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Norwich Union considers IT outsourcing
News One-third work in customer-facing roles in call centres, with the rest working in back-office functions such as IT. The insurer is in talks with EDS and IBM about outsourcing its IT infrastructure and data centre department. [23 May 2008]
AstraZeneca simplifies outsourcing rules
News AstraZeneca has outsourcing contracts with a range of providers including BT, Cognizant and IBM across 61 centres globally. More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract... [19 May 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News Soca has also sent out 46 alerts to UK business, which included 11 alerts to UK financial institutions detailing more than 46,000 online account details that had been compromised by phishing and virus attacks, a system for UK call centres to... [15 May 2008]
Google lays out mobile future
News London is now the main base for Google's mobile application development - with an 80-strong team - but the company also has centres in Bangalore, Beijing, Tokyo, Waterloo in Canada and Silicon Valley. [13 May 2008]
Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall
News Rationalising its data centres through virtualisation - recently enabling a cluster of 260 servers to be replaced by just 24. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF is for FreecycleG is... [09 May 2008]
UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change
News Suffolk said it was important for CIOs to begin by mastering the basics in cutting carbon, such as: using equipment for longer, using DC power and fresh air cooling in data centres, switching off computers out-of-hours, reducing employee-to... [08 May 2008]
IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?
News The products, announced at an IBM business-partner conference in Los Angeles, are designed to measure power consumption and reduction across energy-hungry computer data centres that run corporate networks and websites. [01 May 2008]
Euro e-health getting the right attention
News The survey also found GPs often transfer data electronically with laboratories (40 per cent) - but less to other health centres (10 per cent). Administrative patient data is stored electronically in 80 per cent of GP surgeries, while almost all (92... [28 Apr 2008]
China key to Indian IT growth
News China will take centre stage for this growth, with Satyam planning to boost its 1,000-strong employee base there to 10,000 and to increase the number of development centres in the country from the five it currently owns. [21 Apr 2008]
Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini
News Existing IBM and Fujitsu mainframe services will also transition across from Corus sites to Capgemini's data centres in Bristol and Rotherham. Steel manufacturer Corus has extended its IT outsourcing deal to manage its mainframe computers with... [17 Apr 2008]
Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre
News John Killey, head of realty services for Citi, told an audience of IT and financial specialists at the Finexpo Green City event in London last week, that, although the organisation has seen energy consumption remain flat or even fall in some areas... [14 Apr 2008]
Green carrots needed for IT chiefs
News The other major barrier to data centres becoming more environmentally friendly is poor management according to Szubert. He said: "If data centres don't manage their physical infrastructure very well then they can't do all the good things that could... [19 Mar 2008]
Barclays data centres get green with HP
News Heyworth said all Barclays' data centres will use the cooling technology in the future. Barclays is using cutting-edge cooling technology in its new Gloucester data centre to help reduce the bank's energy bill and carbon footprint. [13 Mar 2008]
AstraZeneca signs $95m outsourcing deal
News Cognizant will provide the services from its operations centres across North America, Europe and India. Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has struck a $95m outsourcing deal to streamline its data management. [10 Mar 2008]
Poor CRM failing customers
News Brits are the most likely to criticise customer service with 40 per cent of respondents rating the service provided by call centres as ineffective. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF... [07 Mar 2008]
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