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In Search of Clarity: Unravelling the Complexities of Executive Decision-making

whitepaper Decision-making is at the core of all business activity, as executives set strategy and manage operations by weighing a vast array of factors to arrive at the desired balance of risk and reward. The enormous growth of companies size and operations...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[17 May 2008]

Data Center Solutions: Planning Considerations for Data Center Facilities Systems

whitepaper Data centers are at the core of business activity, and the growing transmission speed and density of active data center equipment is placing ever-increasing demands on the physical layer. Enterprises are experiencing enormous growth rates in the...

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

<strong>The</strong> McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment I mean it's core - we were looking at systems - but actually my role was very much around facilitating conversations and ensuring that the right people were speaking together and setting the governance framework in place," she explains.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News Our strategic suppliers have demonstrated very clearly how existing network assets can be scaled to meet the growth in demand associated with evolving customer behaviour and step changes in the products provided as part of our high-speed broadband...

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment The device has managed to invigorate the market with its core value proposition of mail, phone, music player and mobile internet but little else. That growth is partly because smart operating systems are filtering down from desktop computers and...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

3G Via Optical Core Networking

whitepaper The convergence of voice, data, and video services and the close integration with the fixed networks is raising issues of network inter-working, interoperability, mobility management and the provision of dynamic and flexible bandwidth in the core...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, operators, bandwidth, investment

[10 Apr 2008]

Nationwide banks on SAP

News Speaking to silicon.com, Darin Brumby, Nationwide's divisional director for business systems transformation, said: "Our current systems which support our core retail products are up to, in some cases, 30 years old and certainly no longer support...

Tags: nationwide, legacy, transformation, platform

[18 Mar 2008]

Drinks giant Diageo hires new CIO

News With his successful track record of senior leadership positions, together with his keen commercial mindset he has a good understanding of the core levers of business growth and the role IS can play. Drinks giant Diageo has appointed a new CIO to...

Tags: diageo, cio, royal mail, pepsico

[03 Mar 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Optimize Your Data Center Using PlateSpin Solutions, Dell Servers, and Microsoft Virtual Server (Level 200)

whitepaper At the core is PlateSpin's Workload Portability Technology which provides the flexibility to move and rebalance workloads (data, applications, and operating systems) in any direction between physical and virtual hosts.

Tags: application servers

[14 Jan 2008]

Pacific Northwest Banking Leader Looks to Cisco Channel Partner to Facilitate Growth With New Technology

whitepaper This meant not just replacing phones, but replacing core routing equipment and creating a new network infrastructure. The company decided to look at a convergence philosophy for a wide area network. As a leader in northwest regional banking, the...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[14 Jan 2008]

Specsavers boosts customer vision with CRM system

Case Study Specsavers IT accounts manager Chris Corbin explained: "With the company growing exponentially we need better core data, so that customer contact agents could respond quickly to enquiries and easily review previous purchasing histories.

Tags: specsavers, call centre, crm, retail

[04 Jan 2008]

Broadband summit: Speed is the key

News Companies including BT - which has invested billions in overhauling its core network to an all-IP network known as the 21CN - and Virgin Media, which has announced plans to roll out an up to 50Mbps broadband service by the end of next year, joined...

Tags: ofcom, broadband, ngn, economy

[27 Nov 2007]

Q&A: Teradata CEO Mike Koehler

News We have a portfolio that extends beyond our core datawarehouse but a lot of that portfolio is with partners. We've made acquisitions - smaller ones - either related to our core technology stack or to help us get into new markets.

Tags: datawarehousing, rfid, storage, teradata

[22 Oct 2007]

Ballmer: 'Google is head and shoulders above us'

News Gartner analyst David Smith said Microsoft is "clearly going after the online advertising market, and advertising is Google's core market". Smith added that the slowing of the software industry's growth "is a challenge to Microsoft", hence its need...

Tags: search, google, microsoft

[12 Oct 2007]

TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet

Case Study The business process outsourcing division of Carphone Warehouse upgraded to Fujitsu Siemens Primepower servers to run its core systems - including CRM, billing and reporting apps - between August last year and January 2007.

Tags: carbon, speed, energy, fujitsu siemens

[11 Oct 2007]

Mannesmann Arcor: SAP Telecommunications Solution Offers Effective Support for Rapid Growth

whitepaper The implemented solution comprises basically all core R/3 modules. Service Management, an essential part of the solution, is employed at Mannesmann Arcor for proactive network maintenance, trouble management and service assurance.

Tags: erp, telecommunications, arcor, core

[28 Sep 2007]

Vonage infringed Sprint patents, says jury

News Vonage has already demonstrated that it can keep its focus on customers and on its core business while managing ongoing litigation. In August, the company reported that subscriber growth had dropped significantly.

Tags: patents, sprint, vonage

[26 Sep 2007]

Mobile IP Based Mobility Management for 3G Wireless Networks

whitepaper With the advent of the Internet Protocol (IP) and tremendous growth in data traffic, the core networks in wireless industry are evolving to IP and its associated technologies. It allows a mobile computer to be seamlessly reachable at a fixed IP...

Tags: address, engineering, task, circuit

[31 Jul 2007]

Alliance & Leicester banking on self-service

News The bank said more than 40 per cent of its core product sales came through its online business during the six months ending 30 June 2007. It is currently working on a replacement project around its core legacy systems for personal customer current...

Tags: self-service, online banking, alliance & leicester, bank

[30 Jul 2007]

Urban wireless networks set to surge

News She said in a statement: "A public-private partnership business model is attractive to both local governments and service providers because it allows each to focus on its core competencies - serving constituents and providing internet service.

Tags: milton keynes, municipal, citywide, wi-fi

[26 Jul 2007]

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