data centres

Outsourcing: Bye bye Chennai, g'day Brisbane

News An eclectic mix of 31 cities, in countries ranging from Australia and Ireland to areas in South America and Africa, will challenge today's best-known outsourcing centres in India and China, according to advisors at KPMG. [20 Feb 2009]

Why banks will push ahead with offshoring

Comment Organisations such as HSBC and Morgan Stanley set up captive shared service centres in locations such as Mumbai and Chennai for the provision of predominantly IT and transactional back-office functions including... [10 Feb 2009]

EU: No common protection scheme for ID card data

News While the first UK ID cards have been issued, currently no police stations, border-entry points or job centres have any way of reading the information stored on them. European Union members lack a co-ordinated strategy... [06 Feb 2009]

Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them

News Currently no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) revealed in response to an FoI (Freedom of Information) request by... [04 Feb 2009]

Retailers still failing on wireless security

News Thousands of wireless access points (APs) in busy retail centres across the globe are wide open to wireless data-robbers, an annual Motorola wireless security survey found. A quarter of APs were still... [30 Jan 2009]

Poundland ups laptop security

News He told silicon.com the retailer has opted for a hosted storage service from Iron Mountain Digital, which automatically backs up the laptops when they are online or docked into the fixed-line network that supports 200 Poundland stores,... [23 Jan 2009]

10 Gigabit Ethernet Technology Overview and Applications for Enterprise Data Centres

White Paper The second part examines BLADE's RackSwitch product line, including 10 GbE applications within enterprise networks and data centres. This Technology Brief is divided into two parts. The first part... [22 Jan 2009]

Speechstorm Case Study: Eircom

White Paper eircom is Ireland's leading provider of a comprehensive range of advanced voice, data and Internet services.eircom handles in excess of 130,000 inbound calls to its service centres each week.eircom... [24 Dec 2008]

Photos: Searching for extra terrestrial intelligence

Photo Unlike the large control centres made famous in movies like Contact, the scientists at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory are able to run the array from just a few personal computers. Not long ago, the audio transmitters on... [18 Dec 2008]

McCue Interview: Martin Frick, CIO, Avis Europe

Comment In terms of IT, Avis Europe operates shared service centres in Bracknell and in Budapest as well as IT departments in local markets. ABG is responsible for the Wizard, with its data centre operation... [17 Dec 2008]

Revealed: The top 30 offshoring destinations

News The trend for countries in Europe being used as near-shore centres for traditional service providers and large Indian providers also continued. Gartner judged the locations on language, government support, labour pool,... [12 Dec 2008]

Morrisons stocks up with voice and data network

News The managed IP virtual private network running on a multi-service platform will connect stores, petrol stations, distribution centres and datacentres with the retailer's headquarters. Supermarket chain Morrisons has... [09 Dec 2008]

Shared services to pull public sector through tough times

Comment It is imperative that shared service centres are set up and are run with tight controls. More on outsourcing… ¦ Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals ¦ Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract ¦ Cloud computing... [09 Dec 2008]

Microsoft users "satisfied" with Vista, claims Microsoft

News Microsoft also recently announced a version of Windows that runs over the internet from inside Microsoft's own data centres, dubbed Azure. Windows Vista is making good progress according to Microsoft and... [08 Dec 2008]

A guide to cutting IT costs

Comment In such cases, the client should be encouraged by providers to standardise application platforms, eliminate redundant desktops or rationalise service centres to save money. However, gathering this data... [20 Nov 2008]

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