centralisation
RSS centralisationBusinesses lift the lid on virtualisation rollouts
News International law firm Allen & Overy is a big user of XenApp as part of its European IT centralisation project that covers around 2,500 users. Businesses are increasingly working with various forms of virtualisation... [24 Jun 2009]
Health Fund Expects to Cut Server Footprint by Approximately 66 Per Cent With Virtualization Solution
White Paper Mutual health fund LCM/ANMC accumulated 300 physical servers during centralisation of its IT functions. The company faced increased demand for processing power, but was outgrowing its two main datacentres. [29 Apr 2009]
Naked CIO: Oh great - an efficiency review
Comment Currently there is a review by an outside company of all of our business functions to investigate and propose centralisation and consolidation opportunities. Sick of consultants knocking on your office door? [17 Nov 2008]
Sweden's HL Display Picks Expand Networks for Server Centralisation and Faster WAN
White Paper HL Display's partner, IT consultancy XLENT, operates the firm's network and handles the distribution of programmes. However, many of the smaller offices lack IT technicians, which have caused problems with handling local servers. [04 Aug 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment From studying several leading-edge companies and helping dozens of others improve their IT organisations, the answer is a structure that captures the benefits of both centralisation and decentralisation but does not... [09 Apr 2008]
Operational IT budgets to be squeezed in 2008
News Gavin Whatrup, group IT director for advertising and marketing agency Creston, said a centralisation strategy in IT may lead to an increased capital expenditure in the short term, but he added the long-term picture is to... [17 Dec 2007]
Specialist Consultant Helps IT Company Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Services
White Paper With the ESC, EDS initiated the centralisation and consolidation of the existing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 infrastructure and enhanced the services provided in various sites. Employees at the Europe, Middle East,... [06 Nov 2007]
Mobile working: Get a strategy, businesses told
News Butler Group said many remotely accessed apps are mission-critical to businesses but IT managers face issues with centralisation and manageability, poor performance, reliability and security. As the trend for flexible... [03 Oct 2007]
Three steps for successful IT outsourcing
News And while this may seem like an obvious step, Forrester found companies are failing to analyse the degree of IT centralisation and the role of IT in the overall performance of the business before picking an outsourcing... [02 Oct 2007]
SICK AG - On Its Way to Information Lifecycle Management
White Paper It needed centralisation for its entire globally-operative corporate group, which had large volumes of data. SICK AG had a highly complex heterogeneous storage environment which had associated high costs. [13 Dec 2006]
Brampton Factor: NHS IT - can this project be saved?
Comment With ever increasing centralisation, data becomes the property of faceless bureaucrats. Martin Brampton tallies up the organisational and financial missteps that have put the NHS IT overhaul in dire straights - and... [19 Sep 2006]
NHS IT "sleepwalking towards disaster"
News A paper by Bacon and Pugh says the problems with CfH are a consequence of "over-centralisation, over-ambition and an obsession with quick political fixes" and they are now calling for the programme to be decentralised... [11 Sep 2006]
Fire service to get £350m Airwave emergency radio system
News Procurement of a digital communications network for the fire service has been delayed until now because of an ongoing row about the centralisation of fire service control rooms. The Fire and Rescue Service has awarded a... [31 Mar 2006]
Council targets £1m savings from Microsoft desktop deal
News The enterprise-wide licensing deal with Microsoft is part of wider standardisation and consolidation initiatives at the council following the centralisation of Staffordshire's four separate IT functions at the beginning... [25 Oct 2005]
O2 wins £390m deal for ambulance digital radios
News The rollout of a £2.9bn Airwave network for police forces in England, Scotland and Wales was completed on time by O2 earlier this year but the procurement of a digital communications network for the fire service has been delayed because... [19 Jul 2005]
