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Google lays out mobile future

News London is now the main base for Google's mobile application development - with an 80-strong team - but the company also has centres in Bangalore, Beijing, Tokyo, Waterloo in Canada and Silicon Valley.

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Rationalising its data centres through virtualisation - recently enabling a cluster of 260 servers to be replaced by just 24. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF is for FreecycleG is...

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change

News Suffolk said it was important for CIOs to begin by mastering the basics in cutting carbon, such as: using equipment for longer, using DC power and fresh air cooling in data centres, switching off computers out-of-hours, reducing employee-to...

Tags: climate change, energy, green it

[08 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News He added it would help stimulate new development centres and associated infrastructure in India's less developed cities. More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals  Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News The products, announced at an IBM business-partner conference in Los Angeles, are designed to measure power consumption and reduction across energy-hungry computer data centres that run corporate networks and websites.

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband

The survey also found GPs often transfer data electronically with laboratories (40 percent) — but less often to other health centres (10 percent). Administrative patient data is stored electronically in 80 percent of GP surgeries, while almost all...

[29 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News The survey also found GPs often transfer data electronically with laboratories (40 per cent) - but less to other health centres (10 per cent). Administrative patient data is stored electronically in 80 per cent of GP surgeries, while almost all (92...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

China key to Indian IT growth

News China will take centre stage for this growth, with Satyam planning to boost its 1,000-strong employee base there to 10,000 and to increase the number of development centres in the country from the five it currently owns.

Tags: satyam, offshore, outsource, centres

[21 Apr 2008]

Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini

News Existing IBM and Fujitsu mainframe services will also transition across from Corus sites to Capgemini's data centres in Bristol and Rotherham. Steel manufacturer Corus has extended its IT outsourcing deal to manage its mainframe computers with...

Tags: capgemini, corus

[17 Apr 2008]

Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre

News John Killey, head of realty services for Citi, told an audience of IT and financial specialists at the Finexpo Green City event in London last week, that, although the organisation has seen energy consumption remain flat or even fall in some areas...

Tags: green it, bank, data centres

[14 Apr 2008]

A Practical Guide to Modern Warehousing Technology

whitepaper minds, or are already well on the way to becoming standard practice within Distribution Centres. In warehousing technology, there is a continuing trend to 'break down the walls of the warehouse', by providing technology and functionality that, in...

Tags: business intelligence / data warehousing, functionality, wms, erp

[10 Apr 2008]

Google defends privacy policy against EU report

News Google web services generate mountains of more or less anonymous user data that the company stores securely in the massive computer data centres it operates. Google has defended its policy of retaining data on web users for up to 18 months as...

Tags: cookies, eu, search, google

[08 Apr 2008]

Pitney Bowes boosts efficiency with mobile worker app

Case Study Another business benefit of deploying the app is reduced staff costs as Pitney Bowes has been able to reduce headcount in its call centres - though Strain refused to be drawn on the number of jobs that have gone as a result.

Tags: pda, sap, siebel, mobile worker

[08 Apr 2008]

The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel

Comment That includes two major data centres and 12 satellite centres, along with 1,500 servers and 40,000 desktops running Windows XP, and SAP for business applications. There are skills around communication, driving change - CIOs are being asked to do a...

Tags: bandrowczak, cio, nortel

[01 Apr 2008]

Green carrots needed for IT chiefs

News The other major barrier to data centres becoming more environmentally friendly is poor management according to Szubert. He said: "If data centres don't manage their physical infrastructure very well then they can't do all the good things that could...

Tags: green, carbon, quocirca, data centres

[19 Mar 2008]

Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky…

Photo It is one of four centres charged with building a different subsystem of the bat plane. The US Army wants a six-inch spy plane to gather data on sights, sounds and smells in urban combat areas. It has given the University of Michigan's College of...

Tags: spy, military, plane, credit

[17 Mar 2008]

Barclays <strong>data</strong> <strong>centres</strong> get green with HP

Barclays data centres get green with HP

News Heyworth said all Barclays' data centres will use the cooling technology in the future. Barclays is using cutting-edge cooling technology in its new Gloucester data centre to help reduce the bank's energy bill and carbon footprint.

Tags: cooling, environment, datacentre, energy

[13 Mar 2008]

AstraZeneca signs $95m outsourcing deal

News Cognizant will provide the services from its operations centres across North America, Europe and India. Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has struck a $95m outsourcing deal to streamline its data management.

Tags: outsourcing, cognizant, astrazeneca, north

[10 Mar 2008]

Poor CRM failing customers

News Brits are the most likely to criticise customer service with 40 per cent of respondents rating the service provided by call centres as ineffective. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF...

Tags: customer service, crm, gartner, oracle

[07 Mar 2008]

Power shortages squeeze London's data centres

News Power supply issues and soaring lease costs in London are being blamed for forcing companies to look outside the M25 when building new data centres. Accenture claims the lack of growth in new data centres, compared to demand in London means the...

Tags: data centres, energy, london, man

[27 Feb 2008]

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