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Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Trinity Mirror, publisher of The Daily Mirror and The Daily Record, has been using virtualisation for nearly two years as part of a process to consolidate computing infrastructure from multiple server rooms across its nationwide network... [20 Nov 2009]
CIOs, consultants, IT pros: How much are you worth?
News The fourth and fifth best regions are the West Midlands (£78,500) and the North West (£71,600). However London is not necessarily the best place to be a CIO who charges by the hour: average contract rates in the capital... [31 Jul 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News Hinckley East Midlands Glossop East Midlands Leamore West Midlands Birmingham, northern West Midlands Fallings Park West Midlands Great Barr West... [09 Jul 2009]
Four years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?
News The 2005 review into the North West and West Midlands rollout also rated the deployment as red, saying the programme had been "beset by poor product quality, delays and repeated changes to delivery schedules". [23 Jun 2009]
And the most flexible town in the UK is...
News The East Midlands was found to be the least flexible region, with only 16 per cent of companies offering remote working. Liverpudlians probably aren't doing it but their neighbours over the border in Wales more than... [27 May 2009]
Inbox: Chip and PIN latest big IDea - and still no readers
Comment Austin Holdsworth, Midlands ID cards: still with unreadable chips but with added chip and PIN? The latest on this controversial government IT project spurred some strong responses. Also getting readers writing were the... [20 Apr 2009]
£4.5m gets Midlands kids onto Janet
News Millions of students and school staff in the Midlands are set to be connected to the Janet education and research network. The body that oversees Janet has signed a £4.5m deal with ntl:Telewest Business for a data... [06 Mar 2009]
Six-month 'kill or cure' deadline for NHS IT project
News Interim PAS systems are being provided to trusts in the North, Midlands and East while they wait for the Lorenzo CRS to be rolled out - which will need replacing again when Lorenzo is ready for deployment. [27 Jan 2009]
Images: Putting next-gen Broadband Britain on the map
Photo And in the Midlands a project called LightSpeed Derby is seeking to have a locally managed core fibre network linking up the premises of all public sector agencies, all major businesses, business parks, and all major new... [27 Jan 2009]
Poundland ups laptop security
News He told silicon.com the retailer has opted for a hosted storage service from Iron Mountain Digital, which automatically backs up the laptops when they are online or docked into the fixed-line network that supports 200 Poundland stores,... [23 Jan 2009]
Virgin debuts 50Mbps broadband
News The company aims to have the service available to 40 per cent of its customers - in "areas in Scotland, the Midlands and south London" - by the end of 2008, according to a statement. Virgin Media has finally launched its... [16 Dec 2008]
North-south divide colours IT pay
News Techies who earn in excess of £70,001 are a fifth more likely to dwell in the southerly regions of England than in the North East or West of England, the Midlands or Wales. The UK's north-south divide is mirrored in IT... [11 Dec 2008]
The University of Nottingham Selects Finjan to Secure Its Network From Web Threats
White Paper With origins dating back to 1881 and a Royal Charter granted in 1948, The University of Nottingham is a leading research university located in the East Midlands region of England. The University wanted to secure their... [10 Dec 2008]
Shared services to pull public sector through tough times
Comment A great example of this type is the police authorities in the East Midlands, where the chief constables and chairs of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire Police have jointly... [09 Dec 2008]
IT problems delay fire control centres
News The full system will now be in place by spring 2012, with the first three regional control centres in the North East, East Midlands and South West going live in summer 2010 - nine months later than expected. [27 Nov 2008]
