Department of Energy & Climate Change CIO Jennifer Rigby has said that e-procurement and cloud will drive the government's green IT strategy. Rigby is also chair of the government's green ICT delivery unit (GDU), a cross-departmental, ...
Managing the availability of businesses'customer-facing online presence is moving away from IT departments and towards marketing.That is according to a newly released report commissioned by SunGard availability services. Delivering ...
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Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust(CHUFT)has reported savings of about£45,000 and saved 115 more lives since implementing a suite of QlikView applications last year. In 2010,the trust had a problem with its ...
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Computerworld-If the new iPhone 5 with LTE wireless sells as well as analysts predict,its impact on IT shops already wrestling with the Bring-Your-Own-Device(BYOD)trend could be dramatic. Some analysts predict higher cellular network data ...
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When it comes to good government IT strategy, only collaboration will work in the long term, according to Hord Tipton, executive director of professional certification body (ISC)2. But after that, governments should stop trying to ...
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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The Bank of England is to hire 145 IT staff to fill roles in its new financial services watchdog the Prudential Regulatory Authority(PRA). The PRA is tasked with ensuring financial institutions have the appropriate levels of liquidity to ...
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The unique identifiers of 1 million Apple iOS devices that hackers leaked last week were stolen from the servers of a Florida-based digital publishing firm called Bluetoad. Bluetoad develops digital distribution technologies. Its ...
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HP has announced the appointment of Robert Youngjohns to run its Autonomy software arm,ending a search that began in June after the sudden departure of Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch. Youngjohns previously worked at Sun ...
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The Paralympic Games was the largest live broadcast undertaking for Channel 4, but also gave the IT team an equally complex project that presented a range of new challenges and had to be executed under very tight deadlines. To broadcast ...
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CIOs have been urged to rethink their partnerships with strategic suppliers as the industry goes through its most disruptive period since the dot com crash. The rapid shift towards digital technologies,from big data to social ...
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The government's spy agency,GCHQ,is to launch a programme today that aims to help business leaders in their attempts to tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks. The programme,dubbed Cyber Security for Business,will be the first time ...
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The night watchman and the IT security guy rarely work together even though their jobs,at the core,are similar:to protect the company.At many organizations,physical and information security remain separate entities by happenstance and by ...
For 25 years,hospitals and clinics have had to pay an annual membership fee of as much as$1,200 to legally use the most popular set of standards for the electronic exchange of health information. On Tuesday,the nonprofit organization ...
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Chinese search engine firm Baidu has revealed it is to invest over 10 billion yuan (£1bn) in a new cloud computing centre. The company's CIO, Jennifer Li, made the announcement at the company's annual conference in Beijing, at the ...
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