data centre in comment and analysis
Green IT - how CIOs can help
Comment Whether in the data centre, the office or on the road, reducing the resources a business consumes is a perfect play for IT. Whether at the server or data centre level, much green marketing focuses on the ability to perform the same amount of... [04 Sep 2008]
The Naked CIO: The great recovery disaster
Comment Failover, data centre resilience and outside influence are all considerable factors in successful disaster recovery. Many plans I've read talk about back-up, storage, data centre failover, redundant systems but rarely mention who does what and when... [01 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment The management consultancy firm at the centre of the latest government data breach storm has been paid almost £100m over three years for its services by the Home Office and its agencies. PA Consulting are also engaged by the Home Office on the... [28 Aug 2008]
Is short-termism holding back public sector outsourcing?
Comment More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Public sector outsourcing may have doubled over the past 10 years to... [20 Aug 2008]
Beijing Olympic diary: Producing results
Comment In the technology operations centre a team of about 160 people monitor the competition, the systems and the networks, making sure the data is flowing and press and broadcasters are getting what they need. [19 Aug 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Not in an uncontrolled way but they've built their own infrastructure, perhaps sometimes their own network, their own data centre storage, their own space, their own hosting. Across the various IT teams and whopping £1bn annual tech budget at TfL... [29 Jul 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Diving straight into the data centre without first taking stock simply doesn't make sense. True sustainability is much more than hammering the data centre over power, says Martin Atherton. The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever data... [17 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Flying high with the UK's best CIOs
Comment Or check out our photos of a data centre being built. CIOs: high-fliers or heads in the clouds? Last week both these terms would have been entirely accurate at the launch of the annual silicon.com CIO50 list. [19 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet
Comment Some of the successful projects delivered over the past year include a new disaster recovery data centre to address "significant" risk and capacity issues, a new storage area network that has significantly increased capacity and performance and... [17 Jun 2008]
Michel Khan
CIO Profile With massive growth comes an increased challenge in managing customer relationships and another big project for the company has been allowing call centre staff to update customer data while they were on the phone. [11 Jun 2008]
Steve Chambers
CIO Profile As CIO, Steve Chambers has been responsible for Visa Europe's regional data centre as well as continuing the development of numerous systems and delivering a new payments architecture. Before joining Visa back in 2004, Chambers worked for financial... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment In practical terms this currently translates into what is core and what is not for Hamon and her team and managing the "tin and wires" is clearly not core, she says, and Rok has just put out an initial request for proposals for outsourcing data... [13 May 2008]
Cloud computing: Silver lining…
Comment In the case of a data centre that is at or near capacity, clouds can provide an alternative place to run applications. On the other hand you might hear about a marvellous setup from a barely known vendor and find yourself worrying about the... [09 May 2008]
IT must be called to account over emissions
Comment Powering and cooling of IT equipment can be done more efficiently in a data centre than in an uncontrolled environment. But this assumes the data centre is well managed. In reality, under the pressure of almost continuous growth and restricted... [07 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Thanks to the HMRC debacle and the ID cards U-turn, the pressing issues surrounding privacy and personal data have made their way to the centre of the political boxing ring. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick... [28 Mar 2008]
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