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StorageTek's Professional Services Team Helps the Jockey Club Rein in Its Storage Infrastructure
White Paper Established over 100 years ago, The Hong Kong Jockey Club is one of the world's largest and most respected horse racing clubs. Facing the challenge of managing about 120 terabytes of disk storage and 90 terabytes of tape storage, a data growth rate... [26 Mar 2008]
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Improves Risk Management With Real-Time Data Processing
White Paper Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), one of the largest racing organizations in the world. HKJC became the first organization in Greater China to deploy Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database. The solution keeps critical IT systems secure and continually... [28 Feb 2007]
Netscape founder says PHP beats Java
News Wooing programmers is nothing new in the computing industry, where players constantly jockey to establish their products as an essential foundation. The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building web... [20 Oct 2005]
Wave of Euro-regulation to spark outsourcing
News We are likely to see considerable consolidation by both market participants and technology vendors as firms jockey for position ahead of the implementation date. The next wave of European banking regulation will lead smaller financial services... [04 Aug 2005]
HP bags Randy Mott as new CIO
News The two companies often jockey for lead position in server sales of x86-based systems. Hewlett-Packard has named former Dell CIO Randy Mott as an executive vice president and new CIO, highlighting the rivalry between the computer makers and an... [12 Jul 2005]
Voice recognition to replace costly call centres
News The banking industry is planning on replacing many call centre operations with self-service automated voice recognition systems and the web, according to predictions by the UK's National Outsourcing Association (NOA). [06 Jan 2005]
Bookie Betfair reins in race fixing
News Champion jockey Kieren Fallon is one of three jockeys arrested by police in connection with the probe into the outcome of more than 80 races over the past two years. Betfair works closely with the Jockey Club to report any suspect bets or unusual... [01 Sep 2004]
Australians, Racehorses and the Internet Make a Winning Trifecta
White Paper The challenge was to develop a more accurate, user-friendly and time-efficient way for breeders of thoroughbred racehorses throughout Australia to report breeding activity to the Australian Stud Book, a joint venture operated by the Australian... [15 Jul 2004]
The Insider's Guide to eService for B2B: How Top Practitioners Stay Ahead of the B2B Pack
White Paper As companies jockey for early dominance in their respective B2B verticals, decisions about business strategy and technology implementation are becoming more and more critical. This white paper looks at the impact of effective eservice on B2B... [24 Feb 2004]
Analysis: Palm enlists celebrity help
Comment Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has become a Treo user through the programme, as have actor Evan Handler, Fiat auto designer Michael Robinson, Oxford professor and author Richard Dawkins, Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullins, and Andy Caldwell, a disk... [16 Feb 2004]
Tech big boys square up in web services standards battle
News Web services - the technology heralded as a way to connect incompatible software - is suffering from a communications breakdown as rival alliances jockey to establish standards. In a mark of an increasingly contentious standards-setting process... [18 Jul 2003]
Sklyarov's year: Arrested, jailed, freed - and baffled
News Sklyarov catapulted to code-jockey fame in July 2001 when he was arrested after giving a speech about his company's Advanced eBook Processor, software designed to crack protections on Adobe Systems' eBooks. [20 Dec 2002]
IDC predicts skills crisis round the corner
News John Gantz, chief researcher at IDC, told silicon.com that Europe will recover faster than the US, with "rebound" starting in Q4 as company's jockey for investment opportunities. The last quarter of this year will see a turnaround in the US economy... [07 Sep 2001]
Compaq claims growing influence outside US
News Capellas also noted winning the desktop contract for the Hong Kong Jockey Club from a competitor, despite a significant price differential. Compaq reported revenues of $9.2bn for the first quarter, ended 31 March 2001. [24 Apr 2001]
The death of a Silicon founder and rising internet stars
News Meanwhile, according to the FT, Worldpop, a media company founded by ex-Radio One disk jockey Peter Powell, has attracted £5m of second round funding. He leaves behind his second wife, five children from his first marriage, five stepchildren and... [15 Jan 2001]
