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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]
Power shortages squeeze London's data centres
News Power supply issues and soaring lease costs in London are being blamed for forcing companies to look outside the M25 when building new data centres. Accenture claims the lack of growth in new data centres, compared to demand in London means the... [27 Feb 2008]
Taylor Wimpey signs £30m LogicaCMG outsourcing deal
News LogicaCMG won the contract on the back of its work for George Wimpey over the last six years doing service desk, data centres, desktop services and remote infrastructure management. The UK's largest house builder Taylor Wimpey has outsourced the... [25 Feb 2008]
Unilever in $675m HP outsourcing deal
News HP will also manage Unilever's IT systems including its corporate data centres, directory services, disaster recovery and intranet hosting. Food and household goods giant Unilever has signed a $675m outsourced IT services deal with HP for the next... [13 Feb 2008]
UK tech has 12 years to help save the planet
News Fryer told silicon.com tech companies need to think about measures such as rebuilding data centres around energy efficiency, for example scaling down centres containing non-mission critical data. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon... [12 Feb 2008]
India to train thousands more cyber cops
News Training centres for thousands more cyber cops are planned in India as the country's IT industry tries to boost its security credentials. The growing confidence in outsourcing to provide data security marks a shift in perception from a survey by... [06 Feb 2008]
Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?
News Data centres are computational workhorses which can greedily gobble up to 100 times more power per square foot than your average office. On Friday Accenture will launch the beta of its Green Data Centre Calculator, aimed at helping companies tame... [30 Jan 2008]
SHL calls on Capgemini to overhaul IT
News Under the deal IT from three data centres in Europe and the US will be transferred to a secure Capgemini centre in Bristol, with user and technical support based at Capgemini service centres in Katowice, Poland and Mumbai in India, with back-up... [25 Jan 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News It follows the revelation this week from a parliamentary committee that an IT system to underpin nine new fire control centres is expected to be £70m over budget. A new mechanism of "data share" will split information between the prison and... [09 Jan 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News Still on the green tip, Tesco promised to cut the carbon footprint of its data centres and stores by 2020. Vetting IT hardware's green credentials could be part of the process, as could seeking ways to increase the average ambient temperature in... [19 Dec 2007]
Top 10 outsourcing stories of the year
News The end of the deal started the process of bringing data centres and infrastructure back in-house from IBM, which is likely to take a year to complete. The year saw some big deals and acquisitions but also the end of some notable relationships. [18 Dec 2007]
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