Computerworld - HP has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to the General Motors payroll, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house, the two companies announced Thursday. GM CIO Randy Mott said the car company hopes to add the ...
Computerworld - Scientists studying Earth system processes, including climate change, are now working with one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has begun using a 1.5 petaflop ...
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British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
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Frank Modruson joined Accenture in 1987. He worked initially as an analyst on complex IT projects at customers. For the last ten years, he has been Accenture's CIO responsible for the outsourcing giant's own IT operation. Modruson says as ...
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Computerworld-WASHINGTON--There's a new television show,"Revolution,"which looks at what happens to society after every piece of complex technology,including power generation,stops working.The reasons for this outage aren't explained. ...
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Computerworld-CIOs are being predictably cautious with IT budgets for next year,and are focusing on increasing use of cloud technologies and offshore outsourcing,according to the annual report of technology trends by the Society for ...
Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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Agri-business giant Syngenta has put multi-sourced IT at the heart of its ambitious plan to double its revenues in the next eight years. It has moved from having thousands of suppliers across the world to a selected few who it has close ...
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Datacentre energy requirements have grown massively in the past 12 months,suggesting that rising energy costs and stricter regulations are not helping to limit datacentre power use and cut carbon emissions. Between 2011 and 2012,power ...
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Edinburgh Airport's new owner is attempting to grow the business,with a multi-million pound IT outsourcing deal the first of many investments planned. The airport will spend 3m pounds over five years with service provider Onyx to provide ...
Hewlett-Packard(HP)CEO Meg Whitman has unveiled a five-year turnaround plan for the troubled enterprise IT company,admitting the turnaround would take longer than expected. Speaking at an analyst briefing,she said:"We have to focus on ...
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Rolls-Royce has awarded a five-year contract to HP to host its applications,as part of the company's multi-vendor IT strategy. The news follows HP's loss of its large 12-year outsourcing deal with Rolls-Royce in March,with Capgemini named ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published new guidelines that underline businesses'sole responsibility for the protection of data,even if it has been outsourced to third-party cloud network providers. As more businesses ...
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Research from analyst Freeform Dynamics has given a"could do better"verdict to business-to-business data integration in the UK and the Netherlands. Freeform Dynamics'research reveals British and Dutch companies still rely too heavily on ...
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Taiwan's LED industry has benefited from simmering anti-Japan sentiment in China, due to nationalization of the Diaoyutai islet. Formosa Epitaxy Incorporation (FOREPI) and Epistar to see booming revenues in September, because many ...
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