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Toshiba unveils all-in-one optical storage device
News The aim is to combine back-up with the functionality of DVD-ROM and DVD-Video, and at the same time ensure users have a clear migration path to future recordable DVD devices. Toshiba has taken the wraps of a hybrid optical storage drive that brings... [02 Aug 1999]
Windows NT to fuel nuclear power stations
News The ICL system will cover 2,000 staff at seven Magnox sites across the country, and will use Microsoft's new clustering technology to run project management, systems design and implementation, design testing and data migration services. [30 Jul 1999]
Compaq executive blames profit warning on Y2K and Pentium III
News The Year 2000 projects, migration to Windows 2000 and the transition of the PIII chip from Intel are all being considered by corporates at the moment and these decisions are slowing down their product buying. [13 Apr 1999]
Construction firm builds on NT
News In a statement, Sapcote chairman, Richard Sapcote said the migration to NT will offer more flexibility at a lower cost for his 115-strong company. UK construction firm, Sapcote & Sons has ditched its Unix-based network for a finance and... [29 Mar 1999]
Olicom switches on to Ethernet
News The Danish company has unveiled its Fast Ethernet Migration Suite to assist TR users who need to work with Ethernet. One of the first products is the Crossfire 8730 translation switch which consists of four 100Mbps Ethernet ports and 20 TR ports. [11 Mar 1999]
Cbot shies away from Eurex alliance
News However, a tie-up with the all electronic Eurex would have accelerated the migration away from pit-based, open outcry trading - still the lifeblood of the world's largest derivatives exchange - and put jobs at risk. [29 Jan 1999]
BA moves to high-tech cargo centre
News BA will effect a step-by-step migration to the £250m building. Keith Dickerson, general manager of new business at BA World Cargo said in a statement: "We will ensure each migration phase is successfully bedded down before the next stage is... [07 Jan 1999]
IBM and C&W link up over the network
News From spring next year, the telecoms and computing giants will sell a branded service known as Cable & Wireless SNA Connect, which will initially link SNA networks over Frame Relay with the eventual goal of full migration to IP. [05 Nov 1998]
Data warehousing projects reap rewards
News Goodheart said the Littlewoods warehouse project involved a migration from a number of disparate mainframe systems onto a central Unix platform. The company surveyed 163 IT and business managers at the Data Warehousing Congress in London this... [02 Nov 1998]
Insurance firms told to wise up to the Web
News According to Chrumka, the key IT trends are migration to real-time processing, component based development, better networking, better call centres and more fully integrated computing and communications systems. [23 Oct 1998]
Austrian bank opts for Unisys euro solution
News Computer systems company Unisys supplied the original CTOS-based solution and has been reselected to implement the migration. One of the largest banks in Austria has unveiled plans to migrate its systems to Windows NT and make them euro-compliant... [12 Oct 1998]
In brief: Lotus hands out free Notes and Domino upgrades
News Industry experts had expected a charge for the migration, but Jim Moffatt, communications product marketing manager at Lotus, explained that "charging was debated but the idea was then dropped". The offer is open to Lotus cc:Mail, IBM OfficeVision... [21 Jul 1998]
User forum warns users to prepare for NT 5
News The company warned that leaving migration work until the last minute could be very time-consuming and expensive, taking around one hour per desktop. Peapod Group has released a product which it claims is the first migration software package... [15 Jul 1998]
Users warned to stay away from Windows 98
News Anne Powell, research director at DataPro, explained: "Mass migration to a new operating system should never have gone ahead without complete testing being done. He said: "As operating systems grow in size, problems become more and complex, thus... [03 Jul 1998]
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