000 per ...
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VASCO Data Security Inc, a leading software security company specializing in authentication products, announced that Lebes Stores, one of the largest department stores in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in the South of Brazil, has chosen to ...
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CAL Business Solutions welcomes a new Dynamics GP Consultant & Application Support Specialist. HARWINTON, CT, December 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- CAL Business Solutions Inc, a Connecticut Microsoft Dynamics ERP software partner, is ...
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Mark Large, GOSH IT director, said: "Our clinicians told us that they want to use Apple technology, so it is something we are embracing, and have created one of the best infrastructures in the world to make it happen." "What is ...
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Google's decision last week to put its Google Wallet e-wallet system into the cloud is not sitting comfortably with security experts. Though the service's move from physical handsets to the cloud has expanded its credit card compatibility ...
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Paul Coby faces his second Christmas as IT director at department store chain John Lewis. Since joining the retailer in March 2011, after many years as CIO at British Airways, he has embraced what he calls the "retail revolution" brought ...
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Global recruitment company Hudson has dumped NetApp for HP Lefthand storage as part of a datacentre consolidation and disaster recovery project that saw it cut energy use by 50% and double storage efficiency. The project began as a move ...
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Supermarket chain Tesco is investing £65m in a state-of-the-art datacentre as it gears up to expand its web operations outside the UK. The retailer has signed a 15-year contract with datacentre operator Sentrum, to host the ...
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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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