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Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo The hunt for alien planets is not just taking place at the far reaches of our galaxy but within high performance computing (HPC) centres at universities across the UK. Hundreds of terabytes of raw data... [18 May 2009]
Northgate Achieves £1 Million Annual Revenue Improvement by Reallocating 1,000 Man Days Per Year Using assyst
White Paper Northgate Information Solutions (IS) Limited, a leading Managed Service Provider (MSP), manages "Mission critical" services for 500,000 users across the UK, supporting more than 125,000 desktops and 8,000 servers in 10... [17 May 2009]
Financial Data Protected Despite Radio Access
White Paper Centrally stored customer data is accessed by field staff, consultants and telecommuters as well as Datev information centres distributed across Germany - approximately 800 external employees in total. [16 May 2009]
Uni takes supercomputing to the cloud
News Janet [the national education and research network] is looking at shared services for its data centres, it's only a small step to say 'let's put a supercomputer in there and have regional HPC... [11 May 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News The government has announced £36m in funding for a trio of research centres that will probe the societal benefits and pitfalls of emerging digital technologies such as Twitter. Another catalyst for setting up digital... [29 Apr 2009]
£7.2bn savings: IT and back office feel the Treasury knife
News Shared back office service centres would consolidate and reduce the number of separate systems and processes currently used by government departments, councils, health trusts and police, it added. Benchmarking... [22 Apr 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News As of February 2009 fingerprints and facial scans for foreign nationals were being captured at seven UK Border Agency centres, Armagh, Birmingham, Cardiff, Croydon, Glasgow, Liverpool and Sheffield. In February 2009 it... [15 Apr 2009]
Virtualisation to boom in recession gloom
News The current recession that is affecting various economies in EMEA could prove to be a short-term brake on uptake of virtualised technologies, so vendors must be aware of how the technology can save organisations money by better server... [14 Apr 2009]
ID cards to remain unreadable until next year
News In February silicon.com revealed that no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the cards' biometric chips - in spite of 22,500 cards having been issued to foreign nationals since November... [07 Apr 2009]
"Hello, Mumbai Calling": Avanta's New Serviced Office Centres Set New Benchmark for Service Excellence
White Paper UK-headquartered Avanta has made its name in the fast-growing serviced offices sector. Avanta needed their new telephony infrastructure to be secure so as to ensure the privacy of each customer. In additional, as a managed office space... [01 Apr 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News But we can use the money we have got to build a capability across the country to establish a reporting centre for the public, to provide regional e-crime centres that can deal with the packages of intelligence that come... [25 Mar 2009]
Quocirca Insight Report: Data Centre Asset Planning -- Regaining control of the data centre
White Paper Inefficent power and space usage in data centres wastes both money and energy -- and it's a universal problem. The report also includes five recommendations based on the belief that only a thorough and... [18 Mar 2009]
Global VPN access for BT's 21st Century Network
News Announced last week, iVPN service will underpin all other IT services on the next-generation network, such as application optimisation, videoconferencing, unified communications, call centres, datacentres and security. [09 Mar 2009]
Opportunities to Minimise
White Paper IT managers are under pressure to get more out of data centres for two reasons. On the face of it, data centre consolidation and rationalisation may not sound like a prime hunting ground... [01 Mar 2009]
eBay: e-crime cops latest recruit
News The PCeU will only have about 30 staff, so much of its role will be taking e-crime reports from the NFRC - which will be run by City of London Police - and helping to share that intelligence with separate regional... [25 Feb 2009]
