growth business data centres
Aviva strikes $1bn BPO deal
News Over the next three months about 6,000 staff will be transferred from offshore arm Aviva Global Services (AGS) to WNS, which will take over five AGS centres in India and Sri Lanka. Aviva will withdraw from running the centres offshore after... [11 Jul 2008]
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White Paper As a result, IT data centres experienced rapid growth as the number of applications, the population of users, and the quantity of transactions multiplied. In recent years, emerging applications and expanding Web services have fuelled an escalating... [14 May 2008]
IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?
News IBM is expanding in so-called green data centres as it looks for new growth areas in developed regions such as Western Europe, as well as in developing countries that are spending heavily on new technology infrastructure. [01 May 2008]
Staff deserting UK call centres
News Attrition in UK call centres has risen for a fifth year running as staff leave because of low salaries and companies experience difficulties recruiting new workers. The report also found that pure IP infrastructure will be commonplace in most UK... [19 Nov 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment There are three main reasons why businesses of all sizes are set to become increasingly reliant on the internet: greater automation of cross-organisational business processes; flexible locations for data centres; and the rapid growth of the... [02 Nov 2007]
Data centres fuelling climate change?
News The intensive power requirements needed to run and cool data centres now account for almost a quarter of global CO2 emissions from information and communications technology, according to analyst Gartner. [12 Oct 2007]
Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain
Comment The largest by a distance of course is the UK where we've got twin data centres with mainframes, Unix boxes, a whole variety of equipment. So we've done things in the past few months like increasing the average ambient temperature in the data... [25 Sep 2007]
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment This summer's intense activity in virtualisation could shape the options for smaller businesses as well as for data centres. Smaller businesses represent by far the largest sector of the market and are driving the strongest growth. [05 Sep 2007]
Dell CTO sees Linux virtualisation sweet spot
News He spoke to an audience gathered for the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco at Moscone Center, addressing the growth of the open source Linux operating system - which he said he hoped would hit $1bn in licensing revenue by 2011 - and what it... [08 Aug 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in outsourcing
News India's call centre and BPO industry was the scene of much controversy in 2006 with yet more undercover stings exposing poor security of customer data - most notably the Channel 4 documentary Dispatches which claimed its reporter was able to... [11 Dec 2006]
HSBC's annual IT spend to hit $5bn
News Harvey said the bank is now reaping the benefits of three years of sustained investment in technology which has resulted in one global, self-managed network, a reduction in data centres - from more than 120 in 1996 to less than 20 this year - and... [29 Sep 2006]
HP to grab Mercury Interactive for $4.5bn
News The idea appears to blend HP's OpenView systems and network management software for data centres with Mercury's products for managing application development. Big Blue recently reported higher-than-expected profits based on strong growth of its SOA... [26 Jul 2006]
Benioff red-faced over Salesforce.com outage
News In addition to replacing nearly all its hardware and software and building two new data centres, Salesforce is adding database "mirroring" technology that will significantly boost its data redundancy capabilities, Benioff said. [18 Jan 2006]
US military fires up RFID supply-tracking
News Starting today, certain suppliers to the US Defense Department must include in new contracts an agreement to attach RFID tags to shipments of goods to two major military distribution centres. In addition to the military, such retail giants as... [14 Nov 2005]
VoIP: 'It's what you do with it that counts'
News Lynch told silicon.com that call centres in particular will be one industry that increasingly benefits from such an approach. Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy, claims the growth of VoIP and full-integration with systems across the enterprise will prove... [29 Sep 2005]
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