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Cadbury takes wraps off £650m efficiency drive
News Confectionary and soft drinks giant Cadbury Schweppes is to cut the size of its IT department by up to a third as part of a new £650m four-year plan to slash group operating costs and increase profit margins. [26 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment One-fifth of this year's CIO50 list is represented by the financial services sector. With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep costs down and with little growth in tech budgets forecast for the next three years, Andy McCue talks to two... [19 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis One-fifth of this year's CIO50 list is represented by the financial services sector. With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep costs down and with little growth in tech budgets forecast for the next three years, Andy McCue talks to two... [06 Jun 2007]
Enterprise-Wide Consolidation That Drives Bottom-Line Results
White Paper Consolidation and standardization can help slash IT costs and increase business agility. Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. But to be effective, application and infrastructure consolidation requires... [02 Jun 2007]
IBM pledges $1bn to slash data-centre energy use
News IBM is to invest $1bn per year in developing technology it hopes can double the capacity of its data centres without increasing energy use or the amount of space required. The tech giant has outlined its plans to achieve this target by 2010 through... [10 May 2007]
India core to future IT sourcing strategy
News Many large businesses, such as Welsh Water and Reuters, have already made outsourcing to India a core part of their IT strategy and earlier this year Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson told silicon.com half of the company's IT will be done in India... [12 Apr 2007]
Norwich Union tightens up Indian offshore security
News In an interview with silicon.com last month, Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson said half of the company's IT work will be done in India by the end of this year, as part of companywide plans to slash £250m off the group's £2bn operating costs. [26 Mar 2007]
Virtualisation helps teachers slash electricity bill
Case Study The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has reduced the number of servers it needs - and slashed the electricity bill for its server room by three-quarters by using virtualisation software. The ATL has so far reduced the number of servers... [26 Mar 2007]
Pru to slash 520 IT jobs?
News Financial services group Prudential may cut more than 500 UK-based IT jobs as part of a wider programme of offshoring and outsourcing. PruTech, the business unit of Prudential that delivers its IT services, may axe up to 520 jobs as Prudential... [20 Mar 2007]
Norwich Union bets on India
News Half of UK insurance company Norwich Union's IT will be done in India by the end of this year, as part of companywide plans to slash £250m off the group's £2bn operating costs. In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Norwich Union CIO Alex... [28 Feb 2007]
McCue Interview: Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson
Comment Alongside outsourcing, simplification is a big theme for IT at Norwich Union as part of companywide plans to slash £250m off total operating costs of £2bn by the end of the year. When we talk about the 'bilingual CIO' it usually means someone who... [27 Feb 2007]
T-Mobile cuts data-roaming costs in half
News T-Mobile is to slash its data roaming rates for business customers by more than half. The prices will be cut from £7.50 per megabyte to £3 per megabyte for UK-based business travellers roaming in nine European countries and the US. [13 Feb 2007]
Nortel to slash 10 per cent of workforce
News Networking company Nortel Networks is to lay off nearly 10 per cent of its workforce and replace another three per cent of staff with workers in low-cost countries. The cuts, which will affect 3,900 individuals, were described by Nortel chief... [12 Feb 2007]
How to slash £1bn from benefits bill - use IT
News The government wants to slash the £2bn it loses every year in benefits overpayments by implementing more joined-up computer systems. In the 2005/06 financial year roughly £1.9bn was overpaid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as a result... [26 Jan 2007]
E-auctions slash Whitehall buying costs
News New types of electronic procurement and increased use of project management tools are helping to drive down the cost of government procurement. The public sector spends £125bn per year on goods and services, from pens and paper to major... [25 Jan 2007]
