fujitsu in comment and analysis
Can the government offshore with confidence?
Comment For example, the Cabinet Office has prevented Fujitsu Services from using offshore resources without prior consent. The government can see the attractions of offshoring IT but has yet to decide whether to push these services for the public sector. [14 Feb 2008]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment Fujitsu Siemens Computers recently released a report suggesting that the UK's data centres are wasting enough energy to burn through 1.2 million tonnes more carbon than is needed. Now virtualisation is mainstream, fears about putting too many apps... [21 Dec 2007]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment It's a contract that was given about four years ago to Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consulting [now part of IBM] in a consortium with Fujitsu. Julian David, IBM's vice president public sector business, has been with the company 26 years, with previous... [05 Dec 2007]
The McCue Interview: The AA IT director Trevor Didcock
Comment That strategy led to a £50m seven-year infrastructure deal with IBM, an application support contract with Fujitsu Services and a £10m networking contract with Cable & Wireless. As Saga already has a networking deal with C&W the likelihood is that... [21 Sep 2007]
The McCue Interview: British Energy CIO, Ian Campbell
Comment They are supported by a number of outsourcing contracts - with the likes of Capgemini, Fujitsu and Logica. A couple of weeks earlier, one might imagine they would have been floating by but the devastating floodwaters have now receded in this part... [13 Aug 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment Some believe any company that hitches its wagon to the Itanium star is doomed to failure, however the recently formed Itanium Solutions Alliance (comprising Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, HP, NEC, Silicon Graphics and Unisys, together... [06 Nov 2006]
Profile: CIO from techie roots
Comment But like a lot of CIOs, Lovell-Read (who is known by colleagues as GLR) got a break while at ICL/Fujitsu that changed his career trajectory. As business-savvy becomes essential to the CIO role, candidates are coming from a wide variety of... [18 Oct 2006]
The McCue Interview: DWP CIO Joe Harley
Comment There are 120,000 internal users to support and the department has the largest Fujitsu estate in the world, with 35 mainframe computers. CIO jobs don't come much more challenging than at one of Whitehall's biggest central government departments... [27 Jul 2006]
Leader: No to any NHS IT whitewash
Leader Just this month we can see evidence of that in the £19m that some healthcare trusts in the south of England have had to pay to get out of a contract that could have seen them paying more than £50m per year in penalties to lead contractor Fujitsu... [27 Jun 2006]
Q&A: Sun CEO Scott McNealy
Comment We've got the APL [Advanced Product Line] Sparc mainframe chip jointly developed with Fujitsu coming out early next year. We're one of three processor architectures - Intel-AMD being one, Sun and Fujitsu's Sparc being another and Power being... [24 Jun 2005]
Leader: EDS back in spotlight with £4bn MoD deal
Leader In the end it was more likely EDS' experience in defence IT and its formidable alliance partners - Fujitsu Services, LogicaCMG, EADS, HP and IBM Global Services - proved the difference. EDS' victory in the bidding war for the Ministry of Defence's... [02 Mar 2005]
Leader: Dell wants blade runners
Leader Dell has entered the blade server market, where companies such as HP (the first to enter), IBM (the market leader now), Fujitsu-Siemens and Sun play. A lot of users still don't consider Dell an enterprise player the way they do at least three of... [16 Nov 2004]
Leader: Is open source the right move for Sun's Solaris?
Leader Sun signed an historic server co-development and selling deal with long-time ally Fujitsu, came up with 'per citizen pricing' for some of its software, made RFID advances, updated its Java Desktop System and Java Enterprise System and plenty more... [04 Jun 2004]
Analysis: SMEs - an answer to public sector IT failings?
Comment At the NHS, IT supremo Richard Granger has been strict with would-be suppliers for a series of large contracts, while the IR famously did what many thought impossible, last year dropping EDS for its Aspire project and switching to Cap Gemini Ernst... [02 Mar 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Symbian's future, US regulatory demands and spam strategy
Comment Fujitsu and Siemens have produced point devices, for point markets, and although stylish, might be regarded by enterprise purchasing departments as a little fashionable. There was always likely to be tension when several hardware companies teamed... [22 Feb 2004]
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