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Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Trinity Mirror, publisher of The Daily Mirror and The Daily Record, has been using virtualisation for nearly two years as part of a process to consolidate computing infrastructure from multiple server rooms across its nationwide network... [20 Nov 2009]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News This allowed us to do the cost reduction program using the information we had about the IT operation," Hayes said at The Sourcing Summit, hosted by the National Outsourcing Association, in London yesterday. [20 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Demand for corporate systems integration work - the bread and butter of some outsourcing companies - will dwindle in a world dominated by cloud computing Carr told the Google Atmosphere event in London last month. [19 Nov 2009]
Trojan bank fraud gang sentenced
News The men were sentenced last Friday at Southwark Crown Court in London for their part in an international criminal network that stole the money from 138 account holders. Azamat Rahmonov, from Scawen Road, Deptford,... [17 Nov 2009]
Does your business really need an office?
Comment Most of my working week is spent mobile working in London yet the only video conferencing I see is the occasional brave attempt by a fellow mobile worker at a Skype video call, whereupon the caller must explain the... [17 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News Dr Gus Hosein, senior fellow at the London School of Economics and co-author of a book on the ID card scheme entitled Global Challenges for Identity Policies, said the scheme has been plagued by over-optimistic deadlines. [16 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Facebook saves teen from prison
Comment Dispatched to silicon.com via free wi-fi at The IoD in London two days later. Compiled on the M6 while travelling from Birmingham to Ipswich. I just chanced upon a news story about an innocent New York teenager who had... [16 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News The greatest success has been participation of the CIOs, CTOs and all those people in the ICT profession within government - it has been amazing," he told the Green IT Expo in London this week. With the government hoping... [13 Nov 2009]
Service Level Agreement Specification, Compliance Prediction and Monitoring With Performance Trees
White Paper Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are widely used throughout industry but suffer from specification ambiguities and difficulties in predicting and monitoring compliance. To address these issues, the paper proposes the use of the... [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo And with the release of Windows 7 on 22 October, PC World's branch on London's Tottenham Court Road was showing off a whole range of kit running the OS. Shown above is the Skype app which allows users to make calls and... [12 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment Charles Smith, London CJP, London Stuart Fawcett, London Charles Smith, London The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the redundancy of social networks;... [11 Nov 2009]
BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News BT's Glasgow taster follows FTTC trials in Whitchurch in Cardiff, and Muswell Hill in London - where the telco has opened a shop to shout about the benefits of fibre. BT is offering a free taste of superfast broadband to... [05 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News As a CIO… for the first three to six months you have got to have your seatbelt on and have the resolve to push it through," Cheesbrough told Google's recent Atmosphere event in London. Businesses thinking of switching to... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Mike Roberts, IT director at the London Clinic, believes teaching is also a factor. Mike Roberts, IT director, The London Clinic That's the sobering conclusion of the silicon.com CIO Jury which voted 10... [03 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The Home Office has announced a £39m deal to help emergency services comms cope during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The two-way Tetra comms system has an important role to play during the London 2012... [03 Nov 2009]
